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Linux 2.1.98 out




Poor Linus :-)

it will take a few more months till 2.2 is out, I'm guessing.

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    I just released a fairly small patch to 97 to bring
    it up to 98. 

    I've gotten a lot of patches in the mail for the last
    week, and I've been ignoring most of them for obvious
    reasons. They aren't in any in-queue, you can
    more-or-less consider them lost - but don't resend
    them all immediately, because if I get another huge
    batch of patches then I'll just have to ignore them
    again. 

    We're going slow and easy, and the plan is to not
    only keep me sane in the midst of all the diapers,
    but I'll also at the same time take the opportunity
    to actually enforce the feature-freeze. You've known
    about it for a long time, _tough_. 

    Anyway, 2.1.98 _should_ fix: 

     *   the IDE/SCSI lockups. The irq enable/disable code
        was broken, and could do some really bad things.
        This tended to lock up the machine if you
        accessed your IDE disks heavily, or in particular
        if you had a mixture of IDE and SCSI and used
        them at the same time. Tell me if you still have
        problems - I'm sure there are still bugs left,
        and I want to hear about them. 

     *   memory management especially on small-memory
        machines. I think I made a good change to the
        allocation logic, and I'm hoping it will fix the
        bad bahevaiour on those wimpy machines that all
        you losers out there are using that have less
        than half a Gig of RAM. It certainly still works
        fine on my machine, and I'm certainly still too
        lazy to test it out on anything smaller. 

    There's a few other updates too: the asm constraints
    are fixed, so it should compile again with other
    compiler versions than the particular one I happen to
    be using. And some of the SCSI drivers have been
    updated a bit. 

    There's been a lot of discussion and patches on
    capabilities, and I haven't applied them yet, I'll
    let them simmer a bit. Similarly, I've seen so many
    pathes to kmod that my head is spinning, and as I
    don't use modules myself I'd really like to get
    feedback from users about the different patches, so
    that maybe I'll get something that everybody can
    agree on as acceptable. Right now I don't know which
    patch I should even begin looking at. 

    Linus