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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