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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'd appreciate it if you could take a closer look at the mysterious
> self-reverting .config, please.? See if you can work out what is causing it,
> tell me how you're rebooting (reboot -f?? -fn?? Big Red Button?) and whether
> the offending file is on the root filesystem, etc.

Seemed to vanish with 2.5.58. It was non-root filesystem, with a clean 
'reboot' shutdown. 

2.5.58 performed the same as 2.5.57 with regards to preemption on, off, 
and patched.

r

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