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Subject: Re: Larger dev_t
To: dalecki@evision-ventures.com (Martin Dalecki)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:02:20 +0100 (BST)
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> So change them as well for a new distribution. What's there problem.
> There isn't anything out there you can't do by hand. 
> Fortunately so!

So users cannot go back and forward between new and old kernels. Very good.
Try explaining that to serious production -users- of a system and see how
it goes down

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