Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 19:10:29 -0800
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: laurent.riffard@free.fr, jesper.juhl@gmail.com,
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Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm1
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Andrew wrote:
> If you have (even more) time you could test
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.16-rc5-mm2-pre1.gz. 
> That's the latest of everything with the problematic sysfs patches reverted
> and Eric's recent /proc fixes.

I tested both the fuser command that had been crashing the earlier
kernels with Eric's /proc patches, and my "SGI internal software
management" application, on which I first saw these kernels fail.

With this 2.6.16-rc5-mm2-pre1 kernel, they both work - no more crash.

Good.

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