From: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com>
To: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <wtarreau@hera.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       mtosatti@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.33.1
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:12:31 +1000
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:31:06 +1000, Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:13:55 +0000, Willy Tarreau <wtarreau@hera.kernel.org> wrote:
>
>>Hi !
>>
>>As there were a few security fixes pending and 2.4.34-pre1 has not
>>received enough validation, I've released 2.4.33.1 ...
>
>Needed this to not confuse existing slackware-10.2 startup script:
>
>--- linux-2.4.33.1/Makefile     2006-08-20 08:33:27.000000000 +1000
>+++ linux-2.4.33-1/Makefile     2006-08-20 12:50:28.000000000 +1000
>@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> VERSION = 2
> PATCHLEVEL = 4
> SUBLEVEL = 33
>-EXTRAVERSION = .1
>+EXTRAVERSION = -1
>
> KERNELRELEASE=$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)
>
>Looks like 2.6 like stable naming convention not gonna fly for 2.4?

My apologies to Patrick Volkerding, the above was my first impression, 
written before tracking the boot crash error messages as coming from the 
nptl libraries, see the 2.4.33.2 release announcement detailing the fix 
for Slackware 10.2 users.  New stable 2.4 numbering is flying ;)

Grant.
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