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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:36:50 -0700
From: Charles Marslett <cmarslett9@cs.com>
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To: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
CC: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
        Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.16-pre1
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vda wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 24 November 2001 16:39, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > So here it goes 2.4.16-pre1. Obviously the most important fix is the
> > iput() one, which probably fixes the filesystem corruption problem people
> > have been seeing.
> 
> This is quite annoying to have non-pre kernels with simple bugs like
> recent loop device bug etc.
> 
> Maybe this can be prevented by adopting a rule that non-pre kernel is made
> from last pre/ac/... which was good enough by changing version # _only_,
> without even single buglet squashing?
> 
> This way we will not disappoint those people who download non-pres in hope
> they are more stable.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> --
> vda

I agree.

--Charles 
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