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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, Dan Kegel <dkegel@ixiacom.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.17
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 09:15:34 +0100
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On December 21, 2001 08:44 pm, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
> 
> > Marcelo wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, 
> > > 
> > > Here it is... 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > final:
> > > 
> > > - Fix more loopback deadlocks                   (Andrea Arcangeli)
> > > - Make Alpha with Nautilus chipset and
> > >   Irongate chipset configuration compile
> > >   correctly                                     (Michal Jaegermann)
> > > 
> > > rc2: 
> > > 
> > > - Fix potential oops with via-rhine             (Andrew Morton)
> > > - sysvfs: mark inodes as bad in case of read 
> > > ...
> > 
> > Um, what happened to the idea of 'no changes between the last
> > release candidate and final'?
> 
> I haven't said that, did I? 
> 
> I said I would make -rc kernels which would not add any new _feature_.

I'll weigh in on this one, basically a "me too".  The only changelog entry I 
find unsettling is "Fix more loopback deadlocks" and all I have to say about 
it is: remember what happened when Al fixed the iput bug.  I'm not suggesting 
that there was no basic idiot testing - I'm practically certain you did some 
yourself, but it would have been oh-so-nice to have an rc3 that lived for at 
least a short time on the kernel list before going to final.

By the way, great job managing this first major point release (2.4.16 doesn't 
really count ;-).

--
Daniel
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