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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 00:41:04 +0100
From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.17
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On 20011222 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 06:56:44 -0500
>"Mike Black" <mblack@csihq.com> wrote:
>
>> My thanks to for Marcelo's efforts...but....
>> 
>> Is there any way we can get Marcelo, Rik, and Andrea to work together on the
>> "stable" version now (a Linux tribunal)?
>
>Would you mind to give us a short hint on the implicit "instability" you are
>exactly talking about? I think 2.4.17 is in various ways well worked out and
>maintained. There are further improvements possible for sure, but that is a
>normal thing. Anyway I cannot really see any major instability issues that
>require instant brainstorming. I am confident in Marcelo's maintenance.
>

They are not different branches. Perhaps what is confusing him (and sometimes
also confuses me), is that there are patches in aa kernel (I am not a
compulsive patcher...) that look like basic bug fixes or simple but effective
enhancements that never reach mainline, they are only in aa for ages (looking
at andrea's dir in ftp.kernel.org: all the _vm patches, the spinlock-cacheline,
compiler.h, rwsem, parent-timeslice, etc.). Nothing wrt numa, tux, uml or lvm.

How about a 18-pre1 taking from aa all that is usefull and not really intrusive ?


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