Re: Linux 2.2.18pre2

2000-09-02 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "David" == David S Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 19:01:18 +0100 (BST) From: Alan Cox > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >o Acenic 0.45 fixes (Chip Salzenberg) David> This adds a huge comment claiming to fix some race condition, David> but no actual code is changed.

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre2

2000-09-01 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to David S. Miller: >o Acenic 0.45 fixes (Chip Salzenberg) > > This adds a huge comment claiming to fix some race condition, > but no actual code is changed. How can this be? :-) The bug fix was already in. The log message is misleading. -- Chip Sa

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre2

2000-09-01 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Fri, 1 Sep 2000 19:01:18 +0100 (BST) From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> oAcenic 0.45 fixes (Chip Salzenberg) This adds a huge comment claiming to fix some race condition, but no actual code is changed. How can this be? :-) Later, David S.

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre2

2000-09-01 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Albert D. Cahalan: > The last time this issue came up, it was discovered that Windows 9x > does not use the same generation rules as Windows NT. Well, making the rules the same as NT would be fine, I suspect. Even better would be a mount option, I think, since there will always be so

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre2

2000-09-01 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Alan Cox writes: > o Make vfat use the same generation rules as (H. Kawaguchi, > in windows 9xChip Salzenberg) I doubt this is obviously correct. The last time this issue came up, it was discovered that Windows 9x does not use the same generatio

Linux 2.2.18pre2

2000-09-01 Thread Alan Cox
Since 2.2.17 isnt out yet I've released 2.2.18pre2 versus 2.2.17pre20. So you need to grab 2.2.16 then apply the 2.2.17pre20 patch then the 2.2.18pre patch of choice. Ok 2.2.18pre2 merges the large stuff that doesnt interfere with other parts of the kernel and some small fixes that are needed. M