Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli_at_holomorphy.com)
Date: 01/27/05

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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

    On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:15:16AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
    >> - Lots of updates and fixes all over the place.
    >> - On my test box there is no flashing cursor on the vga console. Known bug,
    >> please don't report it.
    >> Binary searching shows that the bug was introduced by
    >> cleanup-vc-array-access.patch but that patch is, unfortunately, huge.

    On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:18:57PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
    > autofs has exploded far, far beyond complete nonfunctionality, where
    > in prior 2.6.x it was not quite so blatantly a doorstop preventing all
    > logins on the machine, and, in fact, multiuser mode altogether.
    > Whoever's responsible, prepare to be flamed to a crisp the likes of
    > which has never been witnessed before by observers of solar probes, nor
    > conceived of by the most visionary and imaginative of eschatologists.

    Looks like I just need to smack the hands of whoever blew away modutils.
    I worked around this properly, by fully demodularizing the kernel.
    Anyway, thus far ppc64 comes up clean with no patches, ia64 comes up
    clean with clameter's mmtimer patch. Other arches pending.

    -- wli
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