Re: [PATCH][CFT] Re: 2.4.15-pre9 breakage (inode.c)

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:05:36PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Hey, this gives Linus a good reason to make another 2.4.15 release,
> and silence all of the people complaining about -greased-turkey (which,
> as we all know, was Linus' prerelease for testing that everything was
> working OK before he made an _official_ 2.4.15 release, and a good thing
> he did or this bug wouldn't have shown up until the _official_ 2.4.15
> release which would have been embarassing ;-).

Actually, had Linus have waited until tonight before doing the 2.4.15
release, I would've been running 2.4.15-pre9 on the machine which showed
the problem.

>From pre7, pre8 came out, didn't even get to build that before pre9 came
out.  Built pre9, slept.  Woke up and 2.4.15-dead-duck was out.  Had I
not immediately grabbed the dead-duck release, I would've been running
pre9 on the machine, which I understand contains the problem as well.

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