re: Linux 2.4.17

David Relson
2001-12-22T00:34:57Z

At 06:10 PM 12/21/01, Oliver Oxymoron wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
>... There's always the risk of breaking something
>and you don't want to introduce a disk-eating bug between -rc and -final.
>It's better to ship one more -rc and wait a day before -final. If you
>don't, people will just get in the habit of waiting a day after -final to
>be safe.
>
> > I said I would make -rc kernels which would not add any new _feature_.
>
>That's less important.

I agree with releasing an extra -rc and waiting the extra day for -final.

My thought is that the _only_ difference between the last -rc and -final is
correctly setting "EXTRAVERSION=" in Makefile.

David