-rc7 Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6

Marcelo Tosatti
2003-05-29T19:00:05Z

On Thu, 29 May 2003, Georg Nikodym wrote:

> On Wed, 28 May 2003 21:55:39 -0300 (BRT)
> Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
>
> > Here goes -rc6. I've decided to delay 2.4.21 a bit and try Andrew's
> > fix for the IO stalls/deadlocks.
>
> While others may be dubious about the efficacy of this patch, I've been
> running -rc6 on my laptop now since sometime last night and have seen
> nothing odd.
>
> In case anybody cares, I'm using both ide and a ieee1394 (for a large
> external drive [which implies scsi]) and I do a _lot_ of big work with
> BK so I was seeing the problem within hours previously.

Great!

-rc7 will have to be released due to some problems :(