Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre6

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Sat Dec 08 2001 - 01:40:50 EST


Followup to: <20011207221436.B24098@asooo.flowerfire.com>
By author: Ken Brownfield <brownfld@irridia.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Not a problem at all. That's what -pre releases and folks testing with
> ancient (but tried and tested) releases are for. ;-)
>
> It sounds like it's easily revertable, but maybe it's worth putting the
> axe in egcs compatibility for other people? ... Dunno.
>

It's worth putting the axe in when you have a good reason to break
compatibility. This, however, isn't one of those.

        -hpa

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