Re: 1.3.100: My notes, as usual

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Mon, 13 May 1996 08:16:32 +0200


On 10 May 96 at 15:42, I wrote with my brain being temporarily
offline:

> I've viewed the patch for 1.3.100, and I was a bit surprised:
>
> We have now support for broken gcc-2.5.8 for the in2000 driver (really
> strange fix), and changes in the IPC code that supports broken
> applications (it seems like it's part of kerneld support, but I'm not
> saying kerneld is broken unless somebody states that kerned really
> needs it). We have now JAVA support even in code freeze, and it uses
> absolute paths compiled into the kernel (I think the concept is really
> broken!). Possibly some floppy formatting applications get trouble
> because of new formatting code.

This last one is nonsense, sorry!