Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:09:22 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Subject: The "not quite valentines day release".. In a superhuman effort to not get killed by my wife, I delayed the latest release for a day. And in fact, it's still just a pre-release, because I wanted to check with Ingo that I have his latest IO-APIC code with the proper handling of ExtINT. Ingo? Anyway, the "not quite valentine days release" (also known as the "horny greased weasel", aka "presidents day" release ;), is right now a pre-patch on ftp.kernel.org: /pub/linux/kernel/testing/pre-patch-2.2.2-4.gz. Happily, I haven't heard of any new real show-stoppers, which is good (especially considering the fact that I gave it an extra week just to hear if somebody could come up with some new problems). The things fixed relative to 2.2.1 are: - the inode thing. If you don't know, don't worry. - config scripts updated - IO-APIC cleanups and fixes, so that people with strange motherboards should be able to reboot cleanly and not get unexpected interrupts. - 2kB sector media (ie mostly MO) fixes. See all the warnings on the lists about fdisk confusion etc if you have one of these things. - IDE disk cleanups/fixes (geometry and autodetection) - PS/2 mouse hides ACK's again - pty crash fix - some network driver fixes (out-of-memory and shared interrupts) - some sound and video updates. - lockd cookie fixes - nfsd readdir reply cache fix - filesystem/VM deadlock avoidance (new deamon: kpiod) - SMP scheduler race condition (which nobody has probably ever seen) - TCP socket locking fix Most of the above are really hard to see in the first place, and not something most people would ever hit (with the possible exception of the inode thang). But it would be good to have a really rock solid 2.2.2, so if people could just bother to check that it works for them, and I'll make this official tomorrow. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/