Re: Linux 2.4.18 - the missing patch issue

[Mike Fedyk]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:25:25PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> I suggest that instead of the previously proposed solutions an effort 
> should instead be made to release 2.4.19 relatively fast. Instead of 
> including a lot of fixes, only include the most critical known fixes in 
> 2.4.19-pre1 (and maybe -pre2), then go to -rc1 as soon as possible and 
> get 2.4.19 out the door pretty fast with important fixes and leave all 
> other stuff for 2.4.20-pre1
> 

Does anyone know how long this bug has been in the kernel?

If it's an old bug, 2.4.19-pre1 already has the fix, just like rc4 did...

This *one* bug isn't big enough to hurry, IMO.

Mike