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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Panic plus advice needed
In-Reply-To: <99Aug5.065409est.40327@border.alcanet.com.au> from Peter Jeremy at "Aug 5, 1999 07:13:32 am"
To: jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (Peter Jeremy)
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 16:42:50 -0700 (PDT)
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Peter Jeremy writes:
> >>> Yes.  It bloats the kernel and only fixed one cause of the problem.
> >>
> >>What are the others..?
> >
> >The only one I can find now is naming the debugging kernel with a name
> >of different length.
> 
> Also, if your kernel was previously version 9 (or 99 or 999 or ...),
> the incremented version number will increase the length of the version
> string in vers.c.

That's the same thing as we're already talking about (see patch).

-Archie

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