From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 6 07:35:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA25490 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 07:35:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA25483 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 07:35:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA14305; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 10:35:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 10:35:01 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" To: Richard Wackerbarth cc: Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The 'Stable' status of freeBSD-stable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > I agree. The change of interface should have been caused a bump to 2.3. > If I need the latest kernel patch (eg the Intel bug fix), I should > be able to simply update my source tree and compile a new kernel. PERIOD. > NOTHING else should have to be changed. On that note, has Intel's further nasty abomination^W^W^Wpatch be commited to 2.2.5-stable yet... I looked for it in the LINT kernel, but could not find it. -- David Cross ACS Consulatn