Seems to break my BusLogic controller. Hangs right after the floppy where it
would normally start the SCSI messages. Hard hang.
>
> I've gotten a lot of patches in the mail for the last week, and I've been
> ignoring most of them for obvious reasons. They aren't in any in-queue,
> you can more-or-less consider them lost - but don't resend them all
> immediately, because if I get another huge batch of patches then I'll just
> have to ignore them again.
>
> We're going slow and easy, and the plan is to not only keep me sane in the
> midst of all the diapers, but I'll also at the same time take the
> opportunity to actually enforce the feature-freeze. You've known about it
> for a long time, _tough_.
>
> Anyway, 2.1.98 _should_ fix:
> - the IDE/SCSI lockups. The irq enable/disable code was broken, and could
> do some really bad things. This tended to lock up the machine if you
> accessed your IDE disks heavily, or in particular if you had a mixture
> of IDE and SCSI and used them at the same time. Tell me if you still
> have problems - I'm sure there are still bugs left, and I want to hear
> about them.
> - memory management especially on small-memory machines. I think I made a
> good change to the allocation logic, and I'm hoping it will fix the bad
> bahevaiour on those wimpy machines that all you losers out there are
> using that have less than half a Gig of RAM. It certainly still works
> fine on my machine, and I'm certainly still too lazy to test it out on
> anything smaller.
>
> There's a few other updates too: the asm constraints are fixed, so it
> should compile again with other compiler versions than the particular one
> I happen to be using. And some of the SCSI drivers have been updated a
> bit.
>
> There's been a lot of discussion and patches on capabilities, and I
> haven't applied them yet, I'll let them simmer a bit. Similarly, I've seen
> so many pathes to kmod that my head is spinning, and as I don't use
> modules myself I'd really like to get feedback from users about the
> different patches, so that maybe I'll get something that everybody can
> agree on as acceptable. Right now I don't know which patch I should even
> begin looking at.
>
> Linus
>
>
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