Re: Strange Ethernet Device Errors in 2.1.106/7

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:30:09 +1000


On Fri, 26 Jun 1998 23:25:41 -0400,
Scott Lampert <fortunato@altair.heavymetal.org> wrote:
> Well, perhaps it would be easier to pick out changes like this if the
>Changelog was written in chronological order like in the vast majority of
>other sources. Or perhaps an "Important Changes That You Should Know Since The
>Last Version" section. I usually just download the whole kernel so I didn't
>notice the change in the Changelog. Thanks for the pointer.

But which version was each user running last? Did they create the
source from the latest tar ball, from a tar ball plus n patches, from
an earlier version plus the last n patches? I think the way Changes
does it is right, it tells you the *minimum* level of external software
you should have, how to check the version and that you should check the
version "before thinking you've encountered a bug!". Anybody using
development kernels should do this as a matter of course.

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