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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!torvalds
- From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
- Subject: Re: .99.1
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.102704.5911@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <78738@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:27:04 GMT
- Lines: 20
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- In article <78738@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin) writes:
- >What exatly does the Linux .99 patch 1 fix from .99? Is this just
- >the two line patch Linus posted a little bit after he released .99?
- >Is it what is now at Sunsite's SLS distribution?
-
- No, 0.99 patchlevel 1 is not just the two-line fixes to 0.99 - the
- context diffs are 45kB compressed, and contain various minor fixes. The
- biggest are probably still the tcp/ip fixes (these are Ross' 5 tcp-ip
- patches, with some additional patches by me), but there are minor
- modifications in various places (minix-fs, /proc filesystem, scsi tapes,
- configuration etc). If you don't use tcp/ip, you'll probably not notice
- too much of a difference, but I'd still like people to upgrade just so
- that I know it doesn't break in some silly way.
-
- Linus
-
- PS. 0.99.1 can mess up your keyboard leds at bootup: the simple fix
- should be to add a 'set_leds()' call at the end of kbd_init(). But
- it's not exactly a major problem even so, and probably doesn't even
- happen on most setups..
-