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Linus Torvalds authored
net-1: paranoid queue checking to find more bugs. configuration script version #1. NFS filesystem client support by Rick Sladkey! [Original announcement below] 0.99 has no major new features: the NFS client code is now in the standard distribution, and the kernel configuration has changed, but most of the rest of the changes are fixes - especially the tcp code should now be pretty stable (knock wood). Changes: - NFS is in. As are some stubs for the soud drivers, although it's only stubs right now. - various fixes around the place: the serial problems are hopefully gone, and there are patches to both TCP/IP and SCSI to make them more stable. - Minor fixes: the keyboard buglet introduced in 0.98pl6 should be gone, and some other bugs are also corrected. The optimized read-ahead code in the filesystems (and the raw device read code) was too complicated and seemed to have problems with bad blocks, so I rewrote it, and it should hopefully work correctly now (this may have been the reason "mkfs -c" didn't work in all cases). Thanks for some good bug-reports I've gotten: I've tried to correct all the problems I got reports on. - The kernel configuration has been re-thought: I decided to take advantage of the possibilities offered by GNU make etc. This means that you no longer can compile the kernel using any other make, but there probably aren't many (if any) people doing that anyway. This way I got rid of the extremely ugly SCSI setup, so it was probably worth it. To configure the kernel for your setup, do a make config and answer the yes/no questions. After that, do a make dep to make the dependencies match your setup. After that you should still go edit the top-level Makefile for some of the configuration information as before, but the remaining config things are pretty simple. Then you can make the kernel with a simple "make Image". The new configuration utility (essentially a stupid shell script coupled with some smarts in the Makefiles) tries to minimize compilations: if you disable the SCSI code the scsi drivers won't even be compiled, much less linked in. This should be a win on slower machines. NOTE!!! Use LILO-0.7 to load the 0.98pl5 and newer kernels: any older version of lilo is liable to result in weird problems. Linus
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