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    [PATCH] Linux-0.99 (December 13, 1992) · ad094925
    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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