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Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1

From:  William Lee Irwin III <wli-AT-holomorphy.com>
To:  Andrew Morton <akpm-AT-osdl.org>
Subject:  Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1
Date:  Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:18:57 -0800
Cc:  linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:15:16AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches...
> - Lots of updates and fixes all over the place.
> - On my test box there is no flashing cursor on the vga console.  Known bug,
>   please don't report it.
>   Binary searching shows that the bug was introduced by
>   cleanup-vc-array-access.patch but that patch is, unfortunately, huge.

autofs has exploded far, far beyond complete nonfunctionality, where
in prior 2.6.x it was not quite so blatantly a doorstop preventing all
logins on the machine, and, in fact, multiuser mode altogether.

Whoever's responsible, prepare to be flamed to a crisp the likes of
which has never been witnessed before by observers of solar probes, nor
conceived of by the most visionary and imaginative of eschatologists.


-- wli


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