https://lwn.net/Articles/22592/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Kernel release status". en-us Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:06:43 +0000 Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:06:43 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/22711/ https://lwn.net/Articles/22711/ blaz Yes the ide work now being put into 2.4.20-preX-acX is essential. Ide stuff in 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 broke some apsects of ide dma on our older intel bx board servers. We're talking hard lockups that required reboots. Not nice.<p>When I complained to Hedrick I got this back from him:<p>QUOTE<br>The &quot;-acX&quot; trees have the corrected driver work from myself and reviewed<br>by Alan. The last stable tree was 2.4.18 before people pushed stuff that<br>was not validated.<br>UNQUOTE<p>Hopefully all this will be cleared up in 2.4.21, as the last 2.4.20-preX-acX I tried fixed the ide but broke some aspects of memory management leading to process oops. But at least the whole PC didn't lock up. Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:34:16 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/22645/ https://lwn.net/Articles/22645/ proski Upgrading from 2.4.20 to 2.4.21-pre4-ac4 fixed hang when reading CompactFlash cards through a PCI-PCMCIA bridge. Apparently the new IDE driver can deal properly with a PCI IRQ already allocated for the device by another driver. Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:03:35 +0000