<hmmm> I wonder if that's why Slackware stuck with 2.2 for the mainline kernel for 8.0 distro. I read a comment in their general README implying that 2.2 was more stable according to them (Pat Volgerding). Let's see, I think 2.4 was at level 5 at the time. Quality control is important if we want to gain on that other operating system, don't ya think? On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Adam Myrow wrote: > Did you attempt to build support for the "loop device" in the kernel? > This is the devices like /dev/loop0 where you can mount a disk image as if > it were a physical disk. Looks like they screwed up this code with > 2.4.14. I tell you, the Linux kernels seem especially cranky in the 2.4.X > series. I don't ever recall the developers completely breaking stuff with > updates. Anyway, I compiled the loop support as a module, and end up > getting unresolved symbols when trying to install it. I hope they can get > a 2.4.X kernel out the door without messed up code. Of course, I don't > see how they get *any* kernels out the door anymore given their size and > the huge number of maintainers! > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
