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From: Micah Yoder <yodermk@home.com>
To: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Upgrading kernel, Compile error in module
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:17:19 -0500
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On Monday 29 October 2001 10:26 am, Steve Lord wrote:

> There was a change went into the 2.4.13-pre3 which affects how block device
> modules do reference counting to avoid module unload being performed on

you mean 2.4.14pre3?  If 13, any issues from that should be fixed...  (I 
didn't see it in the changelog for either 2.4.13 or 2.4.14)

> In general I would not put a pre-xxx kernel up in production unless you
> yourself have done fairly extensive testing. The 2.4.13 kernel itself
> seems fairly robust, there is a patch for this on the ftp site:
>
> 	ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches

ok I'll compile that sucker instead.  Thanks!

Micah

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