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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 1997 13:48:13 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Urge to apply the vn device hack even to 2.2.5 
Message-ID:  <199710201948.NAA00007@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <13791.877372893@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <199710201615.KAA29216@rocky.mt.sri.com> <13791.877372893@time.cdrom.com>

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> > My advice is to 'just do it'.  I suspect Jordan must have the patch on
> > his build box in order for him to roll the release, and since there are
> > few hours left to do it in, it should be done ASAP.
> 
> I don't, that's the weird thing.  I'm running a standard 2.2-stable
> kernel here.  Maybe it only hits in situations where you have a
> certain amount of RAM?

Hmm, I don't know.  It's been seen by lots of folks though.

> In any case, the tag is going down in just over 6 hours, so a decision
> will need to be made quickly. :)

I decided to take the heat for it.  I haven't been in a good flame wars
in awhile.  It won't break the compile in any case, and I know enough
people who build 'private' releases that breaking it seems silly.



Nate

ps. It *shouldn't* break your build, but if it does yell at me and yank
it out.



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