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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Marc ZYNGIER <mzyngier@freesurf.fr>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac14
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On 16 Jun 2001, Marc ZYNGIER wrote:

> >>>>> "Al" == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
> 
> Al> Very odd. Could somebody try vanilla 2.4.6-pre1 on a PPC box? I _really_
> Al> doubt that it might be an architecture-specific problem in directory
> Al> code - it would simply fail the lookup for  /dev in that case.
> 
> I have 2.4.6-pre3 running. Machine is a PowerMac clone with a G3 CPU.
> It gets loads of bogus interrupts (known problem with this machine),
> but otherwise runs fine (that is, for the time being).

[snip]
 
> Been there, done that. Just works.
> Would 2.4.6-pre1 be a better test ? I can dig into that if you want.

Nah - just that 2.4.6-pre1 was the version where ext2 patch went in.