2.6.17.12 is bad

Auke Kok sofar at foo-projects.org
Mon Sep 11 14:31:50 UTC 2006


Samuel Verstraete wrote:
> Are you really sure that this error is only persistent in 2.6.17.12?
> Cause i'm experiencing problems with the via82cxxx chip all the way
> from the 2.6.17 update...
> 
> On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:43:03 -0700
> Auke Kok <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
> 
>> apparently 2.6.17.12 is bad - compiled errors for the viac8xxx
>> chipset code. Please don't bump linux-2.6 to this revision.

the viac82xx module doesn't even *compile* due to someone submitting the wrong 
patch to -stable. That's not the same as VIA being shitty hardware, which will 
never be fixed <ducks>

meanwhile the compile problems were fixed in 2.6.17.13, which was released the 
same day.

Cheers,

Auke


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