STABLE12-update-news-file-20030413

Note minimum version requirement for 2.2.x series Linux kernels, and
also note incompatability between 1.2.9 afsd and older kernel modules.

(cherry picked from commit e233f0646c81f671f0c70d209ba601f864e3d82a)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b95a74976f095ebc6fa8474a1ebe5ee5ee0e0eab..de735a3509dfae9f0ba1c91d5c1595a6389d33bc 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ OpenAFS News -- history of user-visible changes.  April 10, 2003.
 ** Solaris 9 12/02 is now supported.  Solaris 7 and 8 x86 should now
    work again.
 
+** On Linux machines using 2.2 series kernels, 2.2.19 or higher is now
+   required.
+
+** An OpenAFS 1.2.9 afsd will not work with kernel modules built from
+   an earlier OpenAFS release.  In general, using a mismatched afsd and
+   kernel modules set is unsupported; it is not recommended that you use
+   such a configuration on a regular basis.
+
 * Changes incorporated in OpenAFS 1.2.8
 
 ** Mountpoint directory information is now only faked for cross-cell