Re: [SLE] Re: Anyone know if Mandrake 9, Red Hat 8 are any good?

The 02.12.09 at 11:33, Mike FABIAN wrote:

I just asked our kernel package maintainer, Hubert Mantel which kernel this is and he said that this is the one with the "barrier patch" completely removed. The one with the fixed "barrier patch" is not yet on FTP.

Do you know of any doc or site explaining what is this barrier stuff about? What it does, more or less? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson