Despite the name, this kernel is hopefully a lot better than 1.3.67, which
tended to have some lock-up problems due to some socket closedown boo-boo's.
After a while the machine did nothing but service timers to close down sockets
that the rest of the kernel had already happily forgotten about and that
weren't going away for that reason. This led to interrupt latency problems and
eventually a dead machine (but it doesn't happen on all machines, it needs to
be triggered by certain usage patterns).
Fixes in 1.3.68:
- INET socket closedowns fixed. Hopefully for good this time.
- ncpfs update (some rare error condition checks added etc)
- loopback device support
- tunnel driver rewritten..
- minor NFS fixups
- various minor network updates (ax25, nr, etc)
As always, the more people that test this thing, the better the next kernel
gets. I'm especially interested in NFS testing, still (especially machines that
are almost totally dependent on NFS - binaries and home directories). And of
course just people generally pounding on it and trying to break things (and
hopefully failing).
Oh, and if you applied my "suprt-67" patch earlier, you need to un-apply it
before applying the 68 patch (or just get the whole source tree if you are
nervous about patching..)
Linus