Re: Linux-2.1.125 ... pre-2.2 imminent

Michael L. Galbraith (mikeg@weiden.de)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 19:25:35 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Kernel Admin User wrote:

> Hello Mike,

Hi Karsten,

> > From: "Michael L. Galbraith" <mikeg@weiden.de>
> > On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> > > Thus spake Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com):
> > > > Anyway, that means that the last of my personal show-stopper bugs in 2.1.x
> > > > seems to be finally history. I still expect to sync up with Alan Cox's
> > > > patches in particular, but I'm mentally getting ready for a real 2.2.
> > >
> > > Right now, the ISDN support in 2.1 is broken.
> > > I have tons of mysterious TCP stalls over an ISDN PPP line to another
> > > Linux box on the other end.
> > >
> > > Just typing this mail over my PPP ISDN link is a real pain, it feels
> > > like a 300 baud line with error correction eating 80% of the throughput.
> >
> > Have you reported this to the isdn list? If you have the problem in a
> > reproducable form, maybe you can gather some data for the isdn folks.
> >
> My problem with 2.1 is that since .109 SMP is broken on my machine
> (OK last tested one was 2.1.121), so I forced my power to 2.0.36 development.

UP is working boringly well here.. wish I had a cranky SMP board :)

>
> > PS: Is anyone out there using the latest i4l CVS with 125? I get..
> > kernel: recvmsg bug: copied ECB331B4 seq 0
> > last message repeated 758 times
> > kernel: seq 0
>
> Which card ?

Teles 16.3. On wed., I'll have a chance to run it up again and write
down/processs the oops and _try_ to chase it. It looks like something
is recursing and overflowing the stack.. but that's a ~guess.

-Mike

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