> Linus,
> I patched the kernel with your pre-patch-2.1.36 and then rebooted. So far
> everything is running okay. The patch did not patch cleanly in:
> linux/net/ipv4/arp.c. I was not able to figure it out, there
> were as many lines in arp.c.rej as there was in arp.c.orig. Therefore,
> I just used the original and altered it for the change in the ATOMIC_INIT
> macro. If you want my kernel to be exactly like yours for testing, put
> arp.c on your server and I'll download it. Otherwise, what I've got seems
> to work okay.
I didn't have quite as much luck as you had. It patched cleanly into the
kernel for me, but this morning after it had been running all night I
typed sync, it synced but didn't ever return. I switched to another tty
and killall sync just hung also, I switched to another tty kill -9 the
killall and that worked, but I couldn't kill -9 the sync process. I
changed to root and started killing process to reboot and a good many of
them would turn into zombie processes and a few would would exit
correctly.
I'm running 2.0.29 just fine and with the newer kernels 2.1.3{0,3,4,5}
(2.1.3{1.2,3?} didn't compile for me), the newer kernels would not last
but a few hours and give kernel panics, swap idle task may not sleep, and
various other system crashes. I was wanting to try out ipv6, but I
haven't found a stable kernel yet. I also have a funai cdrom driver
almost ready for testing with 2.1.x kernels.
Tyan Tomcat III, k5, ncr53c810, 64megs memory, (gcc driver version
2.7.2.1 Objective-C snapshot 960906 executing gcc version 2.7.2.1)
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