Re: pre-2.0.31-6 hangs at boot, patches to icmp.h and ftape with glibc
Claus-Justus Heine (Heine@physik.rwth-aachen.de)
16 Aug 1997 18:05:03 +0200
> no warnings. I could not test it with pre-2.0.31-6 because of the
> "initial console" problem. However, I made the same change against 2.0.30
> and was able to use the module with only the usual number of problems (the
> tape drive here is an Iomega Ditto 800i :\). I would recommend that a more
> recent version of the ftape driver be distributed with the kernel. I've
> had better results with
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/ftape-3.03a.tar.gz .
Blush. Yes, it should, and should have taken care of this. Only that
moving from ftape-2.x to ftape-3.x is more than few lines patch. I
wonder if it should be done with the 2.0.* series. Ok, I use ftape-3.x
with 2.0.30 without problems. It should be stable enough to be
included in even 2.0.31.
Cheers
Claus