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

Kernel Admin User (krnuser@temic-ech.spacenet.de)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:31:16 +0200


Hello Mike,

> 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.

> 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 ?

I'll test 2.1.125 next day's, even if it won't work with SMP, I 'll try it
with no SMP.

Karsten Keil

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