Can you send in the hardware configuration for the machine, and
preferably some info on what you use it for? Any patterns at all?
The only changes in pre2.0.8 are:
- some sparc-specific stuff in the floppy driver removed (turned out the
stuff wasn't needed)
- IDE driver probes for "Triton II" hardware too.. Maybe there is a
problem with the "Triton II", if you have IDE drives, please just
remove the last ide_probe_pci() line that was added to 2.0.8 (seach for
ide.c in the pre2.0.8 patch to see this).
- de4x5 driver adds a sanity check (looks like it couldn't possibly make
a difference, do you have that driver?)
- tunnel driver does open/close even when not compiled as a module
- seagate SCSI driver warning removed
- truncate() system call correctly iput's the inode if a file lock
results in error conditions..
- i_size was changed back to off_t (original behaviour)
- IP firewall ACK firewalling change
- route.c minor added check..
Can you check out the "ide.c" and "route.c" changes (both are _very_
small), and maybe reverse those two and tell me whether the behaviour
goes back to normal? I really can't see what could possibly make a
difference in pre2.0.8 otherwise (the patch is large, but 99.5% of it is
PPC stuff, and I assume you don't have a PPC).
Linus