Re: Linux 2.0 ISS test patch 2 is out

Dr. Werner Fink (werner@suse.de)
Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:43:04 +0100


> This does:
>
> 1) Path MTU and fast retransmit bug fixes (Eric Schenk and me)
>
> 2) Numerous IP masquerading updates (Nigel Metheringham and
> Keith Owens)
>
> vger.rutgers.edu:/pub/linux/Net/patches/patch-2.0-ISS.test2.gz
>

It would be nice to have the following patches included:

the patch for linux/arch/i386/kernel/bios32.c
to get some PCI mainboards working with linux 2.0.xx.
URL: ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/people/tsbogend/bios32-2.0.29.diff.gz

a one line patch for handling hardlinks on
nfs mounted filesystems.
------------------------------* snip *------------------------------------
--- linux/fs/nfs/dir.c.old Wed Feb 5 21:20:56 1997
+++ linux/fs/nfs/dir.c Wed Feb 5 21:21:50 1997
@@ -633,6 +633,7 @@
NFS_FH(dir), name);

nfs_lookup_cache_remove(dir, oldinode, NULL);
+ NFS_CACHEINV(oldinode);
iput(oldinode);
iput(dir);
return error;
------------------------------* snap *------------------------------------
Many /var/spool/mails are mounted via nfs and many
mailers uses hardlinks to emulate `filelocking'.

the semaphore patch of David Grothe <dave@gcom.com>

a patch to get the same `bug free level' in
linux/include/asm-i386/string.h and in
linux/include/asm-i386/string-486.h of 2.0.xx and 2.1.28.

Ciao

Werner