From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Schonfeld Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.23 problem Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:24:02 +0100 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FF5B742.9060102@schonfeld.eu.org> References: <3FF444C3.9040306@schonfeld.eu.org> <20040101231318.A19167@pull.privacy.nb.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040101231318.A19167@pull.privacy.nb.ca> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: M Taylor Cc: Tony Schonfeld , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org M Taylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 05:03:15PM +0100, Tony Schonfeld wrote: > >>Since i've upgrade kernel 2.4.22 to 2.4.23 my system is unstable >>under debian sid like this message: > > > >>Without ax25 running, everything is fine. >> >>i' haven't check 2.4.23 without ax25 but 2.4.22 run fine here. > > > >>Do you know the fix for this problem ? >>the only way is it upgrade to kernel 2.6 ? > > > The best long term fix is to upgrade to 2.6.0 (or newer), as the 2.6.x > kernel has numerous bug fixes. No offense to 9a4gl but as far as I know > his patch does not fix everything that Ralf and Joeron (sp?) have been > working on. > > The reason it is flakey under 2.4.x (for some people) is that some > basic or fundemental assumptions changed between 2.2.x and 2.4.x and > at the time no one made the necessary changes to AX.25 and the device > drivers. So some people will be bit by these bugs while others get > luckily and don't see them (faster, more complex setups, especially > gateways seem to be affected the most). > > I believe that Debian 3.0 'testing' or 'unstable' both support the 2.6.x > kernel. (RedHat Linux 9 + module-init-util, or Fedora core 1 also support > 2.6 AFAIK) > > There is a 2.6.0 HOWTO at > > Hope that helps, > > -ve3tix (ex. ve1mct) Many thanks for all reply, i've temporary remove ax25 service from my server before change a clean kernel version. Tony