From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: larry@minfin.bg, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange TCP with 2.5.60
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:37:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030213153748.1e4df3cc.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030213182617.13463A-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > Could you pelase retest with this patch, and tell us how many of these
> > problems go away?
> >
> > diff -puN net/ipv4/fib_hash.c~a net/ipv4/fib_hash.c
> > --- 25/net/ipv4/fib_hash.c~a 2003-02-12 10:23:55.000000000 -0800
> > +++ 25-akpm/net/ipv4/fib_hash.c 2003-02-12 10:24:00.000000000 -0800
> > @@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ static __inline__ struct fib_node *fib_g
> >
> > if (!iter->zone)
> > goto out;
> > - if (iter->zone->fz_next)
> > + if (iter->zone->fz_next);
> > break;
> > }
> >
> >
> > _
>
> is that patch reversed, I hope? The if doesn't do a great deal.
It is deliberate. It directly reverts a bugfix which was recently merged.
Apparently the problem is that this combined with recent seq_file conversions
has resulted in changed format of some /proc/net/foo files, which is
confusing some network admin apps.
It is being worked on.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-13 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-12 11:52 Strange TCP with 2.5.60 Kostadin Karaivanov
2003-02-12 18:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-13 23:27 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-02-13 23:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-02-14 1:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-14 14:41 ` Dave Jones
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