From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:26:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:25:57 -0500 Received: from freeside.toyota.com ([63.87.74.7]:39178 "EHLO toyota.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:25:47 -0500 Message-ID: <3BEB3092.7DC835B3@lexus.com> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 17:25:38 -0800 From: J Sloan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: volodya@mindspring.com CC: erasmo perez , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Loopback device support, kernel 2.4.14, can not compile ? In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org volodya@mindspring.com wrote: > On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, erasmo perez wrote: > > > hello > > > > i think i have found an error in the kernel, i think ... > > > > when a i try to compile the 2.4.14 with the option: > > > > Loopback device support > > Get 2.4.15-pre1 patch - it fixes this. Yes, 2.4.15-pre1 fixes that, and somewhat works - However 2.4.15-pre1 has some other issues. For instance, in 2.4.15-pre1, I can reliably hang my machine with the following simple command, as a non-root user: ssh localhost Is that bizzare or what? I've never seen that type of bug in Linux before - cu jjs