Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*?

Andrew McGregor
2003-01-13T19:12:05Z

I believe I may have seen it on 2.5.53 just surfing on an Alcatel
Speedtouch DSL modem (using PPPoATM) while compiling in a background
gnome-terminal (and probably running a few other things, maybe including
top, in terminals). I'll try to confirm that.

Andrew

--On Monday, January 13, 2003 18:33:31 +0000 Alan Cox
<alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:35, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Greg KH wrote:
>> >
>> > Anyway, here's a patch with your new lock, if you want to apply it.
>>
>> I'd like to have some verification (or some test-suite) to see whether
>> it makes any difference at all before applying it.
>>
>> Alan, what's your load?
>
> Lots of serial activity (standard PC serial ports) with carrier drops
> present and random oopses appear. I've seen ppp oopses too but don't know
> if they are related. I tried duplicating it with pty/tty traffic on a dual
> PPro200 and suprisingly that did the same.
>
> Ages ago I chased serial bugs down by doing data transfers between two
> PC's while one of them was strobing the carrier up and down on the test
> PC with varying frequencies
>
> I've not had time to try that paticular abuse again alas.
>
> Alan
>
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