On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Tomi Manninen OH2BNS wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Joachim Holst wrote:
>
> > > What makes you (two) think the crashing is caused by anything AX.25
> > > related? Do you see something AX.25 related in the Oops dump when it
> > > happens? If so, what? Please give us something usable to work with. Find
> > > the Oops in your system log and send it here for us to see or if your
> > > machine freezes before anything gets written in the log then write the
> > > Oops down and run it through ksymoops.
> >
> > From my side, it's a very loose guess. Since I didn't have this
> > problem with older kernels 2.0.x and the old AX25 utils but I do now
> > with new kernel and old AX25 utils, I found it quite natural to assume
> > that it was related with incompatible AX25 utils.
>
> Well, I don't find that very natural at all. There are million other
> things that changed in the kernel between 2.0.x and 2.2.x. It's actually
> much more probable that the problem is elsewhere. BUT, if you can show us
> an Oops trace (symbols resolved) with something AX.25 related then we can
> start debugging...
>
> > The old ones don't
> > compile on a 2.2.x kernel (at least not the last time I tried) and
> > neither did the new AX25 libs. I know that newer versions have been
> > released that do compile on a RedHat system (the reason why they
> > didn't compile earlier, weas RedHat related).
>
> Installing the new lib/tools/apps is very simple and there are now even
> RPMs available. Anyway if the problem turns out to be this (old utils)
> then it still is a kernel bug. No usermode application should be able to
> crash the kernel, even a faulty one!
That you just wrote, I haven't thought about actually. I'm still used to
thing krashing when not 100% compatible.
The point I wanted to make here, is that: I know that things that don't
work will be fixed, and I'll wait till they are. Since I'm no kernel
programmer and haven't read the kernel updates.
Anyhow, isn't this a bit of raging on about somthing now ??
This has been discussed earlier. I will now go out and download the latest
kernel and try out the new AXlibs.
Thank's anyhow !
/Jocke!
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