Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Major 2.1.x problem index | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 20 Jun 1998 14:36:18 +0200 |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
> http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/jobs.shtml holds the major showstopper > items for a 2.2 release, and a few other bugs indexed on a web page. > > I've gone back to problems filed and reproduced from 2.1.97 onwards > so far. My archive goes back a lot further, its just less and less > productive the further I dig (and more and more boring ;)). > > This isnt intended to be an index of everyone who reported every minor > bug, but of major pieces of known problem.
More bugs:
- NROPEN == defaults rlimits fd limit. This means every user can hose the system for all but root processes with main() { for(;;) open("/dev/null",O_RDONLY); } To fix: either needs more dynamically growing global fd tables, or per user resource limits.
- NFS over TCP is broken, but enabled per default (proper fix is to just #ifdef it out I think, because it is too late to fix it)
- NFS is still broken on 64bit machines I believe because the file handle exceeds 32bytes.
- IPv6 option handling: is totally broken (IPv6 has some other bugs too, especially in the routing code, maybe it should be marked CONFIG_VERY_EXPERIMENTIAL)
- IPv4 option handling in the fragmentation/defragmentation pass: is probably broken (conflicting bug reports)
- IPv4 ICMP dest_unreachable/no_route_to_host are not load-limited. I'm not sure if it is worth to fix it.
Regarding isdn4linux:
The version in the 2.1 kernel has some bugs (e.g. it often needs a device down/up to proper redial after hangup), but all bugs I found were already fixed in the CVS repository version from oldhades.think.de:/i4ldev
Regarding the Adaptec 2940 driver:
It does not boot on my machine when the kernel is compiled SMP, but the last version from ftp.dialnet.net (5.0.19) works, so it should be probably upgraded to it.
-Andi
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