Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Nasty suprise with uptime | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:33:57 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > If so, approximtely when did that get fixed? > > > > (I'm thinking back to an as yet unexplained crash of a 2.0.38 system at > > ~496days uptime :-( ) > > > AFAIK, the system didn't crash, but the uptime counter went down to zero.
Some drivers used to get handling the wrap wrong and then break. Also in the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25 of each 50 days - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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