Re: RE : [Linux-decnet-user] X and Decnet Freeze

[Steven W. <st...@gw...>]

Hi,

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to solve my XFree freeze problem. For this i think it was necessary to apply all the kernel patch that was write since the the 2.4.18 kernel version.
> Could any one tell me where i can found a list of all the patch since this version ?
> If it is possible i want to increase the decnet part of the kernel to the same state of the 2.5.x version.
> 
> Steven,
> 
> According to your last answare you tell me to wait about the porting kernel. Could you telle me the result ?

Yes. Sorry its been so long - things have got very busy for me recently at
work and all the DECnet stuff is really just a spare time activity for me
at the moment.

It appears that the 2.5 kernel also suffers from the same problems as 2.4
when it comes to XFree freezing as Patrick has recently been investigating
it. He sent me one patch which reduces the number of hangs a lot, but still
(as I understand) does not cure it entirely.

There are two places to look for patches to DECnet in 2.5. Firstly my
patches page http://www.chygwyn.com/~steve/kpatch/ has most if not all
of the ones I've written and http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5
can be used to query all patches applied to DECnet, whoever wrote them
and might be the easier reference for you.

By all means feel free to produce patches for DECnet in 2.4 but I suspect
it will be a long job since the two kernels are different enough that
you won't just be able to copy & paste parts. Also beware that some
behaviour has changed and that I'd rather not back port anything to 2.4 which
will change DECnet from the users perspective unless it can be shown to be
100% backwards compatible.

When 2.6 proper comes out, I'll probably want to give up maintaining DECnet
in 2.4. I think one stable version and one development version at a time
are enough and there are times when I think that I'm not really giving them
the attention that they deserve. I'm expecting things at work to calm down
in a month or two and I hope to do some of the larger tasks I have on
my todo list then,

Steve.