Re: Random PPP Dropouts

Harald Dunkel (harri@Synopsys.COM)
Wed, 06 Jan 1999 20:43:03 +0100

Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
>
> Hi Harri,
>
> This was driving me nuts. It appeared with pre1, and I reversed just
> about the entire patch piece by piece until just about the only thing
> left was drivers and the makefile version changes. You guessed it..
> the makefile changes. I haven't figured out why yet, but I now have a
> pre1 with everything except that, and the annoying route and demand dial
> problems are gone. 'Course it has an identity crisis, (it thinks it's
> 2.1.132) but it works.
>
> -Mike

Hi Mike,

As suggested I have renamed the pre4 kernel into 2.1.136, and the problem
disappeared!

The bug seems to be in ipppd/sys-linux.c. Decode_version() stumbles
over the '-pre4'. Attached is is a suggested workaround for
ipppd 3.0beta2. But probably it is more easy to remove the definition
of 'EXTRAVERSION' in the top level Makefile, delete
include/linux/version.h and rebuild the kernel. I guess EXTRAVESRION
will disappear with the final 2.2.0 kernel anyway.

Regards

Harri

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** ./ipppd/sys-linux.c~        Mon Nov  9 15:00:15 1998
--- ./ipppd/sys-linux.c Wed Jan  6 19:43:06 1999
***************
*** 1228,1240 ****
            *patch = (int) strtoul (buf, &buf, 10);
          }
        }
!     
      if (*buf != '\0')
        {
        *version      =
        *modification =
        *patch        = 0;
        }
    }
  
  /*
--- 1228,1241 ----
            *patch = (int) strtoul (buf, &buf, 10);
          }
        }
! /*    
      if (*buf != '\0')
        {
        *version      =
        *modification =
        *patch        = 0;
        }
+ */
    }
  
  /*


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