On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:00:09PM +0000, Padraig Brady wrote:
> Chris Hanson wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:48:50 +0000
> > From: Padraig Brady <[email protected]>
> >
> > Are you using the 3c59x driver?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Can we sort this out once and for all? There are a few emails
> everyday relating to this bug.
>
> The following patch posted by "Troels Walsted Hansen" <[email protected]>
> on Jan 11th fixes this. The problem is that when 2 consequtive
> NULLs are sent to klogd it goes into a busy loop. Andrew Mortons
> 3c59x driver does this, but also on Jan 11th he replied that he had
> fixed it. I'm using 2.4ac4 with no problems, so I presume some
> of these patches have been lost along the way?
<snip of patch>
And if you are using RedHat, you can also grab the latest sysklogd
from rawhide which includes the patch:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/sysklogd-1.4-5.i386.rpm
-Dave