[hcflinux] Computer freezes with hcf drivers

[Marc Boucher]

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:40:39AM +0100, robert w hall wrote:
> In article <20020528002913.GA7234 at endlich.mbsi.ca>, Marc Boucher
> <marc at mbsi.ca> writes
> >On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:08:04AM +0100, tom wrote:
> >> Marc,
> >> 
> >> I thought all kernels in the 2.2.x and 2.4.x series were supported?
> >> 
> >> "HCF for Linux drivers . . . should work on most current Linux
> >> distributions, based on the 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels."
> >
> >"should work" does not necessarily mean "will work". Although quite a few
> >people still successfully use our drivers under 2.2, there are some issues
> >with the older kernels which we cannot always avoid.
> >
> >Generally I think that our energy is better spent improving driver stability
> >and functionality on modern kernels rather than wasting hours testing
> >or investigating weird interactions with legacy versions.
> 
> beg strongly to disagree - if we were using 2.2.1 or something the
> 'legacy' slur would be correct - but most of us have much later kernels
> in the series. Many of us held off going up to 2.4.x while the VM was
> being sorted out (and in my case while Netraverse struggled along to
> follow the consequent changes with their Win4Lin patches), and have
> found the later 2.2.x Kernels quite adequate, thanks.
> 
> Some people may be wishing to run these cards in firewall boxes with
> limited memory - for these a smaller 2.2.x kernel is appropriate, and
> more than adequate.

I'm sorry, but the current stable (i.e. non-development) version of the
linux kernel is 2.4.

Despite this fact we have put in a big effort to maintain compatibility with
2.2. However our resources are limited, especially in the face of other
priorities.

People who absolutely insist on sticking to the old 2.2 series are perfectly
free to investigate and fix any remaining problems since all OS specific
code is open-source. I will gladly accept and incorporate good patches.

Marc