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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 12:49:52 +0930

Re: spurious iptables "untracked packet" problem

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:53:13AM +0930, David Newall wrote:
> > These both had include-file errors which caused the
> > function do_softirq() to not be defined when I compiled the
> > kernel on my Toshiba Portégé 3020CT, although the problem
> > did not arise on my AMD K6-2/500.
> 
> Do you think it's more likely that something about the Toshiba makes
> the kernel fail to compile, even though it compiles fine on the AMD,
> or that you got something wrong?


David,

I think the problem is most likely the different combination of
options that I chose for the kernel configuration.

Something as simple as a missing header file is not likely to
be cause by a different CPU. The compilers are identical
because they're both from SuSE 7.1.

I foudn the same thing with earlier kernels, e.g. just before
2.3.99 turned into 2.4.0. I posted off to Alan Cox with the
exact description of the line number and the error, and got
no response, unsurprisingly.

I think it's just that someone was a bit sloppy in their coding,
which for some obscure device drivers like for flash memory is
not surprising.
This time I just don't feel the energy to locate the exact problem
and report it.
Someone else will fix it!

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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