RH kernel 2.4.18-10 and patches from http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/TUX-patches/

[Pierre POMES <ppomes@reservit.com>]

Hi,

I am currently using tux in production on a redhat 7.3 with redhat updates, and tux
2.2.5 (rpm version). I have some hangs, so I want to upgrade tux to the lastest
version, tux 2.2.7.

The kernel patch tux2-full-2.4.18-final-A3 should apply on a valilla 2.4.18 kernel,
but since I have a redhat kernel (2.4.18-10 source kernel, rpm format), I thought the
file tux2-full-2.4.18-final-A3 could not be applied at all. I wanted to try, just to
be sure, and a few patches applied :

patching file linux/mm/filemap.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 137 (offset 3 lines).

patching file linux/net/ipv4/route.c
Hunk #2 succeeded at 1417 (offset 14 lines).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 1817 (offset 14 lines).
Hunk #6 succeeded at 1872 (offset 14 lines).

All other patches are already applied. Do you think I must recompile my redhat kernel
with this four patches to get a stable setup ? Or I should rather use a standard
redhat kernel 2.4.18-10 ?

Second question : when I subscribed to the list, I received the following message :

"To alpha-test the latest development versions of TUX, please visit
http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/TUX-patches/ for all the latest bleeding-edge patches
and tarballs"

Does it mean tux 2.2.5/2.2.7 should not used in a production environnement ? I
currently have some hangs with 2.2.5 version, with the same behaviour than described
in the thread 'random system crashes' (initiated by Marco Rothley, Octy 15 2002).

Thanks for your help,

-- 
Pierre POMES                        mailto:ppomes@reservit.com
Interface Technologies