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Kernel 2.4 based: OCOs for SUSE

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2003-06-13 qeth on top [SLES8 SP2]

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The 2003-06-13 OCO-modules contain bug-fixes on top of those included in SUSE SLES 8 SP2.

[2003-06-13] qeth-susekernel-2.4.19-s390-3.tar.gz MD5 (31-bit)
[2003-06-13] qeth-susekernel-2.4.19-s390x-3.tar.gz MD5 (64-bit)
These OCO modules are functionally equivalent to the vanilla kernel 2.4.19 OCO-modules of 2003-06-13.
It is recommended to use s390-tools 1.1.7 with these modules.
The modules include fixes for the following problems:

Description: qeth memory referenced after module removal.
Symptom: Oops after rmmod qeth
Problem-ID: 3064

Description: osasnmpd failed with several SNMP replies from qeth
Symptom: osasnmpd terminates with bad return code
Problem-ID: 2834

Description: high percentage of dropped packets using UDP
Symptom: qeth had high percentage of dropped UDP packets running on VM in V=V mode and also in V=R mode
Problem-ID: 2574

Description: qeth sent wrong command when doing ioctl
Symptom: When issueing SIOCDEVPRIVATE+2, a wrong command code was sent to the card
Problem-ID: 2545

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