Re: Smarter kernel modules?

2003-03-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:49:20AM -0600, Sean Kelly wrote: +/* + * Define the version. Change the symbol name when things get too + * incompatible. version_5_1 means the 'ABI compatible with FreeBSD 5.1' + */ +char __version_5_1 = 1; ... Wouldn't it make more sense to have a symbol name

Re: ng_fec on 4.7-RELEASE-p6

2003-03-06 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, When I configure two fxp ports with the example load script, I'm getting a message fxp0 up and fxp1 up, but fec0 doesn't work. I have assigned an ip address and try to ping outside, but nothing happens. The moment I do a tcpdump -i fec0, I see packets coming in and from that moment on

Re: 'ticks' in kernel.

2003-03-06 Thread David Malone
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:16:20PM -0500, Jan Knepper wrote: Well, I guess since I have not heard any brilliant solutions. Could/should I add a query for 'ticks' to sysctl? I can't suggest a better suggestion off the top of my head, unless it would be better as something which you'd get at

RE: Disk scheduling in FreeBSD

2003-03-06 Thread Paul Robinson
Adam Migus wrote: So if you gimme webspace can i promise you code and output shortly after? If you want input into design I can give you the code now with the understanding that it is WIP. Sure. If you can wait a week, I'll be able to sort you out. Right now, the server is in need of some

Panic: bwrite: buffer is not busy???

2003-03-06 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, I get these panics each day with 5-CURRENT. All what the machine does is file serving through FTP, HTTP and RSYNC over a GE NIC. It is a dual Xeon, but I got the same results with an earlier CURRENT on a whole different machine (see kern/46861). Any ideas about this problem? Thanks!

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Realtek

2003-03-06 Thread Pablo Morales
HI there. Gotta question. Someone said that the realtek 8029 and 8139 ethernet cards are the worst cards ever made. My boss is planning to make a great buy of this cards for a communication project ( the reasons is obius, the cost of this cards ) I'm trying to persuade him to by 3com ethernet

Re: Realtek

2003-03-06 Thread Kirill Ponomarew
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:46:43AM -0300, Pablo Morales wrote: HI there. Gotta question. Someone said that the realtek 8029 and 8139 ethernet cards are the worst cards ever made. My boss is planning to make a great buy of this cards for a communication project ( the reasons is obius,

Re: Realtek

2003-03-06 Thread Bram Van Dam
At 15:46 6/03/2003, you wrote: HI there. Gotta question. Someone said that the realtek 8029 and 8139 ethernet cards are the worst cards ever made. My boss is planning to make a great buy of this cards for a communication project ( the reasons is obius, the cost of this cards ) I'm trying to

Re: Smarter kernel modules?

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Gallatin
M. Warner Losh writes: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sean Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Has anyone ever considered embedding some sort of identifier in kernel : modules to keep them from being loaded with the wrong kernel? Actually, I was talking about this with Matt

Re: Smarter kernel modules?

2003-03-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-06T07:09:40Z, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) If you update any of those kernels, the updated kernel and updated modules will be written into /boot/FOO/ as appropriate. BUT old modules that weren't rebuilt (eg 3rd party modules) will remain in /boot/FOO/. If the new

Re: Smarter kernel modules?

2003-03-06 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sean Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:59:01PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: : Here's a simple patch. However, it is a total suck-ass kludge (and : that's being generous). The ABI isn't THE ABI, but rather a : collection of

Re: Smarter kernel modules?

2003-03-06 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : My company ships a binary driver (ethernet network, and character : device) built on 4.1.1-R, and it has continued to work at least until : 4.7-R. I'd like to see that same level of ABI stability throughout :

Re: Smarter kernel modules?

2003-03-06 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Disadvantages: : - Needs grunt-work to write the #defines : - Kernel symbols reported by nm(1) look strange (unless we patch : binutils to understand our versioning scheme). : - May present problems to '##' built

Re: Realtek

2003-03-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Pablo Morales wrote: Someone said that the realtek 8029 and 8139 ethernet cards are the worst cards ever made. My boss is planning to make a great buy of this cards for a communication project ( the reasons is obius, the cost of this cards ) I'm trying to persuade him to by 3com ethernet

Re: Smarter kernel modules?

2003-03-06 Thread M. Warner Losh
The patch that I posted here can't possibly work, but there are other ways to deal. I'm investigating. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Realtek

2003-03-06 Thread Simon1
Someone said that the realtek 8029 and 8139 ethernet cards are the worst cards ever made. My boss is planning to make a great buy of this cards for a communication project ( the reasons is obius, the cost of this cards ) I'm trying to persuade him to by 3com ethernet cards, but I need

Re: Smarter kernel modules?

2003-03-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:41:04AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Disadvantages: : - Needs grunt-work to write the #defines : - Kernel symbols reported by nm(1) look strange (unless we patch : binutils to understand

Re: Smarter kernel modules?

2003-03-06 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : That said, I feel that a single number (or variable name) is too : coarse and the do I need to bump the version decision is too fuzzy. : Unfortunately, I can't think of anything better that wouldn't incur : an

4.8-RC report

2003-03-06 Thread Julian Elischer
After instralling afew machines it seems to mostly work with the exception of a couple of machiens which just Hang forever while trying to probe their keyboard.. Has anyone been fiddling in the keyboard code? CVS only shows cosmetic changes over the last few months but something has changed ..

Re: 4.8-RC report

2003-03-06 Thread Julian Elischer
Possibly false alarm: Preloading the usb keyboard module seems to cause the normal kbd to hang forever during probing.. I do not yet know if this is documented anywhere if it isn't then it's still a problem I guess. On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: After instralling afew

Re: Realtek

2003-03-06 Thread Paulo Roberto
--- Bram Van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cheap they are they do their job fairly well. If performance isn't an issue then go for it. I couldn't agree more. If you are just staying in 55 mph, you don't need a Ferrari. cheers __ Do you Yahoo!?

Re: future of all the jail patches [was: Re: jail statfs patch]

2003-03-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Christian asks me to file a PR to better get this tracked and perhaps included in mainstream. I had seen lots of jail discussion here the last months but I think there had been few PR submission. What is the overall opinion on this - file PRs ?

Re: Realtek

2003-03-06 Thread Wes Peters
On Thursday 06 March 2003 15:02, Paulo Roberto wrote: --- Bram Van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cheap they are they do their job fairly well. If performance isn't an issue then go for it. I couldn't agree more. If you are just staying in 55 mph, you don't need a Ferrari. It's not a ford

send mail using alternate SMTP server

2003-03-06 Thread nbari
hi all is there a command or a way to send email from a shell (no X environment) specifying the SMTP server, so it don't uses the local SMTP? may be a hack to the mail command. thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message