Re: eDirectory Trustee and User Space IOCTL() in NWFS

2000-09-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[AC] > > Mind you, until its open source I'll stick with LDAP and kerberos. > > For one I trust folks like Ted more to get it right. [Jeff Merkey] > Who is Ted, BTW? Theodore Y. Ts'o. (You read linux-kernel, so I needn't elaborate.) Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date:Sat, 30 Sep 2000 04:10:59 +0200 From: Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do you really think that explicitly supporting broken distributions (redhat 7.0 comes with a experimental snapshot of gcc which is neither binary compatible to 2.95 nor to 3.0, cutting binary

Re: Linux Kicks Ass Again

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > Just in case you guys didn't hear, Linux Networx won best in show for > the Servers, Storage, and Peripherals category running Ute-Linux with > the M2FS file system on a Linux Networx 1240 Evolocity Cluster Server > with 20 clustered processor nodes at NetWorld+Interop

Linux Kicks Ass Again

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Just in case you guys didn't hear, Linux Networx won best in show for the Servers, Storage, and Peripherals category running Ute-Linux with the M2FS file system on a Linux Networx 1240 Evolocity Cluster Server with 20 clustered processor nodes at NetWorld+Interop in Atlanta this week. Windows

Where to obtain the latest test kernels

2000-09-29 Thread Michael Hobgood
Hello, I am interested in testing the 2.2.18pre12 kernel. Where do I find the source code. Checking ftp.kernel.org, it only goes to 2.2.17, the latest stable release. Following several mirror sites gave only the same. Cordially, Michael Hobgood - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: OOPS on 2.2.17

2000-09-29 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 23:48:34 -0500 (CDT), Erik McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recieved this oops on boot up. ksymoops claims that the module is from >2.2.16, but I haven't touched any of the modules after make >modules_install. >Warning (compare_Version): Version mismatch. 3c507 says

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
Well I am of the opinion (some say it stinks), Linux needs a mixed layer(s) above/below the FS to do direct access to the drives. This must be placed in the request/list_head for continuity, but I know what Matt wants and why. I am working on it in ATA, but my partner in SCSI land refuse to

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote: >Date:Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:49:04 -0600 >From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >This is going to be a continuing problem for non-Unix file systems like >NTFS and NWFS that rely on the ability to read and write variable length >sector

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date:Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:49:04 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is going to be a continuing problem for non-Unix file systems like NTFS and NWFS that rely on the ability to read and write variable length sector runs. It's not just non-Unix file

question about the mount mechanism

2000-09-29 Thread matt
While doing a little exploration in the kernel I found something that I thought curious. I would like an explanation of why, at mount time, the kernel is not more verbose to a person from mounting a 'non-clean' files system. Specifically, in /linux/fs/ext2/super.c, line 285 (really this whole

OOPS on 2.2.17

2000-09-29 Thread Erik McKee
Hello! I recieved this oops on boot up. ksymoops claims that the module is from 2.2.16, but I haven't touched any of the modules after make modules_install. Also, with 2.2.17 my networking freezes up more frequently then before. I only use ethernet and not ppp, so I don't now why this module

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Daniel Stone
OK, but I can't leave without pointing out that having gcc 2.96 breaks compiling gcc 2.95.2. I've got Debian for my main machine and RH7 the other machine on my desk as well as a couple of other test boxen (have to be administered by clueless WinNT-type operators, so Debian was out), and RH7

definition: see definition

2000-09-29 Thread Dan Kegel
OK, this isn't fair, but I just did a grep for AF_LOCAL in /usr/include/*/*.h on my red hat 6.2 system, and found among others the lines /usr/include/bits/socket.h:#define AF_LOCALPF_LOCAL /usr/include/linux/socket.h:#define PF_LOCALAF_LOCAL which is a bit amusing... the

Re: Russell King forks ARM Linux.

2000-09-29 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
> "Erik" == Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Erik> I have taken the role as flame fighter and I have written a Erik> summary which you can read at: Erik> http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/flamewar.txt There is one small problem with the solution advocated at the end of that page.

Re: ext2 caches

2000-09-29 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date:Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:24:01 +0200 From: Frederic Magniette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is mounted read-only. The problem is that our operations have no effects because everithing is cached. Is it possible to shrink

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Chris Kloiber
Alec Smith wrote: > > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:58:22 -0400 (EDT) > From: Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: David M. Rector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0? > > Congratulations, you got further than I did. I couldn't even get that > disaster known as RH7.0 to

[PATCH] watchdog cleanups/bugfixes

2000-09-29 Thread Philipp Rumpf
This patch (against 2.4.0-test9-pre7) makes all watchdog drivers use module_init, rather than explicit init calls; as a side-effect, it fixes a presumed bug that would cause the softdog driver to be used if i810-tco and softdog were enabled. I think it would make sense to move the watchdog

Re: 2.2.18pre12 fix for some distros

2000-09-29 Thread Horst von Brand
2.2.18pre12 fix for some distros said: > Those distros that use which versions that are alias magic in bash > need this to build 2.2.18pre12 No dice on Red Hat 6.9.5, it selects cc (and barfs). The unpatched version works. In any case, with "> /dev/null" you are throwing away the result you are

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 12:37:39AM +0100, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > knows about both kgcc and gcc272 (RH and Debian) automatically thanks to Do you really think that explicitly supporting broken distributions (redhat 7.0 comes with a experimental snapshot of gcc which is neither

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Horst von Brand
Please, do *not* start a flamewar about "my distribution is larger/better/more stable/kinder to animals/whatever than yours" here! -- Horst von Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616 - To unsubscribe from

[Bug] knfs

2000-09-29 Thread Justin
Background: incoming/ was mounted via nfs. An ISO on that directory was mounted via loopback to incoming/en. Then on the nfs server various things happened that broke the nfs mount to incoming; specifically, incoming/iso was created on the server (so that from the client's view there is the

Re: [patch] enabling APIC and NMI watchdog on UP systems

2000-09-29 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:00:37 +0200 (CEST), Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > >> arch/i386/kernel/msr.c has been there since at least 2.4.0-test1. A > >there is nothing performance-counter specific about /dev/msr. There is no >highlevel

Re: eDirectory Trustee and User Space IOCTL() in NWFS

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan Cox wrote: > > > What you are about to ship is like swiss cheese, and could render any > > Linux server a point of attack that will allow a hacker to get into a > > single server with a replica, then gain access to the entire Network. > > If it works as described then its already a swiss

Re: eDirectory Trustee and User Space IOCTL() in NWFS

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Cox
> What you are about to ship is like swiss cheese, and could render any > Linux server a point of attack that will allow a hacker to get into a > single server with a replica, then gain access to the entire Network. If it works as described then its already a swiss cheese. You just need to put

Re: eDirectory Trustee and User Space IOCTL() in NWFS

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
The next email will educate you. Read it, then let me know. Jeff Alan Cox wrote: > > > and all the ability to use NWFS as a root file system, and I can include > > these IOCTL() calls for the Trustee Chains (where NDS permissions are > > stored for users) and User Nodes (which contain

Re: eDirectory Trustee and User Space IOCTL() in NWFS

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
BTW. I have looked over what Novell has out at present, and what's there is basically totally insecure on Linux, and is vulerable to someone getting into a single server, then being able to download every single users passwords and data for all the replicated servers in a Network using

2.2.18pre12 fix for some distros

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Cox
Those distros that use which versions that are alias magic in bash need this to build 2.2.18pre12 --- Makefile~ Sat Sep 30 00:01:26 2000 +++ MakefileSat Sep 30 00:10:28 2000 @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ AS =$(CROSS_COMPILE)as LD =$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld -CC =$(CROSS_COMPILE)$(shell if [

Re: eDirectory Trustee and User Space IOCTL() in NWFS

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Cox
> and all the ability to use NWFS as a root file system, and I can include > these IOCTL() calls for the Trustee Chains (where NDS permissions are > stored for users) and User Nodes (which contain backlinks to quota > nodes). I dont know enough about these features to answer this. As far as

eDirectory Trustee and User Space IOCTL() in NWFS

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan, I have not provided the Trustee and User Space node IOCTL()'s in the current NWFS that posted, but they exist in the Ute-Linux version shipping Oct 1 that supports our NDS implementation. I talked to the Novell guys doing eDirectory on Linux at N+I, and at present, they emulate this stuff

Re: Linux kernel modules development in C++

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Shutko
James Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OTOH, these standards documents aren't the most readable of text. Perhaps > a human-friendly explanation of the standard would be more widely read? The problem with a more human-friendly explanation of the standard is that then you're not reading

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Al, This is going to be a continuing problem for non-Unix file systems like NTFS and NWFS that rely on the ability to read and write variable length sector runs. At some point, the AIO subsystem needs to get fixed. I submitted a patch based on Linus' suggestion that the check in ll_rw_block()

Re: PIDs limited to 15 significant bits

2000-09-29 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 06:51:22PM -0400, Chris Wing wrote: > > (ii) There is also a rather obscure place in SYSV IPC where a 16-bit pid_t > > is used for the fields msg_lspid and msg_lrpid of the (obsolete) > > struct msqid_ds and the fields shm_cpid and shm_lpid of the (obsolete) > > struct

Linux 2.2.18pre12

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Cox
Just bug fixes. The sound stuff wants a good hard testing, the other stuff shouldnt be too risky. Cyrix MTRR works again I hope. The ps/2 mouse reconnect stuff is now an option you must enable to avoid breaking touchpads. Stuff left to do for 2.2.18final - Support for >2GHz processors -

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 00:35 30/09/2000, Alexander Viro wrote: >On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > All those problems disappear as soon as you change BLOCK_SIZE to 512. And > >Have you actually tried that? Go ahead, just do full backup before the >experiment... I hope you don't mind me quoting my

RE: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ?

2000-09-29 Thread Marty Fouts
> -Original Message- > From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 2:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Anyone working on multi-threaded core

RE: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ?

2000-09-29 Thread Marty Fouts
> -Original Message- > From: Igmar Palsenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [snip] > > Maybe I'm totally stupid, but I think you need to sync the > threads so that > the're in the same state. And I don't think it's that simple. > > Or I'm talking totally nonsense here :) > I think

success: can boot 2.4.0-test9-pre7

2000-09-29 Thread Carrer Yuri
Now I can boot it. I've compiled as Pentium MMX without MTRR support. The PC is a PIII IDE. Kernel test9-pre5 could'nt boot, compiled as PIII and with MTTR support. The kernel run fine here :) (and fast!) :-) Yuri - To

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Cox
> you have of course used kgcc for the compile job ? 2.96 maybe is chewing > the kernel source a little bit too well. > > Did you edit the makefiles to use kgcc instead of gcc ? 2.2.18pre12 (coming to a kernel archive near you in 2 or 3 minutes) now knows about both kgcc and gcc272 (RH and

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > All those problems disappear as soon as you change BLOCK_SIZE to 512. And Have you actually tried that? Go ahead, just do full backup before the experiment... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Michael Meding
Hi there, you have of course used kgcc for the compile job ? 2.96 maybe is chewing the kernel source a little bit too well. Did you edit the makefiles to use kgcc instead of gcc ? Greetings Michael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 23:59 29/09/2000, Andries Brouwer wrote: >On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:36:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >But the question was about reading from disk, not about reading > > > >from partition. > > Actually, that's next. In EFI, all partitions have a starting LBA and > > ending LBA

Re: iounmap() - can't always unmap memory I've mappedt

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Cox
> Unfortunately, this mapping is a requirement for our product. I'd hate to have > to create my own pte's and do it all manually. If you are doing it at boot time as Id expect then you may need to - the SMP code for bootstrapping has to do pte stuff itself for the same reason - To unsubscribe

Re: Linux 2.4-test9 kernel header flaw

2000-09-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 03:41:41PM -0700, Jack Howarth wrote: > > > I find that the compile of gnome-utils fails as follows... > > > > In file included from

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:36:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >But the question was about reading from disk, not about reading > > >from partition. > Actually, that's next. In EFI, all partitions have a starting LBA and > ending LBA on the disk. So, it would be easy to have an "odd

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, David M. Rector wrote: > > Has anyone tried Redhat 7.0 yet? What a mess. > > 1) It would not compile stock kernels out of the box. (ends at > compress.S) with a fatal error. > > 2) Trying to compile the kernel source for 2.2.16 that comes with the > redhat disk (which is

Re: Bottom Handles/soft irqs/timer interrupts/SMP .....

2000-09-29 Thread Anton Blanchard
> > 2nd Question: Is there a sane way to queue an operation to be done in > >each specific CPU? > > smp_call_function(). The slab code was using smp_call_function until davem fixed it. On sparc blocking interrupts does not block the reception of cpu cross calls, so you

Re: PIDs limited to 15 significant bits

2000-09-29 Thread Chris Wing
Andries: Just to clarify, the old struct msqid_ds et. al are still used by all Linux software before glibc 2.2. As of glibc 2.2, there is a new user-level ABI for the SysV IPC functions {msg,sem,shm}*(), which provides 32-bit pids and 32-bit uids. All software using SysV IPC will need to be

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Kris Karas
Alec Smith wrote: > I'll stick to Debian -- It might be a bit outdated at times, but Debian > "just works." Maybe RedHat could take some hints from the Debian guys. Or Slackware, which is clean, simple, eminently hackable, and most importantly of all, does not make patches to programs that

Re: PATCH 2.4.0.9.7: clean up toshiba SMM driver

2000-09-29 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [SNIP] > It has been confirmed on two more laptops, one lkml post and another > laptop here. But if we tested every driver change on every supported > hardware model, progress would never occur. Few other drivers have the potential to turn a perfectly functioning

Re: Posting to this list without 500 bounces?

2000-09-29 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: >I am with you guys fully now, and the fork in the road has been taken. >We are now a Linux and Open Source shop. I appreciate your kind >comments. I'm glad to hear you're truely commited to Linux now. >I have created an alternate email account

RE: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Matt_Domsch
> > > That's what prevents linear raid and proper NTFS support > from working on > > > "odd sized" partitions... > > > >But the question was about reading from disk, not about reading > >from partition. > Actually, that's next. In EFI, all partitions have a starting LBA and ending LBA on the

Re: Linux 2.4.0-test8 and swap/journaling fs on raid

2000-09-29 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday September 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > Are you sure there are no deadlock-when-low-on-memory bugs > > > hiding somewhere? swap over nbd also *seems* to work. > > > > Good that you mention

Re: Linux 2.4.0-test8 and swap/journaling fs on raid

2000-09-29 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday September 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Are you sure there are no deadlock-when-low-on-memory bugs > > hiding somewhere? swap over nbd also *seems* to work. Raid preallocates all the memory that it needs. When raid1 runs out of

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 13:03 29/09/2000, Andries Brouwer wrote: >On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 02:20:25AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > And if it has an odd number then you can't read the last sector at all! - > > That's what prevents linear raid and proper NTFS support from working on > > "odd sized" partitions...

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Stephen E. Clark
Maybe this thread should be on the redhat list not the kernel list. Alec Smith wrote: > > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:58:22 -0400 (EDT) > From: Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: David M. Rector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0? > > Congratulations, you got further

BUG & OOPS REPORT: /proc/scsi/ entries not properly cleaned up

2000-09-29 Thread Matthew Dharm
I'm using 2.4.0-test9-pre7 and have a _very_ reproducable OOPS with the SCSI layer. Everything relevant is compiled as a module (except for the /proc support). The test scenario is this: (1) Boot the machine (2) modprobe ide-scsi (note this autoloads scsi_mod but nothing else) (3) rmmod

Re: iounmap() - can't always unmap memory I've mappedt

2000-09-29 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 29 Sep 2000 23:00:16 +0100 (BST) > > "num_pages" is usually just equal to 1. This code appears to work very well. > > However, when I call the iounmap function on the memory obtained via > > ioremap_nocache, sometimes I hit a kernel

question : make bzImage

2000-09-29 Thread Anil kumar
Hi, I want to build the kernel These are the following steps what I am doing: In /usr/src/linux make config make dep make bzImage while make bzImage , I get many errors under diffirent drivers ex: sound, net, char Ex: undefined reference in hfmodem driver same errors for sound &

Re: iounmap() - can't always unmap memory I've mappedt

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Cox
> "num_pages" is usually just equal to 1. This code appears to work very well. > However, when I call the iounmap function on the memory obtained via > ioremap_nocache, sometimes I hit a kernel BUG(). The code which causes the bug > is in page_alloc.c, line 85 (in function __free_pages_ok): >

iounmap() - can't always unmap memory I've mapped

2000-09-29 Thread Timur Tabi
I'm using kernel 2.4.0-test2. I have a driver for a memory controller-like device that our company is developing. We need to test random memory locations throughout all of physical RAM, and the tests involve reading and writing to those memory locations, bypassing the cache. Basically, we pick

Re: Kernal assert

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Cox
> Hardware is an IBM Personal Computer 300PL with 128MB of ram and 2 40GB > Maxtor UDMA/66 drives. Primary application is Samba 2.0.7 > RedHat 6.2 Can you run memtest86 on the machine firstly. > Sep 29 11:46:06 plato kernel: Process vncviewer (pid: 3704, process nr: 42, > stackpage=c5345000) >

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Alec Smith
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:58:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David M. Rector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0? Congratulations, you got further than I did. I couldn't even get that disaster known as RH7.0 to even install. It died with some error

Re: Linux kernel modules development in C++

2000-09-29 Thread James Sutherland
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Marty Fouts wrote: > > My own opinion is that no, the nominal cost of standards documents has > > little to do with why programmers don't have complete and up to date > > definitions of the language. > > I can't change your opinion but I can tell

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Cox
> Has anyone tried Redhat 7.0 yet? What a mess. > > 1) It would not compile stock kernels out of the box. (ends at > compress.S) with a fatal error. Use the right compiler > 2) Trying to compile the kernel source for 2.2.16 that comes with the > redhat disk (which is very different than the

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Richard Torkar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, David M. Rector wrote: > > Has anyone tried Redhat 7.0 yet? What a mess. > > 1) It would not compile stock kernels out of the box. (ends at > compress.S) with a fatal error. Unable to reproduce. > 2) Trying to compile the

Re: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ?

2000-09-29 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > while the dump is taken? How about thread A coredumping, half of the image > > > being already written and thread B (nowhere near the kernel mode, mind > > > you) changing the data both in the area that is already dumped and area > > > the still

Re: PIDs limited to 15 significant bits

2000-09-29 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 03:57:10PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > The code is old. > > There is very little reason for it, and we could change today. > > My machines regularly see 6- or 7-digit PIDs. > Oh, the horror! > > Consider, do you like to type "kill 1234567890" more than > a

Re: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ?

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Cox
> > while the dump is taken? How about thread A coredumping, half of the image > > being already written and thread B (nowhere near the kernel mode, mind > > you) changing the data both in the area that is already dumped and area > > the still isn't? After that you can look at the dump and notice

Re: Kernal assert

2000-09-29 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can you assist? > Sep 29 11:46:06 plato kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at > virtual address 40ab06c8 > Sep 29 11:46:06 plato kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000 > Sep 29 11:46:06 plato kernel: *pde = >

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Horst von Brand
"David M. Rector" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Has anyone tried Redhat 7.0 yet? What a mess. I'm running 6.9.5 at home (7.0 beta) > 1) It would not compile stock kernels out of the box. (ends at > compress.S) with a fatal error. Use kgcc, not gcc. Works fine, I'm running 2.2.18pre11 at home,

Kernal assert

2000-09-29 Thread Keith_Davey
Good Day, We are getting several of these asserts per day on differing applications. In all instances the application involved dies. Occasionally this assert causes the whole system to lock up. Data loss has resulted from one such ocurance but fortunately we were able to restore from a backup.

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Seth Mos
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, David M. Rector wrote: > > Has anyone tried Redhat 7.0 yet? What a mess. No it's nor ;-) > 1) It would not compile stock kernels out of the box. (ends at > compress.S) with a fatal error. Install the kgcc from the first CD. That one works much better and edit the top

question regarding adding kernel patch

2000-09-29 Thread Anil kumar
Hi, I am working on Red hat linux ver 6.1 kernel version : 2.2.12 I want to add as patch for RAID controller supported in 2.3.40.For this I need kernel version patch 2.3.40 where can I get this 2.3. kernel version with regards, Anil

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I got a copy from Bob Young at the Red Hat booth at N+I, and the GNOME stuff is tons better than 6.X RedHat, however, the upgrade feature trashed our Red Hat server, and there seems to be some problems with sendmail as well. I will have Larry send to Alan. The GNOME desktop with 7.0 is sexy

Re: PIDs limited to 15 significant bits

2000-09-29 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Andries Brouwer writes: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:32:17PM +0100, Bernhard Bender wrote: > The code is old. > There is very little reason for it, and we could change today. Some userspace software uses "short" for PIDs. Bash did this. > In fact I think I once submitted the corresponding

Re: Linux boots on Wildfire^WGS320!

2000-09-29 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Well, I'm finally getting around to sending out this announcement. > As can be seen on www.alphanews.net, we've managed to boot Linux on an > AlphaServer GS320. The only caveats are that one of the CPUs was out of > the system at the time (hence 31 CPUs, not 32), and that we haven't

Re: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ?

2000-09-29 Thread I Lee Hetherington
Alexander Viro wrote: > How about preventing the rest of threads from doing mmap()/munmap()/etc. > while the dump is taken? How about thread A coredumping, half of the image > being already written and thread B (nowhere near the kernel mode, mind > you) changing the data both in the area that is

Re: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ?

2000-09-29 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > I was aiming at the simplest and in my mind most obvious thing, which > > is to have the standard ELF coreer dump handle multiple threads in the > > same way as it does on many other systems. The lack of these causes > > shrieks of amazement

Re: ext2 caches

2000-09-29 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> Hi, > We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is mounted > read-only. > The problem is that our operations have no effects because everithing is > cached. > Is it possible to shrink all the caches, especially the superblock > caches and to reload the changes? > We used

Re: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ?

2000-09-29 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> I was aiming at the simplest and in my mind most obvious thing, which > is to have the standard ELF coreer dump handle multiple threads in the > same way as it does on many other systems. The lack of these causes > shrieks of amazement from many of our customers :-( > > This is not rocket

Re: 2.2.18 megaraid driver broken [was: Re: Linux 2.2.18pre11]

2000-09-29 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> > while (mbox->numstatus == 0xFF); > > > > is mbox volatile ? gcc 2.95 will certainly turn the above into an > > if() while(1); Is assume something else is changung mbox->numstatus ?? Else it doesn't make sense to me and someone might enlighten me on this one :) Igmar

qlogicfc support persistent binding?

2000-09-29 Thread casler, heather
Hello, Could someone please let me know if the qlogicfc driver supports persistent binding on the QLA2200F's? Thanks! Heather - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [Q] net_device methods and disable_irq interaction (SMP)

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Cox
> Can spin_lock_irqsave and the disable_irq & spin_lock combinations be > safely mixed, particularly with regards to the networking layer? This does > not seem to be done anywhere in the kernel so I suspect that I'm trying > to do something wrong/bogus ... We do it on the 8390 and 3c509. #ifdef

[Q] net_device methods and disable_irq interaction (SMP)

2000-09-29 Thread Hans Grobler
Can spin_lock_irqsave and the disable_irq & spin_lock combinations be safely mixed, particularly with regards to the networking layer? This does not seem to be done anywhere in the kernel so I suspect that I'm trying to do something wrong/bogus ... More specifically, I have a card that requires

Re: ext2 caches

2000-09-29 Thread Andreas Dilger
Fred and Tom write: > We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is mounted > read-only. The problem is that our operations have no effects because > everithing is cached. > Is it possible to shrink all the caches, especially the superblock > caches and to reload the changes?

Re: namei() in sys_open() breaking umount?

2000-09-29 Thread Andreas Dilger
Stefan writes: > After modifying sys_open() by prepending a namei(filename), > all devices mounted while the modified sys_open is in place, > report an EBUSY when trying to umount them. Doesn't matter if sys_open > has been restored to the original before umount. > > asmlinkage int

Re: ide-scsi seems to inhibit mounting CD-ROMs

2000-09-29 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:41:20AM +0200, Lars Steinke wrote: > When using ide-scsi to access a CDRW writer, the recording process works > but I am not able to mount any CD-ROM media in that drive for reading. And here it's exactly the opposite :) If anyone has a Philips CDD-36xx drive and

ext2 caches

2000-09-29 Thread Frederic Magniette
Hi, We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is mounted read-only. The problem is that our operations have no effects because everithing is cached. Is it possible to shrink all the caches, especially the superblock caches and to reload the changes? We used prune_dcache (kernel

Re: AW: Linux kernel modules development in C++

2000-09-29 Thread Horst von Brand
Carsten Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > i don't want to start discussing the pros and cons of using C++ in kernel > development. Right. > BUT: why do we blame people if they want to? Just because. > It is possible to produce stable and good C++ modules (i have one for a > framegrabber

Re: OOPS on booting 2.4.0-test9pre7 during Novell server mo

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Let's see if this fixes it. When a Netware server first comes up, both IPX and NCP are active, but do return some error codes if the SYS volume has not been mounted yet if someone attempts to connect to the LOGIN directory (which is where clients get pointed by default when they first connect).

RE: Linux kernel modules development in C++

2000-09-29 Thread Marty Fouts
I suspect that this discussion belongs off-list, because it apparently comes up frequently. But an observation from a Linux-Kernel "outsider": Multilanguage developement (meaning using more than one language in the product) makes any product harder to develop. Because Linux is in C originally

Re: [PATCH] esssolo1.c: get rid of check_region

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Cox
> allocated and requested as soon as they are known. Now, that _may_ be at > open() time - there are cards that actually shut down completely and do > not react to IO etc until actually enabled through some magic means (*) > and potentially you could allocate the IO range dynamically at open()

Re: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ?

2000-09-29 Thread Brian Pomerantz
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 01:34:47PM +0100, James Cownie wrote: > > I was aiming at the simplest and in my mind most obvious thing, which > is to have the standard ELF coreer dump handle multiple threads in the > same way as it does on many other systems. The lack of these causes > shrieks of

Re: [PATCH] esssolo1.c: get rid of check_region

2000-09-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > In solo1_probe, an FM interface is registered. > > > > So, IMHO there is a bug somewhere... Why register an FM interface in > > probe, and then check_region for another FM driver in _open? Is this > > intentional or really a bug? > > The I/O port

Fixes in quota (fwd)

2000-09-29 Thread Jan Kara
Hello. So I did the fixes of races in quota Al found. The patch can be found at ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/jack/quota/v2.4/quota-fix-2.4.0-test8-1.diff. In the patch are included also some cleanups (especially change in invalidate_dquots()) which I originally wanted to

Re: [patch] enabling APIC and NMI watchdog on UP systems

2000-09-29 Thread David Mentré
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > that having all said, i'm not against a generic, nonpriviledged (kernel > based) performance counter API within the kernel (if there is demand), and > such an API should of course have close control over the contents of the > performance counter

Re: AW: Linux kernel modules development in C++

2000-09-29 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Carsten" == Carsten Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carsten> Hi, i don't want to start discussing the pros and cons of Carsten> using C++ in kernel development. BUT: why do we blame people Carsten> if they want to? This is already covered in the 200 previous discussions about this -

Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 - fixing deadlocks

2000-09-29 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:39:18AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > OK, good to see that we agree on the fact that we > > should age and swapout all pages equally agressively. > > Actually I think we should start looking at the mapped stuff > _only_

Re: scsi emulation on 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-29 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Sep 29 2000, Thomas Molina wrote: > > on the command line, set hdc=scsi and hde=scsi (where hdc is the dvd and > > hde the cd-rw). > > Those parameters should probably be hdc-ide-scsi and hde=ide-scsi. No, for 2.4 the parameter is indeed hdX=scsi -- * Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

AW: Linux kernel modules development in C++

2000-09-29 Thread Carsten Lang
Hi, i don't want to start discussing the pros and cons of using C++ in kernel development. BUT: why do we blame people if they want to? It is possible to produce stable and good C++ modules (i have one for a framegrabber device) and it is much easier to port already exsiting C++ drivers from

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