Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about adding a test in invalidate_inode_pages() like > /* We cannot invalidate a locked page */ if > (TryLockPage(page)) > continue; > + /* We cannot invalidate a page that

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > invalidate_inode_pages nfs_zap_caches nfs_lock fcntl_setlk > do_fcntl sys_fcntl > So I guess that NFS locking is really bad if the region is > mmapped! Yep, but that's a symptom, not a cause. We want to be able to run

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Indeed. page->mapping is set to NULL in two places, one in > __remove_inode_pages() and the other one in the swap code after > we've checked that it was NULL. I hadn't found the particular > call trace that caused us

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == David S Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, judging by the trace you provided Russell, I'd say > this is some peculiarity with NFS silly rename handling, and > it'd be best to look for the bug in that code (early inode > reference loss, for example?)

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Russell King
Linus Torvalds writes: > Can you get a full stack trace? filemap_write_page filemap_sync filemap_unmap do_munmap sys_munmap > How about adding a test in invalidate_inode_pages() like (Added, along with a call to drop a stack trace out). Yes, this does stop the problem in filemap_write_page.

Re: [PATCH] fs/nls/Config.in

2000-10-19 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:20:25PM +0200, Urban Widmark wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Tom Rini wrote: > > > Hello all. The attached patch changes the behavoir of fs/nls/Config.in from: > > CONFIG_SMB_FS != n to CONFIG_INET = y && CONFIG_SMB_FS != n. This is neeed > > because if CONFIG_INET

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <8snvuj$1l0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hmm.. Looks like page->mapping was cleared by truncate_inode_pages() >when the inode was free'd, and there was still write-back activity on >one of the pages in question. Looking some more, the fact that the

2.2.16 killing innocent processes

2000-10-19 Thread Matthias Andree
Hi, I maintain a small site with a couple of linux boxes that run 2.2.16 and cfengine 1.5.4. Recently, I changed the configuration and ever since, three of the machines randomly have Postfix' smtp process killed by SIGSEGV. The problem only shows up when cfengine is active. My kernels have

Re: about time-slice

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Maas
> I have a question about the time-slice of linux, how do I know it, or how > can I test it? First look for the (platform-specific) definition of HZ in include/asm/param.h. This is how many timer interrups you get per second (eg on i386 it's 100). Then look at include/linux/sched.h for the

Re: [BUG] 2.4.0-test10-pre4: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:102!

2000-10-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Yourst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The following bug was just logged for 2.4.0-test10-pre4. Just remove the two BUG() tests at lines 101-103 in mm/vmscan.c: they seem to be bogus, and what they test for isn't actually a bug at all.. Linus -

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> " " == Petr Vandrovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You do not have to use NFS - look for my postings with > > 'page->mapping == NULL' in archive. Your code uses shared mmap, > > 'page->isn't >

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Petr Vandrovec writes: >> ... or from sys_exit() if you forget to unmap. Or from anywhere if >> swapping code decides to swap such page. I'm trying to hunt it down >> for more than month, but I have no idea what's wrong. In

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread David S. Miller
From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:07:55 +0100 (BST) Trond Myklebust writes: > It's probably particularly nasty under NFS because of > invalidate_inode_pages(). The latter empties the page cache whenever > we can no longer trust it and calls

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Russell King
Trond Myklebust writes: > It's probably particularly nasty under NFS because of > invalidate_inode_pages(). The latter empties the page cache whenever > we can no longer trust it and calls remove_inode_page() on every > unlocked page. It won't care whether the page is mmapped or not. > > My

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Petr Vandrovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You do not have to use NFS - look for my postings with > 'page->mapping == NULL' in archive. Your code uses shared mmap, > 'page->isn't > it? Probably shared by couple of processes. It's probably particularly nasty

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Russell King
Roger Larsson writes: > Will it work correctly if 4. is done before 3. (even before 2?) > Is it legal/good practice to unmap the file after closing it? > (Since the sharing needs the fd to mmap it) Dunno, haven't tried that yet. I'll have a go tomorrow, but I think it'll work correctly. I'll

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:16:14PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > solution is really elegant. Excluding all the debug code and assertions > > I stick in there, the guts of via audio mmap support went from ~50 lines > > to ~10. > > Was it 50 lines with

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Roger Larsson
Russell King wrote: > > Petr Vandrovec writes: > > ... or from sys_exit() if you forget to unmap. Or from anywhere if > > swapping code decides to swap such page. I'm trying to hunt it down > > for more than month, but I have no idea what's wrong. In my case > > way to trigger bug is: > > I

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:16:14PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > solution is really elegant. Excluding all the debug code and assertions > > I stick in there, the guts of via audio mmap support went from ~50 lines > > to ~10. > > Was it 50 lines

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I stole the last two lines from drivers/char/drm/vm.c, which might need > to be fixed up also.. He uses the vm_flags above and nevers calls > get_page, at the very least. The DRM code does atomic_inc(_to_page(physical)->count); which is

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:16:14PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > solution is really elegant. Excluding all the debug code and assertions > I stick in there, the guts of via audio mmap support went from ~50 lines > to ~10. Was it 50 lines with remap_page_range? Which is the advantage of

Re: Proposal: driver initialization pipelining

2000-10-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Felix von Leitner wrote: > I don't get it. > If you say that IDE disables interrupts during init, does that mean that > it disables _all_ interrupts or just that you mask the IDE IRQs? Yes, it is called probing. You issue a command to the channel and hope that something

[Oops] 2.4.0-test10pre4

2000-10-19 Thread Daniel Mehrmann
Hi ! One kernel oops with 2.4.0-pre4 : ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.4.0-test10. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test10 (specified) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (default) Oct 19 23:40:25 tron kernel:

PATCH 2.4.0.10.4: keyboard cleanup try 2

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Updated per Andrea's suggestions... -- Jeff Garzik| The difference between laziness and Building 1024 | prioritization is the end result. MandrakeSoft | diff -urN vanilla/linux-2.4.0-test10-pre4/drivers/char/pc_keyb.c

[BUG] 2.4.0-test10-pre4: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:102!

2000-10-19 Thread Matt Yourst
The following bug was just logged for 2.4.0-test10-pre4. The machine was recompiling glibc (off a ReiserFS 3.6.18 filesystem) and X was just running a screensaver at the time this happened. X was locked up and I couldn't switch to a console, so I killed it with Alt+SysRq. I was then able to get

Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics ..

2000-10-19 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:08:12PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > 8< snip >8 > > > For the subset 1 above, I am preparing to begin to run regularly > > (weekly very least, daily possibly) scanner which tries interactive > > testing of recipients address at all of user's domain's MX servers, >

RE: TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 02:09 PM 19/10/2000 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > > Feel free to send complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get his account > > yanked for abuse of mailing lists. > >http://www.ilan.net/contact.htm for a nice list of addresses to send >complaints to. the original email came from 216.27.3.45. a

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Russell King
Petr Vandrovec writes: > ... or from sys_exit() if you forget to unmap. Or from anywhere if > swapping code decides to swap such page. I'm trying to hunt it down > for more than month, but I have no idea what's wrong. In my case > way to trigger bug is: I actually think its as simple as: 1.

Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics ..

2000-10-19 Thread Philippe Troin
Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -> me & DaveM) got just reports that > somebody is diverting incoming email to some sort of auto-responding > ticket system. > > The thing does not carry original message "Received:" headers in replies, > and is reporting invalid

Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics ..

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Matti Aarnio wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:08:46PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Matt said someone was diverting email. diverting or intercepting email > > is a crime in the US. > > Perhaps Matt was wrong? > > Or using words which have different sets of meanings for you >

Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics ..

2000-10-19 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:08:46PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Matt said someone was diverting email. diverting or intercepting email > is a crime in the US. > Perhaps Matt was wrong? Or using words which have different sets of meanings for you (lawyer mind?) vs. me

Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_pa

2000-10-19 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 19 Oct 00 at 22:16, Russell King wrote: > I'm seeing an oops caused by a NULL pointer dereference in mm/filemap.c, > filemap_write_page. The NULL pointer in question is page->mapping. > The box on which this is happening is using a root NFS filesystem (in > fact all but one of its

Re: RFC: big ac97_codec audio update

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Rui Sousa wrote: > How about keeping master volume to 0 while you mess up the other > registers? Not a bad idea. 0x8000, so it's muted as well as volume 0. > And it's not a scaling problem? (wrong number of precision bits) It might be scaling bug, but I'm pretty certain the number of

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 19 Oct 2000 > 18:34:51 -0700 (PDT) > > Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. > I've never heard this. Could you tell me exactly which model this is? I think he's confusing dualhead

Re: RFC: big ac97_codec audio update

2000-10-19 Thread Rui Sousa
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Rui Sousa wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > We need the dynamic bit resolution detection. > > > Isn't this producing noise/pops? (since you maximize the volume). > > During audio init I hear pops, but then again I heard pops

2.4.0-test10-pre3:Oops in mm/filemap.c:filemap_write_page

2000-10-19 Thread Russell King
Hi, I'm seeing an oops caused by a NULL pointer dereference in mm/filemap.c, filemap_write_page. The NULL pointer in question is page->mapping. The box on which this is happening is using a root NFS filesystem (in fact all but one of its filesystems are NFS). So the file that was mapped has

Re: [c.bailiff@E-SECURE.COM.AU: Re: IIS %c1%1c remote command execution]

2000-10-19 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:15:06PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > This is being forwarded from BugTraq where there is an ongoing > discussion over a security hole in IIS based on it's unicode decoder. > This particular individual is stating that several unicode decoders, > including

Re: RFC: big ac97_codec audio update

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Rui Sousa wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > We need the dynamic bit resolution detection. > Isn't this producing noise/pops? (since you maximize the volume). During audio init I hear pops, but then again I heard pops during audio init before these changes too :) > > Judging

Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics ..

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
It's up to you guys what you want to do. I was just giving you a bigger club to use, if you needed it. Playing games with LKML is not cool since about a dozen companies who ship Linux (including now us) depend on it as an "essential facility" of our businesses to get bug reports and track the

Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics ..

2000-10-19 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:40:36PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Matt, > > A legal perspective. > > It is a Felony Federal) in the United States to divert or re-route > emails on the internet, ... > I would suggest calling the FBI office in your area and file a formal > complaint. You can be

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: > and quite frankly we should just change the damn "nopage()" arguments to > be > > struct page * (*nopage)(struct vm_area_struct * area, unsigned long pgoff, >int write_access); > > because the nopage() routine really shouldn't care about "address" at all > (the

Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics ..

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Matt said someone was diverting email. diverting or intercepting email is a crime in the US. Perhaps Matt was wrong? :-) Jeff "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:"Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > If

Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics ..

2000-10-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > If someone committs a crime in the US, and you don't report it, you have > also just committed another one by failing to report it (like if you > witness a murder, and turn and

Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics ..

2000-10-19 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:40:36 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A legal perspective. We have no interest in sending the FBI to go knock down someones doors, just removing the offending address and fixing the problem, thats all. I used to live in New Jersey,

Re: linux kernel threads

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Here's some sample code on how to do this. You use a macro called "kernel_thread" and in the thread you start, you have to do soe munging of current-> Jeff int nwfs_asynch_io_process(void *id) { register int i = (int)id; current->session = 1; current->pgrp = 1;

real_root_dev

2000-10-19 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
`real_root_dev' must be `int', not `kdev_t'. The reason for this is that we still have (in ): typedef unsigned short kdev_t; while kernel/sysctl.c has the following line: {KERN_REALROOTDEV, "real-root-dev", _root_dev, sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, _dointvec}, This causes a nice

Re: use of add_interrupt_randomness in drivers missing in many drivers

2000-10-19 Thread tytso
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Wagner) Date:18 Oct 2000 20:29:33 GMT Adding more bits to the pool should never hurt; the cryptographic mixing ensures this. What _can_ hurt is adding predictable bits but (erroneously) bumping up the entropy counter. Yes; and writing to

linux kernel threads

2000-10-19 Thread Sourav Ghosh
Hello, Can anyone tell me how kernel threads (threads in the kernel space) works in linux? In other words, how can I schedule them like normal user-level threads? It seems to me that are NOT schedulable like user-level threads/processes in general since they are not pre-emptible at all. Is it

about time-slice

2000-10-19 Thread Zhixu Liu
Hi, All: I have a question about the time-slice of linux, how do I know it, or how can I test it? Thanks for you help. Zhixu - 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

Re: [ADMIN] some list related topics ..

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Matt, A legal perspective. It is a Felony Federal) in the United States to divert or re-route emails on the internet, esspecially across interstate lines. It's also a Felony (Federal) to misuse and email address to disrupt interstate or international commerce. I would suggest calling the

Re: TCP: peer x.x.x.x:y/z shrinks window a:b:c...

2000-10-19 Thread Jordan Mendelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello! > > > I'll keep looking. > > Is it easy to reproduce? If so, try to make tcpdump, which > covers one of these messages. It's extremely rare. We maintain persistent connections open for long periods of time and even though a user who triggered it is online,

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Joel Jaeggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > the AGP bus specification is for a single device (master) > > you can review it at: > > http://www.intel.com/technology/agp/agp_index.htm > Technically, AGP is a "port", not a

Re: RFC: big ac97_codec audio update

2000-10-19 Thread Rui Sousa
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > It's a big update, but I think it is necessary. > We need the new codec-specific init functions. > We need the new ac97-valid-reg checking. > We need the dynamic bit resolution detection. Isn't this producing noise/pops? (since you maximize the volume).

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. I just was looking for a intel >box like this. Since AGP is a port on the PCI bus it is possible to have >more than one AGP port on a/each PCI bus but this requires the PCI chipset >to support this. Well, I don't know of such a Mac. To my

[ADMIN] some list related topics ..

2000-10-19 Thread Matti Aarnio
We ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -> me & DaveM) got just reports that somebody is diverting incoming email to some sort of auto-responding ticket system. The thing does not carry original message "Received:" headers in replies, and is reporting invalid URL. Independent of that, people with supposedly

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > Since this code works in my local tests, my two concerns at this point > > > are correct vma->vm_pgoff treatment, and correct vm_flags/vm_file usage. > > Can I completely ignore vm_pgoff in nopage()? Currently I just do the > following, to get

Re: [PATCH] fs/nls/Config.in

2000-10-19 Thread Urban Widmark
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Tom Rini wrote: > Hello all. The attached patch changes the behavoir of fs/nls/Config.in from: > CONFIG_SMB_FS != n to CONFIG_INET = y && CONFIG_SMB_FS != n. This is neeed > because if CONFIG_INET isn't set, CONFIG_SMB_FS isn't asked about and > therefor isn't set at all,

[PATCH] small mdacon fix.

2000-10-19 Thread James Simmons
Mdacon in test10-pre4 missed one restore_flag. Here is the patch that removes it. --- mdacon.c.orig Thu Oct 19 20:17:07 2000 +++ mdacon.cThu Oct 19 20:17:20 2000 @@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ outb_p(reg+1, mda_index_port); outb_p(val & 0xff, mda_value_port);

oopses in test10-pre4 (was Re: [RFC] atomic pte updates and paechanges, take 3)

2000-10-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ben, you added these two BUG() conditions in your atomic pte patch: > diff -ur v2.4.0-test10-pre2/mm/vmscan.c work-10-2/mm/vmscan.c > --- v2.4.0-test10-pre2/mm/vmscan.cFri Oct 13 17:18:37 2000 > +++ work-10-2/mm/vmscan.c Fri Oct 13 17:19:47 2000 > @@ -99,6 +98,10 @@ > if

Re: 2.2 generating odd TCP resets?

2000-10-19 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:42:58 -0700 (PDT) From: dean gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> i'm not saying this totally explains the problems you're seeing, but i think it's suspect. This isn't it at all. Only when _real data_ (not FIN etc.) sits in receive queue does the RST get emitted on

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: > Looks reasonable - although your "max_size" checks are wrong at mmap time. > You should check for something like thanks > > Since this code works in my local tests, my two concerns at this point > > are correct vma->vm_pgoff treatment, and correct vm_flags/vm_file

[PATCH] fs/nls/Config.in -- Take 2

2000-10-19 Thread Tom Rini
Hello again all. I've taken what Petr suggested and put into a patch. Now, are there any suggestions this time around? I'm still wondering if the whole thing shouldn't be dependant on CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT, but since I don't know the smbfs code at all, I can't say. -- Tom Rini (TR1265)

Re: mapping user space buffer to kernel address space

2000-10-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Well coolio. Would somebody be up for sanity checking my audio mmap > code (attached)? It doesn't look too hard at all to get the audio > drivers doing the correct thing. Looks reasonable - although your "max_size" checks are wrong at mmap time.

oops with dd with test10-pre4

2000-10-19 Thread Todd M. Roy
I got this oops dding partitions. test10-pre3 works fine. below is a representative sample. Thanks -- todd -- root@pcx4168:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1216 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id

Re: 2.2 generating odd TCP resets?

2000-10-19 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Brian Craft wrote: > In the code below, I removed the shutdown() and added the block > after do_scan() to eliminate the RST. The read() never finds any data. > If there's no data pending, why does read() have any affect? EOF is considered pending data... and has to be read.

RFC: big ac97_codec audio update

2000-10-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
It's a big update, but I think it is necessary. We need the new codec-specific init functions. We need the new ac97-valid-reg checking. We need the dynamic bit resolution detection. Full change description, and tested patch against 2.4.0-test10-pre4, follows. This includes some interface

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > I if cdrecord bypassed the sg driver and spoke to the > > cdrom driver directly. I know the CDROM_SEND_PACKET > > ioctl() is in place for lk 2.4 but from which version > > has it been functional in the lk 2.2 series? > > But the write command is not

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Mark Cooke wrote: > > Yes but there is a way to do this directly now, the question is can the > > user-space apps change to go both ways. > > Hi Andre, > > Is there any tool / test code that you know of to 'do this directly' - > I'm wanting to try to avoid ade-scsi

Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

2000-10-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > As far as I know, cdrecord interfaces to Linux either > via the sg or pg devices. No-one would be happier than > I if cdrecord bypassed the sg driver and spoke to the > cdrom driver directly. I know the CDROM_SEND_PACKET > ioctl() is in place for lk

RE: TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Mark Haney
Are you mocking me? :) You know, I don't even know why we are even qualifying the idiot's comments by talking about it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard B. Johnson Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 2:53 PM To: Mark Haney Cc: Dan

RE: TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Mark Haney wrote: > Richard Johnson wrote: > >Cary, NC. can't be very large. There are, probably, three persons in > >the whole county than have computers. Two haven't been booted since > >the day the were received by the kids because they've been busy > >studying for the

Re: [PATCH] fs/nls/Config.in

2000-10-19 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:29:47PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > It is not correct. At first, duplicated define_bool breaks xconfig (AFAIK), > and worse, first test is ignored at all by your code. Maybe something > like (untested) > > if [ "$CONFIG_SMB_FS" = "m" -o "$CONFIG_SMB_FS" = "y" ];

Re: 2.2 generating odd TCP resets?

2000-10-19 Thread kuznet
Hello! > Well, there were quite a few TCP bugs fixed after 2.2.14. Seems, it is that bug, which you have seen talking from (sorry, I cannot pronounce this host name publically 8)) to amber. ACK, following FIN was considered as illegal data. We have fixed it both in 2.2 and 2.3. Alexey - To

Re: [PATCH] cpu detection fixes for test10-pre4

2000-10-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > * include/asm-i386/elf.h: > - make Pentium IV and other post-P6 processors use the "i686" > family name (same fix as the system_utsname.machine init fix > which went

Re: [BUG REPORT] Conflict between Tulip driver w/ LinkSys 100LNE and EEPro

2000-10-19 Thread Ian Stirling
> The problem: I can't have the Tulip and EEPro drivers loaded at the same > time. If I have the Tulip driver loaded, and I load the EEPro driver, the > self check fails with 0x and complains that I don't have the card in > a bus master slot. If I have the EEPro driver loaded and the

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:34:51 -0700 (PDT) > Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. I've never heard this. Could you tell me exactly which model this is? -- Timur Tabi - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interactive Silicon -

RE: TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Mark Haney
Richard Johnson wrote: >Cary, NC. can't be very large. There are, probably, three persons in >the whole county than have computers. Two haven't been booted since >the day the were received by the kids because they've been busy >studying for the M-CAP test. Not true. Cary is quite large and is

Re: process header declaration?

2000-10-19 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:30:51PM -0500, Andrew C. Dingman wrote: > I'm working on a project for my senior seminar for which I (and my > profs) think I need to modify the process descriptor > struct. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be good enough with 'grep' to > figure out where the type is

Re: TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Donald Sharp
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:32:26PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > [Snipped...] > > > > > The machine's physical location is in Cary, NC. Anyone live near there > > willing to make a personal visit to the location to identify the > > individual

[PATCH] cpu detection fixes for test10-pre4

2000-10-19 Thread Mikael Pettersson
This patch should fix the Pentium IV and other CPU detection glitches which remain in test10-pre4. The necessary fixes are: * arch/i386/kernel/setup.c: - (Pentium IV) don't goto name_decoded, return instead; otherwise x86_model_id which was grabbed from the extended cpuid levels will

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread James Simmons
> There is no reason there cannot be multiple AGP buses. After all there are > motherboards with 2,3,4 (or more!) PCI buses. Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. I just was looking for a intel box like this. Since AGP is a port on the PCI bus it is possible to have more than one AGP port

Re: TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: [Snipped...] > > The machine's physical location is in Cary, NC. Anyone live near there > willing to make a personal visit to the location to identify the > individual responsible? > > -Dan "You get more respect with a kind word and a gun than a kind

Re: [PATCH] fs/nls/Config.in

2000-10-19 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 19 Oct 00 at 11:00, Tom Rini wrote: > --- fs/nls/Config.in.orig Thu Oct 19 09:11:48 2000 > +++ fs/nls/Config.inThu Oct 19 09:49:53 2000 > @@ -4,8 +4,13 @@ > > # msdos and Joliet want NLS > if [ "$CONFIG_JOLIET" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_FAT_FS" != "n" \ > - -o "$CONFIG_NTFS_FS" != "n" -o

Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Wayne . Brown
I have a simple solution for your problem. Just call the police and have them arrest whoever is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use Linux and this mailing list. (That *is* the only reason you're here, right?) Then you can spend your time writing a wonderful OS of your own to

RE: TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Mark Haney
Man, I wish I was close enough. I am only about 4 hours from there, but I woulnd't waste my time. If he doesn't like it he can stick with Windows and all of it's wonderful on time development and bug free environment. ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: bind() allowed to non-local addresses

2000-10-19 Thread David Schwartz
> Due ot this and other reasons I'm restoring the 2.2.x behavior by > default, but adding a sysctl so that systems using dynamic addressing > may elect to get the different bind() behavior. > > Later, > David S. Miller > [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a system uses dynamic addressing, binding to

Re: bind() allowed to non-local addresses

2000-10-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:45:02AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > To this I agree, but I cannot change the fact that this assumption > does exist in applications, so this is why I reverted the change. Would you accept a patch for an setsockopt to enable it again ? -Andi - To unsubscribe from

Re: process header declaration?

2000-10-19 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from "Andrew C. Dingman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:30:51 -0500 (EST) > I'm working on a project for my senior seminar for which I (and my > profs) think I need to modify the process descriptor > struct. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be good enough with

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre17

2000-10-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > This is just to give folks something to sync against. Test it by all means > however. > > Must fix stuff left to do for 2.2.18final > - Merge the S/390 stuff and make S/390 build again > - Fix the megaraid (revert if need be) > - Fix the ps/2

Re: TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alex Buell wrote: > Feel free to send complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get his account > yanked for abuse of mailing lists. http://www.ilan.net/contact.htm for a nice list of addresses to send complaints to. The machine's physical location is in Cary, NC. Anyone live

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > the AGP bus specification is for a single device (master) > you can review it at: > http://www.intel.com/technology/agp/agp_index.htm There is no reason there cannot be multiple AGP buses. After all there are motherboards with 2,3,4 (or more!) PCI

Re: [PATCH] fs/nls/Config.in

2000-10-19 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:55:42PM +0200, Sven Krohlas wrote: > Hello, > > > Hello all. The attached patch changes the behavoir of fs/nls/Config.in from: > > There's nothing attached...? D'oh. Look now. :) -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ --- fs/nls/Config.in.orig

Re: bind() allowed to non-local addresses

2000-10-19 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:35:12 -0600 From: Matt Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't you find it a little compelling that the nearly identical JVM code passes the Java Compatibility test suite on Linux 2.2, Solaris, HPUX, SCO, and even Windows? He is arguing that returning

Re: process header declaration?

2000-10-19 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Andrew C. Dingman wrote: > I'm working on a project for my senior seminar for which I (and my > profs) think I need to modify the process descriptor > struct. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be good enough with 'grep' to > figure out where the type is declared. Could someone

Re: bind() allowed to non-local addresses

2000-10-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:35:12AM -0600, Matt Peterson wrote: > Again, there is not a bug in the JVM's handling of > java.net.DatagramSocket(). I offered the JVM as an example only because > it is one application that I know of expects the standardized behavior > of bind(). The bind() behavior

Re: bind() allowed to non-local addresses

2000-10-19 Thread Matt Peterson
Andi Kleen wrote: > > > The JRE compliance tests have a test which makes sure that for a > > non-local addresses, bind() returns an error code, specifically > > -EADDRNOTAVAIL. > > Sounds like a bug that should be reported to Sun. > Hello? Send a bug to Sun? I don't see any logic here. I

Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
KMF AV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... obviously the Linux logo should be the > international symbol for the fucking retard. Actually, this was considered. However, in those dark days, the ISO had not yet standardized the international symbol for the fucking retard. A symbol for "dimwit

process header declaration?

2000-10-19 Thread Andrew C. Dingman
I'm working on a project for my senior seminar for which I (and my profs) think I need to modify the process descriptor struct. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be good enough with 'grep' to figure out where the type is declared. Could someone give me a pointer to the right file in the 2.4.0-testX

Re: TCP: peer x.x.x.x:y/z shrinks window a:b:c...

2000-10-19 Thread kuznet
Hello! > I'll keep looking. Is it easy to reproduce? If so, try to make tcpdump, which covers one of these messages. Alexey - 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/

[c.bailiff@E-SECURE.COM.AU: Re: IIS %c1%1c remote command execution]

2000-10-19 Thread Michael H. Warfield
This is being forwarded from BugTraq where there is an ongoing discussion over a security hole in IIS based on it's unicode decoder. This particular individual is stating that several unicode decoders, including the one in the Linux unicode_console driver, have failed to adhere to certain

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