Re: Patch(?): linux-2.4.0-test11-pre4/drivers/sound/yss225.c compilefailure

2000-11-14 Thread Adam J. Richter
Jeff Garzik wrote: >"Adam J. Richter" wrote: >> If a programmer errs in favor of __devinit, the result is >> extra memory consumption under CONFIG_HOTPLUG. If a programmer >> errs in favor of __init, the result is a crash during hot p >> ug insertion. Avoiding crashes at the expensive

2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-14 Thread Rogier Wolff
Shouldn't the system be "halted" after an "Aiee, killing interrupt handler"? Modem status change from 0x63 to 0xf3 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0629 printing eip: c4854fcc *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010002 eax:

Re: kernel BUG at sock.c:722! (2.4.0-test11-pre4)

2000-11-14 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:46:33 +0100 From: Jorge Nerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well, first saw this in test11-pre1, and now in test11-pre4 I report it again. Do you use any one of USB, PCMCIA+Yenta, or ATM? If so, please give the following patch a try. If not, do you use

Re: Patch(?): linux-2.4.0-test11-pre4/drivers/sound/yss225.c compilefailure

2000-11-14 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:54:35AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I -want- there to be only one hotplug strategy, but Adam seemed to be > talking about the opposite, with his CONFIG_USB_HOTPLUG suggestion. Here's Adam's proposal for CONFIG_USB_HOTPLUG:

Re: [BUG] Hard lockup using emu10k1-based sound card

2000-11-14 Thread Hans Grobler
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Rui Sousa wrote: > Which was the latest kernel you tried? A (easy to trigger) deadlock was > fixed around 2.4.0-test... It was around test7... I think. I remember seeing changes to emu10k1 in the patch and I tried that version. It still crashed. I work almost exclusively

College of Cardinals Vote!!!

2000-11-14 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > I -want- there to be only one hotplug strategy, but Adam seemed to be > talking about the opposite, with his CONFIG_USB_HOTPLUG suggestion. > > I'm hoping that Linus will disagree with the splintering of > CONFIG_HOTPLUG too... CONFIG_HOTPLUG

Re: Patch(?): linux-2.4.0-test11-pre4/drivers/sound/yss225.c compilefailure

2000-11-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:29:15AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > If we are going to create CONFIG_USB_HOTPLUG, we must -eliminate- > > CONFIG_HOTPLUG, and create CONFIG_PCI_HOTPLUG, and > > CONFIG_ANOTHERBUS_HOTPLUG and so on, for each hotplug bus. > > Argh! > I thought the

Re: Patch(?): linux-2.4.0-test11-pre4/drivers/sound/yss225.c compilefailure

2000-11-14 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:29:15AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > This is not just a USB issue. Please discuss this on linux-kernel, so > we can have a coherent hotplug strategy for the entire kernel. I agree. If I see the topic come up on linux-usb-devel again, I'll push it over to

Re: Patch(?): linux-2.4.0-test11-pre4/drivers/sound/yss225.c compilefailure

2000-11-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Adam J. Richter" wrote: > If a programmer errs in favor of __devinit, the result is > extra memory consumption under CONFIG_HOTPLUG. If a programmer > errs in favor of __init, the result is a crash during hot p > ug insertion. Avoiding crashes at the expensive of a pretty small >

Re: Modprobe local root exploit

2000-11-14 Thread Horst von Brand
Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > Heading in the right direction, but this is equivalent to: > > if (isalnum(*p) && *p != '-' && *p != '_') return -EINVAL; > > which is faster, smaller and easier to read. And wrong. ;-) -- Horst von Brand [EMAIL

Linux 2.2.17 Oops

2000-11-14 Thread Kevin Shanahan
Hi, Over the weekend sometime a Linux machine where I work oops'd. Nobody else here really understands anything about this stuff so they rang me. I got them to copy out what was on the screen and then reboot (this was Monday). Today (Wednesday) I copied in the text and ran it through ksymoops.

[BUG?] AMD K5 and 2.4 (was Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List)

2000-11-14 Thread Barry K. Nathan
(I'm replying to a message from about a month ago, but it's relevant to a problem I'm having now.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 20:13:35 +0200 >From: Thomas Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [snip] >My Asus P55TP4 (i430FX)/AMD K5 PC also crashes after "Booting the >

Re: [patch] acenic driver update

2000-11-14 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Val" == Val Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Val> Jes, I just downloaded the 0.48 acenic driver and it still has a Val> reproducible null dereference bug. Anyone can oops their machine Val> by doing: Bugger I think I lost your patch in the noise. Sorry about that, it'll be in the next

Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

2000-11-14 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Michael Rothwell writes: > 1) Convenient remote terminal use. > > Telnet, ssh, X windows, rsh, vnc, "screen," ethernet, > serial, etc. I think we have this one. Nope: /dev/audio, /dev/cdrom, /dev/floppy, fonts, etc. Also one would want a local window manager for performance, but this tends to

RE: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

2000-11-14 Thread Marty Fouts
Er, um, yes. I stand corrected. -Original Message- From: Steve VanDevender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 11:44 AM To: Marty Fouts Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Michael Rothwell; Linux kernel Subject: RE: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel Marty

Re: Hard lockups solved

2000-11-14 Thread Tom Leete
"David S. Miller" wrote: > >Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:05:24 -0500 >From: Tom Leete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Your net/ipv4/tcp.c patch from the NE2000 thread cured them even >before I found the hardware fault. Has that patch gone to the >queue? I recommend it. > > The bugs I

Re: VM problem(?) in 2.2.17

2000-11-14 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! This is a known bug. Andrea Archangeli has a "VM-global" patch against some of the 2.2.18-pre which is reported to work. My understanding is that there is still investigation as to whether this patch fixes the problem in the best manner. Should not be too difficult to edit for

ramfs limits update

2000-11-14 Thread dgibson
The ramfs kmap() vs. page_address() bugfix which went into test11-pre2 broke the usage limits patch I've posted here earlier. Following is an updated diff made against test11-pre5 incorporating that bugfix. -- David Gibson, Technical Support Engineer, Linuxcare, Inc. +61 2 6262 8990 [EMAIL

crash of 2.4.0t11p5

2000-11-14 Thread Andries . Brouwer
I have been using (a heavily patched) 2.4.0test9 since it was released and have not seen any problems that I can recall. Booted (vanilla) 2.4.0test11pre5 a moment ago, but after insmod ipchains.o rsh foo ping bar the machine was completely dead immediately - no

Whither sparc bugs?

2000-11-14 Thread Lars Kellogg-Stedman
I've recently run into what look like some kernel bugs[1] in the 2.2.17 kernel (on a sparcstation 2 (sun4c) and a javasation (sun4m)). I've posted them to the sparclinux mailing list, but I was wondering if there was somewhere else (e.g., here) that I should send them. Is there anyone actively

Re: Parport/IMM/Zip Oops Revisited -- Winbond

2000-11-14 Thread James M
Gert Wollny wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, James M wrote: > >Was just trying to find out why I can mount in 11pre1 and 11pre2 when > > Gert can't mount at all, so I removed my VFAT factory formatted zipdisk > > and put in an Ext2 formatted one.**BOOM** > The configure help for the

Re: NetWare Changing IP Port 524

2000-11-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:29:31PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Hopefully, sanity will rule out here. I information being leaked from > > what I reviewed was the ability for a hacker to exploit port 524 and use > > it > > to obtain a local copy of the entire

[PATCH 2.4.0] agpgart support for i815 not using on-board video

2000-11-14 Thread Robert M. Love
the agp driver for the i810/i815 is designed to support the 810/815's on-board i7xx video. the i815 (which can use on-board video or a seperate AGP 2x/4x/Pro card) does not function with this driver when using a seperate AGP card. the 440LX/BX/GX and 840 agp driver does work, however, if

test11-pre5 breaks vmware

2000-11-14 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Petr, You probably noticed this already but I just wanted to bring it to your attention that /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script needs updating since the flags in /proc/cpuinfo is now called "features" so it otherwise fails complaining that my 2xP6 has no tsc. Trivial change but still worthy of

Re: NetWare Changing IP Port 524

2000-11-14 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:29:31PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Hopefully, sanity will rule out here. I information being leaked from > what I reviewed was the ability for a hacker to exploit port 524 and use > it > to obtain a local copy of the entire routing table for other IP servers >

Re: opl3.o initialization problems in 2.4

2000-11-14 Thread Thomas Molina
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > I continue to see apparent interaction problems between sb.o and opl3.o > > during system initialization. Several people have reported problems > > with the opl3.o module not loading or not working

Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

2000-11-14 Thread Leo Mauro
On Tuesday 14 November 2000 03:43 pm, Steve VanDevender wrote: >Marty Fouts writes: > > Actually, you have the sequence of events slightly out of order. > > AT, specifically Bell Labs, was one of the participants in the > > program that would develop Multics. AT opted out of the > > program,

Re: [PATCH] Re: test11-pre5

2000-11-14 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 02:59:36 +0200 (IST) From: Dan Aloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, David S. Miller wrote: > Then the compiler will start warning us :-) I've also noticed that routing_ioctl() in arch/mips64/kernel/ioctl32.c assumes the 16. Are those two

Re: Patch(?): linux-2.4.0-test11-pre4/drivers/sound/yss225.c compilefailure

2000-11-14 Thread Adam J. Richter
In the particular case of yss225.c, I understand now that it is ISA only, which is not hot pluggable, so __initdata should be fine; however, I would like to respond to some other points that Jeff Garzik raised. Jeff Garzik wrote: >Please err on the conservative side -- IMHO you shouldn't

Re: [PATCH] Re: test11-pre5

2000-11-14 Thread Dan Aloni
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 02:25:38 +0200 (IST) >From: Dan Aloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Agreed. BTW, after grepping for IFNAMSIZ references I've noticed >some architectures (sparc64, mips64) define IFNAMSIZ for >themsleves, for

Re: "couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for" - help!

2000-11-14 Thread David Schleef
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 05:44:42PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 15 Nov 2000 > 10:41:42 +1100 > > > > __NO_VERSION__ must be defined before #include . > > It is: > > #ifdef LINUX > #ifndef __ENTRY_C__ > #define __NO_VERSION__ >

Re: [PATCH] Re: test11-pre5

2000-11-14 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Wed, 15 Nov 2000 02:25:38 +0200 (IST) From: Dan Aloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Agreed. BTW, after grepping for IFNAMSIZ references I've noticed some architectures (sparc64, mips64) define IFNAMSIZ for themsleves, for example, arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c, which defines

Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

2000-11-14 Thread Gerhard Mack
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > > > > Relating some "nine goals of 'Enterprise Computing'" to Multics is > > > the bullshit. > > > > Funny, I got those off the "Multics FAQ" page. > > > > -M

Re: [PATCH] Re: test11-pre5

2000-11-14 Thread Dan Aloni
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote: > > > > summery: dev_3c501.name shouldn't be NULL, or we get oops > > Note that these days "name" is not a pointer at all, but an array, and as > such cannot be NULL any more. Not initializing it will just cause

RE: IDE0 /dev/hda performance hit in 2217 on my HW - more info -maybe extended partitions

2000-11-14 Thread Andre Hedrick
Hi Linda, Are you having variable transfer rates based on the zone access point? If this is the case it is correctly reporting slow on the ID of the LBA range v/s the OD on the media. Regards, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To

RE: IDE0 /dev/hda performance hit in 2217 on my HW - more info - maybe extended partitions

2000-11-14 Thread LA Walsh
It seems to be the output of vmstat that isn't matching things. First it says it's getting near 10M/s, but if you divide 128M/27 seconds, it's more like 4.7. So where is the time being wasted? It's not in cpu either. Now lets look at hda7 where vmstat reported 2-3meg/sec. Again, the math says

Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Russell King
David Woodhouse writes: > If we don't specify CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND then new ones > get allocated just for us to free them again immediately. If we clone them, > then we just increase and decrease the use counts of the parent's ones. The > latter is slightly more efficient,

RE: /proc tweaking

2000-11-14 Thread davej
Samium Gromoff wrote... > >Take a look at powertweak. >http://powertweak.sourceforge.net > >Made by kernel people, for non-kernel people. > Maybe i were not enough exact, but i`ve meant > addition of some intelligence to tweaking /proc > e.g. something what automates tuning, not only > providing

Re: Parport/IMM/Zip Oops Revisited -- Filesys problem? Viro pleaselook

2000-11-14 Thread James M
Gert Wollny wrote: > > Actually i never tried to mount in my testings, just did "modprobe imm". I > did not even load sd.o, which reads the size of the medium. Output after > successfull modprobe: > kernel: imm: Version 2.04 (for Linux 2.4.0) > kernel: imm_connect 1 > kernel: imm: Found device

Question on bdflush

2000-11-14 Thread Zhiruo Cao
Hello, Why does bdflush (kupdated and kflushed) writes to disk periodically even though the system is apparently idle. I think if no more new buffers becomes dirty, kflushed show not write anything to disk. I'm working on a notebook, and I found the periodic disk access is very annoying and

Re: [PATCH] Re: test11-pre5

2000-11-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Aloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Dan Aloni wrote: >> > >> > reason: Correct me if I'm wrong, but 3c501.c:init_module() calls >> > net_init.c:register_netdev(_3c501), which calls strchr(), >> > {and might

Re: [PATCH] Re: test11-pre5

2000-11-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote: > > summery: dev_3c501.name shouldn't be NULL, or we get oops Note that these days "name" is not a pointer at all, but an array, and as such cannot be NULL any more. Not initializing it will just cause it to be empty (ie is the same as initializing it to

routing problems with 2.2

2000-11-14 Thread Marc Lehmann
The Problem: the command "telnet 212.172.23.17 80", done from a machine outside my network generates syn requests on the device tun2 on my machine (a tunnel device using vtun). tcpdump tun2: 00:04:55.066516 12.4.218.41.4624 > 212.172.23.17.80: S 219810852:219810852(0) win 16384 (DF) [tos

Re: "couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for" - help!

2000-11-14 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:41:42 +1100 > __NO_VERSION__ must be defined before #include . It is: #ifdef LINUX #ifndef __ENTRY_C__ #define __NO_VERSION__ #endif #include #include #include #include >Do it by hand. I don't know what

Re: "couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for" - help!

2000-11-14 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:35:37 -0600, Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok, I made this change: > >#ifndef __ENTRY_C__ >#define __NO_VERSION__ >#endif >#include > >and in entry.c: > >#define __ENTRY_C__ >#include "include.h" > >Unfortunately, it still doesn't work. __NO_VERSION__ must be

Re: Parport/IMM/Zip Oops Revisited -- Filesys problem? Viro pleaselook

2000-11-14 Thread Gert Wollny
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, James M wrote: >Was just trying to find out why I can mount in 11pre1 and 11pre2 when > Gert can't mount at all, so I removed my VFAT factory formatted zipdisk > and put in an Ext2 formatted one.**BOOM** Actually i never tried to mount in my testings, just did

Re: "couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for" - help!

2000-11-14 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:58:38 -0600, Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >First, I had a bunch of link errors on the redifintion of >__module_kernel_version. To fix that, someone told me to do this: > >#define __NO_VERSION__ >#include "#define __NO_VERSION__" must be in all but one of the

Re: More modutils: It's probably worse.

2000-11-14 Thread Keith Owens
On 14 Nov 2000 11:42:42 -0800, "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Seriously, though, I don't see any reason modprobe shouldn't accept >funky filenames. There is a standard way to do that, which is to have >an argument consisting of the string "--"; this indicates that any >further

Re: Patch(?): linux-2.4.0-test11-pre4/drivers/sound/yss225.c compilefailure

2000-11-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Adam J. Richter wrote: > > > > > linux-2.4.0-test11-pre4/drivers/sound/yss225.c uses __initdata > > > but does not include , so it could not compile. I have > > > attached below. > >

Re: Documentation/proc.txt update

2000-11-14 Thread Jorge Nerin
Jorge Nerin wrote: > > Jorge Nerin wrote: > > > > Hello, this is a patch with some updates to the Documetation/proc.txt > > file, basically it contains updates to the new files in /proc/, new > > files in /proc, and a paragraph about /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn. It's > > far from complete, but

Re: [PATCH] Re: test11-pre5

2000-11-14 Thread Dan Aloni
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Dan Aloni wrote: > > > > reason: Correct me if I'm wrong, but 3c501.c:init_module() calls > > net_init.c:register_netdev(_3c501), which calls strchr(), > > {and might also,which might} dereference dev_3c501.name. > > There is no dereferencing involved,

[uPATCH] Re: test11-pre5

2000-11-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > - pre5: > - Rasmus Andersen: add proper "" for sound drivers Rasmus spotted gus_midi.c not 100% correctly... (anyway thanks Rasmus) --- linux-240t10p5/drivers/sound/gus_midi.c Wed Nov 15 00:06:14 2000 +++ linux/drivers/sound/gus_midi.c

Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

2000-11-14 Thread Werner Almesberger
Michael Rothwell wrote: > 2) Continuous operation analogous to power & telephone services. > > No way. Multics could have a whole bank of memory fail and keep running. [...] Considering that it's very cheap nowadays to have redundancy at the box level, designs attempting to achieve robustness

Re: Patch(?): linux-2.4.0-test11-pre4/drivers/sound/yss225.c compilefailure

2000-11-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Adam J. Richter wrote: > > > linux-2.4.0-test11-pre4/drivers/sound/yss225.c uses __initdata > > but does not include , so it could not compile. I have > > attached below. > > > > Note that I am a bit uncertain about the

Re: Patch(?): linux-2.4.0-test11-pre4/drivers/sound/yss225.c compilefailure

2000-11-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Adam J. Richter wrote: > linux-2.4.0-test11-pre4/drivers/sound/yss225.c uses __initdata > but does not include , so it could not compile. I have > attached below. > > Note that I am a bit uncertain about the correctness of > the __initdata prefix here in the

Re: Local root exploit with kmod and modutils > 2.1.121

2000-11-14 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:31:41 -0800, "Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>The only secure fix I can see is to add SAFEMODE=1 to modprobe's >>environment and change exec_modprobe. > > SAFEMODE may mean other things to other programs, so that MOD_SAFEMODE. > It would be much

Re: "couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for" - help!

2000-11-14 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Steven Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:31:54 -0600 > If my understanding is correct, you need to include version.h without > "#define __NO_VERSION__" in one and only one of your module's .c files. > More than one, and you get redefinition errors; less

Re: [PATCH] Re: test11-pre5

2000-11-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Dan Aloni wrote: > > against: test11-pre5 > summery: dev_3c501.name shouldn't be NULL, or we get oops > reason: Correct me if I'm wrong, but 3c501.c:init_module() calls > net_init.c:register_netdev(_3c501), which calls strchr(), > {and might also,which might} dereference dev_3c501.name. There

Re: test11-pre5

2000-11-14 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Linus> More drivers. Linus> The x86 capabilities cleanup is here. Hi Linus Looks like you missed the acenic bugfix patch. Here is an uptodate version relative to pre5. Jes --- linux-2.4.0-test11-pre5/drivers/net/acenic.cTue

Re: Addressing logically the buffer cache

2000-11-14 Thread Juan
Alexander Viro escribió: > > On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Juan wrote: > > > Hi!. > > > > Is there any patch or project to address logically the buffer cache?. > > Now, you use three parameters to find a buffer in cache: device, block > > number, and block size. But, what about if I want to find a

[PATCH] Re: test11-pre5

2000-11-14 Thread Dan Aloni
against: test11-pre5 summery: dev_3c501.name shouldn't be NULL, or we get oops reason: Correct me if I'm wrong, but 3c501.c:init_module() calls net_init.c:register_netdev(_3c501), which calls strchr(), {and might also,which might} dereference dev_3c501.name. --- linux/drivers/net/3c501.c Wed

Re: "couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for" - help!

2000-11-14 Thread Steven Walter
If my understanding is correct, you need to include version.h without "#define __NO_VERSION__" in one and only one of your module's .c files. More than one, and you get redefinition errors; less than one, and its undefined. On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:58:38PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > I'm at a

Parport/IMM/Zip Oops Revisited -- Filesys problem? Viro please look

2000-11-14 Thread James M
James M wrote: Was just trying to find out why I can mount in 11pre1 and 11pre2 when Gert can't mount at all, so I removed my VFAT factory formatted zipdisk and put in an Ext2 formatted one.**BOOM** Al, my original oops report is here:

kernel BUG at sock.c:722! (2.4.0-test11-pre4)

2000-11-14 Thread Jorge Nerin
Well, first saw this in test11-pre1, and now in test11-pre4 I report it again. Nov 14 15:10:51 quartz kernel: kernel BUG at sock.c:722! Nov 14 15:10:51 quartz kernel: invalid operand: Nov 14 15:10:51 quartz kernel: CPU:0 Nov 14 15:10:51 quartz kernel: EIP:

RE: intel etherpro100 on 2.2.18p21 vs 2.2.18p17

2000-11-14 Thread Dennis
At 12:15 PM 11/11/2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >We have the SUPER 370DL3 SuperMicro boards w/ the integrated Intel NIC, >unfortunately a warm boot does not help. The problem also seems to happen >when I turn on the alias ip feature in the kernel under network options. > > >On Fri, 10 Nov 2000,

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [announce] New Maintainer

2000-11-14 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000, Dunlap, Randy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2000-November-14 > > To the Linux-USB community: > ~~ > > Intel has some other Linux areas that they would like for me > to work on, so I need to transfer the USB maintainer role to > someone

for_each_task() in module?

2000-11-14 Thread Olaf Titz
The definition of for_each_task() in is based on init_task. This symbol is exported in Linux 2.2.15 and 2.4.0-test9, but with a comment which indicates only a special use; it is not exported in 2.2.9. Is there an official opinion about whether for_each_task() is intended to be usable from a

"couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for" - help!

2000-11-14 Thread Timur Tabi
I'm at a loss to explain why I can't get this working. I have a driver written for 2.4 that I'm porting back to 2.2. Every time I think I got it working, something surprises me. First, I had a bunch of link errors on the redifintion of __module_kernel_version. To fix that, someone told me

Re: PATCH 2.4.0.11.4: loopback block device fixes

2000-11-14 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Since I am not a block device expert, I am interested to know if > these fixes look ok, and if they fix the reported loopback deadlocks. > > I added calls to deactive_page and flush_dcache_page, and made sure > that any error returns were propagated

test11-pre5

2000-11-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
More drivers. The x86 capabilities cleanup is here. Linus - pre5: - Rasmus Andersen: add proper "" for sound drivers - David Miller: sparc64 and networking updates - David Trcka: MOXA numbering starts from 0, not 1. - Jeff Garzik: sysctl.h standalone

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_EISA note in Documentation/Configure.help

2000-11-14 Thread Steven Cole
Andries Brouwer wrote: > >(i) I am a bit unhappy about adding configuration options >like this. It regularly happens that I want to compile some kernel >for some machine and have to grep the source and look at the config >files how to enable something. A machine with RTL-8139? Let me see, I

PATCH 2.4.0.11.4: loopback block device fixes

2000-11-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Since I am not a block device expert, I am interested to know if these fixes look ok, and if they fix the reported loopback deadlocks. I added calls to deactive_page and flush_dcache_page, and made sure that any error returns were propagated back to the caller. This is UNTESTED but it looks ok

Ooops with 2.4.0-test11pre4 (vgacon_font)

2000-11-14 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Here is an oops while using console-screen setup on my Debian Woody SMP machine. Anyway - could anyone add some comments to those changes in kernel like removing get_module_symbol, put_module_symbol. I've tried to fix Nvidia's driver for this latest kernel so I've made this change in

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_EISA note in Documentation/Configure.help

2000-11-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Steven Cole wrote: > Well, the CONFIG_EISA option is there. My little patch was just intended to > slightly enlighten those prone to "lets see what this option does". I > compiled test11-pre4 both with and without CONFIG_EISA and the difference is > very slight. Of course, if you had more

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_EISA note in Documentation/Configure.help

2000-11-14 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:23:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andries Brouwer wrote: > > However, CONFIG_EISA is almost completely superfluous, is not > > required at compile time, can easily be tested at run time, > > in other words adding such an option is a very stupid thing to do. > > Each

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_EISA note in Documentation/Configure.help

2000-11-14 Thread Steven Cole
Jeff Garzik wrote: > >Agreed, for the most part. If you know for sure you don't have an EISA >machine, you can now disable CONFIG_EISA. IMHO ideally one should be >able to eliminate code that is useless on all but a small subset of >working machines. Well, the CONFIG_EISA option is there. My

Re: UDMA66/100 errors...

2000-11-14 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: >Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:48:22 -0800 (PST) >From: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: Re: UDMA66/100

Re: newbie, 2.4.0 on Asus CUSL2 (Intel 815E chipset with onboard video)

2000-11-14 Thread David Riley
"Stephen Gutknecht (linux-kernel)" wrote: > > Thanks for the prior help on getting the kernel to compile; real newbie > mistake of not finding the right options in the "make menuconfig" screens. > > I can now compile 2.4.0-test, but it hangs on the first line of loading. > > -- I have tried

Re: NetWare Changing IP Port 524

2000-11-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > On 14 Nov 00 at 12:11, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > If you are relying on port 524 to get SAP information for NCPFS over > > TCPIP, you may want to track this since it appears Novell will be > > patching this port to close a security flaw. I > > added the tracking

Re: Local root exploit with kmod and modutils > 2.1.121

2000-11-14 Thread Adam J. Richter
>The only secure fix I can see is to add SAFEMODE=1 to modprobe's >environment and change exec_modprobe. SAFEMODE may mean other things to other programs, so that an ordinary user might set that environment variable for some other reason, and then get weird behavior if he or she has

[Off topic] UK patent office wants comments on software patent laws.

2000-11-14 Thread Lars Gaarden
Off topic for lkml, I know. But since software patents could have a huge impact on open source, UK residents on this list should be aware that the UK patent office is currently asking for comments on changes to the patent law regarding software and business patents. >From their page: "Should

newbie, 2.4.0 on Asus CUSL2 (Intel 815E chipset with onboard video)

2000-11-14 Thread Stephen Gutknecht (linux-kernel)
Thanks for the prior help on getting the kernel to compile; real newbie mistake of not finding the right options in the "make menuconfig" screens. I can now compile 2.4.0-test, but it hangs on the first line of loading. -- I have tried 2.4.0-test10 and 2.4.0-test11-pre4 -- If I only do my

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_EISA note in Documentation/Configure.help

2000-11-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andries Brouwer wrote: > However, CONFIG_EISA is almost completely superfluous, is not > required at compile time, can easily be tested at run time, > in other words adding such an option is a very stupid thing to do. Each driver's entry in Config.in should be dependent on its

2.4.0-t9: Oops in ipcperms

2000-11-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, running XFree86-3.3.6 on a TNT2 graphics card for many days, I got a kernel Oops. I just had started a ssh -X forwarded X11 client on another machine. X of course got killed, which left the VGA card in an unuseable state. ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.4.0-test9. Options used -V (default)

Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

2000-11-14 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > > Multics??? [..] way too many persons on this list who know the history of > > > Unix to try this BS. > > > > So, you're saying their nine goals were

Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_EISA note in Documentation/Configure.help

2000-11-14 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:07:22PM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: > +EISA support > +CONFIG_EISA > + The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was > + developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. > + > + The EISA bus provided some of the features of the IBM

Re: NetWare Changing IP Port 524

2000-11-14 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 14 Nov 00 at 12:11, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > If you are relying on port 524 to get SAP information for NCPFS over > TCPIP, you may want to track this since it appears Novell will be > patching this port to close a security flaw. I > added the tracking URL so you can review what changes they

Re: Addressing logically the buffer cache

2000-11-14 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Juan wrote: > Hi!. > > Is there any patch or project to address logically the buffer cache?. > Now, you use three parameters to find a buffer in cache: device, block > number, and block size. But, what about if I want to find a buffer using > a super block, an inode

RE: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

2000-11-14 Thread Steve VanDevender
Marty Fouts writes: > Actually, you have the sequence of events slightly out of order. AT, > specifically Bell Labs, was one of the participants in the program that > would develop Multics. AT opted out of the program, for various reasons, > but it continued apace. The PDP-8 of fame was one

Re: More modutils: It's probably worse.

2000-11-14 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"Michael H. Warfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Oh, I hate to add to a remark like that (OK, I lied, I love > trollbait...) > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:20:35AM -0800, Ben Ford wrote: > > Olaf Kirch wrote: > >

Addressing logically the buffer cache

2000-11-14 Thread Juan
Hi!. Is there any patch or project to address logically the buffer cache?. Now, you use three parameters to find a buffer in cache: device, block number, and block size. But, what about if I want to find a buffer using a super block, an inode number, and a block number within the file specified

Re: opl3.o initialization problems in 2.4

2000-11-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I continue to see apparent interaction problems between sb.o and opl3.o > during system initialization. Several people have reported problems > with the opl3.o module not loading or not working properly. A > workaround was developed which results in a

Re: More modutils: It's probably worse.

2000-11-14 Thread Michael H. Warfield
Oh, I hate to add to a remark like that (OK, I lied, I love trollbait...) On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:20:35AM -0800, Ben Ford wrote: > Olaf Kirch wrote: > > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow > > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other

Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

2000-11-14 Thread spam
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: > Linux is a good Unix. if adding "enterpriseness" means violating its > Unixness, then yes, the goals are bullshit. in particular, the kind > of extensive, kernel-based auditing and accounting some people talk about, > as well as the complete

Re: More modutils: It's probably worse.

2000-11-14 Thread Ben Ford
Olaf Kirch wrote: > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users > out there) in the foot? I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux? -b - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

NetWare Changing IP Port 524

2000-11-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Petr/Linux, If you are relying on port 524 to get SAP information for NCPFS over TCPIP, you may want to track this since it appears Novell will be patching this port to close a security flaw. I added the tracking URL so you can review what changes they are proposing. I think what they are

Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

2000-11-14 Thread spam
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > > One historically significant "Enterprise" OS is Multics. It had nine > > major goals. Perhaps we should think about how Linux measures up to > > these 1965 goals for "Enterprise Computing." > > >

Re: Inconsistencies in 3dNOW handling

2000-11-14 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:57:29AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > The test11pre2 code will also not run on a K6-II/III I'll look at this. > Some of the "MMX" instructions are part of "3Dnow" according to AMD > publications. This is especially true for the "prefetch" instructions which >

Re: [PATCH] __builtin_expect in 2.4.0-test11pre4

2000-11-14 Thread Richard Henderson
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > +#include Ug. Of course, this is what I intended after having added the define to compiler.h. r~ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

RE: IDE0 /dev/hda performance hit in 2217 on my HW

2000-11-14 Thread LA Walsh
According to hdparm, dma was already on. It was also suggested I try setting 32-bit mode and multcount (which I had tried before and not noticed much difference). Here's the current settings and results. Note that the timings still don't make alot of sense when comparing them to the vmstat

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