tulip log (2.2.17-2.2.18pre23 http-induced kernel deadlock)

2000-11-29 Thread Clayton Weaver
(I'm posting this to the kernel list because I'm still not convinced that the deadlock results from a problem with a specific ethernet driver.) I enabled debuggin in tulip.c with #define TULIP_DEBUG 7 and directed klogd to save all kernel messages to a file. After initialization (seems to work,

[PATCH] New user space serial port driver

2000-11-29 Thread Patrick van de Lageweg
Hi Linus, Please consider including this user space serial driver. It was writen for the Pele 833 RAS Server but is also usable for other serial device drivers in user space. Patrick diff -u -r --new-file linux-2.4.0-test7.clean/Documentation/Configure.help

Re: [PATCH] ISA PnP for Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound driver

2000-11-29 Thread Scott Murray
On 29 Nov 2000, John Fremlin wrote: > > Support for this card is currently broken for people whose BIOS used > to activate it with ISA PnP, as the kernel now decides to deactivate > it. On 27 Oct 2000 21:48:44 +0100, I sent the maintainer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and the mailing list > <[EMAIL

Re: Keyspan USB PDA adapter && test12pre3 hang

2000-11-29 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:53:40AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Anyone else out there with a Keyspan USB PDA adapter using test12-pre3? > I'm experiencing hangs when I try to send data to my Palm Vx using it. > Locks up the machine hard. No SysRq. No messages. USB serial debug > output

Re: ext2 directory size bug (?)

2000-11-29 Thread Andreas Dilger
You write: > Hmm, gonna try to follow the REPORTING-BUGS file here... > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > directory size increases when adding 0-size files, > but doesn't decrease when removing them. It may or may not be considered a bug, but in any case it has been like

high load & poor interactivity on fast thread creation

2000-11-29 Thread Arnaud Installe
Hello, When creating a lot of Java threads per second linux slows down to a crawl. I don't think this happens on NT, probably because NT doesn't create new threads as fast as Linux does. Is there a way (setting ?) to solve this problem ? Rate-limit the number of threads created ? The problem

[bug] infinite loop in generic_make_request()

2000-11-29 Thread V Ganesh
[cc'ed to maintainers of md and lvm] hi, in generic_make_request(), the following code handles stacking: do { q = blk_get_queue(bh->b_rdev); if (!q) { printk(...) buffer_IO_error(bh); break; } } while

2.4.0-test12-pre3 -- Playing an audio CD halts with drive errors.

2000-11-29 Thread Miles Lane
This could be a CD scratch, but I don't think it is. This is a brand new CD which I just opened. After the errors from /var/log/messages, I include info from hdparm -g -i. hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: packet command error: error=0x50 ATAPI device

Re: CLONE_NAMESPACE, links for dirs and mount(2) for normal users questions

2000-11-29 Thread Remi Turk
Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Remi Turk] > > Do I understand correctly that this means hardlinks to directories > > (except . and ..) are fundamentally impossible in Linux? > > Why do you want to be able to do that? Use symlinks or loopback mounts > and stay out of trouble. Probably just

Re: PATCH - kbuild documentation.

2000-11-29 Thread Russell King
Neil Brown writes: > + An example for libraries from drivers/acorn/scsi/Makefile: This is no longer true; you'll have to find another example. > + As ordering is not so important in libraries, this still uses > + LX_OBJS and MX_OBJS, though (presumably) it could be changed to > +

Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Damacus Porteng wrote: > Andre: > > Is that to say that I'd experience this problem with any EIDE CDRW used on one > of the HPT366 channels, or is it to say that only several CDRWs aren't > supported under this chipset? If you want to run it under PIO mode and not do

Re: TCP header bits set in reserved space

2000-11-29 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:53:32 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ^^ This packet is never ACK'd by www.sun.com and the only difference I can see from one that is are these two bits. RFC793 says they must be zero. Is 793 still

Re: USB doesn't work with 440MX chipset, PCI IRQ problem?

2000-11-29 Thread Miles Lane
I reported a similar problem. In my case, the interrupt sharing is between two Cardbus cards (3c575 and a Belkin BusPort Mobile). My network locks up with eth0 errors. So, do you believe this is the same bug or something else? My machine seems to be sharing the interrupt to four devices? #>

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: test12-pre3 (broke my usb)

2000-11-29 Thread Greg KH
> > Nov 29 17:12:14 sasami kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout > > Nov 29 17:12:14 sasami kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 >(error=-110) This message is now showing up for a lot of people. I think we need to change the source to have it say what is really happening:

Keyspan USB PDA adapter && test12pre3 hang

2000-11-29 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Anyone else out there with a Keyspan USB PDA adapter using test12-pre3? I'm experiencing hangs when I try to send data to my Palm Vx using it. Locks up the machine hard. No SysRq. No messages. USB serial debug output doesn't have much either... Nov 30 00:09:25 viper kernel: keyspan_pda.c:

Re: submitting ksymoops

2000-11-29 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:49:29 -0600 (CST), Dmitri Matrosov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i got these modprobing module bttv on linux2.4.0-test11, when loading it >at startup machine hangs oopsing in endless loop. grep modutils linux/Documentation/Changes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

TCP header bits set in reserved space

2000-11-29 Thread Mark Sutton
Hi I can't seem to find this mentioned anywhere. My 2.4 machine sets 2 bits in the TCP header between the 4 data offset bits and control flags. Like so: 11/29-20:25:42.695096 24.67.152.12:62373 -> 192.18.97.241:80 TCP TTL:63 TOS:0x0 ID:0 DF 21S* Seq: 0x74E55D1A Ack: 0x0 Win:

submitting ksymoops

2000-11-29 Thread Dmitri Matrosov
hi all, im new to the list maybe someone might search thru this "stuff", im not gonna, so i just leave it here... i got these modprobing module bttv on linux2.4.0-test11, when loading it at startup machine hangs oopsing in endless loop. #endif ksymoops 2.3.5 on i686 2.4.0-test11. Options

Questions about Kernel 2.4.0.*

2000-11-29 Thread Android
1) There is a link in /lib/modules/2.4.0.11: build->/usr/src/linuxcreated by the Makefile (make modules_install). What for?   2)  (Answered)   3)  (Answered)   4) Some of the device special files are missing when using devfs. devfsd is running (loaded at the beginning of rc.S by init).

2.2.18pre24 and drm/agpgart static?

2000-11-29 Thread Jamie Manley
Finally got around to trying the 2.2.18pre series and the agp/drm backport and noticed something odd at bootup. Here's an extract from dmesg: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 440M agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset agpgart:

Questions about Kernel 2.4.0.*

2000-11-29 Thread Android
1) There is a link in /lib/modules/2.4.0.11: build->/usr/src/linuxcreated by the Makefile (make modules_install). What for?   2)  (Answered)   3)  (Answered)   4) Some of the device special files are missing when using devfs. devfsd is running (loaded at the beginning of rc.S by init).

Re: [Acpi] linux-test12-pre3 fails to compile in acpi.c]

2000-11-29 Thread A. A. Reese
Patrick Mochel wrote: > > Hmm...I tried it a few times, and I could not get it to fail. This is > what I did: Success! rm -rf linux-2.4 Started over with my original linux-2.4.0-test10.bz2, patched it up and all was fine. Perhaps I experienced some of the fs corruption that has been floating

Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

2000-11-29 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: >Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:14:02 +0100 >From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: --Damacus Porteng-- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Linux kernel list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; >

Bonding...

2000-11-29 Thread Mike A. Harris
When using ethernet bonding, does it divide the load between the two based on connection, or packet by packet? In other words, if a single TCP connection were established between the two machines, would it be twice as fast -using both cables for a single file transfer lets say, or is it like SMP

kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:84!

2000-11-29 Thread Stephen Crowley
I've been noticing some nasty problems with 2.4.0-test11-pre7, constantly getting out of memory problems running megahal ( a conversation generator), I think it has a memory leak.. nothing else seems to cause this. Nov 29 21:36:41 intolerance kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:84! Nov 29

[uPATCH] small __initdata fixes

2000-11-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
gcc has a minor bug[1]: __attribute__(("section")) is ignored for the '.rodata' section. This means that string constants cannot be __initdata -- we have to use arrays instead. The other workaround is to use -fwritable-strings, which would be much worse. [1] OK so it's arguable whether or not

Re: rocketport pci question... it stopped working after 250 days uptime

2000-11-29 Thread Alan Cox
> These three boxes had similar uptimes (since their last kernel rebuild); 249 > days, 248 days, 250 days. Comparing the logs of each box, we saw that each > box's rocketport stopped working after aproximately 248 days 16 hours uptime. > So, my questions are: > - has anyone heard of such a bug

Re: USB doesn't work with 440MX chipset, PCI IRQ problem?

2000-11-29 Thread Alan Cox
> > 9: 3134 XT-PIC 3c574_cs > >11: 1 XT-PIC Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475, usb-uhci > > Your videocard is also at 11. Could be an issue if the USB driver hates > sharing IRQ's. Other than a boot time lockup bug which is now fixed it should be fine - To

ext2 directory size bug (?)

2000-11-29 Thread Steven Van Acker
It this is a known thing, please don't kill me... Hmm, gonna try to follow the REPORTING-BUGS file here... [1.] One line summary of the problem: directory size increases when adding 0-size files, but doesn't decrease when removing them. [2.] Full description of the problem/report:

Re: Octal vs. Hex war o' death

2000-11-29 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> [snip a boring troll] Please, don't insult my mother in law. She's not that boring ;P Igmar - 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: USB doesn't work with 440MX chipset, PCI IRQ problem?

2000-11-29 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> CPU0 > 0:1415829 XT-PIC timer > 1: 10361 XT-PIC keyboard > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 3: 70687 XT-PIC serial > 5: 0 XT-PIC Intel ICH > 9: 3134 XT-PIC

rocketport pci question... it stopped working after 250 days uptime

2000-11-29 Thread Federico Grau
Hello Kernel people, I am not subscribed to the kernel mailing list, so please cc responses to me. We have several linux boxes useing 8 port rocketport pci multiport serial cards. Earlier last week 3 of them stopped working within a 24 hour period. These three boxes had similar uptimes (since

RE: usbdevfs mount 2x, umount 1x

2000-11-29 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > > From: Alexander Viro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > [I reported this a couple of months back. Got no > > > feedback on it. If it's just a DDT (don't do that) > > > or a user error, please

Re: another problem disappeared

2000-11-29 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 01:28:13 +0100 (MET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (I am still a bit curious: did other people see this? > Did someone fix a known problem with net(filter) or say /proc? > It would be a pity if this disappeared by coincidence > and appears again next month.) No problems here,

Re: another problem disappeared

2000-11-29 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Recently I muttered a bit about the fact that > with 2.4.0test11 masquerading, the first packet > that was to be forwarded crashes the kernel. Always. Yes, I was on the plane when I read your report, but I can't reproduce this. I use masquerading

RE: usbdevfs mount 2x, umount 1x

2000-11-29 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> > > So umount it twice. > > I don't see a way to umount it twice or I would have done that. > > Is there a way? > > Erm... Say umount one more time? If _that_ doesn't work - we've got a > bug, either in umount(2) or in umount(8). Strace would be welcome. Or I'm using an old version of umount

RE: usbdevfs mount 2x, umount 1x

2000-11-29 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> From: Alexander Viro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > [I reported this a couple of months back. Got no > > feedback on it. If it's just a DDT (don't do that) > > or a user error, please say so.] > > > > Summary: After I mount usbdevfs 2 times,

Re: usbdevfs mount 2x, umount 1x

2000-11-29 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:47:27PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > Summary: After I mount usbdevfs 2 times, and umount it > 1 time, the usbcore module use count prevents it from > being rmmod-ed. > [root@dragon rdunlap]# lsmod > usbcore50656 2 [uhci] > and 'mount' shows no

[ PATCH ] externalize (new) scsi timer functions (fwd)

2000-11-29 Thread Matthew Jacob
Late in the game, and possibly questionable, but it would be helpful to have the (new) scsi timer functions externalized so that loadable HBA modules can easily see them. This is needed because, particularly for Fibre Channel, it's only the HBA that knows when a command is actually sent to

Re: usbdevfs mount 2x, umount 1x

2000-11-29 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Randy Dunlap wrote: > [I reported this a couple of months back. Got no > feedback on it. If it's just a DDT (don't do that) > or a user error, please say so.] > > Summary: After I mount usbdevfs 2 times, and umount it > 1 time, the usbcore module use count prevents it

usbdevfs mount 2x, umount 1x

2000-11-29 Thread Randy Dunlap
[I reported this a couple of months back. Got no feedback on it. If it's just a DDT (don't do that) or a user error, please say so.] Summary: After I mount usbdevfs 2 times, and umount it 1 time, the usbcore module use count prevents it from being rmmod-ed. This is test12-pre2. 1. Start

Re: another problem disappeared

2000-11-29 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
I didn't have any problems masquerading w/ test11 here. How do you have it setup? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Recently I muttered a bit about the fact that > with 2.4.0test11 masquerading, the first packet > that was to be forwarded crashes the kernel. Always. > Tonight I wanted to start

Re: Octal vs. Hex war o' death

2000-11-29 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Ian S. Nelson wrote: > I'm sure this is a religious issue... but I'm going to suggest it > anyways because I spent a few minutes on it. [snip a boring troll] Could you come up with something more, erm, amusing? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

PROBLEM: do_try_free_pages failed for python

2000-11-29 Thread Bob Tanner
[1.] One line summary of the problem: PROBLEM: do_try_free_pages failed for python [2.] Full description of the problem/report: Running 2.2.18pre22 on a dual Sparc20 with 128Mb of RAM. [3.] Keywords (i.e., modules, networking, kernel): do_try_free_pages, Sparc [4.] Kernel version (from

File corruption part deux

2000-11-29 Thread Lawrence Walton
my system has been acting slightly odd on all the pre 12 kernels with the fs going read only with out any messages until now. no opps or anything like that, but I did get this just now. Nov 29 16:03:12 the-penguin kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,2)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory

[bug] apm resume, uhci and usb devices won't talk right anymore

2000-11-29 Thread David Ford
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 532 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 546 usb.c: USB disconnect on device 6 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 569 hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 7 usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb.c: USB device not accepting new

Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.0-test11 ext2 fs corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Alexander Viro wrote: > > Bloody hell... > > I don't know if this is the bug he's got, in fact I doubt it, but it's a > bug and it needs fixing. The problem is, ext2_get_group_desc > effectively returns two results; one of them is being assigned

[bug] floppy spins w/out end after apm resume

2000-11-29 Thread David Ford
yet another apm related bug. this one is the odd one, frequently i update my kernel on this laptop. every once in a while, i'd say about one out of five kernels..upon apm resume, the floppy drive motor will start spinning. nothing stops it from spinning except i attempt to mount a non-existing

Re: test12-pre3 (broke my usb)

2000-11-29 Thread David Ford
> Seems to have broken my IntelliMouse Optical (logs from the third time > I inserted usb-uhci): > > Nov 29 17:12:08 sasami kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports > Nov 29 17:12:08 sasami kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > Nov 29 17:12:08 sasami kernel: hub.c: USB hub

another problem disappeared

2000-11-29 Thread Andries . Brouwer
Recently I muttered a bit about the fact that with 2.4.0test11 masquerading, the first packet that was to be forwarded crashes the kernel. Always. Tonight I wanted to start investigating this more closely, but to my pleasant surprise 2.4.0test12pre3 does not have this problem. Progress. (I am

Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11)

2000-11-29 Thread Russell King
Darryl Miles writes: > Hmm, what about common symbol generation? i.e. the linker looses the > ability to throw out "multiply defined symbol" errors where you fail > to initialise it to a value. We need to build with -fno-common to be 100% safe in this case. I'll run several compilations with

[PATCH] Documentation/sysrq.txt: How to scroll back on console.

2000-11-29 Thread Nicholas Dronen
Hi, This might be useful to add to Documentation/sysrq.txt. Regards, Nick --- sysrq.txt.orig Wed Nov 29 17:13:18 2000 +++ sysrq.txt Wed Nov 29 17:23:33 2000 @@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ On x86 - You press the key combo 'ALT-SysRQ-'. Note - Some

Re: Octal vs. Hex war o' death

2000-11-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Jeff Epler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:27:04PM -0700, Ian S. Nelson wrote: > > c) octals were invented for UNIX file permissions and not > > programming > > You must be joking. Read much

Re: Octal vs. Hex war o' death

2000-11-29 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:27:04PM -0700, Ian S. Nelson wrote: > c) octals were invented for UNIX file permissions and not > programming You must be joking. Read much history of computing? Or alt.folklore.computers? Octal was very natural for 18- and 36-bit machines, after all. Jeff - To

[PATCH] Re: 2.4.0-test11 ext2 fs corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Daniel Phillips
Alexander Viro wrote: > Bloody hell... I don't know if this is the bug he's got, in fact I doubt it, but it's a bug and it needs fixing. The problem is, ext2_get_group_desc effectively returns two results; one of them is being assigned from on conditional paths and the other isn't. This bug

[oops] test12-2, yet another apm related oops

2000-11-29 Thread David Ford
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00fc c02b3527 *pde = 02253067 Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010293 eax: ebx: c90cb800 ecx: c03826a8 edx: 0001 esi: 0003 edi:

PCI bug? -- Re: USB doesn't work with 440MX chipset, PCI IRQ problem?

2000-11-29 Thread Miles Lane
Erik Mouw wrote: > Hi all, > > I got a new laptop with an Intel 440MX chipset, and USB doesn't work at > all. I tried both the UHCI drivers, but none of them works. The drivers > load OK, the USB hardware is detected, but as soon as I plug in a USB > device, I get the following debug messages

100% repeatable OOPS

2000-11-29 Thread Martin MaD Douda
Hi, all. [1.] One line summary of the problem: I'm getting oops every time I run dosemu with special virtual boot floppy image [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I have boot floppy image for dosemu, which went bogus for some (unknown) reason. When I use it, kernel oopses

Re: USB doesn't work with 440MX chipset, PCI IRQ problem?

2000-11-29 Thread Miles Lane
Hi Eric. This is a great bug report. I am going to forward it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] FWIW, most of the USB developers are swamped enough that the merely scan the Linux Kernel Mailing List. The best way to get USB developer attention fast is to send bug reports to the Linux USB Users list:

Re: test12-pre3 (broke my usb)

2000-11-29 Thread Miles Lane
Rick Haines wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:57:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> - pre3: >> - Johannes Erdfelt: USB update > > > Seems to have broken my IntelliMouse Optical (logs from the third time > I inserted usb-uhci): Yes. This problem has been reported by two others on

USB doesn't work with 440MX chipset, PCI IRQ problem?

2000-11-29 Thread Erik Mouw
Hi all, I got a new laptop with an Intel 440MX chipset, and USB doesn't work at all. I tried both the UHCI drivers, but none of them works. The drivers load OK, the USB hardware is detected, but as soon as I plug in a USB device, I get the following debug messages (this is with a Logitech USB

PATCH - kbuild documentation.

2000-11-29 Thread Neil Brown
Linus, I thought I would document what I had learnt about Makefiles in making the initialisation of drivers/md work better. This patch (minus a few typos that I have since found and corrected) was blessed by Michael Chastain on linux-kbuild. Ofcourse, running "make vmlinux" doesn't

Re: test12-pre3 (broke my usb)

2000-11-29 Thread Rick Haines
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:57:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > - pre3: > - Johannes Erdfelt: USB update Seems to have broken my IntelliMouse Optical (logs from the third time I inserted usb-uhci): Nov 29 17:12:08 sasami kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports Nov 29 17:12:08 sasami kernel:

Re: 'holey files' not holey enough.

2000-11-29 Thread Andreas Dilger
Marc Mutz writes: > kernel 2.2.17, '/' being a 1k blocksize ext2fs: > > root@adam:/ > dd if=/dev/zero of=holed.file bs=1000 seek=5000 count=1000 > 1000+0 records in > 1000+0 records out > root@adam:/ > ls -l holed.file > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 600 Nov 29 23:33 holed.file >

Octal vs. Hex war o' death

2000-11-29 Thread Ian S. Nelson
I'm sure this is a religious issue... but I'm going to suggest it anyways because I spent a few minutes on it. So I was hacking away trying to get my embedded box to run the correct stuff after booting up and I ran into an octal speed bump. You see, all throughout rd.c there are these hex

Re: 'holey files' not holey enough.

2000-11-29 Thread safemode
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:36:12 Marc Mutz wrote: > kernel 2.2.17, '/' being a 1k blocksize ext2fs: > > root@adam:/ > dd if=/dev/zero of=holed.file bs=1000 seek=5000 count=1000 > 1000+0 records in > 1000+0 records out > root@adam:/ > ls -l holed.file > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 600 Nov

[patch] test12-pre3 include/linux/elf.h

2000-11-29 Thread Keith Owens
Linus, please apply. The kernel incorrectly defines Elf64_Word and Elf64_Sword as 8 bytes, they should be 4 bytes, Elf64_Xword and Elf64_Sxword are the 8 byte versions. The type mismatch between kernel and user space causes field misalignments if you copy a user space definition into the kernel

linux-test12-pre3 fails to compile in acpi.c

2000-11-29 Thread Garst R. Reese
I would guess this a problem with missed patches during Linus's paternity leave. test11 did fine and acpi sorta works. (ThinkPad A20) Garst - 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: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:08:30PM +0100, Henning P . Schmiedehausen wrote: > No. > > If I modify the kernel or any other GPL software for my personal use > and give it to no one, I am _not at all_ forced to make it public. > > Only if I distribute a compiled kernel or any other program under

Re: 'holey files' not holey enough.

2000-11-29 Thread Marc Mutz
kernel 2.2.17, '/' being a 1k blocksize ext2fs: root@adam:/ > dd if=/dev/zero of=holed.file bs=1000 seek=5000 count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out root@adam:/ > ls -l holed.file -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 600 Nov 29 23:33 holed.file root@adam:/ > du -sh holed.file 5.7M

Kernel timers and jiffie wrap-around

2000-11-29 Thread Jamie
Hi ! I've been trying to determine the reliability of kernel timers when a box has been up for a while. Now as everyone is aware (for HZ=100 (default)), when the uptime of the kernel reaches (approx.) 1.3 years the clock tick count (jiffies) wraps-around. Now if a kernel timer is added just

[PATCH] ISA PnP for Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound driver

2000-11-29 Thread John Fremlin
Support for this card is currently broken for people whose BIOS used to activate it with ISA PnP, as the kernel now decides to deactivate it. On 27 Oct 2000 21:48:44 +0100, I sent the maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this patch, but I didn't get any

Re: corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ISTR bug reports looking like that and IIRC they were never resolved. > > Have you looked at the report by Daniel Phillips? Yes. The problem is real, but the fix... I'm doing a cleanup there and I'll post the patch when I'll give it some

Fasttrak Final Point....

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
The terms of use of the pdc202xx.c code was handled before I GPLed that code. Thus there are no arguments that will allow GPL to touch the issue. With that said, I am hoping this dies. It is very hard to get companies to work with Linux if all the get is flames from the general masses.

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre24

2000-11-29 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:09:59AM +, Alan Cox wrote: ... > 2.2.18pre21 ... > o Resnchronize Apple PowerMac codebase(Paul Mackerras & co) > o Merge powermac tree fixes into usb > o Powermac input device handling changes As Dave Miller pointed out, DEV_MAC_HID sysctl

Re: corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> ISTR bug reports looking like that and IIRC they were never resolved. Have you looked at the report by Daniel Phillips? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=95162877201890=2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, James A Sutherland wrote: > Nope. RMS defined the terms which apply to GPL code. You are free to define any > other terms you like for your own code, but it is no longer GPLed in that case. And the code for FASTTRAK is not GPL, James we did this once before. If Promise were

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Alan Cox
> > I have defined the terms that are acceptable to a binary module that > > incorporates GPL code of MINE! This I DEFINE THE TERMS, and they are > > module only! > > Nope. RMS defined the terms which apply to GPL code. You are free to define any > other terms you like for your own code, but it

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread James A Sutherland
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > You are wrong: If you modify the kernel you have to make it available for > > > anyone who wishes to use it; that's also in the GPL. You can't add stuff > > > > No it isnt. Some people seem to think it is.

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
> Anything else would mean that I can send E-Mail to Linus Torvalds > every five minutes and request a verbatim copy of his current hacking > kernel tree as it is under GPL, which he is the forced to give to me > because of the GPL. This would be utter nonsense. Ask me for the GPL code that I

Re: searchable l-k archive

2000-11-29 Thread Andreas Dilger
Al Viro writes: > BTW, if you know some searchable l-k archive... > DN sucks coprolites through the straw these days ;-/ There are archives of pretty much all of the linux- and oss-development related mailing lists at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ For l-k in particular, I use

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > You are wrong: If you modify the kernel you have to make it available for > > anyone who wishes to use it; that's also in the GPL. You can't add stuff > > No it isnt. Some people seem to think it is. You only have to provide a > change if you give

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Alan Cox
> You are wrong: If you modify the kernel you have to make it available for > anyone who wishes to use it; that's also in the GPL. You can't add stuff No it isnt. Some people seem to think it is. You only have to provide a change if you give someone the binaries concerned. Some people also

Re: corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:57:11PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > that again: was quite recent. My apologies... Never mind, strict patch reading was obviously misleading in this case. > [1] "older" may mean "shared with 2.2" here - ISTR bug reports looking like > that and IIRC they were never

[BUG]2.4.0test11 and 2.4.0test12-pre3, sound looping for ever

2000-11-29 Thread Fort David
Hi, i've got a strange bug: after some hours of uptime sound starts looping for ever. I always have this in my logs: "unexpected IRQ trap at vector 7d". There's no Ooops and i can only stop sound by killing "esd". Of course, i can't run it anymore after it has been killed. 2.4.0test10 wasn't

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Henning P . Schmiedehausen
No. If I modify the kernel or any other GPL software for my personal use and give it to no one, I am _not at all_ forced to make it public. Only if I distribute a compiled kernel or any other program under GPL, then I must give also the sources on request (!) and may not put any restrictions on

Re: 'holey files' not holey enough.

2000-11-29 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Adam wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > > [adam@pepsi /tmp]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=holed.file bs=1000 seek=5000 count=1000 > > > [adam@pepsi /tmp]$ ls -l holed.file > > > -rw-rw-r--1 adam adam 600 Nov 29 08:52 holed.file > > >

Re: corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:05:20PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > To be honest, I have a big problem with micro optimisations > > that prevent the big optimisations from happening. > > > > Would it be an idea to explicitly comment such dangerous > >

Re: corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > Problem fixed by Jens' patch had been there since March, so if it's a > > mix of __make_request() screwing up and something else... Urgh. > > No, the bug really got introduced in test11 due

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-29 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > No, it does not. Distributing does. You will never get this right. You > can compile into your kernel anything you like as long as you don't > give it away. You are wrong: If you modify the kernel you have to make it available for anyone

Re: 'holey files' not holey enough.

2000-11-29 Thread Adam
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > [adam@pepsi /tmp]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=holed.file bs=1000 seek=5000 count=1000 > > [adam@pepsi /tmp]$ ls -l holed.file > > -rw-rw-r--1 adam adam 600 Nov 29 08:52 holed.file > > [adam@pepsi /tmp]$ du -sh holed.file

Re: 2.4 test10 error reading from HP colorado 7/14 Gb tape

2000-11-29 Thread Eckhard Jokisch
Mike Dresser wrote: > I reported this a few weeks ago or so, it seems that HP 7/14's are not exactly > standard. First is the proprietory tape size. Second is that the drive doesn't > support locking the tape in, but reports it as possible. At least, that's what i > gather from Jens's

Re: corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:05:20PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > To be honest, I have a big problem with micro optimisations > that prevent the big optimisations from happening. > > Would it be an idea to explicitly comment such dangerous > micro optimisations so people implementing the big

Re: corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > Problem fixed by Jens' patch had been there since March, so if it's a > mix of __make_request() screwing up and something else... Urgh. No, the bug really got introduced in test11 due to the request merging stuff. The patch may _look_ like it

Re: corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:08:26AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > Problem fixed by Jens' patch had been there since March, so if it's a > > No, it's there only since Jens fixed the request merging bug in > test11 or so. > > With previous kernel

Re: corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:08:26AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > Problem fixed by Jens' patch had been there since March, so if it's a No, it's there only since Jens fixed the request merging bug in test11 or so. With previous kernel the head pointer couldn't change so that change was

Re: Question: Serial port device drivers...

2000-11-29 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:42:47PM +, Wayne Price wrote: > > Has this been done before, and does anyone have any sample code or > hints as to what I need to do? We are using kernel 2.2.16 (from > RedHat-7.0). You might want to take a look at the Axis Bluetooth stack for Linux

Re: corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ehh, this is a stupid question, but I've had that happen too, and it > turned out my /tmp filesystem was full, and it runs out of space only with > certain large link cases (never anything else, because all the other > stages of compilation are done

Re: corruption

2000-11-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > That still leaves the SCSI corruption, which could not have been due to > > > the request issue. What's the pattern there for people? > > one more

Re: Broken NTFS

2000-11-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:33:36AM -0800, Joseph K. Malek wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a broken NTFS, due to my own mistake of mounting the > partition RW and moving a file instead of copying itI've been poking > around for an NTFS editing tool; only to find that this is easier said > than

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