Re: 2.2.17 IP masq bug

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Julian Anastasov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Mike Perry wrote: > > > The bug: > > When I make a connection from any internal node to the one of the other > > externally routed machines in my lab, then close it, this external machine then > > becomes unreachable to

Re: 9750 vs. blade3D gives freaky ttyS3 problem)

2000-11-30 Thread Lee Brown
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At a guess, it's an IRQ conflict. The Blade3D card may be trying to > use the same interrupt as the serial port, and that's probably what's > causing problems. 1) You nailed it. IRQ 3 was the culprit. Why I assumed my box was PnP

Re: 2.2.17 IP masq bug

2000-11-30 Thread Julian Anastasov
Hello, On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Mike Perry wrote: > external net, so it can IP masq the other 14 machines. The machines are on a > switch, and share a semi-switched network segment with a bunch of other > external IP'd machines (we are all in the same lab, actually). > > The bug: > When I

Re: test12-pre3 (FireWire issue)

2000-11-30 Thread Dax Kelson
Frank Davis said once upon a time (Fri, 1 Dec 2000): > Dax, >What is your modutils version? Is this the first test12 that has > caused this error? > Regards, Frank [root@thud security]# depmod --version depmod version 2.3.21 I was running 2.4.0-test11-pre3 before I upgraded to test12-pre3.

Re: test12-pre3 (FireWire issue)

2000-11-30 Thread Frank Davis
Dax, What is your modutils version? Is this the first test12 that has caused this error? Regards, Frank > Linus, Andreas, > > I've been using this same config since FireWire was merged, just tried out > test12-pre3 and got an unresolved symbol problem with raw1394.o > > # > # IEEE 1394

Re: Arping loopback question.

2000-11-30 Thread Julian Anastasov
Hello, On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Scott Bisker wrote: > noarp, and I've set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/hidden to 1. The You need to change the all/ section too: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/hidden Regards -- Julian Anastasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe

2.2.17 IP masq bug

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Perry
While setting up a cluster, and I've stumbled across what appears to be a bug in the IP masqing of 2.2.17. Here's my setup: 15 machines on 10.0.0.1-15. 10.0.0.1 has IP aliasing and is also on the external net, so it can IP masq the other 14 machines. The machines are on a switch, and share a

[PATCH] Various APM fixes

2000-11-30 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Linus, This is essentially what Alan has in his ac tree. It does the following: make unloading and loading of the apm module reliable. enable and engage the APM BIOS a bit earlier allow for Dell bad BIOS workaround The first required that the

Re: test12-pre3 (FireWire issue)

2000-11-30 Thread Dax Kelson
Linus Torvalds said once upon a time (Tue, 28 Nov 2000): > - pre3: > - Andreas Bombe: ieee1394 cleanups and fixes Linus, Andreas, I've been using this same config since FireWire was merged, just tried out test12-pre3 and got an unresolved symbol problem with raw1394.o # # IEEE 1394

Re: Bonding...

2000-11-30 Thread Rainer Clasen
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:16:37AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > When using ethernet bonding, does it divide the load between the > > two based on connection, or packet by packet? > > packet by packet, so you can use both links to aggregate your bandwidth. I've > used it at 200 Mbps with

Re: Some problems with the raid-stuff in 2.4.0-test12pre3

2000-11-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday November 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello people, > > I have some trouble with the raid-stuff. > My machine is a Pentium-III, 256 MB ram and 7 scsi-disks (IBM DNES-318350W > 17B). I'm using raid5 for 6 of these disks (chunk-size 8). > Machine boots, I do mkraid /dev/md0 and then

Oops in 2.2.18 with pppd dial in server

2000-11-30 Thread root
Alan, I was able to reproduce this oops with a somewhat more reliable ksymoops (I was ready for this nasty bug this time). Looks like the problem is in the sockets code. See attached. Jeff ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.2.18pre21. Options used EIP: 0010: [] Using defaults from ksymoops -t

x86 local timer interrupts getting lost

2000-11-30 Thread David Wragg
I've noticed that on dual processor machines, the two values in the LOC: line of /proc/interrupts are not in lockstep -- the difference between them varies. Using a perl script (below) to print out the difference every second, I see it wander around (by much more than the +/-1 error that

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [patch] usb-uhci.c: fix for PCI-lockups/IRQ problems

2000-11-30 Thread Miles Lane
Georg Acher wrote: > Hi, > test12-pre3 had a large set of patches to usb-uhci.c. One small detail of > this patch can make the driver to lockup the PCI bus with certain UHCI-chips > (only Intel but not VIA, of course not on my machines...). This patch should > fix that. > It also includes

question about pread

2000-11-30 Thread Felix von Leitner
I am trying to implement pread for my diet libc. This is my test program: #include main() { char buf[1024]; int fd=open("/etc/passwd",0); pread(fd,buf,30,32); close(fd); write(1,buf,32); } I compiled it against diet libc and glibc and ran it on a powerpc box. t is the

[PATCH] /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build is not created

2000-11-30 Thread Eric Lammerts
Since 2.2.18pre20, the symlink /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build is not created because of a non-escaped $ in Makefile. Patch: --- linux/Makefile.orig Fri Dec 1 01:39:24 2000 +++ linux/Makefile Fri Dec 1 01:39:32 2000 @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@

Re: corruption

2000-11-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton wrote: > > I bet this'll catch it: > > --- include/linux/list.h.orig Fri Dec 1 08:33:36 2000 > +++ include/linux/list.hFri Dec 1 08:33:55 2000 > @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ > static __inline__ void list_del(struct list_head *entry) > { > __list_del(entry->prev,

Re: TCP push missing with writev()

2000-11-30 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 00:15:45 + (GMT) From: Ben Mansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paranoia check: can this bug occur with writev() and other combinations of sizes, or is it only when there is a 0-length buffer in there? Only the 0-length buffer at the end of the iovec can trigger

PATCH: 2.4.0-test12-pre3: fix ntfs BUG() call

2000-11-30 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Attached patch fixes the BUG() people are seeing when using the ntfs driver with 2.4.0-test* kernels. Patch is tested and everything seems to be working fine with it. Description: The BUG() call was due to a not implemented ntfs_get_block(). The fix is to comment out all [bm]map associated

Re: TCP push missing with writev()

2000-11-30 Thread Ben Mansell
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, David S. Miller wrote: > vector[ 1 ].iov_base = NULL; > vector[ 1 ].iov_len = 0; > > "Don't do that" :-) > > I'll doubt I will bother to fix it (it's not %100 trivial to fix and > it will put a cost into a hot path). Even if I did, you're going to

loopback block sizes vs. truncation

2000-11-30 Thread John Kennedy
In trying to test the international crypto patch-2.2.17.11pre1 I was doing some QA on my bootloader program. It looks like the loopback device will return EOF before a file is finished. In my case in particular, I was using files instead of block devices (again, for testing) and had a

Re: [CFT][RFC] ext2_new_inode() fixes and cleanup

2000-11-30 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:13:27 -0500 (EST) From: Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * search for appropriate cylinder group had been taken out of the ext2_new_inode() into helper functions - find_cg_dir(sb, parent_group) and find_cg_other(sb, parent_group). Bug caught by

Re: TCP push missing with writev()

2000-11-30 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:57:09 + (GMT) From: Ben Mansell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> vector[ 1 ].iov_base = NULL; vector[ 1 ].iov_len = 0; "Don't do that" :-) I'll doubt I will bother to fix it (it's not %100 trivial to fix and it will put a cost into a hot

RE: usbdevfs mount 2x, umount 1x

2000-11-30 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> From: Jan-Benedict Glaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > 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]#

Re: [PATCH] New user space serial port driver

2000-11-30 Thread Rogier Wolff
Russell King wrote: > Rogier Wolff writes: > > Documentation bug. Not code bug. > > In which case, can we put it in as a documentation fix rather than changing > the compiler output? ie, /* = { NULL, } */ ? Because I care more about the 4 bytes of extra source than the 4 bytes of extra

XFree 4.0 problems.

2000-11-30 Thread Velizar Bodurski
Ok I don't have the system in question, but i use others' experience with the problem. The system is 2xPentium II Celeron 600 Mhz, 256 MB RAM, Video Card Matrox Millenium G400, HDD 15 Gb Maxtor 7200 rpm, 2 Mb Cashe, MB Abit BP6. Both with kernel version 2.2.17 and 2.4.0-test11 after switching

Arping loopback question.

2000-11-30 Thread Scott Bisker
Hello all. Quick question here about an arping loopback adaptor. I've set lo to noarp, and I've set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/hidden to 1. The interface still arps for lo:0. I'm using Foundry server irons, and I need to set the loopback interface in order for load balancing to work

Re: TCP push missing with writev()

2000-11-30 Thread Ben Mansell
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:14:14 +0100 >From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> The problem is that if data happens to be written via method (2), >> then the PUSH flag is never set on any packets generated. This is >> a bug,

[Patch] Correct cdrom.h comments.

2000-11-30 Thread Richard Pries
Jens, The following patch corrects the comments in cdrom.h for CDROMREADRAW, CDROMREADMODE1, and CDROMREADMODE2 that erroneously refer to the cdrom_read structure. With this patch, they refer to the cdrom_msf structure. --- /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/linux/cdrom.h Wed Nov 29 10:34:29 2000

Re: Alpha SCSI error on 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-30 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:26:58PM -0500, Phillip Ezolt wrote: > I'll give test12-pre3 a try and see if it fixes things. test12-pre2 crashes at boot on my DS20. This patch workaround the problem but I would be _very_ surprised if this is the right fix :) It's obviously not meant for inclusion.

using TOS as a key in route cache

2000-11-30 Thread Rajeev Bector
Guys I am looking for a reason as to why we want to have different route cache entries for different IP ToS types. Does anyone have any insight into this ? thanks -- Rajeev (please cc replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Alpha SCSI error on 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-30 Thread Phillip Ezolt
Ivan, We dug a little deeper, and think that we found the problem. The error occurs if we have over 1024 MB of memory in the machine. If we have less than 1024MB, the machine behaves correctly. (This is a 600Mhz Digital Personal Workstation) Once again, the 2.2 kernel in RH 7.0

Re: [PATCH] Re: [bug] infinite loop in generic_make_request()

2000-11-30 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:54:19PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Andrea writes: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:05:53PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > the RAID and LVM make_request functions should be changed to do that > > > instead (i.e. 0 on success, -ve on error, and maybe "1" if they do

Re: high load & poor interactivity on fast thread creation

2000-11-30 Thread David Lang
try the 2.4 test kernels. I had a situation of poor performance with lots of processes and saw a dramatic improvement with the 2.4 kernel. David Lang On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Arnaud Installe wrote: > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:14:43 +0100 > From: Arnaud Installe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To:

[CFT][RFC] ext2_new_inode() fixes and cleanup

2000-11-30 Thread Alexander Viro
* search for appropriate cylinder group had been taken out of the ext2_new_inode() into helper functions - find_cg_dir(sb, parent_group) and find_cg_other(sb, parent_group). Bug caught by Daniel (wrong bh being dirtied when we update the free inodes counter) - fixed. *

Re: [PATCH] Re: [bug] infinite loop in generic_make_request()

2000-11-30 Thread Andreas Dilger
Andrea writes: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:05:53PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > the RAID and LVM make_request functions should be changed to do that > > instead (i.e. 0 on success, -ve on error, and maybe "1" if they do their > > own recursion to break the loop)? > > We preferred to let the

Re: [PATCH] no RLIMIT_NPROC for root, please

2000-11-30 Thread Tigran Aivazian
> > > Hardcoding things signifying special treatment of uid=0 is almost always a > > > bad idea. If you _really_ think that superuser (whatever entity that might > > > be) should be exempt from RLIMIT_NPROC and can prove that (SuSv2 seems to > > > be silent so you may be right), then you should

Re: Alpha SCSI error on 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-30 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:02:42PM -0500, Phillip Ezolt wrote: > Qlogic SCSI support seems broken on 2.4.0-test11 on a Miata (Digital Personal >WorkStation 600au). > > When starting up, we get a machine check after initialing the qlogic SCSI code. Try test12-pre3 - there is the new PCI init

RE: Alpha SCSI error on 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-30 Thread Mathiasen, Torben
Its probaly due to the semaphore changes that went in to test11 by Richard Henderson. scsi_wait_req will grab one on entry. Did test10 work for you on Alpha? Regards, Torben Mathiasen > -Original Message- > From: Rival, Frank > Sent: 30. november 2000 21:37 > To: Ezolt, Phillip > Cc:

RE: OnStream DI-30 with ide-tape version 1.16f problems

2000-11-30 Thread Jorge Boncompte \(DTI2\)
I have the same problem, and yes I have a medium inserted. What can I do? Regards. -Jorge P.D.Debian 2.2 (+ some updates from woody to complaint 2.4 series of kernels) 2.4.0.test11 + reiserfs Tyan K7 VIA + CMD649 Same tape drive and same

Re: corruption

2000-11-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Alexander Viro wrote: > > Confirms. That's definitely an empty list_head at address 0xc3c49058 and -pre2 > has O_SYNC patches. foo. The overnight run wedged tight in mmap002. No progress. I bet this'll catch it: --- include/linux/list.h.orig Fri Dec 1 08:33:36 2000 +++

Re: beware of add_waitqueue/waitqueue_active

2000-11-30 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 07:02:56PM +0530, V Ganesh wrote: > 3. add_wait_queue adds this process to the waitqueue. but all the writes >are in write-buffers and have not gone down to cache/memory yet. > 4. PageLocked() finds that the page is locked. Right. > [..] speculative execution > of

Re: [PATCH] no RLIMIT_NPROC for root, please

2000-11-30 Thread Jan Rekorajski
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Jan Rekorajski wrote: > > > > --- linux/kernel/fork.c~Tue Sep 5 23:48:59 2000 > > > > +++ linux/kernel/fork.c Sun Nov 26 20:22:20 2000 > > > > @@ -560,7 +560,8 @@ > > > > *p = *current; > > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] Replace wrong structure type in mmc_ioctl() in cdrom.c

2000-11-30 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Nov 30 2000, Richard Pries wrote: > Jens, > > Please consider the following patch for the wrong type of structure > in mmc_ioctl() in cdrom.c. > > Currently, mmc_ioctl() in cdrom.c is passed a cdrom_msf structure > when ioctl() is called with CDROMREADRAW, CDROMREADMODE1, or >

Re: [PATCH] no RLIMIT_NPROC for root, please

2000-11-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Jan Rekorajski wrote: > > > --- linux/kernel/fork.c~ Tue Sep 5 23:48:59 2000 > > > +++ linux/kernel/fork.c Sun Nov 26 20:22:20 2000 > > > @@ -560,7 +560,8 @@ > > > *p = *current; > > > > > > retval = -EAGAIN; > > > - if (atomic_read(>user->processes) >=

Re: 2.4.0-test11: es1371 mixer problems

2000-11-30 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:42:09PM +0100, Dick Streefland wrote: > On Thursday 2000-11-30 18:24, Robert Schiele wrote: > | On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:47:25PM +0100, Dick Streefland wrote: > | > This mixer probably replaces the normal AC97 mixer device. So, in > | > what situations do you need

[PATCH] Replace wrong structure type in mmc_ioctl() in cdrom.c

2000-11-30 Thread Richard Pries
Jens, Please consider the following patch for the wrong type of structure in mmc_ioctl() in cdrom.c. Currently, mmc_ioctl() in cdrom.c is passed a cdrom_msf structure when ioctl() is called with CDROMREADRAW, CDROMREADMODE1, or CDROMREADMODE2 as its second argument. This structure does not

Re: 2.2.17 & Eepro(10)

2000-11-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jeroen Geusebroek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm having troubles with the eepro driver included in kernel 2.2.17. > It stops sometimes with no apparent reason. The one thing i noticed > is that it seems to have a lot of carrier problems(998!) > > This is part of the result from ifconfig:

Re: Pls add this driver to the kernel tree !!

2000-11-30 Thread Alan Cox
> > Actually, there is some benefit in leaving the LINUX_VERSION_CODE checks > > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it > > much easier. Also, some people like to maintain a single driver for all > > of the kernel versions, so they don't have to bugfix each

Re: [PATCH] Re: [bug] infinite loop in generic_make_request()

2000-11-30 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:05:53PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > the RAID and LVM make_request functions should be changed to do that > instead (i.e. 0 on success, -ve on error, and maybe "1" if they do their > own recursion to break the loop)? We preferred to let the lowlevel drivers to handle

Serial port hangs my computer in 2.4.0test12-3

2000-11-30 Thread Juan
Hi! It seems that there is a conflict between my ethernet card and my serial port. I'm using RedHat 7.0 and my ethernet card is a "Kingston EtheRx KNE20 Plug and Play ISA Adapter". I'm unable to access the Internet because the ethernet card doesn't work :-(. Besides, the card uses two

Re: Alpha SCSI error on 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-30 Thread Peter Rival
Hi Phil, Phillip Ezolt wrote: > Hi All, > > Qlogic SCSI support seems broken on 2.4.0-test11 on a Miata (Digital Personal >WorkStation 600au). > > When starting up, we get a machine check after initialing the qlogic SCSI code. > > Using the Alpha kgdb, we figured out that the code is dying

Re: TCP push missing with writev()

2000-11-30 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:14:14 +0100 From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The problem is that if data happens to be written via method (2), > then the PUSH flag is never set on any packets generated. This is > a bug, surely? I just tried it on 2.2.17 and 2.4.0test11 and

Re: 2.4.0-test11: es1371 mixer problems

2000-11-30 Thread Gerd Knorr
> OK, that makes it somewhat clearer to me. However, I don't use modules > and have everything compiled in, so I can't control the order in which > the mixer devices get loaded. Exactly that's why I compile nearly everything as modules :-) The other reason is that the turn-around times for

2.2.17 & Eepro(10)

2000-11-30 Thread Jeroen Geusebroek
Hello, I'm having troubles with the eepro driver included in kernel 2.2.17. It stops sometimes with no apparent reason. The one thing i noticed is that it seems to have a lot of carrier problems(998!) This is part of the result from ifconfig: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr

Re: DVD on Linux

2000-11-30 Thread Andreas Dilger
Timothy A. DeWees writes: > Can someone please point me to a doc on how to mount a DVD drive. > COrrect me if I am wrong but the DVD file format is UDF? I did not see that > as an option when I compiled 2.2.17. Do I need to use 2.4.0testX to mount > DVD's? Thanks in advance! UDF is an

Re: [PATCH] Re: [bug] infinite loop in generic_make_request()

2000-11-30 Thread Andreas Dilger
Neil Brown write: > On Thursday November 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > in generic_make_request(), the following code handles stacking: > > > > do { > >q = blk_get_queue(bh->b_rdev); > >if (!q) { > > printk(...) > >

Re: Pls add this driver to the kernel tree !!

2000-11-30 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:16:16 -0500 (EST) > > Actually, there is some benefit in leaving the LINUX_VERSION_CODE checks > > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it > > much easier. Also, some people like to

Alpha SCSI error on 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-30 Thread Phillip Ezolt
Hi All, Qlogic SCSI support seems broken on 2.4.0-test11 on a Miata (Digital Personal WorkStation 600au). When starting up, we get a machine check after initialing the qlogic SCSI code. Using the Alpha kgdb, we figured out that the code is dying in scsi_wait_request(). Here's the backtrace:

Re: DVD on Linux

2000-11-30 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Turn on UDF support under filesystems. mount -t udf /dev/foo /mnt/bar "Timothy A. DeWees" wrote: > Can someone please point me to a doc on how to mount a DVD drive. > COrrect me if I am wrong but the DVD file format is UDF? I did not see that > as an option when I compiled 2.2.17. Do I

DVD on Linux

2000-11-30 Thread Timothy A. DeWees
Hello, Can someone please point me to a doc on how to mount a DVD drive. COrrect me if I am wrong but the DVD file format is UDF? I did not see that as an option when I compiled 2.2.17. Do I need to use 2.4.0testX to mount DVD's? Thanks in advance! -- Kind Regards, Timothy A. DeWees

Re: 2.4.0-test11: es1371 mixer problems

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Schiele
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:47:25PM +0100, Dick Streefland wrote: > Dick Streefland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | 2.4.0-test11 introduced a problem with the mixer device of my SB128 > | soundcard (es1371 driver). When I start a mixer application like > | xmixer or aumix, only a small subset of

Re: TCP push missing with writev()

2000-11-30 Thread Ben Mansell
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > > The problem is that if data happens to be written via method (2), then > > the PUSH flag is never set on any packets generated. This is a bug, > > surely? > > I just tried it on 2.2.17 and 2.4.0test11 and it sets PUSH for writev() > for both cases just

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:09:37PM -0500, Christopher Friesen wrote: > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:14:47AM -0500, Christopher Friesen wrote: > > > > I think you should re-read the GPL. You only have to provide source to > > > people to whome you have distributed

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-30 Thread Christopher Friesen
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:14:47AM -0500, Christopher Friesen wrote: > > I think you should re-read the GPL. You only have to provide source to > > people to whome you have distributed your new binaries, and you only > > have to provide that source if you are asked

Re: Pls add this driver to the kernel tree !!

2000-11-30 Thread Mark Hahn
> Actually, there is some benefit in leaving the LINUX_VERSION_CODE checks > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it > much easier. Also, some people like to maintain a single driver for all > of the kernel versions, so they don't have to bugfix each driver

Re: corruption

2000-11-30 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Jonathan Hudson wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AM> In thread "File corruption part deux", Lawrence Walton wrote: > >> > >> my system has been acting slightly odd on all the pre 12 kernels > >> with the fs

SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO implemented? manpage says no, kernel yes?

2000-11-30 Thread bert hubert
Hi, I was reading the works of Stevens, and saw the very neat SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO features mentioned. Socket.7 told me that these socket options aren't implemented: SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO Specify the sending or receiving timeouts until

[RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

2000-11-30 Thread Ivan Passos
Hello, For synchronous network interfaces, besides configuring network parameters such as IP address, netmask, MTU, etc., the system should also configure parameters specific to these sync i/f's, such as media (e.g V.35, X.21, T1, E1), clock (internal or external, and value if int.), protocol

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre24

2000-11-30 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:26:43AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > Right. But the problem here was a new, unused sysctl-by-number, conflicted > with an old-but-not-integrated sysctl-by-number that is used. :) The only Who is using it? Not even the raid developers cared to take the sysctl-by-number

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

2000-11-30 Thread Miles Lane
> Try with > > *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.0-test11/cd-1.bz2 > > It should apply cleanly to test12-pre3 too. Thanks Jens. Your patch enables me to play the entire CD. However, I still get this error every time I begin playing the CD: hdc: packet command error:

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-11-30 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Andrey Savochkin wrote: > I've updated eepro100 driver for 2.4 kernel branch. > So far, the most annoying initialization problem (expressing itself in "card > reports no resources" messages) hasn't been fixed. Hi Andrey, I've been using an older EEPro100/B card until now and it's been working

Re: corruption

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan Hudson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AM> In thread "File corruption part deux", Lawrence Walton wrote: >> >> 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

Re: 'holey files' not holey enough.

2000-11-30 Thread Andreas Dilger
Adam writes: > I just did what suggested, and it seems that DU reports correct values, > I have attached 'sript' log of the above example on my filesystem. > Here are some highlights: > > [adam@pepsi /tmp]$ ls -lis holed.file > 3085069 5872 -rw-rw-r--1 adam adam 600 Nov 30 09:11

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:14:47AM -0500, Christopher Friesen wrote: > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:08:30PM +0100, Henning P . Schmiedehausen wrote: > > > > I use heavily patched kernels with lots of inhouse-stuff on a regular > > > base for my inhouse use and

Re: TCP push missing with writev()

2000-11-30 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:35:41PM +, Ben Mansell wrote: > (possibly treading on ground covered before: > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9904.1/0304.html ) > > To be brief and to the point: Should there be any difference between the > following two ways of writing data to a

TCP push missing with writev()

2000-11-30 Thread Ben Mansell
(possibly treading on ground covered before: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9904.1/0304.html ) To be brief and to the point: Should there be any difference between the following two ways of writing data to a TCP socket? 1) write( fd, buffer, length ) 2) writev( fd, {buffer,

Re: Pls add this driver to the kernel tree !!

2000-11-30 Thread Meelis Roos
JBJ> #ifdef INLINE_PCISCAN JBJ> #include "k_compat.h" JBJ> #else JBJ> #include "pci-scan.h" JBJ> #include "kern_compat.h" JBJ> #endif I quess you need to convert it to kernel PCI API first and probably also to optimize away the LINUX_VERSION_CODE checks (we know it's 2.4). -- Meelis Roos

Re: 2.4.0-test11: es1371 mixer problems

2000-11-30 Thread Dick Streefland
On Thursday 2000-11-30 18:24, Robert Schiele wrote: | On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:47:25PM +0100, Dick Streefland wrote: | > This mixer probably replaces the normal AC97 mixer device. So, in | > what situations do you need CONFIG_SOUND_TVMIXER? It would be nice if | > someone could come up with an

[patch] Re: test12-pre2

2000-11-30 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:30:03PM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote: > Doesn't boot on noritake alpha. > > It gets to POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX > and hard locks. the halt switch doesn't even work. The video card on that system turned out to have pci class PCI_CLASS_NOT_DEFINED_VGA instead

Re: Pls add this driver to the kernel tree !!

2000-11-30 Thread Tigran Aivazian
hi Dick, On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, John B. Jacobsen wrote: > /* Set the copy breakpoint for the copy-only-tiny-frames scheme. >Setting to > 1518 effectively disables this feature. */ > static int rx_copybreak = 0; A skeleton driver has a higher responsibility than just "a driver" and thus needs

Pls add this driver to the kernel tree !!

2000-11-30 Thread John B. Jacobsen
/* winbond-840.c: A Linux PCI network adapter skeleton device driver. */ /* Written 1998-2000 by Donald Becker. This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), incorporated herein by reference. Drivers

Re: [PATCH] New user space serial port driver

2000-11-30 Thread Russell King
Rogier Wolff writes: > Documentation bug. Not code bug. In which case, can we put it in as a documentation fix rather than changing the compiler output? ie, /* = { NULL, } */ ? _ |_| - ---+---+- | | Russell King

Re[2]: DMA for triton again...

2000-11-30 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
> I'll see how mangled my .config is. > Looks somewhat clean, a few modules i don't use. I'll send it in a > seperate email. Thanks a lot, Mike! I can see couple of differences already, will try tonight... and will let you know tomorrow... Cheers Guennadi - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] New user space serial port driver

2000-11-30 Thread Rogier Wolff
Russell King wrote: > Rogier Wolff writes: > > > > +static struct termios* ussp_termios[USSP_MAX_PORTS]; > > > > +static struct termios* ussp_termios_locked[USSP_MAX_PORTS]; > > > > this SHOULD mean that these are first initialized before use. > > > > If you think they can be used

Re: high load & poor interactivity on fast thread creation

2000-11-30 Thread James A Sutherland
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Arnaud Installe wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:47:49AM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote: > > The IBM implementations of the Java language use native threads -- > > the result is that every time you do a Java thread creation, you > > end up with a new cloned process. Now this

Re: PROBLEM: do_try_free_pages failed for python

2000-11-30 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:06:55PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > still had lots of swap free, this may mean that VM > in 2.2 still has some bugs left ... I guess it's the free_before_allocate band-aid that hurts in 2.2. That subtle race condition is fixed efficiently in VM-global with per-process

Re: high load & poor interactivity on fast thread creation

2000-11-30 Thread Arnaud Installe
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:47:49AM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote: > The IBM implementations of the Java language use native threads -- > the result is that every time you do a Java thread creation, you > end up with a new cloned process. Now this should be pretty fast, Well, I think the problem is

Re: DMA for triton again...

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Dresser
Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Thanks! > > > Chipset is a 430FX, Same hard drive as what you have. Pentium > 133, 48 meg ram. >Kernel 2.2.17 with raid patch, and ide patch. > > I don't think I need tha raid patch, do I? No, its just left overs from my playing with a Promise Ultra/66 card.

Re: high load & poor interactivity on fast thread creation

2000-11-30 Thread Alan Cox
> 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. Also probably the Java implementation on NT is not creating true threads for each java thread as the IBM java

Re: PROBLEM: do_try_free_pages failed for python

2000-11-30 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Bob Tanner wrote: > [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. The important thing to know here is if you had swap free

[PATCH]: 2.4.0-test11: sound drivers, again

2000-11-30 Thread Tjeerd Mulder
In http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2000-47/0343.html Thomas Sailer posted a patch to some ac97 sound drivers. Because this patch is not in 2.4.0-test12-pre2 I post the same patch again with some additions where the same bug does occur. The bug is that dma buffer are not yet

Re: TCP header bits set in reserved space

2000-11-30 Thread Alan Cox
> 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: ECN > can see from one that is are these two bits. RFC793 says they must be zero. > Is 793 still current? Has anyone else seen this?

Re: [PATCH] New user space serial port driver

2000-11-30 Thread Russell King
Rogier Wolff writes: > > > +static struct termios* ussp_termios[USSP_MAX_PORTS]; > > > +static struct termios* ussp_termios_locked[USSP_MAX_PORTS]; > > this SHOULD mean that these are first initialized before use. > > If you think they can be used before first being initialized by the

Re[2]: DMA for triton again...

2000-11-30 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Thanks! > Chipset is a 430FX, Same hard drive as what you have. Pentium > 133, 48 meg ram. >Kernel 2.2.17 with raid patch, and ide patch. I don't think I need tha raid patch, do I? > Shares the ide cable with a WDC 850 meg drive as slave. No slaves on mine. > What brand is your

IDE_TAPE problem wiht ONSTREAM DI30

2000-11-30 Thread Eckhard Jokisch
Hello, I tried the ide-tape driver for several weeks now. And after some time during writing or reading tar stops because of errors. Error messages are: Nov 30 15:32:20 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 8, key = 0, asc = 0, ascq = 2 Nov 30 15:32:25 eckhard last message repeated 1000

Re: DMA for triton again...

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Dresser
> computer: Chipset 430FX / Triton / PIIX, disk Western Digital Caviar AC21600H >Firmware code F6 (no UDMA, some WD docs show DMA mw2, some PIO4...), kernel 2.2.17 >with ide patch and PIIX enabled, DMA by default, generic DMA, and couple others. Did >not try 'bad DMA-firmware (EXPERIMENTAL)'.

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-30 Thread Christopher Friesen
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:08:30PM +0100, Henning P . Schmiedehausen wrote: > > I use heavily patched kernels with lots of inhouse-stuff on a regular > > base for my inhouse use and there is _no_ way for you to even get a > > glimpse at it. I don't give this to

trident module in 2.2.17-21 crashes for Ali5451

2000-11-30 Thread Archan Paul
Hi, I have the following soundcard in my ToshibaDynabook(db45) model of laptop. Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]|M5451 PCI South Bridge Audio (MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO unknown) SubVendor=0x1179 SubDevice=0x0003 Till the date, I was using 2.2.16kernel typically compiled for RH7. To enable the sound card, I

DMA for triton again...

2000-11-30 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Hello everybody I know this subject has been discussed multiple times already, I've read a lot of posts about it, but still haven't been able to fix my particular case. So, here we go: computer: Chipset 430FX / Triton / PIIX, disk Western Digital Caviar AC21600H Firmware code F6 (no UDMA,

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