Re: 2.4.1 swaps hardware addresses for ethernet cards

2001-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
al goldstein wrote: > > I have 2 ether cards 59x (eth0) and 509 (eth1). I have been adding 509 > at boot in lilo.conf. Using this same config in 2.4.1 results in > the hardware addresses for the cards to be swapped. If I remove 509 from > Lilo I get the same result. Suggestions would be appreciat

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: >> >Is there a mail reader nowadays that doesn't let you do some sort of >> >filtering? >> >> He uses Elm, which as far as I know is obsolete, unmaintained and >> full of bugs and even has Y2K problems. That is the last I heard >> anyway. Alan Cox would like

Re: 2.2.19pre10 doesn't compile on alphas (sunrpc)

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> volunteer to backport all the `safe' definitions from 2.4.x) would be > to add the generic `*(int *)0 = 0' definition for local use by ping() > itself. *(int *)0 doesnt work for all ports either I'd rather let people suffer a little and fix BUG 8) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> Suppose there's I/O to the physical page P asynchronously, and the > page is placed in the swap cache. It remains cache entry, say, > indexed kernel virtual address K. Then, process maps P at U. U and K > (may) indexes differently. The process will get the data from memory > (not the one in

Re: PCI bridge handling 2.4.0-test10 -> 2.4.2-pre3

2001-02-13 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:38:15AM +0100, Adam Lackorzynski wrote: Hi Adam! > On Mon Feb 12, 2001 at 14:04:20 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > I've got a "Bull Express5800/Series" (dual P3) with a DAC1164 RAID > > controller. The mainboard is ServerWorks based and however, 2.4.2-pre3 > > fail

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > >Is there a mail reader nowadays that doesn't let you do some sort of > >filtering? > > He uses Elm, which as far as I know is obsolete, unmaintained and > full of bugs and even has Y2K problems. That is the last I heard > anyway. Alan Cox would

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> PS. This only happens on this Dell latitude CPx (notice lost shift in > Latitude?) H450GT. > > PPS. No, my laptop is fine -- rebootingnto 2.2.x makes it type without > loosing characters... 2.2 and 2.4 handle keyboard error cases quite differently (less so as of 2.2.18) When you say 2.2.x wor

Re: [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug

2001-02-13 Thread Russell King
NIIBE Yutaka writes: > My case (SH-4) is: virtual address indexed, physical address tagged cache > (which has alias issue). vivt caches have the same alias issue. > Suppose there's I/O to the physical page P asynchronously, and the > page is placed in the swap cache. Unless someone else (Rik/Da

Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600

2001-02-13 Thread James Sutherland
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > That's the whole crux of the matter. For something like this, you *will* > > drop data under certain circumstances. I suspect it's better to have > > this done in a controlled manner, rather than stop completely, which is > > what TCP would do. > > Why

Serial Console and plam (was: Where are you going with 2.4.x?)

2001-02-13 Thread ehrhardt
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:32:39PM +0100, I wrote: > I wrote a little palm app some time ago that can capture serial > console output. If anyone is interested I'll build a tar ball with > sources and binary. It is now availiable at http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/~ehrhardt/serial/ Sorry for the

Re: [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug

2001-02-13 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
Russell King wrote: > What was the problem? The old code seems to behave well on a virtual > address indexed virtual address tagged cache. My case (SH-4) is: virtual address indexed, physical address tagged cache (which has alias issue). Suppose there's I/O to the physical page P asynchronous

Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> That's the whole crux of the matter. For something like this, you *will* > drop data under certain circumstances. I suspect it's better to have > this done in a controlled manner, rather than stop completely, which is > what TCP would do. Why do you plan to drop data ? That seems unneccessary

USB mouse jumping

2001-02-13 Thread Elmer Joandi
I dont know, if it is bug or feature, but, USB mouse jumps around (between) /dev/input/mouse0 and mouse1 when taken out and put back in(to same connector), 2.4.0 kernel. Annoys, should not be the default behaviour, IMHO. elmer. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: 2.2.19pre10 doesn't compile on alphas (sunrpc)

2001-02-13 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Trond Myklebust ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 13 February 2001 10:56: >--- net/sunrpc/ping.c.origTue Feb 13 10:47:20 2001 >+++ net/sunrpc/ping.c Tue Feb 13 10:50:03 2001 ** Oops, the BUG() call appears in xprt.c! Here's a patch that makes it compile. Let's see if it runs

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Sven Koch wrote: >> That said, and while we're on the topic.. Does anyone have a >> *PERFECT* recipe for procmail to REMOVE the stupid [Dummy] things >> most GNU mailman lists and others prepend to the subject? > >I am using the following to sort the suse-security-list (for e

Re: SO_RCVTIMEO, SO_SNDTIMEO

2001-02-13 Thread Steve Whitehouse
Hi, They are the maximum amount of time that a send or receive call will block for. The standard socket error returns apply, so if data has been sent or received, then the return value will be the amount of data transferred; if no data has been transferred and the timeout has been reached then -1

Re: 2.2.19pre10 doesn't compile on alphas (sunrpc)

2001-02-13 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Trond Myklebust ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 13 February 2001 10:56: >Actually, since BUG() only seems to be defined on i386 platforms for >2.2.x, perhaps the easiest thing to do (unless somebody wants to >volunteer to backport all the `safe' definitions from 2.4.x) would be >to add the generi

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Sven Koch
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Mike A. Harris wrote: [cc-list trimmed] > That said, and while we're on the topic.. Does anyone have a > *PERFECT* recipe for procmail to REMOVE the stupid [Dummy] things > most GNU mailman lists and others prepend to the subject? I am using the following to sort the suse-s

Re: [PATCH] guard mm->rss with page_table_lock (241p11)

2001-02-13 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:15:57PM -0800, george anzinger wrote: > Excuse me if I am off base here, but wouldn't an atomic operation be > better here. There are atomic inc/dec and add/sub macros for this. It > just seems that that is all that is needed here (from inspection of the > patch).

[?] __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed.

2001-02-13 Thread Krzysztof Rusocki
Hi, Here's what i've found today in logs: Feb 13 02:10:41 main kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed. Feb 13 02:10:42 main last message repeated 143 times Feb 13 02:10:47 main kernel: ed. Feb 13 02:10:47 main kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed. Feb 13 02:50:30 main s

Re: 2.2.19pre10 doesn't compile on alphas (sunrpc)

2001-02-13 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> net/network.a(sunrpc.o): In function `xprt_ping_reserve': >> sunrpc.o(.text+0x4b94): undefined reference to `BUG' >> sunrpc.o(.text+0x4b98): undefined reference to `BUG' >> >> Looks like a problem in Trond's patches, also it

Re: [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug

2001-02-13 Thread Russell King
Marcelo Tosatti writes: > If lookup_swap_cache() finds a page in the swap cache, and that page was > in memory because of the swapin readahead, the cache is not flushed. > > Here is a patch to fix the problem by always flushing the cache including > for pages in the swap cache: > - > -

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Dr. David Gilbert
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Hi, > > I amtyping this without correcting -- allthe lost characters you see > (including spaces!) are exactly what the pseudo-tty driver does! This is > 2.4.1 a it definitely (oh, see "nd" of the ave "and" disappeared? and > "above" turned into "ave"

Re: IRQ conflicts

2001-02-13 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi Brian. I'm sorry, patch itself was not attached in previous post :( Best regards. -- Andrey Panin| Embedded systems software engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]| PGP key: http://www.orbita1.ru/~pazke/AndreyPanin.asc --- /linux/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c.orig Mon Feb 12 02

Re: IRQ conflicts

2001-02-13 Thread Andrey Panin
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 07:06:52PM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > > > ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20010208] > > > ACPI: SCI (IRQ9) allocation failed > > > ACPI: Subsystem enable failed > > > Trying to free free IRQ9 > > > > That seems to indicate acpi is freeing a fre

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > PPS. No, my laptop is fine -- rebootingnto 2.2.x makes it type without > loosing characters... > just to clarify -- it does _not_ add characters -- the "loosing" vs "losing" thing is my own frequent typo :) Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list

lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi, I amtyping this without correcting -- allthe lost characters you see (including spaces!) are exactly what the pseudo-tty driver does! This is 2.4.1 a it definitely (oh, see "nd" of the ave "and" disappeared? and "above" turned into "ave"!) did work fine previously -- like in the days of 2.3.9

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Matthew D. Pitts wrote: >Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:05:34 -0500 >From: Matthew D. Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Mohammad A. Haque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Harrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Subject: Re:

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: >Is there a mail reader nowadays that doesn't let you do some sort of >filtering? He uses Elm, which as far as I know is obsolete, unmaintained and full of bugs and even has Y2K problems. That is the last I heard anyway. Alan Cox would likely know

Re: [LK] Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Mike Harrold wrote: >> Those would all be your problems and I would suggest using a different account >> for mail then. > >Out of interest, how would that solve anything? So I use an ISP instead. >Then I have to download all my mail to home to read it. Talk about a >total was

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Mike Harrold wrote: >> Use procmail, that's what it's there for (and it won't affect your mail >> reader, as long as you're using something reasonably sensible). I filter >> on Sender. > >Maybe I don't *want* the LKML messages in a seperate folder. >Maybe I just want to ident

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Mike Harrold wrote: >> > There are advantages: distinguish personal messages from mailing list >> > messages, and distinguish between different mailing lists. And >> > disadvantages - maybe only one: sacrificing valuable Subject: line >> > space. >> >> The advantages can all

Re: gzipped executables

2001-02-13 Thread ketil
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 23:09:39 -0600 (CST) Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there any kernel patch that would allow Linux to properly recognize, >and execute gzipped executables? > >I know I could use binfmt_misc to run a wrapper script: > >decompress to /tmp/prog.decompressed

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