Re: VIA audio and parport in 2.4.2

2001-03-16 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Will Newton wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: > > > > I don't know why it prints it twice. > > > > Looks like the module is getting loaded, then unloaded, then loaded > > again. Perhaps because of module autocleaning? > > Could be, but the final lp0 line is only

measurement

2001-03-16 Thread gis88530
Hello, I use PSCHED_GET_TIME(stamp) to measure the delay of some kernel function. function_name( ) { int psched_clock_scale; psched_time_t stamp1, stamp2; psched_tdiff_t delay; PSCHED_GET_TIME(stamp1); PSCHED_GET_TIME(stamp2); delay=PSCHED_TDIFF(stamp2, stamp1); printk(KERN_INFO "[%ld], [%ld],

Potential free/use-after-free bugs

2001-03-16 Thread Seth Andrew Hallem
Hello, I am another student of Dawson Engler's working on the meta-level compilation project. I have just finished processing the results of a checker which looks for double frees and use-after-frees. I think we have found 12-14 bugs. I also have some questions regarding skbs. Our checker fou

[CHECKER] 28 potential interrupt errors

2001-03-16 Thread Junfeng Yang
Hi, Here are yet more results from the MC project. This checker looks for inconsistent usage of interrupt functions. For example, it notices when interrupts can be either on or off when a function exits. It tracks cli(), sti(), save_flags() and so forth. We've hand-inspected the results to en

Re: parport not detected

2001-03-16 Thread Michael B. Allen
Yup! nano kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP,PS2,EPP] nano kernel: parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6L I setup everything as you describe below. I don't remember having to do all this stuff before(on other machines anyway). I guess I'm used to RH's fluffed-up stock ke

[CHECKER] 16 potential locking bugs in 2.4.1

2001-03-16 Thread Andy Chou
Here are some more results from the MC project. These are 16 errors found in 2.4.1 related to inconsistent use of locks. As usual, if you can verify any of these or show that they are false positives, please let us know by CC'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Andy Chou PS. I noticed that many of the loc

oops in 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread John R Lenton
What the subject says. I copied the oops by hand, but the output of ksymoops doesn't seem too totally wrong, so I guess I didn't botch it :) I can't blame the box; I was about to Aiee myself, radeonfb is so slow. ksymoops output: ---8< ksymoops 2.3.7 on i686 2.4.2-ac20. Options used

Re: [CHECKER] big stack variables

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > ObUML: something fishy happens in UML with multiple exec() in PID 1. > Try to say "telinit u" (or just boot with init=/bin/sh and say exec / > sbin/init) and you've got a nice panic()... ObFix: This is fixed in my current CVS. If you're not so desperate for the fix,

Re: [PATCH] Improved version reporting

2001-03-16 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Andries.Brouwer writes: >> From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > +o Console Tools # 0.3.3# loadkeys -V > +o Mount # 2.10e# mount --version Concerning mount: (i) the version mention

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Patrick Mansfield wrote: > > If your testing Doug's patch, it might be a good idea to run with/without > your adapter built as a module, as the kernel is inconsistent in its setting > of "online" in scsi.c: it sets online TRUE after an attach in > scsi_register_device_module(), but leaves online

Re: observations with asus cuv4x-d

2001-03-16 Thread William Park
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:08:19AM +0100, Oliver Paukstadt wrote: > HY HY > > I changed my motherboard to a asus cuv4x-d with 2 PIII-800. > > With MPS 1.4 enabled (BIOS), i'll get > probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a > motherboard (linux/arch/i386/kernel/

Re: [PATCH]: Only one memory zone for sparc64

2001-03-16 Thread Anton Blanchard
> I'd be surprised if dbench was anything other than disk-bound on most > systems. On any of my machines, the standard error of a single dbench > run is *way* larger than 1%, and I'd expect to have to run the > benchmark a dozen times to get a confidence interval small enough to > detect a 1% p

Re: [RFC/Patch] Device Registry

2001-03-16 Thread David Lang
Tim, what is it that this is designed to do that devfs doesn't (or can't) do? David Lang On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Tim Jansen wrote: > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 03:10:33 +0100 > From: Tim Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [RFC/Patch] Device Registry > > RFC: Linux Device Reg

Re: parport not detected

2001-03-16 Thread Tim Moore
> The parallel port is not being detected on my ABIT KT7A KT133 w/ Athlon Also try comp.os.linux.hardware. BIOS 278/irq5 378/irq7 EPP 1.9 .config --- CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PRINTER=y CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y kernal boot params --

Re: Kernel 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Ted Gervais
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Keith Owens wrote: Thanks Keith for your note. I will check out your 'points' and see what happens. Anything is possible.. > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:57:36 +1100 > From: Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.2-ac20

[RFC/Patch] Device Registry

2001-03-16 Thread Tim Jansen
RFC: Linux Device Registry == Summary --- The device registry provides a /proc file in text format that contains a list of all connected physical devices. Each list entry includes (as far as available) the name and vendor of the device, its location/topological infor

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Ishikawa
Doug Ledford wrote: > It would still be helpful because this problem has to be fixed before 2.5. > The only question is whether to fix it with a simple patch such as I just > submitted, or a more complex patch that uses REPORT LUNs. Part of that answer > is how my simple patch works on your devic

Re: Kernel 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:40:42 -0400 (AST), Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >unix:/etc# insmod soundmodem >Using /lib/modules/2.4.2-ac20/kernel/drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/soundmodem.o >/lib/modules/2.4.2-ac20/kernel/drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/soundmodem.o: >unresolved symbol hdlcd

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Doug Ledford
Patrick Mansfield wrote: > If your testing Doug's patch, it might be a good idea to run with/without > your adapter built as a module, as the kernel is inconsistent in its setting > of "online" in scsi.c: it sets online TRUE after an attach in > scsi_register_device_module(), but leaves online as

Re: IDE poweroff -> hangup

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, CODEZ wrote: > Andrew wrote. Oh and and it is "Andre" with an accent grav > > All of the 440*X Chipsets using a PIIX4/PIIX4AB/PIIX4EB are broken beyond > > repair. Several weeks ago, the old hat and I discussed the issue and > > after sending him the same docs

Announce: ksymoops 2.4.1 is available

2001-03-16 Thread Keith Owens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mirror at ftp://ftp..kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/v2.4 ksymoops-2.4.1.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file ksymoops-2.4.1-1.src.rpmAs above, in SRPM format ksymoops-

Re: [PATCH] Improved version reporting

2001-03-16 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> {Shrug} Thinking isn't sufficient - check your facts. Poor Riley, Probably I should not answer, I think you know all the facts already. But just to be sure: (i) There are two different packages, kbd and a forked version, console-tools. Both contain roughly the same programs. In your earlier m

Re: Cannot delete dir

2001-03-16 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Neal Gieselman wrote: >Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:42:40 -0600 >From: Neal Gieselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain >Subject: Cannot delete dir > >Excuse me, but can anyone tell me how I might delete a directory on a Redhat >6.1 ext2 file >

Re: IDE poweroff -> hangup

2001-03-16 Thread CODEZ
Andrew wrote. > All of the 440*X Chipsets using a PIIX4/PIIX4AB/PIIX4EB are broken beyond > repair. Several weeks ago, the old hat and I discussed the issue and > after sending him the same docs I have from Intel, we both laugh because > the errata clear states "NO FIX" Well andrew, I y

Re: [Acpi] [PATCH] USB suspend when no devices attached

2001-03-16 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001, Grover, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a preliminary patch against 2.4.2 to uhci.c that puts the host > controller into global suspend when there are no devices attached. This > conserves power on mobile systems, and because suspending the host > controller cease

[PATCH] USB suspend when no devices attached

2001-03-16 Thread Grover, Andrew
Hi all. This is a preliminary patch against 2.4.2 to uhci.c that puts the host controller into global suspend when there are no devices attached. This conserves power on mobile systems, and because suspending the host controller ceases UHCI's incessant busmastering activity, it allows the CPU to

observations with asus cuv4x-d

2001-03-16 Thread Oliver Paukstadt
HY HY I changed my motherboard to a asus cuv4x-d with 2 PIII-800. With MPS 1.4 enabled (BIOS), i'll get probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard (linux/arch/i386/kernel/time.c) I use 2.4.2-ac20 Disabling MPS1.4 causes the Board to work without any

Re: New ld must have --oformat instead of -oformat ?

2001-03-16 Thread davej
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Michael Bacarella wrote: > Riding the bleeding edge of debian leaves some interesting tastes. > The line 'ld: cannot open binary: No such file or directory' is puzzling. > The Makefile only has one dash. Changing -oformat to --oformat in > arch/i386/boot/Makefile builds the k

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Patrick Mansfield
> > I applied the first hunk to version 2.4.3-pre4, as by email with Doug. > The output for the scsi devices follows and is identical with and > without the patch. Maybe someone can explain the meaning of the illegal > requests at the end. Nevertheless, I can use the drive fine. > If your testi

Re: kernel 2.4.2 network performances

2001-03-16 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:42:37PM +0200, Sampsa Ranta wrote: > Yesterday I discovered that the load I can throw out to network seems to > depend on other activities running on machine. I was able to get > throughput of 33M/s with ATM when machine was idle, while I compiled > kernel at same time,

[Fwd: problems compiling scsi_ioctl on kernels later 2.4.1]

2001-03-16 Thread Erik van Asselt
make -C scsi make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi' make -C aic7xxx make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx' make all_targets make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx' ld -m elf_i386 -r -o aic7xxx_mod.o aic7xxx_linux.o aic7xxx_li

Re: Oops 0000 and 0002 on dual PIII 750 2.4.2 SMP platform

2001-03-16 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Shane Y. Gibson wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > Can you please try to reproduce it with the following patch against 2.4.2? > > Marcelo (et al), > > I'll give it a whirl with the patch. Should I also > try setting `nmi_watchdog=0' in lilo.conf, as Andrew > Morton s

New ld must have --oformat instead of -oformat ?

2001-03-16 Thread Michael Bacarella
Riding the bleeding edge of debian leaves some interesting tastes. Here's one: [..much of build process omitted..] make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' gcc -E -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bbootsec

parport not detected

2001-03-16 Thread Michael B. Allen
The parallel port is not being detected on my ABIT KT7A KT133 w/ Athlon 900 running 2.2.17 w/ Hendricks IDE patches and RH 6.2. I tried most of the settings in the bios. BIOS options are: 728/IRQ5 378/IRQ7 3BC/IRQ7 with the possible modes: Normal EPP 1.9 or 1.7 ECP DMA 3 or 1

Re: [PATCH] Improved version reporting

2001-03-16 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Andries. > Neither am I - but, according to comments from RedHat a while back, > they repackage mount separately because they provide a NEWER version > of mount than is in the util-linux package. This will ALSO result in > `mount --version` giving the wrong answer... > Th

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Khalid Aziz
"Rafael E. Herrera" wrote: > > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x xa/form2 changer > sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. > sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x xa/form2 changer > sr1: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. > sr2: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x xa/form2 changer > sr2: CDROM (ioctl) reports

Re: pivot_root & linuxrc problem

2001-03-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Aha.. so that's it. I've never been able to get /linuxrc to execute > automagically. I wonder why /linuxrc executes on Art's system, but > not on mine. I can call it whatever I want and it doesn't run unless > I explicitly start it with init=whatever.

Re: kernel 2.4.2 network performances

2001-03-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Yesterday I discovered that the load I can throw out to network seems to > depend on other activities running on machine. I was able to get > throughput of 33M/s with ATM when machine was idle, while I compiled > kernel at same time, the throughput was 1

RE: fork and pthreads

2001-03-16 Thread Laramie Leavitt
> Nitin Sane Wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:52:26PM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote: > > > Well, using pthreads and forking in them seems to trigger libc > > > bugs (read: SIGSEGvs) here under certain conditions (happens, > > > after I introduced signal handlers and using pthread_sigmask, > >

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Doug Ledford
"Rafael E. Herrera" wrote: > > I applied the first hunk to version 2.4.3-pre4, as by email with Doug. > The output for the scsi devices follows and is identical with and > without the patch. Thank you Rafael. This is what I suspected. I'm not sure when we starting considering devices with a pe

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
I applied the first hunk to version 2.4.3-pre4, as by email with Doug. The output for the scsi devices follows and is identical with and without the patch. Maybe someone can explain the meaning of the illegal requests at the end. Nevertheless, I can use the drive fine. Loading module aic7xxx_old

X freeze/ kernel 4.2/ gnome/ alpha LX164

2001-03-16 Thread Mark Hansel
Does this belong elsewhere? outline follows, details available. I have a series of log entries that look like this: got res[:] for resource X of One device was the 21140 chip on my ethernet card. A few were for the matrox video card. Symptoms were frozen keyboard, but able to g

PATCH against 2.4.2: TTY hangup on PPP channel corrupts kernel memory

2001-03-16 Thread Kevin Buhr
Linus: This one was tough to find. I think I triggered it maybe four times over the space of six months and almost chalked it up to an electrical problem with the modem. If there's a hangup in the TTY layer on an async PPP channel, do_tty_hangup shuts down the PPP line discipline, and, in ppp_a

Re: UDP stop transmitting packets!!!

2001-03-16 Thread Craig Milo Rogers
>In fact, the current choice is optimal. If the problem is that we are >being hit with too many packets too quickly, the most desirable course >of action is the one which requires the least amount of computing >power. Doing nothing to the receive queue is better than trying to >"dequeue" some of

RE: UDP stop transmitting packets!!!

2001-03-16 Thread David S. Miller
Mathieu Giguere (LMC) writes: > Thanks for your answer. > We will have a patch internally to handle this protection. I would like to clarify my statements: > > -Original Message- > > From: David S. Miller [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Subject: RE: UDP stop transmitting packet

RE: UDP stop transmitting packets!!!

2001-03-16 Thread David S. Miller
Mathieu Giguere (LMC) writes: > Ok fine to live with that for security reason, but the socket will be dead > for ever! (the only way to remove it is to reboot the machine) If you kill the application, the queue is emptied and tossed by the kernel. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - T

RE: UDP stop transmitting packets!!!

2001-03-16 Thread Mathieu Giguere (LMC)
Ok fine to live with that for security reason, but the socket will be dead for ever! (the only way to remove it is to reboot the machine) Can be possible to have a timer when the queue is full (something like 1 minute) to wait before dequeueing all of it and retrying to continue to process request

RE: UDP stop transmitting packets!!!

2001-03-16 Thread Mathieu Giguere (LMC)
Thanks for your answer. We will have a patch internally to handle this protection. /mathieu > -Original Message- > From: David S. Miller [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:46 PM > To: Mathieu Giguere (LMC) > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Claude LeFrancois (LMC) > Su

Re: UDP stop transmitting packets!!!

2001-03-16 Thread David S. Miller
Mathieu Giguere (LMC) writes: > The problem with the previous code, when the queue become full (for any > reason) you don't try to de-queue packet form it. That is right, UDP is an unreliable transport so it doesn't matter which packets we drop in such a case. In fact, the current choice is o

UDP stop transmitting packets!!!

2001-03-16 Thread Mathieu Giguere (LMC)
Hi all, I will try to explain your the situation of test: kernel 2.2.17 (yeah an old one but the goal of this comments is for future kernel to remove this littel bug) You need to stress your network (4 pings in fload mode with packet size of 125 bytes should do the thing) And you pass some traff

[patch] ip_dynaddr re-enable

2001-03-16 Thread Xuan Baldauf
Hello, about one or two months ago, I had the problem that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr did not work. I analyzed the problem and somehow came to a solution which I have forgotten. But a patch which solved the problem against 2.4.1 which also works for 2.4.2-pre4 remained. Here it is. Xuân.

Locking question (was: [CHECKER] 9 potential copy_*_user bugs in2.4.1)

2001-03-16 Thread Nigel Gamble
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Dawson Engler wrote: > 2. And, unrelated: given the current locking discipline, is > it bad to hold any type of lock (not just a spin lock) when you > call a potentially blocking function? (It at least seems bad > for performance, since you'll hold t

Re: [PATCH]: Only one memory zone for sparc64

2001-03-16 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:13:52PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > On sparc64 we dont care about the different memory zones and iterating > through them all over the place only serves to waste CPU. I suspect this > would be the case with some other architectures but for the moment I > have

Re: changing mm->mmap_sem (was: Re: system call for process information?)

2001-03-16 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:50:25AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > Write locks would be used in the code where we actually want > > > to change the VMA list and page faults would use an extra lock > > > to protect against each other (possib

Re: 2.4.2/2.4.3-pre4 IDE DMA problems w/ PDC20267+IBM DTLA

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
Because you disabled the PIIX3 the PDC20267 stole the interrupt 14. That is a special interrupt for legacy. test243-pdc20267-dma-module What he heck is dma-module? That is not allowed, what have you modified? If you want to to help I require the entire effected source and corresponding extras,

2.4.2/2.4.3-pre4 IDE DMA problems w/ PDC20267+IBM DTLA

2001-03-16 Thread Henrik Størner
I am struggling to get an IBM DTLA-307045 drive attached to a promise pdc20267 controller to work in DMA mode. Right now, whenever I enable a DMA mode, I get timeouts when accessing the drive. I am using an 80-pin cable, that came with the Promise controller. Mar 16 20:57:43 ask kernel: Unifo

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Peter Rival
Doug, could you check how this patch works if you have the qla2x00 installed in an Alpha box? I'm hoping this is part of the source of my problems, but I'm not positive. (I'd do it, but my system is running benchmarks for the next several days.) Thanks! - Pete Doug Ledford wrote: > Ishikawa

Re: IDE UDMA on a CMD-648 Chip

2001-03-16 Thread davej
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, John Heil wrote: > I've acquired a UDMA66 capable IDE card with a CMD-648 chip, > which is supposed to provide me with ide2 and ide3. > ide2 is empty and ide3 has a writeable cdrom and an IDE zip > drive on it. > However, it indicates that since it... > 'Can't find a UDMA66 c

VIA686B + 2.2.18 (was: VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20)

2001-03-16 Thread William Park
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:42:26AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Okay not to worry, I now have a my hands on a VIA 686B and will look > at the changes that happened to the VIA686A > > Have you run 2.2.18 plus my patches off kernel.org? Hi Andre, I'm running 2.2.18 on VIA686B (ABit VP6). So

Re: VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
Yes you should try because there is a fundamental difference in design of VIA between 2.2.x + patches and 2.4.x On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Kirill Kozmin wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Okay not to worry, I now have a my hands on a VIA 686B and will look at > > the changes that happened to the V

gcc-2.95.3 release

2001-03-16 Thread Art Boulatov
Hi, gcc-2.95.3 has just been released. Could it be used for kernel compilation, or still better stick with gcc-2.91.66 for "absolute stability"? Thanks, Art. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

Re: IDE UDMA on a CMD-648 Chip

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
Unless you have patches for 2.2 kernels most addon hosts will not be seen. On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, John Heil wrote: > > I've acquired a UDMA66 capable IDE card with a CMD-648 chip, > which is supposed to provide me with ide2 and ide3. > > ide2 is empty and ide3 has a writeable cdrom and an IDE z

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Doug Ledford
Ishikawa wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an "old" Nakamichi CD changer. > ("old" might be important consideration here. ) > > Should I test the patch submitted and report what I found ? > (Or maybe I don't have to bother at this stage at all > and simply wait for the 2.5 development and debugging cy

Re: [CHECKER] 9 potential copy_*_user bugs in 2.4.1

2001-03-16 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:06:48AM +, David Woodhouse wrote: > Nice work - thanks. One request though, to you and anyone else doing such > cleanups - please could you list the affected files separately near the > beginning of your mail, so that people can tell at a glance whether there's > any

IDE UDMA on a CMD-648 Chip

2001-03-16 Thread John Heil
I've acquired a UDMA66 capable IDE card with a CMD-648 chip, which is supposed to provide me with ide2 and ide3. ide2 is empty and ide3 has a writeable cdrom and an IDE zip drive on it. At boot up, the card's bios scan recognizes the cdrom and zip as master and slave on its secondary ide i/f, w

Re: [PATCH] fix a bug in ioctl(CDROMREADAUDIO) in cdrom.c in 2.2

2001-03-16 Thread David Mansfield
Pierre Etchemaite wrote: > > Le 14-Mar-2001, Jani Jaakkola écrivait : > > > > Using ioctl(CDROMREADAUDIO) with nframes argument being larger than 8 and > > not divisible by 8 causes kernel to read and return more audio data than > > was requested. This is bad since it clobbers up processes memory

Re: VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Kirill Kozmin
Andre Hedrick wrote: > Okay not to worry, I now have a my hands on a VIA 686B and will look at > the changes that happened to the VIA686A > > Have you run 2.2.18 plus my patches off kernel.org? > No, I didn't run it. Whould I? -- ** Sincerely yours Kirill Kozmin E-mail

Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

2001-03-16 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, David Weinehall wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:07:17PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > Sure. With all its holes and illetarate C. > > ^ > >

Re: Re[2]: VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
Okay not to worry, I now have a my hands on a VIA 686B and will look at the changes that happened to the VIA686A Have you run 2.2.18 plus my patches off kernel.org? On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, kozkir-8 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: MD5 > > It wouldn't be a problem if after thes

Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

2001-03-16 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:07:17PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > > [snip] > > > Sure. With all its holes and illetarate C. > ^ > e > Apparently, rule about typos in spelling f

Re[2]: VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread kozkir-8
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 It wouldn't be a problem if after these messages fsck wouldn't have found errors in FS. AH> I am so tired of this report, I am about to hide these in a /dev/null AH> It is a nothing message. And if the via-core is correct it will auto down AH> grade

Re: [CHECKER] big stack variables

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Erm... That piece is UML-only. Correct, thanks for noticing that. I was a bit over-enthusiastic with my cutting and pasting. Ignore that bit. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

2001-03-16 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Richard Guenther wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > The release notes specify this: > > > > > > mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc > > > > > > but this doesn't work because >

Re: fork and pthreads

2001-03-16 Thread Craig Ruff
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:52:26PM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote: > Well, using pthreads and forking in them seems to trigger libc > bugs (read: SIGSEGvs) here under certain conditions (happens, > after I introduced signal handlers and using pthread_sigmask, > I think), so hangs should be definite

Re: VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, kozkir-8 wrote: > > Kernel 2.4.2 with ac20 patch seems doesn't like my motherboard > I have FIC SD11 with VIA686A chipset. I compiled it with support of > VIA82Cxxx and DMA support by default. First it seemed like work but > after a while I started to get errors like these:

RE: fork and pthreads

2001-03-16 Thread Sane, Purushottam
I am not using any signals. All the signals are blocked with SIG_IGN Nitin Sane [EMAIL PROTECTED] *(508)382-7319 -Original Message- From: Craig Ruff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 1:03 PM To: Richard Guenther Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

2001-03-16 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: [snip] > Sure. With all its holes and illetarate C. ^ e Apparently, rule about typos in spelling flame are not limited to natural languages... - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: fork and pthreads

2001-03-16 Thread Richard Guenther
Hi! Well, using pthreads and forking in them seems to trigger libc bugs (read: SIGSEGvs) here under certain conditions (happens, after I introduced signal handlers and using pthread_sigmask, I think), so hangs should be definitely possible, too... Richard. On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

2001-03-16 Thread Richard Guenther
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The release notes specify this: > > > > mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc > > > > but this doesn't work because > > > > mount: mount point /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc does not

problems compiling scsi_ioctl on kernels later 2.4.1

2001-03-16 Thread Erik van Asselt
i tried to compile linux-2.4.3-pre4 on a redhat and suse machine with different gcc's egcs 1.1.2 ,gcc 2.96 and gcc 2.95 but all get stuck on compiling scsi_ioctl in kernel or as module does anyone have an idea? machine's : -pentium 66 (with bug :=) running suse 7.0 -amd athlon

Re: union mounts WAS: pivot_root & linuxrc problem

2001-03-16 Thread Guest section DW
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:05:41PM +0300, Art Boulatov wrote: > I've seen new options for "mount" like --bind, --over, but didn't really > get how they work or are they implemented at all. "mount --bind" works on vanilla 2.4. The others don't. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: devfs vs. devpts

2001-03-16 Thread Nathan Walp
John Jasen wrote: > > On 16 Mar 2001, Ian Soboroff wrote: > > > i don't have devpts mounted under 2.4.2 (debian checks whether you > > have devfs before mounting devpts), so i tried building my kernel with > > Unix 98 pty support but without the devpts filesystem. i get the > > following error

Re: fork and pthreads

2001-03-16 Thread Doug McNaught
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am having a strange problem. > > I have a big daemon program to which I am trying to add multi-threading. > > At the begining, after some sanity check, this program does a double fork to > create a deamon. > > After that it listens for the client on the port. When

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Ishikawa
Hi, I have an "old" Nakamichi CD changer. ("old" might be important consideration here. ) Should I test the patch submitted and report what I found ? (Or maybe I don't have to bother at this stage at all and simply wait for the 2.5 development and debugging cycle?) - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [CHECKER] big stack variables

2001-03-16 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Jeff Dike wrote: > +#endif > +#ifdef CONFIG_STDIO_CONSOLE > + stdio_console_init(); > #endif Erm... That piece is UML-only. ObUML: something fishy happens in UML with multiple exec() in PID 1. Try to say "telinit u" (or just boot with init=/bin/sh and say exec /sbin/

Re: [CHECKER] big stack variables

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I've got my nose stuck in tty_io.c at present - I'll fix this this > one. This is the patch I've been carrying around in the UML pool since this bit me: diff -Naur -X exclude-files orig/drivers/char/tty_io.c um/drivers/char/tty_io.c --- orig/drivers/char/tty_io.c Thu

Cannot delete dir

2001-03-16 Thread Neal Gieselman
Excuse me, but can anyone tell me how I might delete a directory on a Redhat 6.1 ext2 file system that has permissions drwS--sr-x? Even as root I cannot unlink the directory. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mo

fork and pthreads

2001-03-16 Thread Sane_Purushottam
I am having a strange problem. I have a big daemon program to which I am trying to add multi-threading. At the begining, after some sanity check, this program does a double fork to create a deamon. After that it listens for the client on the port. Whenever the client connects, it creates a new

Re: Oops 0000 and 0002 on dual PIII 750 2.4.2 SMP platform

2001-03-16 Thread Shane Y. Gibson
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Can you please try to reproduce it with the following patch against 2.4.2? Marcelo (et al), I'll give it a whirl with the patch. Should I also try setting `nmi_watchdog=0' in lilo.conf, as Andrew Morton suggests? Additionally, I'll upgrade my version of ksymoops. Unf

Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

2001-03-16 Thread Wayne . Brown
Thanks for the quick response. I took your suggestion (a) and created /etc/binfmt_misc, and set up a test in my rc.local to mount it and register my usual entries there if /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc doesn't exist. So now it works with both 2.4.3-pre4 and 2.4.2-ac20. Wayne Alexander Viro <[E

Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

2001-03-16 Thread Thomas Dodd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > which makes sense, I guess, because proc isn't a "real" filesystem. So how do I > get binfmt_misc mounted? mount it somewhere else, say, /dev/binfmt_mount instead of in /proc until the proc entry is fixed. What should creat /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ? -Th

APM and cs4281 sound module

2001-03-16 Thread Daniel Stutz
Hello, as I posted here ~2 weeks ago my system locks when going to suspend mode. Now I was able to locate the problem in the sound module. (More information at EOF) When I make a 'rmmod cs4281' suspend and resume works very well. System hangs only when suspending with loaded sound module. Ker

Re: smp or die ??!?!

2001-03-16 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:52:01PM +, Delfim Machado escreveu: > hi, > > i'm trying to compile my single cpu without the smp and it gives me a > long compile errors ... > > with the smp enable, i can compile all the kernel without any problems make mrproper ? - Arnaldo - To unsubscribe f

Re: devfs vs. devpts

2001-03-16 Thread John Jasen
On 16 Mar 2001, Ian Soboroff wrote: > i don't have devpts mounted under 2.4.2 (debian checks whether you > have devfs before mounting devpts), so i tried building my kernel with > Unix 98 pty support but without the devpts filesystem. i get the > following error at the very end of 'make bzImage'

pkt_sched.h

2001-03-16 Thread gis88530
Hello, I have two questoins regarding the pkt_sched.h file. -- (1) The pkt_sched.h file have following lines #define PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY 1 #define PSCHED_JIFFIES 2 #define PSCHED_CPU 3 #define PSCHED_CLOCK_SOURCE PSCHED_JIFFIES Does it means that the PS

Kernel 2.4.2-ac20

2001-03-16 Thread Ted Gervais
Wondering something about this new installation - kernel 2.4.2-ac20. I am running soundmodem as a module and when I run 'insmod soundmodem' I see this: unix:/etc# insmod soundmodem Using /lib/modules/2.4.2-ac20/kernel/drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/soundmodem.o /lib/modules/2.4.2-ac20/kernel/d

Re: NTFS R/W safe with mount 'ro' ?

2001-03-16 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 11:43 16/03/01, Peter 'Luna' Runestig wrote: >I just noticed that one of the major distros ships their kernel with >NTFS write support turned on. Using such a kernel, am I still safe if I >mount my NTFS partition 'ro'? Yes. Regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @)

Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

2001-03-16 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The release notes specify this: > > mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc > > but this doesn't work because > > mount: mount point /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc does not exist Grr... OK, I've been an overoptimistic idiot and

Re: Performance is weird (fwd) -> results

2001-03-16 Thread Manfred Spraul
Sampsa Ranta wrote: > > After either of your patches, the result was the same, sorry. > Is apm or acpi running? -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.or

How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

2001-03-16 Thread Wayne . Brown
OK, I've been struggling with this (off and on) since Tuesday, and I give up. Since going from 2.4.3-pre4 to 2.4.2-ac20 I have been unable to use binfmt_misc. Thanks to a hint from Michael Meissner, I found a mention in the release notes for 2.4.2-ac12 that binfmt_misc should be mounted separate

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