Re: CML2 1.1.1, wiuth experimental fast mode

2001-04-15 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
> * Added fast-mode command to suppress side-effect computation > on slow machines. You could put the computation in a low-priority thread, so that it still gets done but doesn't mess up responsiveness. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: CML2 1.1.2 is available

2001-04-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When .config is missing and error is emitted when running make menuconfig > (or any other I guess) for the first time. Should this be the case? It's > ignored so ok but still would be nice not to have an error. Yes, that is the expected behavior. It

lilo + raid + kernel-2.4.x failure to boot

2001-04-15 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi, another zinger that I am sending to LKML because I don't know where else to send it ... I've discovered a deadly combination of kernel & lilo (and raid). This may be a pure lilo bug, but I assume that the kernel+raid aids & abets the problem...: I am running kernel-2.4.x. Two ide hard

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Is this a pathological case because of the way fsck does business, or does the RAID >re-sync affect any disk-bound process that severely? i gues the seeks are the problem. fsck will quite heavyly reposition, so does the rebuild, most likely on

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <01041521302600.15046@tabby> you wrote: >>a) stop rebuild until fsck is fixed > And let fsck read bad data because the raid doesn't yet recognize the correct > one a degraded raid will not deliver broken data. and even if it does, one more reason not to check a degraded raid. >

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-15 Thread Dax Kelson
David Findlay said once upon a time (Tue, 17 Apr 2001): > I am using the kernel IP Accounting in Linux to record the amount of data > transfered via my Linux internet gateway from individual IP addresses. This > currently requires me to set up an accounting rule for each IP address that I > want

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-15 Thread Ben Greear
Jamie Lokier wrote: > > george anzinger wrote: > > Horst von Brand wrote: > > > > > > Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > Wouldn't a heap be a good data structure for a list of timers? Insertion > > > > is log(n) and finding the one with the least time is O(1),

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Jesse Pollard
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >>>(There is no config file to disable/alter this .. no work-around that I >>>know of ..) > >> You can't be serious. Go sit down and think about what's going on. > >Well, there are two potential solutions: >

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-15 Thread Ben Greear
george anzinger wrote: > > Horst von Brand wrote: > > > > Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > [...] > > > > > Wouldn't a heap be a good data structure for a list of timers? Insertion > > > is log(n) and finding the one with the least time is O(1), ie pop off the > > > front It can

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-15 Thread Manfred Bartz
David Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 16 April 2001 10:40, you wrote: > > Perhaps I misunderstand what it is exactly you are trying to do, > > but I would think that this could be done entirely in userland by > > software that just adds rules for you instead of you having to do

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-15 Thread swds . mlowe
No, one rule would be MUCH faster. What's do you think would be faster of the two: if ((ipaddr>=3232235521)&&(ipaddr<=3232235774)) return 1; else return 0; or for (a=0;a<(3232235774-3232235521);a++) if (ipaddr==a) return 1; return 0; Obviously it compares the 192.168.0.1 -

devfs weirdnesses in 2.4.3 (-ac5)

2001-04-15 Thread Andreas Ferber
Hi, I recently noticed some weird behaviour in devfs. - some symlinks not showing up in directory listings, although they are surely existing. I noticed this with symlinks created by devfsd for IDE devices (/dev/hda{9,10,11} showing in normal ls, other hda entries are hidden). If I

Files not linking/replacing.

2001-04-15 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Hi. I hope this is the correct place to report to. I have installed kernel 2.4.3 but my system is having a few problems compiling things. Not all software is having problems it just seems to be the most important ones. like mozilla or alsa-driver, I would like to try others to test this but

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread Scott Murray
On 15 Apr 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Amit D Chaudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory > > reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount

Re: Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-15 Thread Andreas Dilger
Daniel, you write: > Andreas, you wrote: > > We should go with "EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX 0x0008" > > because the on-disk layout is 100% compatible with older kernels, so > > no reason to force read-only for those systems. I'm guessing Ted had > > put RO_COMPAT_BTREE_DIR in there in

Re: loop problems continue in 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Arthur Pedyczak
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Arthur Pedyczak wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Can you try 2.4.4-pre3? > > ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/ > > ...the same thing happens in 2.4.3... > I am testing loop behaviour in 2.4.3 and 3.4.4p3. I have noticed something >

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Amit D Chaudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory > reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount /initrd does > free around 2 MB. > With Scott's patch

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Scott Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Indeed it is. This fix for drivers/block/rd.c (excerpted from 2.4.3-ac6): > This did the trick. I bounced the patch to Linus, too. -hpa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-15 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 08:46:12AM +1000, David Findlay wrote: > On Monday 16 April 2001 10:40, you wrote: > > Perhaps I misunderstand what it is exactly you are trying to do, > > but I would think that this could be done entirely in userland by > > software that just adds rules for you instead

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >>(There is no config file to disable/alter this .. no work-around that I >>know of ..) > You can't be serious. Go sit down and think about what's going on. Well, there are two potential solutions: a) stop rebuild until fsck is fixed b) wait with fsck

Re: loop problems continue in 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Arthur Pedyczak
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Can you try 2.4.4-pre3? > ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/ > I am testing loop behaviour in 2.4.3 and 3.4.4p3. I have noticed something disturbing: I can mount the same file on the same mountpoint more than once. If I mount a file twice

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Findlay wrote: >> Perhaps I misunderstand what it is exactly you are trying to do, >> but I would think that this could be done entirely in userland by >> software that just adds rules for you instead of you having to do >> it manually. > >I suppose, but it would be so

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-15 Thread David Findlay
On Monday 16 April 2001 10:40, you wrote: > Perhaps I misunderstand what it is exactly you are trying to do, > but I would think that this could be done entirely in userland by > software that just adds rules for you instead of you having to do > it manually. I suppose, but it would be so much

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David Findlay wrote: >I am using the kernel IP Accounting in Linux to record the amount of data >transfered via my Linux internet gateway from individual IP addresses. This >currently requires me to set up an accounting rule for each IP address that I >want to record

RE: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-15 Thread Michael Clark
> In the 2.5 series of kernels, working towards 2.6, could you please make the > IP Accounting so that I can set a single rule that will make it watch all IP > traffic going from the local network, through the masquerading service to the > internet, and log local IP Addresses using it? This would

Re: [PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Alan Cox
> If you have the diffs ready then it would be great if you could do that. > (Did the maxbytes stuff enter the mainstream kernel yet? Are you going to > feed them together? Or will that be dropped for now?) maxbytes got to Linus. The checks using it are not all there, but maxbytes went in

Re: CML2 1.1.2 is available

2001-04-15 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 19:33 15/04/2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ >Release 1.1.2: Sun Apr 15 14:26:07 EDT 2001 > * Synchronized with 2.4.4-pre3. > * Screen flicker in menuconfig is gone. > * KEY_HOME and KEY_END now go

Re: [PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 23:11 15/04/2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Can the numerous ntfs fixes in the -ac series be applied to the mainstream > > kernel instead? Thanks. > >Want me to feed them to Linus or will you do it ? If you have the diffs ready then it would be great if you could do that. (Did the maxbytes stuff

Re: CML2 1.1.0 bug and snailspeed

2001-04-15 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 18:59 15/04/2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > At 18:56 14/04/2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > >Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I found a bug: In "Intel and compatible 80x86 processor options", > "Intel > > > > and compatible 80x86

IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-15 Thread David Findlay
I am using the kernel IP Accounting in Linux to record the amount of data transfered via my Linux internet gateway from individual IP addresses. This currently requires me to set up an accounting rule for each IP address that I want to record accounting info for. If I had 200 machines to

3dfx framebuffer problems with 2.4.4-pre[1-3]

2001-04-15 Thread Stefan Frank
Hello, I have a problem with the 3dfx framebuffer since 2.4.4-pre1. I have the following append line in my lilo.conf: append = "video=tdfx:1280x1024-8@76" This setting works fine for the 2.4.[0-3] kernels. When I boot the box, the little penguin on the top left side is unrecognizable. When I

Re: [PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Alan Cox
> Can the numerous ntfs fixes in the -ac series be applied to the mainstream > kernel instead? Thanks. Want me to feed them to Linus or will you do it ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: [new PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads

2001-04-15 Thread Rod Stewart
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Alan, which fix would you prefer: > * init could use wait3 and set __WALL. > * all kernel thread users could set SIGCHLD. Some already do that > (__call_usermodehelper). > * the kernel_thread implementations could force the exit signal to > SIGCHLD.

2.3.4 Module Problems UPDATED

2001-04-15 Thread Matthew W. Lowe
Ok, I've gotten both NICs to work thanks to the help from you guys. Basically, what you have to do is disable all the packet filtering stuff with exception to the minimal requirements to select ipchains. And also I disabled modular install and built in install for every nic card but the ones I

Re: CML2 1.1.1, wiuth experimental fast mode

2001-04-15 Thread Olaf Titz
[Warning: historical reference ahead.] > > I'd appreciate it if some of you with slow machines would try running > > with fast mode on and seeing if that addresses the sluggishness. > > I assume that, eventually there will be no slow mode or fast mode > distinction... just a single fast mode.

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML1 cleanup patch

2001-04-15 Thread Olaf Titz
> And the problem is that this hits a fast path in the classical news spool > layout article create path. The code for this assumes that you have > articles in the range X to Y, and you just got a new article, so you write > a file called /var/spool/news/group/name/Y+1. You really do not want to

Re: KERNEL: assertion (tp->lost_out == 0) failed at tcp_input.c(1202):tcp_remove_reno_sacks

2001-04-15 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:42:54PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > While running 2.4.3, I saw the following message a few times: > > KERNEL: assertion (tp->lost_out == 0) failed at > tcp_input.c(1202):tcp_remove_reno_sacks Nobody seems to be intrested in fixing this bug? Anyway, I was looking at

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread Amit D Chaudhary
On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount /initrd does free around 2 MB. Amit - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: [PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote: > Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > >Also, the "start" value that is read from the record, could be much > > larger than expected, which could lead to accessing random data. The > > fixup should fail then, and this is also patched below. > > > > No it can't

Re: amiga affs support broken in 2.4.x kernels??

2001-04-15 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, Mark Hounschell wrote: > I'm not a list member so IF you respond to this mail please CC me. > I've been looking at the archives and see some problems with the 2.3.x > kernel versions and affs support. I've put a new version at http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/affs.010414.tar.gz bye, Roman -

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Colonel
In list.kernel, linas wrote: > >First problem: In kernel-2.4.2 and earlier, if the machine is not cleanly >shut down, then upon reboot, RAID reconstruction is automatically started. >(For RAID-1, this more-or-less ammounts to copying the entire contents >of one disk partition on one disk to

Re: Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Phillips
Andreas, you wrote: > Daniel, you write: > > So then, the obvious candidate would be: > > > > #define EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX0x0004 > > > > which was formerly EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_BTREE_DIR. > > Actually not. We should go with "EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX 0x0008" >

Ide performance (was RAID0 Performance problems)

2001-04-15 Thread Andreas Peter
Hi, I've posted about performance problems with my RAID0 setup. RAID works fine, but it's too slow. But now it seems not to be a problem with the md code, it's an ide problem. There are two HDs in my PC: /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. No other devices are attached to the ide-bus. PC is a SMP-System, 2

Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.1.2 is available

2001-04-15 Thread Steven Cole
On Sunday 15 April 2001 12:33, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ > > Release 1.1.2: Sun Apr 15 14:26:07 EDT 2001 > * Synchronized with 2.4.4-pre3. > * Screen flicker in menuconfig is gone. > * KEY_HOME and KEY_END

CML2 1.1.2 is available

2001-04-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Release 1.1.2: Sun Apr 15 14:26:07 EDT 2001 * Synchronized with 2.4.4-pre3. * Screen flicker in menuconfig is gone. * KEY_HOME and KEY_END now go to top or bottom of menu. * Zack Weinberg's

Re: Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread Scott Murray
On 14 Apr 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Hello friends, > > I am trying the following setup, and it works beautifully, *except* > that I don't seem to be able to free the ramdisk memory at the end. Heh, sounds familiar, I was in exactly the same situation a month ago. I meant to post something

fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi, I want to report a trio of raid-related problems. The third one is very serious, and effectively prevents 2.4.3 from being usable (by me). First problem: In kernel-2.4.2 and earlier, if the machine is not cleanly shut down, then upon reboot, RAID reconstruction is automatically started.

Re: [PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > >Also, the "start" value that is read from the record, could be much > larger than expected, which could lead to accessing random data. The > fixup should fail then, and this is also patched below. > > No it can't (in theory). The volume would be corrupt if it was.

Re: CML2 1.1.0 bug and snailspeed

2001-04-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 18:56 14/04/2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > >Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I found a bug: In "Intel and compatible 80x86 processor options", "Intel > > > and compatible 80x86 processor types" I press "y" on "Pentium Classic" > > > option

Re: 2.4.3 - Module problems?

2001-04-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Francois Cami wrote: > > hi Matthew and everyone > > I use a 3COM Etherlink III ISA and a 3C905C PCI in my firewall > box (i440BX mobo). (distro is slackware 7.1, kernels are either > 2.2.19 or 2.4.3, modutils 2.3.1 (slackware 7.1 default) ). > > The 3C905C was never a problem (and i guess

Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets

2001-04-15 Thread Thomas Molina
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Dan Podeanu wrote: > On 13 Apr 2001, Doug McNaught wrote: > > > Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Here might be one of the resons for the trouble with VIA chipsets: > > > > > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html > > > > > > > > Some DMA

Re: 2.4.3 - Module problems?

2001-04-15 Thread Francois Cami
hi Matthew and everyone I use a 3COM Etherlink III ISA and a 3C905C PCI in my firewall box (i440BX mobo). (distro is slackware 7.1, kernels are either 2.2.19 or 2.4.3, modutils 2.3.1 (slackware 7.1 default) ). The 3C905C was never a problem (and i guess your R8029 isn't either), however to

Re: "uname -p" prints unknown for Athlon K7 optimized kernel?

2001-04-15 Thread Andreas Schwab
"Mr. Shannon Aldinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, it was written: |> |> > elfie:~ # uname -p |> > unknown |> > |> > elfie:~ # uname -a |> > Linux elfie 2.4.3 #1 Fri Apr 13 21:08:29 CEST 2001 i586 unknown |> > |> I get the same on my Sun Ultra 1, and various x86 boxes.

Re: [Lse-tech] Bug in sys_sched_yield

2001-04-15 Thread Kanoj Sarcar
> > > George, while this is needed as pointed out in a previous message, > due to non-contiguous physical IDs, I think the current usage is > pretty bad (at least looking from a x86 perspective). Maybe somebody > can chime in from a different architecture. > > I think that all data accesses

Re: [PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Linus, Alan, Please do not apply this patch as both the comment and the code are wrong and unnecessary, respectively. Can the numerous ntfs fixes in the -ac series be applied to the mainstream kernel instead? Thanks. Rogier and everyone doing any NTFS work, please use -ac series kernels as

Re: can't use printk in linux 2.4.2 module

2001-04-15 Thread James Simmons
Try the following patch to linux/kernel/Makefile. If it works fine let me know and we can get it into the standard tree. MS: (n) 1. A debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction that renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2. A disease. James Simmons [[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread James Simmons
> [One of the things for 2.5 is 15- or 31-bit keycodes. > The 7-bits we have today do no longer suffice. I have a 132-key keyboard.] Or for 2.5.X you could use EVIOCGKEYCODE or EVIOCSKEYCODE using /dev/eventX. Also the input api supports up to 220 different keys and could support up to 255. If

Re: SCSI tape corruption problem

2001-04-15 Thread Olaf Titz
>tar cvf - . | gzip -9 | dd of=/dev/tapes/tape0 bs=32k I have a tool which compresses individual files in a tar archive instead of the whole archive[1]. That one tries hard to write only in standard 10kb blocks to emulate tar's behavior towards the drive. I'll try in a few days (when I'm

Re: [RFC] Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Phillips
>Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > ls already can't handle the directories I'm working with on a regular > > > > basis. It's broken and needs to be fixed. A merge sort using log n > > > > temporary files is not hard to write. > > > > > > ls -U |

Re: 2.4.4-pre3: lvm.c patch results in "hanging" mount or swapon

2001-04-15 Thread Arjan Filius
Hello, On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15 2001, Arjan Filius wrote: > > Hello, > > > > While trying kernel 2.4.4-pre3 i found a "hanging" swapon (my swap is on > > LVM), same effect for "mount -a". 2.4.3 works properly. > > > > I found ./drivers/md/lvm.c is patched, and

RE: 2.4.3 - Module problems?

2001-04-15 Thread Matthew W. Lowe
Hey, Thanks for all the help everyone. So far this is my exact configuration: Two NICs, 3COM Etherlink III ISA, Realtek 8029 PCI (Covered by the NE2000 PCI module). Both cards are setup for PnP, the modules have been built into the kernel. (It worked in my old version with them build into the

Re: CML2 1.1.1, wiuth experimental fast mode

2001-04-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Much better now! make xconfig still seems to be the old way (hadn't tried > it before)? - At least I get two shades of green. The lighter one is > completely unreadable on the silver background. Could I suggest to get rid > of the light/dark green

v2.4.3 networking problem other than tcp_ecn?

2001-04-15 Thread jeff millar
Several web sites have stoped working recently about the time I upgraded to 2.4.2 - 2.4.3. Some testing at one site showed it doesn't respond to pings except for an occasional reply reported as "admin prohibited filter" by tcpdump or as "packet filtered" by ping. The kernel doesn't have tcp_ecn

Re: "uname -p" prints unknown for Athlon K7 optimized kernel?

2001-04-15 Thread Mr. Shannon Aldinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, it was written: > elfie:~ # uname -p > unknown > > elfie:~ # uname -a > Linux elfie 2.4.3 #1 Fri Apr 13 21:08:29 CEST 2001 i586 unknown > I get the same on my Sun Ultra 1, and various x86 boxes. I'm sure this is normal, I'm just

RE: 2.4 stable when?

2001-04-15 Thread George Bonser
> > > Is there any information that would be helpful to the kernel > > developers that I might be able to provide or is this a known issue > > that is currently being worked out? > > I never heard about this problem. What would be helpful is to > send a few minutes' (a full 'load cycle'?) worth

Re: "uname -p" prints unknown for Athlon K7 optimized kernel?

2001-04-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On Sun Apr 15 2001, joker wrote: > i have this problem using intel 850mhz and 333mhz > any know where to get update version of uname ? http://www.tuxfinder.com Btw: elfie:~ # uname --version uname (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11 Written by David MacKenzie. Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation,

Re: 2.4 stable when?

2001-04-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, George Bonser wrote: > 2.4.4pre3 works, sorta, but is very "pumpy". The load avg will go up to > about 60, then drop, then climb again, then drop. It will vary from very > sluggish performance to snappy and back again to sluggish. So it's stable ;)) > With 2.2 kernels I

Re: [lkml]Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-15 Thread James Simmons
>Agreed. The only thing I was thinking, was if the kernel is doing the >right thing now, it shouldn't be forced to work around a bug in XFree. >By not "fixing" the kernel, the XFree team would be forced to do the >right thing. Ha Ha Ha. That is funny. Okay it does get fixed many many months

Re: 2.4.4-pre3: lvm.c patch results in "hanging" mount or swapon

2001-04-15 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Apr 15 2001, Arjan Filius wrote: > Hello, > > While trying kernel 2.4.4-pre3 i found a "hanging" swapon (my swap is on > LVM), same effect for "mount -a". 2.4.3 works properly. > > I found ./drivers/md/lvm.c is patched, and restoring the lvm.c from 2.4.3 > resulted in normal operation.

Re: Writing to Pana DVD-RAM

2001-04-15 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Apr 15 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > DOH! You're right. > > I can now write to it, but only get one chance. Copy a file to > DVDRAM, read, print, etc, but when I try to rm or mv, segfault. > Foreverafter the DVDRAM is 'busy'. Cannot umount. Must reboot then > umount. Remount, get

Re: How can I add a function to the kernel initialization

2001-04-15 Thread James Simmons
Is this a HD44780 LCD? Geert wrote a console driver sometime ago for this. He had a driver for it. If he still doesn't I have a copy of the code. MS: (n) 1. A debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction that renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2. A disease.

Re: Writing to Pana DVD-RAM

2001-04-15 Thread cacook
DOH! You're right. I can now write to it, but only get one chance. Copy a file to DVDRAM, read, print, etc, but when I try to rm or mv, segfault. Foreverafter the DVDRAM is 'busy'. Cannot umount. Must reboot then umount. Remount, get another write, but on subsequent write, segfault. I

Re: comments on CML 1.1.0

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:58:41AM -0400, jeff millar wrote: > Selecting IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS turns off IP_NF_CONNTRACK and friends. But, > I think CML1, allowed both support to the new iptables and compatibility > modes to allow old ipchains scripts to work with the new kernel. Only as

[new PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads

2001-04-15 Thread Manfred Spraul
I found the problem: * init uses waitpid(-1,,), thus the __WALL flag is not set * without __WALL, only processes with exit_signal == SIGCHLD are reaped * it's impossible for user space processes to die with another exit_signal, forget_original_parent changes the exit_signal back to SIGCHLD ("We

Re: CML2 1.1.1, wiuth experimental fast mode

2001-04-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I assume that, eventually there will be no slow mode or fast mode > distinction... just a single fast mode. Right? :) That's an interesting question to which I do not yet know the answer. I am continuing to speed-tune. --

[PATCH] NTFS comment expanded, small fix.

2001-04-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
Hi all, I am studying an NTFS problem, and came across the NTFS fixup mechanism. It took me much too long to understand the fixup mechanism, even though a comment tried to explain it. So I rewrote the comment. Also, the "start" value that is read from the record, could be much larger than

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML1 cleanup patch

2001-04-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
Warning: No kernel related stuff inside. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rik van Riel) wrote on 26.03.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, John Cowan wrote: > > In fact this has come up before: in Usenet software, which has to > > differentiate between an article and a sub-newsgroup. An

Re: 2.4.3 - Module problems?

2001-04-15 Thread Alan Cox
> as I did the previous kernel. They were the NE2000 PCI module and the > 3C59X module. The two NICs I have are: Realtek 8029 PCI, 3COM Etherlink > III ISA. Both are PNP, the etherlink is NOT the one with the b extention > at the end. Make sure you use either the kernel or the usermode PnP and

Re: shmem_getpage_locked() / swapin_readahead() race in 2.4.4-pre3

2001-04-15 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi, On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > There is a nasty race between shmem_getpage_locked() and > swapin_readahead() with the new shmem code (introduced in 2.4.3-ac3 > and merged in the main tree in 2.4.4-pre3): > > shmem_getpage_locked() finds a page in the swapcache and moves it to

Re: usb-uhci.c problems in latest kernels?

2001-04-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:35:46PM -0400, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1876 > > This is a known problem, here is the discussion that I initiated > on linux-usb-devel: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=9860950851=2=1 > > The right fix is to comment

2.4.4-pre3: lvm.c patch results in "hanging" mount or swapon

2001-04-15 Thread Arjan Filius
Hello, While trying kernel 2.4.4-pre3 i found a "hanging" swapon (my swap is on LVM), same effect for "mount -a". 2.4.3 works properly. I found ./drivers/md/lvm.c is patched, and restoring the lvm.c from 2.4.3 resulted in normal operation. I Found LVM/0.9.1_beta7 makes some notes about the

Re: CML2 1.1.0 bug and snailspeed

2001-04-15 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 18:56 14/04/2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I found a bug: In "Intel and compatible 80x86 processor options", "Intel > > and compatible 80x86 processor types" I press "y" on "Pentium Classic" > > option and it activates Penitum-III as well as Pentium

Re: CML2 1.1.1, wiuth experimental fast mode

2001-04-15 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 04:45 15/04/2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >Release 1.1.1: Sat Apr 14 23:41:34 EDT 2001 > * The old menuconfig shortcut that 'm' in a boolean entry field > sets 'y' is now implemented. > * Simplified color scheme. Much better now! make xconfig still seems to be the old

Re: Process (mozilla) in 'D' state (down_w)

2001-04-15 Thread Athanasius
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:52:44AM +0100, Athanasius wrote: >Seems like anytime I first startup mozilla I end up with something > like: [snip] >I'll sometime if I can remember to run mozilla with a strace -f -ff > -o file to see if it gives any more useful info. I'll be updating to >

PATCH 2.4.4.3: 3rdparty driver support for kbuild

2001-04-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
The attached patch, against kernel 2.4.4-pre3, adds a feature I call "3rd-party support." When vendors put additional kernel modules and drivers in their kernel package, typically they do so via a patch. For the case where totally new file(s) are added to a kernel, this results in patch

can't use printk in linux 2.4.2 module

2001-04-15 Thread vivid_liou
Dear All : I wrote a small module to print "hello world " . when I comiple it under kernel 2.2 , everything works fine. the output " printk unsolve " appear under 2.4.2 . with kernel 2.2. , I can find "printk " in the /proc/ksyms , but with kernel 2.4.2 , only "printk_Rsmp" symbol . Does

PATCH 2.4.4.3: pci_enable/disable_device stuff

2001-04-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
The attached patch does two things: 1) Take PCI devices to D0 state before enabling them. We both think this is the right thing to do, but there is always the crazy chance this change will break something. So, think twice before applying, but IMHO apply :) 2) Adds pci_disable_device. Right

Re: small bug/oversight found in 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Swivel wrote: > > > > drivers/char/char.c, line 247 > > create_proc_read_entry() is called regardless of the definition of > > CONFIG_PROC_FS, simply wrap call with #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS and #endif. > > create_proc_read_entry exists, as a static

Re: small bug/oversight found in 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Swivel wrote: > > drivers/char/char.c, line 247 > create_proc_read_entry() is called regardless of the definition of > CONFIG_PROC_FS, simply wrap call with #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS and #endif. create_proc_read_entry exists, as a static inline no-op, without CONFIG_PROC_FS. Typically you want to

Re: 2.4.3 - Module problems?

2001-04-15 Thread Matthew W. Lowe
I installed that, it fixed my one NIC... The 3COM. Or I assume it did, because it shows up in ifconfig now, unlike the other one Unfortunately I still can't ping the local host (destination net unreachable). I think that might just be a byproduct of my main external card not working. Anyway, I

small bug/oversight found in 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Swivel
drivers/char/char.c, line 247 create_proc_read_entry() is called regardless of the definition of CONFIG_PROC_FS, simply wrap call with #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS and #endif. Cheers, Vito Caputo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: 2.4.3 - Module problems?

2001-04-15 Thread ecksfantom
I had the same problem when i upgraded to 2.4.2. Upgrading to the latest modutils (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/modutils/v2.4/modutils-2.4.5.tar.gz) should get you going again. ~Jarrod On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Matthew W. Lowe wrote: > I just tried to upgrade from whatever kernel comes

Re: 2.4.3 - Module problems?

2001-04-15 Thread Matthew W. Lowe
Jeff Garzik wrote: > "Matthew W. Lowe" wrote: > > I just tried to upgrade from whatever kernel comes with redhat to 2.4.3. > > The build, install and such was smooth. When I got to starting up, > > everything appeared to work, until it got to my NIC cards. Neither of > > them loaded properly.

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-15 Thread george anzinger
Roger Larsson wrote: > > On Thursday 12 April 2001 23:52, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Okay but what will be used for a base for hardware that has critical > > timing issues due to the rules of the hardware? > > > > I do not care but your drives/floppy/tapes/cdroms/cdrws do: > > > > /* > > *

Re: 2.4.3 - Module problems?

2001-04-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Matthew W. Lowe" wrote: > I just tried to upgrade from whatever kernel comes with redhat to 2.4.3. > The build, install and such was smooth. When I got to starting up, > everything appeared to work, until it got to my NIC cards. Neither of > them loaded properly. I've built in the EXACT same

how to compile multiplication and division operations not supported by CPU

2001-04-15 Thread vivid_liou
Dear All : this question suppose not posted in the mailing list,since I have been posted it on GNU compiler mailing list , and get no reponse. I posted it here to get your help . We licence MIPS CPU without MAC (the module support multiplication and division functions). For the convenience

2.4.3 - Module problems?

2001-04-15 Thread Matthew W. Lowe
I just tried to upgrade from whatever kernel comes with redhat to 2.4.3. The build, install and such was smooth. When I got to starting up, everything appeared to work, until it got to my NIC cards. Neither of them loaded properly. I've built in the EXACT same module for the NICs as I did the

Can't free the ramdisk (initrd, pivot_root)

2001-04-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Hello friends, I am trying the following setup, and it works beautifully, *except* that I don't seem to be able to free the ramdisk memory at the end. This is using the 2.4.3 stock kernel: I load an initrd in "non-initrd" mode: label single kernel vmlinuz append

Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Jan Dvorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:21:20AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > > No, these codes cannot be larger than 127 today. > > You can use the utility setkeycodes to assign keycodes to

Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Jan Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:21:20AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: No, these codes cannot be larger than 127 today. You can use the utility setkeycodes to assign keycodes to these keys.

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