Re: Is printing broke on sparc ?

2001-04-17 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:54:41PM -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: # /etc/printcap # # Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing! # Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict format! # Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.

Re: DPT PM3755F Fibrechannel Host Adapter

2001-04-17 Thread cacook
So no one is willing or able to help me with this problem? I have invested much time and effort toward switching from Win2k to Linux, but if I can't get fibrechannel working it's not going to happen. Applying the patch compiling went fine. But the new kernel doesn't recognize the FC host

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Miles Lane wrote: hand someone a mike. I like this idea quite a bit. It would probably not be terribly expensive to rent/buy the required equipment, it would be easy to use and would not be terribly disruptive to the preceedings. I'm curious, didn't you find that those

Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

2001-04-17 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Hello, I have discovered a possible problem on my host. The short story is: When downloading ISO images from this host (which runs 2.4.3 + zerocopy and ProFTPd with sendfile()), the image is sometimes corrupted (MD5 checksum of the downloaded file does not match). The

Re: generic_osync_inode/ext2_fsync_inode still not safe

2001-04-17 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 07:24:42AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: As described earlier, code which wants to write an inode cannot rely on the I_DIRTY bits (on inode-i_state) being clean to guarantee that the inode and its dirty pages, if any, are safely synced on disk. Indeed --- for

No Subject

2001-04-17 Thread Lee Leahu
does the latest development kernle support sun sparc workstations? if it does, where can i get it from? i want to do testing for the linux comm. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

2.4.3 Linux kernel crash: `Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 189d4d44'

2001-04-17 Thread mcrogan
I am running the unpatched Linux-2.4.3, under Debian GNU/Linux. I was simply running XEmacs, zsh, screen in a tty and then I started to get many problems at the same time. If I can provide more information, please let me know. Output of ver_linux: If some fields are empty or look unusual you

Re: 2.4 raw devices don't do 64bit offset?

2001-04-17 Thread k . lichtenwalder
Well, I looked a bit deeper into it. The limiting factor is the s_maxbytes value from the superblock. (If the offset is larger than s_maxbytes, default_llseek will return EINVAL, what I'm seeing), So, where does it inherit this value from? My fs is reiserfs, so there's a 4GB limit. But the raw

[PATCH] drivers/net/at1700.c: missing __init and __initdata

2001-04-17 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi all, this patch (2.4.3-ac7) adds some missing __init and __initdata into at1700.c NIC driver. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin| Embedded systems software engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]| PGP key: http://www.orbita1.ru/~pazke/AndreyPanin.asc diff -ur

Re: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-17 Thread Eric Weigle
oh great, now I wont be able to upgrade our kernels to 2.4 unless I find a utility to filter out the ARP requests? "There's more than one way to do it" (see below) Why was this ability removed? Apparently the decision was made to do it this way because it simplified the fast path of the code;

Re: CML2 1.1.3 release announcement

2001-04-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Leif Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It also appears that upon a re-configuration of 2.4.3 from 2.2.17: cd /usr/src/linux cp ../linux-2.2.17/.config . make oldconfig where the old configuration did not include FrameBuffer support, then performing an Xconfig to tweak some settings and

[PATCH] emu10k1/audio un reserve

2001-04-17 Thread Hugh Dickins
The code for mem_map_reserving has been copied a little too faithfully to the places where it wants to mem_map_unreserve. Hugh --- 2.4.3-ac7/drivers/sound/emu10k1/audio.c Tue Apr 17 14:43:09 2001 +++ linux/drivers/sound/emu10k1/audio.c Tue Apr 17 14:46:20 2001 @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-17 Thread Simon Richter
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Andreas Ferber wrote: [Extending the current signalling mechanism] The problem with this is that there is no single init. Most distribution run the same SysV init, but there are quite a few init replacements around. Should we really break all of them? We don't break

[PATCH] scripts/ver_linux not working on Debian

2001-04-17 Thread Andreas Ferber
Hi, scripts/ver_linux uses fdformat to determine the version of util-linux used on the system. However, on Debian GNU/Linux: -- snip -- % fdformat --version Note: /usr/bin/fdformat is obsolete and is no longer available. Please use /usr/bin/superformat instead (make sure you

Broken ARP (was Re: ARP responses broken!)

2001-04-17 Thread Sampsa Ranta
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Eric Weigle wrote: Hello- This is a known 'feature' of the Linux kernel, and can help with load sharing and fault tolerance. However, it can also cause problems (such as when one nic in a multi-nic machine fails and you don't know right away). I tought this for a while

Re: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 03:26:19PM -0600, Eric Weigle wrote: Hello- This is a known 'feature' of the Linux kernel, and can help with load sharing and fault tolerance. However, it can also cause problems (such as when one nic in a multi-nic machine fails and you don't know right away).

Re: comments on CML 1.1.0

2001-04-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unfortunately I don't know too much about CML2, so I cannot provide you with a straightforward ruleset, only with a description: : I'm asking myself if we now should be proud of having the most complicated dependencies of the whole kernel ;) That's truly

Re: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-17 Thread Christopher Friesen
Sampsa Ranta wrote: I have two interfaces that share same subnet, I call eth0 194.29.192.37 and eth1 194.29.192.38. I have forwarding turned on, proxy arp is not neighter are redirects. When I flush local neighbor table in other machine I use to observe the response and ping the router I

Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first

2001-04-17 Thread Jesse Pollard
Brunet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: "Adam J. Richter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I suppose that running the child first also has a minor advantage for clone() in that it should make programs that spawn lots of threads to do little bits of work behave better on machines with a There is another

icmp and port

2001-04-17 Thread gis88530
Hello, I have study the code in ip_masq.c, and I found that icmp packet use source address, destination address, source port and destination port to hash into masquerade table. Do icmp packets have port information? I have print the port information with printk, but I can't find out the answer

Re: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
but why would you want it to reply for the IP of the other interface even if it was NOT on the same subnet? Because Linux is always answering to all its local IP addresses, regardless of the Network interface. Even if you tun off the IP Forwarding. This is by Designs, there are situation

Re: Scalable FD Management ....

2001-04-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 04:19:16PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote: But still the throughput improvement is not there for my patch. the reason, I think, is that I didnot get too many hits to fget() routine. It will be helpful if you can tell how you got fget() chewing up more than its fair share of

Re: DPT PM3755F Fibrechannel Host Adapter

2001-04-17 Thread Alan Cox
Applying the patch compiling went fine. But the new kernel doesn't recognize the FC host adapter (though the bios does) and there is no dpt_i20 module so I can't insmod. I don't know how to tell whether the driver is in the kernel. Maybe I'm just not smart enough for Linux. No its not

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Salisbury
Functional Specification for the high-res-timers project. In addition we expect that we will provide a high resolution timer for kernel use (heck, we may provide several). what we do here determines what we can do for the user.. We will provide several "clocks" as defined by the

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, pleaseget better audio.

2001-04-17 Thread Jonathan Morton
I like this idea quite a bit. It would probably not be terribly expensive to rent/buy the required equipment, it would be easy to use and would not be terribly disruptive to the preceedings. Just to keep this on topic... the real question is what would be the best way to interface this sound

Re: icmp and port

2001-04-17 Thread Andreas Ferber
Hi, On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:28:53PM +0800, gis88530 wrote: Do icmp packets have port information? ICMP packets quote part of the original packet that triggered the ICMP message. From this quoted part, information can be extracted about the connection the ICMP packet belongs to. Andreas

Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

2001-04-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:10:07PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote: 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (rev 74) IIRC the problem came up earlier. Some versions of 3com NICs seem to make problems with the hardware checksum. There were some fixes in the driver

Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

2001-04-17 Thread Alan Cox
The long story: My server is Athlon 850 on ASUS A7V, 256M RAM. Seven IDE discs, one SCSI disc. The controllers and NIC are as follows (output of lspci): See the VIA chipset report on www.theregister.co.uk about corruption problems with VIA chipsets. The cases seen on Linux included

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please

2001-04-17 Thread Alan Cox
Not a problem. :) Simply fit a machine with several ALSA-compatible soundcards with mic-level inputs and use it as the recording medium. Actually, I forget - do OSS-type soundcard drivers handle multiple cards sensibly too? Yes. Have done since 2.2. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Oscillations in disk write compaction, poor interactive performance

2001-04-17 Thread SodaPop
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! It also seems that in the 2.4 kernels, we can get into a sort of oscillation mode, where we can have long periods of disk activity where nothing can get done - the low points, where only 2-3 writes per second can occur, so completely screw

generic rwsem [Re: Alpha process table hang]

2001-04-17 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:48:05AM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote: Alan Cox [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: (But since the X server shouldn't have the ability to corrupt the kernel's process list, there has to be a problem in the kernel somewhere) The X server has enough priviledge to

Re: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 03:26:19PM -0600, Eric Weigle wrote: Hello- This is a known 'feature' of the Linux kernel, and can help with load sharing and fault tolerance. However, it can also cause problems (such as when one nic in a multi-nic

Re: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 04:53:01PM +0200, Martin Josefsson wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 03:26:19PM -0600, Eric Weigle wrote: Hello- This is a known 'feature' of the Linux kernel, and can help with load sharing and fault tolerance.

Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

2001-04-17 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Alan Cox wrote: : The long story: My server is Athlon 850 on ASUS A7V, 256M RAM. : Seven IDE discs, one SCSI disc. The controllers and NIC are as follows : (output of lspci): : : See the VIA chipset report on www.theregister.co.uk about corruption problems : with VIA chipsets. The cases

Re: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: [snip] Does arpfilter exist in 2.4 kernels? Not yet, will be merged very soon. I can send you a patch if you need it urgently. No I don't need it urgently. I was asking because I had this problem before (router with two cards against one physical

[PATCH][crapectomy] death of filesystem_setup()

2001-04-17 Thread Alexander Viro
Patch below switches the last 3 filesystems that are initialized from filesystem_setup() to module_init/module_exit. Result: filesystem_setup() is no more. Linus, could you apply it? Al diff -urN

Could hd-drivers and buffer algorithm be hardware?

2001-04-17 Thread John Nilsson
The idea is as follows. Design a hardisk controller that would take care of all harddrive and block device managment and provide a virtual storage area to the OS. This way all the kernel would have to worry about is a virtual harddrive and how to fech and write data from and to it. Buffering,

CMLConfigurator skins (was: CML2 1.1.3 is available)

2001-04-17 Thread John Cowan
Eric S. Raymond wrote: Other possibility: support only the 16 EGA colors by name. Excellent idea! But if I do that, some of the X colors are just *wrong* on standard gray background (cyan is a good example). So let the user set the background color too. I find gray backgrounds a

Re: Broken ARP (was Re: ARP responses broken!)

2001-04-17 Thread Eric Weigle
Ok, I was ignorant of the arp filter functionality in 2.2. I found an old (probably painfully out-of-date) posting the patch Andi Kleen was referring to in the archive, but I've not used it. http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0101.2/1198.html I tought this for a while and this

Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha process table hang]

2001-04-17 Thread Bob McElrath
Andrea Arcangeli [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: So please try to reproduce the hang with 2.4.4pre3 with those two patches applied: ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.4pre3aa3/00_alpha-numa-3

Re: Broken ARP (was Re: ARP responses broken!)

2001-04-17 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Eric Weigle wrote: Ok, I was ignorant of the arp filter functionality in 2.2. I found an old (probably painfully out-of-date) posting the patch Andi Kleen was referring to in the archive, but I've not used it.

Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.1.3 is available

2001-04-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:55:56 -0400 From: Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: james rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.1.3 is available

Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.1.3 is available

2001-04-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond
John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If there were already a library in ths stock Python distribution to digest .Xdefaults files I might consider this. Perhaps I'll write one. But I'm not going to bulk up the CML2 code with this marginal feature. Then support a private mechanism if you must.

Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first

2001-04-17 Thread Éric Brunet
In ens.mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote: I believe it allows the debugger to start the process to be debugged. Well, the debugger simply needs to do something like pid_t child = fork(); if (child == 0) { ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME,0,0,0);

active after unmount?

2001-04-17 Thread Matthew Jacob
Unmounting a SCSI disk device succeeded, and yielded: Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) Kernel 2.4.3 on a 2-processor i686 chico login: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha process table hang]

2001-04-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: My generic rwsem should be also cleaner and faster than the generic ones in 2.4.4pre3 and they can be turned off completly so an architecture can really takeover with its own asm implementation (while with the 2.4.4pre3 design this is obviously not

Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

2001-04-17 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Andi Kleen wrote: : On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:10:07PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote: : 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (rev 74) : : IIRC the problem came up earlier. Some versions of 3com NICs seem to make : problems with the hardware checksum. There were

Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)

2001-04-17 Thread Steve Hill
The attached patch fixes the following problems with the DP83815 driver (natsemi.c): 1. When compiled into the kernel, the cards would be registered multiple times. 2. Autonegotiation code was buggy, causing the card to stop working after autonegotiation. -- - Steve Hill System Administrator

RFC: pageable kernel-segments

2001-04-17 Thread Heusden, Folkert van
Would anyone be intrested (besides me) in a kernel which can page out certain parts of itself? The kernel should be in some kind of vmlinux-ish (as in: uncompressed) format on disk for on-demand re-loading of pages which are discarded. Certain parts of drivers could get the __pageable prefix or

Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

2001-04-17 Thread Alan Cox
: but once a fixed BIOS is out for your board that would be a good first step. : If it still does it then, its worth digging for kernel naughties : I don't think I have 686b southbridge. I have 686 (without "b"): Ok. What revision of 3c90x card do you have ? - To unsubscribe from

Re: generic rwsem

2001-04-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser Geuer
Thanks a lot, andrea, this patch (I only applied the rwsem one) finally fixes the rwsem compile problem with gcc-3.0-20010417. Now I can get a working kernel ;-) -mirabilos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: 8139too.c and 2.4.4-pre1 kernel burp

2001-04-17 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
hello jeff ! with the 8139too v. 0.9.16 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ and kernel 2.4.4-pre3, i see no more errors of the "too much work at interrupt" type. i used to see the errors even under normal load, starting immediately after booting. so far, i did some nfs and

Re: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-17 Thread Alan Cox
I was asking because I had this problem before (router with two cards against one physical subnet) and arpwatch complained that the router kept switching MACaddresses all the time. That sounds like a bug in arpwatch. A box can have multiple mac addresses. Its probably a tricky one to handle

Re: RFC: pageable kernel-segments

2001-04-17 Thread Disconnect
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Heusden, Folkert van did have cause to say: I would think is usable (for example) for my 8MB ram laptop. Anyone any thoughts on this? I'm not a kernel hacker, but I've got some thoughts on this: 1 Modules (with the autoloader) can do that for anything not necessary to

Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

2001-04-17 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Alan Cox wrote: : : but once a fixed BIOS is out for your board that would be a good first step. : : If it still does it then, its worth digging for kernel naughties : : : I don't think I have 686b southbridge. I have 686 (without "b"): : : Ok. What revision of 3c90x card do you have ?

Re: Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)

2001-04-17 Thread Roberto Nibali
Steve Hill wrote: The attached patch fixes the following problems with the DP83815 driver (natsemi.c): 1. When compiled into the kernel, the cards would be registered multiple times. I assume this code fragment fixes this: + static int done = 0; + + if (done) return

Re: USB with 2.4.3-ac{1,3,7} without devfs- aic7xxx ?

2001-04-17 Thread FAVRE Gregoire
Thus spake Johannes Erdfelt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You should probably bring up things like this on the Linux USB list. Well, where is that mailing list? What does /proc/interrupts show for the 2.4.3-ac7 case? Exactly the same as the one from 2.4.3: CPU0 0:

Re: Documentation of module parameters.

2001-04-17 Thread coop
You can use the "modinfo" utility (Do "man modinfo".) In particular modinfo -p driver.o will give any parameters that can be set in driver.o. If the module author has used the MODULE_PARM_DESC() macro, more documentation can be found.

Re: Mylex DAC vs RAM disk in 2.4.2 devfs

2001-04-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Andreas Ferber [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel Hi, On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:22:01PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: Mylex controllers for a long time. I am willing to submit patches to the kernel and to devfsd if this

Re: Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)

2001-04-17 Thread Steve Hill
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, RobertoNibali wrote: My 2 questions are: Is this an acceptable fix for Donald? Because if so, I'd like to submit it for the starfire quardboard driver. I have no idea - I haven't been able to get in touch with him :( (The fix was urgently required, and this did the

crashing in module unload

2001-04-17 Thread ernte23
"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: It's crashing in module unload, and it appears that the module is freeing things which were not allocated (or freeing something twice). It's a module bug --- report it on linux-kernel. This does not look like a mm bug. I was using 2.4.4-pre1 when this happened.

block devices don't work without plugging in 2.4.3

2001-04-17 Thread Peter T. Breuer
Well, anyway, as far as I can tell, the following has been lost from __make_request() in ll_rw_blk.c since the 2.4.0 days: out: - if (!q-plugged) - (q-request_fn)(q); if (freereq) The result appears to be that if a block device has called blk_queue_pluggable() to

epic100 error

2001-04-17 Thread Oliver Teuber
hi my smc epic100 card does not work with the device driver from linux-2.4.3-ac7. linux-2.2.19 works fine for me. please take a look at my /var/log/messages ... Apr 17 09:37:27 olibox kernel: epic100.c:v1.11 1/7/2001 Written by Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 17 09:37:27 olibox kernel:

RE: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-17 Thread Grover, Andrew
From: Pavel Machek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I would think that it would make sense to keep shutdown with all the other power management events. Perhaps it will makes more sense to handle UPS's through the power management code. Yes, that would be another acceptable solution.

IPC usage inside of kernel module

2001-04-17 Thread Yaroslav Rastrigin
Hello everybody ! I needed to implement an IPC connectiovity between module and userspace daemon, and came to this horrible code (after looking to sys_msgsnd() ): ... copy_to_user(msg_buf, hlb1, sizeof(struct linfs_buffer)); hi1 = sys_ipc(MSGSND, msgq_id, message_size, 0, \ (struct msgbuf

Re: Could hd-drivers and buffer algorithm be hardware?

2001-04-17 Thread Tomas Telensky
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, John Nilsson wrote: The idea is as follows. Design a hardisk controller that would take care of all harddrive and block device managment and provide a virtual storage area to the OS. This way all the kernel would have to worry about is a virtual harddrive and how

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

2001-04-17 Thread James Simmons
Yes, but they could be. Changing the Linux keycodes is a major break with compatibility. If the Linux keycodes are to be changed, then they ought to be become something that would allow XFree86 to become keyboard-independent. Why invent yet another encoding? You dont need to break

RE: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-17 Thread Leif Sawyer
Jesse Pollard continues with: Leif Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ian Stirling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Manfred Bartz responded to Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] who writes: You just illustrated my point. While there is a reset capability people will use it and accounting/ logging programs

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Scalable FD Management using Read-Copy-Update

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Hahn
isn't this a solution in search of a problem? does it make sense to redesign parts of the kernel for the sole purpose of making a completely unrealistic benchmark run faster? Irrespective of the usefulness of the "chat" benchmark, it seems that there is a problem of scalability as long

Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha process table hang]

2001-04-17 Thread David Howells
Andrea, How did you generate the 00_rwsem-generic-1 patch? Against what did you diff? You seem to have removed all the optimised i386 rwsem stuff... Did it not work for you? (the generic rwsemaphores in those kernels is broken, try to use them in other archs or x86 and you will notice) and I

Re: block devices don't work without plugging in 2.4.3

2001-04-17 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Apr 17 2001, Peter T. Breuer wrote: Well, anyway, as far as I can tell, the following has been lost from __make_request() in ll_rw_blk.c since the 2.4.0 days: out: - if (!q-plugged) - (q-request_fn)(q); if (freereq) The result appears to be that if

Temporary home for sctp.refcode.org and sctp.chicago.il.us

2001-04-17 Thread La Monte H.P. Yarroll
Due to the collapse of Northpoint, both sctp.refcode.org and sctp.chicago.il.us have been down for more than a week. Many of you have been asking about the web sites because of my talk at the Linux 2.5 Summit. I've found a temporary home for both sites--they'll probably be there for a month or

Re: USB with 2.4.3-ac{1,3,7} without devfs- aic7xxx ?

2001-04-17 Thread FAVRE Gregoire
Thus spake Johannes Erdfelt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): http://www.linux-usb.org Thanks, I'll go there ;-) Sorry for the strange looking of my copy and paste to vim... You may want to turn off auto-indent under vim, or you can always just remove the excess spaces by hand. Thanks also for that

Re: Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)

2001-04-17 Thread Roberto Nibali
I have no idea - I haven't been able to get in touch with him :( (The fix was urgently required, and this did the job). I just realized I had this old patch for 2.2.17 and that in 2.2.19 series this problem is addressed correctly by Donald. Apologies to him and sorry about the confusion. His

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

2001-04-17 Thread Alan Cox
this for embedded devices. It just plain stupid to have VT support on something like a hand held iPAQ which doesn't usually have a keyboard attached. Also having fbcon built in for these devices just takes up It makes plenty of sence to have support for virtual terminals on the ipaq. I agree

video performance short raport

2001-04-17 Thread Jacek Popawski
just downloaded 2.4.3-ac7 to test... hardware: Voodoo3, VIA MVP3 benchmark: x11perf -putimage100 results: 2.2.19 8000 reps @ 0.7785 msec ( 1280.0/sec): PutImage 100x100 square 2.4.2-ac20 8000 reps @ 0.7736 msec ( 1290.0/sec): PutImage 100x100 square 2.4.2-ac27 3600 reps @ 1.3980

Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha process table hang]

2001-04-17 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:59:13PM +0100, David Howells wrote: Andrea, How did you generate the 00_rwsem-generic-1 patch? Against what did you diff? 2.4.4pre3 from kernel.org. You seem to have removed all the optimised i386 rwsem stuff... Did it not work for you? As said the design of

RE: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-17 Thread Grover, Andrew
From: Martin Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Pardon me for butting in, but perhaps this is relevant... I've seen the odd program which manipulates the ACPI tables/registers directly rather than through an ASL compiler then an AML interpreter. These appear to use the "magic numbers"

Re: [PATCH] Process pinning

2001-04-17 Thread Tim Hockin
disallowed CPU on which it is already running. And even a non-RT process will stick on its disallowed CPU as long as nothing else runs there. are we going to keep the cpus_allowed API? If we want the (IMHO) more flexible sysmp() API - I'll finish the 2.4 port. If we are going to keep

Re: video performance short raport

2001-04-17 Thread Alan Cox
hardware: Voodoo3, VIA MVP3 benchmark: x11perf -putimage100 Interesting because the MVP3 code hasnt been touched for a very long time. So something between 2.4.2-ac20 and ac27 has done nasties to your performance 2.4.2-ac20 8000 reps @ 0.7736 msec ( 1290.0/sec): PutImage 100x100 square

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

2001-04-17 Thread James Simmons
this for embedded devices. It just plain stupid to have VT support on something like a hand held iPAQ which doesn't usually have a keyboard attached. Also having fbcon built in for these devices just takes up It makes plenty of sence to have support for virtual terminals on the ipaq. I agree

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

2001-04-17 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, Mark Hounschell wrote: Sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday afternoon. I was out of town. Attached is the output from dmesg and the relavent info from /var/log/messages. Could you try the attached patch? I forgot to initialize a variable correctly. (I also put a new version at

Fwd: RE: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-17 Thread Bingner Sam J. Contractor RSIS
** Forwarded Message Follows *** To: "'Christopher Friesen'" [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sampsa Ranta [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Bingner Sam J. Contractor RSIS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:07:41 - I tested this with kernel version 2.2.18 and arp_filter appeared to be

Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

2001-04-17 Thread Pekka Pietikainen
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:15:24PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote: Some more progress: I now downgraded to proftpd without sendfile(). The CPU usage is now nearly 100% (with ~170 FTP users; with sendfile() it was under 50% with 320 FTP users). But nevertheless, the downloaded images now seem

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please getbetter audio.

2001-04-17 Thread Miles Lane
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Miles Lane wrote: hand someone a mike. I like this idea quite a bit. It would probably not be terribly expensive to rent/buy the required equipment, it would be easy to use and would not be terribly disruptive to the preceedings. I'm

RE: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-17 Thread Jesse Pollard
Leif Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And that introduces errors in measurement. It also depends on how frequently an uncontroled process is clearing the counters. You may never be able to get a valid measurement. This is true. Which is why application programmers need to write code as if

RE: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-17 Thread Sam . Bingner
Correction, that was on kernel v2.2.19 Sam ** Forwarded Message Follows *** To: "'Christopher Friesen'" [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sampsa Ranta [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Bingner Sam J. Contractor RSIS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:07:41 - I tested this with kernel

AHA-154X/1535 not recognized any more

2001-04-17 Thread Markus Schaber
Hello, In my computer, I use an old ISA PNP SCSI host adapter, where I connectend an external Iomega ZIP plus - this strange device (PPA and SCSI on the same connector) doesn't like to share its SCSI-Bus with other devices - thus I need two host adapters for two devices :-( Now I have the

why raw devices don't seek above 4GB (sometimes)

2001-04-17 Thread k . lichtenwalder
ok, I found my problem. As previously said, I'm on reiser. Which (obviously) has a file size limit of 4GB set in the superblock. Llseek only allows seek offsets which are smaller than the allowed file size. What happens is: I set up a raw device: raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/hdd with /dev/hdd being my

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-17 Thread george anzinger
Mark Salisbury wrote: Functional Specification for the high-res-timers project. In addition we expect that we will provide a high resolution timer for kernel use (heck, we may provide several). what we do here determines what we can do for the user.. I was thinking that it might be

Your response is requested

2001-04-17 Thread J . I .
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RE: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-17 Thread Leif Sawyer
Jesse Pollard replies: to Leif Sawyer who wrote: Besides, what would be gained in making the counters RO, if they were cleared every time the module was loaded/unloaded? 1. Knowlege that the module was reloaded. 2. Knowlege that the data being measured is correct 3. Having reliable

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

2001-04-17 Thread Mark Hounschell
Roman Zippel wrote: Could you try the attached patch? I forgot to initialize a variable correctly. (I also put a new version at http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/affs.010417.tar.gz) I beleive the filesystem is ffs but not exactly sure. How do I tell? It's printed if you mount with

Re: Your response is requested

2001-04-17 Thread Dave Zarzycki
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^^ Arrggg!!! Mumble... grumble... F*cking spammer using my hostname as the from address for sending spam... Dave Zarzycki - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha process table hang]

2001-04-17 Thread D . W . Howells
Andrea, As said the design of the framework to plugin per-arch rwsem implementation isn't flexible enough and the generic spinlocks are as well broken, try to use them if you can (yes I tried that for the alpha, it was just a mess and it was more productive to rewrite than to fix).

That leaked spam...

2001-04-17 Thread Matti Aarnio
Oops, something leaked thru, now I added couple filters which should bite on this, and one other mutation of the same kind... (Naturally I had to remove trap key-phrases from the text..) /Matti Aarnio On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:36:36PM +, J.I. wrote: From: J. I. Date: Tue, 17 Apr

Re: RFC: pageable kernel-segments

2001-04-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:"Heusden, Folkert van" [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel Would anyone be intrested (besides me) in a kernel which can page out certain parts of itself? The kernel should be in some kind of vmlinux-ish (as in: uncompressed) format on

Your response is requested (fwd)

2001-04-17 Thread Sergey Kubushin
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Re: Your response is requested

2001-04-17 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:18:48PM -0700, Dave Zarzycki wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^^ Arrggg!!! Mumble... grumble... F*cking spammer using my hostname as the from address for sending spam... Actually not. Either your MTA, or

Re: Your response is requested

2001-04-17 Thread Nathan Dabney
Nope, it was spoofed. It just looks to you like it came from you, like mine looks like it came from my domain... -Nathan On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:18:48PM -0700, Dave Zarzycki wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^^ Arrggg!!! Mumble...

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