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

2001-04-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ion Badulescu wrote: > Well.. Space.c is a dinozaur. However, this is the 2.2 series and no more > surgery will happen on this kernel, at least normally. > > Have you tried loading the drivers as modules? You might have more luck > with that approach. Space.c was designed at a time when having 4

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

2001-04-19 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Have you tried loading the drivers as modules? You might have more luck > > with that approach. Space.c was designed at a time when having 4 NIC's in > > a PC was "pushing the limits"... > > 2.2.recent has module_init/exit, so you don't even need Space

[PATCH] update drivers/input/keybdev.c

2001-04-19 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linus, The following patch updates drivers/input/keybdev.c so that we can generate either linux keycodes or ADB keycodes from keyboards that use the input layer. We now have ADB keyboards and mice using the input layer as well as USB, so it is very useful to have the flexibility to choose at run

Re: [Ext2-devel] ext2 inode size (on-disk)

2001-04-19 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:35:40PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > I don't _think_ that there is a requirement for a multiple-of-8 inodes > per group. OK, looking into mke2fs (actually lib/ext2fs/initialize.c) > it _does_ show that it needs to be a multiple of 8, but I'm not sure > exactly what th

Re: [Ext2-devel] ext2 inode size (on-disk)

2001-04-19 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:23:39PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > I'm somewhat concerned about the following: last block of inode table > fragment may have less inodes than the rest. Reason: number of inodes > per group should be a multiple of 8 and with inodes bigger than 128 > bytes it may gi

Re: Dead symbol elimination, stage 1

2001-04-19 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > > David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > I read this as "I haven't fixed the problem because..." not as > > > "Don't fix the problem." Please be more explicit next time so I won't > > > step on your toes? > > > > "This is not a pro

Re: [Ext2-devel] ext2 inode size (on-disk)

2001-04-19 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:29:52PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In the long run, it probably makes sense to adjust the algorithms to > > allow for non-power-of-two inode sizes, > > If you don't mind, does that imply packing inodes across block > boundaries? No, it mea

Re: [2.4.3] PPP errors

2001-04-19 Thread Paul Mackerras
Manfred H. Winter writes: > Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: Plugin /usr/lib/passwordfd.so loaded. > Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: pppd 2.4.0 started by mahowi, uid 500 > Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: Perms of /dev/ttyS0 are ok, no 'mesg n' necce > sary. Just out of curiosity, what p

Re: Allocated swap space versus used swap space

2001-04-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Hi, Argh. Silly. Well... Right now we can get a task killed by the OOM killer even if there is a lot of _unused_ (but allocated) swap space. The reason for that is the pre allocation of swap. Practical example (128MB swap, 960MB ram): #

Re: Linux 2.4.3 Compile Errors - Power Mac

2001-04-19 Thread Jeff Galloway
Sorry, Tom about the word doc faux pas. I've set out my problem in plain text below. I got my source from ftp.kernel.org. Here's my problem: Problem in compiling linux 2.4.3 Compile error message: After the compiler message: gcc ­D__KERNEL__ -I/home/jeff/kernel/linux/include ­Wall ­Ws

Re: Linux 2.4.3 Compile Errors - Power Mac

2001-04-19 Thread Jeff Galloway
Jeez David. Although it was insensitive of me to seek succor from the Linux folks while speaking Microsoft, you needn't be so touchy about it. I promise I won't commit that sin again, however, at least not in these circles. (If it makes you feel any better, I'm using a Mac and not a Wintel.) F

Allocated swap space versus used swap space

2001-04-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, - 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.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.4.3-ac{6,7} LVM hang

2001-04-19 Thread Arjan Filius
Hello Jens, Yes this fixes it. I'm running 2.4.4-pre4 with only your patch applied. Greatings, On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19 2001, Arjan Filius wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Same here as reported. > > restoring lvm.c from 2.4.3 into 2.4.4-pre? "fixes" this. (tested not

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

2001-04-19 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Roberto Nibali wrote: > A 2.2.x UP-APIC patch would maybe improve things here while under > heavy load. I'm using such boxes as packetfilters. All quadboards > get IRQ 11 which is rather nasty considering a possible throughput > of 40Mbit/s per NIC. The UP-APIC wouldn't help

Re: [Ext2-devel] ext2 inode size (on-disk)

2001-04-19 Thread Andreas Dilger
Al writes: > I don't think that it's needed - old kernels (up to -CURRENT ;-) will > simply refuse to mount if ->s_inode_size != 128. Old utilites may be > trickier, though... Probably would need an incompat flag for changing the inode size anyways, so old utilities wouldn't set that anyways. >

Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

2001-04-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > This sucks for users of that architecture. Also, though not > applicable to PA-RISC, it sucks for sub-architecture porters. > (by sub-architecture I mean: Mac, PReP, PowerCore, BeBox, etc.) As you said it so eloquently a few paragraphs down:

Re: kernel merge issues

2001-04-19 Thread Russell Cattelan
james rich wrote: > Hi folks, > I'm sure many here have read the discussion on lkml about lvm and > the problems that team is having. As part of that discussion it was said: I'm not entirely familiar with the issues surrounding lvm development, I know things are not in good shape right

Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

2001-04-19 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Matthew Wilcox writes: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:07:22PM -0600, james rich wrote: >> Doesn't this seem a little like the problems occurring with lvm right now? >> A separate tree maintained with the maintainers not wanting others >> submitting patches that conflict with their particular tree?

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac10

2001-04-19 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > I should have gotten off my butt and mentioned this... I would prefer a > patch without the 2.2.x compat stuff. So instead of all that compat > code, have > #include "starfire-2.2.h" > or similar... > > And then starfire-2.2.h would only exist on

Re: BP6: APIC, rtl8139 & sound

2001-04-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Per-Henrik Persson wrote: > If i start to use the NIC, like som browsing on the internet i occassionly > get: > > eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001. You need the 8139too driver update, from 2.4.4-pre5, 2.4.3-ac7, or http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ -- Jeff Garzik

Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

2001-04-19 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:07:22PM -0600, james rich wrote: > Doesn't this seem a little like the problems occurring with lvm right now? > A separate tree maintained with the maintainers not wanting others > submitting patches that conflict with their particular tree? It seems > that any project

Re: Configure.help maintainer change

2001-04-19 Thread Steven Cole
Axel Boldt wrote: >Eric has worked on Configure.help for some time now and I haven't, >so he will take over official maintenance of that file. I've also been fixing up Configure.help for a while now, and helped Eric recently with his huge update patch for Configure.help. I'd like to be listed as

BP6: APIC, rtl8139 & sound

2001-04-19 Thread Per-Henrik Persson
Hi, I'v been lurking around all archives from this list trying to find an answer to my problem but with no success so I take the step ant mail it to this list. My hardware setup is as following: Abit BP6, 2xCeleron 366, G400, old Matrox-card, sym53c8xx SCSI, Trident 4DWave NX sound, rtl8139 NIC

Re: PNP BIOS and parport_pc - dma found but not used

2001-04-19 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Gunther! On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Gunther Mayer wrote: > > PnPBIOS: Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0401 at io=0378,0778 irq=7 dma=-1 >^^ culprit ! For some reason I'm not getting that message anymore. PnPBIOS is in the kernel, par

Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

2001-04-19 Thread james rich
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:00:09PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > What is the right procedure for doing changes like this? Is "don't > > touch that tree" a permanent condition, or am I going to get a chance > > to clean up the global CONFIG_ namesp

ISDN compile fix for 2.4.4-pre5

2001-04-19 Thread Karsten Keil
Hi, seems that somehow isdn.h changes get lost during the merge. Following patch fix this and some other minor things. -- Karsten Keil SuSE Labs ISDN development diff -urN linux-2.4.4p5.org/drivers/isdn/hisax/md5sums.asc linux/drivers/isdn/hisax/md5sums.asc --- linux-2.4.4p5.org/drivers/isdn

Re: active after unmount?

2001-04-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
Double cool then. > > > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > 'kay, great, thanks.. I'll put it in and see if things show up again > > Guys, it's a known bug, fixed in 2.4.4-pre3. See the change to fs/super.c > between 2.4.4-pre2 and 2.4.4-pre3 - it's quite small. > - To uns

Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

2001-04-19 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:00:09PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > What is the right procedure for doing changes like this? Is "don't > touch that tree" a permanent condition, or am I going to get a chance > to clean up the global CONFIG_ namespace after your next merge-down? Our current status

kernel patch to Solaris

2001-04-19 Thread news news
Hi Everyone, In stead of Linux, I have a question about doing a kernel patch to SUN's Solaris. We are working on a project, and it turns out we might have to modify the I/O's behavior. Therefore, we are thinking to put in a kernel patch to the Solaris OS. Is there anything we need to consider

Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

2001-04-19 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 18:50:34 EDT, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > Remove dead CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA symbol. > > Please don't do this, it just makes merging our patches with Linus harder. Bother. I've now heard "don't touch that tree!" from you and the ARM folks

Re: ac10 ide-cd oopses on boot

2001-04-19 Thread Jordan
Bill Nottingham wrote: > > J . A . Magallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > Can you back out the ide-cd changes Jens did and see if that fixes it ? > > > > Reverted the changes in ide-cd.[hc], and same result. > > You want to back out the stuff from drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c; I backed > out the part

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-19 Thread Ton Hospel
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > No he isnt confused, you are trying to dictate policy. >> >> What then *is* the policy? > > The policy is not to have policy. It works as well in kernel design as politics. > > Alan > Since my job is in fact main

Re:

2001-04-19 Thread Francois Cami
Vibol Hou wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using 2.4.4-pre3 and get this message occasionally when the system is > loaded: > > Apr 17 16:10:12 omega kernel: eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status e401. > Apr 17 16:10:12 omega kernel: eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status e401. I got that one too, P

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If the new interface can be useful for anything it must allow to > > implement process-shared POSIX mutexes. > > Pardon me the bluntness, but... Why? Because otherwise there is no reason to even waste a second with this. At least for me and everybo

Re: ac10 ide-cd oopses on boot

2001-04-19 Thread Bill Nottingham
J . A . Magallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Can you back out the ide-cd changes Jens did and see if that fixes it ? > > Reverted the changes in ide-cd.[hc], and same result. You want to back out the stuff from drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c; I backed out the parts of the patch new there to ac10, and

Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

2001-04-19 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 18:50:34 EDT, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Remove dead CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA symbol. Please don't do this, it just makes merging our patches with Linus harder. This has already been done in our tree since Feb 1. In fact, please don't touch anything in the tree which is PA specif

Re: [Ext2-devel] ext2 inode size (on-disk)

2001-04-19 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This was a project that was never completed. I thought at one point > of allowing the inode size to be not a power of 2, but if you do that, > you really want to avoid letting an inode cross a block boundary --- > for reliability and performance r

Re: ext2 inode size (on-disk)

2001-04-19 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Strange, I run "mke2fs -I 192 /dev/hdc2" and do not have a segfault or any > problems with e2fsck or debugfs on the resulting filesystem. I'm running > 1.20-WIP, but I don't think anything was changed in this area for some time. May depend on the

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.4.3-ac{6,7} LVM hang

2001-04-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On 19 Apr 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does attached patch fix it? > > Yes. Jens, I guess we should submit these patches to Alan and Linus now. This way we'll get a working LVM again. Waiting for the next official LVM release (and the next set of b

SGI Visual Workstation support?

2001-04-19 Thread He Ding
Hi, I tried to compile kernel 2.4.3. with SGI Visual Workstation support selected. I got the error as follows: ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ --start-group \ arch/i

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Dan Kegel
Dear Sistina: I know very little about LVM, but from watching earlier projects in the same situation you're in now, the path you need to follow seems clear: Stop using CVS internally for development. It makes checking in changes without submitting them to Linus too easy. To get sync'd

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Alexander Viro
On 19 Apr 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm not interested in re-creating the idiocies of Sys IPC. > > I'm not talking about sysv semaphores (couldn't care less). And you > haven't read any of the mails with examples I sent. > > If the new in

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > went in, but not other stuff. Also, it doesn't appear that any of the > LVM changes are making it into the stock kernel, which is basically a > recepie for disaster. agreed... after the problematic inclusion of 0.9 into the kernel i asked on sistina

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac10

2001-04-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ion wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:14:32 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2.4.3-ac10 > > o Merge Linus 2.4.4pre4 > > Well, it seems you have backed out my starfire changes when you merged > Jeff Garzik's changes from 2.4.4pre4. So here's a new version, diff'ed > agai

Configure.help maintainer change

2001-04-19 Thread Axel Boldt
Eric has worked on Configure.help for some time now and I haven't, so he will take over official maintenance of that file. The attached patch is against 2.4.3. Axel --- linux/MAINTAINERS Mon Mar 26 04:14:20 2001 +++ linux/MAINTAINERS.new Fri Apr 20 03:05:23 2001 @@ -273,8 +273,8 @@ S:

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

2001-04-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:28:09AM +0100, D . W . Howells wrote: > I benchmarked four different environments: > > (1) 2.4.4-pre3 + Andrea's generic rwsem patch > (2) 2.4.4-pre4 using XADD to implement the rwsems > (3) same as (2) but with a tweak to make rwsem_wake() less fair >

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.4.3-ac{6,7} LVM hang

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does attached patch fix it? Yes. -- ---. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \,---' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com ` -

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac10

2001-04-19 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:14:32 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2.4.3-ac10 > o Merge Linus 2.4.4pre4 Well, it seems you have backed out my starfire changes when you merged Jeff Garzik's changes from 2.4.4pre4. So here's a new version, diff'ed against 2.4.3-ac10, which inclu

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Andreas Dilger
AJ writes: > Ok, the issue here is that we're trying to get a release out and so anything > that majorly changes the code is getting shunted aside for the moment. Actually, the whole idea of "trying to get a release out" is part of the problem. If patches were included into CVS and sent sent to

Re: active after unmount?

2001-04-19 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > 'kay, great, thanks.. I'll put it in and see if things show up again Guys, it's a known bug, fixed in 2.4.4-pre3. See the change to fs/super.c between 2.4.4-pre2 and 2.4.4-pre3 - it's quite small. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: ac10 ide-cd oopses on boot

2001-04-19 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 04.20 Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > Just built 2.4.3-ac10 and got an oops when booting. It tries to detect > > > the CD and gives the oops. > > I'm getting a similar oops with -ac10. I initially thought this might be > a result of switching to gcc-2.95.3, because -ac9 r

Re: PCI power management

2001-04-19 Thread Patrick Mochel
> - There need to be some arch "hooks" in this mecanism. Some machines > have the ability (from the arch specific code, by tweaking ASIC bits) > to remove clock and/or power from selected devices. That mean power > management can be done even with devices not supporting PCI PM provided > that th

Re: ac10 ide-cd oopses on boot

2001-04-19 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Alan Cox wrote: > > > Just built 2.4.3-ac10 and got an oops when booting. It tries to detect > > the CD and gives the oops. I'm getting a similar oops with -ac10. I initially thought this might be a result of switching to gcc-2.95.3, because -ac9 runs fine when built with gcc-2.95.2, but if othe

Re: Real Time Traffic Flow Measurement - anybody working on it?

2001-04-19 Thread Edgar Toernig
Hi, Michael Clark wrote: > > An obvious kernel improvement for userspace meters like NeTraMet would > be to give libpcap's pcap_read a kernel interface that can return more > than one packet at a time (the libpcap interface has this capability). It's already there - the turbo packet interface (

Re: [Linux-pm-devel] Re: PCI power management

2001-04-19 Thread Patrick Mochel
> > - On SMP, we need some way to stop other CPUs in the scheduler > > while running the last round of sleep (putting devices to sleep) at least > > until all IO layers in Linux can properly handle blocking of IO queues > > while the device sleeps. > > I think either Rusty or Anton wrote code t

Re: [PATCH] generic rw_semaphores, compile warnings patch

2001-04-19 Thread David S. Miller
D.W.Howells writes: > This patch (made against linux-2.4.4-pre4) gets rid of some warnings obtained > when using the generic rwsem implementation. Have a look at pre5, this is already fixed. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

[PATCH] reiserfs should daemonize

2001-04-19 Thread Chris Mason
Hi guys, The reiserfs commit thread needs to daemonize. This patch was actually from Andi Kleen eons ago (but blame me if it breaks). Please apply. Against 2.4.3: --- linux/fs/reiserfs/journal.c Thu Apr 19 14:02:56 2001 +++ linux/fs/reiserfs/journal.c Thu Apr 19 18:11:57 2001 @@ -1814,16 +1

[PATCH] generic rw_semaphores, compile warnings patch

2001-04-19 Thread D . W . Howells
This patch (made against linux-2.4.4-pre4) gets rid of some warnings obtained when using the generic rwsem implementation. David diff -uNr linux-2.4.4-pre4/include/linux/rwsem.h linux/include/linux/rwsem.h --- linux-2.4.4-pre4/include/linux/rwsem.h Thu Apr 19 22:07:49 2001 +++ linux/incl

Re: ac10 ide-cd oopses on boot

2001-04-19 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 04.20 Alan Cox wrote: > > Just built 2.4.3-ac10 and got an oops when booting. It tries to detect > > the CD and gives the oops. > > Can you back out the ide-cd changes Jens did and see if that fixes it ? > > Reverted the changes in ide-cd.[hc], and same result. Bootlog from ac9: Uniform M

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

2001-04-19 Thread D . W . Howells
You asked for some benchmarks Andrea, so I've obtained some. The set of test modules can be found at: ftp://infradead.org/pub/people/dwh/rwsem-test.tar.bz2 (This also includes rwsem-stat.txt which has a copy of the benchmark results in as well) There are six test programs. They can b

ac10 ide-cd oopses on boot

2001-04-19 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi, Just built 2.4.3-ac10 and got an oops when booting. It tries to detect the CD and gives the oops. Here follows the oops both raw and decoded: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip: c01bfc7c pgd entry c0101000: pmd entry

OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

2001-04-19 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Remove dead CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA symbol. --- arch/cris/config.in 2001/04/18 14:18:58 1.1 +++ arch/cris/config.in 2001/04/18 14:19:11 @@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ bool 'System V IPC' CONFIG_SYSVIPC tristate 'Kernel support for ELF binaries' CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF -if [ "$CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL" = "y" ]; then -

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not interested in re-creating the idiocies of Sys IPC. I'm not talking about sysv semaphores (couldn't care less). And you haven't read any of the mails with examples I sent. If the new interface can be useful for anything it must allow to imple

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Rogier Wolff
Alan Cox wrote: > > > libc is entitled to, and most definitely does exactly that. Take a look at > > > things like gethostent, getpwent etc etc. > > > > Ehh.. I will bet you $10 USD that if libc allocates the next file > > descriptor on the first "malloc()" in user space (in order to use the > >

Current Security Module snapshot

2001-04-19 Thread Greg KH
Hi, Just to keep people informed (hi Miles!) that since the announcement of the linux-security-module mailing list, some actual work has come out of it. Actual working code has been posted, which shows the current state, and the general model of what people are working toward. This post and the

Re: active after unmount?

2001-04-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
'kay, great, thanks.. I'll put it in and see if things show up again - 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.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.

Re: aha1542 fails in 2.4.4-pre4

2001-04-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Apr 19 2001, Jonathan Hudson wrote: > > Just rebuilt an old box (Celeron 400) with an aha1542 and SCSI > CD-ROM. Get the following: Known bug, on my list, will fix. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

Re: active after unmount?

2001-04-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:56:15PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Brian J. Watson wrote: > > > > 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: Bu

aha1542 fails in 2.4.4-pre4

2001-04-19 Thread Jonathan Hudson
Just rebuilt an old box (Celeron 400) with an aha1542 and SCSI CD-ROM. Get the following: (aha1542 as module) Apr 19 21:22:04 kanga kernel: Configuring Adaptec (SCSI-ID 7) at IO:330, IRQ 10, DMA priority 6 Apr 19 21:22:04 kanga kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 1542 Apr 19 21:22:04 kanga kerne

Re: active after unmount?

2001-04-19 Thread Brian J. Watson
> 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... > This message comes out of kill_super(). I would guess that some

Re: active after unmount?

2001-04-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Brian J. Watson wrote: > > 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... > > >

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Miles Lane
Alan Cox wrote: >>As far as getting patches into the stock kernel, we've been sending patches >>to Linus for over a month now, and none of them have made it in. Maybe >>someone has some pointers on how we get our code past his filters. >> > > Has it occured to you that some of this might be bec

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.4.3-ac{6,7} LVM hang

2001-04-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Apr 19 2001, Arjan Filius wrote: > Hello, > > Same here as reported. > restoring lvm.c from 2.4.3 into 2.4.4-pre? "fixes" this. (tested not ac's > kernel) Does attached patch fix it? -- Jens Axboe --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.4-pre4/drivers/md/lvm.c Wed Apr 18 14:37:34 2001 +++ d

Re: Your message to linux-lvm awaits moderator approval

2001-04-19 Thread Chip Salzenberg
Rik van Riel writes: >[...] Andreas' patches got dropped over and over again and comments >on the LVM code got refused by the moderators at Sistina ... "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- John Gilmore -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. -

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On 19 Apr 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I fail to see how this works across processes. > > > > It's up to FS_create() to create whatever shared mapping is needed. > > No, the point is that FS_create is *not* the one creating the shared > mapping

Re: A little problem.

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
> and upgrade the Linux Kerenl from their original 2.2.16 to 2.2.18. But when > I compile some modules, it said my kernel is 2.4.0. I check the > /usr/include/linux/version.h as follows, found that it shows I am using > Kernel 2.4.0. No. It shows the headers your C compiler libraries are built ag

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
> Are you sure, you can implement SMP-safe, atomic operations (which you need > for all up()/down() in user space) WITHOUT using privileged > instructions on ALL archs Linux supports? You don't need to. For some architectures the semaphore code would always call into the kernel. For those that al

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-19 Thread Tomas Jura
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:12:28AM +0200, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > My fstab: > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdmac hfs noauto,user,ro 0 0 > > I insert an apple cd (hfs) and mount /mnt/cdmac If I type e

Re: FW: Linux 2.4.3 Compile Errors - Power Mac

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
> I sent this report to the people indicated below, whose names I got from the > MAINTAINERS file in the 2.4.3 distribution, but the email address for Mr. > MacKerras is no longer good and Mr. Chastain wrote me back that he is not > following 2.4 issues. Well Keith is on holiday I believe and Pau

Re: FW: Linux 2.4.3 Compile Errors - Power Mac

2001-04-19 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I have not yet heard from Mr. Owens. This does not surprise me, given the content of your email. > The compiler error message along with the menuconfig-generated > configuration file are set out in the attached MS Word document. I have to assume that you're just wind

Re: Problems with Toshiba SD-W2002 DVD-RAM drive (IDE)

2001-04-19 Thread Stefan Jaschke
On Thursday 19 April 2001 15:03, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19 2001, Stefan Jaschke wrote: > > OK. I'll check again with 2.4.4-pre4+patches: > > (1) Mounting the SuSE DVD-ROM (-t iso9660) from /dev/hdc on /dvd and > > reading from /dvd works. Same for CD-ROMs. I don't have a formatted > >

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi AJ, On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:40:15PM -0500, AJ Lewis wrote: > The list is now open. I've talked to our admin and he's opening it up. > Send me e-mail if it doesn't work, 'cause something else is broken. to me it looks like your reactions are too late. I suggest you Sistina people accept t

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I fail to see how this works across processes. > > It's up to FS_create() to create whatever shared mapping is needed. No, the point is that FS_create is *not* the one creating the shared mapping. The user is explicitly doing this her/himself. --

Re: FW: Linux 2.4.3 Compile Errors - Power Mac

2001-04-19 Thread tom_gall
Jeff Galloway wrote: > > I sent this report to the people indicated below, whose names I got from the > MAINTAINERS file in the 2.4.3 distribution, but the email address for Mr. > MacKerras is no longer good and Mr. Chastain wrote me back that he is not > following 2.4 issues. Hi Jeff, Hmm...

Re: Dead symbol elimination, stage 1

2001-04-19 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > For instance, a quick scan of my latest ARM patch reveals: > src@raistlin:[2]:<1009> grep 'diff.*Config.in' rmk1 > diff -urN linux-orig/drivers/mtd/Config.in linux/drivers/mtd/Config.in Please could you make sure that whatever changes you have are in my CVS - I'm wor

Re: [kbuild-devel] Dead symbol elimination, stage 1

2001-04-19 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > The following patch cleans dead symbols out of the defconfigs in the 2.4.4pre4 > source tree. It corrects a typo involving CONFIG_GEN_RTC. Another typo > involving CONFIG_SOUND_YMPCI doesn't need to be corrected, as the symbol > is never set in thes

RE: A little problem.

2001-04-19 Thread Bingner Sam J. Contractor RSIS
sounds to me like you have the wrong source in /usr/src/linux there is a module you can install, or you can do it as I normally would... obtain kernel source for 2.2.18 from ftp.kernel.org and put it in "/usr/src" (/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.18.tar.bz2) remove the symlink in /usr/src "rm -

Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

2001-04-19 Thread Jim Treadway
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > However, I'm not sure that your reasoning for removing these is correct. > > For example, one symbol that I saw was CONFIG_EXT2_CHECK, which is code > > that used to be enabled in the kernel, but is currently #i

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:11:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > No, this is NOT what the UNIX dogmas are all about. > > > > When UNIX says "everything is a file", it really means that "everything is > > a stream of bytes". Things like magic operation

Re: sk->state_chage is not called for listening sockets

2001-04-19 Thread David S. Miller
Pete Zaitcev writes: > With that in mind, would the following chage have any ill effects? > It does not seem to break anything obvious, but I am worried about > a performance degradation for some retarded benchmark. > > diff -u -U 4 linux-2.4.3/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c linux-2.4.3-nfs/net/ipv4/

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > Are you sure, you can implement SMP-safe, atomic operations (which you need > for all up()/down() in user space) WITHOUT using privileged > instructions on ALL archs Linux supports? Why do you care? Sure, there are broken architectures out there. They

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread AJ Lewis
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:09:32PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > AJ Lewis wrote: > > Ok, the issue here is that we're trying to get a release out and so anything > > that majorly changes the code is getting shunted aside for the moment. It > > would be stupid to just add everything that comes in on

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On 19 Apr 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Looks good to me. Anybody want to try this out and test some benchmarks? > > I fail to see how this works across processes. It's up to FS_create() to create whatever shared mapping is needed. For threads,

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:11:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > No, this is NOT what the UNIX dogmas are all about. > > When UNIX says "everything is a file", it really means that "everything is > a stream of bytes". Things like magic operations on file desciptors are > _anathema_ to UNIX. ioct

A little problem.

2001-04-19 Thread Hai Xu
Dear all, I have a question about the kernel used by the RedHat. I am using Redhat 7.0 and upgrade the Linux Kerenl from their original 2.2.16 to 2.2.18. But when I compile some modules, it said my kernel is 2.4.0. I check the /usr/include/linux/version.h as follows, found that it shows I am usin

Re: CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP help

2001-04-19 Thread Edgar Toernig
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1. for tp_frame_size, I dont want to truncate any data on ethernet, I > need 1514 bytes, is this the best way to do it and not waste space? > > static const int TURBO_FRAME_SIZE= > TPACKET_ALIGN(TPACKET_ALIGN(sizeof(tpacket_hdr)) + >TPAC

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you sure, you can implement SMP-safe, atomic operations (which you need > for all up()/down() in user space) WITHOUT using privileged > instructions on ALL archs Linux supports? Which processors have no such instructions but are SMP-capable? > How do

Re: Your message to linux-lvm awaits moderator approval

2001-04-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:56:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Your mail to 'linux-lvm' with the subject > > > > Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list > > > > Is being held until the list moderator can review i

PROBLEM: Segfault reading SCSI MO - System hang while writing

2001-04-19 Thread Thomas Herberg
[1.] Segfault reading SCSI MO - System hang while writing [2.] Hello * with kernel 2.4.x (actually 2.4.3) i ran into a problem acessing my SCSI MO. As everything works fine with 2.2.x (actually 19) the problem seems to be new in the 2.4.x kernel series and therefore you might want to take a loo

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Miles Lane
AJ Lewis wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:02:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > >>Well their approach to patches that fix bugs is to reject emails. They've done >>that to stuff I've reported any many others. So there is a problem. And its >>kind of hard to discuss a problem when you are being mode

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