Re: scripts/Configure patch for automatic module compile

2001-05-06 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 7 May 2001 00:34:13 -0600, Maciek Nowacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you're like me, you build everything as modules, boot with an initrd that >loads in the disk or net driver and filesystem module, and then let kmod take >care of the rest. Here's a patch that changes Configure (make

Re: [PATCH] for iso8859-13

2001-05-06 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 06.05.01 in <9d4ut6$9b9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Hi, > >The following patch removed unused and broken conversion tab

scripts/Configure patch for automatic module compile

2001-05-06 Thread Maciek Nowacki
Hi, If you're like me, you build everything as modules, boot with an initrd that loads in the disk or net driver and filesystem module, and then let kmod take care of the rest. Here's a patch that changes Configure (make config) to build all possible modules - in other words, to answer 'M' for ev

Re: page_launder() bug

2001-05-06 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Sun, 6 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > It is the most straightforward way to make a '1' or '0' > integer from the NULL state of a pointer. But is it really specified in the C "standards" to be exctly zero or one, and not zero and non-zero? IMHO, the ?: construct is way more readable and re

Re: page_launder() bug

2001-05-06 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:55:26PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > Jonathan Morton writes: > > >- page_count(page) == (1 + !!page->buffers)); > > Two inversions in a row? > It is the most straightforward way to make a '1' or '0' > integer from the NULL state of a pointer. pa

Re: page_launder() bug

2001-05-06 Thread David S. Miller
Jonathan Morton writes: > >-page_count(page) == (1 + !!page->buffers)); > > Two inversions in a row? It is the most straightforward way to make a '1' or '0' integer from the NULL state of a pointer. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list

Re[2]: ReiserFS question

2001-05-06 Thread Samium Gromoff
Info addon, sorry for that: these bblks are quite writeable, so it`s ok to rewrite `em to rebuild. - 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.ht

Re[2]: Q: HowTo Nullify journal on badblks?

2001-05-06 Thread Samium Gromoff
Hello busy peoples, again me... Today got my 45gb drive slightly badblocked: about 70 MB in beginning... thus problem arose: bitmaps are heavily corrupted, and debugreiserfs with -p crashes while trying to dump journal (he`s not alone in such behaviour: evryone doing

Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

2001-05-06 Thread Andreas Dilger
Alan writes: > > Actually, the EVMS project does exactly this. All I/O is done on a full > > disk basis, and essentially does block remapping for each partition. This > > also solves the problem of cache inconsistency if accessing the parent > > device vs. accessing the partition. > > Interesti

Re: CANBus driver.

2001-05-06 Thread Eric Sandeen
Hi Anders - There is a bunch of code for Linux CANbus/DeviceNet drivers for SST cards (sstech.on.ca) here: http://home.att.net/~marksu/dn5136man.html "This is a Linux driver and library of useful functions and utility applications for the SST 5136-DN family of CAN bus/DeviceNet interface board

Re: [PATCH] x86 page fault handler not interrupt safe

2001-05-06 Thread Brian Gerst
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 5 May 2001, Brian Gerst wrote: > > > > Currently the page fault handler on the x86 can get a clobbered value > > for %cr2 if an interrupt occurs and causes another page fault (interrupt > > handler touches a vmalloced area for example) before %cr2 is read. > > T

Success 2.4.4 on noritake alpha

2001-05-06 Thread Wakko Warner
I tested 2.4.4 on my alpha server 1000a with an adaptec aha-2940UW card. Before it would always give me some kinds of errors when doing simutanious writes to 3 drives on that card. I'm currently running with this controller on the same 3 drives using LVM and reiserfs ontop of that. Works well.

Re: [PATCH] for iso8859-13

2001-05-06 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi, >The following patch removed unused and broken conversion table from > nls_iso8859-13.c. > Wouldn't it make a heck of a lot more sense if we had a preprocessor wh

Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support

2001-05-06 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:06:42AM -0700, Ben Ford wrote: > Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: > > >Hey, this is cool. > > > >How far away is the capability to "teleport" processes from one machine to > >another over the network? Think of the uptime! > > > > It is here. Look at Mosix. No. Not for

kernelnotes.org down / loop device results

2001-05-06 Thread God
Hiya, Just a few quickies One, is kernelnotes.org down ? .. I can't get to it (times out), I've tried from a few boxes on different networks just incase it was on my end .. (since I've compiled ecn in, MANY things don't seem to be working ... even the best search engine in the world .. do

Re: REVISED: Experimentation with Athlon and fast_page_copy

2001-05-06 Thread Jeremy
Have non-production via KT133a, will test :) (tyan mobo, 1.33ghz, tulip eth, an idea drive, nothing really exciting, just a fast ath) -j John R Lenton enlightened recipients with the following on 06May2001: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:20:56AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Dont panic just yet. Manf

Re: REVISED: Experimentation with Athlon and fast_page_copy

2001-05-06 Thread John R Lenton
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:20:56AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Dont panic just yet. Manfred's observation could mean we hit chipset specific > behaviour on prefetches. OK - Please let me know when to start. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: BOFH excuse #349: Stray Alpha Part

kernel BUG at dcache.h:251

2001-05-06 Thread Brian Kuschak
Running snmpd or httpd overnight causes this oops: (kernel BUG at /home/brian/linux/include/linux/dcache.h:251! - in dget() called from d_alloc()) Occasionally I see: de_put: entry net already free! before the oops. I've been able to reliably reproduce the problem in 15 minutes by running this in

Re: [PATCH] x86 page fault handler not interrupt safe

2001-05-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Brian Gerst wrote: > > Currently the page fault handler on the x86 can get a clobbered value > for %cr2 if an interrupt occurs and causes another page fault (interrupt > handler touches a vmalloced area for example) before %cr2 is read. That should be ok. Yes, we'll get a c

2.2.20pre1: Problems with SMP

2001-05-06 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi, Just booted up 2.2.20pre1 and am getting some funny results. The system boots but is very slow. Every few seconds I get: Stuck on TLB IPI wait (CPU#0) Booting vanilla 2.2.19 works fine. The machine is an Intel Pentium III 850MHZ on an Abit VP6 board. If any further information is needed,

Re: page_launder() bug

2001-05-06 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 12:07 AM +0200 2001-05-07, BERECZ Szabolcs wrote: >On Sun, 6 May 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > > >- page_count(page) == (1 + !!page->buffers)); >> >> Two inversions in a row? I'd like to see that made more explicit, >> otherwise it looks like a bug to me. Of course, if

Re: inserting a Forth-like language into the Linux kernel

2001-05-06 Thread Jesse Pollard
On Sat, 05 May 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote: >kspamd/H3sm is now making continuous writes to tty1 from an >in-kernel thread. It was locking on a write to /dev/console by >init, so I made /dev/console a plain file. This is after >hollowing out sys_syslog to be a null routine, and various >other min

[PATCH] Inconsistent constraint in asm-i386/rwsem.h

2001-05-06 Thread Tom Leete
Hi, In include/asm-i386/rwsem.h:__up_read(), the auto variable 'tmp' is asserted to be in edx. This patch adjusts the constraint to match the variable. It could be argued that tmp should be declared register instead. I didn't because the function is inlined. The compiler will know how much regis

Re: [PATCH][CFT] (updated) ext2 directories in pagecache

2001-05-06 Thread Daniel Phillips
This patch updates ext2_getblk and ext2_bread to use the ERR_PTR style of error return. As Al Viro pointed out, this is a better way of doing things for a function returning a pointer. This approach would have prevented the bug I fixed with the previous patch. 20 20 hindsight, and I can onl

Re: problem when booting 2.4.2

2001-05-06 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
On Sun, 6 May 2001, sri gg wrote: > Hello, > I recently compiled the 2.4.2 kernel on x86, > and installed it. when booting off it, it fails to > open the /dev/tty's and dumps the following messages.. > = > May 6 02:32:40 localhost /sbin/mingetty[786]

problem when booting 2.4.2

2001-05-06 Thread sri gg
Hello, I recently compiled the 2.4.2 kernel on x86, and installed it. when booting off it, it fails to open the /dev/tty's and dumps the following messages.. = May 6 02:32:40 localhost /sbin/mingetty[786]: /dev/tty4: No such file or direct ory May

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS seems to be stable as of 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Hans Reiser
Dirk Mueller wrote: > > Now consider a good amount of fragmentation because those files get created > over time (weeks, months etc). and you quickly degenerade to a scanning > speed of maybe 10-20 files per second (Athlon 800, IBM 60GB HD with roughly > 35MB/s linear read). It was that horrible t

Re: page_launder() bug

2001-05-06 Thread BERECZ Szabolcs
Hi! On Sun, 6 May 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote: > >- page_count(page) == (1 + !!page->buffers)); > > Two inversions in a row? I'd like to see that made more explicit, > otherwise it looks like a bug to me. Of course, if it IS a bug... it's not a bug. if page->buffers is zero

Re: CDROM troubles

2001-05-06 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, May 06 2001, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:05:00AM -0700, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > Hey folks, > > I'm seeing a problem with mounting CDs using a Toshiba XM-6401TA CDROM > > drive attached to an Adaptec AHA1542CF controller (scsi1) on kernel 2.4.3 > > and 2.4.4. The

Re: page_launder() bug

2001-05-06 Thread Jonathan Morton
>- page_count(page) == (1 + !!page->buffers)); Two inversions in a row? I'd like to see that made more explicit, otherwise it looks like a bug to me. Of course, if it IS a bug... -- from: Jonathan "Chromatix"

Re: XFS and Alan kernel tree

2001-05-06 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Daniel Podlejski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I merge XFS witch Alan tree (2.4.4-ac5). It's seems to be stable. ld -m elf_i386 -r -o fs.o open.o read_write.o devices.o file_table.o buffer.o super.o block_dev.o stat.o exec.o pipe.o namei.o fcntl.o ioctl.o readdir.o select.o fifo.o locks.o dcach

page_launder() bug

2001-05-06 Thread BERECZ Szabolcs
Hi! there is a bug in page_launder introduced with kernel 2.4.3-ac12. if the swapfile is on a filesystem, then after swapping out some pages, the system locks up. sometimes it writes an oops message. I don't know exactly what's the problem, but with the attached patch it works. (this is just a re

[PATCH] for iso8859-13

2001-05-06 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
Hi, The following patch removed unused and broken conversion table from nls_iso8859-13.c. --- linux-2.4.4-ac5/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-13.c Sat Apr 28 20:35:03 2001 +++ linux/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-13.c Sun May 6 22:42:19 2001 @@ -149,35 +149,6 @@ 0x00, 0xca, 0xea, 0xdd, 0xfd, 0xde,

[PATCH] for cp1255

2001-05-06 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
Hi, The following patch fixes a bug in UTF8->CP1255 translation. --- linux-2.4.4-ac5/fs/nls/nls_cp1255.c Sat Apr 28 20:35:03 2001 +++ linux/fs/nls/nls_cp1255.c Sun May 6 22:33:19 2001 @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ }; static unsigned char *page_uni2charset[256] = { - page00, NULL, NULL,

Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

2001-05-06 Thread Alan Cox
> Actually, the EVMS project does exactly this. All I/O is done on a full > disk basis, and essentially does block remapping for each partition. This > also solves the problem of cache inconsistency if accessing the parent > device vs. accessing the partition. Interesting. Can EVMS handle the p

Re: inserting a Forth-like language into the Linux kernel

2001-05-06 Thread Rick Hohensee
> > > > > > > If someone knows of another example of interpreter-like behavior > > > > directly in a unix in-kernel thread I'd like to know about it. > > > > > > kdb > > > > > > > That runs in trap handlers doesn't it? I don't think it's a > > kernel daemon. > > and there's the hangman-

Re: 2.4.4 fork() problems (maybe)

2001-05-06 Thread Magnus Naeslund\(f\)
From: "Marko Kreen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:20:50AM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote: > > From: "Marko Kreen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:07:53PM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote: > > > > When i do a "su - " it just hangs. > > > > When i run strace o

ReiserFS seems to be stable as of 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Hans Reiser
Bug reports that are hardware failures masquerading as reiserfs bugs dominate our mailing list. We also get bug reports from users with versions that are prior to 2.4.4. We are now working on making the code more likely to identify a hardware failure as a hardware failure (without killing perfor

Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

2001-05-06 Thread Andreas Dilger
Alan writes: > > an interesting task when your root lives on /dev/sda1. Ditto for destroying > > a single partition (not mounted/used by swap/etc.) while you have some > > other partition in use. IWBNI we had a decent API for handling partition > > tables... > > Partitions are just very crude log

[PATCH] capabilities instead of suser in vt.c

2001-05-06 Thread Thomas Warwaris
Hi, this patch (on 2.4.4) replaces the calls for suser() in vt.c by capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN). Any comments are welcome. I am not on the kernel list. Please CC me followups to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas diff -urN -X dontdiff linux-2.4.4.ori/drivers/char/vt.c linux/drivers/char/vt.c --- linux-2.4.4

Re: Athlon possible fixes

2001-05-06 Thread Marek Pętlicki
On Sunday, May, 2001-05-06 at 20:18:36, Christian Bornträger wrote: > > Hmm, I'm wondering if this could be same bug that I'm seeing with ASUS > > A7V133 & Duron/800 when using IDE autotuning (PDC20265). > > Still haven't got any replies suggesting any reason for lockups I'm seeing > > (no oopses)

Initio maintainer?

2001-05-06 Thread Ingo Oeser
[please CC me for replies on linux-scsi, since I'm only subscribed to linux-kernel] Hi there, Who considers himself a maintainer of the ini9100u.[ch] ? The driver has not been maintained since 1999, according to the sources. A friend of mine uses this controller for daily production on his wor

Re: Athlon possible fixes

2001-05-06 Thread Christian Bornträger
> Hmm, I'm wondering if this could be same bug that I'm seeing with ASUS > A7V133 & Duron/800 when using IDE autotuning (PDC20265). > Still haven't got any replies suggesting any reason for lockups I'm seeing > (no oopses). Or is the Promise driver just buggy, because system is solid > with noauto

Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support

2001-05-06 Thread Ben Ford
Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: >Hey, this is cool. > >How far away is the capability to "teleport" processes from one machine to >another over the network? Think of the uptime! > It is here. Look at Mosix. -- I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie [MS flunkie who made a speech on the evil

Re: Athlon possible fixes

2001-05-06 Thread Zilvinas Valinskas
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:44:19PM +0300, Jussi Laako wrote: > Seth Goldberg wrote: > > > > and rebooted, the system stayed up a lot longer, but it still crashed (I > > was in Xwindows and the crash was partially written to the log file) > > after around 3 minutes of work in X. > > Hmm, I'm wond

Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Russell King
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:36:05AM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:12:17AM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > You assign a new EXTRAVERSION to the new kernel you are building, and keep the > > old kernel at the old name. > > Except that some patches (ie, RAID, -ac) use EX

Re: Athlon possible fixes

2001-05-06 Thread Jussi Laako
Seth Goldberg wrote: > > and rebooted, the system stayed up a lot longer, but it still crashed (I > was in Xwindows and the crash was partially written to the log file) > after around 3 minutes of work in X. Hmm, I'm wondering if this could be same bug that I'm seeing with ASUS A7V133 & Duron/80

Re: [PATCH] arp_filter patch for 2.4.4 kernel.

2001-05-06 Thread Mark Hahn
> > also -- isn't it kind of wrong for arp to respond with addresses from > > other interfaces? > > Usually it makes sense, because it increases your chances of successfull > communication. IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by > different interfaces. this is one of those

RE: inserting a Forth-like language into the Linux kernel

2001-05-06 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> > > If someone knows of another example of interpreter-like behavior > > > directly in a unix in-kernel thread I'd like to know about it. > > > > kdb > > > > That runs in trap handlers doesn't it? I don't think it's a > kernel daemon. and there's the hangman-in-kernel patch... interpre

REVERSE the AGING PROCESS 10 - 20 Years!

2001-05-06 Thread Youth21
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Re: curedump configuration additions

2001-05-06 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Michael Miller wrote: > +coredump_enabled: > +When enabled (which is the default), Linux will produce [...] > +coredump_log: > +The default is to log coredumps. The default looks like an effective way to DoS logging, fill system partition fast. Nice other optional feature w

Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support

2001-05-06 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > How do you relocate > -- pages which are mlocked without violating RT contraints? > -- pages which contain kernel pointers and might be accessed from > interrupt context? Those two are the same problem, essentially. You have to copy the page, then map it int

Re: [PATCH] Thread core dumps for 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Don Dugger wrote: > The attached patch allows core dumps from thread processes in the 2.4.4 > kernel. This patch is the same as the last one I sent out except it fixes > the same bug that `kernel/fork.c' had with duplicate info in the `mm' > structure, plus this patch has ha

Re: 8139too bug in 2.4.4 (2.4.3?) & VIA 686a

2001-05-06 Thread Ignacio Monge
It seem that I have resolved the problem. Yes, I've read 8139too.txt and I thought to recheck my kernel 2.4.4 configuration. It looked this: CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_PCI=y CONFIG_8139TOO=m CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO=m CONFIG_81

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-06 Thread Ray Shaw
I don't know if it's the motherboard, but I've got a KT7A-RAID, and I haven't been able to run any 2.4.x that I've tried. I was worried, because this board also has new RAM, but 2.2.x doesn't have any problems at all. I've tried: 2.4.2 2.4.3 2.4.3-ac9 2.4.3-ac11 Someone else mentioned stabili

SCSI hangs with DVD-RAM 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac5, works with 2.2.19

2001-05-06 Thread Michael Leun
Hello, When I try to write to my DVD-RAM (mke2fs or just dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sr0) SCSI (and I guess the whole IO System) hangs after some time. May 6 16:09:53 lara cardmgr[275]: initializing socket 0 May 6 16:09:53 lara cardmgr[275]: socket 0: Adaptec APA-1460 SlimSCSI May 6 16:09:53 lara

[Resend] Collection of tmpfs patches

2001-05-06 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi, There is some confusion about my latest tmpfs fixes. There were three patches which are cummulative against 2.4.4: 1) deadlock fix for write out of mmap regions. (AFAIK this is integrated in the -ac kernels) 2) encapsulate access to shmem_inode_info 3) Do inline symlinks I attach all the

Re: [OT] Interrupting select

2001-05-06 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote: [snip]> um, shouldn't you be testing for res==-1, as well? > > specifically that condition and errno==EINTR is how I'd expect > > signals to effect the loop... [snip] > I assumed that "error" is something like trying to watch for a > negative number or zero descriptors

Re: O2Micro PCMCIA card support

2001-05-06 Thread Alan Cox
> it seems that it probes only the ISA bus?), but the yenta module (mistakenly?) > detects it as an yenta socket, but tries to load two memory_cs modules instead > of the appropriate card drivers. The output of lspci shows: Correctly I think. Its a full cardbus > 00:03.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-06 Thread Alan Cox
> # These were separate questions in CML1 > derive MAC_SCC from MAC & SERIAL > derive MAC_SCSI from MAC & SCSI > derive SUN3_SCSI from (SUN3 | SUN3X) & SCSI Not all Mac's use the SCC if they have serial Not all Mac's use the same SCSI controller Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

ptrace, debugging threads, zombies

2001-05-06 Thread Stefan Hoffmeister
Hi, in http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week51/0423.html Mark Kettenis writes However, the "zombie problem" is caused by the way ptrace() interacts with clone()/exit()/wait(), which I consider to be a kernel bug. What apparently happens is that even though a thread ha

Re: Athlon possible fixes

2001-05-06 Thread Alan Cox
> There really needs to be a hardware fix... this doesn't stop some > application having it's owne optimised code from breaking on some > hardware (think games and similation software perhaps). prefetch is virtually addresses. An application would need access to /dev/mem or similar. So the only f

Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

2001-05-06 Thread Alan Cox
> an interesting task when your root lives on /dev/sda1. Ditto for destroying > a single partition (not mounted/used by swap/etc.) while you have some > other partition in use. IWBNI we had a decent API for handling partition > tables... Partitions are just very crude logical volumes, and ultimia

Re: Problems even with 512 block size MOs

2001-05-06 Thread Giuliano Pochini
> recent 2.4 kernels have incredible bad performance for me when handling MO > drives. Going back 2.2 shows better performance. > Copying a 6.5 MByte file with cp returns nearly immediately on the > commandline, but umount nearly takes forever. Maximum rate detected by > xosview during umount wa

Re: 8139too bug in 2.4.4 (2.4.3?) & VIA 686a

2001-05-06 Thread Alexander V. Bilichenko
I have the same bug in latest driver. And disabling MMIO didn't help... - Original Message - From: "Ignacio Monge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 9:51 PM Subject: Re: 8139too bug in 2.4.4 (2.4.3?) & VIA 686a > En Sun, 6 May 2001 13:03:03 -0400 > I

Re: inserting a Forth-like language into the Linux kernel

2001-05-06 Thread Rick Hohensee
> > > I don't know about H1 S&M, but the ability to open a tty > > normally directly into kernelspace may prove popular, particularly > > with a Forth on that tty in that kernelspace. Persons with actual > > With anything other than Forth, LISP, and COBOL... yes. Nice little sensibility scale

Re: very long time for booting after upgrading from 2.2.17 to 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Olivier Bornet
Hello all, > I have update my kernel from 2.2.17 (with USB patch) to kernel 2.4.4. Now, > booting the kernel block for about 5 minutes when configuring lo and eth0. > > ... > > Also, poweroff the system correctly take about 20 minutes. All work good until > portmap stop. After, all is really sl

Re: 8139too bug in 2.4.4 (2.4.3?) & VIA 686a

2001-05-06 Thread Ignacio Monge
En Sun, 6 May 2001 13:03:03 -0400 Ignacio Monge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > I've compiled 2.4.3mdk-25 source with Athlon optimizations, and the > problem still happens. > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF > inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.1

RE: 8139too bug in 2.4.4 (2.4.3?) & VIA 686a

2001-05-06 Thread Ignacio Monge
I've compiled 2.4.3mdk-25 source with Athlon optimizations, and the problem still happens. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric

[PATCH] Incremental to kill warnings

2001-05-06 Thread Tom Leete
Hello, I missed one, patch is incremental to the previous one. Tom $ diff -u include/asm-i386/checksum.h.orig include/asm-i386/checksum.h --- include/asm-i386/checksum.h.origSun May 6 07:05:35 2001 +++ include/asm-i386/checksum.h Sun May 6 07:06:52 2001 @@ -100,10 +100,8 @@ static inli

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-06 Thread Christian Bornträger
> Mandrake 8's kernel comes with i586 CPU support, it is alredy known it > works. Remember that the instability occurs only when Athlon optimizations > are used. You are right. But I like to point out that on my Athlon kernel 2.4.3 is working fine. The first kernel I face problems is 2.4.3-ac7.

2.4.3 connecting with mac os 8.3

2001-05-06 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, Anyone out there who cares if 2.4.3 has problems connectin with mac os 8.x? Situation: pop3-server on linux 2.4.3 host. Client: eudora on mac os 8.x connection times out. always 2.4.4 works fine(!). Any more investigation required? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

2.4 ide problems.

2001-05-06 Thread Janek
Hi, I have Asus K7V motherboard with Athlon 750. I have one harddisc cnnected to primary channel and CDrom connected to secondary. The primary is connected with 40 pin 80 conductor ide cable and the secondary is connected with 40 pin standard cable. Everything but reading from the CDrom is worki

[PATCH] kill warning from gcc 3.0

2001-05-06 Thread Tom Leete
Hello, This patch stops the warning "Multiline strings are deprecated" from gcc 3.0 [20010423] in include/asm-i386/checksum.h. I expect there are more of these to be found. Cheers, Tom $ diff -u include/asm-i386/checksum.h~ include/asm-i386/checksum.h --- include/asm-i386/checksum.h~Mon

Re: CML2 1.4.0, aka "brutality and heuristics"

2001-05-06 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 04 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Sigh...now, I hope, we can get back to solving problems that I don't > expect to be so rare they're lost in the statistical noise. It's not > good to get so obsessed about finding clever solutions to corner cases > that one loses sight of the larger

Re: [PATCH][RFT] smbfs bugfixes for 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Urban Widmark
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Xuan Baldauf wrote: > it does not fix|work around the bug completely: > > 1. windows: Create a file, e.g. with 741 bytes. > 2. linux: "ls -la" will show you the file with the correct size (741) > 3. linux: read the file into your smbfs cache (e.g. "less file") > 4. windows: a

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-06 Thread Dan Podeanu
> No matter if I use the mandrake 8 gcc 2.96 or a self compiled gcc 2.95.3. Mandrake 8's kernel comes with i586 CPU support, it is alredy known it works. Remember that the instability occurs only when Athlon optimizations are used. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

O2Micro PCMCIA card support

2001-05-06 Thread Claudiu Constantinescu
Hello, I couldn't find info on it in the archives, so I decided to post the question on the list. I am using an o2micro pcmcia socket and two pcmcia cards, a modem and an Asix AX88190A network card, all of which work fine with kernel 2.2 and pcmcia-cs, plus the vendor's drivers for the As

Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Keith Owens wrote: >>On Sun, 6 May 2001, Keith Owens wrote: >>>A frequent requirement is to rename vmlinuz-2.x.y to 2.x.y-old or >>>2.x.y.save to preserve a working kernel. >> >>I don't see how this patch is necessary when we have >>"EXTRAVERSION" available. Change EXTRAVERSI

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-06 Thread Christian Bornträger
>Maybe, but the IWILL board is the only one we've heard about problems with. I have also stability problems with an ASUS A7V133. I already have the 1004-d2 bios which should fix the VIA IDE problems. But my hard drives are connected to the promise controller of the board. Only 2 CD-drives are on

Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2001-05-06T01:36:05, Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:12:17AM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > You assign a new EXTRAVERSION to the new kernel you are building, and keep the > > old kernel at the old name. > > Except that some patches (ie, RAID, -ac) u

Re: [PATCH] arp_filter patch for 2.4.4 kernel.

2001-05-06 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:52:18PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > I have a setup that should be able to test some netfilter rules > > if have some you want me to try > > I'd be interested in seeing netfilter rules or a new netfilter > kernel module which would do arpfilter as well. I do

RTL8139 problems

2001-05-06 Thread Alexander V. Bilichenko
Hello ! While working with RTL8139(C) based board I too often (5-10 min) get smth like this : Tx transmit timeout Dirty Tx entry 001 --- 002 --- 003 --- 004 and than i need to restart interface to bring it really on (because, it still not work aft

Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support

2001-05-06 Thread Stephen Beynon
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:43:27AM -0400, Peter Rival wrote: > > Has anyone looked into memory hot swap/hot add support? > > How do you hotswap RAM? What happens to the data that was on the > removed memory module? Dont know about the s390 - but on so

Re: [PATCH] arp_filter patch for 2.4.4 kernel.

2001-05-06 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:57:38PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > also -- isn't it kind of wrong for arp to respond with addresses from > other interfaces? Usually it makes sense, because it increases your chances of successfull communication. IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, no

Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Mike Castle
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:12:17AM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > You assign a new EXTRAVERSION to the new kernel you are building, and keep the > old kernel at the old name. Except that some patches (ie, RAID, -ac) use EXTRAVERSION. There needs to be a new variable, say USERVERSION, that wi

Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2001-05-06T17:45:06, Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > You already have a working kernel which you want to rename to use as a > backup version. Changing EXTRAVERSION and recompiling builds a new > kernel and adds uncertainty about whether the kernel still works - did > you change any

Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support

2001-05-06 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:15:53AM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: > Hey, this is cool. > > How far away is the capability to "teleport" processes from one machine to > another over the network? Think of the uptime! http://www.mosix.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support

2001-05-06 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:43:27AM -0400, Peter Rival wrote: > Has anyone looked into memory hot swap/hot add support? How do you hotswap RAM? What happens to the data that was on the removed memory module? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [lkml]Linux 2.4.4-ac5; hpt370 & new dma setup

2001-05-06 Thread thunder7
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:37:53PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> 2.4.4-ac5 > >> o Fix DMA setup on hpt366/370 (Tim Hockin) > > > > I see definite changes; on heavy disk-access I got the following: > > > > hdg: timeout waiting for dma > > ide_d

Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 6 May 2001 03:35:34 -0400 (EDT), "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 6 May 2001, Keith Owens wrote: >>A frequent requirement is to rename vmlinuz-2.x.y to 2.x.y-old or >>2.x.y.save to preserve a working kernel. > >I don't see how this patch is necessary when we have >"EXT

Re: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r

2001-05-06 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Keith Owens wrote: >Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 17:15:45 +1000 >From: Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r > >A frequent requirement is to rename vmlinuz-2.x.y to 2.x.y-old o

VIA Chipsets on Athlon boards

2001-05-06 Thread Gerard Daubar
Thinking about an Asus A7V133 board that has the VIA VT8363A (VIA Apollo KT133A) system controller and VIA VT82C686B PCI set and wanted to make sure it was fully supported.. Searched the list archives and it seems like the only issues are with the Promise udma 100 chip which the board also has. I