On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 07:38:33PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
As long as you can get the root server IP and path from the DHCP client,
I can do that. :-)
then you mount it in a directory, and use pivot_root() to change to
that directory.
Cool.
See the Changing the root device of
I have been monitoring the memory usage constantly with the gnome
memory usage meter and noticed that as swap grows it is never freed
back up. I can kill off most of the large applications, such as
The swap handling in 2.4 is somewhat hosed at the moment.
If I turn swap off all together or
Hans Reiser writes:
Tell us what to code for, and so long as it doesn't involve looking
up files by their 32 bit inode numbers we'll probably be happy to
code to it. The Neil Brown stuff is already coded for though.
Next time around, when you update the on-disk format, how about
allowing
I always make mrproper after applying your patches, and I still got exactly the
same problem with nfs that Marek found. There were no errors or warnings during
the compile of the objects in the fs/nfs directory or the linking of nfs.o.
Wayne
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/11/2001
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
From: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2.4.2 - Locked keyboard
I changed the keyboard and looked at the keyboard plugs unsucessful=
ly.
Could this be related to a kernel bug or an userspace issue??? How =
can I
debug it?
I
The ongoing saga of newer via chipsets and AMD CPU's.
Please CC replies as I'm I read here via nntp.
Please see my previous PROBLEM reports for hardware info.
I compiled and boot 2.4.4ac7, got as far as init. Multiple oops's
scrolled off the screen before I could see them. Attached is the final
I always make mrproper after applying your patches, and I still got exactly the
same problem with nfs that Marek found. There were no errors or warnings during
the compile of the objects in the fs/nfs directory or the linking of nfs.o.
Curious : my build has
#define __ver_filemap_fdatasync
I've attached a new version of the patch.
The patch is now split into 2 parts:
* add copy_user_to_user() into kernel/ptrace.c. Most code is shared
between access_process_vm() and copy_user_to_user().
* use the new function for singlecopy pipe.
Please test it.
The kernel space part should be
My modules/filemap.ver has the same in it as yours.
Wayne
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/11/2001 01:52:18 PM
To: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec@Altec
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Cox), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marek P
tlicki),
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac7
I
User-mode Linux is now booting on PPC Linux - it can boot with a
Debian root floppy image with init=/bin/sh and poke around. It mostly
works, although there are still a few problems.
The current patch is available from
http://www.tartarus.org/~chris/user-mode-linux/, made against recent
UML CVS
If anyone has any further suggestions/patches to run 2.4.x with K7
chosen optimizations, I'm open to testing.
'Buy an AMD chipset box..'
Seriously at this point I am out of ideas. The prefetch to far effect
explained the old athlon locks (step 1) people reported on all chipsets. It
didnt
Is there a possibility to get debugging messages or register dumps without a
second PC? Or is there a possibility to an unbuffered log write? e.g. write
Not much. You can avoid running syslogk. The one unbuffered log source
is the screen in text mode if not running it via syslogk
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:04:10PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
I think with the growing acceptance of ReiserFS in the Linux
community, it is tiresome to have to apply a patch again and again
just to get working NFS. 2.2 NFS horrors all over again.
The zero copy patches were basically self
Does NFS server support for one of the included FSes not belong in the
kernel? or is it that a better way is possible and this ugly one should not
be included? If the latter, has anyone told Hans how to do it 'right' so he
can assign someone to the task?
The patch Andi forwarded me for NFS
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
is the EXTRAVERSION set properly in Makefile? I use the http://www.bzim=
age.org
intermediate diff (chosen ~40K to ~2M) from ac6 nd I still have
2.4.4-ac6 login prompt (and Makefile says: EXTRAVERSION =3D -ac6).
From the original patch (agains vanilla 2.4.4)
diff
Give the current -ac a spin and tell me if it works/doesnt and if not how
it fails
I will test it on Sunday evening, when I get back access to my Athlon.
Again I am not sure if I had the same problem related to the
compiler-optimizations. My problems (system freeze) started with 2.4.3-ac7.
So
I've got a problem where a client and server stop talking to each other after
around 32 minutes. The server is sending a packet to the client every minute
with 4 bytes but the client is in a GUI loop and isn't receiving them. They
should just build up in the Recv-Q for the client but after
On Friday, May 11, 2001 12:07:08 PM -0700 Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
Hans Reiser writes:
Tell us what to code for, and so long as it doesn't involve looking
up files by their 32 bit inode numbers we'll probably be happy to
code to it. The Neil
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote:
*) systems include vger itself (it has died this week alone 4-5 times),
Yikes! That's not a very good advertisement. Anything
that the Linux-using public should know about?
Matthew.
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On Mon, 7 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
OTOH with current way if you make mistake in kernel, fsck will not
automatically inherit it; therefore fsck is likely to work even if
kernel ext2 is b0rken [and that's fairly important]
... and by the same logics you should make fsck implement its own
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:02:22PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
If anyone has any further suggestions/patches to run 2.4.x with K7
chosen optimizations, I'm open to testing.
'Buy an AMD chipset box..'
Seriously at this point I am out of ideas. The prefetch to far effect
explained the old
Just tested the -ac7 with K7 optimizations on. I see the same behavior of
oopsing right after boot:
[...]
Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
[...]
Just fine when I go back down to k6-3, et al, optimizations.
I'm considering it, but for AGP weirdness reasons. Have the USB bugs been
worked out? I am highly dependant on USB.
Only one stepping of the AMD chip had the USB funnies. AMD released the info
needed to work around it and its now in the tree.
Alan
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Christian Bornträger wrote:
Can you try and mail me if the Kernel 2.4.3 (without any ac patch) is
stable with your system even if you use autotune? Downgrade to this
kernel works fine for me.
Ahmm, 2.4.3 doesn't work. Gives some IDE DMA timeouts on boot. Kernel was
compiled with
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.4-ac/
Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org
**
** Please note change of ftp site. ftp.kernel.org switched to using ECN and
** it seems NTL's cablemodem folks have problem
On Friday 11 May 2001 18:34, Andreas Dilger wrote:
Al writes:
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
I've tested again, now with kdb, and the system loops in
ext2_find_entry() or ext2_add_link(), because there is a
directory with a zero rec_len. While the actual cause of this
Ahmm, 2.4.3 doesn't work. Gives some IDE DMA timeouts on boot. Kernel w=
as
compiled with Pentium-MMX processor setting, but I don't know if that's
enough to disable the Athlon code parts (autodetected at runtime?).
That sounds totally unrelated to any Athlon optimisations
So only working
This should fix
http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/this-week/0901.html
H.J.
--- linux-2.4.4-ac7/mm/filemap.c.module Fri May 11 13:32:20 2001
+++ linux-2.4.4-ac7/mm/filemap.cFri May 11 13:33:03 2001
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
* most normal filesystems (but you don't /have/ to
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:51:25AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
What's a lot more important is that the mail standards say that this stuff
should not be interpreted by the receivers as needing wrapping, so
irregardless of good or bad design it's just plain illegal.
If you want to
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:35:05AM -, mirabilos wrote:
What you have todo is to learn how to configure your mailer to display
headers you want.
Not the displaying annoys me, it's the traffic. The headers usually are
less than multiple quoted sigs, though.
Headers serve a technical
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:51:59PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
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
* Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] [May 11. 2001 13:18]:
2.4.4-ac8
o Tulip driver updates(Jeff Garzik)
Networking stopped working with this kernel. I have the following
NIC:
02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev
20)
Subsystem:
This fixed the problem with unresolved symbols in nfs.o.
Wayne
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If clarity is the most important consideration, then other things should be
changed as well. For instance, the command we use to search for text strings
in
files should be called textsearch. That's a lot more clear than grep.
Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:03:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
I'm considering it, but for AGP weirdness reasons. Have the USB bugs been
worked out? I am highly dependant on USB.
Only one stepping of the AMD chip had the USB funnies. AMD released the info
needed to work around it and its now
I got this oops while running 2.4.4-ac6 and trying to open a file to edit with
vi. I have had this happen before while I was opening a text file but I
suspect that it is just coincidence. I have included the ksymoops output for
the oops and also my kernel configuration. If there are any
Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
* Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] [May 11. 2001 13:18]:
2.4.4-ac8
o Tulip driver updates(Jeff Garzik)
Networking stopped working with this kernel. I have the following
NIC:
Can you define TULIP_DEBUG to 4 in
On 05.11 Martin.Knoblauch wrote:
I ask, because I thought the size of kproc could be used to determine
the amount of physical memory. If this assumption is wrong, is there
another way to achive the goal?
#include sys/sysinfo.h // for get_phys_pages()
#include unistd.h // for
I am not on this list but has followed it on Kernel Traffic.
Incidentally I have a VIA MVP3 (82C59?) motherboard with an AMD K6-2 3D CPU and
I haven't been too happy with the performance of 2.4.* kernels, and it includes
every release of Linus' and AC's test kernels, when comparing to 2.2.16 (my
At 1:32 PM -0300 2001-05-11, Ralf Baechle wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:51:25AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
Kai Henningsen wrote:
What's a lot more important is that the mail standards say that this stuff
should not be interpreted by the receivers as needing wrapping, so
I'm curious, though: I haven't found the mail standards that forbid
receivers to wrap long lines. Certainly many mail clients do it.
What's the relevant RFC?
RFC 2822, 2.1.1.
Thanks. It's not quite a standard yet, but it's true, it does limit
lines to 998 characters. Sort of a
On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I
Supposedly there are some problems with the VIA chipsets, but apparently it
has been better before so I wonder why it is worse now and what the plans are
regarding any improvement?
Until the past few -ac releases we accidentally turned off things on the older
VIA chipsets (with a performance
2.4.4-ac8 disables IP auto config by default even if CONFIG_IP_PNP is
defined. Here is a patch.
H.J.
---
--- linux-2.4.4-ac8/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c.autoFri May 11 14:02:32 2001
+++ linux-2.4.4-ac8/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c Fri May 11 15:26:25 2001
@@ -100,7 +100,11 @@
*/
int ic_set_manually
Hello,
I have the following Hardware installed:
Epox EP-8KTA2 with Athlon 800 onboard sound enabled with kernel driver
cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 2).
Master Capable. Latency=8.
I had an experience pretty close... but I never saw anything wrong with
man... I have ALWAYS LOVED man it's the perfect help system IMO, and
info is infuriating to me... There should be a but more documentation some
places sure, but nothing is going to completely remedy that... because
The tulip driver in 2.4.4-ac8 doesn't work with Lite-On 82c168 PNIC
rev 32 in the NetGear FA310TX REV-D2. It sends BOOTP request and
times out.
H.J.
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On 05.11 Manfred Spraul wrote:
Please test it.
The kernel space part should be ok, but I know that the
patch can cause deadlocks with buggy user space apps.
I tried your patch on 2.4.4-ac8, and something strange happens.
Untarring linux-2.4.4 takes a little time, disk light flashes,
but
Somewhere between ac5 and ac8 ipc broke, noticed that fakeroot stopped
working, getting a function not implemented in msgget:
[pid 9812] msgget(667493921, IPC_CREAT|0x180|0600) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not
implemented)
ac5 works, ac8 does not.. downloading ac6 and 7 now to see exactly where it
On 05.12 J . A . Magallon wrote:
On 05.11 Manfred Spraul wrote:
Please test it.
The kernel space part should be ok, but I know that the
patch can cause deadlocks with buggy user space apps.
I tried your patch on 2.4.4-ac8, and something strange happens.
Untarring linux-2.4.4
computer during this time.=20
So I don't know if this has to do with the new networkcard, the new NVIDIA
Driver 0.9-769 I installed yesterday with XFree 4.3 or something else. The =
---
Module Size Used by
via82cxxx_audio16800 2 (autoclean)
soundcore
Somewhere between ac5 and ac8 ipc broke, noticed that fakeroot stopped
working, getting a function not implemented in msgget:
[pid 9812] msgget(667493921, IPC_CREAT|0x180|0600) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not
implemented)
Looks you you compiled without SYS5 ipc support
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This fixes a bug in the autoconfig_startech_uarts function in
serial.c. The problem is that 0's are written to the baud rate
registers in order to detect an XR16C850 or XR16C854. This makes the
Exar ST16C654 go kablooey. Saving and restoring the baud rate
registers after the test fixes it.
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:22:42AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Somewhere between ac5 and ac8 ipc broke, noticed that fakeroot stopped
working, getting a function not implemented in msgget:
[pid 9812] msgget(667493921, IPC_CREAT|0x180|0600) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not
implemented)
Looks you
On 12-May-01 Alan Cox wrote:
computer during this time.=20
So I don't know if this has to do with the new networkcard, the new NVIDIA
Driver 0.9-769 I installed yesterday with XFree 4.3 or something else. The =
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Module Size Used by
via82cxxx_audio
Ok, I will remove vmware and switch from the nvidia driver the nv driver from
XFree 4.3. Maybe I get the oops again.
Let me know if you do. I've got some other dmfe reports I'm looking at so its
quite possible that is the trigger, but this time I'll be able to know its not
giant binary stuff
Does this patch, against ac8, help with the PNIC problem?
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Building 1024|
MandrakeSoft |
Index: drivers/net/tulip/media.c
===
RCS file:
Here's another patch to try, for PNIC. Feedback welcome.
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Building 1024|
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diff -ur 2.4/drivers/net/tulip/media.c build-2.4/drivers/net/tulip/media.c
--- 2.4/drivers/net/tulip/media.c Fri May 11 22:12:51 2001
Dear linux kernel mailing list ,
Is there is any chat (IRC) for linux kernel developers .
Thank you ,
Best Regards,
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Hi,
Can somebody please tell me how to configure the amount of shared memory
that a 2.2.x kernel allocates? Kindly copy to my e-mail address
([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
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Below is a quick patch to fix the PCI ID's for the 82801BA and add ID's for
the mobile version, the 82801BAM. The DID's are from Intel developer docs, I
don't remember the URL. It's easy to find. Fixes the unknown IDE controller
problem for Dell Inspiron 8000 and one of the newer Sony
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Drew Bertola wrote:
The Richochet USB stuff uses generic serial I/O. No special driver. And it
works fine under Win/ME. Have you run a regular PPP connection over the
ACM driver with an MTU of 1500?
Joey Hess had a problem similar to what you described, though he
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
User-mode Linux is now booting on PPC Linux - it can boot with a
Debian root floppy image with init=/bin/sh and poke around. It mostly
works, although there are still a few problems.
First off, I'd like to thank Chris for volunteering to undertake the first
port of
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
If anyone has any further suggestions/patches to run 2.4.x with K7
chosen optimizations, I'm open to testing.
'Buy an AMD chipset box..'
Seriously at this point I am out of ideas. The prefetch to far effect
explained the old athlon locks (step 1)
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:39:28PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
...
Unfortunately I don't have a clue as to why it has been failing,
but the kernel is a bit old...
Linux vger.redhat.com 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999 i686 unknown
On a not very loaded dual classic P133:
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 03:49:05PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
If you want to support wrapping with plain text, investigate
format=flowed.
Yes, I did that.
I'm curious, though: I haven't found the mail standards that forbid
receivers to wrap long lines. Certainly many mail
On Fri, 11 May 2001 11:07:45 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 05/10/2001 at 06:20:34 PM Hacksaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My point is that someone who sees the typewriter message and doesn't
understand it will have to dig a bit to find out what it means. Finding it
almost certainly will
At 11:20 PM -0300 2001-05-11, Ralf Baechle wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 03:49:05PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
It's 998 plus a CR/LF sequence which is 1000 bytes, not exactly an odd
number. And it's the official successor of RFC 822 which was an official
STD.
What I meant by strange was
On Fri, 11 May 2001 17:52:24 -0400 (EDT),
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ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.4-ac6. Options used
Warning (read_object): no symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.4-ac6/build/drivers/pnp/pnp.o
ksymoops should not be reading objects from /build/. It looks like you
are
Can somebody explain the use of ENOIOCTLCMD? There are order of 170
uses in the kernel, but I don't see any guidelines for that use (nor
what prevents it from being seen by user programs).
Thanks.
errno.h:
/* Should never be seen by user programs */
#define ERESTARTSYS512
#define
Good day, Jaswinder,
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
Is there is any chat (IRC) for linux kernel developers .
See irc.linpeople.org, channel #kernelnewbies .
Cheers,
- Bill
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
I have been monitoring the memory usage constantly with the gnome
memory usage meter and noticed that as swap grows it is never freed
back up. I can kill off most of the large applications, such as
I've seen this mentioned a few times now and am
Andrea Arcangeli writes:
I just switched to the =beta4 lvm IOP for all 64bit archs. The previous
one (the 2.4 mainline one) isn't feasible on the archs with 32bit
userspace and 64bit kernel (it uses long). The IOP didn't changed btw,
only the structures changed silenty.
They can be
Petr Vandrovec writes:
When I was updating VMware's vmnet, I decided to use
#ifdef skb_shinfo
No, don't use that, use MAX_SKB_FRAGS like the drivers do.
I guarentee to preserve that, whereas I reserve the right
to change the skb_shinfo implementation however I like.
Later,
David S.
On 11 May 01 at 12:03, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 02:56:35AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
I guess it would be possible to add a HAVE_ZEROCOPY to skbuff.h to make
it a bit easier for single source drivers.
--- include/linux/skbuff.h-oWed May 9 12:36:44 2001
+++
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:21:59PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
When I was updating VMware's vmnet, I decided to use
#ifdef skb_shinfo
Yes I forgot that RedHat already shipped it :-(
This gives you maximal backward compatibility, as all public zerocopy
patches contain this macro. Only
Andi Kleen wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:21:59PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
When I was updating VMware's vmnet, I decided to use
#ifdef skb_shinfo
Yes I forgot that RedHat already shipped it :-(
This gives you maximal backward compatibility, as all public zerocopy
patches
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:39:29PM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote:
But it's always been said that source code compatiblity would be
maintained. I'm a bit pissed that people just go about changing public
source-level interfaces.
2.4.4 is basically like 2.5.0 as far as networking is concerned, it
Trond Myklebust writes:
IMHO allocating the buffer using GFP_ATOMIC is a mistake. As I said
we're in a thread context, so sleeping in GFP_KERNEL is safe. In
addition, the cost of dropping the request if we can't allocate the
buffer is heavy in that the client has to wait for a timeout,
Rogier Wolff writes:
It seems that in 2.4.4 suddenly the function skb_cow no longer
returns the modified skb, but it retuns and integer for
succes/failure.
This means that for networking modules requiring this function, there
is no source code compatibilty between 2.4.3 and 2.4.4.
J . A . Magallon writes:
I tried your patch on 2.4.4-ac8, and something strange happens.
Untarring linux-2.4.4 takes a little time, disk light flashes,
but no files appear on the disk (just 'Makefile', as you will see below).
Doing a separate gunzip - tar xf works fine:
What platform?
Andrea Arcangeli writes:
you _must_ know very well what the mainteinance of that code means ;).
Which is why I added the facility by which such ioctl conversions can
be registered at runtime by the subsystem/driver itself.
BTW, it would be nice if somebody would take care of unifying the
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:28:05PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
H . J . Lu writes:
2.4.4-ac8 disables IP auto config by default even if CONFIG_IP_PNP is
defined. Here is a patch.
It doesn't make any sense to enable this unless parameters are
given to the kernel via the kernel
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 06:29:27PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
I think that's a bad decision, but it is your's.
Let me put it this way: after I get the first real life request from an
user with an useful case where a 32bit app needs to run the lvm ioctl it
will be truly easy to change my mind
Andrea Arcangeli writes:
Related side note: for the x86-64 kernel we won't support the emulation
of the lvm ioctl from the 32bit executables to avoid the pointer
conversion an mainteinance pain enterely, at least in the early stage
the x86-64 lvmtools will have to be compiled elf64.
I
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 02:56:35AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
Rogier Wolff writes:
It seems that in 2.4.4 suddenly the function skb_cow no longer
returns the modified skb, but it retuns and integer for
succes/failure.
This means that for networking modules requiring this
Andi Kleen writes:
2.4.4 is basically like 2.5.0 as far as networking is concerned, it
includes major fundamental changes to the stack.
Andi, please. Get over it. That code is 6 months old.
Later,
David S. Miller
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:12:55PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
They can be converted, [..]
of course, and part of that code will be still necessary also with the
=beta4 lvm interface to still convert the pointers of the userspace
data structures but my point was we probably want to avoid that
Rogier Wolff writes:
But it's always been said that source code compatiblity would be
maintained.
when possible, we've made no such total souce level
compat. guarentee. And more such changes are coming, for example the
quota bugs can't be fixed without breaking source level compat. for
the
H . J . Lu writes:
2.4.4-ac8 disables IP auto config by default even if CONFIG_IP_PNP is
defined. Here is a patch.
It doesn't make any sense to enable this unless parameters are
given to the kernel via the kernel command line or from firmware
settings.
Later,
David S. Miller
[EMAIL
Andi Kleen writes:
I guess it would be possible to add a HAVE_ZEROCOPY to skbuff.h to make
it a bit easier for single source drivers.
Try MAX_SKB_FRAG, the drivers use that already.
Later,
David S. Miller
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On 11 May 01 at 12:32, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:21:59PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
When I was updating VMware's vmnet, I decided to use
#ifdef skb_shinfo
Yes I forgot that RedHat already shipped it :-(
Not only that RedHat shipped it, but thousands of people used
Ignore this post please, thanks.
Later,
David S. Miller
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