Code; c0204004 irda_device_event+4/20 =
0: 66 81 78 5c 0f 03 cmpw $0x30f,0x5c(%eax) =
Someone passed NULL to a netdevice notifier. That isnt allowed. Your call
trace indicates that it was passed by dev_open which would itself have oopsed
in that situation.
Beats
Hello,
since ages owners of a Extensa 50X notebook apply the following diff to the
kernel to make the sound work without hanging the whole system.
I've no idea if anybody ever suggested to put this in the mainstream kernel,
so do I.
Note: I modified the original patch to work with 2.4 but I
This are the latest suggestions for handling the VIA Southbridge bug as
derived from the hardware site www.au-ja.de (Many thanks to doelf).
I'd rather people left this except for the obvious fixed that were done for
non VIA northbridge combinations until 2.5. 2.4 is not an appropriate place
to
Second, how many kernels does Redhat ship in order to have one for
386/486/586/k6/Athlon . . . .
Quite a pain in the ass. And look at how much shit has to be built in
in order to get a kernel that works for everybody! People bitch at
Microsoft for doing it, then turn around and do the
since ages owners of a Extensa 50X notebook apply the following diff to the
kernel to make the sound work without hanging the whole system.
With what sound card ?
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On Sat, 19 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote:
What do you think of this ?
[root]# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr
157097-180
I think you should upgrade to a newer kernel; Al Viro
fixed this bug and the fix went into 2.4.5-pre1.
regards,
Rik
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On Sat, 19 May 2001, Axel Thimm wrote:
This are the latest suggestions for handling the VIA Southbridge bug as
derived from the hardware site www.au-ja.de (Many thanks to doelf).
Sorry - little off-topic. I can't find the clean answer anywhere.
I use KT7A-RAID, with one disc connected to
Hi,
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:29:32PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
Or you can fall back to mounting by UUID, which is globally
unique and still avoids referencing physical location. You also
don't need to manually set LABELs for UUID to work: all e2fsprogs
over the past
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:33:10PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote:
What do you think of this ?
[root]# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr
157097 -180
I think you should upgrade to a newer kernel; Al Viro
fixed this bug and the fix
Hi,
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are
trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also
why magic numbers tend to suck in the VM.)
Magic numbers might be sucking some performance right now
Linus,
A bug was recently found in which nfs_refresh_inode() was returning
EIO when servers, such as the Hummingbird, don't return the optional
attributes on calls such as the setattr() call. This error was then
being passed back to userland.
When investigating the bug, I also found a load
At 10:42 AM +0200 2001-05-19, Kai Henningsen wrote:
Make your config script look at the hardware MAC addresses. Those don't
change.
They're not necessarily unique, though.
So if you plug both into the same network segment, that segment is broken?
That looks like very stupid design to
At 10:42 AM +0200 2001-05-19, Kai Henningsen wrote:
Jeff Garzik's ethtool
extension at least tells me the PCI bus/dev/fcn, though, and from
that I can write a userland mapping function to the physical
location.
I don't see how PCI bus/dev/fcn lets you do that.
I know from system
Hi,
I've seen a lot of messages regarding problems with the VIA chipset...
I've experienced them myself.
Anyways, I just put in a new ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard, BIOS revision
1004. Once installed, I ran into a raft of problems when IO-APIC was
enabled... and discovered that ASUS had a BIOS
What are the units of the return value of the BLKGETSIZE ioctl on Linux?
Sectors of size 512.
or is it in units of sector size bytes as returned by BLKSSZGET
No.
Andries
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/dev/raw* Where? I can't find it in my .config (grep RAW .config). I am
using 2.4.4-ac11 and playing w/ 2.4.5-pre3.
TIA
Adam Schrotenboer
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Chris Wedgwood wrote:
Or you can fall back to mounting by UUID, which is globally
unique and still avoids referencing physical location. You also
don't need to manually set LABELs for UUID to work: all e2fsprogs
over the past couple of years have set UUID on partitions, and
Hello,
On 19-May-2001 Alan Cox wrote:
since ages owners of a Extensa 50X notebook apply the following diff to the
kernel to make the sound work without hanging the whole system.
With what sound card ?
opl3sa2. I use alsa 0.5.11.
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fd = open(/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8, O_RDWR);
Hmm, there might be problem with this. How do you change speed without
reopening device? [Remember: your mice knows when you close device]
The naming scheme is not a replacement
Hi!
I just had small surprise with 2.4.0:
root@bug:/zip# mount /zip
root@bug:/zip# ls -al
total 8
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Dec 1 08:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 31 65534root 4096 Apr 24 20:56 ..
root@bug:/zip# cd /zip
root@bug:/zip# ls -al
total 22182
drwxr-xr-x4 root
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 03:55:02PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Reading the tsunami specs I learnt 1 tlb entry caches 8 pagetables (not 1)
so the tlb flush will be invalidate immediatly by any PCI DMA run after
the flush on any of the other 7 mappings cached in the same tlb entry.
I have
Hi!
fd = open(/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8, O_RDWR);
Hmm, there might be problem with this. How do you change speed without
reopening device? [Remember: your mice knows when you close device]
The naming scheme is not a replacement for these kinds of ioctl's - it's
just
root@bug:/zip# mount /zip
root@bug:/zip# ls -al
total 8
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Dec 1 08:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 31 65534root 4096 Apr 24 20:56 ..
root@bug:/zip# cd /zip
root@bug:/zip# ls -al
total 22182
...
Is that okay?
Yes. Your working directory does not
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
Well, if we did something like modify(int fd, char *how), you could do
modify(0, nonblock,9600)
What you're really proposing is to make ioctl's be ASCII strings.
Which is not necessarily a bad idea, and I think plan9 did something
similar (or
Vitaly Luban wrote:
Hi,
snip/
the form of POLL_... This will bring functionality of RT
signals event notification on the level with 'select' or
'poll' one, while more efficient and scalable. If there's
an interest in such a feature, I'd be eager to publish a
patch.
Thanks,
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
resume from disk is actually pretty hard to do in way it is readed linearily.
While playing with swsusp patches (== suspend to disk) I found out that
it was slow. It needs to do atomic snapshot, and only reasonable way to
do that is free half of
Hi!
resume from disk is actually pretty hard to do in way it is readed linearily.
While playing with swsusp patches (== suspend to disk) I found out that
it was slow. It needs to do atomic snapshot, and only reasonable way to
do that is free half of RAM, cli() and copy.
Note that
Hi!
Well, if we did something like modify(int fd, char *how), you could do
modify(0, nonblock,9600)
What you're really proposing is to make ioctl's be ASCII strings.
Yup.
Which is not necessarily a bad idea, and I think plan9 did something
similar (or rather, if I remember
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
Don't get _too_ hung up about the power-management kind of invisible
suspend/resume sequence where you resume the whole kernel state.
Ugh. Now I'm confused. How do you do usefull resume from disk when you
don't restore complete state? Do you
Linus Torvalds wrote:
[ Attribution is gone, so I just deleted it.. ]
fd = open(/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8, O_RDWR);
Hmm, there might be problem with this. How do you change speed without
reopening device? [Remember: your mice knows when you close device]
The
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:11:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
This are the latest suggestions for handling the VIA Southbridge bug as
derived from the hardware site www.au-ja.de (Many thanks to doelf).
I'd rather people left this except for the obvious fixed that were done for
non VIA
John Cavan wrote:
Hi,
I've seen a lot of messages regarding problems with the VIA chipset...
I've experienced them myself.
Anyways, I just put in a new ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard, BIOS revision
1004. Once installed, I ran into a raft of problems when IO-APIC was
enabled... and
On Saturday 19 May 2001 21:43, Pavel Machek wrote:
I think that plan9 uses something different -- they have ttyS0 and
ttyS0ctl. This would leave us with problem how do I get handle to
ttyS0ctl when I only have handle to ttyS0?
One possibility is to add multiforked (multi-stream) file support
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 09:38:03PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
But /dev/sda/offset=234234,limit=626737537 isn't a file! ls it and see
if it's there. writing to files that aren't shown in directory listings
is plain evil. I really don't want to explain why. It's extremely
messy and
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 02:48:15PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
This is incorrect. If you want directly mapped PCI window then you don't
need the iommu_arena for it. If you want scatter-gather mapping, you
should write address of the SG page table into the T3_BASE register.
i've tried both
hi,
i created a 10mb file called .enc2 with random data and ran # losetup -e
serpent -k 128 /dev/loop0 /mnt/hda7/.enc2
then i ran # mke2fs /dev/loop0 and tried to # mount /dev/loop0 /enc. but
i get the following error messages when trying to mount:
May 19 21:32:10 HOST2 kernel: EXT2-fs error
Hi,
The following patch fixes aironet drivers. It contains
- fixed Config.in to disable non-working configurations (PNP without isapnp,
built-in ISA or I365)
- marked __init/__devinit/__devinitdata some initial code/variables
- disable (#if 0) currently unused function (awc4500_pnp_hw_reset)
-
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are
trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also
why magic numbers tend to suck in the VM.)
Magic numbers
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This is 2.4.4 with the aic7xxx driver version 6.1.13 dropped in.
The oops got eaten by klogd, my apologies, but it seems sane even so.
I haven't tried newer -ac or -pre kernels so I'm sure it's probably
already fixed there but just in case it isn't...
kdm[350]: Server for display :0 terminated
Alan Cox wrote:
Second, how many kernels does Redhat ship in order to have one for
386/486/586/k6/Athlon . . . .
Quite a pain in the ass. And look at how much shit has to be built in
in order to get a kernel that works for everybody! People bitch at
Microsoft for doing it, then turn around
Patch looks decent. Adding module descriptions was quite nice. One
flaw that is repeated multiple times is that you add
#ifdef MODULE
printk(version);
#endif
in an ISA driver's probe routine. This instead should always be the
first operation of init_module.
Also make
Patch looks generally ok.
Comments:
* you forgot to cc Elmer Joandi, the maintainer, who wakes up every now
and then :)
* When is aironet4500_card version string printed, for the modular case?
* did you actually trace the code paths to mark sure code marked __init
was never called by the pcmcia
I have pppoed-0.48b1-6, ppp-2.4.0-5 (SuSE 7.1) but it didn't work (with
kernel pppoe.o/pppox.o).
So I have to use rp-pppoe-2.5-5 (which should be slower I've heard) for the
German Telekom ADSL (product name TDSL).
Thanks,
Dieter
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On Sat, May 19 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
/dev/raw* Where? I can't find it in my .config (grep RAW .config). I am
using 2.4.4-ac11 and playing w/ 2.4.5-pre3.
It's automagically included, no config options necessary
(drivers/char/raw.c)
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On Sat, 19 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
Well, if we did something like modify(int fd, char *how), you could do
modify(0, nonblock,9600)
What you're really proposing is to make ioctl's be ASCII strings.
Which is not necessarily a
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
I thought about how to do networking without sockets, and it seems to
me like this kind of modify syscall is needed, because network sockets
connect to *two* different places (one local address and one
remote). Sockets are really nasty :-(.
Pavel,
No, my point was, if I don't have SCSI or RAID on this box, I don't want
them to be built into the kernel!
They arent built into the kernel. I still think you have your facts confused
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Three back to back make -j 30 runs for three different kernels.
Swap cache numbers are taken immediately after last completion.
The performance increase is nice, though. Do you see similar
changes in different kinds of workloads ?
I you have a patch against 2.4.4-ac11 I will do some
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:11:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
If it had been a manufacturer in most respectable areas of business they'd be
recalling and reissuing components, and paying for the end resllers to notify
each customer
This is consumer hardware. Consumer products are optimized for a
Here's a dumb question, and I apologize if I am questioning computer
science dogma...
Why are LVM and EVMS(competing LVM project) needed at all?
Surely the same can be accomplished with
* md
* snapshot blkdev (attached in previous e-mail)
* giving partitions and blkdevs the ability to grow and
This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's
so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either
of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it.
This sort of thing would never ship in CML2, because the compiler
would throw
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:46:17PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
-void
-cia_pci_tbi(struct pci_controller *hose, dma_addr_t start, dma_addr_t end)
-{
- wmb();
- *(vip)CIA_IOC_PCI_TBIA = 3; /* Flush all locked and unlocked. */
- mb();
- *(vip)CIA_IOC_PCI_TBIA;
-}
I'd
On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote:
This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's
so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either
of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it.
This sort of
On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote:
This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's
so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either
of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it.
This sort of
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Sat, May 19 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
/dev/raw* Where? I can't find it in my .config (grep RAW .config). I am
using 2.4.4-ac11 and playing w/ 2.4.5-pre3.
It's automagically included, no config options necessary
(drivers/char/raw.c)
then
On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400,
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete
and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such
that it can be passed directly to printk like
printk(version);
Nit
Miles Lane wrote:
On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote:
This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's
so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either
of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing
Keith Owens wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400,
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete
and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such
that it can be passed directly to printk like
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a result the system performance goes down. I'm still able to use
my applications, but es every single piece of unused memory is swapped
out, and swapping in costs a certain amount of time.
That's why streaming media
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:11:31PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 03:55:02PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Reading the tsunami specs I learnt 1 tlb entry caches 8 pagetables (not 1)
so the tlb flush will be invalidate immediatly by any PCI DMA run after
the flush on
On Sat, 19 May 2001 22:14:33 -0400,
Ben Bridgwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To present a dumbed down UI targeted for Aunt Millie or
whoever against the protests of the mainstream kernel tool audience
makes zero sense to me, as don't Eric's repeated antagonistic comments.
How many times do we
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are
trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also
why magic
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dieter Nützel wrote:
Three back to back make -j 30 runs for three different kernels.
Swap cache numbers are taken immediately after last completion.
The performance increase is nice, though. Do you see similar
changes in different kinds of workloads ?
I you
Someone add the changelog info to kernel.org?
merci.
Shawn.
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Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
It's in ChangeLog but not patch-2.4.5.log.
Shawn.
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:
Someone add the changelog info to kernel.org?
merci.
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There's an error in ide-pci.c that prevented it from compiling 2.4.5-pre4.
Try this.
Thanks,
Jeff
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--- drivers/ide/ide-pci.c Sun May 20 11:56:48 2001
+++ drivers/ide/ide-pci.c.new Sun May 20 11:56:45 2001
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@
/*
pre4 is out, and a couple ethernet drivers have gained support for
ethtool. In order to take advantage of the new support, you can
download ethtool 1.2 from
http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/
or check it out of CVS (instruction at the above URL).
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I'm getting ready to make some changes to the ide-floppy driver (to support
dynamic media change notification), and after spending a few days reviewing
most of the IDE driver code (ide, ide-disk, ide-cd, ide-floppy and
ide-probe), I think I've got a good handle on what needs to be done.
However,
From: Ben LaHaise [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3. Userspace partition code proposal
Given the above two bits, here's a brief explaination of a
proposal to move management of the partitioning scheme into
userspace, along with portions of raid startup, lvm, uuid and
Andrew Morton writes:
(2) what about bootstrapping? how do you find the root device?
Do you do root=/dev/hda/offset=63,limit=1235823? Bit nasty.
Ben's patch makes initrd mandatory.
Can this be fixed? I've *never* had to futz with initrd.
Probably most systems
Ben LaHaise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hey folks,
The work-in-progress patch for-demonstration-purposes-only below consists
of 3 major components, and is meant to start discussion about the future
direction of device naming and its interaction block layer. The main
motivations here are
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Matthias Andree wrote:
I'm having difficulties with a RTL8139 with Linux 2.2.19 (both drivers),
but not with Linux 2.4.4's 8139too driver. The card is an Allied Telesyn
AT-2500TX, the chip is reported as 8139C/rev. 0x10. The card shares its
IRQ 9 with an nVidia Riva TNT
This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's
so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either
of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it.
This sort of thing would never ship in CML2, because the compiler
would throw an
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:48:19PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
One of the fundamentals of Unix is that everything is a file and that
you can do everything by reading or writing that file.
But /dev/sda/offset=234234,limit=626737537 isn't a file! ls it and see
if it's there. writing to files that
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
Now that I'm awake and refreshed, yeah, that's awful. But
echo hot-add,slot=5,device=/dev/sda /dev/md0/control *is* sane. Heck,
the system can even send back result codes that way.
Only to an English speaker. I suspect Quebec City canadians would
Alexander Viro writes:
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
The transaction(2) syscall can be just as easily abused as ioctl(2) in
this respect. People can pass pointers to ill-designed structures very
Right. Moreover, it's not needed. The same functionality can be
trivially
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
Matthew Wilcox writes:
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:22:55PM -0400, Richard Gooch wrote:
The transaction(2) syscall can be just as easily abused as ioctl(2) in
this respect.
But read() and write() cannot.
Sure they can. I can pass a
ioctls are evil, period. At least with these names you can use normal
scripting and don't need any special tools. Every ioctl means a binary
that has no business to exist.
That is not IMHO a rational argument. It isn't my fault that your shell does
not support ioctls usefully. If you used
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's
so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either
of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it.
in fact it was originally in i386
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
Now that I'm awake and refreshed, yeah, that's awful. But
echo hot-add,slot=5,device=/dev/sda /dev/md0/control *is* sane. Heck,
the system can even send back result codes that way.
Only to an English speaker. I suspect Quebec City canadians would
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Edgar Toernig wrote:
That assumption is totally bogus. Even for regular files you have side
effects (atime); for anything else they're unpredictable.
That means only one thing: safe backups are possible only in single-user
mode. For values of safe being not triggering
Aaron Lehmann wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:05:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
initrd is an unnecessary pain in the ass for most people.
It had better not become mandatory.
You would not notice the difference, only your kernel would be
a bit smaller and the RRPART ioctl
Matthew Wilcox writes:
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:51:23PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
Al, if you really want to kill ioctl(2), then perhaps you should
implement a transaction(2) syscall. Something like:
int transaction (int fd, void *rbuf, size_t rlen,
void *wbuf,
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Andrew Clausen wrote:
Alexander Viro wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Andrew Clausen wrote:
(1) these issues are independent. The partition parsing could
be done in user space, today, by blkpg, if I read the code correctly
;-) (there's an ioctl for
Alexander Viro writes:
Folks, before you get all excited about cramming side effects
into open(2), consider ...
I agree completely.
A lot of stuff relies on the fact that close(open(foo, O_RDONLY))
is a no-op. Breaking that assumption is a Bad Thing(tm).
Also here I would like to agree.
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:22:55PM -0400, Richard Gooch wrote:
The transaction(2) syscall can be just as easily abused as ioctl(2) in
this respect.
But read() and write() cannot.
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Alexander Viro wrote:
(2) what about bootstrapping? how do you find the root device?
Do you do root=/dev/hda/offset=63,limit=1235823? Bit nasty.
Ben's patch makes initrd mandatory.
Can this be fixed? I've *never* had to futz with initrd.
Probably most systems are the same. It
On Sat, 19 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A lot of stuff relies on the fact that close(open(foo, O_RDONLY))
is a no-op. Breaking that assumption is a Bad Thing(tm).
Also here I would like to agree. Unfortunately this is false.
Opening device files often has interesting side effects.
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
The transaction(2) syscall can be just as easily abused as ioctl(2) in
this respect. People can pass pointers to ill-designed structures very
Right. Moreover, it's not needed. The same functionality can be trivially
implemented by write() and
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:45:11AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:48:19PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
One of the fundamentals of Unix is that everything is a file and that
you can do everything by reading or writing that file.
But /dev/sda/offset=234234,limit=626737537
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:
1. Generic lookup method and argument parsiing (fs/lookupargs.c)
Looks sane.
2. Restricted block device (drivers/block/blkrestrict.c)
This is not very user-friendly, but along with symlinks this makes perfect
sense. It would make partition handling
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 19 20:07:23 2001
initrd is an unnecessary pain in the ass for most people.
It had better not become mandatory.
You would not notice the difference, only your kernel would be
a bit smaller and the RRPART ioctl disappears.
Would I
Hey folks,
The work-in-progress patch for-demonstration-purposes-only below consists
of 3 major components, and is meant to start discussion about the future
direction of device naming and its interaction block layer. The main
motivations here are the wasting of minor numbers for partitions,
I (and others on the OnStream osst driver mailing) list cannot get this tape
drive to work with BusLogic SCSI host adapters.
This is with 2.2.19 and 2.4.3 and either a MultiMaster or FlashPoint card.
I have been in contact with Willem Reide (the author of the osst driver) and
he has identified
Linus Torvalds wrote:
There are some strong arguments that we should have filesystem
backdoors for maintenance purposes, including backup.
I think I agree with something Al said over IRC, that fs-level snapshots
are preferred over block level snapshots.
fs-level snapshots should become easy
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:34:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
[Reasons]
So the English is bad argument is a complete non-argument.
Jepp, I have to agree.
English is used more or less as an communication protocol in
computer science and for operating computers.
Once you know how to operate
Alexander Viro wrote:
Folks, before you get all excited about cramming side effects into
open(2), consider the following case:
1) opening /dev/zero/start_nuclear_war has a certain side effect.
2) Local user does the following:
ln -sf /dev/zero/start_nuclear_war bar
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
Alexander Viro wrote:
(2) what about bootstrapping? how do you find the root device?
Do you do root=/dev/hda/offset=63,limit=1235823? Bit nasty.
Ben's patch makes initrd mandatory.
Can this be fixed? I've *never* had to futz
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
There is another reason to use ioctl(2): when you need to send data to
the kernel/driver and wait for a response. It supports transactions,
which read(2) and write(2) cannot. Therefore it remains useful.
Somebody, run to database vendors and tell
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