Re: Buffer management - interesting idea

2001-06-15 Thread Ivan Schreter
Hello, Please CC: replies to me, since I am not subscribed. >> http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/63909.html > The "resistance to scanning" seemed interesting, maybe one-time > activities like a "find" run or big cat/dd will have less impact with > this. Exactly. But not only that. I have

Re: [BUG] 2.2.19 -> 80% Packet Loss

2001-06-15 Thread Tim Moore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > 2. A "ping -f -s 64589" to a machine running kernel 2.2.19 results in 0% > packet loss. By incrementing the packetsize by one "ping -f -s 64590" or > higher, I consistently see 80% packet loss. ifconfig on the receiving > machine shows no anomolies. > ... > 4.

Re: [BUG] 2.2.19 -> 80% Packet Loss

2001-06-15 Thread Tim Moore
José Luis Domingo López wrote: > > On Thursday, 14 June 2001, at 14:17:11 -0700, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > 1. When pinging a machine using kernel 2.2.19 I consistently get an 80% > > packet loss when doing a ping -f with a packet size of 64590 or higher. > > > What happens here is

Re: Buffer management - interesting idea

2001-06-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Ivan Schreter wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm working on some hi-speed DB projects under Linux and I was researching > various buffer-replacement algorithms. I found 2Q buffer replacement policy at > > http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/63909.html > > Maybe it would be interesting to use it instead

Odd size of Shared Memory

2001-06-15 Thread Gianluca Anzolin
I was trying 2.4.5-ac14 this morning. I issued some command to test buffer and page cache behaviour I run 2 cat /dev/hda > /dev/null and find / -name \* concurrently When find finished I ran free and it gave me fourier:~# free total used free sharedbuffers

Re: 2.4.6-pre2, pre3 VM Behavior

2001-06-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Mark Hahn wrote: > > Disk speed is difficult. I may enable and disable swap on any number of > ... > > You may be able to get some useful approximations, but you > > will probably not be able to get good numbers in all cases. > > a useful approximation would be simply an idle flag. > for

CD-ROM on third IDE channel masks interrupts

2001-06-15 Thread Stefan Kuhr
Hi, I have the following problem with kernels 2.4.X: I have a Dell Lattitude C600 Notebook with C/Dock II docking station. In the media bay I installed an additional second hard disk. When docked I would like to use the CD-ROM in the bay of the docking station. But when the CD-ROM is in the

Re: timer_list in struct net_device

2001-06-15 Thread Andi Kleen
sebastien person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I want to know if the watchdog_timer found in the struct net_device can be > used > as I want ? No, it it already used by the network code to look over the driver. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: timer_list in struct net_device

2001-06-15 Thread Andi Kleen
sebastien person [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I want to know if the watchdog_timer found in the struct net_device can be used as I want ? No, it it already used by the network code to look over the driver. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

CD-ROM on third IDE channel masks interrupts

2001-06-15 Thread Stefan Kuhr
Hi, I have the following problem with kernels 2.4.X: I have a Dell Lattitude C600 Notebook with C/Dock II docking station. In the media bay I installed an additional second hard disk. When docked I would like to use the CD-ROM in the bay of the docking station. But when the CD-ROM is in the

Re: 2.4.6-pre2, pre3 VM Behavior

2001-06-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Mark Hahn wrote: Disk speed is difficult. I may enable and disable swap on any number of ... You may be able to get some useful approximations, but you will probably not be able to get good numbers in all cases. a useful approximation would be simply an idle flag. for instance, if

Odd size of Shared Memory

2001-06-15 Thread Gianluca Anzolin
I was trying 2.4.5-ac14 this morning. I issued some command to test buffer and page cache behaviour I run 2 cat /dev/hda /dev/null and find / -name \* concurrently When find finished I ran free and it gave me fourier:~# free total used free sharedbuffers

Re: Buffer management - interesting idea

2001-06-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Ivan Schreter wrote: Hello, I'm working on some hi-speed DB projects under Linux and I was researching various buffer-replacement algorithms. I found 2Q buffer replacement policy at http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/63909.html Maybe it would be interesting to use it instead of LRU

Re: [BUG] 2.2.19 - 80% Packet Loss

2001-06-15 Thread Tim Moore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 2. A ping -f -s 64589 to a machine running kernel 2.2.19 results in 0% packet loss. By incrementing the packetsize by one ping -f -s 64590 or higher, I consistently see 80% packet loss. ifconfig on the receiving machine shows no anomolies. ... 4. Linux version

Re: [BUG] 2.2.19 - 80% Packet Loss

2001-06-15 Thread Tim Moore
José Luis Domingo López wrote: On Thursday, 14 June 2001, at 14:17:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. When pinging a machine using kernel 2.2.19 I consistently get an 80% packet loss when doing a ping -f with a packet size of 64590 or higher. What happens here is (under kernel

Re: Buffer management - interesting idea

2001-06-15 Thread Ivan Schreter
Hello, Please CC: replies to me, since I am not subscribed. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/63909.html The resistance to scanning seemed interesting, maybe one-time activities like a find run or big cat/dd will have less impact with this. Exactly. But not only that. I have made some

Reg file system hash function

2001-06-15 Thread SATHISH.J
Hi, In the vfs layer when we see the lookup_dentry() function code we see that a part of the code checks whether low level filesystem wants to use its own hash. the part odf the code that calls the filesystem dependant hashing is error = base-d_op-d_hash-(base,this);. Why should it

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac14

2001-06-15 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Dieter, On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Dieter Nützel wrote: I see 4.29 GB under shm with your latest try. something wrong? Yes, this is nasty. The appended patch fixes that. (I am not really happy to need the PG_marker flag for writepage.) The patch also fixes two other problems: - shmem_file_setup

BUG at slab.c:1244! 2.4.5-ac13

2001-06-15 Thread Lars Gaarden
I tend to get these after a few days uptime. This one locked X hard, ping and ssh over net etc still worked ok. Pretty standard x86 PC hardware. kernel BUG at slab.c:1244! invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[c012842f] EFLAGS: 00213082 eax: 001b ebx: cfffc768 ecx: c0217700

Re: Reg file system hash function

2001-06-15 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:52:52PM +0530, SATHISH.J wrote: In the vfs layer when we see the lookup_dentry() function code we see that a part of the code checks whether low level filesystem wants to use its own hash. the part odf the code that calls the filesystem dependant hashing is error =

RE: SMP spin-locks

2001-06-15 Thread David Schwartz
Spinlocks are machine dependent. A simple increment of a byte memory variable, spinning if it's not 1 will do fine. Decrementing this variable will release the lock. A `lock` prefix is not necessary because all Intel

Re: obsolete code must die

2001-06-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
Alan Cox wrote: Would it make sense to create some sort of 'make config' script that determines what you want in your kernel and then downloads only those components? After all, with the constant release of new hardware, isn't a 50MB kernel release not too far away? 100MB? This should

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-15 Thread Russell Leighton
Nuther anecdote: I was creating a big swapfile on ext2 (because 2.4.5 needs too much swap) with dd (SCSI disk on Sym53c8-something controller) and corrupted the partition THEN fsck would cause the kernel to panic. I thought I had some bad hw ... the box sits on my office floor waiting

Re: SMP spin-locks

2001-06-15 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:05:07PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: The problem is that a data acquisition board across the PCI bus gives a data transfer rate of 10 to 11 megabytes per second with a UP kernel, and the transfer drops to 5-6 megabytes per second with a SMP kernel. The ISR is

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-15 Thread Mike Black
Here's the end of my run -- I assume this means my config works OK? I'm on a dual PIII/600 linux-2.4.6-pre3 -- ran it all on the local host. received msg#90, name pad1, 1 blocks, 12 total bytes received msg#91, name pad1, 1 blocks, 12 total bytes received msg#92, name class

Re: SMP spin-locks

2001-06-15 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:05:07PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: The problem is that a data acquisition board across the PCI bus gives a data transfer rate of 10 to 11 megabytes per second with a UP kernel, and the transfer drops to 5-6 megabytes

RE: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-15 Thread Heusden, Folkert van
TCP is NOT a guaranteed protocol -- you can't just blast data from one port to another and expect it to work. Isn't it? Are you really sure about that? I thought UDP was the not-guaranteed-one and TCP was the one guaranting that all data reaches the other end in order and all. Please enlighten

RE: SMP spin-locks

2001-06-15 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, David Schwartz wrote: Spinlocks are machine dependent. A simple increment of a byte memory variable, spinning if it's not 1 will do fine. Decrementing this variable will release the lock. A `lock` prefix is not necessary

Re: [BUG] 2.2.19 - 80% Packet Loss

2001-06-15 Thread chuckw
You can fix this by upping the socket buffer that ping asks for (look for setsockopt( ... SO_RCVBUF ...)) and then tuning the kernel to allow larger socket buffers. The file to fiddle with is /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max. Currently it is set to 65535. I doubled it several times and each

[patch] nonblinking VGA block cursor

2001-06-15 Thread Leon Breedt
Hi, Attached is a patch to enforce a non-blinking, FreeBSD-syscons like block cursor in console mode. This is useful for laptop types, or people like me who really really detest a blinking cursor. NOTE: It disables the softcursor escape codes

Re: obsolete code must die

2001-06-15 Thread Horst von Brand
Claudio Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] Anyone with a 486 probably shudders at the space and time requirements of compiling modern kernels.. ... which they do on their newer machine anyway, as the i386 in the closet is a router that sports no compiler. The older boxes don't support

Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-15 Thread Alan Cox
I've installed several thousand 3com cards of various ages and types. I've had less than 20 bad cards. Nick Seconded. 3Com stuff is overpriced but reliable. They have also (prior to this event) been very good at working with the Linux community, including digging out docs for old MCA

Using cramfs as root filesystem on diskless machine

2001-06-15 Thread Alexandr Andreev
Hi, list. My MIPS machine has no any disks or flopies. So i obliged to use a RAM disk with a file system on it, which is mounted as root. I use gzipped initrd image, which is linked to the special section in the kernel during compilation. Now, the RAM disk size is really big, so i decide to use

Re: [PATCH] Avoid !__GFP_IO allocations to eat from memoryreservations

2001-06-15 Thread Chris Mason
On Thursday, June 14, 2001 09:59:43 AM -0300 Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In pre3, GFP_BUFFER allocations can eat from the emergency memory reservations in case try_to_free_pages() fails for those allocations in __alloc_pages(). Here goes the (tested) patch to fix that:

[RFT][PATCH] even out background aging

2001-06-15 Thread Rik van Riel
[Request For Testers: please test this on your system...] Hi, the following patch makes use of the fact that refill_inactive() now calls swap_out() before calling refill_inactive_scan() and the fact that the inactive_dirty list is now reclaimed in a fair LRU order. Background scanning can now

Enabling Netfilters to Mark packets in Red-Hat

2001-06-15 Thread Mark Smith
I have been trying to enable Netfilters to mark ip packets, (i.e. using iptables and iproute2). My problem is that after upgrading from 2.2.4 kernel to a 2.4 version, I did the following: make menuconfig - enabling the appropriate options make dep make bzImage make bzlilo The problem is I

Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-15 Thread Pekka Pietikainen
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:37:15AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: Pete Wyckoff writes: We're currently working on using both processors of the Tigon in parallel. It is my understanding that on the Tigon2, the second processor is only for working around hw bugs in the DMA controller of

Re: [Final call for testers][PATCH] superblock handling changes (2.4.6-pre3)

2001-06-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:10:00AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: +static inline void write_super(struct super_block *sb) +{ + lock_super(sb); + if (sb-s_root sb-s_dirt) When I first looked at this, I thought it was a typo. I don't think we should

Re: 3C905B -- EEPROM (i blive so) problem

2001-06-15 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, L. K. wrote: I have a 3COM 3C905B ethernet card that has been hit by a power outage for aprox. 0.5 sec. What do you mean by power outage ? If you mean cutting the power, this is not a serious reason for EEPROM damages, unless you were modifying it at that moment. I do

Re: [RFT][PATCH] even out background aging

2001-06-15 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: [Request For Testers: please test this on your system...] Hi, the following patch makes use of the fact that refill_inactive() now calls swap_out() before calling refill_inactive_scan() and the fact that the inactive_dirty list is now reclaimed in

kgdb for 2.4.5 kernels

2001-06-15 Thread Amit S. Kale
Hi, Linux kernel source level debugger, kgdb is available for kernel version 2.4.5. It contains the same functionality as kgdb for 2.4.3. Please visit http://kgdb.sourceforge.net/ to download it. Regards. -- Amit S. Kale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux kernel source level debugger

kmalloc

2001-06-15 Thread Petko Manolov
Hi there, AFAIK there was similar discusion almos a year ago but i can't remember the details. kmalloc fails to allocate more than 128KB of memory regardless of the flags (GFP_KERNEL/USER/ATOMIC) Any ideas? I am not quite sure if this is the expected behavior. Petko - To

Re: Buffer management - interesting idea

2001-06-15 Thread Ivan Schreter
Hello, I'm not subscribed to list, so please replies CC: to me On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:20:52 -0400 (EDT) John Clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way for you to measure the relative computational overhead required for the two algorithms? the benefit of the higher hit rate may be

Next hop and o/p i/f IP address

2001-06-15 Thread Manoj Sontakke
Hi list Sorry to bother you with such a trivial query. To make a routing decision ip_route_input() is called. It fills the skb-dst with appropriate entry. Can anyone point to the exact location where I can find the next hop and output interface IP address. It seems

Re: kmalloc

2001-06-15 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:02:08AM -0700, Petko Manolov escreveu: Hi there, AFAIK there was similar discusion almos a year ago but i can't remember the details. kmalloc fails to allocate more than 128KB of memory regardless of the flags (GFP_KERNEL/USER/ATOMIC) Any ideas? I

Re: Using cramfs as root filesystem on diskless machine

2001-06-15 Thread Alexandr Andreev
Hi, David. David Woodhouse wrote: Where does the bootloader get the initrd from? Bootloader only jumps to the kernel entry point. The initrd image is compiled inside the kernel. ( special section in the ELF kernel binary ) .config: ... CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=8192

Re: kmalloc

2001-06-15 Thread Petko Manolov
Hey thanks, The memory i need is not for DMA usage so i don't care if it is contiguous or not. later, Petko Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: Em Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:02:08AM -0700, Petko Manolov escreveu: Hi there, AFAIK there was similar discusion almos a year ago

Re: Using cramfs as root filesystem on diskless machine

2001-06-15 Thread Alexandr Andreev
David Woodhouse wrote: It's not polite to respond to private messages in public fora. On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Alexandr Andreev wrote: Bootloader only jumps to the kernel entry point. The initrd image is compiled inside the kernel. So it's in a ROM or flash chip? Why copy it into memory then?

Re: [BUG] 2.2.19 - 80% Packet Loss

2001-06-15 Thread Scott Laird
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can fix this by upping the socket buffer that ping asks for (look for setsockopt( ... SO_RCVBUF ...)) and then tuning the kernel to allow larger socket buffers. The file to fiddle with is /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max. Currently it is

Re: Zip: what does that mean?

2001-06-15 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Gregoire Favre wrote: I have an IDE 250Mb Zip, it work fine, but I can see: Jun 11 23:52:35 greg kernel: ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel: hdc: unknown partition table Jun 11 23:52:37 greg kernel: hdc:

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-15 Thread Mike Black
This is a very common misconception -- I worked a contract many years ago where I actually had to quote the author of TCP to convince a banking company I was working with that TCP is not a guaranteed protocol. Guaranteed delivery at layer 5 - yes -- but NOT a guaranteed protcol. Guaranteed means

Re: Using cramfs as root filesystem on diskless machine

2001-06-15 Thread David L. Parsley
Mathias Killian wrote a patch to allow cramfs initrd's, see: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-01/1064.html Alexandr Andreev wrote: Hi, list. My MIPS machine has no any disks or flopies. So i obliged to use a RAM disk with a file system on it, which is mounted as root. I

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-15 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Mike Black writes: I'm concerned that you're probably just overruning your IP stack: ... TCP is NOT a guaranteed protocol -- you can't just blast data from one port to another and expect it to work. Yes you can. This is why we have TCP in fact. a tcp-write is NOT guaranteed -- and as

Re: Lockup in 2.4.2 kernel ADSL PCI card ATM driver module

2001-06-15 Thread dan . davidson
I apologize to all for my first post! To partly answer my own poorly documented problem:- First, once the code added for the debugger (int3) was removed from the driver, the driver worked fine with kernel version 2.4.2-ac28 (but still not with 2.4.2-2rh or 2.4.2). Second, with sincere

Re: [Acpi] APM, ACPI, and Wake on LAN - the bane of my existance

2001-06-15 Thread Alex Deucher
Thanks, I'll try to take a look at the source if I get a chance next week. Any tulip developers out there know off hand if this is enabled? Or can be disabled? Thanks, Alex David Christensen wrote: Alex, Looking at the back of a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 manual I happen to have, they

Re: Buffer management - interesting idea

2001-06-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Ivan Schreter wrote: In 2Q, when a page is present in LRU queue, you move it to the front of LRU queue as usual. Otherwise, if it is in memory, it must be in A1 queue (the FIFO one), so you DON'T do anything. When the page is NOT in memory, you load it conditionally to

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-15 Thread Alan Cox
TCP is guaranteed delivery at layer 5 -- but that's all -- not a guaranteed protocol For certain specific cases this is in itself not true either. Also for many many implementations. Specifically 1. If the receiver closes and there is unread data many TCP's forget to RST the

Re: [patch] nonblinking VGA block cursor

2001-06-15 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Leon Breedt writes: Attached is a patch to enforce a non-blinking, FreeBSD-syscons like block cursor in console mode. This is useful for laptop types, or people like me who really really detest a blinking cursor. NOTE: It disables the softcursor escape codes

Re: [patch] nonblinking VGA block cursor

2001-06-15 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 15 June 2001 21:21, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Non-blinking cursors are just wrong. You need to patch your brain. You really fucked up, because now apps can't restore your cursor to proper behavior as defined by IBM. Just one question Albert: why doesn't my mouse cursor blink? ;-) --

Re: [patch] nonblinking VGA block cursor

2001-06-15 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Daniel Phillips writes: On Friday 15 June 2001 21:21, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Non-blinking cursors are just wrong. You need to patch your brain. You really fucked up, because now apps can't restore your cursor to proper behavior as defined by IBM. Just one question Albert: why doesn't my

Re: [patch] nonblinking VGA block cursor

2001-06-15 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 15 Jun 01 at 21:34, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Friday 15 June 2001 21:21, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Non-blinking cursors are just wrong. You need to patch your brain. You really fucked up, because now apps can't restore your cursor to proper behavior as defined by IBM. Just one

Re: obsolete code must die

2001-06-15 Thread Eric Hancock
Yes! I still need ISA support for an ne2000 card. On Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 06:23 PM, Rafael Diniz wrote: No. There are still plenty of unique ISA cards around. How about all the isa ne2000 around the world? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

drivers/usb/ov511.c does not compile

2001-06-15 Thread Kelledin Tane
Apologies if this has been posted before. I imagine it has. In kernel 2.4.5 stock, ov511.c fails to compile. A little intelligent searching through 2.4.4 source reveals that the following line in 2.4.4: static const char version[] = 1.28; is missing in 2.4.5, and this is why it does not

Re: drivers/usb/ov511.c does not compile

2001-06-15 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001, Kelledin Tane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies if this has been posted before. I imagine it has. In kernel 2.4.5 stock, ov511.c fails to compile. A little intelligent searching through 2.4.4 source reveals that the following line in 2.4.4: static const char

Re: drivers/usb/ov511.c does not compile

2001-06-15 Thread Kelledin Tane
While I could fix this myself manually (and plan to do so), it would be nice to get the developer's blessing on this, and also nice to know exactly what version number to give this driver in 2.4.5 stock. F**k me, forget I asked about the version. I just read a little further down in the

ps2 keyboard filter hook

2001-06-15 Thread ddstreet
IBM Retail Store Solutions dept has certain PS/2 keyboards which extend the standard PS/2 specification in order to support addition hardware built into the keyboard (such as a Magnetic Strip Reader, Keylock, Tone generator, extra keys, extra LEDs, etc). This addition hardware behaves in a

Re: Zip: what does that mean?

2001-06-15 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:40:57AM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: Nothing. Somethings is reeding /proc/partitions which lists all known partitions. fdisk or mount do this. When reading the file the kernel has to check the media in your zip-drive. Problem is, you havn't put in one. So

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-15 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:54:20PM +0400, Eugene Crosser wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: any problems since 2.4.5 was published, they seem to have surfaced immediately after I created a rather big file capturing video with broadcast2000

Re: [patch] nonblinking VGA block cursor

2001-06-15 Thread Leon Breedt
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:21:54PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Non-blinking cursors are just wrong. You need to patch your brain. You really fucked up, because now apps can't restore your cursor to proper behavior as defined by IBM. I don't want them to, because I prefer non-blinking. It

Re: ps2 keyboard filter hook

2001-06-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to use these keyboards, a the standard PS/2 driver needs to behave a bit differently; thus attached is a modifcation to the PS/2 driver which allows other drivers to register with the PS/2 driver as 'filters'. There is a arbitrary max number of 'filters' set

kmallow_maxsize undelcared

2001-06-15 Thread Lee Leahu
hello, the kmallow_maxsize is reported as undeclared what i try to complile buzz.c for the iomega buzz driver in the new kernel 2.4.5. how should i fix this? -- Lee Leahu RICIS, Inc. Internet Technoligies Specialist708-444-2690 Voice [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Zip: what does that mean?

2001-06-15 Thread Joshua Jore
Greg, Just to make a point on that, as I recall Zip and other super floppy media *shouldn't* be partitioned. It's certainly possible to do but it's anyone's guess on how different OS+revs will treat it. Josh __SIG__ On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Gregoire Favre wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at

EEPRO100/S support

2001-06-15 Thread Tim Hockin
Hey all, I just had an eepro/100 S delivered to me. I haven't dug through specs yet, but has anyone looke at this? Supposedly has a 3DES ASIC built in to the core. Any way we can use it? -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To

Re: ps2 keyboard filter hook

2001-06-15 Thread Dan Streetman
Didn't we just conclude a discussion here on linux-kernel, which said that patches which simply add hooks allowing proprietary extensions are not accepted into the kernel? Yes (I assume you mean the whole 'sockreg' register/unregister thread(s)...;-) I never intended to get that patch in. In

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac14

2001-06-15 Thread Thiago Vinhas de Moraes
Hi! Why the 2.4.5-ac series doesn't have merges from Linus 2.4.6-pre anymore? Regards, -- Thiago Vinhas de Moraes NetWorx - A SuaCompanhia.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-15 Thread Stelian Pop
In alcove.lists.linux.kernel, you wrote: Well, not quite... I've had several X lockups while using the YUV acceleration code. Let's say one lockup per half an hour. Strange. I've watched DVD's etc. Maybe it's not the Xv code, but your camera code? It can be, of course. However I never

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Kernel 2.0.35 limits

2001-06-15 Thread Paul Faure
Just this morning, our firewall get a kernel panic after 500 days of uptime. As you can see from the log files, the date starts at June 15th, where we get two div by zeros, then jumps May 11th, then a kernel panic. A reboot brings it back to June 15th. Since cron could not open /dev/rtc. My

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2001-06-15 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, =?ISO-8859-1?Q? =C1=E5=EB=EE=E1=EE=F0=EE=E4=EE=E2?= wrote: Íåò íåðàçðåøèìûõ ñèòóàöèé, åñòü òîëüêî íåæåëàíèå èõ [... drivel deleted ...] Received: from [195.161.132.168] ([195.161.132.168]:38150 HELO 777) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264252AbRFOVTc;

Re: Kernel 2.0.35 limits

2001-06-15 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Paul Faure wrote: Just this morning, our firewall get a kernel panic after 500 days of uptime. As you can see from the log files, the date starts at June 15th, where we get two div by zeros, then jumps May 11th, then a kernel panic. A reboot brings it back to June

Re: ps2 keyboard filter hook

2001-06-15 Thread Dan Streetman
X11 likes to talk direct to the PS/2 port. I actually think you should instead talk to Vojtech for the mainstream kernel about the input device work. It sounds much cleaner and more close to what you need Ah, I didn't realize the input layer was handling PS/2 stuff...? Although I am not sure

Re: Âèçû.Ïàñïîðòà.Ãðàæäàíñòâà.Ïðîáëåìû.=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D0=E5=F8=E5

2001-06-15 Thread Alex Belits
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: Received: from [195.161.132.168] ([195.161.132.168]:38150 HELO 777) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264252AbRFOVTc; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:19:32 -0400 inetnum: 195.161.132.0 - 195.161.132.255 netname: RT-CLNT-MMTEL descr:

Re: ps2 keyboard filter hook

2001-06-15 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:30:03PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: X11 likes to talk direct to the PS/2 port. I actually think you should instead talk to Vojtech for the mainstream kernel about the input device work. It sounds much cleaner and more close to what you need Ah, I didn't

Re: EEPRO100/S support

2001-06-15 Thread Kelledin Tane
Hey all, I just had an eepro/100 S delivered to me. I haven't dug through specs yet, but has anyone looke at this? Supposedly has a 3DES ASIC built in to the core. Any way we can use it? Good question. I've been wondering how exactly that ASIC would even benefit Windows users. Should

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-15 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Mike Black wrote: This is a very common misconception -- I worked a contract many years ago where I actually had to quote the author of TCP to convince a banking company I was working with that TCP is not a guaranteed protocol. Guaranteed delivery at layer 5 - yes --

Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-15 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org 2.4.5-ac15 o Enable MMX extensions on Cyrix MII (me) o Make pid on core dump configurable

Simple example of using slab allocator?

2001-06-15 Thread Matthew Dharm
For 2.5, I'm planning on switching my driver over to the slab allocator, for a variety of reasons. Does anyone have a _dead_ simple example of how to use such a beast? I've seen the various web pages and document explaining the API, but I love to see working examples for reference (and to fill

Re: ps2 keyboard filter hook

2001-06-15 Thread Dan Streetman
Vojtech, could you comment on if the above is possible using the input layer? Yes, and quite easily it'll fit into the input layer. Basically the way to do it would be to open the PS/2 port in the filter driver (thus disabling the normal keyboard driver to open it) and then register a new PS/2

Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!

2001-06-15 Thread Hahaha
Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at mornign, they promissed a *huge* surprise. Snowhite was anxious. Suddlently, the door open, and the Seven Dwarfs enter... attachment: midgets.scr

Re: ps2 keyboard filter hook

2001-06-15 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:14:05PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: Vojtech, could you comment on if the above is possible using the input layer? Yes, and quite easily it'll fit into the input layer. Basically the way to do it would be to open the PS/2 port in the filter driver (thus

Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!

2001-06-15 Thread Hahaha
Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at mornign, they promissed a *huge* surprise. Snowhite was anxious. Suddlently, the door open, and the Seven Dwarfs enter... attachment: midgets.scr

Re: 2.4.2 yenta_socket problems on ThinkPad 240

2001-06-15 Thread Eric Smith
On 6-Jun-2001, I reported: I upgraded my IBM ThinkPad 240 (Type 2609-31U) from Red Hat 7.0 to Red Hat 7.1, which uses the 2.4.2 kernel and the kernel PCMCIA drivers. Before the upgrade, all my CardBus and PCMCIA devices were working fine. Now the yenta_socket module seems to be causing

[patch] unpaired lock/unlock_kernel in fs/locks.c

2001-06-15 Thread Andrey Savochkin
Please apply the fix for unpaired lock/unlock_kernel in fs/locks.c Andrey --- fs/locks.c~ Fri Jun 15 17:14:05 2001 +++ fs/locks.c Fri Jun 15 19:16:31 2001 @@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ new_fl2 = locks_alloc_lock(0); error = -ENOLCK; /* no luck */ if (!(new_fl new_fl2)) -

ALi magik1 datasheet?

2001-06-15 Thread Dan Hollis
Does anyone have the ALi magik1 northbridge datasheet? (ALi M1647) The pdf documentation files on the ALi web site are just sales brochures. Yes, i've already asked ALi repeatedly in emails and filled out the online datasheet request forms and they have responded with deafening silence. -Dan

Re: [patch] nonblinking VGA block cursor

2001-06-15 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 15 June 2001 21:38, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Daniel Phillips writes: On Friday 15 June 2001 21:21, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Non-blinking cursors are just wrong. You need to patch your brain. You really fucked up, because now apps can't restore your cursor to proper behavior as

Re: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!

2001-06-15 Thread Matthew Dharm
No kidding... getting this once was funny enough on this mailing list... but twice in the same day? I am just rolling in the asiles here... Matt On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:34:59AM +0200, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Hahaha wrote: Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7

Re: Buffer management - interesting idea

2001-06-15 Thread Ivan Schreter
Hello, please CC: replies to me, since I'm not subscribed to the list. On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:50:33 -0300 (BRST) Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Ivan Schreter wrote: In 2Q, when a page is present in LRU queue, you move it to the front of [...] This description

[PATCH] blkdev_size_in_bytes

2001-06-15 Thread Andries . Brouwer
People want to read the last sector on a disk, but our present code does not easily allow that, since size checking is done in units of 1024 bytes, not in units of 512 bytes. We have seen very ugly solutions (add an ioctl to read the last sector) and very kludgy solutions (create a partition

Re: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!

2001-06-15 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Hahaha wrote: Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at mornign, they promissed a *huge* surprise. Snowhite was anxious. Suddlently, the door open, and the Seven Dwarfs enter... Ah... the

Re: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story! (VIRUS ALERT)

2001-06-15 Thread Walt
NM --- Matthew Dharm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No kidding... getting this once was funny enough on this mailing list... but twice in the same day? I am just rolling in the asiles here... Matt On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:34:59AM +0200, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2001,

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