Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:50:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > How about we drop the "printk" altogether, and make it all a comment? Can we please also drop annoying static informational printk's? > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 The

Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG with 2.4.5

Andrew, Thanks for your suggestions.. I'll try the noapic boot tonight, see if that makes any difference. The patches will have to wait till the weekend... TimT. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 040-2683613 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voodoo Programmer/Keeper of the

Re: mounting a fs in two places at once?

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:22:17AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > If you want root-proof analog of chroot - fine, but that will require > at least taking away the ability to mount/umount anything. How does FreeBSD implement this with jails? Don't jailed people get dummy /dev access that is more

Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG with 2.4.5

My Linux for Alpha on UP2000 SMP has had the same problem with the newer kernels 2.4.* with the tulip network driver. It's got Netgear 310TX with the Digital's original 21140 chip. In my case, it has nothing to do with the APIC because Alpha does not have anything related to APIC. I suspected

[PATCH] mm/memory.c locking comments fix

Some of the comments in and before handle_pte_fault() are obsolete or misleading: - page_table_lock has been pushed up into handle_mm_fault() and down into the various do_xxx_page() handlers. - mmap_sem protects the adding of vma structures to the vmlist, not pages to the page tables. Paul

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.6-pre6 fix drivers/net/Config.in error

Steven Cole wrote: > - dep_bool ' EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers' CONFIG_NET_PCI > + dep_bool ' EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers' CONFIG_NET_PCI $CONFIG_PCI See the "EISA" and "VLB" parts in there? EISA != PCI -- Jeff Garzik | Andre the Giant has a posse. Building

RFC: PCI Power Management Documentation

I've rewritten the PCI Power Management documentation that I was going to submit to Linus. I figured I would submit it here to get some proactive feedback on it. My thought was to create a Documentation/power/ directory with various documents describing the way that the kernel implements power

2.4.x features

I'm looking for information, either in documentation (!) or however its available, about the following features in the 2.4.x series kernels: 1. wake-one 2. _syscall4 3. process ID table resizing Where can I find these documented (no, "the source" isn't a good answer AFAIAC, even though its

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You know yourself first and all the screwed up ATAPI products that are > still using SFF-8020 that has been obsoleted before I start maintaining > the subsystem three plus years ago. >

Re: Linux Kernel Urgently Needed-Open Source Projects

On Monday July 25, 2001 Jasmin Brown wrote: >Aufgaben: >permanente Anpassung wichtiger Systemkomponenten an unsere et cetera Since nobody jumped on the improbably named Yasmin Brown & Jill Simmons for daring to post a classified within these hallowed precincts, I submit herewith my own

Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS

Thanks for the tips, however it doesn't help :-( Anyways in case anyone is curious the i/o problem still happens with an aic7xxx card put in and the onboard scsi disabled. [snip] > "J. Nick Koston" wrote: > > > > There seems to be a major problem with this board and 2.4.x kernels. > > I

Re: A signal fairy tale

| |> Let me know, when somebody has a patch or needs help, I would like to |> help or take a look at it. | |Maybe we can both hack on this. | Sure, that should be interesting, did you have something in mind ? We can start right away. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

[PATCH] 2.4.6-pre6 fix drivers/net/Config.in error

I got this error for 2.4.6-pre6 for make xconfig drivers/net/Config.in: 145: can't handle dep_bool/dep_mbool/dep_tristate condition make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.6-pre6/scripts' make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 This may be the proper fix. Steven

Re: A signal fairy tale

Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Btw, this functionality is already available using sigaction(). Just > > search for a signal whose handler is SIG_DFL. If you then block that > > signal before changing, checking the result, and

Re: wake_up vs. wake_up_sync

Manfred, Calling this a BUG is misleading. It is ok to be occasionally wrong regarding the preemption priority as long as RT tasks are not involved. This is due to the fact that PROC_CHANGE_PENALTIES are used, which already provide for some priority inversion. Hubertus Franke email: [EMAIL

Re: A signal fairy tale

From: Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> [ sigopen() proposal ] >... From a programming standpoint, this >looks like a really nice approach. I must say I prefer this approach to the >various "event" strategies I've seen to date, as it fixes the primary >problem with signals, while still

Re: A signal fairy tale

Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Shouldn't there be a sigclose() and other operations to make the API >orthogonal. No, plain old close() on the file descriptor returned by sigopen() would do the trick. >sigopen() should be selective about the signals it allows >as argument. Try and

Re: RFC: Changes for PCI

Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tom Gall wrote: > > Well you have device drivers like the symbios scsi driver for instance that > > tries to determine if it's seen a card before. It does this by looking at the > > bus,dev etc numbers... It's quite reasonable for two different scsi cards to be > > on the

VIA 686B/Data Corruption FAQ

http://www.viahardware.com/686bfaq.shtm Couldn't find a mention of this in the archives, but those interested in the VIA chipset issues should check this out. The page contains the following officail statement from VIA: The data corruption error, which some web sites and people have reported

Asus CUV4X-DLS

There seems to be a major problem with this board and 2.4.x kernels. I consistantly get SCSI Input/Output errors on multiple drives that I know are good when running a SMP kernel. These errors do no happen with a UP kernel. This is happening on multiple systems and with multiple know good scsi

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)

From: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You know yourself first and all the screwed up ATAPI products that are still using SFF-8020 that has been obsoleted before I start maintaining the subsystem three plus years ago. Hi Andre - Why precisely is complying to SFF-8020 broken?

Re: Freezing bug in all kernels greater than 2.4.5-ac13 *AND*2.4.6-pre2

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I decided, for the hell of it, to test the pre series as I've been > > nudged by many people to try it in favor of the ac kernel series that > > I've been having problems with. Well, it

Re: Freezing bug in all kernels greater than 2.4.5-ac13 *AND*2.4.6-pre2

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I decided, for the hell of it, to test the pre series as I've been > nudged by many people to try it in favor of the ac kernel series that > I've been having problems with. Well, it turns out I have ran into > exactly the same problem I had with

Re: [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug

Hello Stephen, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > First, don't we want to do a flush_page_to_ram() *before* starting the > swap IO? Well, let me explain the issue. It is the thing we need to do flushing *after* I/O. -- Problem with virtually indexed physically tagged

Freezing bug in all kernels greater than 2.4.5-ac13 *AND* 2.4.6-pre2

I decided, for the hell of it, to test the pre series as I've been nudged by many people to try it in favor of the ac kernel series that I've been having problems with. Well, it turns out I have ran into exactly the same problem I had with the ac kernel series, which quite frankly is surprising

Re: spindown

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:07:01PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Isn't this why noflushd exists or is this an evil thing that shouldn't > > > ever be used and will eventually eat my disks for breakfast? > > > > It would eat your flash for breakfast. You know, flash

Re: [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug

Hi, On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:07:52AM +0900, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > I think Stephen C. Tweedie has some considerations about the cache > > flushing calls on do_swap_page(). > > Yup. IIRC, he said that flushing cache at do_swap_page() (which I've > tried at first)

Tulip driver still broken at 2.4.6-pre5

Hello. I have just built 2.4.6-pre5 in the hope that the tulip 21041 driver support might have been fixed but find that it is not. (SMC/Digital DC21041 Tulip rev 17) Cheers and thanks, Stephen Davies Stephen Davies

Re: [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > I think Stephen C. Tweedie has some considerations about the cache > > flushing calls on do_swap_page(). > > Yup. IIRC, he said that flushing cache at do_swap_page() (which I've > tried at first) is not good, because

Re: The Joy of Forking

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:03:54AM -0400, Rick Hohensee wrote: > > > rtlinux by default > > > no SMP > > > SMP doesn't scale. If this fork comes, the smart maintainer > > > will take the non-SMP fork. > > > > Depends on platform and bus. From reports, it seems to scale

Re: [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug

Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > I think Stephen C. Tweedie has some considerations about the cache > flushing calls on do_swap_page(). Yup. IIRC, he said that flushing cache at do_swap_page() (which I've tried at first) is not good, because it's the hot path and it causes another performance problem

Re: RFC: Changes for PCI

> Well you have device drivers like the symbios scsi driver for instance that > tries to determine if it's seen a card before. It does this by looking at the > bus,dev etc numbers... Can it be done by comparing struct pci_dev pointers for equal? -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: RFC: Changes for PCI

Tom Gall wrote: > Well you have device drivers like the symbios scsi driver for instance that > tries to determine if it's seen a card before. It does this by looking at the > bus,dev etc numbers... It's quite reasonable for two different scsi cards to be > on the same bus number, same dev

[OT] Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:26:55AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote: > a DF-32 for PDP 8 systems with 32 K bytes of disk space 32768 13-bit words (12-bit plus parity) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: RFC: Changes for PCI

> Why not use sysdata like the other arches? > > Changing the meaning of dev->bus->number globally seems pointless. If > you are going to do that, just do it the right way and introduce another > struct member, pci_domain or somesuch. Thats 2.5 material. For 2.4 we should do as davem

Re: RFC: Changes for PCI

Hi, > The following 3 functions are added. Their purpose is a little > different than to add support for more than 256 buses but they are > important. Skip ahead and I'll explain what they are for > > int (*pci_read_bases)(struct pci_dev *, int cnt,int rom); /* These optional > hooks

Re: What is the best way for multiple net_devices

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:36:37PM -0700, Maksim Krasnyanskiy wrote: > > >Any examples of drivers and apps that do this cleanly. The ones I have seen are not. > TUN/TAP driver and tuncfg utility > http://vtun.sf.net/tun OK, thanks that is nice, but I think adding support to get into the /dev

Re: [PATCH] User chroot

> Not that the documentation on MAP_ANON is any good either > but at least the mere existence of the flag is mentioned. > Seriously: > both features ought to be documented in the man pages > (I did submit a man page too, back in 1996) Ah yes, I see. We both wrote a man page, and each contained

Re: RFC: Changes for PCI

Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Tom Gall wrote: > > The first part changes number, primary, and secondary to unsigned ints from > > chars. What we do is encode the PCI "domain" aka PCI Primary Host Bridge, aka > > pci controller in with the bus number. In our case we do it like this: > > > >

Re: wake_up vs. wake_up_sync

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:57:43PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Does reschedule_idle() ever cause the current CPU to get scheduled? That > is, if someone calls wake_up() and wakes up a higher-priority process > could reschedule_idle() potentially immediately switch the current CPU > to that

Re: wake_up vs. wake_up_sync

Mike Kravetz wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:22:19PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > > Why would you want to prevent > > > reschedule_idle()? > > > > > If one process runs, wakes up another process and _knows_ that it's > > going to sleep immediately after the wake_up it doesn't need the

Re: What is the best way for multiple net_devices

>Any examples of drivers and apps that do this cleanly. The ones I have seen are not. TUN/TAP driver and tuncfg utility http://vtun.sf.net/tun Max Maksim Krasnyanskiy Senior Kernel Engineer Qualcomm Incorporated [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bluez.sf.net http://vtun.sf.net - To unsubscribe

Re: What is the best way for multiple net_devices

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >andrew may wrote: >> >> Is there a standard way to make multiple copies of a network device? >> >> For things like the bonding/ipip/ip_gre and others they seem to expect >> insmod -o copy1 module.o >> insmod -o copy2

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I find printk's with copyright notices quite disturbing. You will notice > > that I don't have any myself. I think the whole thing is very tasteless, > > and the "polite reminder" is just complete crap. > > If someone took all references to your name out

Re: What is the best way for multiple net_devices

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:04:02PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > andrew may wrote: > > > > Is there a standard way to make multiple copies of a network device? > > > > For things like the bonding/ipip/ip_gre and others they seem to expect > > insmod -o copy1 module.o > > insmod -o copy2 module.o

Re: RFC: Changes for PCI

Tom Gall wrote: > The first part changes number, primary, and secondary to unsigned ints from > chars. What we do is encode the PCI "domain" aka PCI Primary Host Bridge, aka > pci controller in with the bus number. In our case we do it like this: > > pci_controller=dev->bus->number>>8)

Re: PROBLEM:Illegal instruction when mount nfs file systems using cyr ixIII

> The problem is that VIA Cyrix III announces itself (via CPUID) > as a "family 6" processor, i.e. i686 compatible. This is not > completely accurate, since it doesn't implement the conditional > move instruction. [Yeah, I know there's a CPUID feature flag for Intel specifically state that you

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

> I find printk's with copyright notices quite disturbing. You will notice > that I don't have any myself. I think the whole thing is very tasteless, > and the "polite reminder" is just complete crap. If someone took all references to your name out of the kernel and put it out as 'Foobaros' by

RFC: Changes for PCI

Hi All, I'm looking for commentary on the following. As you might recall I had posted a note a few days back on the lkml about the kinds of systems ppc64 runs on and the reality of having a boatload of PCI buses out there. I sure appreciate all the comments and feedback. Today appended

Re: What is the best way for multiple net_devices

andrew may wrote: > > Is there a standard way to make multiple copies of a network device? > > For things like the bonding/ipip/ip_gre and others they seem to expect > insmod -o copy1 module.o > insmod -o copy2 module.o The network driver should provide the capability to add new devices. Most

Re: Allocating non-contigious memory

> Would it be useful to turn that particular code into a subroutine that > is called from each driver, or would that cause other problems? It would but then I suspect Linus wouldnt want to take it as it might encourage people to use it 8) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: wake_up vs. wake_up_sync

Does reschedule_idle() ever cause the current CPU to get scheduled? That is, if someone calls wake_up() and wakes up a higher-priority process could reschedule_idle() potentially immediately switch the current CPU to that higher-priority process? Because this is NOT what I want to happen (it

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)

Gunther, It fixes a BUG in CFA, but what will it do to the other stuff? Parse it exclusive to CFA and there is not an issue. Also look closely No all ./arch have a control register doing this randomly without know the rest of the driver will kill more than it fixes. static int

What is the best way for multiple net_devices

Is there a standard way to make multiple copies of a network device? For things like the bonding/ipip/ip_gre and others they seem to expect insmod -o copy1 module.o insmod -o copy2 module.o It seems to me that this will waste space creating copies of all the static data. Then there are things

Re: wake_up vs. wake_up_sync

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:22:19PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > Why would you want to prevent > > reschedule_idle()? > > > If one process runs, wakes up another process and _knows_ that it's > going to sleep immediately after the wake_up it doesn't need the > reschedule_idle: the current cpu

Re: [PATCH] proc_file_read() (Was: Re: proc_file_read() question)

Hi, Martin Wilck wrote: > Hum - is there no simple way to determine whether a pointer is > a valid pointer to something returned by __get_free_pages ()? You are > right, S390 in particular seems to allow arbitrary addresses starting from > 0. M68k does so too, although the first page is never

Re: Allocating non-contigious memory

Hi Alan. >> What is the Right Way[tm] as of 2.4.6 to allocate 16Mb as 4K >> pages and get the pci bus address for each page? Bonus points >> is they're virtually contiguous, but that's not necessary. >> IIRC, the old vmalloc-then-walk-the-pagetables trick is >> considered out-of-bounds

sched.h problem in 2.4.x and new gcc compilers

Hello, there is a little problem with some headers and new glibs and compilers. Kernel fails to compile and worst is the extern declaration in sched.h Don't if this is a gcc or glib problem (surely gcc) but doesn't works... The patch is only redeclaring xtime in extern:

Re: (reposting) how to get DMA'able memory within 4GB on 64-bit machine

MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1) writes: > Is there a way for a driver to ask kernel to > give DMA'able memory within 4GB ? I read about > pci_alloc_consistent(). But I could not find out > whether that guarantees the DMA'able memory to be > within 4GB or not. Is there any other kernel routine

Re: wake_up vs. wake_up_sync

> I'm having trouble understanding the difference between these. > Synchronous apparently causes try_to_wake_up() to NOT call > reschedule_idle() but I'm uncertain what reschedule_idle() is doing. I > assume it just looks for an idle CPU and makes that CPU reschedule. > > What is the purpose of

Re: [PATCH] User chroot

H. Peter Anvin writes: > "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: >> BTW, it is way wrong that /dev/zero should be needed at all. >> Such use is undocumented ("man zero", "man mmap") anyway, and >> AFAIK one should use mmap() with MAP_ANON instead. Not that >> the documentation on MAP_ANON is any good either,

Re: When the FUD is all around (sniff).

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:33:03 +0200 Alessandro Suardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have trouble in finding words to describe such blatant ignorance. A Troll ? oh.. geez, this was not something on the internet... -- Fabrice Gautier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] User chroot

"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > BTW, it is way wrong that /dev/zero should be needed at all. > Such use is undocumented ("man zero", "man mmap") anyway, and > AFAIK one should use mmap() with MAP_ANON instead. Not that > the documentation on MAP_ANON is any good either, but at least > the mere

Re: BSD sockets with sys_socketcall

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:23:27PM -0700, Prasad Koya wrote: > How does socket(), bind() and other BSD socket API > calls in user applications are handled by system > socketcall(). Does the compiler (say gcc) substitute > socket() in user app with socketcall(SYS_SOCKET,..)? You are using libc

Re: [PATCH] User chroot

H. Peter Anvin writes: > Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >> Normal users can use an environment provided for them. >> >> While trying to figure out why the "heyu" program would not >> work on a Red Hat box, I did just this. As root I set up all >> the device files needed, along Debian libraries and the

Re: Re: AMD thunderbird oops

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well considering the other night the power supply went dead, I think that is part of >the problem. It is brand new, and I am being sent another one (free of course). I would have bet that power supply was erogating elettricity with a

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)

Andre Hedrick wrote: > > PARANIOA. This is not a valid reason. This clearly fixes a bug in linux. Note: the irq disable is local to ide-cs. Are you paranoid enough to believe enabling the irq by writing globally to the control register that existed since ATA will have ill effects? You claim

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Linus, Alan - Please apply the following self-explanatory patch. How about we drop the "printk" altogether, and make it all a comment? I find printk's with copyright notices quite disturbing. You will notice that I don't have any myself. I think

Oops at boot with 2.4.5

When I use an initrd, sometimes when warm-booting I get an "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference" OOPS just after the "Trying to unmount old root ..." message. I ran gdb on vmlinux and got the following stack trace: 0xc0180516 : mov0x10(%eax),%eax 0xc0137c37 : mov

wake_up vs. wake_up_sync

I'm having trouble understanding the difference between these. Synchronous apparently causes try_to_wake_up() to NOT call reschedule_idle() but I'm uncertain what reschedule_idle() is doing. I assume it just looks for an idle CPU and makes that CPU reschedule. What is the purpose of

Re: PROBLEM:Illegal instruction when mount nfs file systems using cyr ixIII

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:42:01 +0800, Frank Zhu wrote: >I use a PIII machine as the server and cyrixIII machine as the client.The >kernel is 2.4.5.The distribute is red hat 7.1 >when i mount the nfs file system at the client it failed.The core file is >created.using the gdb it report : >Program

Re: How to change DVD-ROM speed?

On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote: > > Excellent. I'd say use the same ioctl if you can, but default to using > > SET_STREAMING for DVD drives. > > As long as it still works for the combo drives - CD/CD-RW/DVD > Sony VIAO high end laptops, Toshiba has one, maybe others by now. As long as

Re: Re: AMD thunderbird oops

Well considering the other night the power supply went dead, I think that is part of the problem. It is brand new, and I am being sent another one (free of course). I also had my mb loaded at the time (scsi cd-rw, cdrom, internal zip, floppy, 1 hd, Sound card, video, modem, NIC, scsi card)

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)

PARANIOA. Remember that ATAPI is generally screwed beyond reality, so adjusting the probe code in general (global) is a bad thing. Andre Hedrick ASL Kernel Development Linux ATA Development - ASL, Inc.

Re: How to change DVD-ROM speed?

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote: > As long as it still works for the combo drives - CD/CD-RW/DVD > Sony VIAO high end laptops, Toshiba has one, maybe others by now. OK when I send the patch I'll assume you will test it :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: How to change DVD-ROM speed?

> > On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > > I am trying to change the spin rate of my IDE DVD-ROM drive. My system is > > > > an Apple PowerBook G4, and I am using kernel 2.4. I want the drive to > > > > spin at 1X when I watch

PATCH (2.4.5): /dev/poll support (3rd time lucky)

Not my day it seems ! Hopefully I remembered to attach the file this time :) -- Hi, this patch adds Solaris 7/8 like /dev/poll support to the kernel. I can claim no real credit for this as basically this is a fixed version of a patch available from

PATCH (2.4.5): /dev/poll support

I think pgp-signing just barfed my last email (typical) so I'm retyping / resending this: Hi, this patch adds Solaris 7/8 like /dev/poll support to the kernel. I can claim no real credit for this as basically this is a fixed version of a patch available from

BSD sockets with sys_socketcall

How does socket(), bind() and other BSD socket API calls in user applications are handled by system socketcall(). Does the compiler (say gcc) substitute socket() in user app with socketcall(SYS_SOCKET,..)? Also, why don't I see _syscallN() macro for socketcall or any other BSD socket calls?

PATCH (2.4.5): /dev/poll support

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kernel BUG at inode.c:486! (2.4.5)

This happens here from time to time :-( Is it fixed in some 2.4.6preX ? Soeren. ==snip kernel BUG at inode.c:486! invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[load_aout_library+19/640] EFLAGS: 00010286 eax: 001b ebx: e43baa80 ecx: d7f54000 edx: e3801ac0 esi:

patch(2.4.5): 2nd ed. Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE + PCI IRQ sharing

Hi, this includes the last fix + now it is willing to share PCI irqs. Of course you still need CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ set. Now CF is working very fine, hdparm-4.1 shows 1.27 MB/sec. (Only after treaking the source for small (i.e. <64MB) devices). Regards, Gunther ---

2.4.5 oops in __free_pages from networking soft IRQ / skb_release

[1.] One line summary of the problem: Oops killing soft interrupt in networking subsystem on plain 2.4.5 kernel. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I recently updated the system on my router (486 100Mhz, 12MB RAM) to kernel 2.4.5. The router has one ethernet interface and an ISDN

Re: Allocating non-contigious memory

> What is the Right Way[tm] as of 2.4.6 to allocate 16Mb as 4K pages and > get the pci bus address for each page? Bonus points is they're > virtually contiguous, but that's not necessary. IIRC, the old > vmalloc-then-walk-the-pagetables trick is considered out-of-bounds > nowadays. If you want

Re: PCI Power Management / Interrupt Context

Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > David T Eger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >So I'm writing some code for a PCI card that is a framebuffer device, and > >happily filling in the functions for the probe() and remove() functions > >when I read documentation

Allocating non-contigious memory

What is the Right Way[tm] as of 2.4.6 to allocate 16Mb as 4K pages and get the pci bus address for each page? Bonus points is they're virtually contiguous, but that's not necessary. IIRC, the old vmalloc-then-walk-the-pagetables trick is considered out-of-bounds nowadays. OG. - To

Re: PCI Power Management / Interrupt Context

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David T Eger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So I'm writing some code for a PCI card that is a framebuffer device, and >happily filling in the functions for the probe() and remove() functions >when I read documentation (Documentation/pci.txt) which mentions that

[noOOPS] Crash in -ac15 on SMP init fixed in -ac19

Dunno what the problem was, but the 2.4.5-ac15 problem I was having on the 4 way alphas is fixed in ac19. >Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 043ffc69c078 >CPU 2 init(1): Oops 0 >pc = [] ra = [] ps = Anyone venture a guess? The patch log does not seem to show

Re: A signal fairy tale

--On Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:18:28 +0200 Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Btw, this functionality is already available using sigaction(). Just > search for a signal whose handler is SIG_DFL. If you then block that > signal before changing, checking the result, and unblocking the

Re: A signal fairy tale

--On Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:51:36 +0530 Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shouldn't there be a sigclose() and other operations to make the API Wouldn't the existing close() be good enough for that? > orthogonal. sigopen() should be selective about the signals it allows > as

Re: [PATCH] User chroot

Followup to: <83fdx$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jorgen Cederlof) wrote on 27.06.01 in ><20010627014534.B2654@ondska>: > > > If we only allow user chroots for processes that have never been > >

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > I do not care much whether the cache is using 99% of the systems memory > or 50%. As long as there is free memory, using it for cache is great. I > care a lot if the cache takes down interactivity, because it pushes out > processes that it thinks

Re: How to change DVD-ROM speed?

On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > I am trying to change the spin rate of my IDE DVD-ROM drive. My system is > > > an Apple PowerBook G4, and I am using kernel 2.4. I want the drive to > > > spin at 1X when I watch movies.

Re: EEPro100 bug in 2.4.6pre5

Alan Cox wrote: > Someone has done S/CONFIG_EEPRO100_PM/CONFIG_PM/ on the driver and in doing > so permanently enabled the eepro100 pm code which to say the least doesnt work > for a lot of people but gives them weird eepro100 hangs Do you have a bug report of this actually breaking? eepro100

Re: EEPro100 bug in 2.4.6pre5

> Do you have a bug report of this actually breaking? I've not been able to make 2.4.6pre5 stay up long enough to do any real testing on this. It just keeps hanging all the time anyway > eepro100 is doing standard PCI PM. The only reason AFAICS why it was > breaking for people was that the

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:09:41AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Michael Meissner wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > > The AS400 seems to be based out of Austin. We hear a lot about it around > > > here... > > > > Ummm, the

Re: mounting a fs in two places at once?

Chris Wedgwood wrote: >On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:20:16AM -0700, Ben Ford wrote: > >>Feature. It actually makes it quite nice when you want to allow >>chrooted user(s) access to a common directory, you just mount a >>partition in all the users home dirs. >> > >For security, this can be a bad

Re: How to change DVD-ROM speed?

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > I am trying to change the spin rate of my IDE DVD-ROM drive. My system is > > an Apple PowerBook G4, and I am using kernel 2.4. I want the drive to > > spin at 1X when I watch movies. Currently, it

Re: [PATCH] proc_file_read() (Was: Re: proc_file_read() question)

> PAGE_OFFSET definitely works for me, but a quick scan of the headers > suggests that non-sun3 m68k builds define PAGE_OFFSET as 0, as does > s390. Hum - is there no simple way to determine whether a pointer is a valid pointer to something returned by __get_free_pages ()? You are right, S390

Re: How to change DVD-ROM speed?

On Wed, Jun 27 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > I am trying to change the spin rate of my IDE DVD-ROM drive. My system is > an Apple PowerBook G4, and I am using kernel 2.4. I want the drive to > spin at 1X when I watch movies. Currently, it spins at its highest speed, > which is very loud and

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