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

2001-06-30 Thread tcm
I'm currently running 2.4.6-pre8 and happy as a clam, the problem has been found and reverted, looks from my discussions with Linus like the page_launder change introduced into pre3 and also included in ac14 was causing the hangs/near freezes. I'm not really much of a coder, so I

Re: Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre

2001-06-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > In pre7: > > "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects" > > Can you be more verbose about this ? See the thread about 2.4.5-ac13+ (and my pre3+) basically becoming unusable for longish times (temporarily locking up) on

Re: NWFS Submitted to Alan Cox

2001-06-30 Thread Trever L. Adams
> I am doing very well with my consulting projects, but to be honest, > my family has sufferred horribly in the past four years fighting with > Novell every other week, and there's a very strong chance I will be > moving shop to either New Mexico or Arizona, since they own the > local courts

Re: NWFS Submitted to Alan Cox

2001-06-30 Thread Paul Fulghum
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Novell has recently threatened to try to take my house and > assets if I post any more NWFS releases or MANOS. [snip] > They are wounded in the market ... A quote for the lumbering lizards at Novell as they stumble torwards the tarpits: These

[PATCH] broken cs46xx in 2.4.6-pre8

2001-06-30 Thread Justin Guyett
prototypes weren't updated. --- linux/drivers/sound/cs46xx.c.orig Sat Jun 30 20:16:06 2001 +++ linux/drivers/sound/cs46xx.cSat Jun 30 20:26:57 2001 @@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ static int cs46xx_powerup(struct cs_card *card, unsigned int type); static int cs461x_powerdown(struct cs_card

Re: 2.4.5 - IpConfig, BOOTP not functioning.

2001-06-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Joshua Schmidklofer wrote: > > Kernel developers, >I hate to burden you with menial quetions, but: How does ipconfig > get called & initialized? The magic happens right at the end of ipconfig.c: __setup("ip=", ip_auto_config_setup); __setup("nfsaddrs=", nfsaddrs_config_setup); When the

Re: unable to read from IDE tape

2001-06-30 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> Lately, I have been having problems reading from from my HP Colorado IDE > tape drive. I can use mt to get the status of the drive and to forward the > drive to a different file. I can even use tar to write to the tape. > But whenever I try to read the tar files that I have written to tape, I

Re: Mac USB keyboards (Was: USB Keyboard errors with 2.4.5-ac)

2001-06-30 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:07:58AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > > If you're using it on a wintel arch machine, have you managed to get the > > numeric keypad's = key or the power key to work? Doesn't here and I've > > tried more than one model of keyboard on more than one machine, no luck >

Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-06-30 Thread Rick Hohensee
The two branches of the USA that pertain have now confirmed that Microsoft is a problem requiring an externally asserted solution, but the judicial branch has rejected the specific solution proposed by the executive branch. Three other proposed remedies are mentioned in the Washington Post

Broken tulip in 2.4.5+

2001-06-30 Thread Tom Rini
Hello. The current tulip driver in 2.4.5 and up no longer works with my 'tulip' ethernet card. 0.9.14 (what's in prior to 2.4.5-pre6, iirc) works fine with the card, as does de4x5. Version 0.9.15-pre5 (2.4.6-pre8) and 1.1.8 (from sourceforge) both don't work. The card is: 01:15.0 Ethernet

2.4.5 Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!

2001-06-30 Thread David Thor Bragason
Hello, I have compiled 2.4.5 four times now, and it just won't boot. I have compiled and used every previous 2.4 kernel without problems, using the same configuration. The compiler is gcc 2.95.2, but I also tried gcc 3.0 without success. The system crashes early in the boot process, so I haven't

Re: Mac USB keyboards (Was: USB Keyboard errors with 2.4.5-ac)

2001-06-30 Thread Guest section DW
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:48:40PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > If you're using it on a wintel arch machine, have you managed to get the > numeric keypad's = key or the power key to work? Doesn't here and I've > tried more than one model of keyboard on more than one machine, no luck > even

Re: NWFS Submitted to Alan Cox

2001-06-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:35:58PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Alan, There is a very current version which I have not released that is in great shape. I have not posted it. This is the version I would be sending you. Jeff > > > Alan, > > I would like for you to take over NWFS if you

Re: 2.4.5-acX, airo_cs

2001-06-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
PALFFY Daniel wrote: > --- linux/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c~ Sat Jun 30 22:37:10 2001 > +++ linux/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c Sat Jun 30 22:37:33 2001 > @@ -2988,9 +2988,7 @@ > * fails with an error other than -ENODEV, instead of proceeding, > * if ISA devs are present. >

All reiserfs system experiencing lockups under heavy load - 2.4.5-ac22

2001-06-30 Thread Alan Chandler
I am not subscribed to the list please cc me on replies. I have seen a number of reports of complete lockup of systems. I have been experiencing them almost since I decided to switch over to an all reiserfs system - and had installed linux 2.4.5-ac22 since it supposidly contained a patch

NWFS Submitted to Alan Cox

2001-06-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan, I would like for you to take over NWFS if you are willing. I have dissolved TRG as a Utah Corporation and I am now focused on a variety of projects for various clients related to Linux development. Novell has recently threatened to try to take my house and assets if I post any more

about IDE0 interrupt

2001-06-30 Thread Barry Wu
Hi, all, I want to disable irq14 interrupt in the kernel. Do somebody know how to do? If so, please help me. Thanks! Barry __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-30 Thread Adam Sampson
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So let's simply disallow versions, author information, and "good status" > messages, ok? I'd be quite happy with this, if only for consistency's sake -- at the moment we've got some kernel subsystems which print "yup, I've started up" messages, and

Re: PATCH: drivers/char/vt.c allows virtually locking up nonnetworked machine

2001-06-30 Thread Guest section DW
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:10:40PM +0200, Rudolf Polzer wrote: > There is a problem concerning chvt. A normal user can run a > > bash$ while [ 1 ]; do chvt 11; done > > which cannot be killed using the console (only remotely, virtually never > on a nonnetworked multiuser machine). So I changed

PATCH: drivers/char/vt.c allows virtually locking up nonnetworked machine

2001-06-30 Thread Rudolf Polzer
There is a problem concerning chvt. A normal user can run a bash$ while [ 1 ]; do chvt 11; done which cannot be killed using the console (only remotely, virtually never on a nonnetworked multiuser machine). So I changed the kernel source code so that only the superuser may change terminals.

Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre

2001-06-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Linus, In pre7: "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects" Can you be more verbose about this ? Thanks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

2.4.5-acX, airo_cs

2001-06-30 Thread PALFFY Daniel
Hi! A small patch to airo.c to allow the module to load even if no pci or isa cards are found, because airo_cs needs the airo module to load. --- linux/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c~ Sat Jun 30 22:37:10 2001 +++ linux/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c Sat Jun 30 22:37:33 2001 @@ -2988,9 +2988,7 @@

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-30 Thread Raja R Harinath
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Lynne) writes: [snip] > A counter example that does both, bc does tell us who wrote it > every time we run it (most annoying) and is smart enough to know > when it is not talking to a tty. > > % bc > bc 1.05 > Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998

Re: 2.4.6p6: numerous dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs

2001-06-30 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Russell, Adam. >> So, I guess something like Keith Owens's patch would be the way >> to go, with some additional definitions (CONFIG_AGP, CONFIG_PCI, >> CONFIG_ISA, CONFIG_EISA, CONFIG_PCMCIA, and possibly others). >> I am not sure which other conditionals might also be incorrectly >>

Soft updates for 2.5?

2001-06-30 Thread Alex Khripin
Hi, There was a discussion in October, 2000, about the Granger and McKusick paper on soft updates for the BSD FFS. Reading the thread, nothing conclusive seemed to come out of it. The paper is available at http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-25 4-95/ The code for the BSD

unable to read from IDE tape

2001-06-30 Thread John Guthrie
Hi all, Lately, I have been having problems reading from from my HP Colorado IDE tape drive. I can use mt to get the status of the drive and to forward the drive to a different file. I can even use tar to write to the tape. But whenever I try to read the tar files that I have written to tape,

Re: Bounce buffer deadlock

2001-06-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > > Yes. 2.4.6-pre8 fixes that (not sure if its up already). > > It is up. > > > > > > If the fix is to avoid page_launder in these cases then the number of > > > occurrences when an alloc_pages fails will go up. > > > > > I was attempting to

Re: compile error about do_softirq in 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-30 Thread Byeong-ryeol Kim
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Byeong-ryeol Kim wrote: >On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > >>On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 10:07:20 +0900 (KST), >>Byeong-ryeol Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >background.c:57: `do_softirq_Rf0a529b7' undeclared (first use in \ >this function) >>

Re: EEPro100 problems in SMP on 2.4.5 ?

2001-06-30 Thread Dylan Griffiths
Andrew Morton wrote: > 1: Include `magic sysrq' support in the kernel and use ALT-SYSRQ-T and S >when it has locked up. If you get some traces then please feed them >into `ksymoops -m System.map' and report back. That was locked as well, AFAIK. > 2: If the above doesn't work, add

Re: compile error about do_softirq in 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-30 Thread Byeong-ryeol Kim
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Keith Owens wrote: >On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 10:07:20 +0900 (KST), >Byeong-ryeol Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: background.c:57: `do_softirq_Rf0a529b7' undeclared (first use in \ this function) > >Missing include in fs/jffs2/background.c. spin_unlock_bh()

Re: 2.4.6-pre8 build error of aic7xxxt

2001-06-30 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
> "AC" == Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> may be a 'make mrproper' solves your problem, AC> Unlikely since the problem is the fact that the scsi firmware AC> assembler wants a library that isnt installed. It seems the libdb is in fact installed. I just added a

Re: 2.4.6-pre8 build error of aic7xxxt

2001-06-30 Thread Rafael Herrera
Alan Cox wrote: > > > > gcc -I/usr/include -I. -ldb aicasm_gram.c aicasm_scan.c aicasm.c aicasm_symbol.c >-o aicasm > > > /usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -ldb: No such file or directory > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > > make[5]: *** [aicasm] Error 1 > > > [...] > > >

RE: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-30 Thread Torrey Hoffman
(cc's trimmed a little.) As someone who actually has created an embedded Linux distribution for a set top box, I can say that the boot output has never been a problem for me. I like verbose output, it's useful. Developers probably know that once you have the system booting nicely and you've

Re: Bounce buffer deadlock

2001-06-30 Thread Steve Lord
> > On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > > > OK, sounds reasonable, time to go download and merge again I guess! > > For 2.4.7 or so, I'll make a backwards-compatibility define (ie make > GFP_BUFFER be the same as the new GFP_NOIO, which is the historical > behaviour and the anally safe

Re: 2.4.6-pre8 build error of aic7xxxt

2001-06-30 Thread Alan Cox
> > gcc -I/usr/include -I. -ldb aicasm_gram.c aicasm_scan.c aicasm.c aicasm_symbol.c >-o aicasm > > /usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -ldb: No such file or directory > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > make[5]: *** [aicasm] Error 1 > > [...] > >

Re: USB Keyboard errors with 2.4.5-ac

2001-06-30 Thread hiufungeric . tse
hei, I got a compiler source and would like to port it to linux platform later, what Linux specific directories/ methods I would need for this porting? Any documemtation available? thanks a lot eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: 2.4.6-pre8 build error of aic7xxx

2001-06-30 Thread Bernfried Molte
On 30 Jun 2001 18:13:42 +0100 Rodrigo Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got the following build error of aic7xxx drivers, with > kernel 2.4.6-pre8: > > -- > [...] > make[2]: Entering directory

Re: Bounce buffer deadlock

2001-06-30 Thread Steve Lord
> Yes. 2.4.6-pre8 fixes that (not sure if its up already). It is up. > > > If the fix is to avoid page_launder in these cases then the number of > > occurrences when an alloc_pages fails will go up. > > > I was attempting to come up with a way of making try_to_free_buffers > > fail on

Re: USB Keyboard errors with 2.4.5-ac

2001-06-30 Thread Jordan
Tim Jansen wrote: > > On Friday 29 June 2001 19:27, Jordan Breeding wrote: > > noticed my real problem with the keyboard. The kernel apparently > > expects a PS/2 (AT) keyboard to be plugged in because if there isn't one > > the kernel reports timeouts and seems slower than when there is a PS/2

Re: Bounce buffer deadlock

2001-06-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > OK, sounds reasonable, time to go download and merge again I guess! For 2.4.7 or so, I'll make a backwards-compatibility define (ie make GFP_BUFFER be the same as the new GFP_NOIO, which is the historical behaviour and the anally safe value, if not

Re: USB Keyboard errors with 2.4.5-ac

2001-06-30 Thread Jakob Borg
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:27:34PM -0500, Jordan Breeding wrote: > lock a couple of times then the keyboard stops responding completely and > the kernel tells me that there was an error waiting on a IRQ on CPU #1. You are using an SMP kernel. In my experience, nothing USB works with an SMP

Re: Bounce buffer deadlock

2001-06-30 Thread Steve Lord
> > On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > > > It looks to me as if all memory allocations of type GFP_BUFFER which happen > > in generic_make_request downwards can hit the same type of deadlock, so > > bounce buffers, the request functions of the raid and lvm paths can all > > end up in

Re: Bounce buffer deadlock

2001-06-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > It looks to me as if all memory allocations of type GFP_BUFFER which happen > in generic_make_request downwards can hit the same type of deadlock, so > bounce buffers, the request functions of the raid and lvm paths can all > end up in

Re: Bounce buffer deadlock

2001-06-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > > > > > > > Has anyone else seen a hang like this: > > > > > > bdflush() > > > flush_dirty_buffers() > > > ll_rw_block() > > > submit_bh(buffer X) > > > generic_make_request() >

Re: Bounce buffer deadlock

2001-06-30 Thread Steve Lord
> > > On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > > > > Has anyone else seen a hang like this: > > > > bdflush() > > flush_dirty_buffers() > > ll_rw_block() > > submit_bh(buffer X) > > generic_make_request() > > __make_request() > > create_bounce() >

Re: Bounce buffer deadlock

2001-06-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > Has anyone else seen a hang like this: > > bdflush() > flush_dirty_buffers() > ll_rw_block() > submit_bh(buffer X) > generic_make_request() > __make_request() > create_bounce() >

Re: Bounce buffer deadlock

2001-06-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > > > > Has anyone else seen a hang like this: > > > > bdflush() > > flush_dirty_buffers() > > ll_rw_block() > > submit_bh(buffer X) > > generic_make_request() > >

2.4.6-pre8 build error of aic7xxx

2001-06-30 Thread Rodrigo Ventura
I got the following build error of aic7xxx drivers, with kernel 2.4.6-pre8: -- [...] make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi' make -C aic7xxx make[3]: Entering directory

Re: VM behaviour under 2.4.5-ac21

2001-06-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > On 20010629 Martin Knoblauch wrote: > >Hi, > > > > just something positive for the weekend. With 2.4.5-ac21, the behaviour > >on my laptop (128MB plus twice the sapw) seems a bit more sane. When I > >start new large applications now, the "used"

Re: Bounce buffer deadlock

2001-06-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > Has anyone else seen a hang like this: > > bdflush() > flush_dirty_buffers() > ll_rw_block() > submit_bh(buffer X) > generic_make_request() > __make_request() > create_bounce() >

[OT] Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 30 June 2001 16:22, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: > Well, this is an old as world argument used to take your freedom away - > 'law obeying citizens have nothing to fear' While I'm as interested as anyone else in the exact steps Microsoft takes to drive users to us, I don't see what this

bug? dd on /dev/sdb makes system *incredibly* slow

2001-06-30 Thread Marc Kool
Hi, I don't where else to send this ... so please send it to the right person if this is the wrong address. Below is a bug report. Please let me know if you can look at it. Thanks Marc [1.] One line summary of the problem: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=64k makes fast system *slow* [2.]

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-30 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: > Well, this is an old as world argument used to take your freedom away - > 'law obeying citizens have nothing to fear' except that you are opting in, by purchasing the product. > Why not allow police to search your car at every moment they wish ? >

[2.4.5ac19] reproduceable Kernel crashes

2001-06-30 Thread Andreas Hartmann
Hello all! I have a VIA 686A-board (EP7KXA) with 512 MB RAM. If I burn a rw-cd with the Philips CDD3610, the whole machine suddenly freezes. The last messages of cdrecord is: Track 01: 234 of 645 MB written (fifo 100%). ksymoops crash ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.5-ac19. Options used

2.4.5 - IpConfig, BOOTP not functioning.

2001-06-30 Thread Joshua Schmidklofer
Kernel developers, I hate to burden you with menial quetions, but: How does ipconfig get called & initialized? I am new to attempting to _read_ kernel source, and not nearly a good C progammer. This is killing me, But after two hours of looking,I can't figure out how ipconfig get

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-30 Thread Dmitri Pogosyan
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:50:36PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > > More likely, Microsoft will display escalating suspicion with > > each install, If they find out that a key is definitely being > > abused, they will stop issuing unlock codes for it. In

Multithreaded issue.

2001-06-30 Thread Alessandro Motter Ren
We have this multithreaded app that run fine under the kernel 2.2.x series. Last week, we decided to update our linux and went dor RedHat7.1 to use the new kernel. Some threadsw of our app just hangs in random moments. Is there any issue on the 2.4.x series that must be observed

Maximum socket buffer sizes

2001-06-30 Thread Martin Clausen
Hi! What are the maximum socket buffer sizes for: net.core.rmem.* net.core.wmem.* net.core.optmem_max As far as i can tell these are ones to adjust when "tuning" e.g. the netlink sockets between the kernel and userspace? I have not been able to find this information anywhere... Best regards

Patch: numa.c broke in 2.4.6-pre8

2001-06-30 Thread Russell King
Hi, When building 2.4.6-pre8 with CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y, I get the following error: numa.c:96: conflicting types for `_alloc_pages' /usr/src/v2.4/linux-assabet/include/linux/mm.h:383: previous declaration of `_alloc_pages' The following patch fixes this problem. Please apply. ---

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-30 Thread Ben Ford
David Woodhouse wrote: > >Also consider the question "What was the last thing you see on screen >before it reboots?" > USER: A bunch of words. TECH: What words? USER: Dunno, there were a lot though. ;) -b -- :__o : -\<, : 0/ 0 --- - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: A Possible 2.5 Idea, maybe?

2001-06-30 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Philips wrote: > If I could choose what filesystem to run on / - it impact performance greatly No, it doesn't. Most of lookups go outside of root and within root you mostly deal with cached lookups from dcache (which doesn't give a damn for fs type) and with page

Re: A Possible 2.5 Idea, maybe?

2001-06-30 Thread Philips
Patrick Mauritz wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:17:25AM -0500, Brent D. Norris wrote: > > Instead of forking the kernel or catering only to one group, instead why > > not try this: Using the new CML2 tools and rulesets, make it possible to > > have the kernel configured for the type of

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-30 Thread szonyi calin
--- David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > back when I was doing PC repair (1.x kernel days) I > started useing linux > becouse the boot messages gave me so much info about > the system (I started > to keep a Slackware boot/root disk set on hand so > when faced with a > customer machine I could

Re: [Re: Process creating]

2001-06-30 Thread Jan Hudec
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:35:13AM -0600, Blesson Paul wrote: > 1: P1 and P2 have different physical areas of memory. This is how > protection works. > > 2: Why do they need to share the same memory? You can have your second > process > communicate with your first process through IPC. > > 3:

onboard promise + dvd/cdrom no ultra dma

2001-06-30 Thread Christian Bornträger
I attached a Toshiba DVD-ROM at the ASUS A7V133 Promise controller. The highest transfer mode I can use is Multiword DMA 2, though I activated the DMA-Option in the IDE-kernel configuration. >hdparm -i /dev/hde  /dev/hde:  Model=TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502, FwRev=1008, SerialNo=2100807146  

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

2001-06-30 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Jun 28 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why precisely is complying to SFF-8020 broken? Because 8020 is _old and dated_, yet some manufacturers still base new devices on it. That is what is broken, clearly noone is faulting a '96 device for being based on SFF-8020, however a '09 and '01

RE: EEPro100 problems in SMP on 2.4.5 ?

2001-06-30 Thread Vibol Hou
I have a lock problem on a dual P3 1GHz w/1GB RAM setup and 2.4.5, but it doesn't seem to be NIC related although I have two EEPro100's in it. I get lockups while doing large disk reads that use larges amounts of memory (MySQL's myisamchk on a 600MB MyISAM table, for instance). The SCSI

Re: A signal fairy tale

2001-06-30 Thread Jan Hudec
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:26:29AM -0700, Christopher Smith wrote: > At 10:59 AM 6/28/2001 -0400, Dan Maas wrote: > >life-threatening things like SIGTERM, SIGKILL, and SIGSEGV. The mutation > >into queued, information-carrying siginfo signals just shows how badly we > >need a more robust event

Re: VIA 82C686B SouthBridge fixup in linux/drivers/pci/quirks.c

2001-06-30 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:44:51PM -0400, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > The VIA686B SouthBridge bug workaround is not activated on motherboards > which have a VIA 82C686B that needs fixing, but not a VIA NorthBridge. For > Below is a patch to the __initdata table which causes the fix to be applied >

Re: linux-2.4.6-pre6: numerous dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs

2001-06-30 Thread Adam J. Richter
>From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:26:22AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> #2 >> dep_tristate $FOO $BAR >> >> to say 'FOO requires BAR and must be a similar setting _IF_CONFIGURED_' >Err, how can $BAR be undefined? Configure sets all config variables which >are

More feature should be added into main kernel(Was: supermount)

2001-06-30 Thread Steve Kieu
Just my humble opinion, please dont laugh if I am wrong, I think: Supermount JFS I use the patch from IBM ; now running JFS, and notice a bit improved performance than Reiserfs, it is good file system, (they release stable (may be?) release already). But It is hard, they only give the patch

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-30 Thread Jan Hudec
Hello, > I am happy that processes in Linux are so marvelous. Linux does not need > a decent POSIX threads implementation because the same functionality can > be achived with processes. Do what you like, you write the kernel code. > I could write my soft using fork special fetaures in Linux. >

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
I should have known that you (instructor of the current and previous maintainer) would have the answer off the top ;-) Therefore by your description it mys be set always but I guess it is a DGD; however, I do want to know that it is now. Oh, and now that Big Drive Technology has been annouced I

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
Okay my bad it is ATA-1 but even that does not explain the bit. only that section 7.2.6 top of page 14 (index numbers) defines it to be set to 1 with out a reason. This this is a pre-ATA thing back in IDE. If you really want to know the answer I can go dig it up, but later. Cheers, Andre

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-30 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:50:36PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > More likely, Microsoft will display escalating suspicion with > each install, If they find out that a key is definitely being > abused, they will stop issuing unlock codes for it. In other words, > they will cause great

Re: Intel SRCU3-1 RAID (I2O) and 2.4.5-ac18

2001-06-30 Thread Alan Cox
> the filesystem on the RAID to another results in something like: > > i2o/iop0: No handler for event (0x0400) > i2o/iop0 requires user configuration That bit is fine. The device is asking you to comfigure it and it also sent a DDM availability chnage for some reason > Driver "I2O Block

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-30 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:50:36PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: More likely, Microsoft will display escalating suspicion with each install, If they find out that a key is definitely being abused, they will stop issuing unlock codes for it. In other words, they will cause great

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
Okay my bad it is ATA-1 but even that does not explain the bit. only that section 7.2.6 top of page 14 (index numbers) defines it to be set to 1 with out a reason. This this is a pre-ATA thing back in IDE. If you really want to know the answer I can go dig it up, but later. Cheers, Andre

Re: Patch(2.4.5): Fix PCMCIA ATA/IDE freeze (w/ PCI add-in cards)V3

2001-06-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
I should have known that you (instructor of the current and previous maintainer) would have the answer off the top ;-) Therefore by your description it mys be set always but I guess it is a DGD; however, I do want to know that it is now. Oh, and now that Big Drive Technology has been annouced I

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-30 Thread Jan Hudec
Hello, I am happy that processes in Linux are so marvelous. Linux does not need a decent POSIX threads implementation because the same functionality can be achived with processes. Do what you like, you write the kernel code. I could write my soft using fork special fetaures in Linux. But I

More feature should be added into main kernel(Was: supermount)

2001-06-30 Thread Steve Kieu
Just my humble opinion, please dont laugh if I am wrong, I think: Supermount JFS I use the patch from IBM ; now running JFS, and notice a bit improved performance than Reiserfs, it is good file system, (they release stable (may be?) release already). But It is hard, they only give the patch

Re: linux-2.4.6-pre6: numerous dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs

2001-06-30 Thread Adam J. Richter
From: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:26:22AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: #2 dep_tristate $FOO $BAR to say 'FOO requires BAR and must be a similar setting _IF_CONFIGURED_' Err, how can $BAR be undefined? Configure sets all config variables which are answered with

Re: VIA 82C686B SouthBridge fixup in linux/drivers/pci/quirks.c

2001-06-30 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:44:51PM -0400, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: The VIA686B SouthBridge bug workaround is not activated on motherboards which have a VIA 82C686B that needs fixing, but not a VIA NorthBridge. For Below is a patch to the __initdata table which causes the fix to be applied

Re: A signal fairy tale

2001-06-30 Thread Jan Hudec
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:26:29AM -0700, Christopher Smith wrote: At 10:59 AM 6/28/2001 -0400, Dan Maas wrote: life-threatening things like SIGTERM, SIGKILL, and SIGSEGV. The mutation into queued, information-carrying siginfo signals just shows how badly we need a more robust event model...

RE: EEPro100 problems in SMP on 2.4.5 ?

2001-06-30 Thread Vibol Hou
I have a lock problem on a dual P3 1GHz w/1GB RAM setup and 2.4.5, but it doesn't seem to be NIC related although I have two EEPro100's in it. I get lockups while doing large disk reads that use larges amounts of memory (MySQL's myisamchk on a 600MB MyISAM table, for instance). The SCSI

onboard promise + dvd/cdrom no ultra dma

2001-06-30 Thread Christian Bornträger
I attached a Toshiba DVD-ROM at the ASUS A7V133 Promise controller. The highest transfer mode I can use is Multiword DMA 2, though I activated the DMA-Option in the IDE-kernel configuration. hdparm -i /dev/hde  /dev/hde:  Model=TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502, FwRev=1008, SerialNo=2100807146  

Re: [Re: Process creating]

2001-06-30 Thread Jan Hudec
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:35:13AM -0600, Blesson Paul wrote: 1: P1 and P2 have different physical areas of memory. This is how protection works. 2: Why do they need to share the same memory? You can have your second process communicate with your first process through IPC. 3: Linux

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-30 Thread szonyi calin
--- David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: back when I was doing PC repair (1.x kernel days) I started useing linux becouse the boot messages gave me so much info about the system (I started to keep a Slackware boot/root disk set on hand so when faced with a customer machine I could boot and

Re: A Possible 2.5 Idea, maybe?

2001-06-30 Thread Philips
Patrick Mauritz wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:17:25AM -0500, Brent D. Norris wrote: Instead of forking the kernel or catering only to one group, instead why not try this: Using the new CML2 tools and rulesets, make it possible to have the kernel configured for the type of job it

Re: A Possible 2.5 Idea, maybe?

2001-06-30 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Philips wrote: If I could choose what filesystem to run on / - it impact performance greatly No, it doesn't. Most of lookups go outside of root and within root you mostly deal with cached lookups from dcache (which doesn't give a damn for fs type) and with page

Patch: numa.c broke in 2.4.6-pre8

2001-06-30 Thread Russell King
Hi, When building 2.4.6-pre8 with CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y, I get the following error: numa.c:96: conflicting types for `_alloc_pages' /usr/src/v2.4/linux-assabet/include/linux/mm.h:383: previous declaration of `_alloc_pages' The following patch fixes this problem. Please apply. ---

Maximum socket buffer sizes

2001-06-30 Thread Martin Clausen
Hi! What are the maximum socket buffer sizes for: net.core.rmem.* net.core.wmem.* net.core.optmem_max As far as i can tell these are ones to adjust when tuning e.g. the netlink sockets between the kernel and userspace? I have not been able to find this information anywhere... Best regards

Multithreaded issue.

2001-06-30 Thread Alessandro Motter Ren
We have this multithreaded app that run fine under the kernel 2.2.x series. Last week, we decided to update our linux and went dor RedHat7.1 to use the new kernel. Some threadsw of our app just hangs in random moments. Is there any issue on the 2.4.x series that must be observed

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-30 Thread Dmitri Pogosyan
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:50:36PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: More likely, Microsoft will display escalating suspicion with each install, If they find out that a key is definitely being abused, they will stop issuing unlock codes for it. In other

2.4.5 - IpConfig, BOOTP not functioning.

2001-06-30 Thread Joshua Schmidklofer
Kernel developers, I hate to burden you with menial quetions, but: How does ipconfig get called initialized? I am new to attempting to _read_ kernel source, and not nearly a good C progammer. This is killing me, But after two hours of looking,I can't figure out how ipconfig get

[2.4.5ac19] reproduceable Kernel crashes

2001-06-30 Thread Andreas Hartmann
Hello all! I have a VIA 686A-board (EP7KXA) with 512 MB RAM. If I burn a rw-cd with the Philips CDD3610, the whole machine suddenly freezes. The last messages of cdrecord is: Track 01: 234 of 645 MB written (fifo 100%). ksymoops crash ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.5-ac19. Options used

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-30 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: Well, this is an old as world argument used to take your freedom away - 'law obeying citizens have nothing to fear' except that you are opting in, by purchasing the product. Why not allow police to search your car at every moment they wish ? If

bug? dd on /dev/sdb makes system *incredibly* slow

2001-06-30 Thread Marc Kool
Hi, I don't where else to send this ... so please send it to the right person if this is the wrong address. Below is a bug report. Please let me know if you can look at it. Thanks Marc [1.] One line summary of the problem: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=64k makes fast system *slow* [2.]

Re: Bounce buffer deadlock

2001-06-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote: Has anyone else seen a hang like this: bdflush() flush_dirty_buffers() ll_rw_block() submit_bh(buffer X) generic_make_request() __make_request() create_bounce()

[OT] Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 30 June 2001 16:22, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: Well, this is an old as world argument used to take your freedom away - 'law obeying citizens have nothing to fear' While I'm as interested as anyone else in the exact steps Microsoft takes to drive users to us, I don't see what this has

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