waitqueues 2.2->2.4

2001-07-02 Thread James Lamanna
Again, I"m working on converting a module from 2.2 to being compatible with 2.4. In the 2.2 version it uses wait_queue structs with function calls such as wake_up(), interruptible_sleep_on()... In 2.4 these have changed to accept wait_queue_head_t's. What is the correct way to convert to the new

virt_to_bus and virt_to_phys on Apple G4 target

2001-07-02 Thread mdaljeet
I am running linux 2.4.2 on Apple G4 machine. I think the 'PCI bus addresses' and 'physical addresses' are same on this architecture. I expected the two be different but according to asm/io.h 'virt_to_bus(addr) = virt_to_phys(addr) + PCI_DRAM_OFFSET'. I printed the value of 'PCI_DRAM_OFFSET' and

Re: [Re: gcc: internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11]

2001-07-02 Thread Tha Phlash
Ive also had a problem with signal 11, heres a great page explaining the aspects of signal 11 error from gcc (http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/). Signal 11 is usually a hardware problem, as the article points out. I found a sloppy soulution playing with my BIOS settings, turns out there was an

kernel still resides in the root

2001-07-02 Thread Blesson Paul
Hi I just completed the full compilation. But there is one still missing factor. I uncommented the INSTALL_PATH=/boot. But still the vmlinux still resides in the directory where i compiled the kernel. Why is it so. What to do if the kernel should be present in the boot directory.

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread Jim Roland
I confronted @Home's tech support, and they're programmed to say "server" but even tier-2 had no idea what it actually meant that I could and could not do. Go figure. - Original Message - From: "Hua Zhong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread Jim Roland
- Original Message - From: "Jesse Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "J Sloan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:09 AM Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! > "Jim Roland" <[EMAIL

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread Jim Roland
@Home tells you the same thing. Although they portscanned me frequently, they were checking for specific servers and actually deny traffic on ports 135-139 (Winblows traffic). Unless they change over to non-routables (which would kill things like ICQ, etc) they will not be able to stop me from

Validation of memory allocated through kmalloc

2001-07-02 Thread kiran . thirumalai
Hi, Is there some kernel api to validate memory allocated using kmalloc. Suppose, I allocate some memory using kmalloc and at a later point of execution I would like to validate if the memory allocated is not possibly freed by some other thread. Pls suggest a patch/pointers if any. I also

Re: [Q] IP Autoconfiguration problem..???

2001-07-02 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
n> I use kernel 2.4.5 with IP Autoconfiguration included dhcp, bootp, n> rarp . n> but, This kernel has not request IP to my dhcp server. so, kernel n> panic... The default behaviour changed in 2.4.4-pre8. You have to add ip=dhcp or ip=bootp to the kernel command line in order for the kernel

re: pcmcia lockup inserting or removing cards in 2.4.5-ac{13,22}

2001-07-02 Thread Byeong-ryeol Kim
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, mr sam jooky wrote: >>Somewhere between 2.4.2 and 2.4.5-ac13, PCMCIA card insertion and >>removal appears to have broken on my Toshiba Libretto. On 2.4.2 all was >>fine. On both 2.4.5-ac13 and ac22 it's broken. The whole machine >>freezes >>solid, no SAK-s, SAK-u, SAK-b, no

[Q] IP Autoconfiguration problem..???

2001-07-02 Thread newton
Hi, I use kernel 2.4.5 with IP Autoconfiguration included dhcp, bootp, rarp . but, This kernel has not request IP to my dhcp server. so, kernel panic... But, kernel 2.4.3 has no any problem. Help me! Peace be with you...:) Kihyung Ju

RH kernel 2.2.19-6.2.7, md_setup_drive, reference undefined

2001-07-02 Thread Jim Rankin
When I attempt to build a custom version of the Red Hat kernel 2.2.19-6.2.7 in Red Hat 6.2, the compile aborts with init/main.o(.data.init+0x13c): undefined reference to `md_setup' drivers/block/block.a(genhd.o): In function `device_setup': genhd.o(.text.init+0x13a): undefined reference to

Re: readl() / writel() on PowerPC

2001-07-02 Thread James Simmons
> I have been working on a driver for a PowerPC PCI card/framebuffer device, > and noticed that the standard readl() and writel() for this platform to > byte swapping, since PowerPC runs big-endian. However, at least for my > hardware it's *really* not needed, and should just do a regular load

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > You pass a single cookie to the readb code > > > > Odd platforms decode it > > > > > > Last time I checked, ioremap didn't work for inb() and outb(). > > > > It should :) > > it doesnt need to. > > pci_find_device returns the io address and can return a

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

2001-07-02 Thread Dan Podeanu
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, 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 the kernel source code

re: pcmcia lockup inserting or removing cards in 2.4.5-ac{13,22}

2001-07-02 Thread mr sam jooky
>Somewhere between 2.4.2 and 2.4.5-ac13, PCMCIA card insertion and >removal appears to have broken on my Toshiba Libretto. On 2.4.2 all was >fine. On both 2.4.5-ac13 and ac22 it's broken. The whole machine >freezes >solid, no SAK-s, SAK-u, SAK-b, no Ctrl-Alt-Fn to switch VC's. No >messages >are

Re: readl() / writel() on PowerPC

2001-07-02 Thread David Schleef
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:22:55PM -0400, David T Eger wrote: > > I have been working on a driver for a PowerPC PCI card/framebuffer device, > and noticed that the standard readl() and writel() for this platform to > byte swapping, since PowerPC runs big-endian. However, at least for my >

pcmcia lockup inserting or removing cards in 2.4.5-ac{13,22}

2001-07-02 Thread Trevor Hemsley
Somewhere between 2.4.2 and 2.4.5-ac13, PCMCIA card insertion and removal appears to have broken on my Toshiba Libretto. On 2.4.2 all was fine. On both 2.4.5-ac13 and ac22 it's broken. The whole machine freezes solid, no SAK-s, SAK-u, SAK-b, no Ctrl-Alt-Fn to switch VC's. No messages are

readl() / writel() on PowerPC

2001-07-02 Thread David T Eger
I have been working on a driver for a PowerPC PCI card/framebuffer device, and noticed that the standard readl() and writel() for this platform to byte swapping, since PowerPC runs big-endian. However, at least for my hardware it's *really* not needed, and should just do a regular load store,

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >Can you give me an idea of what sort of cookie decoding a PPC/PMac would need >and why - Im working off things like pa-risc so I dont have a full picture. Each domain provide an IO space (size depends on the bridge, recent Apple UniNorth hosts have 16Mb per domain). That IO space can be in

Linux 2.4.5-ac23

2001-07-02 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-ac23 o Merge with 2.4.6pre8 | This should make things much more stable o Restore backed out shm patches

[RFC][PATCH] struct kernel_stat -> struct cpu_stat[NR_CPUS]

2001-07-02 Thread Zach Brown
Currently struct kernel_stat has a few pre cpu arrays. This creates cacheline exchange noise as the cpus update their entries in each array. This patch creates an array of per cpu structs. The structure is padded to the length of a cacheline. The meat of the patch against 2.4.6-pre8 is

Re: usbserial/keyspan module load race [was: 2.4.5 keyspan driver]

2001-07-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
adric@glitch[~]$ dpkg -l modutils | tail -n1 ii modutils 2.4.6-3Linux module utilities. On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:43:25PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > What version of the modutils package do you have? > > thanks, > > greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: pte_val(*pte) as lvalue

2001-07-02 Thread Andi Kleen
Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What is the accepted way to assign an integer to a pte that works in 2.2 and > 2.4? set_pte(pte, mk_pte( ... )) -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

pte_val(*pte) as lvalue

2001-07-02 Thread Timur Tabi
In my driver, I have this code: unsigned long p = pte_val(*pte); [set some bits in "p"] pte_val(*pte) = p; This works fine in 2.2, and 2.4 when PAE support is disabled. When PAE support is enabled, it doesn't work, because the pte_val macro can no longer be an lvalue. What is

Re: usbserial/keyspan module load race [was: 2.4.5 keyspan driver]

2001-07-02 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:22:17PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > It wasn't quite as cooperative today, but after a few attempts I was > able to reproduce it. > > root@glitch[~]# modprobe keyspan > Warning: /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.o symbol for

Re: A signal fairy tale

2001-07-02 Thread Christopher Smith
Just to confirm Dan. I was a fool and did not install the dummy handler for the masked signal I was using. I added the proper code over the weekend with no noticable effect (JDK 1.3 still sigtimedwait()'s on the signal :-(). --Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: usbserial/keyspan module load race [was: 2.4.5 keyspan driver]

2001-07-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
It wasn't quite as cooperative today, but after a few attempts I was able to reproduce it. root@glitch[~]# modprobe keyspan Warning: /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.o symbol for parameter vendor not found Segmentation fault root@glitch[~]# ps -ef|grep

Re: Reg crash utility installation

2001-07-02 Thread Patrick O'Rourke
SATHISH.J wrote: > I installed crash2.6 on my machine. > When I give the command "crash" from the prompt it says "no debugging > symbols found in /boot/vmlinux2.2.14-12". Why does this message show. crash relies on debug info and so it needs access to an uncompressed vmlinux file which was

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
> - Parsing of this cookie on each inx/outx access, which can > take a bit of time (typically looking up the host bridge) It depends on the implementation obviously, but its typically something like take lock writew(port&0x, port&0x); writew(data,

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Last time I checked, ioremap didn't work for inb() and outb(). ioremap itself cannot work for inb/outb as they are different address spaces with potentially overlapping addresses, I don't see how a single function would handle both... except if we pass it a struct resource instead of the

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> > Last time I checked, ioremap didn't work for inb() and outb(). >> >> It should :) > >it doesnt need to. > >pci_find_device returns the io address and can return a cookie, ditto >isapnp etc Yes, but doing that require 2 annoying things: - Parsing of this cookie on each inx/outx access,

semaphore/down()/up() question

2001-07-02 Thread Richard B. Johnson
I need to stop a kernel thread at a certain place in the driver code. The task that stopped it needs to know that it's stopped, i.e., needs to wait until it's sleeping. Later on, I need to start it. So, I thought that a semaphore would work. It works the first time, but not after that. In

[RFC] Early Flush with Bandwidth Estimation

2001-07-02 Thread Daniel Phillips
This is an experimental attempt to optimize my previous early flush patch by adding continuous disk bandwidth estimation. In spirit, the new modifications are similar to Stephen Tweedie's "sard" disk monitoring patch, though it was only after implementing my own ideas that I became aware of the

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
> > > You pass a single cookie to the readb code > > > Odd platforms decode it > > > > Last time I checked, ioremap didn't work for inb() and outb(). > > It should :) it doesnt need to. pci_find_device returns the io address and can return a cookie, ditto isapnp etc - To

Re: Strange errors in /var/log/messages

2001-07-02 Thread kernel
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Guest section DW wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:16:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > I'm running RedHat 7.0 with all official RH patches applied. The kernel I > > > currently run fow a few days is 2.2.19-7.0.8 > > > I run the pre-compiled kernel of RH. Suddenly I the

Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff

2001-07-02 Thread Hua Zhong
-> From Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > (a) It does less, namely will not kill processes with uid 0. > > Ted, any objections? > > That breaks the security guarantee. Suppose I use a setuid app to confuse > you into doing something ? a setuid app only changes euid, doesn't it? - To

Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff

2001-07-02 Thread Kain
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:16:36PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (a) It does less, namely will not kill processes with uid 0. > Ted, any objections? What if you have a process running wild as uid 0 (i.e. X server gone bad) that you need to die *right now*? -- "Don't dwell on reality; it

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Marco Colombo wrote: > I'm not sure that, in general, recent pages with only one access are > still better eviction candidates compared to 8 hours old pages. Here > we need either another way to detect one-shot activity (like the one > performed by updatedb), Fully agreed,

SCSI I/O error

2001-07-02 Thread Giuliano Pochini
>From my logs: Jun 29 14:19:56 Jay kernel: SCSI disk error : host 1 channel 0 id 5 lun 0 return code = 802 Jun 29 14:19:56 Jay kernel: Current sd08:11: sense key Recovered Error Jun 29 14:19:56 Jay kernel: Additional sense indicates Recovered data with error correction applied Jun 29

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Russell King wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:56:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Case 1: > > You pass a single cookie to the readb code > > Odd platforms decode it > > Last time I checked, ioremap didn't work for inb() and outb(). It should :) -- Jeff Garzik | "I

[OT] Re: Strange errors in /var/log/messages

2001-07-02 Thread Ville Herva
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:00:33PM -0400, you [Richard B. Johnson] claimed: > > Jul 2 15:12:16 gateway SERVER[1240]: Dispatch_input: bad request line > > 'BBXX%.176u%3 > >

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:56:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Case 1: > You pass a single cookie to the readb code > Odd platforms decode it Last time I checked, ioremap didn't work for inb() and outb(). -- Russell King ([EMAIL PROTECTED])The developer of ARM Linux

Re: Doubt in interrupts

2001-07-02 Thread Brian Gerst
Swami wrote: > > Hi, > > Are there any interrupts which doesn't affect local_irq_count(cpu) or that > doesn't enter do_IRQ()? (other than NMIs). > > Because I'm implementing my own locking routine and I'm getting > interrupted during spin, but I check and found that in_interupt() returns >

cleaning up a socket in FIN_WAIT_1

2001-07-02 Thread Shashi Guruprasad
A socket got stuck in the FIN_WAIT_1 state coz the client that was generating these TCP segments got terminated prematurely. The kernel does clean it up after 2MSL seconds. However, I would like to know if there is a way to explicitly clean it up from the command line (as root). SO_REUSEADDR

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread Hua Zhong
-> From "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > When I got Pac*Smell DSL, the installer guy (who seemed to be a > relatively clueful type) said "and [the contract] says you're not > allowed to run a server... but who'd know?" ..and please define "server". Does it mean that you can not run any

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote: > > > Better re-read the fine print on the "fair-use" statement. BOTH DSL > > and Cable, or dialup (New Orleans at least) will

Doubt in interrupts

2001-07-02 Thread Swami
Hi, Are there any interrupts which doesn't affect local_irq_count(cpu) or that doesn't enter do_IRQ()? (other than NMIs). Because I'm implementing my own locking routine and I'm getting interrupted during spin, but I check and found that in_interupt() returns zero. Thanking in advance,

Re: Strange errors in /var/log/messages

2001-07-02 Thread Guest section DW
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:16:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I'm running RedHat 7.0 with all official RH patches applied. The kernel I > > currently run fow a few days is 2.2.19-7.0.8 > > I run the pre-compiled kernel of RH. Suddenly I the following messages: > > > > Jul 2 15:12:16 gateway

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote: > Better re-read the fine print on the "fair-use" statement. BOTH DSL > and Cable, or dialup (New Orleans at least) will disconnect you if you > run ANY unattended operation (if they determine it IS unattended). No This would take a lot of watching on

__alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed

2001-07-02 Thread Ho Chak Hung
Hi, I got the error __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed in a module that uses and frees a lot of pages. Basically, I am trying implement a page cache for the module. First, I keep allocating pages using page_cache_alloc() until it fails, then I free a whole bunch of pages using

Re: Strange errors in /var/log/messages

2001-07-02 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm running RedHat 7.0 with all official RH patches applied. The kernel I > currently run fow a few days is 2.2.19-7.0.8 > I run the pre-compiled kernel of RH. Suddenly I the following messages: > > Jul 2 15:12:16 gateway SERVER[1240]:

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Because if we just pass in this one extra piece of information which is > normally already available in the driver, we can avoid a whole lot of ugly > cruft in the out-of-line functions by plugging in the correct out-of-line > function to match the resource. Case 1: You pass a single

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The question I think being ignored here is. Why not leave things as > is. Because if we just pass in this one extra piece of information which is normally already available in the driver, we can avoid a whole lot of ugly cruft in the out-of-line functions by plugging

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I think the second #define should be: > > #define res_readb(res, adr) readb(res->start+adr) > > for consistency. > > You're right that it should be consistent. But it doesn't really matter > whether we pass an offset within the resource, or whether we continue

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I think the second #define should be: > #define res_readb(res, adr) readb(res->start+adr) > for consistency. You're right that it should be consistent. But it doesn't really matter whether we pass an offset within the resource, or whether we continue to pass

Re: Strange errors in /var/log/messages

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
> I'm running RedHat 7.0 with all official RH patches applied. The kernel I > currently run fow a few days is 2.2.19-7.0.8 > I run the pre-compiled kernel of RH. Suddenly I the following messages: > > Jul 2 15:12:16 gateway SERVER[1240]: Dispatch_input: bad request line >

Re: Strange errors in /var/log/messages

2001-07-02 Thread Remco B. Brink
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I'm running RedHat 7.0 with all official RH patches applied. The kernel I > currently run fow a few days is 2.2.19-7.0.8 > I run the pre-compiled kernel of RH. Suddenly I the following messages: > This continued for about half an hour. Then it stopped.

Strange errors in /var/log/messages

2001-07-02 Thread kernel
Hi! I'm running RedHat 7.0 with all official RH patches applied. The kernel I currently run fow a few days is 2.2.19-7.0.8 I run the pre-compiled kernel of RH. Suddenly I the following messages: Jul 2 15:12:16 gateway SERVER[1240]: Dispatch_input: bad request line 'BBXX%.176u%3

Re: WOL with 3c59x and 2.4.6-pre6 breaks WOL

2001-07-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: > --- linux-2.4.6-pre8/drivers/pci/pci.c Sun Jul 1 16:11:25 2001 > +++ linux-akpm/drivers/pci/pci.cTue Jul 3 01:28:35 2001 > @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ int pci_enable_wake(struct pci_dev *dev, > > if (enable) value |= PCI_PM_CTRL_PME_STATUS; > else value

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread David Howells
> #ifdef OUT_OF_LINE_MMIO > #define res_readb(res, adr) (res->access_ops->readb(res, adr) > #else > #define res_readb(res, adr) readb(adr) > #endif I think the second #define should be: #define res_readb(res, adr) readb(res->start+adr) for consistency. David - To unsubscribe from

[PATCH] Fix kernel linker scripts

2001-07-02 Thread Jakub Jelinek
Hi! Apparently all kernel scripts only have .rodata and not also .rodata.* input sections in it. This has been no problem so far, but since binutils and gcc support SHF_MERGE sections (so that string constant (and other constant too) duplicates can be removed at link time) the compiler creates

[PATCH] Fix binfmt_elf.c

2001-07-02 Thread Jakub Jelinek
Hi! There is a bug in binfmt_elf.c if the dynamic linker has non-zero base vaddr (e.g. if it is prelinked). The issue is that in such case ld-linux.so.2 is loaded at ELF_ET_DYN_BASE + p_vaddr instead of ELF_ET_DYN_BASE, on some architectures into non-desirable places in virtual memory. Best

Re: WOL with 3c59x and 2.4.6-pre6 breaks WOL

2001-07-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > I just tried 2.4.6-pre6 this morning, and found out that when I enable > WOL (using enable_wol=1), my 3c905c-tx does not work at all any more. > It worked just fine with 2.4.5. Without enable_wol=1, I have no problems. > > It is my guess that this is very easy to

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread Jesse Pollard
"Jim Roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > From: "Jesse Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kurt Maxwell Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "J Sloan" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 3:03 PM > Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! > > > [snip] > >

[was: Re: Maintainers master list]

2001-07-02 Thread Marc Brekoo
Wed Jun 27 2001 - 10:12:18 EST, Jes Sorensen said: > A good place to start would be to write a script that checks the email > addresses listed in there for bounces say every 6 months (not too > often or people will get grumphy). Oh and maybe include the data about > the person so he/she can

Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions

2001-07-02 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > But it's going to cost for the ones who do not support this. You don't need to make it out-of-line for all cases - or indeed in any case where it isn't out-of-line already. Some architectures may have only IO calls out-of-line (many already do). Some may have MMIO

Re: Problem with SMC Etherpower II + kernel newer 2.4.2

2001-07-02 Thread John Jasen
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Juergen Wolf wrote: > currently I experience some strange problems with every kernels newer > than 2.4.2 and my SMC Etherpower II network card. While running such a > kernel, the network hangs and I get lots of errors like these listed > below: under the dumb question

Re: mmap

2001-07-02 Thread mdaljeet
I use the 'map_user_kiobuf' and 'lock_kiovec' kernel routines in a module for 'user space memory'. After that if I pass the '(iobuf->maplist[0])-mem_map) << PAGE_SHIFT)' to the hardware for DMA operations and it works fine for Intel platforms. Now how can I use the 'iobuf' struct obtained after

Re: Possible problem with IDE device driver in kernel.

2001-07-02 Thread Cezary Kaliszyk
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Philip V. Neves wrote: > I would like to report a bug that I've seen in a few linux kernels now. This > may be a serious problem with the IDE controler software because it may cause > a hard drive to ware out over a period of time. I've noticed for a long time > that when

AW: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-02 Thread Jens Hoffmann
Hi, > My laptop has 256mb of ram, > but every day > it runs the updatedb for locate. The remedy here is simple: Do not run updatedb from cron, but only when you made changes. Greetings, Jens - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: linux-2.4.6-pre8/drivers/mtd/nand/spia.c: undefined symbols

2001-07-02 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > So the Config.in is wrong since I can select spia on x86 Yep. I've added a few more dependencies like that to the map drivers too. I heard rumours that someone else had done similar changes, but nobody sent me a patch so those rumours can't be true. I'll wait for

Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff

2001-07-02 Thread Andries . Brouwer
>> (a) It does less, namely will not kill processes with uid 0. >> Ted, any objections? Alan: > That breaks the security guarantee. Suppose I use a setuid app to confuse > you into doing something ? On second thoughts I agree. Here is the patch without test for p->uid. Andries diff -u

Re: linux-2.4.6-pre8/drivers/mtd/nand/spia.c: undefined symbols

2001-07-02 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 'spia.c' is the device dependent part. You should write your own > version of 'spia.c' and "simply" fill in the addresses for the IO > address and control register address depending on your specific > hardware. The above symbols are only defined for my specific

Re: linux-2.4.6-pre8/drivers/mtd/nand/spia.c: undefined symbols

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
> The way that I architected the raw NAND flash device driver was to > break it into 2 parts. 'nand.c' contains the actual driver code and > is considered to be device independent. 'spia.c' is the device > dependent part. You should write your own version of 'spia.c' and So the Config.in is

Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff

2001-07-02 Thread Andries . Brouwer
>> (a) It does less, namely will not kill processes with uid 0. >> Ted, any objections? Alan: > That breaks the security guarantee. Suppose I use a setuid app to confuse > you into doing something ? You confuse me? Unlikely :-) Indeed, discussion is possible. I think my version is more secure

Re: linux-2.4.6-pre8/drivers/mtd/nand/spia.c: undefined symbols

2001-07-02 Thread Steven J. Hill
"Adam J. Richter" wrote: > > linux-2.4.6-pre8/drivers/mtd/nand/spia.c references four > undefined symbols, presumably intended to be #define constants, > although I am not sure what their values are supposed to be: > > IO_BASE > FIO_BASE > PEDR > PEDDR >

Re: [PATCH] more SAK stuff

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
> (a) It does less, namely will not kill processes with uid 0. > Ted, any objections? That breaks the security guarantee. Suppose I use a setuid app to confuse you into doing something ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

[PATCH] more SAK stuff

2001-07-02 Thread Andries . Brouwer
Dear Linus, Alan, Ted, Andrew, all: (i) Andrew - why don't you add yourself to the CREDITS file? (then I'll find your email address at the first instead of the second attempt) (ii) Yesterday I complained about the fact that pressing SAK twice crashes the kernel (because the close from the first

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread James A . Sutherland
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 20:19:07 -0500 Mon, 2 Jul 01 12:25:43 BST, you wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "William T Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Ben Ford wrote: >> >> > This seems to be meant as a joke, but I don't think it's all that >unlikely. >> > >> > I seem to

[Patch] tmpfs/ramfs accounting

2001-07-02 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Alan, here is the patch you backed out for -ac22. I slightly changed the approach: I do not rely on removepage to calculate the fs size any more since the special-casing was ugly and PG_marker was dropped. But I use removepage for the shmem_nrpages calculation. Please apply

broken support of g_NCR5380 under 2.4.x ???

2001-07-02 Thread Frank Eichentopf
Hi, i have just test my old DTC3181E mustek scanner interfacecard under the new kernelversions. The giving tips from the mailinglists-archives (kernel, linux-scsi, etc) dosn't help ... i can't initialize the interface card. just a idea? thanks Frank Eichentopf - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread Luigi Genoni
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Justin Guyett wrote: > > Problem: I don't like company policy > Solution: Deal or get another job Not so easy in every country. For example in Italy the law called stauto dei lavoratori forbits workers to change so easily. > > > Peon: Help! I installed linux at work and

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

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
> > ALso set up the i2o cgi tools and see why > > the device wants to talk to you > > Tried to setup the Intel tools just as I did it before and I get > only an "Error: could not open I2O system" in the browser under the > RH-supplied kernel. I will keep trying to resolve this problem. modprobe

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-07-02 Thread Juan Quintela
> "rob" == Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rob> On Saturday 23 June 2001 22:47, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Ummm... GEM was the Geos stuff? (Yeah I remember it, I haven't >> > researched it yet though...) >> >> GEM was a gui from

Re: alpha - generic_init_pit - why using RTC for calibration?

2001-07-02 Thread Oleg I. Vdovikin
Ivan, thanks. I will minorly adjust the patch, prepare it for 2.2.x series and then post it. Thanks, Oleg. P.S. Richard, any thoughts? - Original Message - From: "Ivan Kokshaysky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Oleg I. Vdovikin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Richard Henderson" <[EMAIL

Sticky IO-APIC problem

2001-07-02 Thread Colin Bayer
'K, here's the deal. I have a Pentium III 933/133 (Coppermine, stepping 6) in an Intel-manufactured i810 motherboard (hey, I know it's a lame chipset, but it was on sale). On boot, the kernel (version 2.4.6-pre8) identifies and maps the IO-APIC onboard, but does not assign any IRQs to it.

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread Jim Roland
Of course, being an OS/2 person myself before Slackware 1.2, I am still (to this day) disappointed that OS/2 was abandoned by their own creators, IBM. I'm waiting for IBM to abandon Linux in favor of their on Mainframe systems again. - Original Message - From: "Graham Murray" <[EMAIL

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread Jim Roland
- Original Message - From: "J Sloan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jim Roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 11:34 PM Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! > Jim Roland wrote: > > > I don't see them taking RedHat or Slackware away from me! > > I see your point, but in a very

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-07-02 Thread Craig McLean
Stuart Lynne wrote: > I think listing driver versions on boot with perhaps some diagnostic info > if appropriate is useful. Names and copyrights should be in the source. Yup, if you go out and buy a book, the copyright business is in small print inside, not under the title on the dust-cover..

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

2001-07-02 Thread pt
> If you can repeat it in 2.4.5 let me know. Yes, I can reproduce it in 2.4.5 with exactly the same behaviour and messages. I made another experiment by installing RH7.1 directly on the raid partition (it was not possible to install with my mobo before because of a problem in the RH installer)

quotaoff OOPS (2.4.5-ac22)

2001-07-02 Thread Cliff Albert
After issuing quotaoff -a the kernel oopses. All filesystems which have quotas are ext2 and are using the new quota system. Oops: Jul 2 09:08:49 girly kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 032a Jul 2 09:08:49 girly kernel: printing

Re: USB Keyboard errors with 2.4.5-ac

2001-07-02 Thread Jakob Borg
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:39:42PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 07:48:36PM +0200, Jakob Borg wrote: > > You are using an SMP kernel. In my experience, nothing USB works with an SMP > > kernel >2.4.3. > > Hm, that's a pretty vague statement :) > I'm happily running USB on a few

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread Android
>_I_ think it's childish to claim the above. You _may_ have a choice, yes, but >is that choice equal or fair? Microsoft has infected both the user area as >much as the business/work area. If you want to purchase a PC because your >computer just fried and you want to finish a paper or something,

Re: USB Keyboard errors with 2.4.5-ac

2001-07-02 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 07:48:36PM +0200, Jakob Borg wrote: > 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

Re: USB Keyboard errors with 2.4.5-ac

2001-07-02 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 07:48:36PM +0200, Jakob Borg wrote: 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

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-02 Thread Android
_I_ think it's childish to claim the above. You _may_ have a choice, yes, but is that choice equal or fair? Microsoft has infected both the user area as much as the business/work area. If you want to purchase a PC because your computer just fried and you want to finish a paper or something, but

Re: USB Keyboard errors with 2.4.5-ac

2001-07-02 Thread Jakob Borg
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:39:42PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 07:48:36PM +0200, Jakob Borg wrote: You are using an SMP kernel. In my experience, nothing USB works with an SMP kernel 2.4.3. Hm, that's a pretty vague statement :) I'm happily running USB on a few SMP

quotaoff OOPS (2.4.5-ac22)

2001-07-02 Thread Cliff Albert
After issuing quotaoff -a the kernel oopses. All filesystems which have quotas are ext2 and are using the new quota system. Oops: Jul 2 09:08:49 girly kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 032a Jul 2 09:08:49 girly kernel: printing

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

2001-07-02 Thread pt
If you can repeat it in 2.4.5 let me know. Yes, I can reproduce it in 2.4.5 with exactly the same behaviour and messages. I made another experiment by installing RH7.1 directly on the raid partition (it was not possible to install with my mobo before because of a problem in the RH installer)

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