Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

we add a new driver that fits or change the name of one, we need add support for it. But the device majors are not needed for this, that's true ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<

Re: 2.4.4-ac6 compile error in plip.c

Static data structures marked as __initdata must be initialised - (as opposed to ordinary static data which is zeroed BSS). + (as opposed to ordinary static data which is zeroed BSS) and cannot be + const. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <h

Re: page_launder() bug

uble if you write completely valid C{89,99} and the compiler and environment implement 100% of the semantics of it. Compiler specific features should be seen as an addition to the standard on this compiler. They follow the same rules stated above. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3

Re: [PATCH] make distclean tries to delete dirs in tmpfs

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:29:28PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > By author: Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > make distclean deletes anything with size 0. This includes > > directories, while making the kernel in tmpfs or ramfs. > Wouldn't it be better to fix tm

[PATCH] make distclean tries to delete dirs in tmpfs

rm -f core `find . \( -not -type d \) -and \ + \( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*~' \ -o -name '*.bak' -o -name '#*#' -o -name '.*.orig' \ -o -name '.*.rej' -o -name '

Initio maintainer?

n his workstation and would like to switch to 2.4.x due to several reasons, but the 2.4 version of this driver doesn't even detect the controller :-( Where do I start to get it working? Any good reference about the linux-scsi subsystem? For drivers? Thanks for any help Regards Ingo Oe

Re: Next compile time problem ...

EVICE_ID_SIEMENS_DSCC4' undeclared here (not in a function) Fixed in 2.4.4 and later. Try compiling a recent kernel. I'm running 2.4.5-pre1 now with SMP and highmem support enabled and used. Hope that helps Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnit

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

ould stop working > are timewarp modules that intercepted the syscall at the kernel level > instead of user space level. That's what the poster talked about ;-) Think subterfuge (sp?) and friends. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag &l

Re: Why recovering from broken configs is too hard

ses well enough. Eric, what do you think about that "dirty hack" variant? ;-) And will the derivation be in nearly constant time, if I change one symbol? Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<&l

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

ll it "clean". Just think of: test -r /dev/ttyF00/speed=9600,clocal && cat /dev/ttyF00/speed=9600,clocal Or the equivalent in C in most of the programs, which read sth. POSIX might not forbid this, because common sense already does ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser [1] entry := directory

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

on normal arch -> UML) are not quite clear to me. Is there a paper or sth. like that describing the design a bit more in detail? I only found usage papers on the user-mode-linux home page. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag

Re: Maximum files per Directory

pplications) building up such large directories should be forced to read every entry of it aloud. Then they'll learn[1] and the problem is solved. Regards Ingo Oeser [1] If not, let them repeat until they do. -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag>

Re: Unknown HZ value! (2000) Assume 1024.

ep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips: 1697.38 Just FYI. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< been there and had much fun >>>>

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

support dummy hardware, like SCSI and ISDN for example. Is that planned or do I suggest sth. stupid here? ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< been there and

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

independently) better into /dev/bus. And even implement the thing as a mount point later, if we go the way Al Viro suggested and have independent "device filesystems" for the subsystems themselves. Just an idea... Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://ww

Re: 2.4.4: Kernel crash, possibly tcp related

they are both ready for testing as long, as my file systems stay repairable by fsck.ext2 ;-) Both machines are not running X, frame buffers and no fancy multi media stuff. Regards Ingo Oeser [1] Tested cards: RTL 8139, Intel Etherexpress Pro 100, 3com 3c509TX, so I

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:48:06PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > Ingo Oeser writes: > > There we have 10x faster memmove/memcpy/bzero for 1K blocks > > granularity (== alignment is 1K and size is multiple of 1K), that > > is done by the memory controller. > This sounds di

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

> Both are useful, both are unreliable. And we have the one, so we should also implement the other one to be totally unreliable. *gd&r* Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<&

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

access here. Good idea. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< been there and had much fun >>>>>>>>>>>> - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: 2.4.4 breaks dhcpcd with Realtek 8139

" on our hubs/switches, causing their port to be disabled. So we have just ported a BUG from Windows to Linux, if you are right ;-) BTW: CC'ed the maintainer. He might be interested, as maintainers usally are on BUGs ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser [1] Sometimes forgetting their MAC and

Negative values of cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr

(SMP+HIGHMEM machine) also seems a bit large... exact .config or more data available, if needed. Otherwise this kernel is very stable for me, and it feels really good in interactive performance. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/l

Re: Suggestion for module .init.{text,data} sections

them unswappable, while the module is exiting. Rationale: A device needed for swaping will never call exit stuff, because it is still in use. So I see no obvious race here. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <&l

Re: ramdisk/tmpfs/ramfs/memfs ?

production. The ac-Kernels all have this patch included, which are sometimes more stable anyway these day. ;-) HTH Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< been there and h

Re: PATCH: 2.4.3 tinny module interface cleanum

get about this, ok ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser [1] By stable I mean "marked as the stable branch" not the actual behavior >;) -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< been there

Re: down_timeout

if (condition) \ break; \ __wait_event_timeout(wq, condition, timeout, ret); \ } while (0) What about that? Use it just as you use wait_event() but check for -ETIMEDOUT as value in ret. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001

Re: Problem with DHCP when using tokenring on 2.4.x

ptimization and with debugging symbols). This sounds like an user space problem until now, but once you tried all this, we can decide whether it is a kernel bug or a bug in pump, which got triggered by more correct behavior of the lastest kernels. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 -

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

uld make it quite easy. The ctor is the way to handle it. May be we could even put all the fs specific initalizers into it (e.g. magics, zeroes). Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

sier to manage, if they are the same size. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< been there and had much fun >>>>>>>>>>>> - To unsub

Re: ioctl arg passing

much memory). All "read" functions do the same. As you were clever enough to copy the pointer itself into kernel space, too (which many driver writes forget!), you have done the right thing here. Congratulations! ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

1]. So that struct inode around is ok. BTW: Is it still less than one page? Then it doesn't make me nervous. Why? Guess what granularity we allocate at, if we just store pointers instead of the inode.u. Or do you like every FS creating his own slab cache? Regards Ingo Oeser [

Re: light weight user level semaphores

as possible are burdend onto their shoulders. Semaphores tend to be structures living very long (at least in all code I've written and seen so far) so I see no point in defering their initialization. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de

Re: Can't compile 2.4.3 with agcc

tinue.\n"); > + for (;;) ; replace this with panic() please. Even machines, which reboot on panic will reboot over and over again here, which surely someone will notice ;-) > } > if (cpu_has_fxsr) { > printk(KERN_INFO "Enabling fast FPU save

Re: ioctl arg passing

expected? Or am I gonna generate oops-a-plenty? What do you want to do with the buffers? If you plan to expose them to user space, this is just plain wrong. If you use it only inside the kernel, please check that you avoid using more than PAGE_SIZE as rxlen/txlen. Do scatter-gather instead and vma

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

nals of this union, because never have to use it outside the kernel ;-) I like it. ext2fs does the same, so there should be no VFS hassles involved. Al? Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<&

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

e IO a bit stormier. I think there are a lot of races, which I don't see now. So please don't beat me too much, if this is a completly stupid idea, ok? ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<&

Re: disable_ide_dma gcc-3.0 warn

;#if 0" marked code section. BTW: Which revision of gcc 3.0 do you use? I had no luck compiling it yet. Please answer in private to gcc issues. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<

Re: APIC-Errors+Crashes on GA 586DX, 2.2.17/2.4.3

. I don't know, why adding 64MB made it go away. I tried very hard to reproduce it with 128MB, but really couldn't :-( Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<&l

Re: cdrom driver dependency problem (and a workaround patch)

On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 08:33:05PM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > The link order is wrong. So why not changing the link order then? > > I remember doing what the patch below does. > It didn't help. Hmm, maybe you had a typo? > Di

Re: rwsem.o listed twice as export-objs

o.o ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o brlock.o cmdline.o bust_spinlocks.o ifneq ($(CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK)$(CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM),nn) -export-objs += rwsem.o obj-y += rwsem.o endif Because any of the solutions should be applied, because rwsem.o is listed twice currently, which gives a

Re: cdrom driver dependency problem (and a workaround patch)

94drv.o DRIVERS-$(CONFIG_SOUND) += drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o DRIVERS-$(CONFIG_PCI) += drivers/pci/driver.o DRIVERS-$(CONFIG_MTD) += drivers/mtd/mtdlink.o Would be my idea of solving this issue. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag>

rwsem.o listed twice as export-objs

Hi David, please remove rwsem.o from the list of exported objects, if it is not used. Regards Ingo Oeser patch is as follows --- lib/Makefile.orig Fri Apr 20 21:51:12 2001 +++ lib/MakefileFri Apr 20 21:51:19 2001 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ L_TARGET := lib.a -export-objs := cmdline.o

Re: light weight user level semaphores

simple and non-intrusive solution is out. Instead we should go with several new syscalls, user space dependencies, strange error handling and yet-to-discuss semantics. Everybody else byt you would have been kicked out by the core people for suggesting this ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2

Re: light weight user level semaphores

ention, since these should be rare cases and the application overusing these should be punished HARD. Maybe someone can enlighten my on these aspects. Regards Ingo Oeser [1] Ok, people already use other than Unix mechanisms for this stuff on massive parallel computing. So this might not be an

Re: light weight user level semaphores

care in wrappers, even if you don't use this stuff. I also don't like the "kill me if I do a mistake" that Linus proposed in the "bad_sem" label. Comments? Flames? Overengineered? Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-

Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets

rkaround helps. So we might want to enable these workarounds for this southbridge, too. Hope this translation helps our maintainers a little ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser [1] http://home.tiscalinet.de/au-ja/review-kt133a-4.html -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/l

Re: union mounting?

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:31:46PM -0400, David L. Parsley wrote: > real pretty. If you've got union mounting patches for testing, I'd be > interested. ;-) /me is interested, too. And yes, I have nearly the same problem ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitze

Re: CML2 1.0.0 doesn't remember configuration changes

and .config, then they fall back to $(ARCH)/defconfig Would be nice, if CML2 works like this too, because it's not nice to go through all the options again, if I install a new kernel or just want to change my current kernel config add a module. But your CML2 is sure great work. Regards

Re: Larger dev_t

would be too easy to remove static major/minors and all the fun allocating them. And LANANA would have one thing less to worry about ;-) One thing I certainly miss: DevFS is not mandatory (yet). Thanks & Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://

Re: Larger dev_t

;-) > The current discussion is almost entirely about mknod.] Yes: Let "mknod /dev/foo [bc] x y" die! Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< been there a

Re: OOM killer???

help system is ok (because I will not loose work, and might get it over the net, if there is a problem). So as Rik stated: The OOM killer cannot suit all people, so it has to be configurable, to be OOM kill, not overkill ;-) Thanks & Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTa

Re: [PATCH] OOM handling

16 X clients. I never had OOM there. I think this is the amount of memory an oracle server at least have to have, right? What are your ulimits? What are your amounts of RAM+SWAP? Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag>

Re: ACPI power-off doesn't work on Asus CUV4X (VIA Apollo 133)

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:53:08PM +0100, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 06:25:16PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote: > > As i recompiled 2.4.2-ac20 with ACPI support > > the system cannot switch itself off. > > I get a message "Couldn't switch to S5"

Re: ACPI power-off doesn't work on Asus CUV4X (VIA Apollo 133)

debug info? I'll try backing out all changes between 2.4.0 and 2.4.2-ac20, because there it worked ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : VIA Samuel stepping: 0 cpu MHz

Re: network unusable

booting and after inserting the proper networking modules, your .config and lscpi - would be nice. I don't experience any problems like that here. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<&l

Re: [PATCH] gcc-3.0 warnings

"adcl 12(%1), %0\n\t" ^[1] > "1: adcl 16(%1), %0\n\t" > "lea 4(%1), %1\n\t" The first one is better readable and the latter one is more portable (since the first may contain tabs in the string, instead of spaces and no one sees this)

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

essary for some OOM handlers in my patch. Thanks & Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< been there and had much fun >>>>>>>>>>&g

Re: lock_kernel() usage and sync_*() functions

lear, what will be done. AFAIR Linus dosn't like these magic numers either, right? Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< been there and had much fun >>>

cramfs b0rken on HIGHMEM machines

d the first BUG now. Yes I know, that nobody build embedded machines with HIGHMEM support, but it's still a BUG right? ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<<

Re: named pipe writes on readonly filesystems

a readonly FS. > > I would check that in pipe_write()... So atime and mtime of a named pipe are meaningless in general? That would make sense, since you cannot access the data anymore, once they are through the pipe. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http:

Re: Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

re. I have had a load of 10 today, a much to busy disk and a full swap. I killed X and killed -9 netscape several times and waited a while. Things didn't settle down until reboot. So I definitly would like to try all that doesn't corrupt my fs ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser [1] If people wo

Feedback for fastselect and one-copy-pipe

-4 days of uptime. So there is no quick test and I'm even not sure about the kernel version where this exactly occurs, because I run sometimes 2.4.0 for working and sometimes the latest one, to see whether the problem still persists. Regards Ingo Oeser [1] put on http://www.tu-c

Re: filesystem for initrd

or backing the writes. I think unionfs will care for this kind of problems once we have it implemented in an official tree. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come

Re: 64-bit capable block device layer

d elevator.c). That avoids most of the > 64-bit arithmetic anyway. Do you know of any patches to do so? Thanks and regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and j

Re: Questions - Re: [PATCH] documentation for mm.h

eep and TryLockPage() + EFAULT (or similar) if you cannot. Then just check Page_Uptodate() before you read and do ClearUptodate() if you start writing to the metadata. Since these operations are atomic bit operations, it should suffice for your purpose. But as stated above, I'

Re: Questions - Re: [PATCH] documentation for mm.h

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:11:50AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > At 22:33 07/03/2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > [snip] > > typedef struct page { > >+ struct list_head list; /* ->mapping has some page lists. */ > >+ struct address_space *mapping; /* The inode (or ...) we bel

Re: VM balancing problems under 2.4.2-ac1

handy ;-) But maybe this will be implemented one day along the lines of QoS in the VM... Regards Ingo Oeser [1] >1500 possible clients for these servers. [2] Not counting swaps as file backed. We have a special inode for the swapper anyway, right? -- 10.+11.03

Re: Kernel is unstable

if ((p = malloc(block))) { would be even correct C ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the fun >>>>>&g

Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

, or you decide to do it over. Don't do some > half-way thing, please. Daniel (and others) uses ext2 as as a playground, because it is implemented, tested and not that hard to understand and verify. Hope they will switch to some own design later, once they sufficiently played around wit

Re: Flusing caches on shutdown

OS). Linux does a good job in caching and cache control at software level. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the fun >>>>>>&

Support for maximal supported mode

ide is set up). Many Thanks in Advance Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the fun >>>>>>>>>>>> - To unsu

Re: gzipped executables

amfs. Many embedded people (like me) use it to fill up their flash disks. Look at linux/Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt for more info. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<

imm problems anyone?

st to find similarities. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the fun >>>>>>>>>>>> - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: [PATCH] Small kernel-hacking.tmpl update

otherwise. s/is unloadable/cannot be removed/ This makes it more explicit. You could read "is unloadable" as "is not loadable", if you are not that familiar with English. Rest ist correct AFAICS. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag &

[ANNOUNCE] os-devel mailing list

os-devel by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the single line subscribe os-devel in the BODY of the message. List language is English, the rest will be explained after subscribing. It is also a closed list (to prevent spamming). See you there! Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001

Re: Slowing down CDROM drives (was: Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work)

it)_speed settings there? Give it a try at least ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the fun >>>>>>>>>>>>

Re: RAMFS

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:24:19PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > No, so have to unlock it also, if you return -ENOSPC. > > > > So the correct fix seems to be: [...] > > This currently works for me (but using 2.4.0 + d

Re: RAMFS

s_alloc_page(inode, page)) + if (! ramfs_alloc_page(inode, page)) { + UnlockPage(page); return -ENOSPC; + } + UnlockPage(page); return 0; } This currently works for me (but using 2.4.0 + dwg-ramfs.patch + this patch) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.

Re: [PATCH] vma limited swapin readahead

dn't they be on inactive_clean anyway? They are not mapped (if I read Stephens comment correctly) and are clean (because we just read them in). So if we have to put it there explicitly, we have at least a performance bug, don't we? Or do I still not get the new linux mm design? ;-( Totall

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

understand." If you like to develop for Linux, you should understand the API you use and if you don't understand it, either learn more about it (e.g. reading the source ;-)) or stop using it. Regards Ingo Oeser, reading it since 1996 -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3.

Re: troubles with devfs ?

h of devfsd. No such problems here and cannot reproduce this behavior. But I have no real SCSI adaptor. Only ide-scsi and imm (Iomega-ZIP+). So this might be an SCSI-Issue... Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <

[PATCH] Making Cyrix III boot

#x27;t boot without this patch. Reason: There are no MSRs in this range. Since hpa didn't send a better fix, I attached the band-aid fix for you, so that people can boot. Linus, please apply. Regards Ingo Oeser --- linux-2.4.1-pre11/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c.orig Mon Jan 29 03:35:08 20

Re: BUG in modutils or drivers/isdn/hisax/

CONFIG_HISAX_FRITZPCI + {PCI_VENDOR_ID_AVM, PCI_DEVICE_ID_AVM_FRITZ, PCI_ANY_ID, +PCI_ANY_ID}, #endif #ifdef CONFIG_HISAX_DIEHLDIVA {PCI_VENDOR_ID_EICON,PCI_DEVICE_ID_EICON_DIVA20, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID}, Please apply. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnit

BUG in modutils or drivers/isdn/hisax/

ables can be read. USB has not been compiled. Thanks & Regards Ingo Oeser Now the gory details (ask for more if needed)... I checked: depmod -e -n /path/to/hisax.o (showed an empty pci table) depmod -e -n /path/to/8139too.o (showed a complete pci table) configured in core: CON

Re: md= broken. Found problem. Can't fix it. : (

; > strtok is not reentrant and cannot be nested this way without > saving __strtok. strsep would work. But be careful: strsep() in kernel skips zero length strings, but strsep glibc wouldn't do. Regards Ingo Oeser Note: I implemented it to replace strtok and even did a patch t

Re: khttpd beaten by boa

#x27;t wan't to include one, because you need it only to represent some machine values of a process computer[1]. But we need a more generic one, which has the functionality of a read only entry of /proc. That would be _very_ useful. Regards Ingo Oeser [1] Don't know the right

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct->unmap in 2.4.0 go?

haps you could explain, why this is impossible. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the fun >>>>>>>>>>>>

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w"

ible for this is the FXSR stuff, that changed. Like to try again backing this out? Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the fun >>>&g

Re: Linux-2.4.x patch submission policy

o describe what is related, dependend and what each patch does? So people could try to suit them to their needs. And they can tell you exactly _what_ change breaks instead of "It doesn't work". Thanks & Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer

Re: [PATCH] cramfs is ro only, so honour this in inode->mode

into the cramfs image instead. Same code simplification without uglyfication of the kernel ;-) Thanks & Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the

Re: [PATCH] cramfs is ro only, so honour this in inode->mode

b things like "test" and the perl equivalent, which is quite annoying and complexifies code. (Yes, I'm selfish too ;-)) See what Linus and Al think about this. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <&l

[PATCH] cramfs is ro only, so honour this in inode->mode

if (inode) { - inode->i_mode = cramfs_inode->mode; + inode->i_mode = cramfs_inode->mode & ~ S_IWUGO; inode->i_uid = cramfs_inode->uid; inode->i_size = cramfs_inode->size; inode->i_gid

[PATCH] Cyrix III boot fix and bug report

using rdmsr_eio() or sth. else, which catches execptions and reports them only as errors and just disables the feature instead of oopsing on boot, might be an better option. Happy hackin' now Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/

Re: [PATCH] VM fixes + RSS limits 2.4.0-test13-pre5

a sane amount of memory usage for caching, operation buffers and the like. If your readjust it to sth. smaller, they'll be killed soon and if you readjust to sth, bigger, they wouldn't use it. Regards Ingo Oeser [1] I would like to write "most programs", but most p

Re: [PATCH] Processor autodetection (when configuring kernel)

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:39:42PM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > +{TransmetaCPU,GenuineTMx86}:* ) echo CONFIG_MCROSUE ;; +{TransmetaCPU,GenuineTMx86}:* ) echo CONFIG_MCRUSOE ;; This is just a typo, right? ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer Linux

[ANNOUNCE] OOM-Killer-API updated

Hi there, Since there have been some downloads of my patch, I should notify you, that I've updated it and added some documentation. You can find it at: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ioe/oom-kill-api/index.html Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http:

Re: test12 lockups -- need feedback

ems I did. And built with gcc 2.95.2 (debian potato) if that matters. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the fun >>>>>>>&g

Re: test12 lockups -- need feedback

perhaps this is helpful in any matter. Regards & Thanks Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the fun >>>>>>>>>>>>

Re: [OT] Re: Linus's include file strategy redux

kes to much time and space to create this copy. I really disagree here. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the fun >>>>>>&

Re: test12 lockups -- need feedback

maintainer and davej, because he added Cyrix III support and might know details ;-) Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the fun >>>&g

Re: bug: kernel timer added twice ad 000000000110052c.

ile and use. Regards Ingo Oeser -- 10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag> <<<<<<<<<<<< come and join the fun >>>>>>>>>>>> - To unsubscribe from this list: send

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