Re: [PATCH 1/2] msi: Invert the sense of the MSI enables.

2007-05-25 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On May 24, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: Do we have a feel for how much performace we're losing on those systems which _could_ do MSI, but which will end up defaulting to not using it? At least on 10GB ethernet it is a significant difference; you usually cannot go anywhere near line

Re: [PATCH 1/2] msi: Invert the sense of the MSI enables.

2007-05-25 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On May 24, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: Do we have a feel for how much performace we're losing on those systems which _could_ do MSI, but which will end up defaulting to not using it? At least on 10GB ethernet it is a significant difference; you usually cannot go anywhere near line

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Apr 15, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: It's a really good thing, and it means that if somebody shows that your code is flawed in some way (by, for example, making a patch that people claim gets better behaviour or numbers), any *good* programmer that actually cares about his

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Apr 15, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: It's a really good thing, and it means that if somebody shows that your code is flawed in some way (by, for example, making a patch that people claim gets better behaviour or numbers), any *good* programmer that actually cares about his

RE: x86 TSC time warp puzzle

2005-04-02 Thread Jonathan Lundell
audio use. This is a desktop board, and this is well after boot (hours). Also, ACPI is disabled in the BIOS. I suppose I can try to disable SMI via the APIC? -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

RE: x86 TSC time warp puzzle

2005-04-02 Thread Jonathan Lundell
use. This is a desktop board, and this is well after boot (hours). Also, ACPI is disabled in the BIOS. I suppose I can try to disable SMI via the APIC? -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

x86 TSC time warp puzzle

2005-04-01 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ens at about 5 Hz. And the characteristic delay on each type of machine seems consistent. Any ideas of where to look? Other lists to inquire on? Thanks. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: [PATCH] Minor cleanup and export three functions

2001-07-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
>assumed that it was sent clear text. Obviously not. Eudora does leave you one little clue: At 2:19 AM +0100 2001-07-20, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; >BOUNDARY="-559023410-1804928587-995591940=:20239" -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscrib

Re: [PATCH] Minor cleanup and export three functions

2001-07-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
clear text. Obviously not. Stupid mailers. Grr. Eudora does leave you one little clue: At 2:19 AM +0100 2001-07-20, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY=-559023410-1804928587-995591940=:20239 -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-08 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ng cpio archive layout is OK, but _please_, don't make it dependent >on GNU cpio. If size is an issue (and of course it is), presumably the archive would be compressed. As long as tar can be convinced to pad with (say) nulls, the padding shouldn't have that much of an impact on archive size. -

Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-08 Thread Jonathan Lundell
be compressed. As long as tar can be convinced to pad with (say) nulls, the padding shouldn't have that much of an impact on archive size. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

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

2001-06-27 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 10:07 AM +0200 2001-06-27, Martin Wilck wrote: >On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > >> I use the hack myself, to implement a record-oriented file where the >> file position is a record number. I could probably live with >> PAGE_SIZE, but the current ha

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

2001-06-27 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 10:07 AM +0200 2001-06-27, Martin Wilck wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jonathan Lundell wrote: I use the hack myself, to implement a record-oriented file where the file position is a record number. I could probably live with PAGE_SIZE, but the current hack works fine with start bigger than

Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
guys were generally attached to mainframes, IBM or otherwise. Here's a little info: http://www.digital-interact.co.uk/site/html/reference/media_9trk.html (but take it with a grain of salt; IBM surely didn't go to nine tracks because of ASCII!). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this l

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

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
if (n == 0) { > if (retval == 0) > retval = -EFAULT; > break; > } > >- *ppos += start < page ? (long)start : n; /* Move down >the file */ >+ *ppos += (unsigned long)

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

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
the White House." Years later, two old-timers claimed they had >heard Lincoln say it in an 1856 address in Illinois, but a news >account of the speech didn't mention it. The Fehrenbachers give the >old-timers' recollections a D. The evidence, the scholars say, >"suggests th

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

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ln say that? :) That's the common, but doubtful, attribution. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

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

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
, but doubtful, attribution. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

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

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
: n; /* Move down the file */ + *ppos += (unsigned long) start PAGE_SIZE ? (unsigned long) start : n; /* Move down the file */ nbytes -= n; buf += n; retval += n; -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
or otherwise. Here's a little info: http://www.digital-interact.co.uk/site/html/reference/media_9trk.html (but take it with a grain of salt; IBM surely didn't go to nine tracks because of ASCII!). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

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

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
' recollections a D. The evidence, the scholars say, suggests that this is a case of reminiscence echoing folklore or fiction. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: Q serial.c

2001-06-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
cally routed (eg round-robin). Where can I find the 5.05 driver? -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: mktime in include/linux

2001-06-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
and? There can't, of course, be any blanket prohibition against using kernel headers in userland. Think about ioctl.h, for example. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: mktime in include/linux

2001-06-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
prohibition against using kernel headers in userland. Think about ioctl.h, for example. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: Q serial.c

2001-06-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
arrive. The other CPU servicing the interrupt, was the question. cli() doesn't affect that. This could presumably happen if shutdown() gets run on a non-interrupt-servicing CPU, or if interrupts are dynamically routed (eg round-robin). Where can I find the 5.05 driver? -- /Jonathan Lundell

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ons. At this >point you get into law and the like and its probably best you read up on it >from a reputable source not l/k Though header files don't fall clearly on the interface-definition side of the line. ctype.h, for example, in userland, or any other header with #defined or i

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Jonathan Lundell
and the like and its probably best you read up on it from a reputable source not l/k Though header files don't fall clearly on the interface-definition side of the line. ctype.h, for example, in userland, or any other header with #defined or inline code. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe

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

2001-06-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ion) significantly more expensive than on most other architectures. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read th

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

2001-06-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
expensive than on most other architectures. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: any good diff merging utility?

2001-06-17 Thread Jonathan Lundell
patch2: >@@ 10,1 10,2 @@ > #include >+#include <2.h> > >The patch will fail to patch :-). But there is no real conflict between >the patches. Problem is, you can't tell automatically. Even if the diffs don't conflict physically, it's entirely possible that they confl

Re: any good diff merging utility?

2001-06-17 Thread Jonathan Lundell
+#include 2.h The patch will fail to patch :-). But there is no real conflict between the patches. Problem is, you can't tell automatically. Even if the diffs don't conflict physically, it's entirely possible that they conflict logically. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses

2001-06-14 Thread Jonathan Lundell
orced >to implement it... That's right, of course. A small problem is that dev->slot_name becomes ambiguous, since it doesn't have any hose identification. Nor does it have any room for the hose id; it's fixed at 8 chars, and fully used (bb:dd.f\0). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from

Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses

2001-06-14 Thread Jonathan Lundell
right, of course. A small problem is that dev-slot_name becomes ambiguous, since it doesn't have any hose identification. Nor does it have any room for the hose id; it's fixed at 8 chars, and fully used (bb:dd.f\0). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-06-01 Thread Jonathan Lundell
iferation of ioctls. Sure, it's non-standard and a mess. But it's semi-documented, easy to use, and v. general. What's the preferred alternative, to state the first question another way? For any single small project/driver, creating a new fs simply isn't going to happen. -- /Jonathan Lundell.

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-06-01 Thread Jonathan Lundell
to use, and v. general. What's the preferred alternative, to state the first question another way? For any single small project/driver, creating a new fs simply isn't going to happen. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-30 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 1:38 AM +0100 2001-05-31, Joel Becker wrote: >On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:24:37PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: >> FWIW (perhaps not much in this context), the POSIX way is >>sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) >> >> POSIX sysconf is pretty useful for this kind of

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-30 Thread Jonathan Lundell
in this context), the POSIX way is sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) POSIX sysconf is pretty useful for this kind of thing (not just HZ, either). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info a

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-30 Thread Jonathan Lundell
sysconf is pretty useful for this kind of thing (not just HZ, either). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-30 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 1:38 AM +0100 2001-05-31, Joel Becker wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:24:37PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: FWIW (perhaps not much in this context), the POSIX way is sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) POSIX sysconf is pretty useful for this kind of thing (not just HZ, either). Well, how

Re: [CHECKER] large stack variables (>=1K) in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8

2001-05-25 Thread Jonathan Lundell
potential benefit of having the stack at the bottom rather than the top of a page. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-i

Re: [CHECKER] large stack variables (=1K) in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8

2001-05-25 Thread Jonathan Lundell
of having the stack at the bottom rather than the top of a page. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http

Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice.

2001-05-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 5:56 PM +0200 2001-05-24, Andi Kleen wrote: >On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:04AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > At 10:31 AM +0200 2001-05-24, Andi Kleen wrote: >> >reiserfs doesn't, but the HD usually has transparently in its firmware. >> >So it hits a bad

Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice.

2001-05-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
orted from your disk >it's long overdue for replacement. This can't be right. It implies that the drive is returning bogus data with no error indication. Remapping a bad sector is not the same as recovering it. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice.

2001-05-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
way too much chance that a system will read the remapped sector and assume that it contains the original data. That would be hopelessly corrupting. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice.

2001-05-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
it's long overdue for replacement. This can't be right. It implies that the drive is returning bogus data with no error indication. Remapping a bad sector is not the same as recovering it. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice.

2001-05-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
that a system will read the remapped sector and assume that it contains the original data. That would be hopelessly corrupting. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice.

2001-05-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 5:56 PM +0200 2001-05-24, Andi Kleen wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:04AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: At 10:31 AM +0200 2001-05-24, Andi Kleen wrote: reiserfs doesn't, but the HD usually has transparently in its firmware. So it hits a bad block; you see an IO error and the next

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
he PCI >card sniffs the DMA controller setup (as it goes to pci, then when nobody >claims it on to the isa bridge) then does bus mastering DMA of its own to fake >the ISA dma That's sick. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 2:02 PM -0700 2001-05-22, Richard Henderson wrote: >On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:48:23PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: >> 64KB for 8-bit DMA; 128KB for 16-bit DMA. [...] This doesn't >> apply to bus-master DMA, just the legacy (8237) stuff. > >Would this 8237 be some

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
the address lives in a non-counting register). This doesn't apply to bus-master DMA, just the legacy (8237) stuff. There was also a 24-bit address limitation. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
es saturated in both directions (all ignoring overhead). Full saturation is not reasonable for either PCI or Ethernet; I'm just looking at order-of-magnitude numbers here. The bottom line is: don't make any hard and fast assumption about the number of devices connected to a root PCI bus. -- /Jo

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
overhead). Full saturation is not reasonable for either PCI or Ethernet; I'm just looking at order-of-magnitude numbers here. The bottom line is: don't make any hard and fast assumption about the number of devices connected to a root PCI bus. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
nobody claims it on to the isa bridge) then does bus mastering DMA of its own to fake the ISA dma That's sick. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 2:02 PM -0700 2001-05-22, Richard Henderson wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:48:23PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: 64KB for 8-bit DMA; 128KB for 16-bit DMA. [...] This doesn't apply to bus-master DMA, just the legacy (8237) stuff. Would this 8237 be something on the ISA card

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
register). This doesn't apply to bus-master DMA, just the legacy (8237) stuff. There was also a 24-bit address limitation. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread Jonathan Lundell
this is true for many/most multiple-device cards), has a bridge, its own internal PCI bus, and four "slots" ("devices" in PCI terminology). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread Jonathan Lundell
internal PCI bus, and four slots (devices in PCI terminology). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-20 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 2:16 AM +1200 2001-05-21, Chris Wedgwood wrote: >On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:36:14AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > I know from system documentation, or can figure out once and for > all by experimentation, the correspondence between PCI > bus/dev/fcn and phy

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-20 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 3:37 AM -0600 2001-05-20, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >Jonathan Lundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> At 10:42 AM +0200 2001-05-19, Kai Henningsen wrote: >> > > Jeff Garzik's ethtool >> > > extension at least tells me the PCI bus/dev/fcn,

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-20 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 3:37 AM -0600 2001-05-20, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Jonathan Lundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 10:42 AM +0200 2001-05-19, Kai Henningsen wrote: Jeff Garzik's ethtool extension at least tells me the PCI bus/dev/fcn, though, and from that I can write a userland mapping

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-20 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 2:16 AM +1200 2001-05-21, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:36:14AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: I know from system documentation, or can figure out once and for all by experimentation, the correspondence between PCI bus/dev/fcn and physical locations. Jeff's

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
is to replug correctly, not to change MAC addresses. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
lets you do that. I know from system documentation, or can figure out once and for all by experimentation, the correspondence between PCI bus/dev/fcn and physical locations. Jeff's extension gives me the mapping between eth# and PCI bus/dev/fcn, which is not otherwise available (outside the

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
the MAC address. If I plug both into the same network segments by accident (because I can't tell which is which, say), then my configuration is nearly as broken with different MAC addresses as with identical ones; the fix is to replug correctly, not to change MAC addresses. -- /Jonathan Lundell

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
documentation, or can figure out once and for all by experimentation, the correspondence between PCI bus/dev/fcn and physical locations. Jeff's extension gives me the mapping between eth# and PCI bus/dev/fcn, which is not otherwise available (outside the kernel). -- /Jonathan Lundell

Re: Storage - redundant path failover / failback - quo vadis linux?

2001-05-18 Thread Jonathan Lundell
he multi-pathing level, seems exactly right. I'm guessing that provision needs to be made for some external-device-dependent means of signalling both failure and recovery. There are potentially side-channel/out-of-band means to communicate this kind of status from specific devices. -- /Jonathan L

Re: Storage - redundant path failover / failback - quo vadis linux?

2001-05-18 Thread Jonathan Lundell
and recovery. There are potentially side-channel/out-of-band means to communicate this kind of status from specific devices. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-17 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 11:23 PM +0200 2001-05-17, Kai Henningsen wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Lundell) wrote on 15.05.01 in ><p05100316b7272cdfd50c@[207.213.214.37]>: > >> What about: >> >> 1 (network domain). I have two network interfaces that I connect to >> two

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-17 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 11:23 PM +0200 2001-05-17, Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Lundell) wrote on 15.05.01 in p05100316b7272cdfd50c@[207.213.214.37]: What about: 1 (network domain). I have two network interfaces that I connect to two different network segments, eth0 eth1; they're

Re: ((struct pci_dev*)dev)->resource[...].start

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ally) changed? I'd expect the answer to be: for all practical purposes never. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-inf

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 4:57 PM +0200 2001-05-16, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: >On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:37:45AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: >> At 10:02 AM +0200 2001-05-16, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: >> > > It's also true that some buses simply don't yield up physical >> >>

RE: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
)? Removable media from another OS? Shared drives? Not that this kind of "firm" ID might not be an improvement, or at least a good sanity check. [Side question, not original with me: why isn't all this a 2.5 discussion?] -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
have to experiment or remove a card and check the jumpering or some such. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
-> bus location <-> physical location <-> MAC address) in a uniform manner. (Where MAC address might be something else in a non-Ethernet domain.) -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
be something else in a non-Ethernet domain.) -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
or remove a card and check the jumpering or some such. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org

RE: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
from another OS? Shared drives? Not that this kind of firm ID might not be an improvement, or at least a good sanity check. [Side question, not original with me: why isn't all this a 2.5 discussion?] -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 4:57 PM +0200 2001-05-16, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:37:45AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: At 10:02 AM +0200 2001-05-16, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: It's also true that some buses simply don't yield up physical locations (ISA springs to mind, ISA is quite fine

Re: ((struct pci_dev*)dev)-resource[...].start

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
to be: for all practical purposes never. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
text. Or aren't labelled at all. I'm using one fairly well-known dual-port PCI serial board that silently interchanged the two ports on a rev change, with no labelling change at all ('cause there was no label!). Make your ttySx match *that*! -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
tity > configure $i > done ...it's just that right now the connection between eth* and its physical identity isn't made. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
g a system and *want* to renumber things. (There are magic ways to do it, though). That's all Solaris 2.6; not sure about 2.8. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
n/etc paths are not physical locations; you also need external hardware-specific knowledge to be able to talk about real physical locations in a way that does the system operator any good.) -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: [PATCH] Remove silly beep macro from pgtable.h

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ep() asm("movb $0x3,%al; outb %al,$0x61") Let's please not assume that every i386 implementation has a full set of legacy PC IO hardware. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] Remove silly beep macro from pgtable.h

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
that every i386 implementation has a full set of legacy PC IO hardware. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
-specific knowledge to be able to talk about real physical locations in a way that does the system operator any good.) -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
; not sure about 2.8. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
networking for i in eth0 eth1 eth2; do identify device $i get configuration/config procedure for device $i identity configure $i done ...it's just that right now the connection between eth* and its physical identity isn't made. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
PCI serial board that silently interchanged the two ports on a rev change, with no labelling change at all ('cause there was no label!). Make your ttySx match *that*! -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Not a typewriter

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Lundell
>why creat doesn't end in an "e;" and so forth. I tell the Some time back, Ken Thompson was asked, if he had it to do over again, what changes he would make to Unix. The only thing he could think of: spell it "create()". -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from t

Re: ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ion. I assert that ENOIOCTLCMD is >> redundant, pending a specific counterexample. > >On the contrary. I can now no longer force an unsupported response when there >is a generic routine I dont wish to use That makes sense. Thanks. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ENOIOCTLCMD/ENOTTY/ (mutatis mutandis) would result in no loss of function. I assert that ENOIOCTLCMD is redundant, pending a specific counterexample. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Lundell
swim3.cSat May 12 15:22:30 2001 >@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ > sizeof(struct floppy_struct)); > return err; > } >- return -ENOIOCTLCMD; >+ return -ENOTTY; > } -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Lundell
floppy_struct)); return err; } - return -ENOIOCTLCMD; + return -ENOTTY; } -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Lundell
of function. I assert that ENOIOCTLCMD is redundant, pending a specific counterexample. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Lundell
, pending a specific counterexample. On the contrary. I can now no longer force an unsupported response when there is a generic routine I dont wish to use That makes sense. Thanks. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Not a typewriter

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Lundell
why creat doesn't end in an e; and so forth. I tell the Some time back, Ken Thompson was asked, if he had it to do over again, what changes he would make to Unix. The only thing he could think of: spell it create(). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-12 Thread Jonathan Lundell
'you handle it' >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- /

Re: ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-12 Thread Jonathan Lundell
of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-11 Thread Jonathan Lundell
t;#define ERESTARTNOINTR 513 >#define ERESTARTNOHAND 514 /* restart if no handler.. */ >#define ENOIOCTLCMD515 /* No ioctl command */ -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

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