Re: [question] What happens when dd writes data to a missing device?

2020-10-11 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020, Mikhail Gavrilov wrote: > I have a question. > What happens when dd writes data to a missing device? > > For example: > # dd > if=/home/mikhail/Downloads/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20201010.n.0.iso > of=/dev/adb > > Today I and wrongly entered /dev/adb instead o

Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8

2017-06-13 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Tue, 13 Jun 2017, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:25:40AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > On 12/06/17 10:35 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > Or better yet, just turn all char major allocations into dynamic, which > > > would be really good for test systems. I t

Re: Linux 4.0-rc1 out..

2015-02-23 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 02/23/15 04:06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On the other hand, the strongest argument for some people advocating > > 4.0 seems to have been a wish to see 4.1.15 - because "that was the > > version of Linux skynet used for the T-800 terminator". > >

Re: [PATCH] ksm: Expose configuration via sysctl

2014-02-26 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 02/25/2014 03:09 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> Couldn't we also (maybe in parallel) just teach the sysctl userspace > >> about sysfs? This way we don't have to do parallel sysctls and sysfs > >> for *EVERYTHING* in the kernel: > >> > >>sysfs.kerne

Re: [ANN] backports-v3.10 released - first release!

2013-07-12 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Kicked out the first Linux kernel backports release under the new > project name, "backports" that hopefully clarifies this a generic > backport project now. Backported subsystems in this release: > [0] > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/proj

Re: Linux 2.6.32.61 - x86/ptrace/gcc 4.7 build error

2013-06-13 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Sven-Haegar, Christoph, > > concerning the issue below, I could reproduce both Sven-Haegar's error > (running > make headers_check with the patch applied) and Christoph's build error with > gcc > 4.7 on i686 without the patch. > > I noticed that neit

Re: Linux 2.6.32.61

2013-06-10 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Willy Tarreau (2): > x86, ptrace: fix build breakage with gcc 4.7 This change breaks "make headers_install": CHECK include (0 files) CHECK include/asm (54 files) /home/haegar/src/2.6.32/linux/usr/include/asm/ptrace.h:5: included file 'li

Re: removal of sysfs wext extension broke on F16

2012-11-16 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 21:36 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 21:35 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 10:20 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Johannes Berg > > > > wrote: > >

Re: A reliable kernel panic (3.6.2) and system crash when visiting a particular website

2012-11-03 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Daniel Mack wrote: > On 03.11.2012 15:10, Christof Meerwald wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 23:15:17 + (GMT), Artem S. Tashkinov wrote: > >> It's almost definitely either a USB driver bug or video4linux driver bug: > >> > >> I'm CC'ing linux-media and linux-usb mailing lists

Re: Is there a memory block device?

2008-02-26 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, rzryyvzy wrote: > I know that tmpfs is a memmory filesystem. Is there a possibility to > create also a memory block device? > Is there a possibility to create for example a 1 GB memory block device > (from the RAM)? There are the /dev/ram* devices, created through kernel co

Re: Possibly silly Q?

2008-01-14 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > Do we have a utility that can force the kernel to re-read, and > > re-initialize itself to a given drives partition tables without > > having to reboot if one is working with a drive t

Re: USB extension (repeater) cable

2007-01-21 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:40:34PM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: I just tried my shiny new usb extension cable (repeater): Jan 19 16:01:17 epia kernel: usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd an

Re: 2.6.19: File system corruption "stuck" until device is replugged

2006-12-22 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: I had USB stick (fat32) that reported file system corruption on mount and hence was mounted read-only. No amount of umount/dosfsck/mount could make it rw again. dosfsck reported device as clean but it still would mount ro and I continued to see direct

Re: Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down

2006-12-21 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Dan Williams wrote: If we define interface down as meaning that the device is powered down and the radio switched off, then (b) and (c) would presumably just need to ensure that the interface is downed. (a) is a slightly more special case - if the switch disables the radio,

RE: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Massimo Cetra wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: Namely that we could adopt the even/odd numbering scheme that we used to do on a minor number basis, and instead of dropping it entirely like we did, we could have just moved it to the release number, as an indication of what was the in