Re: linux 2.4.0-test12 compile error

2000-12-28 Thread Matthew D. Pitts
My fault. The ia64 patch was the problem. - Original Message - From: Matthew D. Pitts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 4:39 PM Subject: linux 2.4.0-test12 compile error Forgive me if this question has already been answered. I am

linux 2.4.0-test12 compile error

2000-12-28 Thread Matthew D. Pitts
or 1   the kernel I am trying to compile is linux-2.4.0-test12 with linux-2.4.0-test12-ia64-001214 and linux-2.4.0-test12-reiserfs-3.6.23 patches applied. Is there something else I need?   Matthew D. Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday December 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > Yes... you are right. Alright, I can't escape it any other way so I > > guess I must admit that it is a raid5 bug. > > > > But how can raid5 be calling b_end_io on a buffer_head that was nev

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-13 Thread Jasper Spaans
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:08:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The following patch disabled that code. > > If this fix makes the oops go away, then the proper fix for the problem is > not the #if 0, but do add something like Well, this fix did make the oops go away, but it also caused anot

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > > Yes... you are right. Alright, I can't escape it any other way so I > guess I must admit that it is a raid5 bug. > > But how can raid5 be calling b_end_io on a buffer_head that was never > passed to generic_make_request? > Answer, it snoops on the b

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday December 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > Could you add this test to the top of md_make_request as well, because > > requests to raid5 don't go through generic_make_request. > > Sure they do. Everything that calls ll_rw_block() or subm

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > > Could you add this test to the top of md_make_request as well, because > requests to raid5 don't go through generic_make_request. Sure they do. Everything that calls ll_rw_block() or submit_bh() will go through generic_make_request. Neil, you're proba

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Neil Brown
l pointer deref is coming from there > - Neil, do you have some documentation on how this code should work, as > stripe_head causes some null-pointer-derefs inside my head.. No, no doco, sorry. I do have a new version of the code that I haven't been brave enough to submit during a code freeze

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Jasper Spaans
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:06:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Dec 12 14:04:50 spaans kernel: invalid operand: > > Dec 12 14:04:50 spaans kernel: CPU:1 > > Dec 12 14:04:50 spaans kernel: EIP:0010:[end_buffer_io_bad+85/92] > > > > Dec 12 14:04:50 spaans kernel: Call Trace: > >

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Jasper Spaans
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:56:22AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > Guilt by association :-) > > What this bit of code (complete_stripe/raid5_end_buffer_io) is doing > is observing that it as completed some I/O request that was made of > the raid5 device and is calling the b_end_io on the buffer_head

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday December 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jasper Spaans wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:52:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > Ok, there it is. Noticeable changes from pre8 are mainly (a) new tq list > > > compile fixes and (b) the NetApp sna

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jasper Spaans wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:52:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Ok, there it is. Noticeable changes from pre8 are mainly (a) new tq list > > compile fixes and (b) the NetApp snapshot thing. > > > - final: > > - Neil Brown: raid and md c

[BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Jasper Spaans
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:52:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, there it is. Noticeable changes from pre8 are mainly (a) new tq list > compile fixes and (b) the NetApp snapshot thing. > - final: > - Neil Brown: raid and md cleanups Hmm, while doing some not-so-heavy things with a m

Re: linux-2.4.0-test12 problem with init

2000-12-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Bill Maidment wrote: > Hi > > I reported a problem with using 'init 1' with 2.4.0-test12-pre8 and was > told it wasn't a kernel problem. I beg to differ, as it still happens > with 2.4.0-test12 but not with 2.4.0-test12-pre7. What changed between > pre7 and pre8 to make 'ini

linux-2.4.0-test12 problem with init

2000-12-12 Thread Bill Maidment
Hi I reported a problem with using 'init 1' with 2.4.0-test12-pre8 and was told it wasn't a kernel problem. I beg to differ, as it still happens with 2.4.0-test12 but not with 2.4.0-test12-pre7. What changed between pre7 and pre8 to make 'init 1' behave like 'init 5'? 'init 3' works correctly. Th

Linux-2.4.0-test12

2000-12-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ok, there it is. Noticeable changes from pre8 are mainly (a) new tq list compile fixes and (b) the NetApp snapshot thing. Dave's merge_segments thing could in theory be a deadlock on SMP. Linus - final: - David Miller: sparc and net updates. Fix merge_segments. -

Linux 2.4.0-test12-pre7 LVM .9 vs .8final

2000-12-08 Thread Ricardo Muggli
I have noticed that Linux 2.4.0-test12-pre7 still comes with .8final. Is there a plan to have .9 incorporated at some future time into the stock 2.4 kernels? Will this happen before 2.4 comes out? Also is there a transition path between .8final and .9? (short of save everything to tape and

Won't compile linux-2.4.0-test12-pre5: UDF and DUMMY

2000-12-06 Thread Dilshod Mukhtarov
Hello linux-kernel, I tried to compile linux-2.4.0-test12-pre5, but it gives two errors: make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test12-pre5/fs/udf' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test12-pre5/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-ali

Patch: linux-2.4.0-test12-pre5/fs/udf/inode.c writepage still had extra parameter

2000-12-05 Thread Adam J. Richter
Apparently, in linux 2.4.0-test12-pre5, address_space_operations->writepage went from having two parameters to just one. fs/udf/inode.c apparently was overlooked in the patch. Here is the one line change. -- Adam J. Richter __ __ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Su

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Anyway, I do have this machine working now, although not everything is > to my liking. Unlike older picture-books, for example, this one has a > WinModem. Ugh. And the sound chip is supported, but only by the ~ > ALSA > driver (the OSS version is too broken to be used). Gre

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > But the camera is cool, and works beautifully (once you get XFree86 > > happy) thanks to Andrew Tridgell. (If I could just coax the X server > > into giving my a YUV overlay I could play DVD's with this thing). > > Start at http://www.core.binghamton

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 [slightly off-topic]

2000-12-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Ion Badulescu wrote: > > If it's the same bug that locks up the ATI chipset on my Dell laptop, > then you can safely enable DPMS if only enable the standby mode, > not the others (suspend and off). The panel gets turned off anyway, > even in standby. Yup, same bug, and yes,

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-02 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:09:25PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > NOTE! Getting the 2.4.x kernel up and running is the easy part. The > machine also has a very recent ATI Rage Mobility chip in it, and you > need the newest XFree86 CVS snapshot to make it work (along with a > one-liner patch from

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Anyway, I do have this machine working now, although not everything is > to my liking. Unlike older picture-books, for example, this one has a > WinModem. Ugh. And the sound chip is supported, but only by the ALSA > driver (the OSS version is too broken to be used). The OSS ymf_sb legacy dr

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 [slightly off-topic]

2000-12-02 Thread Ion Badulescu
On 1 Dec 2000 21:09:25 -0800, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even then XFree86 does something bad with DPMS, and will lock up the > graphics chipset when it tries to shut down the flat panel display. > Solution: don't enable DPMS is XF86Config. That's an XFree86 problem, > but happ

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <90a065$5ai$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Anyway, I do have this machine working now, although not everything is >to my liking. Unlike older picture-books, for example, this one has a >WinModem. Ugh. And the sound chip is supported, but only by the

Can CMS be upgraded? -- Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-01 Thread Miles Lane
If I buy one of these machines for testing, will I be able to upgrade the processor's Code Morphing Software with the new version when it's ready? I hear the new CMS code will almost double the battery life. Thanks, Miles - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam J. Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, alas, it appears that linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 freezes hard >while reading the base address registers of the first PCI device >(the "host bridge"). Actually, I think t

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Well, alas, it appears that linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 freezes hard > while reading the base address registers of the first PCI device >

Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-01 Thread Adam J. Richter
smeta making sure that this particular combination would work. Well, alas, it appears that linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 freezes hard while reading the base address registers of the first PCI device (the "host bridge"). Actually, I think the problem is some kind of system management int