[PATCH] 2.2.18 ext2 large file bug?

2000-12-13 Thread Andreas Dilger
Hello, while looking at the COMPAT flag patches I made, I noticed the following in the ext2/ext3 code. I believe that this bug is fixed in 2.4, but it also needs to be fixed in 2.2. Basically, we are checking for an ext2 large file, which would be a file > 2GB on systems that don't support such.

Re: D-LINK DFE-530-TX

2000-12-13 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi Linux, On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:56:15AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Peter Horton wrote: > > If the PCI device ID is 3065 then it's via-rhine, but not supported > > by the driver in the kernel. Get updated via-rhine from Donald > > Becker's site http://www.scyld.com/network. > 2.4.x-test has

DPMS kicks in at the wrong time

2000-12-13 Thread John Summerfield
System: P II, ASUS P2L97-S motherboard (LX chipset plus onboard SCSI). Currently I740-based video card, Sony Multiscan SFII. Linux possum 2.4.0-test12 #6 Wed Dec 13 13:43:54 WST 2000 i686 It's happened on this machine with every kernel I've tried it, right back to (I'm pretty sure) 2.1 days.

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18 ext2 large file bug?

2000-12-13 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Hello, > while looking at the COMPAT flag patches I made, I noticed the following > in the ext2/ext3 code. I believe that this bug is fixed in 2.4, but it > also needs to be fixed in 2.2. Basically, we are checking for an ext2 > large file, which w

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18 ext2 large file bug?

2000-12-13 Thread Andreas Dilger
Al Viro writes: > (x>>33) is the same as (x / (1LL<<33)). I.e. _with_ your change it > becomes "file >= 8Gb", instead of the current (correct) "file >= 2Gb". OOPS. My bad. You are right. Time to hide head in sand. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and

RE: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread Rainer Mager
Mike et al, I have no idea what IKD is and I don't know what to do with any results I might find BUT I'd be happy to do this if it will help. Please pass on the info with the instructions. Who should I report the results to? --Rainer > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Galbr

RE: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread Rainer Mager
Give that man a cigarit was an env var (not LOCALE but LANG). I'd actually checked this but I didn't think that made a difference in my case. Thanks Linus, now can you fix the larger signal 11 problem? --Rainer > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Linus Torvalds > I'd guess that the pro

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-13 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 1. Boot kernel > 2. Install corbafs module for example You misspelled 'codafs' :) > 3. Start test filesystem in user space > 4. mount test user space filesystem > 5. test it, oh crap, it segfaulted. > 6. CorbaFS gets exceptions trying to communicate to server, which it

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-13 Thread Rogier Wolff
Alan Cox wrote: > > How much of that is due to the fact that the 2.4.0 scheduler interrupts > > processes more often than 2.2.x? Is the better interactivity worth the > > slight drop in performance? > > What better interactivity ;) Indeed! On my dual Celeron workstation, 2.4 looks to me as if

Re: DVD on Linux

2000-12-13 Thread Gregoire Favre
zink wrote: > The final 2.2.18 is out - I didn't see UDF option under filesystems, altough it >should > have been there - maybe we'll wait (for ages) untilfinal 2.4 is out. I haven't used 2.2 for ages, but as far as I remember, you could just use iso9660 for DVD... (Well since 2.2.n with n gr

2.4.0-test12 randomly hangs up

2000-12-13 Thread Martin Macok
Hi, after 1-3 hours with -test12 system hangs up with - no response from mouse - no response from keyboard (no sysrq, only sysrq+'b' works ...) - no response from network (ICMP, TCP) - nothing on console, nothing in logs (ie. nothing interesting or relevant to crash). System was not under

Re: National Semiconductor DP83815 ethernet driver?

2000-12-13 Thread Tjeerd Mulder
Please, don't even consider using the NSC dp83815 driver. I too received this NSC (TeamF1) driver, hacked on it, fed the modifications to NSC and this TeamF1. Some time October I received the latest and greatest version from NSC and found no trace of my changes, but some "Shaun Savage" hacked on

Swapping via NFS

2000-12-13 Thread Claus-Justus Heine
Hi, I have updated my NFS-swap patches so that they will work with 2.4.0-test[11/12]. The patches and further explanations are available from http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/nfs-swap/ Claus -- Claus-Justus Heine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.d

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Alan Cox wrote: > > Petr, the Matrox card splits the memory between the two video screens > > when running in a multi-head configuration and "pretends" that it is two > > distinct cards. Thus, a 32 mb card will register an mtrr for 24mb and > > for 8mb seperately when in this mode. > > That is a

Re: 2.4.0-test12 randomly hangs up

2000-12-13 Thread Petr Sebor
Same here... this thing started to happen right after upgrading to test12 (from test11). I am still being able to work on console for hours but when I start using X the system dies silently. No oops, keyboard inactive (can't do sysrq), and the LED on the monitor is orange, not green. This happ

Re: 2.4.0-test12 randomly hangs up

2000-12-13 Thread Martin Macok
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:01:46PM +0100, Petr Sebor wrote: > From: "Martin Macok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > after 1-3 hours with -test12 system hangs up with > > - no response from mouse > > - no response from keyboard (no sysrq, only sysrq+'b' works ...) > > - no response from network (ICMP, TC

Re: via82cxxx_audio - bad latency

2000-12-13 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Paul Jakma wrote: > hi, > > i think somethings gone wrong with via82cxxx_audio. Playing anything > through it seems to cause massive latency in apps like xmms, esd, > asmixer, etc.. anything to do with playing or mixer levels suddenly > takes a minute or more to respond. Sam

Re: 2.4.0-test12 randomly hangs up

2000-12-13 Thread Jani Monoses
Mine too did this 15 minutes ago.Just moving the mouse around in X and suddenly complete freeze.No response to ping either.Such a thing didn't happen for a long time to me.The only thing I've changed since test11 is compiling fb+fbvesa in. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: [PATCH,preliminary] cleanup shm handling

2000-12-13 Thread David Howells
>> I'm currently writing a Win32 emulation kernel module to help speed Wine up, ^ > fd = shm_open ("xxx",...) > ptr = mmap (NULL, size, ..., fd, offset); I am doing this from within kernel space. I'd like to avoid doing the full open and mmap

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

[OOPS] nfs, similar to raid5 bug reports

2000-12-13 Thread Tom Leete
Hello, This from attempting to read a nfs mounted directory. ext2 in this case, also had one with isofs over nfs. This looks suspiciously like Jasper Spaans' current report on raid5. Tom Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 003c printing eip: c01c0c32 *pde

R: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread CMA
>> From: CMA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Did you already try to selectively disable L1 and L2 caches (if >> your box has both) and see what happens? > >Anyone know how to do this? If you own a p6 class machine (sorry but I didn't find your hw specs in previous messages) you should be able to en

[SOLVED]Trident sound does not work anymore!

2000-12-13 Thread Rene Blokland
I wrote: >Hi there, as the subject says the trident sound does not work since >2.4.0-test9. this messages does dmesg: >Trident 4DWave/SiS 7018/ALi 5451 PCI Audio, version 0.14.6, 12:36:52 Nov 20 2000 >trident: Trident 4DWave DX found at IO 0xd800, IRQ 0 >trident: unable to allocate irq 0 >any idea

Re: [PATCH] (new for ppa and imm) Re: [PATCH] Re: Patch to fix lockup on

2000-12-13 Thread Tim Waugh
Is the io_request_lock-dropping patch for ppa/imm needed for 2.2.x as well, or is it just a 2.4.x thing? Tim. */ PGP signature

PROBLEM: SCSI SYM53C896 driver, kernel 2.2.17

2000-12-13 Thread Vladimir Parkhomenko
Good day. Please help me. Or tell me about how and where can I get consultation for the problem. I have small problem with my SCSI driver SYM53C896 on Linux system - kernel 2.2.17. When I copy huge file (about 1Gb, but < 1.5Gb) from one disk drive to other is error occured. Perfomance SYM53C896 i

Re: [PATCH] Bug in date converting functions DOS<=>UNIX in FAT, NCPFS and SMBFS drivers [second attempt]

2000-12-13 Thread Igor Yu. Zhbanov
Hello, sorry for slow response. (I have lost and found your first letter.) On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Urban Widmark wrote: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Igor Yu. Zhbanov wrote: > ... > > > I have found a bug in drivers of file systems which use a DOS-like format > > of date (16 bit: years since 1980 - 7 bits

Re: PROBLEM: SCSI SYM53C896 driver, kernel 2.2.17

2000-12-13 Thread Edouard Soriano
Hello: I just got working an ASUS Dual Pentium Motherboard with a dual channel SCSI controller managed by this driver. Additional information required: a) kind of SCSI interfce used: SCSI-II, SCSI-III (LVD) ? b) Make sure you do not have hardware troubles like having a 80MBs drive on the same

strange directory problem

2000-12-13 Thread Gabor Lenart
Hi, lgb@vega:~$ uname -a Linux vega 2.2.18pre24 #1 Thu Dec 7 14:08:36 CET 2000 i686 unknown I created a directory from shell (bash). The next ls didn't show it, I had to type ls second time too to get the changes. Is it a known bug? Is it fixed in 2.2.18final ? -- --[ Gábor Lénárt ]---[ Viven

Re: Possible patch for reiserfs-3.6.22 against 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-13 Thread Carlos E. Gorges
> Hiya. > > The latest reiserfs patch on ftp.namesys.com causes compilation errors > against test12 due to the task queue changes. Does this look correct? > Please, somebody can test this patch -- BOF -- diff -ur linux-bk/fs/reiserfs/journal.c linux/fs/reiserfs/journal.c --- linux-bk/fs/reiser

Re: via82cxxx_audio - bad latency

2000-12-13 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Nils Philippsen wrote: > Same here. Kernel is test12-pre8 and board is an Epox 8KTA2 (VIA KT133 > chipset). The funny thing is that audio itself doesnt get blocked, just XMMS' > GUI. > it seems to happen across the board, ie whenever sound is being played all apps that are h

Re: via82cxxx_audio - bad latency

2000-12-13 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Nils Philippsen wrote: > Same here. Kernel is test12-pre8 and board is an Epox 8KTA2 (VIA KT133 > chipset). The funny thing is that audio itself doesnt get blocked, just XMMS' > GUI. same for me, the audio plays fine, but xmms is completely unresponsive, as is the gnome mixe

Re: [PATCH,preliminary] cleanup shm handling

2000-12-13 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi David, On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, David Howells wrote: >>> I'm currently writing a Win32 emulation kernel module to help >>> speed Wine up, >^ >> fd = shm_open ("xxx",...) >> ptr = mmap (NULL, size, ..., fd, offset); > > I am doing this from w

IDE hang when using v4l (bttv) on all kernels.

2000-12-13 Thread Dan Merillat
I've had this problem for a while now, reported it back in 2.3.x somewhere. I havn't needed v4l so I ignored it. Playing with my bttv again and having a lot of trouble After some (random) amount of frame grabs, my system loses. Badly. ethernet quits forwarding, IDE refuses to respond... All I

Re: Dropping chars on 16550

2000-12-13 Thread Chad Schwartz
> > Heh...do what I did. Go on eBay and pick up a Hayes ESP card. > > Hmm.. High speed comm is fine here, as long is I use handshaking. If I > don't, I'll loose chars. there are many situations in which a 16550 is KNOWN to be overrunable, all of which can occur in your common PPP connection. Mo

Re: USB mass storage backport status?

2000-12-13 Thread Alan Cox
> Okay, this must have changed somewhat recently. When last I spoke to Alan > Cox (the maintainer of the 2.2.x code), I told him (and he agreed) that > this code should be marked EXPERIMENTAL. If it's not marked thus in > 2.2.18pre21, then it's an error and should be corrected ASAP. It is marke

Re: [PATCH] setup.c notsc Re: Microsecond accuracy

2000-12-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
> > The present situation is inconsistent: "notsc" removes cpuinfo's > "tsc" flag in the UP case (when cpu_data[0] is boot_cpu_data), but > not in the SMP case. I don't believe HPA's recent mods affected that > behaviour, but it is made consistent (cleared in SMP case too) by the > patch I sent

Re: D-LINK DFE-530-TX

2000-12-13 Thread Alan Cox
> > > Becker's site http://www.scyld.com/network. > > 2.4.x-test has some fixes for via-rhine which don't appear to have made > > it into the Becker driver yet... > > Is either of these likely to make it into the stock 2.2 via-rhine? If someone ports them over for an earlyish 2.2.19pre - To unsu

ramdisk on P3 vs Celeron failure!

2000-12-13 Thread Jeff Chua
Boot up using: Loadlin-1.6a Win98 ramdisk_size=18000 initrd=ram.gz (this is the gzip'ed root filesystem) Kernel 2.2.x (up to 2.2.18) - on P3 and Celeron ram.gz must be <3862544 bytes Kernel 2.4.x (up to 2.4.0-test12) - on Celeron ram.gz must be

test12 oops with NF+ping -s 1500

2000-12-13 Thread Devik
Hello, I just tried to narrow problem with DFE530 card and found another (rather fatal) bug in 2.4.0-test12. I attached both my config and ksymoops output. It seems that ip_defrag is called with skb where skb->dev is NULL. It then crashes in ip_queue_frag. I can trigger it regulary by ping -s 150

RE: Possible patch for reiserfs-3.6.22 against 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-13 Thread Jorge Boncompte \(DTI2\)
Hi Carlos! I have this oops with your patch. applied to clean 2.4.0test12+reiserfs 3.6.22 reiserfs is compiled as module. I can mount the partition but after 4 o 5 seconds kupdate oops, dies and I have to reboot becauser I can no longer write to any disk. The system didn't crashed I

Re: strange directory problem

2000-12-13 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:13:51PM +0100, Gabor Lenart wrote: > Hi, > > lgb@vega:~$ uname -a > Linux vega 2.2.18pre24 #1 Thu Dec 7 14:08:36 CET 2000 i686 unknown > > I created a directory from shell (bash). The next ls didn't show it, > I had to type ls second time too to get the changes. Is it

RE: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Rainer Mager wrote: > Mike et al, > > I have no idea what IKD is and I don't know what to do with any results I > might find BUT I'd be happy to do this if it will help. Please pass on the > info with the instructions. Who should I report the results to? IKD is a debu

[PATCH] cs89x0 is not only an ISA card

2000-12-13 Thread Erik Mouw
Hi, The Crystal CS89x0 ethernet chip is also used in quite some embedded systems that don't have an ISA bus at all, so the CONFIG_ISA option in drivers/net/Config.in is inapropriate. Here is a patch against 2.4.0-test12 to fix that. Please consider applying. Erik Index: drivers/net/Config.in

Re: 2.4.0-test12 unresolved SCSI symbols

2000-12-13 Thread mkloppstech
> Someone else mentioned the problem in a different context, so > this report isn't exactly new... LOTS of unresolved symbols in > several SCSI modules. Here's the list for "st.o": > Other modules I'm personally having problems with are "sg.o" and > "sr_mod.o". I'll have a look and see if ther

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18 ext2 large file bug?

2000-12-13 Thread Alan Cox
Umm ignore that my brain is backwards. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18 ext2 large file bug?

2000-12-13 Thread Alan Cox
> also needs to be fixed in 2.2. Basically, we are checking for an ext2 > large file, which would be a file > 2GB on systems that don't support > such. However, we are checking for a file > 8GB which is clearly wrong. > The ext3 version of the patch is also attached. Umm.. x>>33 is ch

Re: Pthreads, linux, gdb, oh my!

2000-12-13 Thread Mark Kettenis
Peter Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The zombie problem is a kernel bug. AFAIK there is no kernel that > > > doesn't have this bug. Unfortunately getting the bugfix in isn't very > > > easy. I'll try poking Linus again when I can find the time. > > *sob* > > Alan Cox says it is a g

Re: Pthreads, linux, gdb, oh my!

2000-12-13 Thread Alan Cox
> I'm not sure how to fix this problem. I would say that the attached > patch (against Linux 2.2.18) should fix things, but I'm not entirely > confident that it doesn't open a security hole. Oh, and I didn't test > this exact patch, I just tested something similar some time ago. I'll take a loo

2.2.18+ide-patch: can not access disks on PDC20267

2000-12-13 Thread Edgar Weckert
Hi, I patched a clean 2.2.18 kernel with the ide.2.2.18.1209.patch. The kernel recognise the controllers and the disks. But is not able read the partition table etc. Access to theses disks is not possiblei (Error: Unable to open /dev/hda). Output of dmesg, lspci -vv and the kernel build conf

Re: Serial cardbus code.... for testing, please.....

2000-12-13 Thread tytso
OK, so I'm currently at the road (San Diego IETF meeting) so I can't really test this very well; when your compile engine is your Vaio laptop, it's really slow and painful to do test builds and test booting kernels. But I know some people are eager to test it, and would rather have something

Problems with NAT

2000-12-13 Thread Marian Jancar
There is a problem with nat in at least 2.2.16 and 2.2.18. If you specify routing first and nat second, ip route add nat x.x.x.x via y.y.y.y ip rule add from y.y.y.y nat x.x.x.x the rule doesnt have an effect, ping to x.x.x.x says it got response from y.y.y.y. With turned order of commands, ip

Re: via82cxxx_audio - bad latency

2000-12-13 Thread John O'Donnell
Paul Jakma wrote: > hi, > > i think somethings gone wrong with via82cxxx_audio. Playing anything > through it seems to cause massive latency in apps like xmms, esd, > asmixer, etc.. anything to do with playing or mixer levels suddenly > takes a minute or more to respond. > > It didn't always do

Re: [PATCH,preliminary] cleanup shm handling

2000-12-13 Thread David Howells
then you can find it at: ftp://infradead.org/pub/people/dwh/wineservmod-20001213.tar.bz2 It will hopefully be in CVS on winehq soon as well. Look at the files called wineservmod/section* these implement the setting up of VMAs in the current processes address space (though don't actua

Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:17:41PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jeff V. Merkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:22:55AM +0900, Rainer Mager wrote: > >>I have a tiny bash script that launches a Java swing app. If I run my > >> script f

Kernel 2.4.0-test12 crash

2000-12-13 Thread Rainer Wiener
Hi, after 4 h the new kernel crash with the this output: Dec 13 17:35:05 localhost kernel: printing eip: Dec 13 17:35:05 localhost kernel: c012812e Dec 13 17:35:05 localhost kernel: Oops: Dec 13 17:35:05 localhost kernel: CPU:0 Dec 13 17:35:05 localhost kernel: EIP:0010:[page_laund

2.4.0-test12 unresolved symbols in ide-scsi.o

2000-12-13 Thread Samuli Kaski
I didn't change my config and things work with test11. Sorry for the noise if I have missed some announcement about ide-scsi. /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.o: unresolved symbol scsi_unregister_module /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.o: unresolved sy

linux 2.2.18 inconsistencies/problems (minor)

2000-12-13 Thread M Sweger
Hello all/alan, I've got linux 2.2.18 (the latest) compiled and running on a Dell 333mhz optiplex GX1. It was compiled using egcs v1.1.2 with libc6 v2.0.7. Now that USB support is being added, I'm trying to get it working on this UMSDOS kernel version. Here is a list of the pro

test: i've not received any messages for several days

2000-12-13 Thread Ron Flory
test - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH,preliminary] cleanup shm handling

2000-12-13 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi David, On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, David Howells wrote: > Looks interesting. > > There looks to be a logical mapping between CreateFileMapping() + > MEM_SHARED and your shmem_file_setup(), as long as anonymously named > sections are catered for (not difficult). Yup. > There also looks to be a logi

Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Lookin gat "swapoff()", it could easily be something like > > - swapoff walks theough the processes, marking the pages dirty >(correctly) > - swapoff goes on to the next swap entry, and because it needs memory for >this, the VM layer wil

Re: [PATCH,preliminary] cleanup shm handling

2000-12-13 Thread David Howells
> If you want to change the vma ops table you can replace the f_ops > table with your own one. SYSV ipc uses this also to be able to catch > unmaps. I'd thought of that, but that means I need to concoct an f_ops table of my own for every f_ops table I might have to override. All I want to do is

[PATCH] shm cleanup (2)

2000-12-13 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi all, Here is my latest patch. It survived ten hours stress testing on my 8way/870MB without oops. (The highmem stuff is too much io/kmap limited and I will come back to this if we have the mm cleanup ready :-( ) It apparently has some race condition left since I had some undead swap entries a

insmod problem after modutils upgrading

2000-12-13 Thread Corisen
i've upgraded modutils from 2.3.14 (originally installed by RH7,kernel 2.2.16) to 2.3.22 using "rpm -Fvh modultils2.3.22-1.i386.rpm*" as required by the kernel 2.4test12 compilation. after upgrading, the network module refused to load anymore (was working fine with insmod 2.3.14) with kernel 2.2.1

Re: DVD on Linux

2000-12-13 Thread Matthew D. Pitts
- Original Message - From: Gregoire Favre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 4:49 AM Subject: Re: DVD on Linux > zink wrote: > > > The final 2.2.18 is out - I didn't see UDF option under filesystems, altough it should > > have been there - ma

CML2-0.9.0 is now available

2000-12-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/kbuild/ Release 0.9.0: Wed Dec 13 01:30:21 EST 2000 * Now uses Python 2.0 (this cuts down the code size significantly). * Synchronized with 2.4.0-test12. Using Python 2.0 rather than 1.5.2 lets me cut close to 6

Re: linux 2.2.18 inconsistencies/problems (minor)

2000-12-13 Thread Alan Cox
> A). Problem with the "%d" in usb-serial. Note: I don't have > any devices connected to any USB port, but the controllers Real bug - thanks. I'll squash that in 19pre1 > B). Need to update the devices.txt document in the Documentation > sub-directory. I checked the maintainers site and

kernel 2.2.17 vgaconsole patch

2000-12-13 Thread Damien BENOIST
I had already mailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but got no answer, so i remail as described in the "How to Get Your Change Into the Linux Kernel or The Unofficial Linus HOWTO" Please give me some feed back ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thanks. kernel: 2.2.17 pb: // 0 does not work with ega/vga adapter and mono

Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Lookin gat "swapoff()", it could easily be something like > > > > - swapoff walks theough the processes, marking the pages dirty > >(correctly) > > - swapoff goes on to the next swap entry, and

Re: D-LINK DFE-530-TX

2000-12-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Simon Huggins wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:56:15AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Peter Horton wrote: > > > If the PCI device ID is 3065 then it's via-rhine, but not supported > > > by the driver in the kernel. Get updated via-rhine from Donald > > > Becker's site http://www.scyld.com/networ

TCP Filter

2000-12-13 Thread khaled
Hello Linux World, I need to insert a TCP or socket filter that intercepts incoming user-supplied buffers and do some processing on its contents if it matches some criterion in the sender. The receiver should do similarly in the reverse order on the other end of the connection. I read the Linux

2.4.0-test12: request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted

2000-12-13 Thread Andy Kellner
Title: 2.4.0-test12: request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted Hello, I get the following error during boot with 2.4.0-test12: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted SCSI, SCSI disc and SCSI generic support compiled in. SCS

Re: Networking: RFC1122 and 1123 status for kernel 2.4

2000-12-13 Thread Fabien Ribes
"David S. Miller" a écrit : > >Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 16:58:55 +0100 >From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 07:28:15AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: >> I agree, I'll kill it unless you want to commit to this work >> Andi. :-) > >Kill it ;) > > D

Re: Networking: RFC1122 and 1123 status for kernel 2.4

2000-12-13 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:14:24 +0100 From: Fabien Ribes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I may get some time to work on this topic, but what do you mean by kill it ? It means removing all of the "RFC1122 Status" comments from net/ipv4/*.c Is it the removal of RFC 1122 evaluation in modules'

Adding a new SCSI driver in 2.4.x

2000-12-13 Thread Boerner, Brian
I'm trying to add a new scsi driver to the 2.4.x code stream. I've added the driver into: arch/i386/defconfig drivers/scsi/Config.in drivers/scsi/Makefile In 2.2 you also had to add it under hosts.c, but that doesn't appear to be the case any longer. I ran: make clean; make mrproper; then I ran

Re: 2.4.0-test12 unresolved symbols in ide-scsi.o

2000-12-13 Thread Tracy Stenvik
Well, it's not just limited to ide-scsi... # depmod -ae depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.o depmod: scsi_command_size depmod: scsi_unregister_module depmod: scsi_register depmod: scsi_register_module depmod:

test1[12] + sparc + bind 9.1.0b1 == bad things

2000-12-13 Thread Pete Toscano
hello, i'm tried using the first beta release of bind 9.1.0 on an ultra 5 running 2.4.0-test11 or test12 (modified redhat 6.2 distro -- mostly ipv6-related mods). as soon as i start up named, the machine goes nuts and continuously prints the following oops (from test12): \|/

[patch] 2.4.0-test12:

2000-12-13 Thread Tim Waugh
Linus, Here is a patch from Armin Kuster which adds inline documentation to some macros. Tim. */ 2000-12-13 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * include/linux/init.h, include/linux/module.h: Inline documentation for some macros. Patch from Armin Kuster. --- linux-2.4.0-test12/in

Re: linux 2.2.18 inconsistencies/problems (minor)

2000-12-13 Thread Michael Rothwell
Alan Cox wrote: > Real bug - thanks. I'll squash that in 19pre1 When will you be starting 19pre1? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Not in my test tree. Same fault, and same trace leading up to it. no Ok. It definitely looks like a swapoff() problem. Have you ever seen the behaviour without running swapoff? Also, can you re-create it without running swapon() (if it's somet

Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ehh, I think I found it. Hint: "ptep_mkdirty()". Oops. I'll bet you $5 USD (and these days, that's about a gadzillion Euros) that this explains it. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] P

Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-13 Thread alex
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:47:35PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Basically if the setting of > > * "hdx=flash" : allows for more than one ata_flash disk to be > * registered. In most cases, only one device > * will be prese

linux ipv6 questions. bugs?

2000-12-13 Thread Pete Toscano
i'm using test12 with ipv6 enabled. i'm seeing something strange, but i can't tell if it's a linux or openbsd bug. i have two boxes, one's running 2.4.0-test12 and the other's running openbsd 2.8 (the same problem was seen with this machine using 2.7 too). they are on a little ipv6 network, with

parport1 gone in 2.2.18

2000-12-13 Thread Peter Bornemann
I have a second parport installed as a PCI-card. In earlier Linux-versions this would lock the machine completely if parport & Co where compiled as modules (2.2.16 and 2.2.17). Compiled into the kernel however, everything worked fine. I wrote about that to LK, but no solution was found. Now in 2

Re: [Solved]IDE_TAPE problem with ONSTREAM DI30

2000-12-13 Thread Eckhard Jokisch
On Mon, 04 Dez 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > If you want a really helpful advice: > Use the osst driver and the use it with ide-scsi. > Report problems to the osst mailing list. > So far, I'm not aware of anybody we failed to help. > http://linux1.onstream.nl/test/ This was really really helpful

Re: 2.4.0-test12 unresolved symbols in ide-scsi.o

2000-12-13 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Tracy, All scsi modules built with lk 2.4.0-test12 are broken due to scsi_sym.o being moved in drivers/scsi/Makefile . This patch against test12 from Bob Tracy worked for me. Doug Gilbert --- linux/drivers/scsi/Makefile Tue Dec 12 10:49:32 2000 +++ linux/drivers/scsi/Makefile.t12bt Tue Dec 1

Re: [me to]2.4.0-test12 randomly hangs up

2000-12-13 Thread Eckhard Jokisch
On Mit, 13 Dez 2000, Jani Monoses wrote: > Mine too did this 15 minutes ago.Just moving the mouse around in X and > suddenly complete freeze.No response to ping either.Such a thing didn't > happen for a long time to me.The only thing I've changed since test11 is > compiling fb+fbvesa in. I made

Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-13 Thread Tim Riker
Andre, What are the "laptops that have CFA devices that do not come on channels in a pair" systems you refer to? This patch fixes the iopener and other systems here at Lineo that have 2nd drive flash. The only other way we have been booting these is with "hdb=noprobe" which just disables the 2nd

Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Hint: "ptep_mkdirty()". In case you wonder why the bug was so insidious, what this caused was two separate problems, both of them able to cause SIGSGV's. One: we didn't mark the page table entry dirty like we were supposed to. Two: by making it

Re: [PATCH] Bug in date converting functions DOS<=>UNIX in FAT,NCPFS and SMBFS drivers [second attempt]

2000-12-13 Thread Urban Widmark
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Igor Yu. Zhbanov wrote: > I think your testprogram is broken (or else my testprogram is broken :). Yes, you were right. Mine must have been broken (possibly caused by trying to make it readable :). Thanks. Alan, if you still have the patch please apply it to smbfs in 2.2 (a

Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-13 Thread alex
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:20:02PM -0700, Tim Riker wrote: > Andre, > > What are the "laptops that have CFA devices that do not come on channels > in a pair" systems you refer to? I assume he's referring to flash devices which show up as an IDE bus with only a master and no slave, and don't hand

Re: linux ipv6 questions. bugs?

2000-12-13 Thread kuznet
Hello! > 0. whenever i ping6 the loopback interface (::1/128), all echo requests > seem to be dropped and i get no echo replies. is this correct? Your guess? 8) Of course, it is incorrect. I even have no idea how it is possible to put system into such sad state. Though... probably, you forgot

Slow NFS mounting with 2.2.18

2000-12-13 Thread Christian Ullrich
Hello! After changing kernels from 2.2.17 to 2.2.18 I found that NFS mounts now take ages. (Well, 15 seconds.) With 2.2.17, they went through in about half a second. Once the mount is done, all operations seem to run with the usual speed. The client is vanilla 2.2.18, the server is vanilla 2.2.1

Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:35:57AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Ehh, I think I found it. > > Hint: "ptep_mkdirty()". > > Oops. > > I'll bet you $5 USD (and these days, that's about a gadzillion Euros) that > this explains it. > > Linus Good. Sounds like you guys have a

[hch@caldera.de: [PATCH] fix 2.4.0-test12 scsi makefile]

2000-12-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
- Forwarded message from Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:52:21 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PATCH] fix 2.4.0-test12 scsi makefile X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Hi Linus, this patch makes scsi u

Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-13 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Ehh, I think I found it. > > Hint: "ptep_mkdirty()". > > Oops. > > I'll bet you $5 USD (and these days, that's about a gadzillion Euros) that Poor European Gérard as slim as 1.84 meter - 78 Kg these days. What about old days poor European L

Re: insmod problem after modutils upgrading

2000-12-13 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Corisen schrieb am Donnerstag, 14.12.2000: > executing "insmod 8139too" at the command prompt shows the following error > message: > using /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o > /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o: symbol for > parameter debug not found. >

Re: insmod problem after modutils upgrading

2000-12-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Christian Ullrich wrote: > > * Corisen schrieb am Donnerstag, 14.12.2000: > > > executing "insmod 8139too" at the command prompt shows the following error > > message: > > using /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o > > /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o: sym

Re: insmod problem after modutils upgrading

2000-12-13 Thread Alan Cox
> > how can i make insmod load the network module again pls? > > I "fixed" the same problem in 2.2.18 by commenting out the line > > MODULE_PARM (debug, "i"); > > near the end of drivers/net/8139too.c. Since I run modutils 2.3.22 > as well, it can't be related to the modutils. It is modutils.

Re: insmod problem after modutils upgrading

2000-12-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: > > > > how can i make insmod load the network module again pls? > > > > I "fixed" the same problem in 2.2.18 by commenting out the line > > > > MODULE_PARM (debug, "i"); > > > > near the end of drivers/net/8139too.c. Since I run modutils 2.3.22 > > as well, it can't be related to

Re: test1[12] + sparc + bind 9.1.0b1 == bad things

2000-12-13 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:17:15 -0500 From: Pete Toscano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> i'm tried using the first beta release of bind 9.1.0 on an ultra 5 running 2.4.0-test11 or test12 (modified redhat 6.2 distro -- mostly ipv6-related mods). as soon as i start up named, the machine

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