EEpro100 bug in 2.2.18

2001-02-14 Thread Andriy Korud
Hello all, My setup is Intel 440GX MB with intergrated EEPro100. When using Linux 2.2.18 the following happen: after reboot, I got: eepro100: cmd_wait for (0xff90) timedout with (0xff90)! and NIC is dead. After power cycle, first boot works fine and all following boots (without power

Yamaha sound card - what driver?

2001-02-14 Thread Catalin BOIE
Hi, guys! I have a PCI sound card Yamaha. Can somebody tells me with what driver I can use it? 02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-724F [DS-1 Audio Controller] (rev 03) Subsystem: Yamaha Corporation DS-XG PCI Audio CODEC Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+

Re: Yamaha sound card - what driver?

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Catalin BOIE wrote: 02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-724F [DS-1 Audio Controller] (rev 03) ymf_pci 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2445 (rev 02) i810_audio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Stale NFS handles on 2.4.1

2001-02-14 Thread Rogier Wolff
Alan Cox wrote: The NFS clients are getting "Stale NFS handle" messages every once in a while which will make a "touch somefile.o" fail. If they have the previous .o handle cached and it was removed on another client thats quite reasonable behaviour. NFS isnt coherent As reported

Re: [patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-14 Thread James Sutherland
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: Here's a patch that fixes a bug that can cause PCI driver list corruption. If parport_pc's init_module fails after it calls pci_register_driver, cleanup_module isn't called and so it's still registered when

Re: [patch-2.4.1-ac10] unsetting TASK_RUNNING

2001-02-14 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, John Levon wrote: I had a similar set of patches a while ago. I had several more unnecessary settings. At least Matthew Dharm as usb-storage maintainer wanted to keep his in. Of more concern IMHO were the drivers busy waiting by failing to reset current-state on each

*grin* Windows 2000 HPC: Scalable, Inexpensive Supercomputing Solutions

2001-02-14 Thread David Howells
How this for a laugh: http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/hpc/indstand.asp David - 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

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Kai Henningsen] There *is* a good way to do this, and it would be really nice if vger could be taught to do it: add a List-Id: header (draft-chandhok-listid-04.txt RFC-to-be, implemented in lots of mailing list managers already). [Eli Carter] Have you looked at the headers in an LK

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-14 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:11:25AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Eli Carter] Have you looked at the headers in an LK email? Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ Should provide that List-Id you want. You missed the point. Certainly

Re: On Unreliable Locking Guide bug ?

2001-02-14 Thread Rusty Russell
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Hi Paul, I am reviewing your "Unreliable Locking Guide" from linux 2.4 and just wonder about the section on "Avoiding Locks: Read and Write". The two lines of code new-next = i- next; i-next = new; Hi John, Yes, there is of course a

Re: /dev/rtc not working on ASUS A7V133

2001-02-14 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Jan Niehusmann wrote: But I have a correction: The problem does not only occurr if the system was started automatically by the bios, a manual 'soft off/soft on' sequence shows the same effect. Only 'hard off/hard on' (using the switch directly on the power supply) seems to work every time.

[PATCH] sbpcd oops on merged requests

2001-02-14 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Two fixes here - 1st is to make the new max_drives its own separate module parameter since the driver uses the existing sbpcd module parameter internally for more than just module parameters sigh. 2nd is more important - if you read more than 4 blocks from the device, you will get a random

NFSD die with 2.4.1 (resend with ksymoops)

2001-02-14 Thread Jean-Eric Cuendet
Hi all, I have a machine with kernel 2.4.1 + acls patch. It exports some volume via NFS (installed with RedHat 7.0 + custom 2.4.1 kernel). The underlying filesystem is ext2. I tried with NFS v2 and v3 and without ACLs in the kernel. results are the same. The problem is that NFSD dies

Re: Linux-kernel traffic statistics

2001-02-14 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:50:11AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: Matti Aarnio wrote: That X-Mailing-List: is actually a LOOP detection measure. http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9 Hi Matti, May I ask you some statistics? How many people are on lkml? 3027 subscribers

Re: [patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-14 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 02:03:07AM -0600, Jeff Garzik wrote: If pci_register_driver returns 0, the driver is not registered with the system. Thanks. Okay, second try: 2001-01-14 Tim Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] * parport_pc.c: Fix PCI driver list corruption on unsuccessful

Problem: NIC doesn't work anymore, SIOCIFADDR-errors

2001-02-14 Thread Jonathan Brugge
I've got a problem with my network. I can't get the card running, though it worked perfectly before. Below what happens and the errors I get: --- odysseus:/# ifconfig // No active devices found. odysseus:/# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr

Re: [patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-14 Thread Andrew Morton
Jeff Garzik wrote: Bad patch. It should be if (r = 0) { registered_parport = 1; if (r 0) count += r; } If pci_register_driver returns 0, the driver is not registered with the system. eh?

Re: [patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 02:03:07AM -0600, Jeff Garzik wrote: If pci_register_driver returns 0, the driver is not registered with the system. Thanks. Okay, second try: 2001-01-14 Tim Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] * parport_pc.c: Fix PCI

Re: [patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Bad patch. It should be if (r = 0) { registered_parport = 1; if (r 0) count += r; } If pci_register_driver returns 0, the driver is not

Re: [patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-14 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:21:38PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: Now, if there were some actual COMMENTS (scary, I know) in the pci code which described the API, stuff like this wouldn't happen. Oh yeah, that reminds me: if someone would like to make sure that the following changes are

Re: [patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-14 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 05:14:19AM -0600, Jeff Garzik wrote: Should the call to pci_unregister_driver in cleanup_module be conditional on registered_parport as well? I didn't check... No. (cleanup_module is only called if init_module succeeded.) Also, is it possible to convert parport_pc

Re: EEpro100 bug in 2.2.18

2001-02-14 Thread CaT
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:19:20AM +0200, Andriy Korud wrote: Hello all, My setup is Intel 440GX MB with intergrated EEPro100. When using Linux 2.2.18 the following happen: after reboot, I got: eepro100: cmd_wait for (0xff90) timedout with (0xff90)! I reported the same hassle a

Re: [patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-14 Thread Philipp Rumpf
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: + * pci_find_subsys - begin or continue searching for a PCI device by vendor/subvendor/device/subdevice id + * @vendor: PCI vendor id to match, or %PCI_ANY_ID to match all vendor ids + * @device: PCI device id to match, or %PCI_ANY_ID to match all vendor

Re: [patch] 2.4.1, 2.4.2-pre3: APIC lockups

2001-02-14 Thread Andrew Morton
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: Hi, After performing various tests I came to the following workaround for APIC lockups which people observe under IRQ load, mostly for networking stuff. Works fine on the dual-PII. No "Aieee!!!" messages at all. After sending a few gigs across the ethernet,

Re: Bug in 2.4.x??

2001-02-14 Thread Eugene Danilchenko
Hello the same behavior I have : [root@localhost eugene]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.1 #1 ðÎÄ æÅ× 12 23:19:20 /etc/localtime 2001 i686 unknown [root@localhost eugene]# hdparm -i /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Model=ST38410A, FwRev=3.32, SerialNo=7EG23EXT Config={ HardSect NotMFM

2.4.1-ac12 compile failure on sparc64

2001-02-14 Thread ASN Stevens, Computing Service
Hi - I am having compilation troubles on my sparc64 workstation (standard Ultra 5 machine), which is currently running stock 2.4.1 on Red Hat 6.2 quite happily. I have tried upgrading to -ac10 and now -ac12, but both fail during compilation (using gcc-2.91.66-sparc) at the same point, in what

Re: [patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-14 Thread Philipp Rumpf
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: +/** + * pci_find_capability - query for devices' capabilities + * @dev: PCI device to query + * @cap: capability code + * + * Tell if a device supports a given PCI capability. + * Returns the address of

Re: setting cpu speed on crusoe

2001-02-14 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're going through our docs and we have internal programs that we'll release for this so that you'll not just have docs but actually working code too. It just needs to be cleaned up a bit, and go through the proper channels (ever wonder why open

[PATCH] network driver updates

2001-02-14 Thread Manfred Spraul
I found 2 bugs in several network drivers: * dev-mem_start: NULL means "not command line configuration" 0x means "default". several drivers only check for NULL, not for 0x. * incorrect bounds checks for phy_idx: 2 entries in the structure, but up to 4 are initialized. *

Re: [PATCH] network driver updates

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: * dev-mem_start: NULL means "not command line configuration" 0x means "default". several drivers only check for NULL, not for 0x. netdev-mem_start is unsigned long... Should the test be for ~0 instead? The value 0x seems wrong

Re: [PATCH] network driver updates

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: * something is wrong in the vortex initialization: I don't have such a card, but the driver didn't return an error message on insmod. I'm not sure if my fix is correct. @@ -2661,9 +2661,12 @@ rc = pci_module_init(vortex_driver);

Re: [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug

2001-02-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: Alan Cox wrote: Ok we need to handle that case a bit more intelligently so those flushes dont get into other ports code paths. Possibly at fs/buffer.c:end_buffer_io_async? We need to flush the cache when I/O was READ or READA. Yet another

Re: Driver for Casio Cassiopia Fiva touchscreen, help with conversion

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
is a rather Bad Hack (seeing as it was built rather blindly to mimic the behaviour of the Windows driver, and has IRQ/port hardcoded in), but it works for me with the 2.2.16 kernel. Thats pretty much how we did the pc110 pad driver too. The device outputs 5 byte packets - 1 status byte, 2

Re: 2.4.1-ac12 compile failure on sparc64

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
I have tried upgrading to -ac10 and now -ac12, but both fail during compilation (using gcc-2.91.66-sparc) at the same point, in what appears to be the sparc32 syscall conversion code: The -ac tree doesnt currently support sparc because nobody has written the 32/64bit converts for the new

Re: dropcopyright script

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: Jeff Garzik writes: On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Russell King wrote: Rick Hohensee writes: ... ## drop copyright notices to the bottoms of C files in current dir and #

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-14 Thread David Balazic
Michael E Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) worte : On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: I have one additional user space only idea: have you tried raw-io? bind a raw device to the partition, IIRC raw-io is always in 512 byte units. That has been tried. No, it does not work. :-)

Re: dropcopyright script

2001-02-14 Thread Richard Gooch
Jeff Garzik writes: On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Russell King wrote: Rick Hohensee writes: ... ## drop copyright notices to the bottoms of C files in current dir and # subs. Please don't run this on any files

Re: dropcopyright script

2001-02-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick Hohensee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... ## drop copyright notices to the bottoms of C files in current dir and # subs. Why would anyone want to do this? Wichert. --

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
There was not a bug in the driver. The bug was/is in the protocol handling code. The protocol handling code *must* be able to handle unaligned IP headers. It does. It does so on IA64 now as well. The only architecture which has troubles with alignment on IP frames now is ARM2 - To

Re: [patch] 2.4.1, 2.4.2-pre3: APIC lockups

2001-02-14 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: Tell me, please: what tradeoffs are involved in this patch? Obviously it works around a pretty fatal problem, but what are we giving away? The change decreases performance a bit. For well-behaved systems the loss is fifteen instructions: a local

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: There was not a bug in the driver. The bug was/is in the protocol handling code. The protocol handling code *must* be able to handle unaligned IP headers. It does. It does so on IA64 now as well. The only architecture which has troubles with

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device

2001-02-14 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: It does. It does so on IA64 now as well. The only architecture which has troubles with alignment on IP frames now is ARM2 So the IA64-specific PKT_CAN_COPY code in starfire can go away completely? Jes, can you

File IO performance

2001-02-14 Thread
I have been performing some IO tests under Linux on SCSI disks. I noticed gaps between the commands and decided to investigate. I am new to the kernel and do not profess to underatand what actually happens. My observations suggest that the file structured part of the io consists of the

Re: Driver for Casio Cassiopia Fiva touchscreen, help with conversion

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
This is getting off-topic, but I was wondering - does the pc110 pad driver still work? I seem to recall trying it around 2.2.9 or so, and eventually It worked last time I check with 2.4test something. I dont boot the little box very often now , its just too slow. And while we're on the

[PATCH] vmalloc fault race

2001-02-14 Thread Mark Hemment
Hi, If two processes, sharing the same page tables, hit an unloaded vmalloc address in the kernel at the same time, one of the processes is killed (with the message "Unable to handle kernel paging request"). This occurs because the test on a vmalloc fault is too tight. On x86, it contains;

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
The way I understand it, IA64 and Alpha cope with it, but at the expense of taking an exception for each packet -- so it's not worth it. You want to copy_checksum the frame on these platforms, or better yet use a decent network card that can start the frame on odd word alignment. You need

Parallel Printer in 2.4.0

2001-02-14 Thread Allen Barnett
This code worked OK in kernel 2.2 for talking to an HP printer connected to a parallel port: -- #include sys/types.h #include sys/stat.h #include fcntl.h #include unistd.h #define UEL "\033%%-12345X" #define COMMAND1 "@PJL INFO CONFIG\r\n"

Re: Parallel Printer in 2.4.0

2001-02-14 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:15:55AM -0500, Allen Barnett wrote: Is this a bug or is there a new (or better) procedure for reading data through the lp device in 2.4? Bug, I think. Tim. */ PGP signature

Re: dropcopyright script

2001-02-14 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
What prompted this? People are going to want copyright notices in a prominent place. Namely at the beginning of the code along with whatever instructions and cruft. Rick Hohensee wrote: ... ## drop copyright notices to the

Re: [PATCH] network driver updates

2001-02-14 Thread Andrew Morton
Manfred Spraul wrote: I found 2 bugs in several network drivers: * dev-mem_start: NULL means "not command line configuration" 0x means "default". several drivers only check for NULL, not for 0x. I think that's worth another "ewww...", don't you? * something is wrong in

Re: Stale super_blocks in 2.2

2001-02-14 Thread Phil Auld
Alan Cox wrote: That can be a problem for fiber channel devices. I saw some issues with invalidate_buffers and page caching discussed in 2.4 space. Any reasons come to mind why I shouldn't call invalidate on the the way down instead (or in addition)? The I/O completed a few seconds

RE: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-14 Thread Matt_Domsch
I have one additional user space only idea: have you tried raw-io? bind a raw device to the partition, IIRC raw-io is always in 512 byte units. Steven Tweedie responded to my question about that: Raw IO is subject to the same limits as other IO, because ultimately it uses the same route

Re: Stale super_blocks in 2.2

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
I can make the changes needed. I was really curious if you, or anyone else, thought there might be page caching issues involved with invalidating on the way down. 2.4 already addresses this. With 2.2 or 2.4 you can force buffer flushes from userspace too - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: *grin* Windows 2000 HPC: Scalable, InexpensiveSupercomputing Solutions

2001-02-14 Thread Jonathan Morton
At 9:10 am + 14/2/2001, David Howells wrote: How this for a laugh: http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/hpc/indstand.asp Can anybody say "Beowulf cluster"? I bet you need a W2K license for every box you hook up, too. -- from:

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device

2001-02-14 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: The way I understand it, IA64 and Alpha cope with it, but at the expense of taking an exception for each packet -- so it's not worth it. You want to copy_checksum the frame on these platforms, That's what we're doing... or better yet use a decent

Re: [LK] Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-14 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I haven't complained about any of this on the list until now, because I know I'm in the minority and I don't expect most people to care about my problems. But it bothered me seeing the criticism Mike Harrold has gotten for his request. Not everyone has problems

[patchlet] cramfs incompatible with initrd..

2001-02-14 Thread Mike Galbraith
(If the initrd is other than PAGE_CACHE_SIZE blocksize) Hi, I found that merely having cramfs configured into the kernel precludes mounting a ramdisk root after cramfs_read_super() has been called. The problem is that cramfs changes the blocksize of the ramdisk to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE after we've

Re: LDT allocated for cloned task!

2001-02-14 Thread Ville Herva
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:48:23AM -0800, you [Simon Kirby] claimed: On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:22:26PM +, Alan Cox wrote: LDT allocated for cloned task! I'm seeing this message come up fairly often while running vanilla 2.4.2-pre3 on my dual Celeron system. I don't think I

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-14 Thread Michael E Brown
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, David Balazic wrote: Michael E Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) worte : That has been tried. No, it does not work. :-) Using Scsi-Generic is the only way so far found, but of course, it only works on SCSI drives. Did you try scsi-emulation on IDE disks ? I think that

Re: LDT allocated for cloned task!

2001-02-14 Thread Gábor Lénárt
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 04:06:49PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote: I think I've found what's doing it...xmms with the avi-xmms plugin will cause the message to appear at startup even without playing anything. Moving the libraries out of the /usr/lib/xmms/Input directory and starting xmms again

Re: LDT allocated for cloned task!

2001-02-14 Thread Ville Herva
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:12:29PM +0100, you [Gbor Lnrt] claimed: xmms-avi uses DLL loader from wine too? AFAIK: yes. I mean does it use windows codecs to play AVIs? In this case, the dll loader set up some LDT settings and this casue that message. So this is a harmless message?

Re: Problem: NIC doesn't work anymore, SIOCIFADDR-errors

2001-02-14 Thread Jonathan Brugge
Here's the output from dmesg, after deleting some unimportant stuff like sound and graphics-init. I don't see any errors that have something to do with my NIC, the detected type (Winbond 89C940) is the right one. Linux version 2.4.0-prerelease (root@odysseus) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010125

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-14 Thread Michael E Brown
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it changes the idea of odd and even. A partition can start on an odd sector. That is orthogonal to the issue that I am trying to solve with my patch. My code is trying to make it possible to access sectors at the _end_ of the disk that you

Memory performance significantly improved w/ 2.4.1ac11

2001-02-14 Thread Arvid Ericsson
Hi y'all! I thought someone might be interested in some stream results. Please ignore me otherwise. I know you don't like attachments, but the text plainly refuses to be cut and pasted in a proper way (posting from Windows 95). Btw, Im not subscribed to the list. /Arvid STREAM Tyan 1592S

Re: setting cpu speed on crusoe

2001-02-14 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Daniel, We're going through our docs and we have internal programs that we'll release for this so that you'll not just have docs but actually working code too. It just needs to be cleaned up a bit, and go through the proper channels (ever wonder why open source gets deveoped

Reason (was: Re: dropcopyright script)

2001-02-14 Thread Mordechai Ovits
In newer file managers, the icon of a C file is a tiny image of the first few lines of text. If all files startt with a copyright, it's not much good. So running this on a local, personal, tree can be a good thing. Mordy On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:23:57AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: What

Re: Problem: NIC doesn't work anymore, SIOCIFADDR-errors

2001-02-14 Thread David Raufeisen
Are you using the net-tools from debian? There was a broken one causing these errors the last few days, is fixed now. On Wednesday, 14 February 2001, at 15:17:09 (+0100), Jonathan Brugge wrote: Here's the output from dmesg, after deleting some unimportant stuff like sound and graphics-init.

Re: Reason (was: Re: dropcopyright script)

2001-02-14 Thread Mordechai Ovits
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:34:56PM +0100, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: Mordechai Ovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In newer file managers, the icon of a C file is a tiny image of the first few lines of text. If all files startt with a copyright, it's not much good. So running this on a

Re: Reason (was: Re: dropcopyright script)

2001-02-14 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Mordechai Ovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In newer file managers, the icon of a C file is a tiny image of the first few lines of text. If all files startt with a copyright, it's not much good. So running this on a local, personal, tree can be a good thing. Modifying the file manager to

Alpha: bad unaligned access handling

2001-02-14 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
Hi! With my currently installed ping (netkit-ping 0.10-6 from Debian Woody) I get unaligned accesses: ping(15953): unaligned trap at 0001200030e4: 000120026b34 29 1 ping(15953): unaligned trap at 000120003110: 000120026b2c 29 2 The worse part is: they seem to be handled The

Re: [PATCH] network driver updates

2001-02-14 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 05:54:34AM -0600, Jeff Garzik escreveu: On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: * dev-mem_start: NULL means "not command line configuration" 0x means "default". several drivers only check for NULL, not for 0x. netdev-mem_start is unsigned

Re: File IO performance

2001-02-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, wrote: I have been performing some IO tests under Linux on SCSI disks. ext2 filesystem? I noticed gaps between the commands and decided to investigate. I am new to the kernel and do not profess to underatand what actually happens. My observations suggest that the

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-14 Thread Michael E Brown
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if you add a 1-block partition that contains the last sector of the disk, all should be fine. Oh! I didn't get your meaning before. I think I understand now. The problem with this is that the tests for block writeability are not done on a

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-14 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 14 Feb 01 at 16:35, Jes Sorensen wrote: "Donald" == Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Donald On 12 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: Donald ??? - It's not just IPX hosts that send 802.3 headers. - Donald While a good initial value might depend on the architecture, Donald the best

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-14 Thread Michael E Brown
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe. I think that you'll find that these blocks are relative to the start of the partition, not relative to the start of the disk. So if you add a 1-block partition that contains the last sector of the disk, all should be fine. Ok. Upon

2.4.1-ac10: Oooops in SCSI

2001-02-14 Thread Adam Lackorzynski
Hi! I've got an ooops today on a 2.4.1-ac10 running three bonnie++ in parallel on the RAID-Array. The machine is a IBM Netfinity 7100-8666 with 2.5G RAM and 4 CPUs, the RAID-Controller is an IBM ServeRAID 4L using the ips driver. All filesystems on this machine are ext2. (ips0) Resetting

2.2.19pre10 panic: skput: over: cD158117:3872 put:3872 dev:10

2001-02-14 Thread Ian Jackson
I recently tried out 2.2.19pre10 because of the VM problems with 2.2.18. The system lasted about 10 hours and then paniced. On the console was: chiark login: kernel panic: skput: over: cD158117:3872 put:3872 dev:10 S13 Transmit timed out, bad line quality? S13 Transmit timed out, bad line

Linux 2.2.19pre12

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
2.2.19pre12 o Update the DAC960 driver(Leonard Zubkoff) o Small PPC fixes (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) o Document irda options config(Steven Cole) o Small isdn fixes/obsolete code removal

Re: Destination Loose UDP in 2.4 (net/ipv4/netfilter)

2001-02-14 Thread Jeremy Jackson
TeknoDragon wrote: What is the status of "dloose udp" in 2.4.x? From my reading in a few list archives it seems to have been some sort of a hack, yet it is needed for games such as Asheron's Call to be played behind a firewall. I use Starcraft behind a 2.4.0 (RH7) masq firewall using

Re: Video drivers and the kernel

2001-02-14 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from "Albert D. Cahalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 14 Feb 2001 01:09:10 -0500 (EST) Both options cause political troubles. Currently the X server is shared with OS/2 and other crummy systems. If the Linux kernel had serious video drivers for PC hardware, then driver

ECN for servers ?

2001-02-14 Thread Petru Paler
Hello, What is the impact of enabling ECN on the server side ? I mean, will any clients (with broken firewalls) be affected if a SMTP/HTTP server has ECN enabled ? On the other hand, is there any advantage with ECN enabled on the server side ? -- Petru Paler, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-14 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jeremy Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings. This is my first post on linux-kernel, I hope this is appropriate. The recent CERT IN-2001-01 's massive repercussions and CA-2001-02's re-releasing old material in an attempt to coerce admins to update their OS, has led me to think

Re: Alpha: bad unaligned access handling

2001-02-14 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Jan-Benedict Glaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 February 2001 15:48: With my currently installed ping (netkit-ping 0.10-6 from Debian Woody) I get unaligned accesses: ping(15953): unaligned trap at 0001200030e4: 000120026b34 29 1 ping(15953): unaligned trap at 000120003110:

Re: [patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-14 Thread Grant Grundler
Philipp Rumpf wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Looks ok, but I wonder if we should include this list in the docs. These is stuff defined by the PCI spec, and this list could potentially get longer... (opinions either way wanted...) Having people look things up in the spec isn't very user

Re: File IO performance

2001-02-14 Thread
Marcello, Thanks very much for your reply ! I have included additional information below. Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:07:27 -0200 (BRST) From: Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:lkml [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: File

Re: Alpha: bad unaligned access handling

2001-02-14 Thread Sean Hunter
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:11:17PM -0200, Carlos Carvalho wrote: Jan-Benedict Glaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 February 2001 15:48: With my currently installed ping (netkit-ping 0.10-6 from Debian Woody) I get unaligned accesses: ping(15953): unaligned trap at 0001200030e4:

Re: Memory performance significantly improved w/ 2.4.1ac11

2001-02-14 Thread Arvid Ericsson
Mark Hahn skrev: first, are you sure your clock is write? the changes appear to be tiny ~2 MB/s, and might be explained by the fact that 2.2 and 2.4 have different implementations of gettimeofday. The change I was happy about was the one between 2.4.0ac10 and 2.4.1ac11. I think that it's a

Re: [patch] 2.4.1, 2.4.2-pre3: APIC lockups

2001-02-14 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:13:10PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: Please test it extensively, as much as you can, before I submit it for inclusion. If you ever get "Aieee!!! Remote IRR still set after unlock!" message, please report it to me immediately -- it means the code failed. ok,

Re: [PATCH] network driver updates

2001-02-14 Thread David Hinds
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:33:43AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: * something is wrong in the vortex initialization: I don't have such a card, but the driver didn't return an error message on insmod. I'm not sure if my fix is correct. That was intentional - dhinds suggested that if the

Re: Alpha: bad unaligned access handling

2001-02-14 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Sean Hunter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 February 2001 17:26: This is an application problem, not a kernel one. You need to upgrade your netkit. Yes, I was quite confident of this. However, unaligned traps are a frequent problem with alphas. For a looong time we had zsh produce lots of it,

Re: File IO performance

2001-02-14 Thread Steve Lord
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, wrote: I have been performing some IO tests under Linux on SCSI disks. ext2 filesystem? I noticed gaps between the commands and decided to investigate. I am new to the kernel and do not profess to underatand what actually happens. My observations suggest

Re: [patch] 2.4.1, 2.4.2-pre3: APIC lockups

2001-02-14 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 05:30:57PM +, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: other observations -- approx 6000 ints from the ne2k card/sec. MIS shows approx 1% that goes wrong with a ping flood. oops. had to count both CPU0 and CPU1's interrupts. after 23 minutes : CPU0 CPU1 19:

Re: Alpha: bad unaligned access handling

2001-02-14 Thread Sean Hunter
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:38:33PM -0200, Carlos Carvalho wrote: Sean Hunter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 February 2001 17:26: This is an application problem, not a kernel one. You need to upgrade your netkit. Yes, I was quite confident of this. However, unaligned traps are a

Re: 2.4.1-ac12 compile failure on sparc64

2001-02-14 Thread Aaron Dewell
It's a quick change at arch/sparc64/kernel/sys_sparc32.c:907 from: struct dqblk d; to: struct disk_dqblk d; Compiles and works great on my ultra. On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Anton Blanchard wrote: Hi - I am having compilation troubles on my sparc64 workstation (standard Ultra 5

Re: Reason (was: Re: dropcopyright script)

2001-02-14 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:00:25AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: How big do you have your icons set that you can actually read stuff in it? On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Mordechai Ovits wrote: In newer file managers, the icon of a C file is a tiny image of the first few lines of text. If all

Re: [patch] 2.4.1, 2.4.2-pre3: APIC lockups

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:13:10PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: Please test it extensively, as much as you can, before I submit it for inclusion. If you ever get "Aieee!!! Remote IRR still set after unlock!" message, please report it

Re: [PATCH] network driver updates

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, David Hinds wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:33:43AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: * something is wrong in the vortex initialization: I don't have such a card, but the driver didn't return an error message on insmod. I'm not sure if my fix is correct. That

Re: [PATCH] network driver updates

2001-02-14 Thread Manfred Spraul
David Hinds wrote: Say the driver is linked into the kernel. Hot plug drivers should not all complain about not finding their hardware. That's handled by pci_module_init(), check linux/pci.h: if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled, then pci_module_init() never returns with -ENODEV. Which means that

Re: 2.4.1-ac12 compile failure on sparc64

2001-02-14 Thread Anthony Fok
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:41:48PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: Hi - I am having compilation troubles on my sparc64 workstation (standard Ultra 5 machine), which is currently running stock 2.4.1 on Red Hat 6.2 quite happily. We arent tracking the -ac patches at the moment and alan

Re: Reason (was: Re: dropcopyright script)

2001-02-14 Thread Mordechai Ovits
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 12:52:36PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:00:25AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: How big do you have your icons set that you can actually read stuff in it? On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Mordechai Ovits wrote: In newer file managers, the icon

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