Hi Andreas,
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On the other hand, sockets and shmem are both relatively large...
shmem is only large because the union is large. I introduced the
direct swap array of size SHMEM_NR_DIRECT simply to take advantage of
the union. We can decrease SHMEM_NR_DI
On 2001.04.25 02:52:22 +0200 Gerhard Mack wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Daniel Stone wrote:
>
> > OK. "time make bzImage". Of course, mine's really slow (and I will
> consider
> > myself publically humiliated if my only Linux machine is beaten on a
> kernel
> > compile by an iPAQ). I 'spose, if
> True, but then imagine trying to hack C (no, that's a CURLY BRACE, and a
> tab! not space! you just broke my makefiles! aargh!), and compiling
> Netfilter (it takes HOW MANY hours to compile init/main.c?!?) on a PDA.
Usual misguided assumptions
1. Many PDA's have a keyboard
2. The ip
Début du message transféré :
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:43:18 +0200
From: sébastien person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: liste noyau linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: where can I find the IP address ?
I'm dealing with a driver wich need the IP address for specifics using.
I've read in the linux de
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:30:59PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have a problem with DHCP when using tokenring card on 2.4.x
> kernel . When I am using IBM tokenring adapter( all) and trying to hook on
> to the lan n/w using DHCP ,I get an error message "operation failed " from
>
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:45:25AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > True, but then imagine trying to hack C (no, that's a CURLY BRACE, and a
> > tab! not space! you just broke my makefiles! aargh!), and compiling
> > Netfilter (it takes HOW MANY hours to compile init/main.c?!?) on a PDA.
>
> Usual misg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> thank you very much fyi.
> if just you tried to understand it a little further:
> i didn't change all uid/gid to 0!
>
> why? so with that radical patch, users will still have
> uid/gid so programs know the user's profile.
>
> if everyone had 0/0 uid/gid, pine will ope
I want to create a daemon process that will keep scanning the parallel port status and
report to other processes. Should it be created from the init process? where is the
location of the source code for the init process?
Thanks
Anton
I wish to be personally CC'ed the answers/comments posted t
The problem is probably caused by a change that was made around
kernel 2.3.29. The hardware type of a tokenring adapter was changed
from ARPHRD_IEEE802 to ARPHRD_IEEE802_TR. That breaks pump and the
ISC dhcp package. So pump from RH6.2 certainly won't work.
Fixing the ISC dhcp package is easy. Ma
There seem to be some off-by-one errors in the cdrom/ide-cd driver,
where CD capacity is handled in the redhat kernel-source-2.4.1-0.1.9
and also in kernel-2.4.3 )
>From the file linux/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c :
(My comments start with '#')
static int cdrom_read_capacity(ide_drive_t *drive, unsigne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> i didn't change all uid/gid to 0!
>
> why? so with that radical patch, users will still have
> uid/gid so programs know the user's profile.
So you:
1. broke security (OK, fine...)
2. didn't remove all the support for security
It would be far more interesting to rip
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:04:38AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Hi Alan, linux-kernel,
>
> This moves pci_enable_device() in trident.c before any PCI resource access.
> Everything else appears to be ok in regards to 2.4 PCI API and return values.
>
> Ciao, Marcus
Argh, actually the return va
Hi,
I wondered whether thera are already effrots to por the Multipath-driver
for FibreChannel (http://t3.linuxcare.org) to the 2.4 kernel? This patch
allows a transparent failover to another path to FC-attached
disk in case the primary path fails.
Is there any documentation about the changes i
first, i think i owe you guys apology for didn't make myself
clear, which is going harder if you irritated.
even my subject went wrong, as the patch isn't really about
single user (which confuse some people).
for those who didn't read that patch, i #define capable(),
suser(), and fsuser() to 1. t
Hi!
I had a temporary disk failure (played with acpi too much). What
happened was that disk was not able to do anything for five minutes
or so. When disk recovered, linux happily overwrote all inodes it
could not read while disk was down with zeros -> massive disk
corruption.
Solution is not to
Hi!
Here's lid support for ACPI, please apply.
Pavel
--- clean/drivers/acpi/power.c Wed Jan 31 16:14:33 2001
+++ linux/drivers/acpi/power.c Sun Apr 22 23:02:25 2001
@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@
int acpi_cmbatt_init(void);
int acpi_cmbatt
Hi!
> > > I'm wondering if that veto business is really needed. Why not reject
> > > *all* APM rejectable events, and then let the userspace event handler
> > > send the system to sleep or turn it off? Anybody au fait with the APM
> > > spec?
> >
> > My thinkpad actually started blinking with so
Hi!
> > > > I'm wondering if that veto business is really needed. Why not reject
> > > > *all* APM rejectable events, and then let the userspace event handler
> > > > send the system to sleep or turn it off? Anybody au fait with the APM
> > > > spec?
> > >
> > > My thinkpad actually started blin
Hi!
> Suppose that an entry on any filesystem could be replaced by a symlink
> which pointed to a URL, and that an appropriate handler was dispatched
> for that URL. This would allow, for example, config files to point to
> a different machine.
>
> Right now we can accomplish this by mounting a
Hi!
> Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment? I noticed that it's
> still marked "Dangerous" in the kernel configuration. This is important to me
> because it looks like I'll have to start using it next week. My office laptop
> is going to be "upgraded" from Windows 98 to 2000.
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> 2.4.3-ac10
> o Fix reboot notifier unregister in aic7xxx (Arjan van de Ven)
> 2.4.3-ac6
> o Merge aic7xxx driver 6.11 (Justin Gibbs)
I tried vanilla 2.4.3 yesterday, on a box which has one DPTA (IDE) drive
and two Seagat
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:46:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Bram Smout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SGI Visual Workstation Support
>
> Is documantation available for the VW?
Début du message transféré :
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:43:18 +0200
From: sébastien person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: liste noyau linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: where can I find the IP address ?
I'm dealing with a driver wich need the IP address for specifics using.
I've read in the linux de
New version of patch is on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/namespaces-d-S4-pre6.gz
* Fixed idiotic bug in do_add_mount() - the thing forgot
to pass error value back to the caller.
> News:
> * ported to 2.4.4-pre6
> * fixes for d_flags races (already in -ac, hopefully will go into
Hi,
My hardware configuration is:
AlphaServer ES40, 4 cpus, 8 Gigas of RAM
lspci -tv shows the network board as:
Intel Corporation 82557 [ Ethernet Pro 100 ]
The driver is inserted as a module: lsmod shows eepro100 loaded.
The system is Redhat 7.0 with updates and 2.
Dr. Michael Weller wrote:
> For a firewall setup I need to know in which range applications like
> rsh, or better yet the rresvport() libc function allocate reserved ports.
>
> Do I have to expect ports in the whole 1..1024 range (maybe omitting those
> already in use by other servers) or is only
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Once you wrote about "Re: [PATCH] Single user linux":
> first, i think i owe you guys apology for didn't make myself
> clear, which is going harder if you irritated.
> even my subject went wrong, as the patch isn't really about
> single user (which confuse some people).
>
Hi all,
Some days before I asked for a fork-like C-wrapper for clone() which
could be used like fork() thinking that somebody could have done it
before but I only received two e-mails saying that probably it
wasn't worth it or even it was complete non-sense.
Therefore, I've done it myself. Code
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
> so i guess i deserve opinions instead of flames. the
> approach is from personal use, not the usual server use.
> if you think a server setup is best for all use just say so,
> i'm listening.
>
Heres one.. most of the time I spend cleaning u
Hi guys,
I have ordered a ABIT VP6 motherboard with the HPT370 controller
and would like to know if raid0 is supported with linux?
If not, will i be able to work without raid then? (maybe using
software raid)
Thanks,
Jeroen Geusebroek
P.s. Please CC me in your reply, since i'm not subscribed
To all--
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A Web site has been created to assist with this transition, with two key
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On Sunday, April 22, 2001 02:10:42 PM +0200 Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I had a temporary disk failure (played with acpi too much). What
> happened was that disk was not able to do anything for five minutes
> or so. When disk recovered, linux happily overwrote all inodes
I'm not familiar with that option, where would I be setting it? Or even
better, where is it documented?
I'll inform server works of this problem.
Thanks,
Jay
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > If USB is disabled on a server works MB reboots hang in 2.2.x
>
> In almost all cases a hang a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> for those who didn't read that patch, i #define capable(),
> suser(), and fsuser() to 1. the implication is all users
> will have root capabilities.
And this is better than just having the system auto-login as root because..?
>
> then i tried to bring up the sing
Quoth "Jeroen Geusebroek":
> If not, will i be able to work without raid then? (maybe using
> software raid)
http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html
Yours is listed under "supported, but not for RAID", which probably
means it works well when accessing individual disks, which again should
mean i
hi,
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> linux-2.4.3-cryptoapi-hvr4/drivers/block/loop.c lines 270...279 after your
> kernel patch:
>
> static int lo_read_actor(read_descriptor_t * desc, struct page *page, unsigned long
>offset, unsigned long size)
> {
> char *kaddr;
> unsigned l
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Ronald Bultje did have cause to say:
> Who says it needs to compile? Who says it needs software installed? Who
> says it needs to run the software itself?
My current project (and I'm just waiting for nfs and wvlan_cs to stabalize
on ARM before putting the final touches on it
Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Are you sure? A suspend takes about 5-10 seconds on my laptop.
>
> Ouch? Really?
No, I was thinking of one of the earlier 2.4 kernels. 2.4.3 seems
faster again.
> What I do is killall apmd, then apm -s and it is more or less
> instant. [Are you using suspend-to-disk? A
So, are you saying, right now in front of the whole community, that you only
use Linux because you can develop on it? That if it wasn't for GCC you would
be playing Minesweeper right now?
I know thats not what you are saying, but thats how you come across. We
always tell everybody who woul
Le Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:17:59 +0200
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> à écrit :
> sébastien person wrote:
> >
> > Début du message transféré :
> >
> > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:43:18 +0200
> > From: sébastien person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: liste noyau linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: w
Just a warning; I was informed by Alan that doing this for video
drivers was unnecessary, since video devices were already enabled
during bootup.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:06:24PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:04:38AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > Hi Alan, li
"Sergey Kubushin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> === Cut ===
> [root@nomad /root]# depmod -ae
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.3ac13/kernel/drivers/net/aironet4500_card.o
> depmod: __bad_udelay
> === Cut ===
AFAIR, this means that the driver is using an udelay() with a
jeff millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 1. If I install CML2 and go directly to "make xconfig", it deduces it needs
> to set top level options because some of the low level options are set. For
> example SCSI enabled because some SCSI device is set or hot plug because
> PCMCIA is set...because some PC
Hello Andre,
Sorry for responding a little late. I spent some time in the big blue
room (not that is was that blue lately!).
Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Wilfried Weissmann wrote:
>
> > > off to the head or tail of the drive and get me that raid-voodoo-bios-os
> > > communicat
Andres Salomon wrote:
> Just a warning; I was informed by Alan that doing this for video
> drivers was unnecessary, since video devices were already enabled
> during bootup.
To clarify: the primary display device is enabled and initialized, and
its video BIOS executed, when during BIOS startup a
At 8:45 AM +0100 2001-04-25, Alan Cox wrote:
> > True, but then imagine trying to hack C (no, that's a CURLY BRACE, and a
>> tab! not space! you just broke my makefiles! aargh!), and compiling
>> Netfilter (it takes HOW MANY hours to compile init/main.c?!?) on a PDA.
>
>Usual misguided assumptions
I tried to install my Linux Redhat the Network Monitoring system call Ntop
and the following messages is what I am getting each time I execute make.
I thought Libpcap is what is needed and I installed but it did not help.
Can any body out there help me whit this.
The following is the message th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> AFAIR, this means that the driver is using an udelay() with a much
> too large argument. Break it up into several shorter ones, or use
> mdelay().
That isn't necessarily the case. This code can break even with _correct_
arguments to udelay().
This is because despite
Jeroen Geusebroek wrote:
> I have ordered a ABIT VP6 motherboard with the HPT370 controller
> and would like to know if raid0 is supported with linux?
>
> If not, will i be able to work without raid then? (maybe using
> software raid)
The controller is working fine, but the raid functionality is
Oops, I saw "trident" and thought video. Sorry, marcus. :)
This is what I was told (it was only needed for secondary video
devices). From that, I would expect that all video devices would
need it, just in case they happened to be the second card. Am I
missing some subtlety in some of the vide
Hi. kernel hackers.
I use kernel 2.4.3-ac4 with smp support
and I have found strange problem in using usb keyboard.
When I pressed CAPS, NUM, SCROLL LOCK key twice (toggle LED light on keyboard),
Keyboard and console goes hang.
but up(uni-processor) k
I think all of this has been done... you should check out
the Linux Trace Toolkit.
george anzinger wrote:
> This is an attempt to look in the wheel locker.
>
> I need a simple event sub system for use in the kernel. I envision at
> least two types of events: the history event and the timing eve
Andres Salomon wrote:
> This is what I was told (it was only needed for secondary video
> devices). From that, I would expect that all video devices would
> need it, just in case they happened to be the second card. Am I
> missing some subtlety in some of the video driers/chipsets that
> wouldn'
Hi all!
While burning a cdrom, xcdroast 0.98alpha8 hanged up. After killing it,
the cdwriter doesn't respond to any commands and the tray door doesn't
open anymore.
The cdwriter isn't mounted (df output and cat /proc/mounts).
output from eject -v /dev/scd1:
eject: device name is `/dev/scd1'
eje
I noticed that the big update patch for ACPI was a part of 2.4.3-ac11 (Can
remember). Now its not a part of 2.4.3-ac12. Has it been removed? I have
turned on experimental settings when running make xconfig.
Stephen
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Christoph Biardzki wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wondered whether thera are already effrots to por the Multipath-driver
> for FibreChannel (http://t3.linuxcare.org) to the 2.4 kernel? This patch
> allows a transparent failover to another path to FC-attached
> disk in case the primary path fails.
When we
Jamie Lokier writes:
> Hmm. Perhaps apmd needs a "do not sync" option, for when you don't care.
Alternatively, use my pmeventd (previously suspendd) from my pmutils
package. You get complete control over all PM events. The daemon sets
no policy (unlike apmd).
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/lin
Stephen Torri wrote:
>
> I noticed that the big update patch for ACPI was a part of 2.4.3-ac11 (Can
> remember). Now its not a part of 2.4.3-ac12. Has it been removed? I have
> turned on experimental settings when running make xconfig.
Alan noted the update did not build, so it was removed.
--
Hi
is there an effort to make trident framebuffer drivers?
TIA,
Jani.
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> For i386 and i486, there is no reason to try to maintain a complex fast
> case. The machines are unquestionably going away - we should strive to not
> burden them unnecessarily, but we should _not_ try to save two cycles.
...
> Icache is also precious on the 386, which has
Tim Jansen wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 April 2001 18:39, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> >> Are there alternatives to get complex and extendable information out to
> >> user space?
> > Yes filesystem structures.
>
> How exactly can this work? A single value per file is not very helpful if you
> have a th
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:55:44AM -0400, Ahmed Warsame wrote:
> I tried to install my Linux Redhat the Network Monitoring system call Ntop
> and the following messages is what I am getting each time I execute make.
>
> I thought Libpcap is what is needed and I installed but it did not help.
Ins
Pavel,
We already have lid support in the latest ACPI versions (not in the official
kernel yet.) You can download this code from
http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm .
It'd be great if you could focus your testing and patches on this code base
-- I think it's a lot bette
> From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Stephen Torri wrote:
> >
> > I noticed that the big update patch for ACPI was a part of
> 2.4.3-ac11 (Can
> > remember). Now its not a part of 2.4.3-ac12. Has it been
> removed? I have
> > turned on experimental settings when running make xconfig
Doug Ledford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When we reviewed the code, we didn't like it all that much. It served it's
> purpose on the t3 stuff from Sun, but it wasn't generic enough to suit our
> tastes.
True, but the MD layer in 2.2.x (at least as of last June,
when I wrote the T3 SCSI
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The only problem with /proc as it stands is that there is no formal
> syntax for its entries. Some of them are hard to parse.
>
/proc/sys is probably the method to follow. Every it
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:01:05PM -0700, Tim Moore wrote:
> rtsp://rm.on24.com/media/news/04192001/palumbo_ted6.rm
> --stop--
> http://rm.on24.com/media/news/04192001/palumbo_ted6.rm
Hmm, the rtsp: fails while the http: works for that one. But then a tcp
connection doesn't depend on the realaud
hi imel,
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> problem is you guys are to unix-centric, try to be user-centric a little.
with all respect: the problem is that you do not listen.
as people keep trying to point out to you:
- you can have your single-user centric user environment (no lo
little typo:
>From 5. External resources (notice "Congrestion"):
Sally Floyd's page on Explicit Congrestion Notification in TCP/IP.
http://www.aciri.org/floyd/ecn.html
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> for those who didn't read that patch, i #define capable(),
> suser(), and fsuser() to 1. the implication is all users
> will have root capabilities.
How is that not single user?
I have been doing single-user oriented Linux/GNU/unix longer than anyone
I'm aware of wit
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Al writes:
> > It's not a fscking rocket science - encapsulate accesses to ->u.foofs_i
> > into inlined function, find ->read_inode, find places that do get_empty_inode
>
> OK, I was doing this for the ext3 port I'm working on for 2.4, and ran into
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From: "Dale Amon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "J Sloan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Your response is requested
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:34:36PM -0700, J Sloan wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 19:10, you wrote:
> The command
> more foo/* foo/*/*
> will display the values in the foo subtree nicely, I think.
Unfortunately it displays only the values. Dumping numbers and strings
without knowing their meaning (and probably not even the order) is not very
usef
[quoted lines by Whit Blauvelt on April 25, 2001, at 13:38]
>On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:01:05PM -0700, Tim Moore wrote:
>> Try '# strace /usr/bin/X11/realplay On24ram.asp > log' and see where the
>> connect fails if you aren't getting specific error messages.
>
>Unfortunately this spits out a bun
Hello,
I had sent in a note on nfs performance issues some time back,
and Mark Hemment had been kind enough to point out to the
zerocopy networking patch. Well, we tried with it, and it does
seem to have some improvement, but it seems to have screwed up
nfs performance a bit, because we se
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:Francesc Oller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi all,
>
> Some days before I asked for a fork-like C-wrapper for clone() which
> could be used like fork() thinking that somebody could have done it
> before but I only received
Tim Jansen wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 25 April 2001 19:10, you wrote:
> > The command
> > more foo/* foo/*/*
> > will display the values in the foo subtree nicely, I think.
>
> Unfortunately it displays only the values. Dumping numbers and strings
> without knowing their meaning (and probably not
This is definitely 2.5 material here since I have exactly 0 lines of
code for kernel support at this point, but...wanted to put it on some
radar screens.
Scott Balmos, David Stipp and myself and begun to do some development
work on the l2tpd software that Mark Spencer originally wrote. We've
mad
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By author:"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> glibc already contains such a wrapper; it is called __clone(). At
> least my system has "man clone" show the man page for it.
>
Actually, the man page is wrong, it
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>
> On Wednesday 25 April 2001 19:10, you wrote:
> > The command
> > more foo/* foo/*/*
> > will display the values in the foo subtree nicely, I think.
>
> Unfortunately it displays only the values. Dumping numbers and strings
> without know
This one is new - 2.4.3-ac12 built without problems.
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-ac14/drivers/net'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-ac14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -m
preferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686
This patch (made against linux-2.4.4-pre6 + rwsem-opt3) somewhat improves
performance on the i386 XADD optimised implementation:
A patch against -pre6 can be obtained too:
ftp://infradead.org/pub/people/dwh/rwsem-pre6-opt4.diff
Here's some benchmarks (take with a pinch of salt of cours
Hi!
> > Hi!
> >
> > I had a temporary disk failure (played with acpi too much). What
> > happened was that disk was not able to do anything for five minutes
> > or so. When disk recovered, linux happily overwrote all inodes it
> > could not read while disk was down with zeros -> massive disk
> >
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > for those who didn't read that patch, i #define capable(),
> > suser(), and fsuser() to 1. the implication is all users
> > will have root capabilities.
>
> How is that not single user?
Every user still has it's own account
Hi!
> We already have lid support in the latest ACPI versions (not in the official
> kernel yet.) You can download this code from
> http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm .
This site is as ugly as hell but does the trick. (And btw link to
"kernel howto" points to list of h
Jesse Pollard wrote:
> Personally, I think
> proc_printf(fragment, "%d %d",get_portnum(usbdev), usbdev->maxchild);
> (or the string " ddd" with d representing a digit)
>
> is shorter (and faster) to parse with
> fscanf(input,"%d %d",&usbdev,&maxchild);
>
> Than it would be to
On Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:01:20 PM +0200 Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > I had a temporary disk failure (played with acpi too much). What
>> > happened was that disk was not able to do anything for five minutes
>> > or so. When disk recovered, linux ha
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 21:37, you wrote:
> Personally, I think
>> proc_printf(fragment, "%d %d",get_portnum(usbdev), usbdev->maxchild);
> is shorter (and faster) to parse with
> fscanf(input,"%d %d",&usbdev,&maxchild);
Right, but what happens if you need to extend the format? For e
> > It'd be great if you could focus your testing and patches
> on this code base
> > -- I think it's a lot better but it's still a work in progress.
>
> Are you planning to merge to 2.4.4?
Planning on merging ASAP. That may be 2.4.4, we'll see.
> > PS I'm not quite sure why you copied the acp
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:06:38PM +0100, D . W . Howells wrote:
> This patch (made against linux-2.4.4-pre6 + rwsem-opt3) somewhat improves
> performance on the i386 XADD optimised implementation:
It seems more similar to my code btw (you finally killed the useless
chmxchg ;).
I only had a sho
Kapish K wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I had sent in a note on nfs performance issues some time back,
> and Mark Hemment had been kind enough to point out to the
> zerocopy networking patch. Well, we tried with it, and it does
> seem to have some improvement, but it seems to have screwed up
> nfs p
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> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > for those who didn't read that patch, i #define capable(),
> > > suser(), and fsuser() to 1. the implication is all users
> > > will have root capabilities.
> >
Le 25 Apr 2001 14:52:56 -0400, Dave Mielke a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Whit Blauvelt on April 25, 2001, at 13:38]
>
> >On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:01:05PM -0700, Tim Moore wrote:
> >> Try '# strace /usr/bin/X11/realplay On24ram.asp > log' and see where the
> >> connect fails if you aren't getting
Jesse Pollard wrote:
> > But one thing XML provides (potentially) is a DTD that defines meanings and
>formats.
> > IMHO the kernel needs something like this for /proc (though not in DTD format!).
> >
> > Has anyone ever tried to write a formal syntax for all the entries
> > in /proc? We have bi
Tim Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2001 21:37, you wrote:
> > Personally, I think
> >>proc_printf(fragment, "%d %d",get_portnum(usbdev), usbdev->maxchild);
> > is shorter (and faster) to parse with
> > fscanf(input,"%d %d",&usbdev,&maxchild);
>
> Right, but what happe
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> so i guess i deserve opinions instead of flames. the
> approach is from personal use, not the usual server use.
> if you think a server setup is best for all use just say so,
> i'm listening.
Several distributions (Red Hat and Mandrake certainly) off
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
>
> I've got a question... I would like where to send my driver
> patches...
Probably both me and Alan.
[ General rules follow. Too few people seem to have seen them before ]
Most importantly, when sending patches to me:
- specify clearly th
Hi: Been battling w. my new Gravis joystick [kernel 2.4.3-ac5] - the
driver wouldn't recognise it through the gameport, but would through the
USB port [the stick came with a converter]. I did have one problem though:
I had to apply the following one line patch to get the joystick hat to
work corr
On 04.25 Jesse Pollard wrote:
>
> Alternatively, you can always put one value per record:
> tag:value
> tag2:value2...
>
> This is still simpler than XML to read, and to generate.
>
Just my two cents.
It looks clear that /proc is for programs, not for humans. So the best format
f
> This is probably the first and last time I will openly agree for someone
> to tell me were to go, and do it ;-).
>
> You tell me what you want the driver to do, and I will make it happen.
> It will be legal and technically correct. Does that sound like a good
> idea?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andre H
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