The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/
Release 1.4.3: Mon May 14 01:35:07 EDT 2001
* Rulesfile sync with 2.4.5-pre2.
It's notable that the configurator codebase has now been unchanged for
ten days. It's looking really stable now, all the action is in
> "Eric" == Eric S Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Eric> Jes Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Eric> # These were separate questions in CML1 derive MAC_SCC from MAC
Eric> & SERIAL derive MAC_SCSI from MAC & SCSI derive SUN3_SCSI from
Eric> (SUN3 | SUN3X) & SCSI
>> As Alan already pointed out
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > There wasn't even DHCP support before so yes you did. As you can't
> > get the nfs mount point from bootp.
>
> Wasn't there a default? The Indy behind me seems to try to mount
> /tftpboot/172.16.18.195, so I put a file
Andrew Morton writes:
> > Again, BKL has nothing to do with this (and ioctl does not hold it)
>
> asmlinkage long sys_ioctl(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> {
> struct file * filp;
> unsigned int flag;
> int on, error = -EBADF;
>
>
>
> The clean way to handle it, and I'll take a look it to have
> root=/dev/nfs (and the rdev equivalent) to set ip=on if it isn't
Yes.
> already. The current 2.4.4 behavior of root=/dev/hda3 doing ip
> autoconfig when the code is compiled into the kernel is just bad.
Agreed.
H.J.
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Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Larry, go read up on TOPS-20. :-) SunOS did give unix mmap(), but it
> > did not come up the idea.
> Seems to be TOPS-10
> http://www.opost.com/dlm/tenex/fjcc72/
TENEX is not TOPS-10. TOPS-10 didn't get virtual memory until around
1974. By then, TE
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>
> Hello!
>
> > It protects the as-yet-unchanged PCI and Cardbus drivers from a
> > fatal race.
>
> Fatal race remained.
Don't think so. We have exclusion against all netdevice ioctls
across probe. Still. It doesn't matter.
> Andrew, you start again the story abou
Jes Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> If Ray wants to fix things, it's just fine with me.
I have corrected the Mac dependencies as Ray directed.
> Eric> Does this mean you'll take over maintaining the CML2 rules files
> Eric> for the m68k port, so I don't have to? That would be wonderful.
>
>
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:58:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Yet another 2.5 project. If Linus wants to go play with name driven devices
> and you want to help him great, but if he'd care to put out
> linux-2.5.0.tar.gz _before_ starting that would be good for all of us
Well, that's one thing. 2.4
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:49:16PM -0400, God wrote:
>
> > Speaking of queues on routers/servers, does such a util exist that would
> > measure (even a rough estimate), what level of congestion (queueing) is
> > happening between point A and B ? I'd be
Le 14 May 2001 14:36:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik a écrit :
> Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
> Attached is a patch against 2.4.4-ac9 which includes the changes found
> in tulip-devel 1.1.6... (tulip-devel is sort of a misnomer; right now
> it's really just a staging and testing point for fixes which go
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:13:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> We should not create crap code just because we _can_.
>
> How about removing code?
Absolutely. It's not all that often that we can do it, but when we can,
it's the best thing i
Le 14 May 2001 14:36:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik a écrit :
> Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
> Attached is a patch against 2.4.4-ac9 which includes the changes found
> in tulip-devel 1.1.6... (tulip-devel is sort of a misnomer; right now
> it's really just a staging and testing point for fixes which go
Hi
In everyfile system, dget() function is called. But I cannot find
where is the dget() function is written. Where is it
Thanks in advance
by
Blesson
On 15 May 2001, Blesson Paul wrote:
> In everyfile system, dget() function is called. But I cannot find
> where is the dget() function is written. Where is it
To find this out, you type:
# vi -t dget
and then look at the bottom line which would show
"./include/linux/dcache.h"
This
On 15 May 2001, Blesson Paul wrote:
> Hi
> In everyfile system, dget() function is called. But I cannot find
> where is the dget() function is written. Where is it
man grep
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't even boot
> > simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question dont think the sun
> > shines out of linus backside any more.
>
> For exam
Hi Alan,
would you mind to apply the accumulated tmpfs fixes to the -ac series?
Here the short descriptions:
2-SHMEM_I:
Encapsulate all accesses to the private info structure with
macro. This was suggested by Al to later get rid of the
union in the inode struct. This is
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Looks like there are 19 filesystems that use the buffer cache right now:
>
> grep -l bread fs/*/*.c | cut -d/ -f2 | sort -u | wc
>
> So quite a bit of work involved.
UNIX-like ones (and that includes QNX) are easy. HFS is hopeless - it won't
Hi people
We are currently running a 900MHz Athlon at 900MHz with a VIA chipset
mainboard. We have been experiencing strange problems and a number of
kernel panics. The debugged oopes from three of these are included at the
end of this message.
My first question is whether this could be relate
Hi Martin,
Here is the patch which implements triple indirect blocks in
tmpfs.
For the rest of the word: This is needed since s390x is a 64 Bit
platform with pagesize of 4k :-(
It is on top of my other tmpfs fixes which you can find at
ftp://ftp.sap.com/pub/linuxlab/people/cr
Greetings
> How hard is it to generate a new "disk driver framework", and let people
> register themselves, kind of like the "misc" drivers do. Except we'd only
> allow DISKS. You could add something like
>
> register_disk_driver("compaq-ciss", nr_disks, &my_queue);
Why bother. Devfs does that alrea
> So I would think that this block of new major number allocations holds for
> 2.5 and not 2.4. Also, if I'm correct, 2.4 won't be needing a lot of new
> major numbers anyhow.
I wouldnt bet on that. Going to a 32bit dev_t internally without user space
noticing would keep it seems to be quite doab
On Tue, 15 May 2001 18:04:35 +0930 (CST),
Jonathan Woithe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.2.19. Options used
>Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol module_list_R__ver_module_list not found in
>System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
module_list was added to the export l
> The fact that it already exists, and has existed for 5+ years, but that
> nobody really uses it?
>
> Nobody really uses it because it would require you to add a line or two to
> your init scripts to pick up the major number from /proc/devices, and
> that's obviously too hard. Much better to jus
Guys,
I'm working on a network device that will forward some packets before
they get to netif_rx and thus net_rx_action. Thus, the forwarded
packets handled by my device/protocol would not be traced by the
existing trace utility (AF_PACKET etc.), correct? Am I correct in
assuming that there
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am doing the following:
>
> malloc some memory is user space
> pass its pointer to some kernel module
> in the kernel module...do a pci_alloc_consistent so that i get a memory
> region for PCI DMA operations
Wrong approach, you can use kiobufs if yo
Le 15 May 2001 09:21:47 +0100, Tigran Aivazian a écrit :
> On 15 May 2001, Blesson Paul wrote:
> > In everyfile system, dget() function is called. But I cannot find
> > where is the dget() function is written. Where is it
>
> To find this out, you type:
>
> # vi -t dget
>
> and the
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:54:33AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > So I would think that this block of new major number allocations holds for
> > 2.5 and not 2.4. Also, if I'm correct, 2.4 won't be needing a lot of new
> > major numbers anyhow.
>
> I wouldnt bet on that. Going to a 32bit dev_t interna
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > Nobody really uses it because it would require you to add a line or two to
> > your init scripts to pick up the major number from /proc/devices, and
> > that's obviously too hard. Much better to just hardcode randome numbers,
> > right?
>
> modprobe
On 15 May 2001, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> # cd /usr/src/linux
> # make tags
No, I never use that one because it skips very useful entries like the
ones from EXPORT_SYMBOL etc. Also, it only shows the current architecture.
So, the tags target in the Makefile would only become useful when it is
stripp
> But the fact remains that some users want to (a) avoid devfs and (b) have
> static maintenance. And I'm ok with that too, but only if the static major
> number is in the form of a _generic_ number that has absolutely nothing to
> do with any specific drivers (which is why I'd be perfecly ok with
Hello,
This patch does:
- set MS_RDONLY flag in cramfs superblock
- doesnt allow -w remount in do_remount_sb
if the filesystem has MS_RDONLY set.
Without it, it is possible to remount r/o
filesystem with -w and truncate files on it.
I hope that doesnt fall into 'dont do that then'
category.
P
> do with any specific drivers (which is why I'd be perfecly ok with still
> adding a "disk" major number, but which is why I do NOT want to have Peter
> give out "the random number of today" to various stupid device drivers).
For block devices that seems to work well. char devices are harder and
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:07:53PM -0300, John R Lenton wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:28:06PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > For those of you with Via interrupting routing issues (or
> > interrupt-not-being-delivered issues, etc), please try out this patch
> > [...]
> Just to add a little noi
> The following is a patch to the pcmcia code in which a kmalloc failure could
> cause the code to crash since the pointer is dereferenced. I've instead
> allocated the fixed sized array on the stack. The patch was made against
We intentionally keep large objects off the stack
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> I use readw to access memory below 1MB , report "Segmentation fault"
> and stall in memory
>
> simple code below (this will get paraller port)
> ==
> int init_module(void){
> unsigned int *BIOS_Data=(unsigned int *)0x400;
> u32 test;
> test = readw(BIOS_Data);
>
>
> now the problem is that i want to remap the address range pointed by the
> user space pointer to the memory region allocated by the
> 'pci_alloc_consistent' inside the module. I think this is possible..need
> some hints
Wrong way around. Ask the device to create its mapping and reply with t
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> to
>
> /* Use scsi if possible [scsi, ide-scsi, usb-scsi, ...] */
> if(HAS_FEATURE_SET(fd, "scsi-tape"))
> ...
> else if(HAS_FEATURE_SET(fd, "floppy-tape"))
> ..
Alan, if we are doing that we might as well us
> Alan, if we are doing that we might as well use saner interface than
> ioctl(2). In case you've mentioned we don't want "make device SYS$FOO17
> do special action OP$LOUD$BARF4269". We want "make device rewind the tape".
> Or "tell us geometry". Or "eject the media". Application doesn't
Counter
At 08:13 15/05/01, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > So what happens if I dd from the block device and also from a file on
> > the mounted FS, where that file overlaps the bnums I dd'ed? Do we get
> > two copies in the page cache? One for the block device access,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> There is no reason why bdflush should call page_launder().
> Its pretty obvious that bdflush's job is to only write out _buffers_.
> Under my tests this patch makes things faster.
Oh good. ISTR last time I looked at implementing CONFIG_BLK_DEV I got as far
as trying
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Alan, if we are doing that we might as well use saner interface than
> > ioctl(2). In case you've mentioned we don't want "make device SYS$FOO17
> > do special action OP$LOUD$BARF4269". We want "make device rewind the tape".
> > Or "tell us geometry". Or
When I malloc the memory in user space, the memory may be discontinuous for
large chunks of memory say 16k or 32k. Does the 'kiobuf' interface take
care of this or it assumes it to be continuous?
regards,
Daljeet Maini
IBM Global Services Ltd. - Bangalore
Ph. No. - 5267117 Extn 2954
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:27:26AM +0200, Peter Kundrat wrote:
> This patch does:
> - set MS_RDONLY flag in cramfs superblock
> - doesnt allow -w remount in do_remount_sb
> if the filesystem has MS_RDONLY set.
Oh, ignore the second part. Seems i'd have to supply remount_fs super
op to prevent
Hello,
I`m still experiencing file tail corruptions
on subj.
And more: after i had restored bblocked patrition
(by relying on drive`s ability to remap bblks on
write by wroting small modification of debugreiserfs
which zeroified all bblks), i had _runtime_ tail
corru
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> JFFS - dunno.
Bah. JFFS doesn't use any of those horrible block device thingies.
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On Tuesday 15 May 2001 08:57, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > > What happens if you create a buffer cache entry? Does that
> > > invalidate the page cache one? Or do you just allow invalidates
> > > one way, and not the other? And why=
> >
> > I just figured o
> Cost of adding IOCTL_REWIND_TAPE - two words in each tape driver. That
> alone kills a bunch of crap in userland and makes _both_ sides more
> maintainable.
A lot lot more than that. There are some cases where what you are saying is
true and we have duplication. The worst culprit was the cd lay
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> That's because you left out his invalidate:
>
> * create an instance in pagecache
> * start reading into buffer cache (doesn't invalidate, right?)
> * start writing using pagecache (invalidate buffer copy)
Bzzert. You have a race
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:24:06PM +0200, Peter Kundrat wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:27:26AM +0200, Peter Kundrat wrote:
> > This patch does:
> > - set MS_RDONLY flag in cramfs superblock
> > - doesnt allow -w remount in do_remount_sb
> > if the filesystem has MS_RDONLY set.
>
> Oh, ign
> Pathchar, yet another Van Jacobsen toy does this. Unfortunately the old
> and rotten pre-version you can find in ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pathchar/ is afaik
> the last one. In the past it served me well you find about how ISPs are
> lying ... 100mbit backbone = fast ethernet in their computer room ...
cl
> Yes, I was wrong. But is it possible in similar situation just call
> ip_rcv for the sk_buff?
What does "just call" mean? The additional setup done by the ipip
receiver is the minimum necessary to get the various parameters in the
sk_buff in a clean state (things like making sure all header poi
Hans and reiserfs developers,
the same student of my university
(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-18/0654.html) was
carrying up the mongo benchmarks against reiser, xfs, jfs and ext2 for
different base sizes.
For example, for the base size of 10.000 (the average of a cle
On Monday May 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
> >
> > I want to create a new block device - it is a different interface to
> > the software-raid code that allows the arrays to be partitioned using
> > normal partition tables.
>
> See the other posts about
Hi there again !
I've got brand new kernel, compiled it and all modutils/other stuff,
however, I still have problems with "magic buttons". It still crashes,
but in a new exciting fashion - not just plain oops, but tons of
non-stopping hex numbers in square brackets. As far as I could read it
on m
>That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts
>it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the
>part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time
>ago.
That's why you have to use append="root=blah" for devfs :)
Really it shou
Hi,
this moves pci_enable_device() before resource access and cleans
up the return values.
Ciao, Marcus
Index: esssolo1.c
===
RCS file: /build/mm/work/repository/linux-mm/drivers/sound/esssolo1.c,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u
Hi,
I have got that patch with "movl %2,%%edx" and removing the tmp
and still cannot compile with the same error message I posted yesterday.
The problem seems to be that, with or without "inline", it seems to
put a reference into main.o of arch/i386/boot/compressed.
So I cannot test -ac9 :(
If an
Hi,
This minor fix from Alan's -ac tree fixes the "make menuconfig" problem
in linux-2.4.5-pre[12]. The problem was that with the new
"Pentium-III/Celeron(Coppermine)" choice in arch/i386/config.in
menuconfig broke on the '()' in a choice. Please apply.
Erik
Index: scripts/Menuconfig
=
Looks ok to me. BTW thanks for doing these PCI sound cleanups... they
definitely need doing.
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Hi,
I have a network driver that get specific informations from device
but I can't envisage the size of the informations. So I do a kmalloc
call when data come.
But my problem seems to come from the kmalloc because when I try to
send data to user space via an ioctl call I get a segmentation faul
From: "Val Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Serial driver version 5.05a (2001-03-20) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ
> SERIAL_PCI enabled
Hmm. I've been looking at 5.05 (from http://serial.sourceforge.net),
I'm getting 2.4.4 and 2.4.5-pre2 to see what's in there.
> "Go kablooey" means that all serial out
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i have an amd k6-2(?) processor.i compiled the latest 2.4.4 kernel with cpu ak k6-2.i
got the following error
"loading linux
uncompressing linux..
ok,booting kernel"
an
Does anybody know any nice resource for beginners to try to write
some device drivers/other stuff ?
Anything like url:// or mailing list will be appreciated.
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Does anybody know any nice resource for beginners to try to write
some device drivers/other interesting stuff ?
Anything like url:// or mailing list will be appreciated.
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:57:05PM +0300, Bohdan Vlasyuk wrote:
> Does anybody know any nice resource for beginners to try to write
> some device drivers/other stuff ?
>
> Anything like url:// or mailing list will be appreciated.
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/ and the #kernelnewbies IRC channel.
> Does anybody know any nice resource for beginners to try to write
> some device drivers/other interesting stuff ?
Well... if you can wait just a little longer, O'Reilly tells me that the
second edition of Linux Device Drivers should hit the shelves on June 28.
We're still working on the right
Yes, try the O'Reilly books, especilly Linux Device Drivers by Rubini, ISBN
1-56592-292-1
Richard
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On Tuesday 15 May 2001 12:44, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > That's because you left out his invalidate:
> >
> > * create an instance in pagecache
> > * start reading into buffer cache (doesn't invalidate, right?)
> > * start writing using pagec
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > + if (PageActive(page))
> > > > + SetPageReferenced(page);
> > > > + else
> > > > + activate_page(page);
> Now, please explain to me why it's not just a simple
>
> SetPageReferenced(page);
>
> and
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Given a file handle 'X' how do I find out what ioctl groups I should apply to
> it. So we can go from
>
> if(MAJOR(st.st_rdev) == ST_MAJOR)
> issue_scsi_ioctls
> else if(MAJOR(st.st_rdev) == FTAPE_MAJOR)
> issue_ft
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > For block devices that seems to work well. char devices are harder and I'd
> > rather issue the occasional new major than have people registering automatic
> > cabbage slicers as a tty or a disk because they cant get a device
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> For block devices that seems to work well. char devices are harder and I'd
> rather issue the occasional new major than have people registering automatic
> cabbage slicers as a tty or a disk because they cant get a device id.
What are the valid cases tha
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Counter argument; We dont want the bloat of making a floppy tape have
> delusions of grandeur in kernel space when mt-st can do it in userspace.
Counter-counter-argument: we could just export the ioctl's, and make a
"user-level-filesystem". Except it's n
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> What is the horrible app that does something like this?
eject(1), for one thing. And yes, it's ugly beyond belief - don't read
without a barfbag. BTW, LILO is not better, to put it _very_ mildly.
> > /* Use scsi if possible [scsi, ide-scsi, us
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > Now, please explain to me why it's not just a simple
> >
> > SetPageReferenced(page);
> >
> > and then just moving it lazily from one queue to another..
> ...
> Just going with the simple version should work.
Can you and Marcelo fight out th
Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>
> > Does anybody know any nice resource for beginners to try to write
> > some device drivers/other interesting stuff ?
>
>
>
> Well... if you can wait just a little longer, O'Reilly tells me that the
> second edition of Linux Device Drivers should hit the shelves on J
and the Linux source crossreferencing site at
http://lxr.linux.no/
is awesome.
Rick Hohensee
www.clienux.com
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Hi,
The PCI allocation fix in 2.4.5-pre2 breaks yenta_socket because it
depends on pci_mem_start from arch/i386/kernel/setup.c. This patch
fixes that by exporting pci_mem_start. Please apply.
Erik
--- arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c.orig Tue May 15 17:21:37 2001
+++ arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> Ofcourse setting the "queue" function that __blk_get_queue call to do
> a lookup of the minor and choose an appropriate queue for the "real"
> device wont work as you need to munge bh->b_rdev too.
What I would do is:
- remove b_rdev completely. No dri
On Tuesday, May 15, 2001 01:41:01 PM +0200 Ricardo Galli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hans and reiserfs developers,
> the same student of my university
> (http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-18/0654.html) was
> carrying up the mongo benchmarks against reiser, xfs, jfs and ex
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > What are the valid cases that couldn't just register as a misc'ish
> > driver? The one that stands out is serial devices (you have hundreds of
> > them), but that's the same argument as a disk anyway.
>
> /dev/fbN, /dev/ds
On Tuesday, May 15, 2001 02:24:36 PM +0400 Samium Gromoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I`m still experiencing file tail corruptions
> on subj.
> And more: after i had restored bblocked patrition
> (by relying on drive`s ability to remap bblks on
> write by wro
mirabilos wrote:
> >That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts
> >it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the
> >part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time
> >ago.
>
> That's why you have to use append="root=bla
Patch below turns device_init() into initcall. Current tree
calls it from fs/partitions/check.c::partitions_setup() - definitely
odd place for that stuff.
Another thing done by partition_setup() is {init,}rd_load(). I.e.
setting the contents of /dev/ram0 from initrd or floppies. T
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Nobody really uses it because it would require you to add a line or
> two to your init scripts to pick up the major number from
> /proc/devices, and that's obviously too hard. Much better to just
> hardcode randome numbers, right?
And thereby a
System is a PIII UP 2.4.5-pre1, NFS client, options from /proc/mounts:
arezzo:/usr/src/dolphin /usr/src/dolphin nfs
rw,nodev,v3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,udp,nolock,addr=arezzo 0 0
Lately my "arpwatch" running on this 2.4.5-pre1 machine started to log
May 15 15:55:18 espoo a
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Can you and Marcelo fight out the changes you've posted and re-do them
> against pre2?
OK. Though I don't know when Marcelo and I will be on the same
timezone again (for some reasons his days don't seem to take
24 hours ;)).
> I've applied some of th
On Tuesday, May 15, 2001 04:33:57 AM -0400 Alexander Viro
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> Looks like there are 19 filesystems that use the buffer cache right now:
>>
>> grep -l bread fs/*/*.c | cut -d/ -f2 | sort -u | wc
>>
>> So quite
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By author:mirabilos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts
> >it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the
> >part of LILO, in my opinion, that
Hello, today I got an Oops in 2.4.4-ac6, X crashed and gdm restarted, my
system is a dual 2x200MMX, 96Mb, Voodoo 3 2000pci XFree 4.0.3, no drm.
The firsts bits are the output of ksymoops, and the last ones are the
ones in my /var/log/messages.
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> The differences:
>
> (File offsets in hex, patterns were found without other matches in
> the file)
>
> First test:
> 64 bytes at D9E0800 (found starting at D9D8800, 32KB before)
>
> Second test:
> 64 bytes at 2F187C0 (found star
Torvalds sez
>On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>> Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't even boot
>> simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question dont think the sun
>> shines out of linus backside any more.
>
>Actually, it does. It's just that some pe
This patch modifies drivers/sound/ad1848.c to provide APM suspend/resume
support to the AD1848 driver.
To apply this patch,
cd to the top linux source directory
patch --dry-run -p0 < this_file
If the patch program doesn't complain then use the command
patch -p0 < this_
No one has a minute to help me with this (compile?) problem? Linus ?
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Subject: Re: write to dvd ram
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 07:57:56 -0600
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On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> ramdisks, etc.). Besides, it allows to start turning functions called
> from device_init() into initcalls, thus getting rid of ifdef dungpiles
> in them.
... and here's the next part. Takes parport_init() out of device_init().
Since we have no initc
Hi folks,
Found this bit of unused code in the i386 and sh architectures. As it's not being
used, let's get rid of it. Also, pgtable.h seems to be an odd place for this.
-Jeff
diff -u -r linux-2.4.4.pure/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
linux-2.4.4/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
--- linux-2.4.4.pure/
Got the image of 3 interesting packets by letting a modified tcpdump dump
the entire packet buffer in arp_print().
Original tcpdump output:
16:23:17.108993 P 0:60:97:ba:b4:f5 0:0:0:0:0:1 arp 1514: arp-#8192 for proto #1500
(138) hardware #17664 (36)
16:23:17.809024 P 0:60:97:ba:b4:f5 0:0:0:0:0:1
On Tue May 15 2001 , Linus Torvalds wrote :
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
> >
> > Finally, how do I say that I want the root filesystem to be on a
> > particular "mdp" device+partition. I cannot assume that my device
> > will be the first to register with the "disk" layer, so I cann
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