Re: Bad udelay usage in drivers/net/aironet4500_card.c

H . J . Lu wrote: > > In 2.4.4, drivers/net/aironet4500_card.c has > udelay(10); > udelay(20); > udelay(25); > > But on ia32, you cannot use more than 2 for udelay (). You will get > undefined symbol, __bad_udelay. mv driver.c driver.c~ sed 's/udelay\(

Re: Linux 2.4.4 folks

Hi, On Sat, 19 May 2001, Peter Zaitsev wrote: > Hello linux-kernel, > > I've trying to move some of my servers to 2.4.4 kernel from 2.2.x. > Everything goes fine, notable perfomance increase occures, but the > problem is I'm really often touch the following problem: > The problem is the

Re: Linux scalability?

On 18 May 2001, reiser.angus wrote: > not really the same box > look at the disk subsystem > 7 x 9GB 10KRPM Drives and 1 x 18GB 15KRPM (html+log & os) for Win2000 > 5 x 9GB 10KRPM Drives (html+log+os) for TUX 2.0 > this is sufficient for a such difference Don't you think that all the really need

Re: Linux scalability?

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Sean Hunter wrote: > Why would you want to run a web server with 8 processors rather than four > webservers with 2 each? As you might already know, after the interviews to Mingo I assumed, that a major portion of the achievements was enabled by the 2.4 scalability enhacement

Hang&Oops on boot using latest -ac kernels with irda

Hello, My HP Omnibook 5700CTX running redhat 7.0 and kernel 2.4.4-ac8 and up (I haven't verified on older kernels) hangs on boot when bringing up interface lo. Sometimes I experience an Oops at this point, one of which I have copied by hand and decoded below. When I boot a kernel without irda, th

Re: Using Parallel Port to Receive Signals

>I am trying to use the data port of parallel port to receive data, so I= > set the bit 5 of the control port to enable the bi-directional port, b= >ut it doesn't work. My parallel supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode, does it sup= >port bi-directional mode? if yes, how can I config it? You might have to

"Why We Should All Test the New Linux Kernel" updated

I have updated my article "Why We Should All Test the New Linux Kernel" that was originally posted on Advogato just before 2.4.0 was release and posted it in a new location: http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/whytestkernel/ I welcome your comments, please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A numbe

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Erdfelt) wrote on 17.05.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, May 17, 2001, Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Erdfelt) wrote on 15.05.01 in > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I had always made the assumption that sockets were c

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Lundell) wrote on 17.05.01 in : > At 11:23 PM +0200 2001-05-17, Kai Henningsen wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Lundell) wrote on 15.05.01 in > >: > > > >> What about: > >> > >> 1 (n

VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

This are the latest suggestions for handling the VIA Southbridge bug as derived from the hardware site www.au-ja.de (Many thanks to doelf). Could a linux kernel specialist review and form this pseudo-patch to a real kernel patch? Given the "old" patch found in 2.4.4 I could have written the part

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code inuserspace

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >3. Userspace partition code proposal > > Given the above two bits, here's a brief explaination of a > proposal to move management of the partitioning scheme into > userspace, along with portions of raid startup, lvm, uuid and > mo

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code inuserspace

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wrote: >The only problem I can see with this is that it removes one useful thing, >the ability to give a user access to a whole partition. > >chown wingel /dev/hda5 > >won't work anymore since there is no such device node. Apologies, this should have gone to

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

Pete Zaitcev wrote: >>[about Aunt Tullie] >>Because, for example, a kernel compile can be a part of the standard >>install now, and you will end up with a kernel built specifically for >>your machine that doesn't print 50 initialization failed messages on boot. >>[...] >>And you can also now ru

no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants]

Hi! > > > They might also be exactly the same channel, except with certain magic > > > bits set. The example peter gave was fine: tty devices could very usefully > > > be opened with something like > > > > > > fd = open("/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8", O_RDWR); > > > > > > where we actually ope

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Hi! > > > > But no, I don't actually like sockets all that much myself. They are hard > > > > to use from scripts, and many more people are familiar with open/close and > > > > read/write. > > > > > > Agreed. > > > > > > It would be nice to use open/close/read/write for control and bulk and > >

Re: alpha iommu fixes

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:34:36PM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > hose->sg_pci = iommu_arena_new(hose, 0xc000, 0x0800, 32768); > *(vip)CIA_IOC_PCI_W3_BASE = 0xc000 | 1; > *(vip)CIA_IOC_PCI_W3_MASK = (0x0800 - 1) & 0xfff0; > *(vip)CIA_IOC_PCI_T3_BASE = 0x80

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Second, how many kernels does Redhat ship in order to have one for > 386/486/586/k6/Athlon . . . . We build a lot of them :) > Quite a pain in the ass. And look at how much shit has to be built in > in order to get a kernel that works for everybody!

Re: VIA/PDC/Athlon - IDE error theory

Alan Cox wrote: > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > CRC errors are cable errors so that bit is reasonable in itself Could this be caused by the RAID configuration? The first sector of the first disk holds

icache flushing in kernel/ptrace.c

I would like to change kernel/ptrace.c to call something else instead of flush_icache_page in access_one_page in kernel/ptrace.c. Currently it calls flush_icache_page on the page after modifying it. Now of course on many architectures (including PPC) we need to do some sort of i-cache flush - my

Re: VIA/PDC/Athlon - IDE error theory

Wilfried Weissmann wrote: > > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > CRC errors are cable errors so that bit is reasonable in itself > Could this be caused by the RAID configuration? The first sector of the Ye

Re: Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:41:16PM +0600, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > > I think the header file you're talking about is the db1 header file, > > > which has nothing to do with yacc -- it'

[PATCH] winbond-840 update

Minor update to the winbond-840 driver: * improved SMP locking, one or 2 races fixed. * memory leak in _close fixed. * partial implementation of _suspend and _resume. The chip is disabled and restarted, but not yet put into sleep mode. [lack of hardware to test it] -- Manfred --- 2.4/dr

Re: /dev/sch0 interface

On May 15, 6:35pm, "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: } Subject: Re: /dev/sch0 interface > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:44:23PM +, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:08:01PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > Is anyone actuaslly using the /dev/sch0 interface for SCSI tape changer

Re: alpha iommu fixes

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:46:17PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > The most interesting thing here is the pyxis "tbia" fix. > Whee! I can now copy files from SCSI to bus-master IDE, or > between two IDE drives on separate channels, or do other nice > things without hanging lx/sx164. :-) > The pyxi

Re: dget()

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > # cd /usr/src/linux > # find -name '*.[ch]' | ctags -L- & > > 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 cu

Negative inode-nr ?

Hello all, I was investigating a problem we believed we had with our monitoring software (from sysorb.com), where it failed to report the number of free and allocated inodes. However, looking into the problem I found that it's the kernel that's returning bogus values. What do you think of this

Q: fdatasync on block device?

Hi, Could someone enlighten me whether fdatasync() system call on Linux, when called on the fd of an open()-ed block device, will result in the committing of all dirty device buffers to disk? If not, how do I achieve this? Should I use the BLKFLSBUF ioctl? Thanks in advance. Best regards,

Q: ioctl BLKGETSIZE return value units?

Hi, What are the units of the return value of the BLKGETSIZE ioctl on Linux? Is it allways in units of 512 bytes or is it in units of sector size bytes as returned by BLKSSZGET ioctl? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Mai

Re: Hang&Oops on boot using latest -ac kernels with irda

> Code; c0204004<= >0: 66 81 78 5c 0f 03 cmpw $0x30f,0x5c(%eax) <= Someone passed NULL to a netdevice notifier. That isnt allowed. Your call trace indicates that it was passed by dev_open which would itself have oopsed in that situation. Beats me, and I also haven'

PATCH: Make Acer Extensa 50X Sound work without hanging the whol

Hello, since ages owners of a Extensa 50X notebook apply the following diff to the kernel to make the sound work without hanging the whole system. I've no idea if anybody ever suggested to put this in the mainstream kernel, so do I. Note: I modified the original patch to work with 2.4 but I hav

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

> This are the latest suggestions for handling the VIA Southbridge bug as > derived from the hardware site www.au-ja.de (Many thanks to doelf). I'd rather people left this except for the obvious fixed that were done for non VIA northbridge combinations until 2.5. 2.4 is not an appropriate place t

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

> Second, how many kernels does Redhat ship in order to have one for > 386/486/586/k6/Athlon . . . . > Quite a pain in the ass. And look at how much shit has to be built in > in order to get a kernel that works for everybody! People bitch at > Microsoft for doing it, then turn around and do t

Re: PATCH: Make Acer Extensa 50X Sound work without hanging the whol

> since ages owners of a Extensa 50X notebook apply the following diff to the > kernel to make the sound work without hanging the whole system. With what sound card ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

Re: Negative inode-nr ?

On Sat, 19 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote: > What do you think of this ? > [root]# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr > 157097-180 I think you should upgrade to a newer kernel; Al Viro fixed this bug and the fix went into 2.4.5-pre1. regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Axel Thimm wrote: > This are the latest suggestions for handling the VIA Southbridge bug as > derived from the hardware site www.au-ja.de (Many thanks to doelf). Sorry - little off-topic. I can't find the clean answer anywhere. I use KT7A-RAID, with one disc connected to H

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Hi, On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:29:32PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > Or you can fall back to mounting by UUID, which is globally > unique and still avoids referencing physical location. You also > don't need to manually set LABELs for UUID to work: all e2fsprogs > over the pa

Re: Negative inode-nr ?

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:33:10PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > > What do you think of this ? > > [root]# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr > > 157097 -180 > > I think you should upgrade to a newer kernel; Al Viro > fixed this bug and t

[RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

Hi, On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are > trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also > why magic numbers tend to suck in the VM.) Magic numbers might be sucking some performance right no

[PATCH] 2.4.4 fix bug in nfs_refresh_inode() and cleanup...

Linus, A bug was recently found in which nfs_refresh_inode() was returning EIO when servers, such as the Hummingbird, don't return the optional attributes on calls such as the setattr() call. This error was then being passed back to userland. When investigating the bug, I also found a load

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

At 10:42 AM +0200 2001-05-19, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > >Make your config script look at the hardware MAC addresses. Those don't >> >change. >> >> They're not necessarily unique, though. > >So if you plug both into the same network segment, that segment is broken? >That looks like very stupid

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

At 10:42 AM +0200 2001-05-19, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > Jeff Garzik's ethtool > > extension at least tells me the PCI bus/dev/fcn, though, and from >> that I can write a userland mapping function to the physical >> location. > >I don't see how PCI bus/dev/fcn lets you do that. I know from sys

Potential help for VIA problems and ASUS motherboards

Hi, I've seen a lot of messages regarding problems with the VIA chipset... I've experienced them myself. Anyways, I just put in a new ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard, BIOS revision 1004. Once installed, I ran into a raft of problems when IO-APIC was enabled... and discovered that ASUS had a BIOS update

Re: Q: ioctl BLKGETSIZE return value units?

> What are the units of the return value of the BLKGETSIZE ioctl on Linux? Sectors of size 512. > or is it in units of sector size bytes as returned by BLKSSZGET No. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

/dev/raw* Where? I can't find it in my .config (grep RAW .config). I am using 2.4.4-ac11 and playing w/ 2.4.5-pre3. TIA Adam Schrotenboer - 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.

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > Or you can fall back to mounting by UUID, which is globally > unique and still avoids referencing physical location. You also > don't need to manually set LABELs for UUID to work: all e2fsprogs > over the past couple of years have set UUID on partitions,

Re: PATCH: Make Acer Extensa 50X Sound work without hanging the

Hello, On 19-May-2001 Alan Cox wrote: >> since ages owners of a Extensa 50X notebook apply the following diff to the >> kernel to make the sound work without hanging the whole system. > > With what sound card ? > opl3sa2. I use alsa 0.5.11. -- Bye, Michael Leun - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNumber Registrants]

[ Attribution is gone, so I just deleted it.. ] > > > > fd = open("/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8", O_RDWR); > > > > > > Hmm, there might be problem with this. How do you change speed without > > > reopening device? [Remember: your mice knows when you close device] The naming scheme is not

mount misbehaviour?

Hi! I just had small surprise with 2.4.0: root@bug:/zip# mount /zip root@bug:/zip# ls -al total 8 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Dec 1 08:29 . drwxr-xr-x 31 65534root 4096 Apr 24 20:56 .. root@bug:/zip# cd /zip root@bug:/zip# ls -al total 22182 drwxr-xr-x4 root

Re: alpha iommu fixes

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 03:55:02PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Reading the tsunami specs I learnt 1 tlb entry caches 8 pagetables (not 1) > so the tlb flush will be invalidate immediatly by any PCI DMA run after > the flush on any of the other 7 mappings cached in the same tlb entry. I have

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants]

Hi! > > > > > fd = open("/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8", O_RDWR); > > > > > > > > Hmm, there might be problem with this. How do you change speed without > > > > reopening device? [Remember: your mice knows when you close device] > > The naming scheme is not a replacement for these kinds of i

Re: mount misbehaviour?

> root@bug:/zip# mount /zip > root@bug:/zip# ls -al > total 8 > drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Dec 1 08:29 . > drwxr-xr-x 31 65534root 4096 Apr 24 20:56 .. > root@bug:/zip# cd /zip > root@bug:/zip# ls -al > total 22182 > ... > Is that okay? Yes. Your working directory

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNumber Registrants]

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Well, if we did something like modify(int fd, char *how), you could do > > modify(0, "nonblock,9600") What you're really proposing is to make ioctl's be ASCII strings. Which is not necessarily a bad idea, and I think plan9 did something similar (o

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Signal-per-fd for RT signals

Vitaly Luban wrote: > > Hi, > > the form of POLL_... This will bring functionality of RT > signals event notification on the level with 'select' or > 'poll' one, while more efficient and scalable. If there's > an interest in such a feature, I'd be eager to publish a > patch. > > Thanks, >

Re: Getting FS access events

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > resume from disk is actually pretty hard to do in way it is readed linearily. > > While playing with swsusp patches (== suspend to disk) I found out that > it was slow. It needs to do atomic snapshot, and only reasonable way to > do that is free half

Re: Getting FS access events

Hi! > > resume from disk is actually pretty hard to do in way it is readed linearily. > > > > While playing with swsusp patches (== suspend to disk) I found out that > > it was slow. It needs to do atomic snapshot, and only reasonable way to > > do that is free half of RAM, cli() and copy. > >

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants]

Hi! > > Well, if we did something like modify(int fd, char *how), you could do > > > > modify(0, "nonblock,9600") > > What you're really proposing is to make ioctl's be ASCII strings. Yup. > Which is not necessarily a bad idea, and I think plan9 did something > similar (or rather, if I remem

Re: Getting FS access events

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Don't get _too_ hung up about the power-management kind of "invisible > > suspend/resume" sequence where you resume the whole kernel state. > > Ugh. Now I'm confused. How do you do usefull resume from disk when you > don't restore complete state? D

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNumber Registrants]

Linus Torvalds wrote: > > [ Attribution is gone, so I just deleted it.. ] > > > > > > fd = open("/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8", O_RDWR); > > > > > > > > Hmm, there might be problem with this. How do you change speed without > > > > reopening device? [Remember: your mice knows when you clo

VIA politics (was: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch)

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:11:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > This are the latest suggestions for handling the VIA Southbridge bug as > > derived from the hardware site www.au-ja.de (Many thanks to doelf). > > I'd rather people left this except for the obvious fixed that were done for > non VIA n

Re: Potential help for VIA problems and ASUS motherboards

John Cavan wrote: > > Hi, > > I've seen a lot of messages regarding problems with the VIA chipset... > I've experienced them myself. > > Anyways, I just put in a new ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard, BIOS revision > 1004. Once installed, I ran into a raft of problems when IO-APIC was > enabled... and d

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants]

On Saturday 19 May 2001 21:43, Pavel Machek wrote: > I think that plan9 uses something different -- they have ttyS0 and > ttyS0ctl. This would leave us with problem "how do I get handle to > ttyS0ctl when I only have handle to ttyS0"? One possibility is to add multiforked (multi-stream) file supp

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:17:50PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:18:15PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote: > > > With the current LABEL= support, you won't be able to mount the disks with > > duplicate labels, but you can still mount them via /dev/sd. > > Or

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 09:38:03PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > > But /dev/sda/offset=234234,limit=626737537 isn't a file! ls it and see > > if it's there. writing to files that aren't shown in directory listings > > is plain evil. I really don't want to explain why. It's extremely > > messy and unin

Re: alpha iommu fixes

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 02:48:15PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > This is incorrect. If you want directly mapped PCI window then you don't > need the iommu_arena for it. If you want scatter-gather mapping, you > should write address of the SG page table into the T3_BASE register. i've tried both

serpent loopback crypto "EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted"

hi, i created a 10mb file called .enc2 with random data and ran "# losetup -e serpent -k 128 /dev/loop0 /mnt/hda7/.enc2" then i ran "# mke2fs /dev/loop0" and tried to "# mount /dev/loop0 /enc". but i get the following error messages when trying to mount: May 19 21:32:10 HOST2 kernel: EXT2-fs err

[PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 aironet fixes

Hi, The following patch fixes aironet drivers. It contains - fixed Config.in to disable non-working configurations (PNP without isapnp, built-in ISA or I365) - marked __init/__devinit/__devinitdata some initial code/variables - disable (#if 0) currently unused function (awc4500_pnp_hw_reset) -

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are > > trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also > > why magic numbers tend to suck in the VM.) > > Magi

[PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

>From kufel!root Sat May 19 23:39:35 2001 Return-Path: Received: from kufel.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by green.mif.pg.gda.pl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id XAA02226 for green.mif.pg.gda.pl!ankry; Sat, 19 May 2001 23:39:35 +0200 Received: (from root@localhost) by kufel.dom (8.9.3/

2.4.4 del_timer_sync oops in schedule_timeout

This is 2.4.4 with the aic7xxx driver version 6.1.13 dropped in. The oops got eaten by klogd, my apologies, but it seems sane even so. I haven't tried newer -ac or -pre kernels so I'm sure it's probably already fixed there but just in case it isn't... kdm[350]: Server for display :0 terminated

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

Alan Cox wrote: >>Second, how many kernels does Redhat ship in order to have one for >>386/486/586/k6/Athlon . . . . >>Quite a pain in the ass. And look at how much shit has to be built in >>in order to get a kernel that works for everybody! People bitch at >>Microsoft for doing it, then tur

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

Patch looks decent. Adding module descriptions was quite nice. One flaw that is repeated multiple times is that you add #ifdef MODULE printk(version); #endif in an ISA driver's probe routine. This instead should always be the first operation of init_module. Also make

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 aironet fixes

Patch looks generally ok. Comments: * you forgot to cc Elmer Joandi, the maintainer, who wakes up every now and then :) * When is aironet4500_card version string printed, for the modular case? * did you actually trace the code paths to mark sure code marked __init was never called by the pcmcia h

Has anybody a working pppoed for 2.4 (2.4.4-ac10/11)?

I have pppoed-0.48b1-6, ppp-2.4.0-5 (SuSE 7.1) but it didn't work (with kernel pppoe.o/pppox.o). So I have to use rp-pppoe-2.5-5 (which should be slower I've heard) for the German Telekom ADSL (product name TDSL). Thanks, Dieter -- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science Univ

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

On Sat, May 19 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: > /dev/raw* Where? I can't find it in my .config (grep RAW .config). I am > using 2.4.4-ac11 and playing w/ 2.4.5-pre3. It's automagically included, no config options necessary (drivers/char/raw.c) -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNumber Registrants]

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Well, if we did something like modify(int fd, char *how), you could do > > > > modify(0, "nonblock,9600") > > What you're really proposing is to make ioctl's be ASCII strings. > > Which is not

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNumber Registrants]

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > I thought about how to do networking without sockets, and it seems to > me like this kind of modify syscall is needed, because network sockets > connect to *two* different places (one local address and one > remote). Sockets are really nasty :-(. Pave

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

> No, my point was, if I don't have SCSI or RAID on this box, I don't want > them to be built into the kernel! They arent built into the kernel. I still think you have your facts confused - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

> > Three back to back make -j 30 runs for three different kernels. > > Swap cache numbers are taken immediately after last completion. > > The performance increase is nice, though. Do you see similar > changes in different kinds of workloads ? I you have a patch against 2.4.4-ac11 I will do som

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:11:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > If it had been a manufacturer in most respectable areas of business they'd be > recalling and reissuing components, and paying for the end resllers to notify > each customer This is consumer hardware. Consumer products are optimized for

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

Here's a dumb question, and I apologize if I am questioning computer science dogma... Why are LVM and EVMS(competing LVM project) needed at all? Surely the same can be accomplished with * md * snapshot blkdev (attached in previous e-mail) * giving partitions and blkdevs the ability to grow and s

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

> This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's > so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either > of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it. > > This sort of thing would never ship in CML2, because the compiler > would t

Re: alpha iommu fixes

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:46:17PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > -void > -cia_pci_tbi(struct pci_controller *hose, dma_addr_t start, dma_addr_t end) > -{ > - wmb(); > - *(vip)CIA_IOC_PCI_TBIA = 3; /* Flush all locked and unlocked. */ > - mb(); > - *(vip)CIA_IOC_PCI_TBIA; > -

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote: > > This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's > > so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either > > of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it. > > > > This so

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote: > > This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's > > so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either > > of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it. > > > > This so

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sat, May 19 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: > > /dev/raw* Where? I can't find it in my .config (grep RAW .config). I am > > using 2.4.4-ac11 and playing w/ 2.4.5-pre3. > > It's automagically included, no config options necessary > (drivers/char/raw.c)

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete >and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such >that it can be passed directly to printk like > > printk(version); Ni

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

Miles Lane wrote: > > On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote: > > > This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's > > > so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either > > > of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

Keith Owens wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400, > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete > >and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such > >that it can be passed directly to printk like

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> As a result the system performance goes down. I'm still able to use >> my applications, but es every single piece of unused memory is swapped >> out, and swapping in costs a certain amount of time. > >That's why streamin

Re: alpha iommu fixes

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:11:31PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 03:55:02PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Reading the tsunami specs I learnt 1 tlb entry caches 8 pagetables (not 1) > > so the tlb flush will be invalidate immediatly by any PCI DMA run after > > the fl

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

On Sat, 19 May 2001 22:14:33 -0400, Ben Bridgwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To present a dumbed down UI targeted for "Aunt Millie" or >whoever against the protests of the mainstream kernel tool audience >makes zero sense to me, as don't Eric's repeated antagonistic comments. How many times do

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are > > > trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also > > >

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > Three back to back make -j 30 runs for three different kernels. > > > Swap cache numbers are taken immediately after last completion. > > > > The performance increase is nice, though. Do you see similar > > changes in different kinds of workloads ?

kernel.org: 2.4.5-pre4 missing ChangeLog info

Someone add the changelog info to kernel.org? merci. Shawn. - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: kernel.org: 2.4.5-pre4 missing ChangeLog info - scratch that

It's in ChangeLog but not patch-2.4.5.log. Shawn. On Sat, 19 May 2001, Shawn Starr wrote: > Someone add the changelog info to kernel.org? > > merci. > > Shawn. > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majo

[PATCH] ide-pci.c for 2.4.5-pre4

There's an error in ide-pci.c that prevented it from compiling 2.4.5-pre4. Try this. Thanks, Jeff [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] --- drivers/ide/ide-pci.c Sun May 20 11:56:48 2001 +++ drivers/ide/ide-pci.c.new Sun May 20 11:56:45 2001 @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ /*

ethtool and pre4

pre4 is out, and a couple ethernet drivers have gained support for ethtool. In order to take advantage of the new support, you can download ethtool 1.2 from http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ or check it out of CVS (instruction at the above URL). -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you have to mak

ATA/ATAPI driver development

I'm getting ready to make some changes to the ide-floppy driver (to support dynamic media change notification), and after spending a few days reviewing most of the IDE driver code (ide, ide-disk, ide-cd, ide-floppy and ide-probe), I think I've got a good handle on what needs to be done. However, s

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > > > That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are > > > > trying to solve is fu

[polynomial-c@gmx.de: Re: SCSI CD problems]

- Forwarded message from Poly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Poly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SCSI CD problems Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 18:11:14 +0200 Hi, I'm not at the kernel-mailinglist so maybe you can forward this message to them.

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