Re: via-rhine DFE-530TX rev A1

2001-05-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
Yiping Chen wrote: > > Yes, please download the newest driver from D-Link, becuase the > Win98 will change to D3 mode after it boot. > So the Mac address can't be fetch in Linux. Most drivers read the EEPROM in their probe phase to present this sort of problem. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief,

Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 (105a:4d68)

2001-05-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
Hi Eberhard, I have fixed that some time ago but patches are not being accepted. On Thu, 31 May 2001, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:35:27 +0200 (MET DST) > From: Eberhard Moenkeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Promise Ultra100 TX2 (105a:4d68)

Oops with 2.4.5-ac3

2001-05-31 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
Hello! I've just got an oops with the 2.4.5-ac3 kernel. I have attached the log to this mail. I have also having more random dead locks, but I haven't catch any log of them. If I manage to get some logs, I'll send here also. Anyway, 2.4.5-ac3 is much more stable in my computer th

Re: 2.2.19 and LFS patch?

2001-05-31 Thread christophe barbé
Sistina (www.sistina.com) provides one in its last GFS release (v4.1). This pach IIRC is based on the SUSE one. Christophe On Wed, 30 May 2001 23:54:16 David Hajek wrote: > Hi, > > where can I get large file system (LFS) patch > for 2.2.19? > > > Thanks. > > -- > David Hajek > [EMAIL PROTE

RE: via-rhine DFE-530TX rev A1

2001-05-31 Thread Frank Eichentopf
> Yes, please download the newest driver from D-Link, becuase the > Win98 will change to D3 mode after it boot. > So the Mac address can't be fetch in Linux. We running the newest driver from dlink but the problem was´nt fix. I would contact dlink today , be stay tuned. - To unsubscribe from this

RE: via-rhine DFE-530TX rev A1

2001-05-31 Thread Yiping Chen
Are you sure. What's the version of your driver. Please tell me. It's important. I remember we have fixed it already. -Original Message- From: Frank Eichentopf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: via-rhine DFE-530TX rev A1

Re: Oops with 2.4.5-ac3

2001-05-31 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:45:56AM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: >I've just got an oops with the 2.4.5-ac3 kernel. I have attached the log > to this mail. I have also having more random dead locks, but I haven't > catch any log of them. If I manage to get some logs, I'll send her

Re: 2.4.5 still breaks dhcpcd with 8139too

2001-05-31 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I see that Alan has reverted back to the 2.4.3 driver for his ac-series for > > other reasons, hopefully either the old driver will going in to 2.4.6 or the > > new one will get fixed? > > I've got one of the two problems fixed here at the test lab, an

UDP SERVER IN KERNEL MODE

2001-05-31 Thread Angela Picariello
Hi all, I'm implementing a server udp in kernel mode. I've many difficult to find an example. I've kernel version 2.2.16. (Anyway I accept every suggest). Can you help me? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: via-rhine DFE-530TX rev A1

2001-05-31 Thread Frank Eichentopf
>Are you sure. What's the version of your driver. Please tell me. It's >important. >I remember we have fixed it already. The driver version (dlkfet.sys) is 2.52 from 08/06/2000. this is the lastest driver from the original dlink site. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: how to crash 2.4.4 w/SBLive

2001-05-31 Thread rui.sousa
Thank you for the trace. Patch attached, please test it out. Rui Sousa P.S: in the future always CC emu10k1-devel, or instead of a 7 day delay in getting something fixed the message might just get lost. On Thu, 24 May 2001, David Raufeisen wrote: > May 24 10:58:05 prototype kernel: Unable to

Re: pte_page

2001-05-31 Thread mdaljeet
I am doing a DMA from a card to system memory. The system memory "physical address" is '0x104000'. I am doing this on x86 with kernel version 2.4.2. Can this address be the address of a user space buffer? Regards, Daljeet. |+---> || Ingo Molnar | |

Re: insl/outsl in parport_pc and !CONFIG_PCI

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:11:56AM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Will 4 * inb() cycles have the same effect as 1 * inl() cycle for an EPP > mode read? 4 inb() cycles on the same port, yes, I think so (but not on successive ports). Tim. */ PGP signature

NULL characters in file on ReiserFS again.

2001-05-31 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
This happened to me yesterday on kernel-2.4.4-6mdk (Mandrake cooker, based on 2.4.4-ac14), single reiser root filesystem, mounted with default options. Hardware - ASUS CUSL2 (i815e chipset), Fujitsu UDMA-4 drive. I tried to change hostname and did not have the corresponding entry in /etc/hosts (o

Re: determining size of cdrom

2001-05-31 Thread Jeff Meininger
> > long sectors = 0; > > ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE, §ors); > > /* sectors varies (never seems accurate) and is usually LONG_MAX */ > > At least this is the capacity as reported by the drive when we read the > table of contents. Am I interpreting the return value incorrectly? I nearly always get 2

Re: UDP server in Kernel mode

2001-05-31 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:23:16AM +0200, Angela Picariello wrote: > Subject: UDP SERVER IN KERNEL MODE Not with ALL CAPS, please - that is considered equivalent of shouting.. > Hi all, > > I'm implementing a server udp in kernel mode. > I've many difficult to find an example. > > I've kerne

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] 4 ports ETH cards

2001-05-31 Thread poptix
> Because the D-Link cards were less than half of the nearest > competitor [ < $180 vs > $360 for others and Compac was > $2400! ] I I have to comment on this one, the Compaq cards (NC3131 and NC3134) are ~$210 and come with two ports, upgradable with another 2 port module (daughterboard) y

Fiber Channel Driver

2001-05-31 Thread christophe barbé
Hi, I'm currently trying the Fiber Channel driver for the isp2x00 chip. This driver supports both SCSI and IP. I've some questions about the implementation. I've made some unsuccessfull internet search. The better URL I've found is the following one : http://www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/

reiserfs_read_inode2

2001-05-31 Thread Lukasz Trabinski
Hello What it's means? portraits:~# dmesg vs-13042: reiserfs_read_inode2: [2299 593873 0x0 SD] not found vs-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (2299 593873) not found vs-13042: reiserfs_read_inode2: [2299 593807 0x0 SD] not found vs-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (2299

Re: [PATCH] Procfs Guide

2001-05-31 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:10:32PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So where can find the whole docbook ? I could not find under > linux/Documentation directory. The "docbook" is SGML DTD suite. Analogous to "lets write it in HTML.." See readymade packages needed to convert DOCBOOK style

Re: [ PATCH ]: disable pcspeaker kernel: 2.4.2 - 2.4.5

2001-05-31 Thread Nico Schottelius
Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2001 17:25, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Nico Schottelius wrote: > > > > the default value is 0, that is good enough. > > > > > > hmm.. I don't think so... value of 1 would be much better, because > > > 0 normally disables the speaker. >

Sound card lockup on 2.4.5-ac4 and -ac5

2001-05-31 Thread Ben Twijnstra
Hi there, As of 2.4.5-ac4 (maybe -ac3 too), my sound card (a cs46xx) has stopped working. Looks like there's something wrong with the interrupt handling code because the device remains busy, I get weird lockups after having run and ^C-ed sndconfig. Also, when I look at /proc/interrupts after s

Re: reiserfs_read_inode2

2001-05-31 Thread Chris Mason
On Thursday, May 31, 2001 02:27:26 PM +0200 Lukasz Trabinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > What it's means? > > portraits:~# dmesg > vs-13042: reiserfs_read_inode2: [2299 593873 0x0 SD] not found > vs-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (2299 593873) not found > vs-13042: r

losetup fails (-EINVAL) over tmpfs

2001-05-31 Thread Matt Bernstein
This is very probably already known, but it broke the RH71 mkinitrd for me until I changed its temporary files to be created on /var/tmp :) - 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.k

Re: NULL characters in file on ReiserFS again.

2001-05-31 Thread Chris Mason
On Thursday, May 31, 2001 03:33:06 PM +0400 Andrej Borsenkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This happened to me yesterday on kernel-2.4.4-6mdk (Mandrake cooker, based > on 2.4.4-ac14), single reiser root filesystem, mounted with default > options. Hardware - ASUS CUSL2 (i815e chipset), Fujitsu UD

APIC problem or 3com 3c590 driver problem in smp kernel 2.4.x

2001-05-31 Thread Feng Xian
Hi, all, I have one pci device in my dell optiplex gx300 dual pIII box. when this device in a certain pci slot, it shares the same IRQ with the on mother board 3com NIC(3c905) (irq=5). when I run the kernel smp-2.4.x, my PCI device can not receive any interrupt while the /proc/interrupts shows th

Re: 2.2.19 and LFS patch?

2001-05-31 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:51:00AM +0200, christophe barb=E9 wrote: > Sistina (www.sistina.com) provides one in its last GFS release (v4.1)= =2E This > pach IIRC is based on the SUSE one. yes. You can always find the latest and greatest LFS in my 2.2 tree (I also accept patches regularly for it):

kernel BUG at inode.c:486!

2001-05-31 Thread Steinar Hauan
hello, over the last few days, i've started to get several error messages of the following type: kernel: kernel BUG at inode.c:486! kernel: invalid operand: kernel: CPU:1 kernel: EIP:0010:[clear_inode+53/256] kernel: EIP:0010:[] kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2 examples with ful

RE: [patch] ioapic-2.4.5-A1

2001-05-31 Thread Ben Twijnstra
Hi Ingo, This fixes the "unexpected APIC" warning on my dual-Xeon board. Thanks! Ben - 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

sk_buff question

2001-05-31 Thread Emmanuel Varagnat
I need to had a header to the data in the sk_buff. But what to do if there is no enough space left at the head ? I saw skb_copy_expand, but it gives me a new sk_buff. Is there a way to expand the headroom and keep the pointer on the sk_buff ? Thanks -Manu - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-31 Thread Harald Welte
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:40:30PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Harald Welte writes: > > > Is there any way to read out the compile-time HZ value of the kernel? > > > > I had a brief look at /proc/* and didn't find anything. > > Look again, this time with a sick mind. Got your barf bag? >

RE: Makefile patch for cscope and saner Ctags

2001-05-31 Thread Khachaturov, Vassilii
Great stuff. May I suggest adding -k to the cscope cmdline: > + cscope -b -I include should become + cscope -b -k -I include Also, I think you should separate cscope.files creation into a different rule, and make the cscope target depend on it and on the files in it. (Like the stuff

[UPDATE] Directory index for ext2

2001-05-31 Thread Daniel Phillips
Changes: - Freshen to 2.4.5 - EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX flag finalized - Break up ext2_add_entry for aesthetic reasons (Al Viro) - Handle more than 64K directories per directory (Andreas Dilger) - Bug fix: new inode no longer inherits index flag (Andreas Dilger) - Bug fix: correct

Sysctl problem

2001-05-31 Thread Emmanuel Varagnat
I registered a new directory and its tree in the proc filesystem with some register_sysctl_table. And naturally I use unregister_sysctl_table when the module is unloaded. And everything seems to work fine. Execpt that I can't read the corresponding data with the 'cat' command. A 'strace' shows m

Re: APIC problem or 3com 3c590 driver problem in smp kernel 2.4.x

2001-05-31 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Feng Xian wrote: > when I run the kernel smp-2.4.x, my PCI > device can not receive any interrupt while the /proc/interrupts shows that > 3c905 receives over million of interrupts and number grows very fast. That's a bit strange as one of the first things done in 3c59x ISR i

No Subject

2001-05-31 Thread Jonas Diemer
Hello! I hope this is the right place for my request. I have heard about a VIA sytem timer bug. I have a Via KX-133 (for athlon) board and the following problem: Once the bug is triggered, the system timer goes crazy (i think it is the system timer, i am not sure). following things happen the

[PATCH] for Matrox FB config help

2001-05-31 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! This patch moves the sentence about multihead support where it belongs, i.e. to CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD, and removes it where it's meaningless, i.e. from CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MAVEN and CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G450. The patch is against 2.4.5-ac5. --- linux.orig/Docum

Re: APIC problem or 3com 3c590 driver problem in smp kernel 2.4.x

2001-05-31 Thread Feng Xian
I am not sure if it's a VIA-based board. It's Dell's SMP board with Intel 820 chipset on it. -[00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 82820 820 (Camino) Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) +-01.0-[01]00.0 nVidia Corporation Vanta [NV6] +-1e.0-[02-03]--+-0a.0-[03]00.0 Chrysalis-ITS: c0de

Re: APIC problem or 3com 3c590 driver problem in smp kernel 2.4.x

2001-05-31 Thread Feng Xian
The driver for my pci device, I have the SA_SHIRQ set. Actually what I am thinking it may be APIC support problem. I rebuild my kernel to use single cpu without APIC support, my device and 3c905 both work fine. they don't work for SMP kernel (APIC is by default enabled) Then I configured my uni-p

Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-31 Thread Nivedita Singhvi
> >the Netgear FA311/2 (tulip). Found that the link lost > >connectivity because of card lockups and transmit timeout > >failures - and some of these were silent. However, I moved > >to the 3C905C (3c59x driver) which behaved like a champ, and > I'm a little confused here - do you mean the FA310T

No Subject

2001-05-31 Thread Ramil . Santamaria
Minor issue with bootsect.s. The single instance of the lds assembly instruction includes the comment of ! ds:si is source ... seg fs lds si,(bx)! ds:si is source ... Is this comment not in reverse order (i.e should be lds dest,src) Ramil J.Santamaria Toshiba Ameri

Re: reiserfs_read_inode2

2001-05-31 Thread Lukasz Trabinski
In article <87771.991317458@tiny> you wrote: >> portraits:~# dmesg >> vs-13042: reiserfs_read_inode2: [2299 593873 0x0 SD] not found >> vs-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (2299 593873) not found >> vs-13042: reiserfs_read_inode2: [2299 593807 0x0 SD] not found >> vs-13048: reiser

Re: NULL characters in file on ReiserFS again.

2001-05-31 Thread Hans Reiser
Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > This happened to me yesterday on kernel-2.4.4-6mdk (Mandrake cooker, based > on 2.4.4-ac14), single reiser root filesystem, mounted with default options. > Hardware - ASUS CUSL2 (i815e chipset), Fujitsu UDMA-4 drive. > > I tried to change hostname and did not have the

Re: File read

2001-05-31 Thread Lee Ho
I wrote some functions for file handling in kernel module. Check the source : http://linuxkernel.to/klib/klib/src/fileio.c (The basic idea is from khttpd) This is part of my personal klib (kernel library) project. You can download the full source : http://klib.sourceforge.net/download/klib.tar

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-31 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Look again, this time with a sick mind. Got your barf bag? > > Kubys made me do it. > > ;) > > First of all thanks for your recommended solution. > It's not *recommended*.

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-31 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 31 May 2001 02:44, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > At 1:38 AM +0100 2001-05-31, Joel Becker wrote: > >On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:24:37PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > >> FWIW (perhaps not much in this context), the POSIX way is > >>sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) > >> > >> POSIX sysconf is pretty

Re: Plain 2.4.5 VM... (and 2.4.5-ac3)

2001-05-31 Thread Benjamin Redelings I
Vincent Stemen wrote: > The problem is, that's not true. These problems are not slipping > through because of lack of testers. Just to add some sanity to this thread, I have been using the 2.4.x kernels ever since they came out, on my personal workstation and on some workstations that

Re: Makefile patch for cscope and saner Ctags

2001-05-31 Thread Pete Wyckoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The following patch generates saner Ctags and will build cscope > output. It's against 2.4.5 > > --- Makefile.old Mon May 28 22:44:01 2001 > +++ Makefile Wed May 30 17:50:01 2001 > @@ -334,11 +334,32 @@ > > # Exuberant ctags works better with -I > tags: dummy

Odd Problem with onboard 3com card

2001-05-31 Thread Alan
I am seeing an odd problem with a single processor board running a 3com chipset. eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xd800, 00:e0:18:0b:10:e3, IRQ 4 product code rev 00.14 date 15-31-127 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. MII transceiver found at addr

Re: how to crash 2.4.4 w/SBLive

2001-05-31 Thread David Raufeisen
Hi, I used this patch on 2.4.5, still oops's .. Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol __VERSIONED_SYMBOL(shmem_file_setup) not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Code: 0f b7 a8 84 40 00 00 8d 7d 04 89 54 24 18 8d b4 26 00 00 00 Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i38

Re: Makefile patch for cscope and saner Ctags

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Frazer
Khachaturov, Vassilii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01/05/31 12:12]: > Great stuff. May I suggest adding -k to the cscope cmdline: > > > + cscope -b -I include > > should become > + cscope -b -k -I include The cscope on my RH7.0 box didn't take -k! [root@mjftest linux-2.4.5]# ls -l cscope.files -

no sound with CS4281 card

2001-05-31 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi, my notebook (Toshiba 1755) comes with CS4281 built-in, with all 2.4 kernels I tried this sound card doesn't generate any sound, or interrupts for that matter. The driver detects the card fine, but doesn't seem to be able to do anything with it, on 2.4.5-ac2: /proc/pci Bus 0, de

Re: Makefile patch for cscope and saner Ctags

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Frazer
Pete Wyckoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01/05/31 13:56]: > > You seem not to have read my response to your earlier mail proprosing > such a thing (for tags only, not cscope): > > http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2001week21/1869.html I did. I didn't want to sign up to maintain the c

Panic in initrd umount on 2.4.5 with analysis and fix

2001-05-31 Thread James Bottomley
This is an interesting one, the panic is: Trying to unmount old root ... <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0011 c018bf0d *pde = Oops: CPU:2 EIP:0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: 0001

Re: [PATCH] reclaim dirty dead swapcache pages

2001-05-31 Thread Vasco Figueira
Hi, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > I tested it and yes, it works. (...) > Please test. I've tested it against vanilla 2.4.5 and it resolves the freeze problem, though: I've opened x, gnome, mozilla, mozilla -mail, 3 gnome-terminals, pan, xmms, some files and javac. Swap was totally filled up and

PROBLEM: isdn connecting error(auth failed) with 2.4.4-ac9 and 2.4.5

2001-05-31 Thread CZUCZY Gergely
Hi! Here come the bugreport: 1: isdn connecting error(auth failed) with 2.4.4-ac9 and 2.4.5 2.: when trying to connect to my ISP with kernels 2.4.4-ac9 and 2.4.5 it always drops my connection with this(from syslog): May 27 15:00:50 kign kernel: ippp0: dialing 1 0651201201... May 27 15:00:51 kign

Re: [Emu10k1-devel] Re: how to crash 2.4.4 w/SBLive

2001-05-31 Thread rui.sousa
On Thu, 31 May 2001, David Raufeisen wrote: > Hi, > > I used this patch on 2.4.5, still oops's .. But now it progressed a bit more ;) > > >>EIP; c01b91eb<= > Trace; c01bc853 > Trace; c01b86c4 > Trace; c01b8666 > Trace; c01b4f4f > Trace; c012cf46 > Trace; c0106bab > New patch att

union mounting file systems...

2001-05-31 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I just read the "Wonderful world of linux (2.4)", where it's said that the Linux kernel 2.4 supports so-called union mounted file systems. I recently downloaded the RedHat 7.1 distribution and loop-back mounted the CD's to be able to install over ftp, but no... RedHat's install script remi

interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread thunder7
Hardware: Abit VP6 (Via 694x) x86/SMP motherboard with USB controller If I set the bios for MPS 1.1, USB runs fine. If I set the bios for MPS 1.4, I get this: May 31 13:08:06 middle kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 4 May 31 13:08:09 middle kernel: usb_con

Scsi data parity errors on aix7xxx in kernel 2.4.5

2001-05-31 Thread Alok K. Dhir
Running kernel 2.4.5 with two scsi controllers - scsi0 is a sym53c8xx, scsi1 is aic7xxx. For the last month or so, I've been getting the following error in my syslog 10 or so times a day: - May 31 14:09:51 dog kernel: scsi1: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x8e May 31 14:09:51 dog kernel

RE: Makefile patch for cscope and saner Ctags

2001-05-31 Thread Khachaturov, Vassilii
> From: Mark Frazer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Khachaturov, Vassilii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Great stuff. May I suggest adding -k to the cscope cmdline: > > + cscope -b -k -I include > > The cscope on my RH7.0 box didn't take -k! > [root@mjftest linux-2.4.5]# cscope -b -k -I include > cscope

RE: Scsi data parity errors on aix7xxx in kernel 2.4.5

2001-05-31 Thread Alok K. Dhir
Forgot to mention (in case it matters) that I'm running ReiserFS on sdd6 which is hanging off of scsi1. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alok K. Dhir > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Scsi da

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:39:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What information would be necessary to debug this? Which kernel version? greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at h

[PATCH] simple_strtoull export

2001-05-31 Thread Jason McMullan
Missing kernel export for 'simple_strtoull' diff -u --recursive --new-file 2.4.5/kernel/ksyms.c 2.4.5.fixed/kernel/ksyms.c --- 2.4.5/kernel/ksyms.cWed May 30 10:13:14 2001 +++ 2.4.5.fixed/kernel/ksyms.cThu May 31 12:15:49 2001 @@ -461,6 +461,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdevname); EXPORT_

Re: [PATCH] reclaim dirty dead swapcache pages

2001-05-31 Thread Vasco Figueira
Hi again, Vasco Figueira wrote: >I've opened x, gnome, mozilla, mozilla -mail, 3 gnome-terminals, pan, >xmms, some files and javac. Swap was totally filled up and it didn't >froze (good!). However suddently it came very busy (i thougth it was >going to freeze again), the music stopped, an

Re: [Ext2-devel] [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2

2001-05-31 Thread Andreas Dilger
Daniel, you write: > - Fall back to linear search in case of corrupted index OK, I have _some_ of the code needed to do this, but in one case I'm not sure of what your intention was - in dx_probe() you check for "unused_flags & 1" to signal a bad/unsupported index. Why only check the low bit i

Re: [lkml]Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread thunder7
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:06:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:39:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What information would be necessary to debug this? > > Which kernel version? > > greg k-h > 2.4.5-ac4, but I rebooted in 2.4.4 and it did the same. I'll try and add

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread Arjan van de Ven
José Luis Domingo López wrote: > > On Thursday, 31 May 2001, at 13:24:54 -0400, > Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Configure.help master > > file is now complete with respect to 2.4.5. Every single one of the > > 2699 configuration symbols actually us

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:48:35PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:06:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:39:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What information would be necessary to debug this? > > > > Which kernel version? > > > > greg

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > José Luis Domingo López wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 31 May 2001, at 13:24:54 -0400, > > Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > > > It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Configure.help master > > > file is now complete with respect to 2.4.5. Ever

RE: union mounting file systems...

2001-05-31 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
well... I just wondered how to (if possible) union mount two or more filesystems on a single mount point. The point that I want to bypass a bug/weakness in RedHat's installer is not really the case. I've tried to search the kernel mailing list archive, and find it's possible with mount -o union .

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread BH
Great work, its nice to see none, or fewer No help availables in the kernel configuration. Some quick glances: Linux Kernel v2.4.5-ac5 Configuration CML1 Bottom of IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices; < > Support Promise software RAID (NEW) -> Help There is no help available for this kernel opt

Re: [lkml]Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread Manfred Spraul
> > I know that with MPS 1.4, the USB controller finds itself at an > unshared interrupt 19. I can't reboot at the moment to check. > lspci -vxxx -s 00:07.0 the APIC sits in the southbridge. the low 2 bits of offset 0x58 must be set [route USB IRQ to APIC], and lspci -vx -s 00:07.2 offset 0

Re: [lkml]Re: [lkml]Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread thunder7
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:21:55PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > > > I know that with MPS 1.4, the USB controller finds itself at an > > unshared interrupt 19. I can't reboot at the moment to check. > > > lspci -vxxx -s 00:07.0 > > the APIC sits in the southbridge. > the low 2 bits of offse

RE: no sound with CS4281 card

2001-05-31 Thread Woller, Thomas
I'll send the latest driver that I have via separate email. Toshiba refuses to supply equipment, and there are some design issues with Toshiba laptops. I recently sent a driver to another Toshiba owner and he had good luck with the latest driver. I have never seen any Toshiba laptop not generate

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread Arjan van de Ven
BH wrote: > > Great work, its nice to see none, or fewer No help availables in the kernel > configuration. > Some quick glances: > > Linux Kernel v2.4.5-ac5 Configuration > CML1 > > Bottom of IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices; > > < > Support Promise software RAID (NEW) -> Help > There is no

fork/open race results in wasted fd

2001-05-31 Thread Brian J. Watson
Two tasks (A & B) share the same files_struct. A calls open() at the same time as B calls fork(). After A runs get_unused_fd() but before it calls fd_install(), B runs copy_files(). It looks like the result is one of the bits is set in B's open_fds field with no corresponding file pointer in its

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Linux Kernel v2.4.5-ac5 Configuration > > CML1 > > > > Bottom of IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices; > > > > < > Support Promise software RAID (NEW) -> Help > > There is no help available for this kernel option. > > How about > "Say "Y" or "M" if you ha

Re: [lkml]Re: [lkml]Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread Manfred Spraul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) > Subsystem: Unknown device 0925:1234 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 > I/O ports at a000 [size=32] > Capabilities: [80] Power Ma

Re: Makefile patch for cscope and saner Ctags

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Frazer
Khachaturov, Vassilii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01/05/31 15:00]: > Don't forget to bug RH package maintainer on that. Whatever bugzilla submitted > I use source-built cscope v.15.1, and -k works for me here, works for me too! > WHY?! Isn't it better to put $(shell cat cscope.files) on the list of

2.4.5 crash on boot, SMP Alpha

2001-05-31 Thread Jay Thorne
Further variations on a theme. 2.4.4-ac15 works like a charm on these machines. -- Jay Thorne Manager, Systems & Technology, UserFriendly Media, Inc. ksymoops 2.4.0 on alpha 2.4.4-ac15. Options used -V (default) -K (specified) -L (specified) -o /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac5/ (spe

Re: [Ext2-devel] [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2

2001-05-31 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 31 May 2001 21:44, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Daniel, you write: > > - Fall back to linear search in case of corrupted index > > OK, I have _some_ of the code needed to do this, but in one case I'm > not sure of what your intention was - in dx_probe() you check for > "unused_flags & 1"

include/asm-sparc/ptrace.h is broken

2001-05-31 Thread Felix von Leitner
on line 76, it includes , which does not exist. This is critical because this include file does not work when used from a libc. ptrace.h is from 1997 on my 2.4.5 kernel, so this is not something that broke recently. My suggestion is to remove the offending line altogether or at least protect it

Defragging/refragging IPv6 packets

2001-05-31 Thread Brad Chapman
Hello, My name is Brad Chapman and I am currently attempting to port the iptables ip_conntrack component of Netfilter to the IPv6 protocol. My port is almost feature-complete, but I cannot figure out how to properly defragment/refragment IPv6 packets. Also, I have written an IPv6 header parsin

Re: missing sysrq

2001-05-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > However, if I go to /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq does not exist. It is a compile time option, so the person who compiled your kernel left it out. > vm.freepages = 383 766 1149 tat feature is removed in recent VM Systems. Greetings Bernd - To unsubscribe fr

Re: your mail

2001-05-31 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
> > Minor issue with bootsect.s. 1. bootsect.S is the source file > The single instance of the lds assembly instruction includes the comment of > ! ds:si is source > ... > seg fs > lds si,(bx)! ds:si is source > ... > Is this comment not in reverse order (i.e should be lds > dest,

Re: unmount issues with 2.4.5-ac5, 3ware, and ReiserFS (was: kernel-2.4.5

2001-05-31 Thread Jordan
Alan Cox wrote: > > > I'm staying on 2.4.5-ac5 for whatever it's worth (putting my life on the > > line for the community? kidding...) and will report anything new. I will > > be on the lookout for later ac patches, 2.4.6 ... and hopefully anything > > anybody can share with me about this. I hope

Re: [CHECKER] 2.4.5-ac4 non-init functions calling init functions

2001-05-31 Thread Dawson Engler
> These are actual (performance) bugs. > Patch is appended. Thanks for the quick feedback! > BTW: I don't if you did so already, but if you extended the checker to > find functions which are only called from __init functions, but not > marked __init themselves, you'd most likely find lots more p

RE: no sound with CS4281 card

2001-05-31 Thread Woller, Thomas
I Can not reproduce the problem with 2.4.5-ac5 driver or with latest rev of the driver that I have been working on, or with any of the previous 4 internal releases back to early april. although I do not have a Toshiba laptop to test on and don't doubt that there might be a problem on your system.

Re: 2.4 freezes on VIA KT133

2001-05-31 Thread Tomas Styblo
It seems the problem is caused by some DMA related bug in the VIA chipset and/or in the Linux DMA-IDE VIA driver. I finnaly get rid of the freezes, by simply compiling the kernel completely without IDE-DMA support. Now hdparm shows disks do not use DMA and the system is stable, as far as I can say

Re: [Ext2-devel] [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2

2001-05-31 Thread Andreas Dilger
Daniel writes: > On Thursday 31 May 2001 21:44, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > I think Al's idea of doing the validation once on the initial > > read is a good one. > > I'm doing that in the current patch, for leaf blocks, look at > ext2_bread. For index blocks, ext2_bread needs help to know that a

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-31 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Peter Waltenberg wrote: > Yes, I know we have a chance of being rescheduled simply because "something > else" has also yielded. However thats fairly hit and miss. > > I don't disagree with your statement that thats how the interface should be > designed, but the most of the ap

2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Trever L. Adams
In my opinion 2.4.x is NOT ready for primetime. The VM has been getting worse since 2.4.0, I believe. Definitely since and including 2.4.3. I cannot even edit a few images in gimp where the entire working set used to fit entirely in memory. The system now locks in some loop (SAK still work

Re: AT keyboard optional on i386?

2001-05-31 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Pavel Roskin wrote: >> You can a few nice tricks with it like plug in two PS/2 keyboards. I >> have this for my home setup. The only thing is make sure you don't >> have both keyboards plugged in when you turn your PC on. I found BIOS >> get confused by two PS/2 keyboards. As

Re: [Emu10k1-devel] Re: how to crash 2.4.4 w/SBLive

2001-05-31 Thread David Raufeisen
Great, No more oops. Thanks On Thursday, 31 May 2001, at 20:33:54 (+0200), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2001, David Raufeisen wrote: > > But now it progressed a bit more ;) > > New patch attached. > -- David Raufeisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cell: (604) 818-3596 - To unsubscribe

[QUESTION] which routines must be re-entrant?

2001-05-31 Thread Dawson Engler
Is there an easy way to tell which routines must be re-entrant? (it doesn't have to be exhaustive, even an incomplete set is useful) I was going to write a checker to make sure supposedly re-entrant routines actually were, but was having a hard time figuring out which ones were supposed to be...

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Christopher Zimmerman
"Trever L. Adams" wrote: > In my opinion 2.4.x is NOT ready for primetime. The VM has been getting > worse since 2.4.0, I believe. Definitely since and including 2.4.3. I > cannot even edit a few images in gimp where the entire working set used > to fit entirely in memory. The system now lock

Re: your mail

2001-05-31 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > BTW, linux-kernel readers: anybody is a volunteer for making the kernel size > counter 32-bit here? This would enable using the simple bootloader for > greater kernel load

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Trever L. Adams
Christopher Zimmerman wrote: > > I've found that with the latest kernel release (2.4.5) VM performance has > been greatly improved. kswapd and bdflush no longer use 200% of my cpu > cycles when simply doing a dd bs=1024 count=8388608 if=/dev/zero > of=test.file. All of my test systems remain r

Re: missing sysrq

2001-05-31 Thread D. Stimits
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > However, if I go to /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq does not exist. > > It is a compile time option, so the person who compiled your kernel left it > out. I compiled it, and the sysrq is definitely in the config. No doubt at all. I

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