Re: [BUG] 2.4.[01] lockups

2001-02-14 Thread Ivan Borissov Ganev
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > Login via network or serial cable, and see if /proc/interrupts entry > for keyboard/mouse changes as you type. Attempt to blink keyboard leds > with setleds. > Pavel On Mon, 12 Feb 2001,

Re: NFSD die with 2.4.1 (resend with ksymoops)

2001-02-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday February 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > I have a machine with kernel 2.4.1 + acls patch. It exports some volume via > NFS (installed with RedHat 7.0 + custom 2.4.1 kernel). The underlying > filesystem is ext2. I tried with NFS v2 and v3 and without ACLs in the > kernel.

success NICs (disabled CONFIG_ISAPNP with 2.4.1-ac11)/otheroddments/Problem: NIC doesn't work

2001-02-14 Thread Rob Cermak
2.2.19pre11 works. Got 2.4.1-ac11 to work with these settings: # Plug and Play configuration # CONFIG_PNP=y # CONFIG_ISAPNP is not set eth0: Digital DC21041 Tulip rev 17 at 0xfc00, 21041 mode, 00:00:C0:5C:45:01, IRQ 10. eth1: 3c509 at 0x340, 10baseT port, address 00 10 5a 1c e5 fe, IRQ 7.

Re: aic7xxx plans

2001-02-14 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>I dont plan to switch them yet a while, and never for 2.2. For 2.5 its a >total nobrainer that we move to Justins driver or move to Justins driver post >crudfixing that may be needed to make it clean and Linuxish Can you be more specific about your complaints? -- Justin - To unsubscribe from

2.4.1/2.4.2-pre3 lockup unmounting usbdevfs

2001-02-14 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I'm getting an intermittent (but fairly reproducible) lockup under 2.4.1 and 2.4.2-pre3, which seems to be occurring when usbdevfs is unmounted. The system appears to freeze almost completely; I can still switch VCs (assuming I wasn't in X at the time) but little else. Sometimes (but not

Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans

2001-02-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > According to Matthew Jacob: > > See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux. > > Here at VA we're already using Jason's driver -- it works on the Intel > STL2 motherboard, while Doug's driver doesn't (or didn't, a month ago). "Justin" not "Jason" > >

Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans

2001-02-14 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Matthew Jacob: > See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux. Here at VA we're already using Jason's driver -- it works on the Intel STL2 motherboard, while Doug's driver doesn't (or didn't, a month ago). While we're discussing SCSI drivers, I'd also like to put in a good word for the

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

2001-02-14 Thread Grant Grundler
Philipp Rumpf wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Grant Grundler wrote: > > Having people look things up in the spec isn't very user friendly. > > Having the constants in some well-known header file should be sufficient, > shouldn't it ? I would hope anyone bothering to include the constants in a

Re: aic7xxx plans

2001-02-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
See http://www.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux. > Alan Cox wrote: > > > Are there any plans of switching the drivers ? I have tried to patch 2.4.1-acX, > > > but there are rejected hunks and had no time to patch manually and make a > > > diff. > > > > I dont plan to switch them yet a while, and

Re: aic7xxx plans

2001-02-14 Thread Wakko Warner
Alan Cox wrote: > > Are there any plans of switching the drivers ? I have tried to patch 2.4.1-acX, > > but there are rejected hunks and had no time to patch manually and make a > > diff. > > I dont plan to switch them yet a while, and never for 2.2. For 2.5 its a > total nobrainer that we move

More (other) NIC info/Problem: NIC doesn't work anymore, SIOCIFADDR-errors

2001-02-14 Thread Rob Cermak
Jonathon, You and I might have the same problem. I have 2 3COM cards (ISA/PCI) and 1 Tulip card in a single PC and I loose functionality in one 3COM card using the 2.4. series; IRQ and IOBASE is wrong. Using stock Redhat built kernels, they operate fine. Feb 7 21:42:50 anole kernel: Linux

crash 5/5 w/ memtest86

2001-02-14 Thread Scott M. Hoffman
Hi, After getting several segfaults running fetchmail, I tried memtest86 for the first time on my PC (Celeron 500, i810m/b from e-machines). Five out of five tries from two different floppy disks crashed at 6% into test 1. I suspected a new PC133 memory stick, but the test failed at the same

Re: modules_install target

2001-02-14 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
You're forgetting it's using System.map from your build directory and not from /boot. "J . A . Magallon" wrote: > > I have recently noticed that 'make modules_install' tries as a last step > > if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.1-ac13; fi > > I depends on 'make

Manual SCSI bus reset?

2001-02-14 Thread German Gomez Garcia
Hello, I've got Plexwriter 12x10x32S attached to an onbard AIC7890 (besides other things as three IBM UWSCSI harddisks, an SCSI ZIP and a Pioneer DVD) and sometimes when recording a CD the Plexwriter fails at the very end of the process (although the CD is recorded correctly) and

Re: modules_install target

2001-02-14 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:38:46 +0100, "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have recently noticed that 'make modules_install' tries as a last step > >if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.1-ac13; fi > >I depends on 'make install' doing the right symlinks in

NFS mounting delays w/ 2.4.x kernel?

2001-02-14 Thread List User
I've seen reference to this before (I think on this list) but didn't pay attention to them at the time. I am now running into this problem myself. I've just upgraded one of my NFS servers here from 2.2.17 -> 2.4.1 ). I'm running the user-space server nfs-server-2.2beta48 (tried beta47 as

Re: doing RAID 0 with HPT370

2001-02-14 Thread Mark Hahn
> do know I get the feeling they don't care to support Linux in any way > shape or form. Feels like a pawn off job. afaik, there's no hardware raid support in the chip - it's just another dual-channel controller, with some raid0 (perhaps raid1) software in bios. I think Andre has said that he

modules_install target

2001-02-14 Thread J . A . Magallon
I have recently noticed that 'make modules_install' tries as a last step if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.1-ac13; fi I depends on 'make install' doing the right symlinks in /boot. Would not be better to do a: if [ -r System.map-2.4.1-ac13 ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae

Re: doing RAID 0 with HPT370

2001-02-14 Thread David D.W. Downey
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Bradley Kite wrote: > I found this message while searching for a solution to getting > linux to see a raid array on my HPT370: > > http://www.mailgate.org/linux/linux.dev.raid/msg00163.html > > Its got someone from highpoint saying that raid support will > be offered "in the

doing RAID 0 with HPT370

2001-02-14 Thread Bradley Kite
I'm new to this list so I'd like to say hi first :-) I found this message while searching for a solution to getting linux to see a raid array on my HPT370: http://www.mailgate.org/linux/linux.dev.raid/msg00163.html Its got someone from highpoint saying that raid support will be offered "in the

Re: [PATCH] i2c 2.5.5

2001-02-14 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.15 Alan Cox wrote: > > The rest are revision noise and incorrect reverts of include changes > > > #ifndef MODULE > > +#ifdef CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV > > extern int i2c_dev_init(void); > > Also reverting a cleanup > And I manually deleted the #endif /* X */ (kernel) vs #endif X

Re: [PATCH] pcnet32.c: MAC address may be in CSR registers

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> +int is_valid_ether_addr( char* address ) > +{ > +int i,isvalid=0; > +for( i=0; i<6; i++) > + isvalid |= address[i]; > +return isvalid && !(address[0]&1); > +} static and why not static inline int is_valid_ea(u8 *addr) { return memcmp(addr, "\000\000\000\000\000\000",

Re: aic7xxx plans

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> Are there any plans of switching the drivers ? I have tried to patch 2.4.1-acX, > but there are rejected hunks and had no time to patch manually and make a > diff. I dont plan to switch them yet a while, and never for 2.2. For 2.5 its a total nobrainer that we move to Justins driver or move to

2001-02-14 release of hotplug scripts

2001-02-14 Thread Greg KH
I've just packaged up the latest hotplug scripts into a release, and they can be found at: http://download.sourceforge.net/linux-hotplug/hotplug-2001_02_14.tar.gz http://download.sourceforge.net/linux-hotplug/hotplug-2001_02_14-1.noarch.rpm

aic7xxx plans

2001-02-14 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi. I have read in the Doug Ledford www page that the drivers for the aic7xxx card are going to a more or less unmantained state, 'cause he has not the time. And also recommends to use the Justin Gibbs's ones from FreeBSD. They are now at version 6.1.1, no more beta. Are there any plans of

Re: [PATCH] pcnet32.c: MAC address may be in CSR registers

2001-02-14 Thread Eli Carter
Eli Carter wrote: > I'm dealing with an AMD chip that does not have the station address in > the PROM at the base address, but resides in the "Physical Address > Registers" in the chip (thanks to the bootloader in my case). This > patch makes the driver try those registers if the station address

Re: [PATCH] i2c 2.5.5

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> @@ -71,4 +71,7 @@ >} > > +IMPORTANT: because of the use of inline functions, you *have* to use > +'-O' or some variation when you compile your program! > + Considered too obvious to restate > > -This sends a single byte to the device, at the place of the Rd/Wr bit. > +This sends a

[PATCH] i2c 2.5.5

2001-02-14 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi, everyone... Kernel 2.4 looks like including the updated i2c package. But the diff automatic generator from i25 2.5.5 still gives this diffs against 2.4.1-ac13. Think about them for inclussion...(I do not know if some of them are not valid, like the change of for , but the #ifdefs

Re: ECN for servers ?

2001-02-14 Thread James Stevenson
Hi no they should not be effected the place that starts the connection eg send the first SYN has to ask to use ECN if it is not requested it will never be used in that connection In local.linux-kernel-list, you wrote: >Hello, > >What is the impact of enabling ECN on the server side ? I mean,

/proc/stat missing disk_io info

2001-02-14 Thread Rainer Mager
Hi all, I was wondering why some of my disks don't show up in /proc/stat's disk_io line. Specifically, my line says: disk_io: (2,0):(144,144,288,0,0) (3,0):(35,35,140,0,0) This equates to my floppy and first cdrom. I also have a second cdrom (RW) and 2 hard disks. Looking at the code

Re: Samba performance / zero-copy network I/O

2001-02-14 Thread Tom Sightler
Quoting "Gord R. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Jeremy Jackson wrote: > > > "Gord R. Lamb" wrote: > > > in etherchannel bond, running > linux-2.4.1+smptimers+zero-copy+lowlatency) Not related to network, but why would you have lowlatency patches on this box? My testing

Re: [beta patch] SSE copy_page() / clear_page()

2001-02-14 Thread Manfred Spraul
I have another idea for sse, and this one is far safer: only use sse prefetch, leave the string operations for the actual copy. The prefetch operations only prefetch, don't touch the sse registers, thus neither any reentency nor interrupt problems. I tried the attached hack^H^H^H^Hpatch, and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] High resolution timer mailing list/ project

2001-02-14 Thread george anzinger
An open source project is starting at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Currently the project is collecting ideas, requirements, etc. A mailing list has been set up for the project. To join: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/high-res-timers-discourse To mail to

Re: 2.4.1-ac13 tulip problems

2001-02-14 Thread Nathan Walp
Alan Cox wrote: > > > I just booted to 2.4.1-ac13, and was fine for a couple minutes. Then > > all network connectivity went away, and I had this sitting in syslog: > > Hence, I'm back to 2.4.1-ac12, and sending this in. No other noticible > > problems in my short-lived uptime ;-) > > I guess

Re: 2.4.1-ac13 tulip problems

2001-02-14 Thread Manfred Spraul
Which tulip card do you use? -- Manfred - 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: ECN for servers ?

2001-02-14 Thread Graham Murray
"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Con: people behind broken firewalls can't connect. Are you sure that is correct? "Servers" normally listen for incoming connections from clients rather than establish them[1]. So, if the server implements ECN then it will respond appropriately to

Re: 2.4.1-ac13 tulip problems

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> I just booted to 2.4.1-ac13, and was fine for a couple minutes. Then > all network connectivity went away, and I had this sitting in syslog: > Hence, I'm back to 2.4.1-ac12, and sending this in. No other noticible > problems in my short-lived uptime ;-) I guess the pnic fixes have a side

2.4.1-ac13 tulip problems

2001-02-14 Thread Nathan Walp
I just booted to 2.4.1-ac13, and was fine for a couple minutes. Then all network connectivity went away, and I had this sitting in syslog: Feb 14 16:45:48 patience kernel: LDT allocated for cloned task! Feb 14 16:47:19 patience kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 14 16:47:51

Re: Are the sysctl and ptrace bugs already fixed ?

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> vulnerability in 2.2.18-pre9 (I suppose it was really 2.2.19-pre9). But > with respect to the other two vulnerabilities on 2.2.x and the whole th= > ree > in kernel series 2.4.x haven't been able to find any information in > neither Bugtraq, nor in the Linux kernel development archives.

[PATCH] pcnet32.c: MAC address may be in CSR registers

2001-02-14 Thread Eli Carter
All, Thomas Bogendoerfer is listed as maintainer. Richard, I know you've done some work with this driver so I thought you might be interested. Alan, I'd like to see this find its way into the official version(s), so feedback would be appreciated if you don't apply it. (In your copious spare

Are the sysctl and ptrace bugs already fixed ?

2001-02-14 Thread José Luis Domingo López
Hi everyone: Last week there was some advisories on the Bugtraq mailing list about three problems with respect to both kernel series 2.2.x and 2.4.x. They were about two possible local exploits trough sysctl and ptrace, and a minor bug about machines with Pentium III processors (any local user

Re: piix.c and tuning question

2001-02-14 Thread dilinger
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 02:51:03AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > > hmmm this is my chipset: > > Which motherboard do you have? No clue, it's an old p166, and I'm not about to open up the case.. > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430HX - 82439HX TXC [Triton II] (rev 03) > 00:07.0 ISA

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Alan Cox wrote: >> Feb 13 05:23:27 bertha kernel: hdo: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady >> SeekComplete Error } >> Feb 13 05:23:27 bertha kernel: hdo: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError >> BadCRC } > >You have inadequate cabling. CRC errors are indications of that. Make sure you >are

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jasmeet Sidhu wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I am attaching my previous email for additional info. Now I am using > kernel 2.4.1-ac12 and these problems have not gone away. > > Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? > > The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some

Re: MP-Table mappings

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> In my dmesg I'm getting duplicate table reservations. Just a crap bios > OEM ID: OEM0 Product ID: PROD APIC at: 0xFEE0 I think the required OEM ID and product id speak volumes for the rest of the quality issues > Is this an issue? Once is correct, twice is fine, zero times

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

2001-02-14 Thread Philipp Rumpf
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Grant Grundler wrote: > Philipp Rumpf wrote: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Looks ok, but I wonder if we should include this list in the docs. > > > These is stuff defined by the PCI spec, and this list could potentially > > > get longer... (opinions either way wanted...) > >

Trying to fix 3dfx.o + question about char drivers..

2001-02-14 Thread Michael Bacarella
So, I upgrade to 2.4.0 and it's cool, except that I can't do anything neat with my voodoo3 anymore. I've been looking for a solution for weeks but to no avail. 3dfx's web site looks like it's gone and nothing on lk about it. [ By all means, if someone has fixed this, do let me know ] Tracing

Re: File IO performance

2001-02-14 Thread Steve Lord
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > > > > A break in the on disk mapping of data could be used to stop readahead > > I suppose, especially if getting that readahead page is going to > > involve evicting other pages. I suspect that doing this time of thing >

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-14 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:29:16 -0800, Ion Badulescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:06:44 -0600 (CST), Jeff Garzik ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On 12 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >>> In fact one has to look out for

MP-Table mappings

2001-02-14 Thread David D.W. Downey
In my dmesg I'm getting duplicate table reservations. found SMP MP-table at 000f5770 hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice. On node 0 totalpages: 262128 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 225280 pages.

Re: ECN for servers ?

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> > Con: people behind broken firewalls can't connect. > > Since you can use ICMP to tunnel data, a lot of security ppl are > reluctant to stop filtering ICMP :/ ICMP isnt the problem. Some of the load balancers and proxy setups didnt allow ECN frames through. ICMP blocking just breaks path mtu

PROBLEM: virtual console corruption (2.4.1/p4/radeon/XFree86 4.0.2)

2001-02-14 Thread David Wood
[1.] virtual console corruption (2.4.1/p4/radeon/XFree86 4.0.2) [2.] Taking a redhat 7 install, upgrading it to currency, and then adding rawhide RPMS for the required extra pieces, I compiled a 2.4.1 kernel using kgcc. Everything actually works rather well, with the exception that when I've

Re: ECN for servers ?

2001-02-14 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > On 14 Feb 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > By author:Petru Paler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > What is the impact of enabling ECN on the server side ? I mean, will > > > any clients (with broken firewalls) be affected if a SMTP/HTTP server > > > has ECN enabled ? > > >

Re: Samba performance / zero-copy network I/O

2001-02-14 Thread Gord R. Lamb
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Jeremy Jackson wrote: > "Gord R. Lamb" wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm trying to optimize a box for samba file serving (just contiguous block > > I/O for the moment), and I've now got both CPUs maxxed out with system > > load. > > > > (For background info, the system

Re: ECN for servers ?

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On 14 Feb 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > By author:Petru Paler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What is the impact of enabling ECN on the server side ? I mean, will > > any clients (with broken firewalls) be affected if a SMTP/HTTP server > > has ECN enabled ? > Pro: better behaviour in presence of

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> >You will get horribly bad performance off raid5 if you have stripes on both > >hda/hdb or hdc/hdd etc. > > If I am reading this correctly, then by striping on both hda/hdb and > /hdc/hdd you mean that I have two drives per ide channel. In other words, > you think I have a Master and a

Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> Kernel 2.4.x apparently disregards my ppp options MTU setting of 552 > and sets mss=536 (=> MTU=576). Kernel 2.2.16 sets mss=512 correctly. > Is this a kernel bug or what? The kernel is entitled to set an MSS that may cause fragmentation. So no it isnt a bug. 536 + 40 = 576 Im not

Re: Video drivers and the kernel

2001-02-14 Thread Brad Douglas
On 14 Feb 2001 01:09:10 -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > I was wondering why video drivers are not part of the kernel like every > > other piece of hardware. I would think if video drivers were part of the > > kernel and had a nice API for X or any other windowing system, would not > > only

Re: Samba performance / zero-copy network I/O

2001-02-14 Thread Jeremy Jackson
"Gord R. Lamb" wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to optimize a box for samba file serving (just contiguous block > I/O for the moment), and I've now got both CPUs maxxed out with system > load. > > (For background info, the system is a 2x933 Intel, 1gb system memory, > 133mhz FSB, 1gbit

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
At 08:28 PM 2/14/2001 +, Alan Cox wrote: > > Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? > > The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some number > > returned by hdparam > >You will get horribly bad performance off raid5 if you have stripes on both >hda/hdb or

Re: ECN for servers ?

2001-02-14 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Petru Paler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hello, > > What is the impact of enabling ECN on the server side ? I mean, will > any clients (with broken firewalls) be affected if a SMTP/HTTP server > has ECN enabled ? > > On

Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-14 Thread Gerhard Mack
> Is there any documentation of the kernel's 'capabilities' functions? It > would be exceedingly cool if services (named, nfs, etc) > could be updated to use this; I think crackers would loose some motivation > if instead of "hey I can totally rule this box!" > they have to settle for "hey I

MTU and 2.4.x kernel

2001-02-14 Thread roger
Kernel 2.4.x apparently disregards my ppp options MTU setting of 552 and sets mss=536 (=> MTU=576). Kernel 2.2.16 sets mss=512 correctly. Is this a kernel bug or what? I ran a much broader inquiry recently concerning poor ppp performance under the 2.4.x kernel. But I got a disappointing

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? > The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some number > returned by hdparam You will get horribly bad performance off raid5 if you have stripes on both hda/hdb or hdc/hdd etc. > Feb 13 05:23:27 bertha kernel: hdo:

Re: Samba performance / zero-copy network I/O

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> When reading the profiler results, the largest consuming kernel (calls?) > are file_read_actor and csum_partial_copy_generic, by a longshot (about > 70% and 20% respectively). > > Presumably, the csum_partial_copy_generic should be eliminated (or at > least reduced) by David Miller's zerocopy

Samba performance / zero-copy network I/O

2001-02-14 Thread Gord R. Lamb
Hi everyone, I'm trying to optimize a box for samba file serving (just contiguous block I/O for the moment), and I've now got both CPUs maxxed out with system load. (For background info, the system is a 2x933 Intel, 1gb system memory, 133mhz FSB, 1gbit 64bit/66mhz FC card, 2x 1gbit 64/66

Re: What does "device or resource busy" mean ?

2001-02-14 Thread Marcus Ramos
Hi, For some unknown (to me) reason, this message has to do with X being active. Leaving X causes the module to be correctly loaded. I guess X should be using some resource that my module also wanted to use. Marcus. Marcus Ramos wrote: > Hello, > > When I try to load module ttime.o - "insmod

IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Jasmeet Sidhu
Hey guys, I am attaching my previous email for additional info. Now I am using kernel 2.4.1-ac12 and these problems have not gone away. Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some number returned by hdparam /dev/hda

Re: Multicast on loopback?

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> I read that multicast loopback is by default enabled, and I have witnessed > this, when having my application bind to my ethernet interface, but the > datagrams do not seem to be looped back when I bind to the 'lo' interface. I wouldnt expect them to be. The lo interface does not support

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre12

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> > hosts.c:500: `AIC7XXX' undeclared here (not in a function) > > hosts.c:500: initializer element for `builtin_scsi_hosts[0]' is not constant > > I'm sure Alan will notice and pick up the proper fix. For a workaround > to get you going, you can change hosts.c to include aic7xxx/aic7xxx.h...

Oops from updatedb?

2001-02-14 Thread Scott M. Hoffman
Sorry about the last message, somehow got just the plain oops there. ksymoops 2.3.7 on i686 2.4.2-pre3. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (specified) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.2-pre3/ (default) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (default)

Re: dropcopyright script

2001-02-14 Thread Brett Person
Please dont do this. The copyright info at the top of the file is there for a reason. Not only does it give credit where credit is due, but it gives vital contact info for reporting problems back to the maintainer/authour. -- Brett G. Person 415-358-2656 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Computing -

Re: longjmp problem

2001-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> I'm working with a C package written by other > on a linux machine with kernel version 2.2.14, > often in a calls of longjmp routine > the system crash with a SIGSEGV signal. > > Anyone can tell me if it can be a kernel problem ? Unlikely. If it was kernel related you would see an Oops.

No Subject

2001-02-14 Thread Scott M. Hoffman
Hello, See the attached Oops passed through ksymoops 2.3.7(the i386 rpm from kernel.org). Not sure who should see this... Is it generally a good idea to reboot the machine after getting one of these? Feb 14 04:02:02 nic-31-c31-100 kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.

test

2001-02-14 Thread Josh McKinney
sory again - 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: File IO performance

2001-02-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Steve Lord wrote: > > However, we may still optimize readahead a bit on Linux 2.4 without too > > much efforts: an IO read command which fails (and returns an error code > > back to the caller) if merging with other requests fail. > > > > Using this command for

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-14 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Michael" == Michael E Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael, Michael> It looks like the numbers we picked for our respective IOCTLs Michael> conflict. I think I can change mine to the next higher since Michael> your patch seems to have been around longer. If you could pick another

Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-14 Thread Jeremy Jackson
"Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (about non-executable stack) > > There is another much more effective solution in the works. The C > standard allows bounds checking of arrays. So it is quite possible > for the compiler itself to check this in a

Re: Multicast on loopback?

2001-02-14 Thread Erik G. Burrows
> > locally over the loopback interface. This does not work without adding a > > bogus route statement to get the kernel to hand up the packets from > > loopback to my waiting application. > > The multicast ABI includes the ability to toggle loopback of multicast > datagrams. Use the socket

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre12

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
On 14 Feb 2001, Andriy Korud wrote: > Hello Alan, > > Wednesday, February 14, 2001, 6:33:49 PM, you wrote: > > > Alan> 2.2.19pre12 > Alan> o Update the DAC960 driver(Leonard Zubkoff) > Alan> o Small PPC fixes (Benjamin

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre12

2001-02-14 Thread Andriy Korud
Hello Alan, Wednesday, February 14, 2001, 6:33:49 PM, you wrote: Alan> 2.2.19pre12 Alan> o Update the DAC960 driver(Leonard Zubkoff) Alan> o Small PPC fixes (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) Alan> o Document irda options config

Re: [Xpert]Video drivers and the kernel

2001-02-14 Thread Jeremy Jackson
Please CC me if sending to xpert list. This is a big topic. I think I can contribute a whole two cents worth though... Interesting to note that NT's windowing system moved from being originally in userland to inside the kernel between V3.? and 4.0. Remember mom saying "If your friends all jump

longjmp problem

2001-02-14 Thread Elena Labruna
I'm working with a C package written by other on a linux machine with kernel version 2.2.14, often in a calls of longjmp routine the system crash with a SIGSEGV signal. Anyone can tell me if it can be a kernel problem ? Elena Labruna. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

What does "device or resource busy" mean ?

2001-02-14 Thread Marcus Ramos
Hello, When I try to load module ttime.o - "insmod ttime.o" - I get the following message: "ttime.o: init_module: Device or resource busy". "lsmod" shows that ttime.o was effectively not loaded. I am using RH7 with kernel 2.2.16-22. Does anyone have a guess on a possible reason for this and how

[Patch] make file times work in tmpfs

2001-02-14 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Alan, here is a patch that makes the different file timestamps work on tmpfs. Greetings Christoph --- mac10/mm/shmem.c.orig Wed Feb 14 14:39:46 2001 +++ mac10/mm/shmem.cWed Feb 14 15:30:09 2001 @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ swp_entry_t **base, **ptr, **last;

Re: Reason (was: Re: dropcopyright script)

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

Re: Reason (was: Re: dropcopyright script)

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

Re: 2.4.1-ac12 compile failure on sparc64

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

Re: [PATCH] network driver updates

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

Re: [PATCH] network driver updates

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

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

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

Re: 2.4.1-ac12 compile failure on sparc64

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

Re: Reason (was: Re: dropcopyright script)

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

Re: Alpha: bad unaligned access handling

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

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

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

Re: File IO performance

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

Re: Alpha: bad unaligned access handling

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

Re: [PATCH] network driver updates

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

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

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

Re: Memory performance significantly improved w/ 2.4.1ac11

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

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