Re: eepro100 + 2.2.18 + laptop problems

2001-02-19 Thread CaT
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:31:52AM +1100, CaT wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:18:40PM -0800, Ion Badulescu wrote: > > > In my experiments wait_for_cmd timeouts almost always were related to > > > DumpStats command. > > > I think, we need to investigate what time constraints are related to

Re: eepro100.c, kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread Andrey Savochkin
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:30:48PM +0900, Augustin Vidovic wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:00:34AM -0800, Ion Badulescu wrote: > > > Augustin, could you send the output of `lspci' and `eepro100-diag -ee', please? > > > (The latter may be taken from ftp://scyld.com/pub/diag/) > > > > I'd be

Re: Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Peter Waltenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having a PC that booted Linux directly from the (ex-BIOS) ROM , now that > would be "interesting". Been there doing that. http://www.linuxbios.org Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: usb audio

2001-02-19 Thread Landsberger Brian J
No sound comes forth from them, not even so much as a whisper. Thomas Sailer wrote: > Landsberger Brian J wrote: > >> Has anyone been able to get the Apple Pro (the round clear) speakers to >> work in Linux? I've read the howto's and followed the various steps to >> no avail. The

Re: eepro100.c, kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread Augustin Vidovic
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:00:34AM -0800, Ion Badulescu wrote: > > Augustin, could you send the output of `lspci' and `eepro100-diag -ee', please? > > (The latter may be taken from ftp://scyld.com/pub/diag/) > > I'd be curious to see them too. Ok, here is the output (the status are displayed

Re: unresloved symbols in 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread Bill Nottingham
Eugene Danilchenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > cd /lib/modules/2.4.1; \ > mkdir -p pcmcia; \ > find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia > if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.1; fi > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in

unresloved symbols in 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread Eugene Danilchenko
Hello, i have problem. When i try to install compiled modules (make modules_install) with kernel 2.4.2, i get this message (tail -7): cd /lib/modules/2.4.1; \ mkdir -p pcmcia; \ find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia if [ -r System.map ]; then

FC support for SCSI on Linux

2001-02-19 Thread Sujit Kumar
Hi How does SCSI subsystem interact with FC layers in Linux ? If anyone could give a brief on this or some links or docs on this. Ciao - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [IDE] meaningless #ifndef?

2001-02-19 Thread Tom Leete
Bill Wendling wrote: > > The use of the ternary operator is superfluous, though...and makes the > code look ugly IMNSHO :). > You are correct. Please ignore my thinko. Tom -- The Daemons lurk and are dumb. -- Emerson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [PATCH] new setprocuid syscall

2001-02-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
[BERECZ Szabolcs] > Here is a new syscall. With this you can change the owner of a running > procces. > + if (current->euid) > + return -EPERM; Use capable(). > + p = find_task_by_pid(pid); > + p->fsuid = p->euid = p->suid = p->uid = uid; Race -- you need to

Re: [PATCH] trylock for rw_semaphores: 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread Ben LaHaise
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Brian J. Watson wrote: > Here is an x86 implementation of down_read_trylock() and down_write_trylock() > for read/write semaphores. As with down_trylock() for exclusive semaphores, they > don't block if they fail to get the lock. They just return 1, as opposed to 0 in > the

Re: [IDE] meaningless #ifndef?

2001-02-19 Thread Tom Leete
Bill Wendling wrote: > > Also sprach Andre Hedrick: > } On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Pozsar Balazs wrote: > } > } > from drivers/ide/ide-features.c: > } > > } > /* > } > * All hosts that use the 80c ribbon mus use! > } > */ > } > byte eighty_ninty_three (ide_drive_t *drive) > } > { > } >

Re: PROBLEM: pci bridge fails to wake up from suspend/resume( Inspiron 8000 )

2001-02-19 Thread Doug Siebert
Morten, I'm not subscribed to linux-kernel, but I've been following the list archive somewhat for the past month (watching 2.4 development so I can figure out when it is safe to make the jump without too much hassle) I just bought a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop a month ago, and have the same

Re: Linux OS boilerplate

2001-02-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > Scott Long wrote: > > > > I've been poring over the x86 boot code for a while now and I've been > > considering writing a FAQ on the boot process (mostly for my own use, > > [...] > > > Does there exist an outline (detailed or not) of the boot process from > > the

about acpi problems

2001-02-19 Thread michaelc
Hi, I found that acpi driver has some bugs, I compiled the 2.4.2-pre4 kernel with the acpi support option and SMP enabled, it caused hang at the boot time, but when I disabled the SMP option, it 's OK , so I look into the acpi driver source code, and I found the acpi idle function

[WISHLIST] Addition of suspend patch into 2.5?

2001-02-19 Thread Shawn Starr
Any idea if suspend/hybernation will be in future kernels? 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

Re: ethernet driver probs (tulip, de4x5, 3c509)

2001-02-19 Thread Manfred Bartz
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20 Feb 2001, Manfred Bartz wrote: > > I have 3 NICs (2*DEC, 1*3c509) in my gateway (P75, 40M RAM). > > > > tulip.o in 2.4.1 insists on selecting 10baseT, no command > > line option can convince it otherwise. tulip.o in 2.2.16 auto > > detected media

Re: [PATCH] exclusive wakeup for lock_buffer

2001-02-19 Thread John Heil
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 03:12:15 + (GMT) > From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > lkml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] exclusive wakeup for lock_buffer > >

Re: [PATCH] exclusive wakeup for lock_buffer

2001-02-19 Thread Alan Cox
> --- linux/include/linux/locks.h.orig Mon Feb 19 23:16:50 2001 > +++ linux/include/linux/locks.h Mon Feb 19 23:21:48 2001 > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ > * lock buffers. > */ > extern void __wait_on_buffer(struct buffer_head *); > +extern void __lock_buffer(struct buffer_head *); So are we

[PATCH] trylock for rw_semaphores: 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread Brian J. Watson
Here is an x86 implementation of down_read_trylock() and down_write_trylock() for read/write semaphores. As with down_trylock() for exclusive semaphores, they don't block if they fail to get the lock. They just return 1, as opposed to 0 in the success case. The algorithm should be robust. It

Re: __lock_page calls run_task_queue(_disk) unecessarily?

2001-02-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Btw ___wait_on_page() does something similar. Here goes the patch for both __lock_page() and ___wait_on_page(). --- linux/mm/filemap.c.orig Mon Feb 19 23:51:02 2001 +++ linux/mm/filemap.c Mon Feb 19 23:51:33 2001 @@ -611,11 +611,11 @@ add_wait_queue(>wait, ); do { -

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Neil Brown wrote: > 2/ lookup(".."). A small question: Why exactly is this needed? bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: finding Tekram SCSI dc395U linux patch driver:

2001-02-19 Thread Tim Wright
I asked Kurt why it was not submitted to the mainstream kernel. He said that some people are still experiencing problems with the card/driver and he doesn't feel it's stable enough to go in. I'm personally using it with no issues, but I'm only driving a CD-RW - not exactly stressing things. It

Re: [PATCH] exclusive wakeup for lock_buffer

2001-02-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > The following patch makes lock_buffer() use the exclusive wakeup scheme > > added in 2.3. > > Ugh, This is horrible. > > You should NOT have one function that does two completely different

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread dek_ml
Alan Cox writes: >> This may seem like a lot, but several of these are already >> requirements which most filesystems don't meet, and other are there >> to tidy-up interfaces and make locking more straight forward. > >As a 2.5 thing it sounds like a very sensible path. It will also provide

Re: [PATCH] exclusive wakeup for lock_buffer

2001-02-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > The following patch makes lock_buffer() use the exclusive wakeup scheme > added in 2.3. Ugh, This is horrible. You should NOT have one function that does two completely different things depending on a flag. That way lies madness and bad coding

[PATCH] exclusive wakeup for lock_buffer

2001-02-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, The following patch makes lock_buffer() use the exclusive wakeup scheme added in 2.3. Against 2.4.2pre4. --- linux/fs/buffer.c.orig Mon Feb 19 23:13:08 2001 +++ linux/fs/buffer.c Mon Feb 19 23:16:26 2001 @@ -142,13 +142,18 @@ * if 'b_wait' is set before calling this, so that

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday February 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This may seem like a lot, but several of these are already > > requirements which most filesystems don't meet, and other are there > > to tidy-up interfaces and make locking more straight forward. > > As a 2.5 thing it sounds like a very

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday February 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:40:24 AM +1100 Neil Brown > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > When reiserfs came along, it abused this, and re-interpreted the > > opaque datum to contain information for recalling (locating) an > >

net packet queue scheduler, packet_type and proto handlers

2001-02-19 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Hi, What do you think about the following change? We currently have the following structure used for registering protocol handlers as well as bridges, wiretaps etc. (include/linux/netdevice.h): struct packet_type { unsigned short type; /* This is really htons(ether_type). */ struct

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Alan Cox
> This may seem like a lot, but several of these are already > requirements which most filesystems don't meet, and other are there > to tidy-up interfaces and make locking more straight forward. As a 2.5 thing it sounds like a very sensible path. It will also provide some of the operations

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Mason
On Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:40:24 AM +1100 Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When reiserfs came along, it abused this, and re-interpreted the > opaque datum to contain information for recalling (locating) an > inode - if read_inode2 was defined. I think this is wrong. > I

Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-19 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:53:48PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It also sounds like you will be > > breaking the extremely useful C postulate that, at the ABI level at > > least, arrays and pointers are equivalent. I can't see *how* you plan >

sendfile64?

2001-02-19 Thread Felix von Leitner
Why isn't there a sendfile64? Felix - 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/

__lock_page calls run_task_queue(_disk) unecessarily?

2001-02-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Linus, Take a look at __lock_page: static void __lock_page(struct page *page) { struct task_struct *tsk = current; DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, tsk); add_wait_queue_exclusive(>wait, ); for (;;) { sync_page(page);

any news on loop device patches?

2001-02-19 Thread Ted Serreyn
Have you heard anything more on the loop patches? I'm not on the kernel list anymore. I need to be able to run 2.4 and use the loop devices to mount cd images? Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday February 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I hope to put out a patch set for testing in a day or so and possibly > > suggest it to Alan for his -ac series. I don't see it going into > > 2.4.2, but 2.4.3 might be possible if Linus agrees. > > Im not interested in a patch that requires

Re: eepro100 + 2.2.18 + laptop problems

2001-02-19 Thread CaT
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:18:40PM -0800, Ion Badulescu wrote: > > In my experiments wait_for_cmd timeouts almost always were related to > > DumpStats command. > > I think, we need to investigate what time constraints are related to this > > command. > > Nothing documented... > > CaT, can you

Re: pmap.c : Can you please try another name for it?

2001-02-19 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:58:45PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Dieter =?iso-8859- writes: > > /* > > * pmap.c: implementation of something like Solaris' /usr/proc/bin/pmap > > * for linux > > I've been planning to implement that tool for procps. So, one way > or another, it will be

Re: eepro100 + 2.2.18 + laptop problems

2001-02-19 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:49:35 -0800, Andrey Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:21:06AM +1100, CaT wrote: >> >> It happened again. Same deal. Once was after a reboot and this time >> was after a resume. :/ > > In my experiments wait_for_cmd timeouts almost always

Re: pmap.c : Can you please try another name for it?

2001-02-19 Thread Jeremy Jackson
Dieter Nützel wrote: > * Justification: the formatting available in /proc//maps is less > * than optimal. It's hard to figure out the size of a mapping from > * that information (unless you can do 8-digit hex arithmetic in your > * head) and it's just generally not friendly. Hence this

Re: pmap.c : Can you please try another name for it?

2001-02-19 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Dieter =?iso-8859- writes: > Hello Rik, > > there is a nice little toy called "pmap.c" around for several years, now. > Should we consider? > > /* > * pmap.c: implementation of something like Solaris' /usr/proc/bin/pmap > * for linux I've been planning to implement that tool for procps. So,

[PATCH] run_task_queue(_disk) only if we written data to disk

2001-02-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, This patch makes page_launder() do actual disk IO (run_task_queue(_disk)) only if IO was queued in the page freeing loop. If we freed enough clean pages without needing do to any disk IO, there is no need to call run_task_queue(_disk). --- linux/mm/vmscan.c.orig Mon Feb 19

pmap.c : Can you please try another name for it?

2001-02-19 Thread Dieter Nützel
Hello Rik, there is a nice little toy called "pmap.c" around for several years, now. Should we consider? /* * pmap.c: implementation of something like Solaris' /usr/proc/bin/pmap * for linux * * Author: Andy Isaacson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Fri Jun 18 1999 * * Updated Mon Oct 25 1999 * -

Re: [IDE] meaningless #ifndef?

2001-02-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Bill Wendling wrote: > The use of the ternary operator is superfluous, though...and makes the > code look ugly IMNSHO :). What is ugly is that the commitee can not decide if there is going to be host-side only, device-side only or both-side. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux

Re: [IDE] meaningless #ifndef?

2001-02-19 Thread Bill Wendling
Also sprach Andre Hedrick: } On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Pozsar Balazs wrote: } } > from drivers/ide/ide-features.c: } > } > /* } > * All hosts that use the 80c ribbon mus use! } > */ } > byte eighty_ninty_three (ide_drive_t *drive) } > { } > return ((byte) ((HWIF(drive)->udma_four) && } >

[PATCH] make nfsroot accept server addresses from BOOTP root

2001-02-19 Thread Ben LaHaise
Hello, Here's a handy little patch that makes the kernel parse out the ip address of the nfs server from the bootp root path. Otherwise it's impossible to boot the kernel without command line options on diskless workstations (I hate RPL). -ben diff -ur

Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

2001-02-19 Thread James A. Pattie
I'm not subscribed to the kernel mailing list, so please cc any replies to me. I'm building a firewall on a P133 with 48 MB of memory using RH 7.0, latest updates, etc. and kernel 2.4.1. I've built a customized install of RH (~200MB) which I untar onto the system after building my raid arrays,

Re: PROBLEM: pci bridge fails to wake up from suspend/resume( Inspiron 8000 )

2001-02-19 Thread Morten Stenseth
> Did you enable eepro100 power management? > i tried with and without power managment enabled and it fails either way, but i have been playing with the setpci command and have been able to restore all the pci cards/bridges to their original state and now everything seems to work great,

Re: [PATCH] change awe_wave initialization to match 2.2 better

2001-02-19 Thread Alan Cox
> It seem obvious that this change in behaviour is isapnptools related, but > not detecting the whole three IO addresses is an unresolved problem (as of > 2.2.18, not tried with built-in PnP support in 2.4.x). Its a bug in the hardware - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: eepro100 + 2.2.18 + laptop problems

2001-02-19 Thread Andrey Savochkin
Hi, On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:21:06AM +1100, CaT wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:14:09PM +1100, CaT wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:26:38AM +0800, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:40:33PM +1100, CaT wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > Feb 11 22:30:18 theirongiant

Re: eepro100 + 2.2.18 + laptop problems

2001-02-19 Thread CaT
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 03:44:10PM -0800, Dragan Stancevic wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001, CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ; > ; None. This is before any traffic gets put through it. At worst the > ; card has the wrong IP for the network but that is not always the case > ; from memory. > > So

Re: eepro100 + 2.2.18 + laptop problems

2001-02-19 Thread Dragan Stancevic
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001, CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ; ; None. This is before any traffic gets put through it. At worst the ; card has the wrong IP for the network but that is not always the case ; from memory. So where does that card get the address from, are you doing DHCP? -- No Kernel

Re: [IDE] meaningless #ifndef?

2001-02-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Pozsar Balazs wrote: > from drivers/ide/ide-features.c: > > /* > * All hosts that use the 80c ribbon mus use! > */ > byte eighty_ninty_three (ide_drive_t *drive) > { > return ((byte) ((HWIF(drive)->udma_four) && > #ifndef CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB >

Re: eepro100 + 2.2.18 + laptop problems

2001-02-19 Thread CaT
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 03:37:02PM -0800, Dragan Stancevic wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001, CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ; > 100% accuracy and so it'll take me a wee while before I decide ' > ; > a... that rocks my boat. it's fixed.'. :) > ; > ; It happened again. Same deal. Once

Re: Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-19 Thread Jeremy Jackson
"Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > No it forbids executing boot roms that way, by a standard pc bios. > The system BIOS in a PC is normally on the ISA bus which is reached > across via the PCI bus with a PCI->ISA bridge. Son of a gun, I missed that... sure enough my PIIX4 docs beside me here show a

Re: kernel_thread() & thread starting

2001-02-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Philipp Rumpf wrote: > No. If kswapd oopses it's a bug in kswapd (or related code). If keventd > oopses most likely the broken code is actually the task queue you > scheduled, which belongs to your driver. If we're going to detect this case, we might as well just restart

Re: eepro100 + 2.2.18 + laptop problems

2001-02-19 Thread Dragan Stancevic
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001, CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ; > 100% accuracy and so it'll take me a wee while before I decide ' ; > a... that rocks my boat. it's fixed.'. :) ; ; It happened again. Same deal. Once was after a reboot and this time ; was after a resume. :/ What kind of

trident.o module in kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-19 Thread Seok H. Lee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having some troubles with a Trident 4DWave NX sound card (specifically the Hoontech Digital-NX model). I loaded the modules soundcore.o, ac97_codec.o, and trident.o, in that order, and when I try to use the devices /dev/dsp and /dev/audio, I

Re: eepro100 + 2.2.18 + laptop problems

2001-02-19 Thread CaT
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:14:09PM +1100, CaT wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:26:38AM +0800, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:40:33PM +1100, CaT wrote: > > [snip] > > > Feb 11 22:30:18 theirongiant kernel: eepro100: cmd_wait for(0x70) timedout >with(0x70)! > > > >

Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel

2001-02-19 Thread Rick Jones
the TCP code should be "honouring" the link-local MTU in its selection of MSS. rick jones - 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

[PATCH] new setprocuid syscall

2001-02-19 Thread BERECZ Szabolcs
Hi! Here is a new syscall. With this you can change the owner of a running procces. I put the architecture dependent part (syscall NR, and function address) only to the i386, becouse I'm not familiar with the other arch. What do you think about it? I think it's useful, but... Now I'm writing the

rsync on newer kernel does not quite work?

2001-02-19 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. For some time up through the testX kernels I used rsync to update my "dirty" tree after applying the latest patches to the clean tree. At some point this stopped working (more about that later) but as new kernels were coming fast at that time I did not think much of it, assuming that

Re: Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > > Dear Sirs, > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > > I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM > > speed is slow :( > > Also, the PCI specification forbids executing code from ROMs over the

Re: The lack of specification (was Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... )

2001-02-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Mikulas Patocka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Imagine that there is specification of mark_buffer_dirty. That > specification says that > 1. it may not block > 2. it may block > > In case 1. implementators wouldn't change it to block in stable kernel > relese because they don't

Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans

2001-02-19 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>BTW, is there really enough common ground between the whole series of >AIC chips to justify a single huge driver? I know they ship three >separate NT drivers to cover this range.. The chips are very similar. I think the single driver for Linux is actually a smaller binary than any of the

[IDE] meaningless #ifndef?

2001-02-19 Thread Pozsar Balazs
from drivers/ide/ide-features.c: /* * All hosts that use the 80c ribbon mus use! */ byte eighty_ninty_three (ide_drive_t *drive) { return ((byte) ((HWIF(drive)->udma_four) && #ifndef CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB (drive->id->hw_config & 0x4000) && #endif /*

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Evans
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wakeup does not happen until _enough_ (1/3 of snbuf) of space in sndbuf > is released, otherwise you will overschedule. So, as soon as > write() goes to sleep, it will sleep waiting until 1/3 is released. Of course. Thank you. > If it is

Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:58:36 -0500 (EST), "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was unable to use the new kernel because the drivers I need for >`initrd` all had undefined symbols relating to some high memory stuff. >This, in spite of the fact that I did: > >cp .config .. >make

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac15

2001-02-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:04:07 + (GMT), Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My spinlock based fix has almost no contention and doesnt require 64 processors >grind to a halt on a big machine just to handle a module list change. Sorry >I don't think it supports your argument I am not proposing

Re: Maybe a bug (unexpected IO-APIC)

2001-02-19 Thread Pozsar Balazs
> > Feb 19 19:37:17 delphin kernel: testing the IO APIC... > Feb 19 19:37:17 delphin kernel: > Feb 19 19:37:17 delphin kernel: WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail > Feb 19 19:37:17 delphin kernel: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Feb 19 19:37:17 delphin kernel:

Re: The lack of specification

2001-02-19 Thread Eli Carter
Russell King wrote: > > Albert D. Cahalan writes: > > The TCP maintainers do not seem to be sadistic bastards hell-bent on > > breaking your drivers. API changes usually have a good reason. > > And when the API does change, like it has between Linux 2.2 and Linux 2.4, > an email gets sent to

Re: kernel_thread() & thread starting

2001-02-19 Thread Philipp Rumpf
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Russell King wrote: > Philipp Rumpf writes: > > That still won't catch keventd oopsing though - which I think might happen > > quite easily in real life. > > Maybe we should panic in that case? For example, what happens if kswapd > oopses? kreclaimd? bdflush? kupdate?

Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans

2001-02-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
> May-be this is the reason some UNIX vendors seem to love UDI. :) > > If you also use SYMBIOS chips, you may give a try with SYM-2. For the > moment, it replaces only 6 drivers :) as also seems to do, for the moment, > Justin's AIC7XXX-6, by the way. > > The plans seem clear to me. :-) > Btw,

Re: The lack of specification

2001-02-19 Thread Russell King
Albert D. Cahalan writes: > The TCP maintainers do not seem to be sadistic bastards hell-bent on > breaking your drivers. API changes usually have a good reason. And when the API does change, like it has between Linux 2.2 and Linux 2.4, an email gets sent to this list describing the change of

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac15

2001-02-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:25:39 +0100, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You just reinvented the read-copy-update model >(http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/rclock/intro/rclock_intro.html)... > >The mail proposing that locking model for module unloading is not yet >in the arvhices,

Maybe a bug

2001-02-19 Thread Matthias Kleine
Dear kernel-developers, I do not have any experience in kernel programming, but I do have a message in my /var/log/messages file which advices me to post to this list. This is the first time for me to visit this list, so don't be too hard too me if this posting doesn't fit into the common

Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans

2001-02-19 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Justin Gibbs] > > I've verified the driver's functionality on 25 different cards thus > > far covering the full range of chips from aic7770->aic7899. > > That's very good to hear. I know the temptation of only testing on new > hardware; that's

Re: kernel_thread() & thread starting

2001-02-19 Thread Russell King
Philipp Rumpf writes: > That still won't catch keventd oopsing though - which I think might happen > quite easily in real life. Maybe we should panic in that case? For example, what happens if kswapd oopses? kreclaimd? bdflush? kupdate? All these have the same problem, and should probably

Re: [PATCH] change awe_wave initialization to match 2.2 better

2001-02-19 Thread José Luis Domingo López
On Monday, 19 February 2001, at 14:28:09 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > The awe_wave driver in 2.2 looked at the common I/O ports for > the card if no parameters were specified. The 2.4 driver currently > does an ISAPnP probe, but doesn't fall back to the previous probing > behavior, which

[OT] Re: Running Bind 9 on Redhat 7

2001-02-19 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi. > I am configuring Bind 9 on Redhat 7 but unable to start the named. > Here is my /var/log message log: Read the documentation and you shall notice that you must set a ttl for each zone, which also your logs state that you have not done ... // Stefan - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: The lack of specification (was Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... )

2001-02-19 Thread Mikulas Patocka
> One of these things must happen: > > a. follow the specification, even if that makes code slow and contorted > b. change the specification > c. ignore the specification > d. get rid of the specification > > Option "a" will not be accepted around here. Sorry. It should be followed in stable

Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans

2001-02-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Justin Gibbs] > I've verified the driver's functionality on 25 different cards thus > far covering the full range of chips from aic7770->aic7899. That's very good to hear. I know the temptation of only testing on new hardware; that's why I was concerned. > Lots of people here at Adaptec look

Re: Journaled FS on RAID stability..2.4?

2001-02-19 Thread Jason Straight
On Monday 19 February 2001 15:16, you wrote: > what raid level? > Raid 0 > -Tony > .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-. > Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services > >

Re: The lack of specification (was Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... )

2001-02-19 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Mikulas Patocka writes: > Imagine that there is specification of mark_buffer_dirty. That > specification says that > 1. it may not block > 2. it may block > > In case 1. implementators wouldn't change it to block in stable kernel > relese because they don't want to violate the

Re: Journaled FS on RAID stability..2.4?

2001-02-19 Thread Jason Straight
On Monday 19 February 2001 14:58, Admin Mailing Lists wrote: > Can anyone give testimonials on a journaled FS on software-raid? > I'd like to raid-0 2 SCSI 18Gers, adaptec 2940 u2w controller, kernel > 2.4.x. > Also pros and cons for reiser-fs/ext3 on this solution would be > appreciated > >

Journaled FS on RAID stability..2.4?

2001-02-19 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
Can anyone give testimonials on a journaled FS on software-raid? I'd like to raid-0 2 SCSI 18Gers, adaptec 2940 u2w controller, kernel 2.4.x. Also pros and cons for reiser-fs/ext3 on this solution would be appreciated Thanx, -Tony

[PATCH] change awe_wave initialization to match 2.2 better

2001-02-19 Thread Bill Nottingham
The awe_wave driver in 2.2 looked at the common I/O ports for the card if no parameters were specified. The 2.4 driver currently does an ISAPnP probe, but doesn't fall back to the previous probing behavior, which means that users with working module configurations will have theirs broken on

Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Henning P . Schmiedehausen wrote: > And yes, there _is_ IMHO a difference in telling someone on LKM, > especially someone without deeper knowledge that is lookin for help: > > "You're using a non-open source driver, so we can't help you. Please > ask your vendor for

Re: monitoring I/O

2001-02-19 Thread Karim Yaghmour
I caught this one a little bit late, but you might want to take a peek at the Linux Trace Toolkit: http://www.opersys.com/LTT You'll be able to monitor I/O at will. Best regards, Karim > Michael McLeod wrote: > > Hello > > I am hoping someone can give me a little information or point me

bug in generic math-emu

2001-02-19 Thread schwidefsky
Hi, I found a bug in the generic floating point emulation code. The glibc math testcases showed errors for the nearbyint(0.5) test. The problem is in the _FP_FRAC_SRS_2 macro. The expression to find out if some 1 bits have been shifted out is wrong. Try the _FP_FRAC_SRS_2 macro with the

Linux 2.4.1ac19

2001-02-19 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ "An innovation a day keeps the monopolist away" 2.4.1-ac19 o Fix second module/exception table race (me) | I hope ;) o Additional CPIA usb ident (Adam J Richter) o

The lack of specification (was Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation... )

2001-02-19 Thread Mikulas Patocka
> > > > I suspect part of the problem with commercial driver support on Linux is that > > > > the Linux driver API (such as it is) is relatively poorly documented > > > > > > In-kernel documentation, agreed. > > > > > > _Linux Device Drivers_ is a good reference for 2.2 and below. > > > > And

Re: support for i815 audio ?

2001-02-19 Thread Alan Cox
> ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, vendor id1: 0x4144, id2: 0x5360 (Analog > Devices AD1885) > i810_audio: Codec refused to allow VRA, using 48Khz only. > i810_audio: Found 1 audio device(s). > > As seen above, playback is supported only for 48khz samples. If the codec only supports 48Khz samples

i82562ET LAN (i815) timeout/lockup with eepro100 driver

2001-02-19 Thread Ionut Dumitrache
The integrated LAN on Intel boards with i815 chipset apparently is not fully supported. In latest 2.2.x and 2.4.x, with the EtherExpress Pro100 driver, after some network traffic, it locks. The only way I can use the net again is either reboot, or ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 up.

support for i815 audio ?

2001-02-19 Thread Ionut Dumitrache
Should this onboard audio work with the i810 driver, in 2.2.x and 2.4.x ? The card is detected as ICH2, although the driver supports only ICH. Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.17, 17:24:05 Feb 17 2001 PCI: Increasing latency timer of device 00:fd to 64 i810: Intel ICH2 found at

Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel

2001-02-19 Thread kuznet
Hello! > We are implementing an IP stack. Alan, please, tell me what is wrong. And we will repair this. The implementation follows RFCs and even relaxes their requirements in the cases, when they are far from reality. Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

where can I found AMD k6-2+ optimized gcc ?

2001-02-19 Thread Thomas Lau
anyone have idea? I think someone was done before to optimizer AMD K6-2+ CPU in gcc patch. - 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

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-19 Thread kuznet
Hello! > You are right - our sendfile() implementation is broken. I have fixed it Thank you! > Investigation shows that the Linux network layer is behaving oddly. It > seems that we are writing 4096 bytes to a socket. This proceeds in 4096 > byte chunks until the send buffer on the socket is

Re: ymfpci is 2.4.1-ac18

2001-02-19 Thread Alan Cox
> * - 2001/01/07 Replace the OPL3 part of CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI_LEGACY code with > *native synthesizer through a playback slot. > > It sounds more promising than it is :-( Non old style OSS synthesizers dont support the legacy /dev/sequencer interface - To unsubscribe from this list: send

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