Re: PIO disk writes using 100% system time and performing poorly with VIA vt82c686b on kernels 2.2 & 2.4

2001-04-24 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:19:41PM -0400, Ignacio Monge wrote: > I have VIA686a too and a UDMA100 hard disk. > This is my cat /proc/ide/via: > > --VIA BusMastering IDE Configuration > Driver Version: 3.23 > South Bridge:

routing & ipchains

2001-04-24 Thread Andrew B. Cramer
Greetings All, After upgrading from kernel 2.0.38 w/ slackware-3.4 to kernel 2.2.16 w/ slackware-7.1 I have developed the following routing problems. Hardware - eth0 - 10meg on net 192.168.0.0 i/f 192.168.0.1 subnet 255.255.255.128 eth1 - 100meg on net 192.168.0.128 i/f

Re: [patch] swap-speedup-2.4.3-B3

2001-04-24 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Basically, I don't want to mix synchronous and asynchronous > interfaces. Everything should be asynchronous by default, and waiting > should be explicit. The following patch changes all swap IO functions to be asynchronous by default and changes

TULIP driver broken

2001-04-24 Thread Ian Zink
Well it would appear the tulip driver regressed from 2.4.2-ac22 and 2.4.3. (2.4.3-ac12 isn't working either) Once again, my tulip card just spews carrier errors and doesn't even get a link light. If someone could point me to a patch I would appreciate it. I have attached any pretient information

Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Roger Gammans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:14:41AM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > > People who want to take over "because it is s00 k3w1 to be a maintainer" > > with no real interest in the code, just in the fact that it is orphaned... > > No. People who want to give

Re: Event tools, do they exist

2001-04-24 Thread Andrew Morton
george anzinger wrote: > > This is an attempt to look in the wheel locker. > > I need a simple event sub system for use in the kernel. I envision at > least two types of events: the history event and the timing event. > > The timing event would keep track of start/stop times by class. If,

Re: Scheduling bug for SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR

2001-04-24 Thread Nigel Gamble
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Nigel Gamble wrote: > A SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR task with priority n+1 will not preempt a > running task with priority n. You need to give the higher priority task > a priority of at least n+2 for it to be chosen by the scheduler. > > The problem is caused by

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Disconnect
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Aaron Lehmann did have cause to say: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:07:48AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > What real value does it have, apart from the geek "look at me, I'm using > > bash" value? > > I don't really want to get into it at the moment, but imagine hacking >

Re: orinoco_cs & IrDA

2001-04-24 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:25:50PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > Ok, now to the second chapter. These are all the changes > accumulated since the patch I sent one month ago (cf previous e-mail). > Changes : > o more Prism2/Symbol compatibility goodies >

Re: orinoco_cs & IrDA

2001-04-24 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:56:37PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:15:08PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > > [...] > > Downloaded the patch again (patch-2.4.4-pre6), checked that it > > was complete, my patch is in. Oups ! Do I feel stupid... > > Let's

CML2 Transition experiences

2001-04-24 Thread jeff millar
1. If I install CML2 and go directly to "make xconfig", it deduces it needs to set top level options because some of the low level options are set. For example SCSI enabled because some SCSI device is set or hot plug because PCMCIA is set...because some PCMCIA device is set. The _problem_

Re: Linux 2.4.3ac13

2001-04-24 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
> > Also, I initially built ac13 with: > > make mrproper > make menuconfig > > and it doesn't ask whether I want to build the normal USHI USB driver either as > a module or builtin to the kernel, only whether I want to build the alternative > USHI USB dirver (the JE driver). Make

Re: Can't read SCSI TAPE

2001-04-24 Thread Tim Moore
> mt : mt-st v. 0.4 Also mt-st < v0.5b were fairly broken especially with positioning. rgds, tim. -- - 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

Re: 2.2.19 Realaudio masq problem

2001-04-24 Thread Tim Moore
I've been running masquerading unchanged from 2.2.13, currently 2.2.19 as: real IP + masq. 192.168.1.NNN DSL <-> gateway <-> switch <-> client 1 server <-> client 2 ... <-> client n There

Process start times moving in reverse on 2.4.x

2001-04-24 Thread Phil Oester
I've been having continual unexplained lockup problems since converting one of my outgoing qmail servers to 2.4.x. This has been discussed before on this list, where the symptoms are that anything typed on console takes forever to actually come up, and after a few minutes the machine is so

Event tools, do they exist

2001-04-24 Thread george anzinger
This is an attempt to look in the wheel locker. I need a simple event sub system for use in the kernel. I envision at least two types of events: the history event and the timing event. The timing event would keep track of start/stop times by class. If, for example, I wanted to know how much

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Gerhard Mack
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Daniel Stone wrote: > OK. "time make bzImage". Of course, mine's really slow (and I will consider > myself publically humiliated if my only Linux machine is beaten on a kernel > compile by an iPAQ). I 'spose, if it only goes into suspend, the ability to > write "uptime" on

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Stuart Lynne
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Quit being a naysayer. UNIX on a PDA is a wet dream. >> What real value does it have, apart from the geek "look at me, I'm using >> bash" value? > >It means I can do anything on my ipaq I can do anywhere else. I can run

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:35:10PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:32:46AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > True, but then imagine trying to hack C (no, that's a CURLY BRACE, and a > > tab! not space! you just broke my makefiles! aargh!), and compiling > > Netfilter (it

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:16:03AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Quit being a naysayer. UNIX on a PDA is a wet dream. > > What real value does it have, apart from the geek "look at me, I'm using > > bash" value? > > It means I can do anything on my ipaq I can do anywhere else. I can run >

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:32:46AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > True, but then imagine trying to hack C (no, that's a CURLY BRACE, and a > tab! not space! you just broke my makefiles! aargh!), and compiling > Netfilter (it takes HOW MANY hours to compile init/main.c?!?) on a PDA. > Hrmz. I

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:20:27PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:07:48AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > What real value does it have, apart from the geek "look at me, I'm using > > bash" value? > > I don't really want to get into it at the moment, but imagine hacking >

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 5:01 PM -0700 2001-04-24, Aaron Lehmann wrote: >On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:38:01PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: >> And UNIX on a phone is pure overkill. > >Quit being a naysayer. UNIX on a PDA is a wet dream. http://www.agendacomputing.com/ (not that the reviews have been very kind) --

Mail boucing...

2001-04-24 Thread Shawn Starr
Sorry if my mail has been bouncing. I've been experimenting with some configurations and I am moving tomorrow so my domain/IP will be changing. Whoever, deleted me from list, thanks. Please don't block sh0n.net though from posting. I'll read myself when my new IP is added to my domain. Thank

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:07:48AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > What real value does it have, apart from the geek "look at me, I'm using > bash" value? I don't really want to get into it at the moment, but imagine hacking netfilter without lugging a laptop around. PDA's are sleek and cool, and

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
> > Quit being a naysayer. UNIX on a PDA is a wet dream. > What real value does it have, apart from the geek "look at me, I'm using > bash" value? It means I can do anything on my ipaq I can do anywhere else. I can run multiple apps at a time. I can run X11. I can run the palm emulator even ;)

[PATCH] remove wakeup_bdflush(0) from __alloc_pages()

2001-04-24 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Linus, Can you please apply the following patch ? It avoids allocators from waking up bdflush all the time even when it does not have any job to do (ie no more than 30% (default) of dirty buffers). Thanks On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Colonel wrote: > From: Colonel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:

2.2.19 Realaudio masq problem

2001-04-24 Thread Whit Blauvelt
The Release Notes say "Fix problems with realaudio masquerading". Looked promising, since with 2.2.17 one masqueraded system (but not another) was having occassional problems with realaudio at some (but not all) sites. Compiled 2.2.19 with 'make oldconfig,' no to new options. Otherwise running

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:01:18PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:38:01PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > And UNIX on a phone is pure overkill. > > Quit being a naysayer. UNIX on a PDA is a wet dream. What real value does it have, apart from the geek "look at me, I'm

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:38:01PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > And UNIX on a phone is pure overkill. Quit being a naysayer. UNIX on a PDA is a wet dream. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Linux 2.4.3ac13

2001-04-24 Thread Michael Meissner
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:36:42PM -0400, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and it doesn't ask whether I want to build the normal USHI USB driver either as > > a module or builtin to the kernel, only whether I want to build the

Linux 2.4.3-ac14

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
Oops forgot to update the text. This one is of course not just compile fixes - 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: Linux 2.4.3ac13

2001-04-24 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and it doesn't ask whether I want to build the normal USHI USB driver either as > a module or builtin to the kernel, only whether I want to build the alternative > USHI USB dirver (the JE driver). Make xconfig asks whether you

Re: [PATCH] Longstanding elf fix (2.4.3 fix)

2001-04-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ion Badulescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Apr 2001 12:54:22 -0600, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'll include it again. I had it attached as a plain text attachment, > > I don't know if that is a problem or not. > > Actually it was attached as text/x-patch, not as

Re: Linux 2.4.3ac13

2001-04-24 Thread Michael Meissner
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:14:11AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > Intermediate diffs are available from > > http://www.bzimage.org > > This isnt a proper release as such, it should just deal with

Linux 2.4.3-ac14

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org This isnt a proper release as such, it should just deal with most of the compile failure/symbol failure problems. 2.4.3-ac14 o

#define HZ 1024 -- negative effects?

2001-04-24 Thread Michael Rothwell
Are there any negative effects of editing include/asm/param.h to change HZ from 100 to 1024? Or any other number? This has been suggested as a way to improve the responsiveness of the GUI on a Linux system. Does it throw off anything else, like serial port timing, etc.? - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 3:59 PM -0600 4/24/01, Richard Gooch wrote: >The plan I have (which I hope to get started on soon, now that I'm >back from travels), is to change /dev/scsi/host# from a directory into >a symbolic link to a directory called: /dev/bus/pci0/slot1/function0. >Thus, to access a partition via

Re: [Semi-OT] Dual Athlon support in kernel

2001-04-24 Thread Martin Clausen
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:22:15AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Also, what is a good rock solid SCSI RAID controller? Money is > no object. Reliability, performance and Linux compatibility are > though. I have very good experiences with the Mylex controllers/drivers! But then again I also

Re: compile error 2.4.4pre6: inconsistent operand constraints in an

2001-04-24 Thread Colonel
In list.kernel, axel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How about correcting the needed gcc version in Documentation/Changes? Linux, with up to date documention?? In your dreams perhaps. >On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > >> > after having had trouble with compilation due to old gcc

Re: Linux 2.4.3ac13

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
> === Cut === > [root@nomad /root]# depmod -ae > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.3ac13/kernel/drivers/net/aironet4500_card.o > depmod: __bad_udelay > === Cut === Yeah I need to change the __bad_udelay trick. The inline in inline case that triggers a bad_udelay link

Re: Linux 2.4.3ac13

2001-04-24 Thread Sergey Kubushin
=== Cut === [root@nomad /root]# depmod -ae depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.3ac13/kernel/drivers/net/aironet4500_card.o depmod: __bad_udelay === Cut === --- Sergey Kubushin Sr. Unix Administrator CyberBills, Inc.Phone:

Re: orinoco_cs & IrDA

2001-04-24 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:15:08PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > [...] > Downloaded the patch again (patch-2.4.4-pre6), checked that it > was complete, my patch is in. Oups ! Do I feel stupid... Let's finish this story. As indicated above, the first fragment of the patch I sent

Re: 2.2.19 and file lock on NFS?

2001-04-24 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == apark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Recently upgraded to 2.2.19, along with new > nfs-utils(0.3.1). But I have a program that requires a > exclusive write lock on a NFSed directory. When I was using > 2.2.17 all was ok, but now it returns ENOLCK. Does

Re: [PATCH] Longstanding elf fix (2.4.3 fix)

2001-04-24 Thread Ion Badulescu
On 23 Apr 2001 12:54:22 -0600, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll include it again. I had it attached as a plain text attachment, > I don't know if that is a problem or not. Actually it was attached as text/x-patch, not as text/plain... so pine certainly refused to display it

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > _Ouch_. So what are you going to do if another iget4() comes > between the moment when you hash the inode and set these > fields? You are filling them only after you drop inode_lock, so > AFAICS the current code has

Re: [PATCH] properly detect ActionTec modem of PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_OTHER

2001-04-24 Thread Steven Walter
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:18:36PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > Steven Walter wrote: > > > > This patch allows the serial driver to properly detect and set up the > > ActionTec PCI modem. This modem has a PCI class of COMMUNICATION_OTHER, > > which is why this modem is not otherwise detected. >

Compiled sound causes loss of scrollback console : 2.4.4-p6

2001-04-24 Thread Colonel
While tracking down a sound problem, I decided to compile in the soundblaster rather than use modules. It's been a long time since I ran sound under linux, but that used to work fine. I watched the reboot, noticed the usual isapnp stuff (part of problem) ... PCI: Probing PCI hardware Limiting

Re: how does linux support domino?

2001-04-24 Thread Jorge Nerin
Xiong Zhao wrote: > hello.on linux we will see a new domino server process/thread is created for each > client.how does linux do this?does it use pthread?using fork or clone or someway > else?what's the common way of linux to support apps like lotus domino that will > have lots of concurrent

Re: orinoco_cs & IrDA

2001-04-24 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:47:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > patch (without feedback), whereas Alan picked it up (if I remember > > correctly it was included in his 'patch-2.4.2-ac28'). > > So now, what should I do with the rest of my updates and the > > new one that have accumulated since ?

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On 24 Apr 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote: > Hi Al, > > I believe your patch introduces a race for the NFS case. The problem > lies in the fact that nfs_find_actor() needs to read several of the > fields from nfs_inode_info. By adding an allocation after the inode > has been hashed, you are

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:49:23PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > One thing to watch out for is that the current code zeros the u. struct > > for us (as you pointed out to me previously), but allocating from the > > slab cache will not... This could

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-24 Thread Richard Gooch
Matt Domsch writes: > Thanks everyone for your input again. I've made the changes suggested, and > would appreciate this being applied to Linus' and Alan's trees. This is > necessary for solving the "what disk does BIOS think is my boot disk" > problem on IA-64, and I hope to extend it to IA-32

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Jan Harkes wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:45:05PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: >> > BTW: Is it still less than one page? Then it doesn't make me >> >nervous. Why? Guess what granularity we

Re: PIO disk writes using 100% system time and performing poorly with VIA vt82c686b on kernels 2.2 & 2.4

2001-04-24 Thread Francois Cami
Ignacio Monge wrote: > > Hi. > I have VIA686a too and a UDMA100 hard disk. So do I. > This is my cat /proc/ide/via: > > --VIA BusMastering IDE Configuration > Driver Version: 3.23 > South Bridge: VIA

Re: BUG: USB/Reboot

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
> If USB is disabled on a server works MB reboots hang in 2.2.x In almost all cases a hang after Linux reboots the system and it not coming back to the BIOS is a BIOS bug. You can confirm this by asking the kernel to do a real bios reboot with the reboot= option - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] properly detect ActionTec modem of PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_OTHER

2001-04-24 Thread Brian Gerst
Steven Walter wrote: > > This patch allows the serial driver to properly detect and set up the > ActionTec PCI modem. This modem has a PCI class of COMMUNICATION_OTHER, > which is why this modem is not otherwise detected. > > Any suggestions on the patch are welcome. Thanks A small

[PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-24 Thread Matt_Domsch
Thanks everyone for your input again. I've made the changes suggested, and would appreciate this being applied to Linus' and Alan's trees. This is necessary for solving the "what disk does BIOS think is my boot disk" problem on IA-64, and I hope to extend it to IA-32 when BIOSs permit. Jeff

BUG: USB/Reboot

2001-04-24 Thread Collectively Unconscious
If USB is disabled on a server works MB reboots hang in 2.2.x - 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: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:47:38PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > While I applaud your initiative, you made an unfortunate choice of > filesystems to convert. The iso_inode_info is only 4*__u32, as is > proc_inode_info. Given that we still need to keep a pointer to the > external info structs,

Re: Spurious interrupts for UP w/ IO-APIC on ServerWorks

2001-04-24 Thread Jim Schutt
Alan Cox wrote: > > I've got a dual-processor system built around the Intel SBT2 motherboard, > > which uses the ServerWorks LE chipset. 2.4.3 SMP works fine. When I > > build a UP kernel with IO-APIC support, I get this during boot: > > Turn off the OSB4 driver - bet that helps It does --

2001-04-24 release of hotplug scripts

2001-04-24 Thread Greg KH
I've just packaged up the latest Linux hotplug scripts into a release, which can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17679 This release adds the Debian scripts to the tarball, although all of the debian specific changes were not merged into the main

2.2.19 and file lock on NFS?

2001-04-24 Thread apark
Hi, Recently upgraded to 2.2.19, along with new nfs-utils(0.3.1). But I have a program that requires a exclusive write lock on a NFSed directory. When I was using 2.2.17 all was ok, but now it returns ENOLCK. Does anybody else have the same problem? Thanks -Andrew - To unsubscribe from this

Re: sym53c875 error

2001-04-24 Thread GĂ©rard Roudier
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Hamilton, Eamonn wrote: > Hi Folks. > > Under all of the kernels I have access to try ( 2.2.19, 2.4.X & 2.4.X-ac* ), > when I try and write an image in XA2 format to my SCSI writer ( Yamaha > CDR-400t ), I get a DMA overrun. When I try with a kernel patched with the >

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:56:32PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:10:07AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > ptrace only operates on processes that are stopped. So there are no > > locking issues - we've synchronized on a much higher level than a > > spinlock or

Re: orinoco_cs & IrDA

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
> patch (without feedback), whereas Alan picked it up (if I remember > correctly it was included in his 'patch-2.4.2-ac28'). > So now, what should I do with the rest of my updates and the > new one that have accumulated since ? Should I wait until you grab the > first patch from Alan's tree

Re: Spurious interrupts for UP w/ IO-APIC on ServerWorks

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
> I've got a dual-processor system built around the Intel SBT2 motherboard, > which uses the ServerWorks LE chipset. 2.4.3 SMP works fine. When I > build a UP kernel with IO-APIC support, I get this during boot: Turn off the OSB4 driver - bet that helps > 2.4.3 has this behavior, 2.4.3-ac9

Spurious interrupts for UP w/ IO-APIC on ServerWorks

2001-04-24 Thread Jim Schutt
Hi, I've got a dual-processor system built around the Intel SBT2 motherboard, which uses the ServerWorks LE chipset. 2.4.3 SMP works fine. When I build a UP kernel with IO-APIC support, I get this during boot: [... everything seems ok until ...] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision:

Page_alloc / Swap 2.4.3 kernel BUG with system idle

2001-04-24 Thread Raimondo Giammanco
Here is a bug report in the format requested by linux/REPORTING-BUGS. [1] Page_alloc / Swap 2.4.3 kernel BUG with system idle [2] The System was idle for 1h or so while I was away, and coming back I found it frozen. It was responding to ping, but telnet and relogin weren't working.

Re: compile error 2.4.4pre6: inconsistent operand constraints in an

2001-04-24 Thread Wayne . Brown
With the __builtin_expect patch [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted, both 2.4.4-pre6 and 2.4.3-ac12 compile with egcs-2.91.66. Also, 2.4.3-ac13 builds without any further patches needed. Wayne Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/23/2001 05:58:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (axel) cc: [EMAIL

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
> Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The preferable one for performance is certainly to backport the 2.4 changes > > Is it any more substantial than changing all uses of the ptrace flags > to the new variable? It affects asm blocks and offsets on some ports. Its not too bad tho - To

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Victor Zandy
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The preferable one for performance is certainly to backport the 2.4 changes Is it any more substantial than changing all uses of the ptrace flags to the new variable? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [lkml]Re: Matrox FB console driver

2001-04-24 Thread thunder7
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:19:31AM -0500, Andy Carlson wrote: > time prime before x > real1m23.535s > user0m40.550s > sys 0m42.980s > > /proc/mtrr before x > reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 > reg01: base=0xfd80 (4056MB), size= 4MB:

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Andreas Dilger
Al writes: > > Well, if we get rid of NFS (50 x __u32) and HFS (44 * __u32) (sizes are > > approximate for 32-bit arches - I was just counting by hand and not > > strictly checking alignment), then almost all other filesystems are below > > 25 * __u32 (i.e. half of the previous size). > > Yeah,

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread David =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F3mez
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Tomas Telensky wrote: > > But, what I should say to the network security, is that AFAIK in the most > of linux distributions the standard daemons (httpd, sendmail) are run as > root! Having multi-user system or not! Why? For only listening to a port > <1024? Is there any

Re: Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0

2001-04-24 Thread Tim Jansen
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 18:43, mirabilos wrote: > What about indenting? I think of 0 spaces before the device name, > 1 space before properties which belong to the device. > Structure per entry: >[Space] Name colon property But what is the advantage? Its not less work in the kernel, and in

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > While I applaud your initiative, you made an unfortunate choice of > filesystems to convert. The iso_inode_info is only 4*__u32, as is > proc_inode_info. Given that we still need to keep a pointer to the > external info structs, and the overhead

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > One thing to watch out for is that the current code zeros the u. struct > for us (as you pointed out to me previously), but allocating from the > slab cache will not... This could be an interesting source of bugs for > some filesystems that assume

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Andreas Dilger
Eric Mouw writes: > Al is right, it is no rocket science. Here is a patch against > 2.4.4-pre6 for procfs and isofs. It took me an hour to do because I'm > not familiar with the fs code. It compiles, and the procfs code even > runs (sorry, no CDROM player availeble on my embedded StrongARM >

orinoco_cs & IrDA

2001-04-24 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
Hi Linus, I've got a question... I would like where to send my driver patches... One month ago, I sent a small update for the orinoco_cs driver and Wireless Extensions. I didn't put all the changes I had for orinoco_cs because I believe in small incremental updates

Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

2001-04-24 Thread Andreas Dilger
Al writes: > Encapsulation part is definitely worth doing - it cleans the code up > and doesn't change the result of compile. Adding allocation/freeing/ > cache initialization/cache removal and chaninging FOOFS_I() definition - > well, it's probably worth to keep such patches around, but whether

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Garett Spencley
> that also explain why win95 user doesn't want to use NT. not > because they can't afford it (belive me, here NT costs only > us$2), but additional headache isn't acceptable. I'm going to speak from experience: My mother, who is the biggest windoze fan on the face of the universe, got fed up

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
> > child->flags |= PF_PTRACED; > > > > without waiting for the child to have stopped. > > I can see how this could case PF_USEDFPU to be cleared inadvertently, > but I do not have any ideas for testing this. Is it clear that this > is the source of the problem? There is no

Problem with DHCP when using tokenring on 2.4.x

2001-04-24 Thread mshiju
Hello, I have a problem with DHCP when using tokenring card on 2.4.x kernel . When I am using IBM tokenring adapter( all) and trying to hook on to the lan n/w using DHCP ,I get an error message "operation failed " from the dhcp client . The dhcp server is getting the broadcast

Re: Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0

2001-04-24 Thread Tim Jansen
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 18:39, Martin Dalecki wrote: > Are there alternatives to get complex and extendable information out to > user space? > Yes filesystem structures. How exactly can this work? A single value per file is not very helpful if you have a thousand values. You could cluster

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Victor Zandy
Linus Torvalds writes: > Ahh.. This actually _does_ look like a race on "current->flags": > PTRACE_ATTACH will do a > > child->flags |= PF_PTRACED; > > without waiting for the child to have stopped. I can see how this could case PF_USEDFPU to be cleared inadvertently, but I do not

Re: Greetings!

2001-04-24 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:03:44PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Chin-Tser Huang wrote: > > Because there was a mail whose subject is "Children first in fork". > > Gotta watch out for source-code that uses a 'reaper' to kill children > from SIGCHLD. We'll get auto-mail

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-24 Thread Victor Zandy
"Christian Ehrhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Victor: Could you try to reproduce the system wide corruption if you > add an explicit call to stts(); at the very end of __switch_to? > This should prevent the FPU corruption from spreading. After adding this call, I cannot reproduce the global

Re: Greetings!

2001-04-24 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Chin-Tser Huang wrote: > Because there was a mail whose subject is "Children first in fork". > Gotta watch out for source-code that uses a 'reaper' to kill children from SIGCHLD. We'll get auto-mail from pervert.snuffer.com. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version

Re: Greetings!

2001-04-24 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Chin-Tser Huang wrote: > Because there was a mail whose subject is "Children first in fork". > > 1 in 6 children are victimized before the age of 16. Considering these statistics, I'm all for running children first after fork ... Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla:

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use > for personal/casual win user. > > > from that, i also found out that it is very awkward to type > username and password every time i use my computer. > so here's a patch. Neet hack, but maybe the

Re: Greetings!

2001-04-24 Thread Chin-Tser Huang
Because there was a mail whose subject is "Children first in fork". On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > well... the book sounds good... > but... I am still thinking... what it has to do with linux kernel ?? > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/24/2001 04:27:56 PM > > To: [EMAIL

Problem with DHCP when using tokenring on 2.4.x

2001-04-24 Thread mshiju
Hello, I have a problem with DHCP when using tokenring card on 2.4.x kernel . When I am using IBM tokenring adapter( all) and trying to hook on to the lan n/w using DHCP ,I get an error message "operation failed " from the dhcp client . The dhcp server is getting the broadcast message

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:44:17PM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > come on, it's hard for me as it's hard for you. not everybody > expect a computer to be like people here thinks how a computer > should be. I'm sorry, you're looking at the problem the wrong way around. Its not a kernel

Re: PIO disk writes using 100% system time and performing poorly with VIA vt82c686b on kernels 2.2 & 2.4

2001-04-24 Thread Ignacio Monge
Hi. I have VIA686a too and a UDMA100 hard disk. This is my cat /proc/ide/via: --VIA BusMastering IDE Configuration Driver Version: 3.23 South Bridge: VIA vt82c686a Revision: ISA

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Markus Schaber
Hello, On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Now, in order for step 4 to be done safely, procmail should be running > > as the user it's meant to deliver the mail for. for this to happen > > sendmail needs to start it as that user in step 3 and to do that it > > needs extra privs, above and

Kernel Oops when using the Netfilter QUEUE target

2001-04-24 Thread Martin Clausen
Hi there! I have encountered a problem (perhaps a bug)! The attached code makes my kernel oops in some cases when injecting new packets through Netfilter's QUEUE target. The problem only appears when the original packet is a TCP packet; i have tried with ICMP and UDP packets also but this

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Cox
> And get_mail must have elevated privileges to search for the users mail... > or sendmail must have already switched user on reciept to put it in the > users inbox which also requires privleges... No. Think instead of blindly following existing implementation socket(AF_UNIX,

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Stephen Satchell
"Thinking out of the box," you don't need to modify the kernel or the userland utilities to make Linux automatically launch a dedicated terminal for embedded applications. All you need to do is look at the file /etc/inittab and read the man pages for this file. For console access, you

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Jesse Pollard
- Received message begins Here - > > > 1. email -> sendmail > > 2. sendmail figures out what it has to do with it. turns out it's deliver > ... > > > Now, in order for step 4 to be done safely, procmail should be running > > as the user it's meant to deliver the mail for. for

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