Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/softecc:ddopson-meng
softecc_ddopson-meng.pdf
>> > "SoftECC : A System for Software Memory Integrity Checking"
>>
>> Personally, I'd recommend just shelling out the bucks for hardware ECC if
>> the reliability
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Aug 20 2007 13:52, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> >> But. The above regex does not seem to handle
> >>
> >> if ((a = b));
> >> oops;
> >>
> >> I have tried to come up with a superduper regex that hand
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my berry_charge code that adds support for charging the iphone when it
> is plugged into a Linux machine.
This should be a runtime option, because you may want to build a non-module
kernel and not charge the phone while running your laptop on battery.
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Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:59:16PM +0200, Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
>> 3) On modern systems the incoming packets are processed very fast. Especially
>> on SMP systems when we use multiple queues we process only a few packets
>> per napi poll cycle. So
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:51:19PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > my berry_charge code that adds support for charging the iphone when it
> > > is plugged into a Linux machine.
> &g
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:00:27 +0200
> Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 06/28/2007 06:30 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > Public domain is GPL compatible.
>>
>> Would you happen to have an opinion on the attached? I don't so much need it
>
> The answer is
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 28 2007 12:57, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>>> > It's not an accusation -- it's merely an observation. You may not have
>>> > noticed that your mailer was misbehaving; now you _do_ know, and if you
>>> > care about RFC compliance you might want to
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 02 July 2007 00:14, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> > What is so bad with it? Note it's a debugging facility and used
>> > for kcrash kernels where the video output doesn't work. But they
>> > normally only run a
Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > So to summarize, the plan that makes things work with fuse is:
>> >
>> > - For STR, don't do the freezer thing.
>> >
>> > - For STD, don't sys_sync() after you froze
>> >
>> > There might be -other- issues, but that should get you through some of
Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> just built a new kernel and didn't notice that support for LVM
> wasn't selected by default for x86. given what i thought was fairly
> widespread use of LVM2, wouldn't it make sense to have this option as
> part of the default config?
If you don't
Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4 Jul 2007, DervishD stated:
>> Anyway, if you don't like mobs or you just don't want to try it,
>> that's fine, but please don't use autotools, it doesn't make much sense
>> for a linux only project, since you will be using only the "directory
>> choosing"
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:40:56PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> > Use immediate values with lower d-cache hit in optimized version as a
>> > condition for scheduler profiling call.
>>
>> I think it's
context.
Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
This patch seems to work correctly on bochs/i386, except for the qemu
BIOS hangigng after a ctrl_alt_del, but I did run qemu using -kernel and
-initrd, which might have caused this behaviour.
Is this function useful outside ini
Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch from Randy has proven quite useful from time to time,
> and has been in Fedora kernels for a while for that reason.
> I fixed up some checkpatch warnings, and rediffed it a bunch
> of times, Randy did the heavy lifting.
>
> ---
>
> This one
This patch adds the option to not mount another root filesystem
by specifying root=initramfs.
TODO: Documentation
---
BTW: Is it possible to mount a tmpfs on / before extracting the cpio?
While I'm at it:
In init/do_mounts.c, mount_root(void):
ROOT_NFS: Is it desirable to use the floppy as a
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, DervishD wrote:
> * Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > Standardisation is good, but autotools (as they are used) usurally isn't.
>
> Usually, by picking other's project configure.in and tweak blindly.
If it were that easy to write a co
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If the boot process failes to find init or the root fs, the cause has
> > usually scrolled off the screen, and because of the panic, it can't be
> > reached anymore.
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > This patch adds the option to not mount another root filesystem
> > by specifying root=initramfs.
>
> Uhm, the kernel doesn't mount anything if you're using an initramfs.
Yes, instead it panics trying to m
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jul 5 2007 19:08, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> BTW: Is it possible to mount a tmpfs on / before extracting the cpio?
> >
> >Not in the stock kernel. There have been some patches floating around
> >for that, I think.
>
> What would it buy? rootfs is a
Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When code is multi-licensed it must be distributed under *all* these
> licensing terms concurrently.
No. E.g.:
If I don't agree to the GPL (or if I had violated it and therefore have lost
it's privileges), I MUST NOT redistribute it under the GPL
Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there anyway to get/see what parameters were passed to a kernel module?
> Running modinfo -p will show the defaults, but for example, st,
> the scsi tape driver, is there a way to see what it is currently using?
/sys/modules/$NAME/parameters (if
Jerry Jiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 21:18:25 -0700 (PDT)
>> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Chris Snook wrote:
>> > Some architectures currently do not declare the contents of an atomic_t to
>> > be
>> > volatile. This causes confusion since atomic_read() might not actually
>> > read
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 9 2007 11:31, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>Since the network device documentation needs a rewrite, I was thinking
>>of using basic html format instead of just plain text. But since this would
>>be starting an new precedent for kernel documentation,
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Aug 9 2007 14:34, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> >I don't think and should be used, instead you should use styles
> >( etc).
>
> does the same as , and the latter is much
> more verbose for the same thing.
You shoud use neith
Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This attempts to address CVE-2006-6058
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6058
>
> first reported at http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-17-11-2006.html
>
> Essentially a corrupted minix dir inode reporting a very large
>
Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > This is needed to be able to correctly implement open-unlink-fsetattr
>> > semantics in some filesystem such as sshfs, without having to resort
>> > to "silly-renaming".
>>
>> How do you plan to do that?
>
> Easy: the SFTP protocol has stateful
Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I must say I've been wondering about relatime a bit as well. Are there
> actually users who do really want atime, but not badly enough to want real
> atime?
Anyone using /var/spool/mail.
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Friß, Spammer:
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Saturday 21 July 2007 8:14:41 am Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:21:39PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > >> I'm not trying to document /sys/devices. I
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> couldn't this be fixed by bumping idle tasks to middle while they hold a
>
> Usually to high.
Then use the lowest non-idle priority. The result will not be more b0rken
than nice -n 19.
> But it's all complicated and hasn't been done consistently
>
Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>> > I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi.
>>
>> Which is wrong
>>
>> Nakked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it clearer
>> what sd/sr etc are nowdays are
Brent Casavant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> I could mmap a temporary tmpfs file (tmpfs so that if there is a
> machine crash no sensitive data persists) which is created with
> permissions of 0, immediately unlink it, and pass the file
> descriptor through an AF_UNIX socket. This does open
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > However, it occurs to me that this problem goes away if there were
> > > a method create a file in an unlinked state to begin with. However
> > > there does not appear to be any such mechanism in Linux's open()
> > > interface.
> >
> > Having no window
Brent Casavant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> Hmm. This will work as long as the peer process is running setuid
> to it's own unique user. Excellent idea! Since I need to make the
> program setuid to avoid non-priveleged ptrace attacks, this is a
> terrific solution.
Tried that:
~ > cd
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > ~/tmp > cp /bin/sleep .
> > ~/tmp > chmod u+s sleep
> > ~/tmp > ./sleep 2147483647 &
> > [1] 2823
> > ~/tmp > strace -p 2823
> > Process 2823 a
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, David Newall wrote:
> Miloslav Semler pointed out that a root process can chdir("..") out of
> its chroot. Although this is documented in the man page, it conflicts
> with the essential function, which is to change the root directory of
> the process.
The root directory,
linux-os (Dick Johnson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, [iso-8859-1] Daniel Spång wrote:
>> On 9/28/07, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, [iso-8859-1] Daniel Spång wrote:
On 9/28/07, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [PATCH]: Fill the size of FIFOs
>
> Instead of reporting 0 in size when stating() a
FIFO
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Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Second try; this time with a doc-update, and the ability to remount normally.
>
> Tested against 2.6.23.
>
> ---
>
> This patch introduces a rootdir kernel boot parameter, which specifies the
> path to the kernel sys_chroot boot dir.
>
> This is useful
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Bodo Eggert wrote:
>> 1) This is useful for booting a rescue or test system, too. In those cases,
>>you might want to have the old root moved somewhere.
>>(Always "$rootdir/oldroot"? Additional parameter?
Vegard Nossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This makes sure printk format strings contain no more than a single
> line.
> printk(KERN_WARNING
> -"FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.\n"
> +"FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO
Kok, Auke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> K.Prasad wrote:
>> Without the side-effect of experiencing a link-flap when switching to a
>> lower-speed (with its toll in terms of down-time for auto-negotiation,
>> STP, etc), the Interrupt Moderation Algorithm dynamically adjusts the
>> number of
Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:38:45PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> | It's not about lazyness of BSD developers, many people who consider the
> | BSD licence more free than the GPL argue that the advantage of the BSD
> | licence is that it does not require
David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Normal users cannot use chroot() themselves so they can't use chroot to
>> get back out
>
> I think Bill is right, that this is to fix a method that non-root
> processes can use to escape their chroot. The exploit, which is
> documented in chroot(2)*,
Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Madore wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:11:52AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>> Boot memtest86 for a little while before booting the kernel? And if you
>>> haven't already run it for a while, then that would be your first step
>>> anyway.
Maciej W. Rozycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Move the hadover message to after the boot console has been released to
> avoid bad interactions between it and the real console.
This message is usefull if the handover fails, therefore it should be printed
on the boot console, while successfull
Micha? Kazior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've discovered a strange thing lately. My memory is being sucked out
> when doing (I suppose) _a lot_ of stat() on the file system. I got left
> once with ~30MB of ram (of 512 in total) which made my system trash
> like hell. You might try doing the
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can cause a recursion in kbuild/make with the following:
>
> make O=$PWD kernel/time.o
> make mrproper
>
> Of course no one would use O=$PWD (that's just the testcase),
> but this happened too often:
>
> /ws/linux/linux-2.6.23$ make
Miguel Botón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch fixes the warnings "passing argument 1 of '__memcpy' discards
> qualifiers from pointer target type" and "passing argument 2 of '__memcpy'
> discards qualifiers from pointer target type" when compiling some files.
>
> I don't really know if
Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the last remaining bit to cleanup is the symlink from
> arch/x86/boot/bzImage.
BTW: Is it useful to have (b)zimage under $ARCH while vmlinux is in the root
dir? (Besides being compatible to external scripts)
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Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:20:41 +0100
> Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Advice on solving this welcome preferably in mainline but I'll happily
>> hack my kernels with a workaround if need be.
>
> I can't see any easy hacks or workarounds to fix
Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:35:01PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> In fact, we should be able to get rid of ARCH entirely; CONFIG_ options
>> have the huge advantage that they're saved in a file, and you don't have to
>> type them on every make run. The
Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>> Allowing a user to tweak (under constraints) their settings might allow
>> them to do something like create two mozilla profiles which are isolated
>> from each other, so that the profile they use for general web
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The main use for me is to deal with dangling connections due to taking
>> network interfaces up with different IP addresses (typically the wlan0
>> interface where the IP is different because I've modes from an
Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/16/07, Kristoffer Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is the suggested approach on handling powerbutton (in keyboard driver) to
>> simply push out the event and let userland handle it?
>
> Yes.
>
>> The reason Im asking this is because as you
Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:23:53AM -0700, John Johansen wrote:
>> In the current code, both vfsmounts are always identical, and so one of
>> the two should go, agreed.
>>
>> The thought behind passing both vfsmounts was that they could differ but
>> point to
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> we were talking about the load order. This will solve the load order,
>> but if we have races like the kind you described, then the whole mISDN
>> design is broken.
>
> It's more a generic problem of the module code.
It's a problem of not enough
Michael Kerrisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a) I did a
>
> s/internal kernel handle/open file description/
>
> since that is the POSIX term for the internal handle.
>
> b) It seems to me that you text doesn't quite make the point explicit
> enough. I've tried to rewrite it; could you please
Abdel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In file include/asm-i386/system.h, _set_base and _set_limit use an
> useless do ... while(0)
>
> Why is this needed ?
http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/DoWhile0
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The question is whether the size of the Unix domain sockets support is
> > worth the complexity of yet another config option that we expose to
> > the user. For the embedded world, OK, maybe they want to save 14k
Thanasis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 12/31/2007 11:54 AM Jose de la Mancha wrote the following:
>> --> All RAID edition drives are more expensive that their equivalent
>> "desktop edition" drives (same model on "desktop edition"). Just take a look
>> at newegg for instance.
>>
> always be available and can implement any behavior desired (like droping into
> a dash).
ACK, but that's your part.
Introduce config CONFIG_SOFTPANIC
Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a
soft panic, which does not stop the system completely.
You can still scrol
Christer Weinigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do you find out the speed of the ISA bus? AFAIK there is no
> standardized way to do that. On the Geode SC2200 the ISA bus speed is
> usually the PCI clock divided by 4 giving 33MHz/4=8.3MHz or
> 30/4=7.5MHz, but with no external ISA devices
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > Christer Weinigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > How do you find out the speed of the ISA bus? AFAIK there is no
> > > standardized way to do that. On the Geode SC2200 the ISA bus speed is
&g
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > But overclocking is not the problem for udelay, it would err to the safe
> > side. The problem would be a BUS having < 8 MHz, and since the days of
> > 80286, they are hard to find. IMO having an opt
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 08-01-08 00:24, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Rene Herman wrote:
> > > Is this only about the ones then left for things like legacy PIC and PIT?
> > > Does anyone care about just sticking in a udelay(2) (or 1) there as a
> > > replacement and call it a day?
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> > But overclocking is not the problem for udelay, it would err to the safe
> > side. The problem would be a BUS having < 8 MHz, and since the days of
> > 80286, they are hard to find. IMO having an option to set the bus speed
> > for those systems should be
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Introduce config CONFIG_SOFTPANIC
> > Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a
> > soft panic, which does not stop the system completely.
> > You can still scroll the screen and read the messages.
> >
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 January 2008 18:24:02 David P. Reed wrote:
> > Windows these days does delays with timing loops or the scheduler. It
> > doesn't use a "port". Also, Windows XP only supports machines that tend
> > not to have timing problems that use
Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-01-08, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> "Power users" may still
>> use the index= option of sound card modules and wire it up in
>> /etc/modprobe.d if they prefer.
>
> Another very cryptic directory whose contents say nothing to me.
Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even after a black-out shutdown, the corruption is pretty minimal, using
> ext3fs at least. So let's take advantage of this fact and do an optimistic
> fsck, to assure integrity per-dir, and assume no external corruption. Then
> we release this checked dir
Abhishek Rai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Putting metacluster at the end of the block group gives slightly
> inferior sequential read throughput compared to putting it in the
> beginning or the middle, but the difference is very tiny and exists
> only for large files that span multiple block
Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Don't use udev then. Good old static dev works fine if you have a fixed
>> > set of devices.
>>
>> It doesn't, with the unpredictable SCSI mapping insanity.
>
> That what LABEL und UUID-Support in mount is for.
>
> You label the
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:22:45PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > What can happen if someone does tune2fs -Lroot /dev/usbstick
> > and puts that stick into this system?
>
> Don't know. I use UUIDs rather than LABELs. Having dup
Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2008 11:44:37 am H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
>> > + switch (port->iobase) {
>> > + case 0x3f8: return 0; /* COM1 -> ttyS0 */
>> > + case 0x2f8: return 1; /* COM2 ->
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some versions of Xen 3.x set their magic number to "xen-3.[12]", so
> relax the test to match them.
> - BUG_ON(memcmp(xen_start_info->magic, "xen-3.0", 7) != 0);
> + BUG_ON(memcmp(xen_start_info->magic, "xen-3", 5) != 0);
Not
Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> use module_init/module_exit to replace the original cond-compiling, these
> macros were well designed to deal module/built-in compiling.
>
> the original __setup with null string was invalid and not executed,
> __setup("", ide_setup);
>
> however, with
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'd tried to advocate SIGDANGER some years ago as well, but none of
>> the kernel maintainers were interested. It definitely makes sense
>> to have some sort of mechanism like this. At the time I first brought
>> it up it was in conjunction with Netscape
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:43:26PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > Since nobody knows about this "security boundary" and everybody knows about
> > the annoying "can't link across bind-mountpoints bug",
>
> ... how
linux-os (Dick Johnson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>> It never gets to the printk(). You were right about the
>>> compilation. Somebody changed the kernel to compile with
>>> parameter passing in REGISTERS! This means that EVERYTHING
>>> needs to be
, the NUMLOCK status on Linus' famous laptop should be usable.
---
I'd like some information about how this patch works non non-IBM-compatible
x86 PCs. For now, I've documented the wordt possible outcome I can imagine.
Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -pruN -X dontdiff
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> do you have any memories about the outb_p() use of misc_32.c:
>
> pos = (x + cols * y) * 2; /* Update cursor position */
> outb_p(14, vidport);
> outb_p(0xff & (pos >> 9), vidport+1);
> outb_p(15, vidport);
>
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> * Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> BTW: The error function in linux-2.6.23/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c
> >>&
Theewara Vorakosit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I get MAC address from ioctl. However, ifconfig can change this MAC
> address. Can I get a real physical MAC address of the NIC?
First, get a network card having a physical MAC. Most cards have only a
(currently configured) default MAC address,
As suggested by Adrian Bunk, UNIX domain sockets should always be built in
on normal systems. This is especially true since udev needs these sockets
and fails to run if UNIX=m.
Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Last minute change: I decided against making it a bool b
In some of the Kconfig files, the options are not adequately decribed. I
collected a few of the bad descriptions I found:
---
Lowlevel video output switch controls (VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL) [M/n/y/?] (NEW) ?
This framework adds support for low-level control of the video
output switch.
---
- What
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:09:43PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > As suggested by Adrian Bunk, UNIX domain sockets should always be built in
> > on normal systems. This is especially true since udev needs these sockets
> > and f
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, David Miller wrote:
> From: Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > As suggested by Adrian Bunk, UNIX domain sockets should always be built in
> > on normal systems. This is especially true since udev needs these sockets
> > and fails to run if
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:53:02 -0800
> "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > > I've never seen code which would do that, and it was not suggested by any
> > > tutorial I ever saw
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:26:42PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:09:43PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > > > As suggested by Adrian Bunk, UNIX domain
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:16:43AM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> >> Bodo Eggert wrote:
(Kicking netdev from CC)
> >>> ---
> >>> SCSI target support (SCSI_TGT) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) ?
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:03:20PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > As suggested by Adrian Bunk, UNIX d
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, David Miller wrote:
> From: Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > The big question is: Is there any non-embedded system where you have
> > to aim for a small kernel image?
>
> One some platforms, due to bootloader restrictions or whatever,
> ther
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jan 25 2008 15:54, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> >+#ifdef SOFTPANIC
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SOFTPANIC?
Thanks. I remember having fixed it ...
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Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a
soft panic, which does not stop the system completely.
You can still scroll the screen and read the messages.
Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -pruN -X dontdiff linux-2.6.24.pure/include/linux/kernel.h
linux-
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a
> > soft panic, which does not stop the system completely.
> > You can still scroll the screen and read the messages.
>
> +++ linux/fs/fcntl.c
> @@ -240,11 +240,15 @@ static int setfl(int fd, struct file * f
>
> lock_kernel();
> if ((arg ^ filp->f_flags) & FASYNC) {
> - if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->fasync) {
> + if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->unlocked_fasync)
> +
Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 05:38 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> On Monday 28 January 2008 05:13:09 Trond Myklebust wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 03:58 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> > > The problem is that it's not a race in who gets to do its thing first,
>>
Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a
soft panic, which does not stop the system completely.
You can still scroll the screen and read the messages.
Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Fixed: s/SOFTPANIC/CONFIG_SOFTPANIC/
I did not implement shuttin
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:17:33 -0700 Jonathan Corbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Avoid buffer overflows in get_user_pages()
>>
>> So I spent a while pounding my head against my monitor trying to figure
>> out the vmsplice() vulnerability - how could a
Jon Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:11 -0800, Ray Lee wrote:
>> On Nov 29, 2007 10:56 AM, Jon Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:40 -0800, Ray Lee wrote:
>> > > On Nov 29, 2007 9:36 AM, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > > >
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