Re: Squashfs without ./..

2005-03-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
if .. disappeared? Would `cd ..` become impossible (even if it is a shell builtin, it probably stat()s for ..)? Jan Engelhardt -- - 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

Re: Prezeroing V8

2005-03-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
area which boinc uses). Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/

relayfs doc bug

2005-03-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
be /dev/relay//xlog/9, but that's impossible, since multiple / are merged). Works well when I use xlog/9. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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

Re: Squashfs without ./..

2005-03-26 Thread Jan Engelhardt
synthesizes .. nevertheless. So - what about removing . and .. in readdir for all standard harddisk filesystems (ext*,reiser*, [jx]fs)? I mean, one party always has to loose... Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Garbage on serial console after serial driver loads

2005-03-26 Thread Jan Engelhardt
, as a bootloader option? Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - 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/

gettimeofday call

2005-03-26 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hello list, I suppose that calling gettimeofday() repeatedly (to add a timestamp to some data) within the kernel is cheaper than doing it in userspace, is it? Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: gettimeofday call

2005-03-26 Thread Jan Engelhardt
); ... } (In either case, at some point, userspace has a timestamp.) I think that -1- is faster it does not require an additional syscall from userspace to sys_gettimeofday(). Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: vanilla 2.6.11 Kernel Hangs after hlt checking

2005-03-26 Thread Jan Engelhardt
actually i've exprienced this happening with old systems but not with a new one. Well, only with older i386's... haven't started debugging yet maybe someone has experinced the same issue. Anyway, you could try the nohlt bootoption, as well as sysrq+t when it hangs. Jan Engelhardt

Re: Can't use SYSFS for Proprietry driver modules !!!.

2005-03-26 Thread Jan Engelhardt
away with it? Sssh... don't give hints. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - 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

Re: sparse segfaults

2005-03-26 Thread Jan Engelhardt
://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html] are some things (section C/Objective C/C++) that will be deprecated, including ?: as an lvalue and the behated (a,b)-as-lvalue. ;-) Cheers, Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

2005-03-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
. At least if you can live with a read-only fs on startup. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - 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

Re: upgrading modutils may have fixed: unresolved symbols still in 2.4.30-rc2 (usbserial needs symbol tty_ldisc_ref and tty_ldisc_deref which are EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL)

2005-03-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
that I get unresolved symbols if I try to build a kernel with _*all*_ the bell's and whistles. There's always something that is not updated. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Squashfs without ./..

2005-03-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
an interface that the client file systems could easily accomodate might take some care (for example, accomodating their locking schemes while keeping the interface simple enough so that the client file system drivers are still made smaller by using it). Also a nice idea. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU

Re: Can't use SYSFS for Proprietry driver modules !!!.

2005-03-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
only half. Other good examples besides 3ware are: VMware kernel modules and SUNWut/SRSS3 Linux Kernel modules. Looks like there's only the GPU industry left that thinks somebody could misuse the kmod to make them (:one company) inferior on the market. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please

Re: Garbage on serial console after serial driver loads

2005-03-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, I have come across a 16550A myself (in VMware) and so, tested it. Linux reports it as a 16550A while OpenBSD says it's a NS16550A -- output to this serial console (vmware: file) works fine, though. My real box's serial is also a 16550A but havenot tested that- got no cable. Jan Engelhardt

Re: [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/

2005-03-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
: test-jmp ptr!=NULL: test-call(freeit-return) Looks like the least expensive way to me. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - 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

Re: [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/

2005-03-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Am I the only person who is completely fascinated by the effort being spent here micro-optimising something thats almost never in a path that needs optimising ? I'd be amazed if any of this masturbation showed the tiniest blip on a real workload, or even on a benchmark other than one crafted

Re: Can't use SYSFS for Proprietry driver modules !!!.

2005-03-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
If you are making a very specialist piece of equipment; not ... If the user has the source of the driver, he can port the driver or hire someone to port the driver (this obscure piece of hardware might also be an expensive piece of hardware). I am happy that nvidia (to name one) provides at

Re: Can't use SYSFS for Proprietry driver modules !!!.

2005-03-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
. the USA might not have any influence on a court decision in e.g. Germany. I got a different impression. The US has the biggest houses, the biggest cars, ... (Supersize me), so if something happens in the US, other countries watch it more closely as if it was the other way round. Jan Engelhardt

Re: Can't use SYSFS for Proprietry driver modules !!!.

2005-03-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Strange memory problem with Linux booted from U-Boot

2005-03-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, I need some help on solving this strange problem. Here is what I have, I have a loadable module (linux.2.4.20) which contains a 2 mb static gloabal array. Additional information: The same error occurs if I just run depmod -a. I'd be more interested in the kernel space code... Jan

Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-03-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
I think per user limit could be a solution. attached a small fork-memory bombing. I already posted one, posts ago. [snip] Imporved version: [snip] char *dummy = (char *)malloc(1); That cast is not supposed to be there, is it? (To pretake it: it's bad.) Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me

Re: sched_setscheduler() and usage issues ....please help

2005-03-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
of users is still using older distros, such as FC2, SUSE 9.1, and also olders with Linux 2.4 kernels. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - 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

Re: [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/

2005-03-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
their programs actually perform. --gcc info pages. The optimization does not help if you are releasing actual memory. It does not turn the real case (releasing memory) worse, but just improves the unreal case (releasing NULL). Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from

Re: How to measure time accurately.

2005-03-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
- a tick [when using preempt] - kernel space [no preempt] disabled interrupts should usually not be the case. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - 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

Block device size

2005-03-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hello list, how can I found out the size of the underlying block device when I am in somefs_fill_super()? Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: sched_setscheduler() and usage issues ....please help

2005-03-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
just wrote my own! Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: sched_setscheduler() and usage issues ....please help

2005-03-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
itself until I actively checked what it's about when the boot process says Setting scheduling timeslicesunused Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Quotaoff - crash

2005-03-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
. :-/ Since you are getting a SIGSEGV (not SIGKILL?) at least, you should be able to hook gdb on it, and grep the EIP. This is of course will only be the userspace EIP, but it may show where it's happening (I guess it will be the quota syscall nevertheless). Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me

Re: Block device size

2005-03-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
As a response to myself, I've found it: superblock-s_bdev-bd_inode-i_size :) Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - 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

Re: some problem with build 2.6.11.6 (also 2.6.10)

2005-03-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
that normal or not? normal. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - 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

Re: How to measure time accurately.

2005-03-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
For ppc this only gives 32-bit values, which overflow every 129 seconds on my G5. Depending on how long you're trying to time, this could be a problem. Just take an extra measure to record overflows (2^32-1 = 0) and you're set. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe

Re: Delay in a tasklet.

2005-03-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
() would come to mind. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-03-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
You could wrap /lib/ld-linux.so, and get all dynamically linked programs done in one sweep. That does not handle static binaries :) Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [2.6.12-rc1-mm3] BUG: atomic counter underflow in smbfs

2005-03-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
tried it? (Last time I looked, cifs didn't work against win98 servers - maybe that got fixed). Well, win98 by itself does not have CIFS support. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Directory link count wrapping on Linux/XFS/i386?

2005-03-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - 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/

pci_find_class obsolete

2005-03-03 Thread Jan Engelhardt
(PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA 8, dev); ... } What function would I need to use, now that pci_find_class is gone? Jan Engelhardt -- - 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

Re: pci_find_class obsolete

2005-03-03 Thread Jan Engelhardt
improvements over 4996.) http://unixforge.org/~matthias-christian-ott/index.php?entry=entry050303-082233 What's the patch doing? I do not use AGPGART/DRI - no performance plus either. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: IPsec AH use of ahash

2013-01-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2013-01-20 14:54, Tom St Denis wrote: You should really try running checkpatch.pl over code that's already in the kernel before you call out new contributors on it. How is this supposed to not be adversarial when I can't even use the Kernel source itself as a reference?

Re: Redefinition of struct in6_addr in netinet/in.h and linux/in6.h

2013-01-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2013-01-17 03:05, David Miller wrote: From: Carlos O'Donell car...@systemhalted.org Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:58:47 -0500 So I just went down the rabbit hole, and the further I get the closer I get to having two exact copies of the same definitions in both glibc and the kernel and

Re: kconfig-frontends-3.8.0.0 release

2013-02-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Tuesday 2013-02-19 23:14, Yann E. MORIN wrote: I'm pleased to announce the release of kconfig-frontends 3.8.0.0! Go download it there: http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/download/kconfig-frontends/kconfig-frontends-3.8.0.0.tar.xz

Re: kconfig-frontends-3.8.0.0 release

2013-02-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2013-02-20 00:21, Yann E. MORIN wrote: This seems to install /usr/bin/diff[...] By default, the binaries should all ne prefixed with 'kconfig-' to avoid such name-clashing (as root, in a fresh debootstrap of squeeze here): Aha. Seems I hit a peculiarity in rpmbuild.

Re: [Announce] Checkpoint-restore tool v0.4

2013-02-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2013-02-20 12:18, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: As was planned, the v0.4 of C/R tools is out, right after the Linux v3.8. The most valuable thing in this release, is that all the kernel patches we had are now merged, and thus what crtools-v0.4 can do will work on the upstream kernel

Re: Read I/O starvation with writeback RAID controller

2013-02-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Friday 2013-02-22 20:28, Martin Svec wrote: Yes, I've already tried the ROW scheduler. It helped for some low iodepths depending on quantum settings but generally didn't solve the problem. I think the key issue is that none of the schedulers can throttle I/O according to e.g. average

Re: VGER news

2005-08-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
In absolute terms about 5600 BogoMips, although all bogos are not quite the same... (E.g. Coppermine - Xeon gives a bit more difference than just bogos would imply.) Would dhry- and whetstones be more accurate across CPUs? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: oops in VMWARE vmnet, on 2.6.12.x

2005-08-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Nothing in the tarball mentiones any opensource license. If vmware is actually using an opensource license please tell them to mention that license and remove the propritary code markers. It's not opensource, but proprietary and S_IRUGO. Though, the world won't fall down instantly if you

Re: [PATCH] Fix PPC signal handling of NODEFER, should not affect sa_mask

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
if English is the native language of those that wrote this. So, if in doubt what is really meant - check which of the two/three/+ different behaviors the users out there favor most. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
and/or Sysrq+T? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: These guys can't spell Linux ;)

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
/? It was because the ftp admin did not like the original name freex so he just renamed it to something that suited him well. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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

RE: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
. They really lack originality. Jan Engelhardt --

Re: These guys can't spell Linux ;)

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
. Search google for linus torvalds ftp admin freax and maybe add 1991 or 1992 to the list of keywords. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
yet. I'll report back. Mind that it is unlikely to get a good trace at this stage, but it's worth the try. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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

Re: Need help in understanding x86 syscall

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
zach-dev2:~ $ ldd /bin/ls linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000) This is the vsyscall entry point, which gets linked by ld into all processes. Just a clarification... not GNU ld (the binutils thing), but /lib/ld-linux.so - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Maybe it should instead depend on those systems where it is available. Anything but X86? x86_64? Jan Engelhardt -- - 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

Redirect kernel console

2005-08-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, there is a klogconsole utiltity that allows to change the console to which kernel messages are printed. However, is it possible to redirect to ttyS0 without a reboot? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

ARP finding procedure

2005-08-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
does anyone know how I can tune the kernel or its subsystems to send the ARP on all interfaces that match the route? Jan Engelhardt -- - 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

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
setxkbmap -symbols 'en_US(pc102)+gb' in my ~/.xsession, and « and » are available as AltGr-z and AltGr-x respectively. .Xmodmap: keycode 117 = MultiKey and then use [the Windows(R) Context Menu Key],[],[] to generate « Cheers :) Jan Engelhardt --

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-git5 : PCI mem resource alloc failure

2005-08-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
] agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0 [ 47.886017] agpgart: Setting up Nforce3 AGP. [ 47.893822] agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe800 Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: [patch] unexport __mntput()

2005-08-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Nfsd uses it to serve up nfs exports that don't cross mountpoints (or do, if crossmnt is specified in /etc/exports. Is not this called nohide? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

[discuss] portmapping sucks

2007-01-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hello list, I just don't know where else I could send this, it's sooo generic to Linux and UNIX (perhaps blame SUN for inventing portmap?) Well, here goes... As we all know, mountd and other SUNRPC (I question this invention too) services are at a fixed RPC port number (/etc/rpc) which are

Re: git.kernel.org move (finally)... estimated week of Feb 5

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 26 2007 17:17, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Just for everyone's information... The git performance issues (especially) on kernel.org has been very frustrating, obviously. We're putting a dedicated git server in place hopefully the week of February 5. And the filesystem will be .. which?

Re: Mounting NFS root FS

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 5 2006 15:12, Trond Myklebust wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:59 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: JE Since we're on the topic locking, is it because I am not running JE statd on the client that my NFS client hangs during boot phase? TM TMIf you have applications that try to set locks before

Re: ncpfs and TCP vs UDP

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 26 2007 22:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Pierre Ossman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: TCP is definitely preferred. There are couple of reasons why you should prefer TCP: (1) There is server configuration option to disable NCP/UDP. You cannot disable NCP/TCP that easily. (2) TCP (NCP over

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 27 2007 02:22, Florian Schmidt wrote: i was wondering whether there exists any mechanism to blacklist modules from being loaded besides the typical etc/modprobe.d/blacklist type mechanisms. Sometimes you have a module oopsing because of faulty hw which cannot be removed rendering the

Re: ncpfs and TCP vs UDP

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Well, probably the same reason as NFS over UDP is discouraged. See nfs(5) section WARNINGS (in short: IP fragment ID can wrap quite fast on Gigabit) I have no such warning in my nfs(5), but I am aware of this yes. Somewhat amusing that both nfs and ncpfs tend to default to using udp with this

Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
I'm a little stumped trying to set up raid 10. I set it up and it worked but after a reboot it forgets my raid setup. Now, let's hear the name of the distribution you use. BTW, is md1 also disappearing? -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: External module Makefile with generated C file

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
ctracer_methods.o: ctracer_methods.c $(obj)/ctracer_methods.o: $(src)/ctracer_methods.c $(src)/ctracer_methods.c: ... I don't know if $(obj) or $(src) is the right thing, but something along these lines is required for OOT. -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 27 2007 10:31, Marc Perkel wrote: --- Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a little stumped trying to set up raid 10. I set it up and it worked but after a reboot it forgets my raid setup. Now, let's hear the name of the distribution you use. BTW, is md1 also

Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 27 2007 10:42, Marc Perkel wrote: I'm using Fedora Core 6. /dev/md0 and /dev/md1, buth of which are raid 1 arrays survive the reboot. But when I make a raid 0 out of those two raid arrays that's what is vanishing. That's interesting. I am using Aurora Corona [FC6+RHide], and all

Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 28 2007 12:05, Michael Tokarev wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: That's interesting. I am using Aurora Corona, and all but md0 vanishes. (Reason for that is that udev does not create the nodes md1-md31 on boot, so mdadm cannot assemble the arrays.) This is nonsense. Mdadm creates those

Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 28 2007 22:49, Michael Tokarev wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: [] RAID-10 is not the same as RAID 0+1. It is. Yes, there's separate module for raid10, but what it - basically - does is the same as raid0 module over two raid1 modules will do. It's just a bit more efficient (less levels,

Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 28 2007 22:44, Michael Tokarev wrote: Mdadm creates those nodes automa[tg]ically - man mdadm, search for --auto. Note that `mdadm -As` _is_ run on FC6 boot. See above -- man mdadm, search for --auto. -A = --assemble, -s = --scan. Oops, thank you. So mdadm -A -s --auto=yes

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 29 2007 09:30, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Bernhard Walle wrote: * Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-27 15:53]: brokenmodules=..., but that's SUSE's linuxrc. good enough to boot the rescue system from the install cd without oopsing and fix up the blacklist file in the installed systen

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 29 2007 12:25, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 29 2007 09:30, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Bernhard Walle wrote: * Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-27 15:53]: brokenmodules=..., but that's SUSE's linuxrc. good enough to boot the rescue system from the install cd

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 29 2007 13:44, Oliver Neukum wrote: Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 13:40 schrieb Jan Engelhardt: Is that an real-live issue, with distro kernels being shipped with almost everything compiled as module these days? For me it was. FC6 has at least CONFIG_MD=y, and SUSE also has some =y

Re: Multiple ip= boot arguments?

2007-01-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 29 2007 12:36, Kevin Nicoll wrote: My question is if it is intended to be able to use more than one ip= parameter in the kernel command line, Possibly not ... or if I'm supposed to use a startup script instead. This is the preffered way nowadays. One day, hopefully, CONFIG_IP_PNP

Re: Multiple ip= boot arguments?

2007-01-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 30 2007 03:53, pradeep wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 29 2007 12:36, Kevin Nicoll wrote: or if I'm supposed to use a startup script instead. This is the preffered way nowadays. One day, hopefully, CONFIG_IP_PNP can go away. CONFIG_IP_PNP is required while mounting rootfs

Re: [PATCH] cdev.h needs struct inode; add forward declaration

2007-01-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
include/linux/cdev.h defines cd_forget to take a struct inode *, but does not pull in any definition or declaration for struct inode. This generates a compiler warning if a source file pulls in cdev.h without first pulling in fs.h. Add a forward declaration of struct inode to cdev.h, to

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Subject: Free Linux Driver Development! Free Linux Driver Development! Yes, that's right, the Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development. No longer do you have to suffer through all of the different examples in the Linux Device Driver Kit, or pick through

Re: [PATCH] Add is_power_of_2 checking to log2.h.

2007-01-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Why the qualifier? Zero *is* not a power of 2, is it? No, it is not: In[1]:= Solve[2^n == 0, n] Out[1]= {} So says Mathematica5. Jan -- ft: http://freshmeat.net/p/chaostables/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: [PATCH] Add is_power_of_2 checking to log2.h.

2007-01-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 30 2007 09:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Why the qualifier? Zero *is* not a power of 2, is it? No, it is not: In[1]:= Solve[2^n == 0, n] Out[1]= {} So says Mathematica5. okay, that's kind of like taking a sandblaster

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 30 2007 11:14, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:52:48AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: This driver will work with all[1] of the different CPU types supported by Linux, the largest number of CPU types supported by any operating system ever before in the history of computing

Re: [2.6.20-rc6] pktcdvd doesn't work

2007-01-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 30 2007 20:53, Luca Tettamanti wrote: Hi, pktcdvd on kernel 2.6.20-rc6 is not working as expected. Any file that Did it work previously? is written to the device is lost after umount. I rarely use pktcdvd but at some point it used to work on my system. This is what I'm doing: [EMAIL

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 30 2007 21:23, Diego Calleja wrote: Sure, Linux doesn't support vax and the like, but it does support lots of architectures that matter. In http://netbsd.org/Ports/#ports-by-cpu there's a more Linux-like view of the architectures supported. Although Netbsd people will argue that porting a

Re: [2.6.20-rc6] pktcdvd doesn't work

2007-01-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 30 2007 21:36, Luca Tettamanti wrote: Il Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:02:20PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt ha scritto: On Jan 30 2007 20:53, Luca Tettamanti wrote: Hi, pktcdvd on kernel 2.6.20-rc6 is not working as expected. Any file that Did it work previously? Yup, It used to work

Re: Google Earth displays improperly - 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
When I update my kernel to 2.6.20-rc6, I find I can not move the map smoothly in the Google Earth (V4). I do not try any test on this issue. just put it to maillist. More info please, my magic sphere is defunct. * reinstall your binary blob in case you use nvidia/ati and make

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 30 2007 14:00, Roland Dreier wrote: An uncharitable vendor might decide it's not worth publishing specs, since the Linux guys can reverse engineer the Windows driver just as fast anyway. And ndiswrapper gives fire to just releasing the Windows one :( Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 31 2007 08:34, David Hollis wrote: Conversely, I've seen many cases of drivers that are developed by the community, but kept out-of-kernel forever due to various reasons. Some of them are due to the code quality and the developers not accepting the feedback to get the drivers into shape

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 31 2007 18:24, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:08:14AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair that floppy.c is? Do you want everyone just to run screaming from kernel

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 31 2007 09:58, alan wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 30 2007 14:00, Roland Dreier wrote: An uncharitable vendor might decide it's not worth publishing specs, since the Linux guys can reverse engineer the Windows driver just as fast anyway

Re: How to locate struct file * from a bio?

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 31 2007 16:18, Helge Hafting wrote: Eddie Pettis wrote: Longer version: I am working on a project that requires measuring the popularity of each file in a filesystem. I have made several attempts to locate all the file reads by grepping for -readpage() and -readpages() calls, but I

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 31 2007 13:58, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:24:54PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: How much different hardware does the (old)floppy.c do? I imagine that today, where floppies phase out, there will be, in descending order: * USB floppy drives (atm handled by sd.c

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 31 2007 11:54, Auke Kok wrote: Francois Romieu wrote: Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] incomplete NDAed documentation. If (as this offer implies) there are good driver authors waiting to do more drivering, why aren't those a priority? So far nobody cared enough to

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 31 2007 18:59, Lee Revell wrote: On 1/31/07, Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More specifically, Dave said that it seemed rude to just take the driver and send updates, but maybe the best way of dealing with out-of-tree drivers like lirc is to treat the out-of-tree drivers as a

Re: [ PATCH ] fix to documentation for kexec

2007-02-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
@@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel * You must specify root-dev in the format corresponding to the root device name in the output of mount command. -* init 1 boots the dump-capture kernel into single-user mode without - networking. If you want networking, use init

Re: [ PATCH ] fix to documentation for kexec

2007-02-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 1 2007 13:30, Robert P. J. Day wrote: @@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel * You must specify root-dev in the format corresponding to the root device name in the output of mount command. -* init 1 boots the dump-capture kernel into single-user mode without

Re: Want comments regarding patch

2006-12-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 29 2006 07:57, Daniel Marjamäki wrote: It was my goal to improve the readability. I failed. I personally prefer to use standard functions instead of writing code. In my opinion using standard functions means less code that is easier to read. Hm in that case, what about having

Re: kobject_add unreachable code

2006-12-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 29 2006 09:36, Martin Stoilov wrote: Olaf Dietsche wrote: Martin Stoilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following code in kobject_add if (!kobj-k_name) kobj-k_name = kobj-name; if (!kobj-k_name) { pr_debug(kobject attempted to be registered with no

Re: irq 4: nobody cared and I/O errors on serial ports.

2006-12-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 29 2006 12:41, Sergei Organov wrote: It seems that the kernel has some problems/races in opening/closing of serial ports. Simple C program below just opens/closes a port in a loop: [..] I've noticed 2 problems running this program. I run 2.6.19.1 smp kernel (I've also tested Debian

Re: Want comments regarding patch

2006-12-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 30 2006 01:00, Bodo Eggert wrote: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 29 2006 07:57, Daniel Marjamäki wrote: It was my goal to improve the readability. I failed. I personally prefer to use standard functions instead of writing code. In my opinion using standard functions

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