Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Kurt Garloff
within 2.4, Linus. Well, ignore my posting then, if you like. Best regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations [EMAIL PROTECTED] [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG] (See

Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI

2000-08-30 Thread Kurt Garloff
the sym53c8xx driver absolutely cannot support. ... and if the sym53c8xx driver erroneously does try to operate 53c810 based host adapters, report it as a bug to Gérard. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers

Re: [PATCH] panic when booting Intel XXPRESS SMP boards

2000-09-08 Thread Kurt Garloff
ger AFAICS. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-08 Thread Kurt Garloff
correctly, even in presence of MTAs somewhere in between that don't handle 8bit. Or with PGP, which also prefers 7bit ... You'll probably complain about me using a GnuPG signature as well. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key

Re: Notebook disk spindown

2000-09-08 Thread Kurt Garloff
is written to disk. This incurs some risk though: Your memory will get less and less, because more and more is occupied byt dirty buffers. At a certain percentage (first bdflush param), it will start to write to disk ... Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven,

Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System

2000-09-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
format for people with broken mailers If you want to use PGP signatures, you need to allow MIME encoding. Otherwise non-7bit chars or even trailing spaces may lead to invalid PGP signatures. I've gone through that once. That's why I use this (admittedly ugly quoted-printable). Regards, -- Kurt

Re: 53C1010-33 Linux 2.2.17 driver

2000-10-09 Thread Kurt Garloff
are not supported either. Look at Gérard Roudier's [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp site ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/tux/roudier/ to find updated sym53c8xx drivers. The sym53c8xx-1.7.1 which supports the 53c1010 just fine was added to 2.2.18pre3, so any later 2.2.18pre shoud do the job for you. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-09 Thread Kurt Garloff
ng since a longer time (computations, ...) * If we put any policy like this into the kernel at all, I'd rather encourage the usage of nice instead of discouraging it. I assume here backgrd job == niced job, which mostly is the case in reality. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL

Re: tmscsim update for Linux 2.2.18pre15?

2000-10-10 Thread Kurt Garloff
. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

OnStream SCSI tape driver osst

2000-10-10 Thread Kurt Garloff
issues with us. Jack Bombeeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] and some of his colleagues helped wherever they could and will need to take care not to get addicted to Linux ;-) I'd also like to thank Matthew Darm and David Brown for their usb-storage work and all the testers who sent reports. Regards, -- Kurt

Re: tmscsim update for Linux 2.2.18pre15?

2000-10-11 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:15:08AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: Actually, 2.0e3 did include one rather important fix which solved the Uh. Fix? This sounds like working around very broken devices to me, or are devices allowed to wreak havoc

Re: NFS in 2.4.x

2000-10-17 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:22:48AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: Ask RedHat. I'm _not_ using a Red Hat kernel. That is why I posted here, because Red Hat will tell me that I'm not using their kernel. People here know wether or not it needs

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.3 is available

2001-02-27 Thread Kurt Garloff
for adding a version info for the table formats, the modutils-2.4.2 could not provide support for per 2.4.0 kernel hotplug device tables. Nor can 2.4.3. The rest of the functionality is unaffected. Keith, correct me if I misunderstood ... Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?

2001-02-27 Thread Kurt Garloff
it available for the kernel ... http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations [EMAIL PROTECTED] [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG] (See

Re: Patch submissions

2001-03-06 Thread Kurt Garloff
was not supported before, we may want to add it to the kernel to get it tested and improved. But, that's probably what you meant. probably even out of linux-kernel ... No. I want to see experimental stuff on l-k. That's what it's meant for. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: About DC-315U scsi driver

2001-03-11 Thread Kurt Garloff
to suite the new kernel? Compiling it should be no problem. Making it work flawlessly is. I'd like to know as well. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations [EMAIL PROTECTED] [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security

SMP on assym. x86

2001-03-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
against 2.4.2 is attached. Feedback is welcome. I think the patch is safe, but I could imagine that the earlier SMP initialization might cause problems for some people or other archs. I would like this patch to go into the mainstream kernel, if no problem can be found. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
. As you have two CPUs, you can spend more time in CPU than your wall clock shows if you time multithreaded processes or multiple processes. At most (ideal case) twice as much. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers

Re: SMP on assym. x86

2001-03-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
e requests to make it suitable for -ac kernels, I'll do my best. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations [EMAIL PROTECTED] [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG] (See m

Re: Interesting post from the MC project to linux-kernel. :block while spinlock held...

2001-03-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
/sym53c416.c drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c ^^ How do I fond about about details? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg

Re: PROBLEM: tmscsim driver on test11-pre7 stops working when starting X

2000-11-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
with the new kernel, when kdm was starting Xfree 4.0.1 from Debian woody. Nov 20 01:29:34 wh36-b407 kernel: Bad boy: tmscsim (at 0xc02bf732) called us without a dev_id! Fixed in 2.0eX, BTW. I noted there's a new version of the driver on the maintainer's (Kurt Garloff) homepage, but last time

Re: [PATCH] Speed up interrupt entry

2000-11-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
^^^ - "movl %edx,%ds\n\t" \ - "movl %edx,%es\n\t" + "movl $" STR(__KERNEL_DS),%eax\n\t" \ ^ You missed a ' "' Apart from that it (a) makes sense (b) survived real world usage ... Regards, -- Kurt

Re: [2.2.17] oops in /proc/scsi/scsi

2000-11-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
this, I'd like to ask you to try 2.0e6 of the tmscsim driver and check whether you are able to reproduce the bug. Thanks! Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuer

Re: [2.2.17] oops in /proc/scsi/scsi

2000-11-27 Thread Kurt Garloff
it start command processing again. This can be changed by echoing DelayReset values tp the proc file. If your Plextor requires 5s, just do echo "delayreset 5" /proc/scsi/tmscsim/? and the driver will wait for 5.5s ... Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [2.2.17] yes: oops again in /proc/scsi/scsi

2000-11-27 Thread Kurt Garloff
. That may have confused the kernel. Did the above oops happen without such abuse? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations [EMAIL PROTECTED] [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SuSE Nuernberg

USB-Storage drivers

2000-11-27 Thread Kurt Garloff
patching the Config file. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations [EMAIL PROTECTED] [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG] (See mail header or public key servers for PGP2

Re: modutils-2.3.21: modprobe looping

2000-11-28 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:33:53AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:22:59 +0100, Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Find attached the modules.dep that caused this: There is a circular dependency of pppoe on pppox on pppoe on The kernel code is broken. Circular

2.4.0-test: rmmod -a without effect

2000-11-28 Thread Kurt Garloff
the kernel's fault. Same behaviour with 2.4.0-test9 and -test11-ac2. Is this known and to be expected? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG

Re: modutils-2.3.21: modprobe looping

2000-11-28 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:24:48PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote: This is a pity, because I think the current behaviour is not acceptable, as it can kill the machine by just being invoked by kmod. I will try to make sense out of the code and make sure that modprobe will not go crazy, by either

Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

2000-11-29 Thread Kurt Garloff
and write it (with cdrecord) to some CDRW on the same IDE channel, you have to expect trouble: As with IDE there is no disconnect from the bus (as opposed to SCSI), you risk buffer underruns. A lockup however is not to be expected :-( Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

2000-11-30 Thread Kurt Garloff
? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: IDE_TAPE problem wiht ONSTREAM DI30

2000-12-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
completely different impression. Otherwise neither the DI-30 would be supported by ide-tape, nor would there be the osst driver, supporting SC-x0, DI-30 (over ide-scsi) and USB30 (usb-storage in 2.4 w/ Freecom support). Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven,

Re: Linux for local languages - patch

2000-12-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
, I sent you a patch a couple of months ago which does enable the support of wide characters and another font (besides the sun12x22) making use of it. I hope it's in your codebase by now, so it does not get lost when the advanced things of K Ratheesh get merged. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL

Re: kapm-idled : is this a bug?

2000-12-11 Thread Kurt Garloff
a real one: Don't do it!) Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

TIOCGDEV ioctl

2000-12-15 Thread Kurt Garloff
against 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-testX are attached. Please apply. -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security diff -uNr linux

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-17 Thread Kurt Garloff
had crashes before ... Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: TIOCGDEV ioctl

2000-12-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
inal patch. Or can we come up with the /proc/tty solution without adding too much code? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG

Re: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
22:41 /dev/urandom Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

DC390/tmscsim-2.0f SCSI driver released

2000-12-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
ever since with both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. (Maybe even 2.0, I didn't test.) I'd be glad to get some feedback. If it's positive, I'll ask Alan and Linus to put it into the mainstream kernel. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-20 Thread Kurt Garloff
the BIOS' RAM map. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

AMD-Viper Maxtor 91536U6 dieing

2000-12-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations [EMAIL PROTECTED] [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.4.0 kernels and vpn

2000-12-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
at CIPE (kerneli patches). Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

osst driver update 0.8.5-0.8.6.1

2000-12-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
corruption by preventing to fsf past EOD. * Error handling fixes for the polling mode (used on IDE). Patch is against 2.2.19pre2. Please apply! Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE

Re: 2.4.0 kernels and vpn

2000-12-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
/ I'd recommend using FreeS/WAN, though as it's a standardized solution, even offering interoperability with other OSes. Also, I received a comment that all I had to do was enable gre tunneling, is this correct? This does not give you the P from VPN. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED

osst driver for 2.4.0

2000-12-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
for this is by Kai and has already been merged into the kernel ... So, please consider applying the patch against 2.4.0-test13-pre3, which I send to you in private mail. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux

tmscsim (DC390/AM53C974) SCSI driver 2.0f

2000-12-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
settings I apologize for the diffs: There have been indenting changes, which make the diffs hardly readable. I'll send you diffs against 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-test12 in private mail. Please apply! Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma

Re: The NSA's Security-Enhanced Linux (fwd)

2000-12-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
in userspace. http://www.rsbac.org/ I think it's a good approach and I think, it has gone much further than the NSA stuff. I'd prefer to have RSBAC merged in 2.5. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers

Re: Confirmation request about new 2.4.x. kernel limits

2001-01-10 Thread Kurt Garloff
, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: Tekram's TRM-1040S USCSI proc driver?

2000-10-28 Thread Kurt Garloff
, as long as I do not understand and solved these issues. After all, it's not a sound driver that just fails to operate, but a SCSI driver which you entrust your data to. Sorry! Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Kurt Garloff
(??). Is that a patch that leaked in the way to test10, or is for another reason ?. kgcc is a redhat'ism. They invented this package because their 2.96 fails compiling a stable kernel. However, it's not a good idea to dist specific code into the official kernel tree. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff

2.4.0-t9: Oops in ipcperms

2000-11-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
ideas? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations [EMAIL PROTECTED] [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG] (See mail header or public key servers for PGP2 and GPG public

Re: APIC errors ...

2001-04-18 Thread Kurt Garloff
at the local APICs ... Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
stuff and have to wait for stabilization ... Good luck! -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

read perf improved by mounting ext2?

2001-04-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
, they just need to have been mounted once. reiser or (v)fat however don't improve anything. swap does, as does a ext2 over raid5. Kernel 2.4.3pre7; Dual iPIII-700 system; i440BX MoBo. Is this to be expected? Blocksize issues? Readahead behaviour? What's changed on ext2 mounting ... ? Regards, -- Kurt

Re: read perf improved by mounting ext2?

2001-04-24 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:58:58AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Apr 24 2001, Kurt Garloff wrote: There are enough partitions to see a clear pattern: Those with mounted ext2 filesystems perform better. Umounting them does not harm, they just need to have been mounted once. reiser or (v

Re: OnStream USB

2001-05-01 Thread Kurt Garloff
versions of osst overcome this block size limitation, but those have not yet been merged to the mainstream kernel. If you find trouble, please also report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enjoy! -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers

Re: NFS-performance drop with 2.4.4 and 8139too

2001-05-02 Thread Kurt Garloff
, 8139too-0.9.16 linux-2.4.4, 8139too-0.9.16 transfers seem to start with about 2 MB/s but drop immediatly to about 20 K/s. PS: If you send your .config, pipe it via grep -v ^# Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers

vt.c: unimap changes to (fg_?)console

2001-05-07 Thread Kurt Garloff
you want to. I already sent it to Andries. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security --- linux-244.compile/drivers

Re: nfs MAP_SHARED corruption fix

2001-05-08 Thread Kurt Garloff
) */ /* Try adding here: msync (adr, len, MS_SYNC); */ munmap (adr, len); close (fd); The code works on files on local harddisks and on NFS volumes on a 2.2 kernel, but breaks on NFS drives on a 2.4.4 kernel. msync() works around the bug. Andrea's patch did help as well. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff

Re: nfs MAP_SHARED corruption fix

2001-05-09 Thread Kurt Garloff
, Trond. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security /** test_nfs_shared_map.c * * Creates a file, expands

[PATCH] ide oops in 2.2.19/2.4.4

2001-06-11 Thread Kurt Garloff
, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations [EMAIL PROTECTED] [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG] (See mail header or public key servers for PGP2 and GPG public keys.) --- linux

Re: threading question

2001-06-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: SMP spin-locks

2001-06-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:26:05PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: Question 2: What is the purpose of the code sequence, repz nop Puts iP4 into low power mode. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers

Re: dc295

2001-02-12 Thread Kurt Garloff
ppreciated. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations [EMAIL PROTECTED] [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG] (See mail header or public key servers for PGP2 and GPG p

Re: finding Tekram SCSI dc395U linux patch driver:

2001-02-20 Thread Kurt Garloff
maintainers. BTW, if somebody can provide a reasonable description of the chip (TRM-S1040), the chances that I'd find the bug would increase a lot ... Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel

Re: Some strange patch to drivers/input/keybdev.c

2001-03-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
if it's related, but new keyboards tend to have those annoying APM keys. On my keyboard, they generate the scan sequences e0 5e (Power OFF), e0 5f (Sleep) and e0 63 (Wake Up). I guess the USB kbd also has those toy keys. Patch to support those keys on a normal PS/2 kbd attached. Regards, -- Kurt

Re: SMP on assym. x86

2001-03-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:20:40PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Notice, that one of your CPUs is twice as fast as second one. You'll need some heavy updates in scheduler. I know that making sure to have a fair scheduling on non-symmetric multiprocessor

Re: [CHECKER] blocking w/ spinlock or interrupt's disabled

2001-03-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-24 Thread Kurt Garloff
choose the right processes? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

APIC errors ...

2001-04-05 Thread Kurt Garloff
a summary to LKML.) Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations [EMAIL PROTECTED] [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG] (See mail header or public key servers for PGP2 and GPG

Re: gcc oopses with 2.4.3

2001-04-06 Thread Kurt Garloff
was reading some machine insn from memory it never heard about. = exception 6 = signal 4 (SIGILL) If your main memory is not faulty, it's your cache or your CPU. Or your compiler. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers

Re: 2.4.3: still experiencing APIC-related hangs

2001-04-09 Thread Kurt Garloff
;BROKEN_IO_APIC")? Same for me. Maciej, did you submit the patch to Linus? It really seems to solve the (occurence of the) problems with these boards... Where is this patch found? I am not seeing it so far on kernel.org. Attached, as I assume more people are interested in it ... Regar

[PATCH] 0/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
are against 2.6.11-rc4 and follow in subsequent mails. -- Kurt Garloff, Director SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. pgpmSdj323S6S.pgp Description: PGP signature

[PATCH] 1/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Default to capability rather than dummy if no LSM is loaded References: 40217, 39439 If a kernel is compiled with CONFIG_SECURITY to enable LSM, the default behaviour changes unless a user load capability. This is undesirable. This patch makes

[PATCH] 3/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Replace indirect calls by a branch References: 40217, 39439 In the LSM stub collection, rather do a branch than an indirect call. Many of the functions called do only return 0 or do nothing for the default (capability) case. This is a fast-path

[PATCH] 2/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Clean LSM stub file References: 40217, 39439 Rather than having every LSM hook twice, once for the case with CONFIG_SECURITY enabled and once for the disabled case, put everything in one inline function. This reduces the chance of the two to go out

[PATCH] 4/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Consider the capability case the likely one References: 40217, 39439 The case that security_ops points to the default capability_ security_ops is the fast path and arguably the more likely one on most systems. So mark it likely to tell the compiler

[PATCH] 5/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Test security_enabled var rather than security_ops pointer References: 40217, 39439 Rather than doing a pointer comparison, test an integer var for being null. Should be slightly faster. I consider this patch as optional. Note that it does

Re: Bogus REPORT_LUNS responses breaks SCSI LUN detection

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
that these LUN hex values decode to text fragments: Easy RAID decodes to: 'e.syRAID' Vendor=Transtec, lun decodes to 't.anstec'. Ask them to fix it. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff, Director SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. pgpgtc8QYpG6h.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] 2/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Andreas, On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:30:33PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 22:11, Kurt Garloff wrote: Rather than having every LSM hook twice, once for the case with CONFIG_SECURITY enabled and once for the disabled case, put everything in one inline function

Re: [PATCH] 5/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi James, On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:50:01AM -0500, James Morris wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote: /* Condition for invocation of non-default security_op */ #define COND_SECURITY(seop, def) \ - (likely(security_ops == capability_security_ops))? def: security_ops

Re: [PATCH] 4/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Rik, On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:54:07AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote: The case that security_ops points to the default capability_ security_ops is the fast path and arguably the more likely one on most systems. Quite a few distributions ship

[PATCH] New 2/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 04:11:09PM -0500, Kurt Garloff wrote: From: Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Clean LSM stub file [...] So, for convenience, I merged Andreas' fix on top of this patch into a new patch 2, which is attached. So CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK disabled should work again

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Serge, On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:01:05AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Tony Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 08:59:02AM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: The topic of replacing dummy (with capability) was discussed there last week, in the context of stacker

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Serge, On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:37:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Kurt Garloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Getting rid of dummy entirely would be better, I agree, but someone needs to review that this won't break anything. Unfortunately I think it's way too soon

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make cap default

2005-07-05 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Tony, On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 03:51:52PM -0700, Tony Jones wrote: On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 05:43:33PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: Note that we could think of getting rid of dummy; however, it's still used as fallback for stubs that are not implemented by an LSM. I did not want to change

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make cap default

2005-07-05 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi James, On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:40:40AM -0400, James Morris wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote: # define COND_SECURITY(seop, def) \ (security_opt-seop == NULL) || \ security_ops == capability_security_ops)? \ def

Re: 2.6.11 vs 2.6.10 slowdown on i686

2005-03-18 Thread Kurt Garloff
at to test? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff, Director SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. pgp77K575xjBf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [rsbac] Thoughts on the No Linux Security Modules framework old claims

2005-02-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
supports this. Best regards, -- Kurt Garloff, Director SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. pgpoRQjzM1H0i.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [rsbac] Thoughts on the No Linux Security Modules framework old claims

2005-02-25 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Amon, On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:28:38AM +0100, Amon Ott wrote: On Donnerstag 24 Februar 2005 01:55, Kurt Garloff wrote: If you apply them (and I hope Linus will), capabilities is default and you can replace that by loading an LSM. You can stack capability on top of the primary LSM

Re: [PATCH 3/5] Call security hooks conditionally if the security_op is filled out.

2005-08-25 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:20:31PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: Call security hooks conditionally if the security_op is filled out. Branches can be more efficient than the unconditional indirect function call. Inspired by patch from Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] scsi_scan message cosmetic error

2007-01-08 Thread Kurt Garloff
overkill for something that does not tend to change. Please merge. (Patch applied against latest 2.6.20rc version that I tested.) From: Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SCSI SCAN] Fix logging message for PQ3 devices The blacklist flags BLIST_ATTACH_PQ3 has value 0x100, not 0x80

[PATCH] usb/core/devio.c:tolerate wrong direction flag in control endpoints

2013-09-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
keep me in copy for the discussion, my participation on LKML is mostly reading summaries from Jonathan and Thorsten these days, unfortunately. -- Kurt Garloff k...@garloff.de Cologne, Germany commit bc1e4e1ae1d5a4f9b2d263f22c651dd5ba4f8ff9 Author: Kurt Garloff k...@garloff.de Date: Sun Sep 22

Re: [PATCH] usb/core/devio.c:tolerate wrong direction flag in control endpoints

2013-09-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Alan, thanks for your review and your constructive comments! Alan Stern st...@rowland.harvard.edu schrieb: On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Kurt Garloff wrote: Hi, USB devio rejects control messages when the index does not have the direction bit set correctly. I wouldn't describe it that way

Re: [PATCH] usb/core/devio.c:tolerate wrong direction flag in control endpoints

2013-09-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Alan, On 09/23/2013 04:28 AM, Alan Stern wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Kurt Garloff wrote: Well, this seems to be a question of terminology, no? I saw the endpoint byte as consisting of endpoint index plus the direction bit. See the entry for Endpoint Address in Chapter 2 (Terms

Re: [PATCH] usb/core/devio.c:tolerate wrong direction flag in control endpoints

2013-09-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Alan, Alan Stern st...@rowland.harvard.edu schrieb: On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Kurt Garloff wrote: that qualifies as a bug or not. Maybe it should not claim to be a HID device then? Maybe not. This particular combination of bRequestType and bRequest values (0x22, 0x09

[PATCH] usb/core/devio.c: Don't reject control message to endpoint with wrong direction bit

2013-09-24 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, this has been discussed on linux-usb and Alan Stern provided very helpful feedback. Please merge this patch ... From: Kurt Garloff k...@garloff.de Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:19:02 +0200 Subject: Tolerate wrong direction bit in endpoint address for control messages Trying to read data

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Kurt Garloff
red applying this policy change right now within 2.4, Linus. Well, ignore my posting then, if you like. Best regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Se

Re: APIC errors ...

2001-04-18 Thread Kurt Garloff
me timing stuff at the local APICs ... Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
design stuff and have to wait for stabilization ... Good luck! -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

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