Re: OOPS on bringing down ppp

2000-11-24 Thread Andrew Morton
Mark Ellis wrote: > > Hi all, consistently getting the following when pppd is terminated. When pppd downs the ppp0 device, unregister_netdevice() is trying to run /sbin/hotplug in a new kernel thread. That thread's `files' structure is copied from pppd, but it is NULL. Presumably pppd's files

Re: [PATCH] Reserved root VM + OOM killer

2000-11-24 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > HOW? > > No performance loss, RAM is always fully utilized (except if no swap), > > Handheld machines never have any swap, and alwys have little RAM [trust me, > velo1 I'm writing this on is so tuned that 100KB les and machine is useless]. > Unless

PROBLEM: kernel BUG at /usr/src/linux/include/linux/nfs_fs.h:164!

2000-11-24 Thread Pekka Järveläinen
[1.] One line summary of the problem: kernel BUG at /usr/src/linux/include/linux/nfs_fs.h:164! [2.] Full description of the problem/report: 2.4.0-test11 SMP stops partially working because of NFS problem during mke2fs IDE disk. NFS mounted Pine 4.30 segmentation fault, some programs like top

Re: "Hyper-Mount" option possible???

2000-11-24 Thread Helge Hafting
"Mark W. McClelland" wrote: > > Robert L Martin wrote: > > > > Not on list just throwing an idea out. > > One thing that "bugs" me is if a given drive has more than one partion > > each partion has to be mounted seperatly. > > With CDs this also means you can not mount "split" cds in full if you

Re: ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-24 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Besides: you can do this in userspace with existing e2compr. Should take > > less than 2 days to implement. > > ok > never seen that... e2compr is suite of patches to do online compression. It is pretty mature. You should take a look; turning online compression into offline is pretty

Re: ATA/IDE: dmaproc error 14 testers wanted!

2000-11-24 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:37:56PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > /pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.17/README > /pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.17/ide.2.2.17.all.20001118.patch.bz2 > There you go Sean, hope that helps. It didn't help me :) Axialys have a squid/socks/NFS server

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Tigran Aivazian
I have seen ext2 filesystem corruption both on SCSI and IDE drives. Tigran On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Mike Ricketts wrote: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Ion Badulescu wrote: > > > So I'm asking the same question, to all those who have seen unexplained > > filesystem corruption with 2.4.0: are you using

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Mike Ricketts
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Ion Badulescu wrote: > So I'm asking the same question, to all those who have seen unexplained > filesystem corruption with 2.4.0: are you using IDE drives? If the answer > is yes, can you check the logs and see if, at *any* point before the > corruption occurred, the IDE

OOPS on bringing down ppp

2000-11-24 Thread Mark Ellis
Hi all, consistently getting the following when pppd is terminated. Happens in 2.4.0-test11, fine in 2.4.0-test9, don't know about test10. Same happens for pppd 2.4.0b4 and 2.4.0, both recompiled for test11. Is this related to the modutils incompatability (modutils 2.3.19) ? CONFIG_PPP and

Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.8.1 and LVM 0.9 available at www.sistina.com

2000-11-24 Thread Heinz J. Mauelshagen
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 02:36:04AM +, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > Perhaps yo should consider lowering number of stars in the subject. ;-) An annoucement filter is reliying on them, sorry. > > > Linux Logical Volume Manager 0.8.1 (this is 0.8final plus patches) > > and 0.9 are available

Re: RFC: Modularize /proc/partitons (was Re: /proc/partitions for LVM)

2000-11-24 Thread Heinz J. Mauelshagen
Looks good to me. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM guy -- On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 02:52:39PM -0500, Brian Kress wrote: > "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:27:51PM -0500, Brian Kress wrote: > > > "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at

*** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.8.1 and LVM 0.9 available at www.sistina.com

2000-11-24 Thread Heinz J. Mauelshagen
Due to technical problems this might not have made it through... Sorry in advance if you get it twice. Hi all, Linux Logical Volume Manager 0.8.1 (this is 0.8final plus patches) and 0.9 are available for download at www.sistina.com. Please see further information below, test it and help us

Patch: MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE's for all remaining PCI drivers in linux-2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Adam J. Richter
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:02:24 + >From: Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hurray! Someday we'll have pci_device_id tables for all PCI devices.. That someday is today. A complete patch covering all of the new PCI MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE's is FTPable from

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Linux Kernel Developer
> > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.2/specs > > gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) > > % /usr/bin/gcc -Wall -O2 -o bug bug.c; ./bug > > 0x8480 > > % /usr/gcc/aeb/bin/gcc -v > > Reading specs from /usr/gcc/aeb/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.2/specs > > gcc

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 06:20:33AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> ... RedHat's GCC snapshot "2.96" handles this case just fine. > > > Now, if you can isolate the relevant part of the diff between > > 2.95.2 and RH 2.96... > > Maybe I have to be more precise in the statement "gcc 2.95.2 is

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 06:20:33 +0100 (MET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.2/specs > gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) > % /usr/bin/gcc -Wall -O2 -o bug bug.c; ./bug > 0x8480 > % /usr/gcc/aeb/bin/gcc -v > Reading specs from

Re: bttv crashes kernel 2.4.0testX on a Vodoo3 2000

2000-11-24 Thread Justin Schoeman
With the VIA chipset you should use the "triton1=1" module option. (Well, at least it worked for me!) -justin Hans Freitag wrote: > > Hi, > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > bttv crashes kernel 2.4.0testX on a Vodoo3 2000 > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: >

bttv crashes kernel 2.4.0testX on a Vodoo3 2000

2000-11-24 Thread Hans Freitag
Hi, [1.] One line summary of the problem: bttv crashes kernel 2.4.0testX on a Vodoo3 2000 [2.] Full description of the problem/report: If I use 24bit Color depth my system crashes on Displaying fullscreen TV, on my Vodoo3 2000. I use a Terratec/Vobis TV

attempt to access beyond end of device

2000-11-24 Thread Janek
Hi, I have dual P III 665 with 512 MB ram and IBM ServeRAID controller. It has been running for 40 days without problems but yesterday during system backup it gave me the following error to syslog: kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device kernel: 08:03: rw=0, want=631625768, limit=7912989

Re: PATCH: More PCI ID's for linux-2.4.0-test11/include/linux/pci_ids.h

2000-11-24 Thread Kai Germaschewski
Hi! On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Adam J. Richter wrote: > The following patch adds some missing PCI_VENDOR_ID's and > PCI_DEVICE_ID's that are scattered throughout a bunch of .c files in > drivers/isdn/hisax/. The definitions in the .c files are protected > by '#ifndef PCI_VENDOR_ID_...', so it

Re: 2.2.16: How to freeze the kernel

2000-11-24 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Fri 2000-11-24 (09:10), Ulrich Windl wrote: > Hello, > > At that point I pressed "RESET", and interestingly the builtin BIOS of > the Adaptec 2740 (EISA) hung while trying to detect the device. > > Only after powering down both, the CD writer and the machine (a HP > Netserver LD Pro), the

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Yep. Unless of course they are SCSI with an identity crisis =P Ok. Are there any IDE-related errors in your logs prior to getting the f/s corruption? They could be relevant no matter how much time passed between them and the first signs of

[BUG] ? ide-scsi 2.4.0-test11. Can't mount iso9660 cd

2000-11-24 Thread Mark Hindley
I can not mount an cd in either my cdrom or cdrw drives. Both are ide drives using scsi-ide emulation. During the mount the logs show: Nov 23 10:03:27 hindleyhome kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) Nov 23 10:03:29 hindleyhome kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Since there have been not kernel changes to the driver that effect the > code since 2.4.0-test5 or test6 and it now randomly shows up after five or > six revisions out from the change, and the changes were chipset only. > > Please make your point. My

Re: Raising MAX_UNITS in net drivers oopses kernel reproducibly

2000-11-24 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 23:09:18 +0200 (EET), Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >EIP:0010:[de4x5:de4x5_probe+24259/37172] >Note! EIP shows de4x5 for some reason. Please note that de4x5 driver Because klogd tried to convert the oops and made a complete mess of it. Always start klogd as

Re: oddity introduced between 2.4.0-test10 & -test11

2000-11-24 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:36:35 -0500, Steven Lembark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11/arch/i386/lib' >cd /lib/modules/2.4.0-test11; \ >mkdir -p pcmcia; \ >find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia >if [ -r

Re: "Hyper-Mount" option possible???

2000-11-24 Thread Mark W. McClelland
Robert L Martin wrote: > > Not on list just throwing an idea out. > One thing that "bugs" me is if a given drive has more than one partion > each partion has to be mounted seperatly. > With CDs this also means you can not mount "split" cds in full if you > want to. Soo Given that Super-Mount is

2.2.16: How to freeze the kernel

2000-11-24 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hello, this is for your interest, amusement, and for "what not to do": I managed to freeze the kernel (2.2.16 from SuSE Linux 7.0) in a way that I could not even switch virtual consoles. Completely silent eberything... It all started when Windows/95 ruined another CD-R while trying to write

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Frédéric L . W . Meunier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > % /usr/gcc/aeb/bin/gcc -v > Reading specs from > /usr/gcc/aeb/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.2/specs > gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) > % /usr/gcc/aeb/bin/gcc -Wall -O2 -o nobug bug.c; ./nobug > 0x0 Interesting. On a

2.2.16: How to freeze the kernel

2000-11-24 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hello, this is for your interest, amusement, and for "what not to do": I managed to freeze the kernel (2.2.16 from SuSE Linux 7.0) in a way that I could not even switch virtual consoles. Completely silent eberything... It all started when Windows/95 ruined another CD-R while trying to write

Re: Hyper-Mount option possible???

2000-11-24 Thread Mark W. McClelland
Robert L Martin wrote: Not on list just throwing an idea out. One thing that "bugs" me is if a given drive has more than one partion each partion has to be mounted seperatly. With CDs this also means you can not mount "split" cds in full if you want to. Soo Given that Super-Mount is

Re: oddity introduced between 2.4.0-test10 -test11

2000-11-24 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:36:35 -0500, Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11/arch/i386/lib' cd /lib/modules/2.4.0-test11; \ mkdir -p pcmcia; \ find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia if [ -r System.map ];

Re: Raising MAX_UNITS in net drivers oopses kernel reproducibly

2000-11-24 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 23:09:18 +0200 (EET), Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EIP:0010:[de4x5:de4x5_probe+24259/37172] Note! EIP shows de4x5 for some reason. Please note that de4x5 driver Because klogd tried to convert the oops and made a complete mess of it. Always start klogd as "klogd

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: Since there have been not kernel changes to the driver that effect the code since 2.4.0-test5 or test6 and it now randomly shows up after five or six revisions out from the change, and the changes were chipset only. Please make your point. My

[BUG] ? ide-scsi 2.4.0-test11. Can't mount iso9660 cd

2000-11-24 Thread Mark Hindley
I can not mount an cd in either my cdrom or cdrw drives. Both are ide drives using scsi-ide emulation. During the mount the logs show: Nov 23 10:03:27 hindleyhome kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) Nov 23 10:03:29 hindleyhome kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: Yep. Unless of course they are SCSI with an identity crisis =P Ok. Are there any IDE-related errors in your logs prior to getting the f/s corruption? They could be relevant no matter how much time passed between them and the first signs of

Re: 2.2.16: How to freeze the kernel

2000-11-24 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Fri 2000-11-24 (09:10), Ulrich Windl wrote: Hello, At that point I pressed "RESET", and interestingly the builtin BIOS of the Adaptec 2740 (EISA) hung while trying to detect the device. Only after powering down both, the CD writer and the machine (a HP Netserver LD Pro), the BIOS

Re: PATCH: More PCI ID's for linux-2.4.0-test11/include/linux/pci_ids.h

2000-11-24 Thread Kai Germaschewski
Hi! On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Adam J. Richter wrote: The following patch adds some missing PCI_VENDOR_ID's and PCI_DEVICE_ID's that are scattered throughout a bunch of .c files in drivers/isdn/hisax/. The definitions in the .c files are protected by '#ifndef PCI_VENDOR_ID_...', so it is

attempt to access beyond end of device

2000-11-24 Thread Janek
Hi, I have dual P III 665 with 512 MB ram and IBM ServeRAID controller. It has been running for 40 days without problems but yesterday during system backup it gave me the following error to syslog: kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device kernel: 08:03: rw=0, want=631625768, limit=7912989

bttv crashes kernel 2.4.0testX on a Vodoo3 2000

2000-11-24 Thread Hans Freitag
Hi, [1.] One line summary of the problem: bttv crashes kernel 2.4.0testX on a Vodoo3 2000 [2.] Full description of the problem/report: If I use 24bit Color depth my system crashes on Displaying fullscreen TV, on my Vodoo3 2000. I use a Terratec/Vobis TV

Re: bttv crashes kernel 2.4.0testX on a Vodoo3 2000

2000-11-24 Thread Justin Schoeman
With the VIA chipset you should use the "triton1=1" module option. (Well, at least it worked for me!) -justin Hans Freitag wrote: Hi, [1.] One line summary of the problem: bttv crashes kernel 2.4.0testX on a Vodoo3 2000 [2.] Full description of the problem/report: If

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 06:20:33 +0100 (MET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) % /usr/bin/gcc -Wall -O2 -o bug bug.c; ./bug 0x8480 % /usr/gcc/aeb/bin/gcc -v Reading specs from

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 06:20:33AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... RedHat's GCC snapshot "2.96" handles this case just fine. Now, if you can isolate the relevant part of the diff between 2.95.2 and RH 2.96... Maybe I have to be more precise in the statement "gcc 2.95.2 is buggy".

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Linux Kernel Developer
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) % /usr/bin/gcc -Wall -O2 -o bug bug.c; ./bug 0x8480 % /usr/gcc/aeb/bin/gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/gcc/aeb/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2

Patch: MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE's for all remaining PCI drivers in linux-2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Adam J. Richter
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:02:24 + From: Tim Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hurray! Someday we'll have pci_device_id tables for all PCI devices.. That someday is today. A complete patch covering all of the new PCI MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE's is FTPable from

Re: RFC: Modularize /proc/partitons (was Re: /proc/partitions for LVM)

2000-11-24 Thread Heinz J. Mauelshagen
Looks good to me. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM guy -- On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 02:52:39PM -0500, Brian Kress wrote: "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:27:51PM -0500, Brian Kress wrote: "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:05:39PM

Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.8.1 and LVM 0.9 available at www.sistina.com

2000-11-24 Thread Heinz J. Mauelshagen
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 02:36:04AM +, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Perhaps yo should consider lowering number of stars in the subject. ;-) An annoucement filter is reliying on them, sorry. Linux Logical Volume Manager 0.8.1 (this is 0.8final plus patches) and 0.9 are available for

OOPS on bringing down ppp

2000-11-24 Thread Mark Ellis
Hi all, consistently getting the following when pppd is terminated. Happens in 2.4.0-test11, fine in 2.4.0-test9, don't know about test10. Same happens for pppd 2.4.0b4 and 2.4.0, both recompiled for test11. Is this related to the modutils incompatability (modutils 2.3.19) ? CONFIG_PPP and

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Mike Ricketts
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Ion Badulescu wrote: So I'm asking the same question, to all those who have seen unexplained filesystem corruption with 2.4.0: are you using IDE drives? If the answer is yes, can you check the logs and see if, at *any* point before the corruption occurred, the IDE driver

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Tigran Aivazian
I have seen ext2 filesystem corruption both on SCSI and IDE drives. Tigran On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Mike Ricketts wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Ion Badulescu wrote: So I'm asking the same question, to all those who have seen unexplained filesystem corruption with 2.4.0: are you using IDE

Re: ATA/IDE: dmaproc error 14 testers wanted!

2000-11-24 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 03:37:56PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: /pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.17/README /pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.17/ide.2.2.17.all.20001118.patch.bz2 There you go Sean, hope that helps. It didn't help me :) Axialys have a squid/socks/NFS server which

Re: ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-24 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Besides: you can do this in userspace with existing e2compr. Should take less than 2 days to implement. ok never seen that... e2compr is suite of patches to do online compression. It is pretty mature. You should take a look; turning online compression into offline is pretty trivial.

Re: Hyper-Mount option possible???

2000-11-24 Thread Helge Hafting
"Mark W. McClelland" wrote: Robert L Martin wrote: Not on list just throwing an idea out. One thing that "bugs" me is if a given drive has more than one partion each partion has to be mounted seperatly. With CDs this also means you can not mount "split" cds in full if you want to.

PROBLEM: kernel BUG at /usr/src/linux/include/linux/nfs_fs.h:164!

2000-11-24 Thread Pekka Järveläinen
[1.] One line summary of the problem: kernel BUG at /usr/src/linux/include/linux/nfs_fs.h:164! [2.] Full description of the problem/report: 2.4.0-test11 SMP stops partially working because of NFS problem during mke2fs IDE disk. NFS mounted Pine 4.30 segmentation fault, some programs like top

Re: [PATCH] Reserved root VM + OOM killer

2000-11-24 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Pavel Machek wrote: HOW? No performance loss, RAM is always fully utilized (except if no swap), Handheld machines never have any swap, and alwys have little RAM [trust me, velo1 I'm writing this on is so tuned that 100KB les and machine is useless]. Unless

RFC: Security fix for demand loading of filesystem and network interface modules

2000-11-24 Thread Adam J. Richter
I want to slightly change the way filesystems and network drivers are demand loaded via request_module. Currently, querying a nonexistant network interface named, say, "eth0" results in a result_module call for "eth0". I want to change that to "if-eth0". This will make it

Re: OOPS on bringing down ppp

2000-11-24 Thread Andrew Morton
Mark Ellis wrote: Hi all, consistently getting the following when pppd is terminated. When pppd downs the ppp0 device, unregister_netdevice() is trying to run /sbin/hotplug in a new kernel thread. That thread's `files' structure is copied from pppd, but it is NULL. Presumably pppd's files

[bug] set_pgdir can skip mm's

2000-11-24 Thread V Ganesh
set_pgdir() needs to modify all active mm's to include the new entry. what it really does is for_each_task(p) { if (!p-mm) continue; *pgd_offset(p-mm,address) = entry; } however, there could be a lazy-tlb thread on another

Kernel Oops on locking sockets via fcntl()

2000-11-24 Thread Igor Yu. Zhbanov
Hello! One fine day accidentally I have opened an Xserver's socket placed in /tmp with my favourite text editor "le". I have got a message from the kernel similar to this: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0038 current-tss.cr3 = 0336f000, %cr3 = 0336f000

About IP address

2000-11-24 Thread Su Hwan Hwang
For example, Class B address range is 128.1.0.0 ~ 191.254.0.0 Why 128.0.0.0 and 191.255.0.0 can't use ? I can't understand it Please answer _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download :

[PATCH] Generalize disk_name in fs/partitions/check.c

2000-11-24 Thread Brian Kress
This is a patch that generalizes the code in fs/partitions/check.c for the disk_name() function. With the way the code is right now, it has a big if/then/else block that requires generic code to know specific things about drivers. This patch makes it so the driver can supply the code

[PATCH] linux/drivers/media/radio check_region() removal

2000-11-24 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi all, attached patch removes all check_region() calls from /linux/drivers/media/radio drivers. Most changes are obvious, except radio-cadet.c which needs some maintainer's attention. I hope it will be usefull. Best regards, Andrey -- Andrey Panin| Embedded

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Andries . Brouwer
so the reason why it did not show up in the gcc you picked up from ftp.gnu.org is that you have compiled it so that it defaults to -mcpu=i686 Yes, you are right. So 2.95.2 fails for i386, i486, i586 and does not fail for i686. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: OOPS on bringing down ppp

2000-11-24 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:55:39 +, Mark Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, consistently getting the following when pppd is terminated. Happens in 2.4.0-test11, fine in 2.4.0-test9, don't know about test10. Same happens for pppd 2.4.0b4 and 2.4.0, both recompiled for test11. Is this related

[patch-2.4.0-test11] various small fixes

2000-11-24 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Linus, This patch does: a) cleans up the show_mem() function on various architectures wrt page_count() macro and the 'free' variable b) corrects the comment above paging_init() about 0-8M page tables c) changes the name of kflushd to bdflush. All kernel data structures around this thread

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Jakub Jelinek wrote: so the reason why it did not show up in the gcc you picked up from ftp.gnu.org is that you have compiled it so that it defaults to -mcpu=i686 where the bug does not show up. Indeed. I just ran some tests, and I can confirm that gcc 2.95.2 vanilla

[PATCH] ACPI interpreter on ACPItableless systems

2000-11-24 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi all, this patch makes ACPI poweroff possible on ACPI capable systems without BIOS provided ACPI tables. I sent this patch to LKML some month ago, but didn't get an answer :( I will be out of this list for some weeks, so happy hacking and good bye, Andrey -- Andrey Panin

Re: e2fs performance as function of block size

2000-11-24 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:28:12PM +0100, Michael Marxmeier wrote: If the files get somewhat bigger (eg. 1G) having a bigger block size also greatly reduces the ext2 overhead. Especially fsync() used to be really bad on big file but choosing a bigger block size changed a lot. 2.4

2.4.0-test11: es1371 mixer problems

2000-11-24 Thread Dick Streefland
2.4.0-test11 introduced a problem with the mixer device of my SB128 soundcard (es1371 driver). When I start a mixer application like xmixer or aumix, only a small subset of the mixer devices are available. With 2.4.0-test10, using the same .config, all devices are available. I've looked through

Bug in date converting functions DOS=UNIX in FAT, NCPFS and SMBFS drivers

2000-11-24 Thread Igor Yu. Zhbanov
Hello! I have found a bug in drivers of file systems which use a DOS-like format of date (16 bit: years since 1980 - 7 bits, month - 4 bits, day - 5 bits). There are two problems: 1) It is unable to convert UNIX-like dates before 1980 to DOS-like date format. 2) VFAT for example have three

Re: [bug] set_pgdir can skip mm's

2000-11-24 Thread V Ganesh
From ganesh Fri Nov 24 18:08:15 2000 [ set_pgdir() blah blah blah ] damn. I was looking at test9 and as usual after shooting my mouth off on l-k I go look at test11 and find it's fixed there, at least in i386, thanks to the vmalloc_fault: stuff in do_page_fault. but a lot of other

Re: OOPS on bringing down ppp

2000-11-24 Thread Alan Cox
Not my area, but I don't think exec_usermodehelper() should assume that current-files is always valid. Al, is this correct? If so, does daemonize() also need this test? If not, then how did this thread get (current-files == NULL)? exit_files() will leave it NULL yes. You may want to

Re: [PATCH] linux/drivers/media/radio check_region() removal

2000-11-24 Thread Alan Cox
attached patch removes all check_region() calls from /linux/drivers/media/r= adio drivers. Most changes are obvious, except radio-cadet.c which needs some= =20 maintainer's attention.=20 Please check the -ac tree. I've already done them - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: About IP address

2000-11-24 Thread John Crowhurst
For example, Class B address range is 128.1.0.0 ~ 191.254.0.0 Why 128.0.0.0 and 191.255.0.0 can't use ? I can't understand it This is because its the network and broadcast addresses of a Class A address range. Simple answer :) -- FyreMoon Under the moon, the dragon flies. - To

Re: lseek patch for 2.2.18pre23

2000-11-24 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:15:24PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote: 2.2.18pre23 allows lseek to negative offsets in ext2 and has no checks for proc. Here is a patch. As just said your patch is wrong for vanilla 2.2.18pre23. The right fix for that problem in 2.2.18pre23 (2.2.x vanilla doesn't include

Re: Recent ide patches and DMA

2000-11-24 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 01:09:35PM -0800, Kafu Nagai wrote: With recent ide patches, the ide driver seems to try to use DMA mode even for a drive which dosen't support it. CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO is enabled but even so with the stock kernel this dosen't happen. older patches didn't have this

Re: lseek patch for 2.2.18pre23

2000-11-24 Thread kernel
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: And in LFS (that means also 2.4.x) the 32 doesn't make any sense in lseek and should be removed: Actually, the 32 part was there to avoid doing the long long comparison on x86. Granted, that probably doesn't matter. -ben - To

Re: 3c59x: Using bad IRQ 0

2000-11-24 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 05:26:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: A caveat to this whole scheme is that usb-uhci -already- calls pci_enable_device before checking dev-irq, and yet cannot get around the "assign IRQ to USB: no" setting in BIOS. I

Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS

2000-11-24 Thread I+D
Hi, I'm trying to boot an AMD Elan520 board without bios with kernel 2.4.0-test10 configured for i486 and PCI direct access. This kernel boots correctly from HD using the bios provided with the evaluation board but kernel 2.4.0-test8 and previous hang after "Ok booting the kernel".

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
I get the following followingon every reboot once. Nov 23 01:14:37 viper kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 23 01:14:37 viper kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 Nov 23 01:14:37 viper kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov

Re: 2.2.16: How to freeze the kernel

2000-11-24 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Ulrich Windl wrote: Hello, this is for your interest, amusement, and for "what not to do": I managed to freeze the kernel (2.2.16 from SuSE Linux 7.0) in a way that I could not even switch virtual consoles. Completely silent eberything... It all started when Windows/95 ruined

The Birthday of the Year!!

2000-11-24 Thread Davide Piana
Hallo! If you wanna drink a lot and eat with a lot of fun you *MUST* go to Italy this evening for the Birthday of the Year the date is at 21:00!! WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU! Mail me for more info about the place! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

alpha: small PCI fixes (test11-ac3)

2000-11-24 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
Just out of curiosity I tried S3 Sonic Vibes sound card, which has only 24 address lines connected, on sx164. This revealed two bugs in the pci code: - dma mask 0x00ff (24 bits) exactly fits the ISA scatter-gather window, but was rejected by pci_dma_supported() due to off-by-one bug. -

Re: gcc 2.95.2 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:47:04PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:57:45AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but in the meantime there is good confirmation. This really is a bug in gcc 2.95.2. ... RedHat's GCC

Re: Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS

2000-11-24 Thread Jon Burgess
The last message I see is "Calibrating delay loop" (I see this thaks to the Jtag debugger for Elan520 because I haven't configured the VGA board yet). I've seen this on a board with a BIOS problem. I think it is caused because the Kernel is in a loop waiting for a timer interrupt to occur.

Re: gcc 2.95.2 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Bernd Schmidt
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Tom Rini wrote: Well, now that there is a testcase, has anyone sent this on to the relevant gcc lists? (The CCs I saw haven't) Yes. I've just sent a fix to gcc-patches. Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

RE: Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS

2000-11-24 Thread Joan Bertran
-Mensaje original- De: Jon Burgess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: viernes 24 de noviembre de 2000 16:40 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Asunto: Re: Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS I've seen this on a board with a BIOS problem. I

Re: Can't mount SCSI CDROM in 2.4.*

2000-11-24 Thread Roland Orre
Douglas Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 24 wrote: Roland, What does 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' output on your machine? Which SCSI adapter do you have? Doug Gilbert My scsi adapter is adaptec 7880 on one machine and 7890 on the other, i.e. driver is aic7xxx This is what 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'

Re: Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS

2000-11-24 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, I+D wrote: I'm trying to boot an AMD Elan520 board without bios with kernel 2.4.0-test10 configured for i486 and PCI direct access. This kernel boots correctly from HD using the bios provided with the evaluation board but kernel 2.4.0-test8 and previous hang after "Ok

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Matthew Vanecek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so the reason why it did not show up in the gcc you picked up from ftp.gnu.org is that you have compiled it so that it defaults to -mcpu=i686 Yes, you are right. So 2.95.2 fails for i386, i486, i586 and does not fail for i686. RedHat 7.0's gcc 2.96 and kgcc

Re: deadlock on 4way machine

2000-11-24 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: On 21 Nov 2000, Jes Sorensen wrote: "Tigran" == Tigran Aivazian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tigran Hi, Some processes get stuck in page fault handler for ages Tigran (like for 10 minutes!). The machine still has plenty (3.5G) of Tigran

Problems with 2.4.0test11 and PCI bridges

2000-11-24 Thread John Thorp
I have just tried to move to the 2.4.0-test11 kernel from the kernel supplied with Redhat 7. With the Redhat 7 kernel I can see all the PCI slots fine. However, when I try with the 2.4.0test11 it no longer seems to be able to find some of the PCI buses. Is there something I can do to get the

Strange IP-Connection

2000-11-24 Thread Rüegg, Peter H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I encounter quite a lot of strange connection on a very busy server here. tcpdump -S -n on the firewall in front of it reports as follows: 16:13:03.531896 eth0 193.8.109.35.4870 212.27.173.35.www: S 1693092819:1693092819(0) win 16384 mss

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-24 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote: On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: The subject says it all. Is there any particular (technical) reason why I must have both the generic pcmcia code and the controller support built-in, or build all of them as modules?

Re: linux-2.2.18-pre19 asm/delay.h problem?

2000-11-24 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: | #define __bad_udelay() panic("Udelay called with too large a constant") | | Can't we change that to : | #error "Udelay..." No. ?? I think I'm missing something here. preprocessor stuff is done too early for this You could

Re: linux-2.2.18-pre19 asm/delay.h problem?

2000-11-24 Thread Jeff Epler
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:15:50AM -0600, Oliver Xymoron wrote: You could still change it to __bug__module_is_using_a_delay_thats_too_large__please_report().. I thought that's where we started? Can we somehow use the GNU linker trick which permits a warning about e.g. gets at link time? (Is

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Guest section DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (But I described the situation where the data on disk was correct and the date in core was not - almost certainly this is not an IDE problem.) Ehh.. It only means that it would have been a read failure instead of a write

Recent patch to cfi.h screws MTD CFI layer

2000-11-24 Thread Russell King
The recent patch in 2.4.0-test11 causes MTD to oops the kernel: diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.0-test10/linux/include/linux/mtd/cfi.h linux/include/linux/mtd/cfi. h --- v2.4.0-test10/linux/include/linux/mtd/cfi.h Tue Jul 4 10:12:34 2000 +++ linux/include/linux/mtd/cfi.h Tue Nov 7

2.4-test11 does not compile

2000-11-24 Thread mkloppstech
The following .config does not compile under 2.4-test11. Reason is the choice of the Athlon. If taking P-Pro/P II it compiles correctly. # # Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit # CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_ISA=y # CONFIG_SBUS is not set CONFIG_UID16=y # # Code maturity level

do_initcalls bug

2000-11-24 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! static void __init do_initcalls(void) { initcall_t *call; call = __initcall_start; do { early_printk("[%lx]\n", call); (*call)(); call++; } while (call __initcall_end); } In case there are no initcalls to be

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