Re: 2.2.19pre6 change in /proc behavior

2001-01-07 Thread TenThumbs
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Thiago Rondon wrote: At 2.4 too, but the status of file is o+r. Do see any problem about this? -Thiago Rondon Yes. /proc/pid/environ is now unreadable by the owner; similarly for /proc/pid/fd/ . It makes debugging harder. It is also a major change in a supposedly

Re: routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-07 Thread Ben Greear
Sandy Harris wrote: jamal wrote: What problem does this fix? If you are mucking with the ifindex, you may be affecting many places in the rest of the kernel, as well as user-space programs which use ifindex to bind to raw devices. I am talking about 2.5 possibilities now

Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-07 Thread Alan Cox
I'll take a look at the ramfs one. I may have broken something else when fixing everything else with ramfs (like unlink) crashing Ehh.. Plain 2.4.0 ramfs is fine, assuming you add a "UnlockPage()" to ramfs_writepage(). So what do you mean by "fixing everything else"? -ac has the rather

Re: What test suites can you tell me about?

2001-01-07 Thread Nathan Straz
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:21:31PM +, Michael D. Crawford wrote: Can you tell me about any ready-to-use test suites, for any software package that should run under Linux, that I can build and run to test the new kernel? The Linux Test Project (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ltp/) was set up

Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: I'll take a look at the ramfs one. I may have broken something else when fixing everything else with ramfs (like unlink) crashing Ehh.. Plain 2.4.0 ramfs is fine, assuming you add a "UnlockPage()" to ramfs_writepage(). So what do you mean by

ipchains vs netfilter performance

2001-01-07 Thread ed
I've noticed that my Linux boxes take quite a hit in terms of packets per second rate when I define ipchains rules with 2.2.X kernels. Does the netfilter replacement found in 2.4 kernels improve this performance? 11101101 (Ed) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ben Greear wrote: jamal wrote: erm, this is a MUST. You MUST factor the hardware VLANs and be totaly 802.1q compliant. Also of interest is 802.1P and D. We must have full compliance, not some toy emulation. I have seen neither hardware nor spec sheets on how these

Re: DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5

2001-01-07 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Could XFree86 4.0.2 fix this? I had been waiting until the binary packages were available from ftp.slackware.com because Patrick Volkerding lays out the directories in a slightly different manner that he argues pretty convincingly is preferable, but it would be a drag for me to reproduce by

Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-07 Thread David L. Parsley
Alan Cox wrote: -ac has the rather extended ramfs with resource limits and stuff. That one also has rather more extended bugs 8). AFAIK none of those are in the vanilla ramfs code Nifty stuff, too; it's nice for a ramfs mount to show up in 'df' with useful figures. Shame I can't put anything

[patch] mm-cleanup-1 (2.4.0)

2001-01-07 Thread Zlatko Calusic
The following patch cleans up some obsolete structures from the mm proc code. Beside that it also fixes what I think is a bug: if ((rw == WRITE) atomic_read(nr_async_pages) pager_daemon.swap_cluster * (1 page_cluster)) In that (swapout logic) it effectively

Ext2 (dma ?) error

2001-01-07 Thread Michael Duelli
Hi, recently I was on the internet with kernel 2.4.0-prerelease. Suddenly Netscape hung and I couldn't help hard rebooting. Fsck discovered an error it wasn't able to fix. This error never appeared before and my Seagate HD actually should be alright. The following error message appears

Re: Speed of the network card

2001-01-07 Thread Sasi Peter
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: I would like to determine the banwidth the card is getting from the network. /proc/net/dev exports counters; you can monitor those -- I'm sure there are perfomance program that do exactly this. I have this little script for monitoring

Re: Ext2 (dma ?) error

2001-01-07 Thread Alan Cox
Fsck discovered an error it wasn't able to fix. This error never appeared before and my Seagate HD actually should be alright. Umm the error says not hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError } LBAsect = 2421754, sector

Re: [patch] mm-cleanup-1 (2.4.0)

2001-01-07 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On 7 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: The following patch cleans up some obsolete structures from the mm proc code. Beside that it also fixes what I think is a bug: if ((rw == WRITE) atomic_read(nr_async_pages) pager_daemon.swap_cluster * (1

Subtle MM bug

2001-01-07 Thread Zlatko Calusic
I'm trying to get more familiar with the MM code in 2.4.0, as can be seen from lots of questions I have on the subject. I discovered nasty mm behaviour under even moderate load (2.2 didn't have troubles). Things go berzerk if you have one big process whose working set is around your physical

ISA-PNP /proc interface in 2.4.0 : 100% CPU!

2001-01-07 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have an old ISA-PNP soundcard whose driver doesn't currently use the ISA-PNP services. I have therefore been activating this card by writing to the /proc/isapnp interface. And in an idle moment, I tried an "auto" instruction: cat /proc/isapnp EOF card 0 ENS3081 dev 0 ENS auto EOF

Re: ftruncate returning EPERM on vfat filesystem

2001-01-07 Thread Richard Henderson
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:55:15PM +, Alan Cox wrote: + return -EPERM; To stop a case where the fs gets corrupted otherwise. You can change that to return 0 which is more correct but most not remove it. While I suppose "0" is covered under "the result is

Re: [patch] mm-cleanup-1 (2.4.0)

2001-01-07 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: The following patch cleans up some obsolete structures from the mm proc code. Beside that it also fixes what I think is a bug: if ((rw == WRITE) atomic_read(nr_async_pages)

Re: What test suites can you tell me about?

2001-01-07 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Nate Straz of the Linux Test Project at SGI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: The Linux Test Project (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ltp/) was set up to create a set of automated tests for Linux. Nate, This is most excellent news! I'd like you to look at http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/ The

Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-07 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: -ac has the rather extended ramfs with resource limits and stuff. That one also has rather more extended bugs 8). AFAIK none of those are in the vanilla ramfs code This is actually where I agree with whoever

Re: [patch] mm-cleanup-1 (2.4.0)

2001-01-07 Thread Rik van Riel
On 7 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: The following patch cleans up some obsolete structures from the mm proc code. Beside that it also fixes what I think is a bug: if ((rw == WRITE) atomic_read(nr_async_pages) pager_daemon.swap_cluster * (1

Re: [patch] mm-cleanup-1 (2.4.0)

2001-01-07 Thread Rik van Riel
On 7 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: OK, maybe I was too fast in concluding with that change. I'm still trying to find out why is MM working bad in some circumstances (see my other email to the list). Anyway, I would than suggest to introduce another /proc entry and call it appropriately:

Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-07 Thread Alan Cox
Sounds like a job for ... drum roll ... tmpfs!! (and yes, I share your opinion that ramfs is nice _because_ it's an easy example for filesystem code teaching) The resource tracking ramfs isnt that much uglier to be honest. One that went off using backing store would be, but ramfs with

[PATCH] Fix compile warnings in 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Rich Baum
This patch should fix the rest of the warnings about #endif statements when using the 20001225 gcc snapshot. Thanks to Keith Owens for providing a script to automate this process. It got the job done sooner and found warnings to fix for non x86 platforms. Rich diff -urN -X dontdiff

Re: [patch] mm-cleanup-1 (2.4.0)

2001-01-07 Thread davej
On 7 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: Anyway, I would than suggest to introduce another /proc entry and call it appropriately: max_async_pages. Because that is what we care about, anyway. I'll send another patch. Anton Blanchard already did a patch for this. Sent to the list on Thu, 7 Dec

ReL DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5

2001-01-07 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I get, with XFree86 4.0.1 and an ATI Rage Millenium card: (EE) r128(0): R128DRIScreenInit failed (DRM version = 2.1.2, expected 1.0.x). Disabling DRI. Jeff Hartmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) says: XFree 4.0.2 will fix this OK, so I'll give a try at building 4.0.2 the Slackware way. While

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-07 Thread Rik van Riel
On 7 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: Things go berzerk if you have one big process whose working set is around your physical memory size. "go berzerk" in what way? Does the system cause lots of extra swap IO and does it make the system thrash where 2.2 didn't even touch the disk ? Final

Re: [PATCH] Cyrix III boot fix and bug report

2001-01-07 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel 3DNOW extensions for Cyrix III via rdmsr from 0x8001. This fails with an exception, that is not handled and thus we oops on boot. Interesting. Ok. We can set the bit

Re: [PATCH] Cyrix III boot fix and bug report

2001-01-07 Thread Alan Cox
(Could this code have been written by someone who was confused between MSR 0x8001 and CPUID 0x8001?) It looks like thats what happened. The docs say it has 3dnow and mmx but I think your diagnosis is correct - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

2.4.0: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.

2001-01-07 Thread John O'Donnell
What does this message mean in my dmesg output? __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. reset_xmit_timer sk=c5b3a680 1

Re: 2.2.18 and Maxtor 96147H6 (61 GB)

2001-01-07 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:34:11AM +0200, Eric Lammerts wrote: I had the same problem with my 80Gb Maxtor. (Asus P2L97, works with 60Gb but hangswith 80Gb :-/) After clipping the drive with ibmsetmax (http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0012.1/0249.html) and removing the

Re: 2.4.0: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.

2001-01-07 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, John O'Donnell wrote: What does this message mean in my dmesg output? __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. It means something in the kernel is trying to allocate an area of 8 physically contiguous pages, but that wasn't available so the allocation failed... This

performance boost from merging linux-2.4.0, xfree86-4.02

2001-01-07 Thread dep
for what it's worth: this afternoon i conducted an experiment: i copied everything that was newer from [xfree-4.02-sourcedir]/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel to my [linux-2.4.0-sourcedir]/drivers/char/drm and then built a monolithic kernel containing agpgart, dri,

.br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi, I just got this bounce message when sending my response to [EMAIL PROTECTED] his question. John, could you set your spam filters to something more reasonable and make sure you don't include whole countries ??? [or ... why are you asking questions here if you don't want an answer?] (my

Re: [patch] mm-cleanup-1 (2.4.0)

2001-01-07 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: The following patch cleans up some obsolete structures from the mm proc code. Beside that it also fixes what I think is a bug: if ((rw == WRITE) atomic_read(nr_async_pages)

Re: [PATCH] Fix compile warnings in 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Neil Booth
Rich Baum wrote:- This patch should fix the rest of the warnings about #endif statements when using the 20001225 gcc snapshot. Thanks to Keith Owens for providing a script to automate this process. It got the job done sooner and found warnings to fix for non x86 platforms.

Re: [PATCH] Cyrix III boot fix and bug report

2001-01-07 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alan Cox wrote: (Could this code have been written by someone who was confused between MSR 0x8001 and CPUID 0x8001?) It looks like thats what happened. The docs say it has 3dnow and mmx but I think your diagnosis is correct Especially since it's bit 31 in EDX. I don't think

Re: [patch] mm-cleanup-1 (2.4.0)

2001-01-07 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: OK, maybe I was too fast in concluding with that change. I'm still trying to find out why is MM working bad in some circumstances (see my other email to the list). Anyway, I would than suggest to introduce

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-07 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: Things go berzerk if you have one big process whose working set is around your physical memory size. "go berzerk" in what way? Does the system cause lots of extra swap IO and does it make the system thrash

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread 5116
On 7 Jan, Alan Cox wrote: Um, what about people running their box as just a VLAN router/firewall? That seems to be one of the principle uses so far. Actually, in that case both VLAN and IP traffic would come through, so it would be a tie if VLAN came first, but non-vlan traffic would suffer

Re: posix_types.h error

2001-01-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: [snip] None of the named compilers gripe? Where, prey tell, do I get the source- code of a compiler that works? The only source provided in the site listed in the Documentation does not. It's not the only source there..

Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread John O'Donnell
Only on my company's e-mail server. My company typically gets "zero" emails from outside the US. If I get a piece of spam (sorry they are typically from outside the US), I just block the entire .com.br domain. I get far less SPAM now! I cannot express how much I loathe SPAM! I have taken this

[OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Pedro M. Rodrigues
Lucky b*st*rd! ;-) My spam is mostly from USA. Just deleted 78 of those, and only 7 seemed to be from abroad. I wish i could block .com ... ;-) Pedro On 7 Jan 2001, at 17:53, John O'Donnell wrote: Only on my company's e-mail server. My company typically gets "zero" emails from

Re: xfs mount opts (was: More better in mount(2))

2001-01-07 Thread Nathan Scott
hi, On Jan 5, 3:51pm, Daniel Phillips wrote: Subject: Re: More better in mount(2) Nathan Scott wrote: On Jan 5, 3:26am, Daniel Phillips wrote: ... This filesystem mount option parsing code is completely ad hoc, and uses strtok which is horribly horribly broken. (Do man strtok and

Re: FW: compile problem in 2.4.0-ac3

2001-01-07 Thread A Guy Called Tyketto
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:57:08PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 04:32:25 -0800, A Guy Called Tyketto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:03:19AM +0100, Pedro M. Rodrigues wrote: Lucky b*st*rd! ;-) My spam is mostly from USA. Just deleted 78 of those, and only 7 seemed to be from abroad. I wish i could block .com ... ;-) 99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other

CML2 0.9.1 is available

2001-01-07 Thread Eric S. Raymond
The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Release 0.9.1: Sun Jan 7 18:05:36 EST 2001 * Synchronized with 2.4.0 final. * Fixed bugs in handling of -W and -D flags. * "source" pathnames are now evaluated relative relative to the

Re: ip_conntrack locks up hard on 2.4.0 after about 10 hours

2001-01-07 Thread Rusty Russell
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: It seems that for one reason or another, ip_conntrack totally locks (not removeable) after about 10 hours of continued use. All i found were these messages in my dmesg output What was the contents of /proc/net/ip_conntrack? Being unremovable can

Re: Related VIA PCI crazyness?

2001-01-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Philip Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In supplement to Evan Thompson's emails with the subject "Additional info. for PCI VIA IDE crazyness. Please read." I've noticed the following message with recent 2.4.0 test + release kernels: IRQ routing conflict in pirq

Re: [PATCH] typo in vesafb.c (against 2.4.0-ac3)

2001-01-07 Thread Michael D. Crawford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: this looks like a typo and fixes a compile error in 2.4.0-ac3. (replacing temp_sze with temp_size in drivers/video/vesafb.c) I had this problem too. For some reason this patch kept getting rejected by the patch program when I tried to apply it, but editing the

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: 99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr or .br. I'm fully in favor of an

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:10:52PM -0500, jamal wrote: OK. I suppose an skb-vlan_tag is passed to the driver and it will know what to do with it (pass it on a descriptor etc). Sure, nice. WHY SHOULD THERE BE MORE LAYER-2 STUFF ADDED TO

Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:53:16PM -0500, John O'Donnell wrote: Only on my company's e-mail server. My company typically gets "zero" emails from outside the US. If I get a piece of spam (sorry they are typically from outside the US), I just block the entire .com.br domain. I get far less

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 06:43:14 -0800, David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Juchem wrote: My script is intended for the one who likes to provide bug reports but is too lazy to look up all the information or simply is not sure about what to include. Why can't it be done in sh? In the

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:16:15PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: 99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr or .br. I'm

Re: routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ben Greear wrote: Hrm, what if they just made each IP-SEC interface a net_device? If they are a routable entity, with it's own IP address, it starts to look a lot like an interface/net_device. As in my response to Matti, i thing a netdevice is a generalized link layer

Paket counters for aliased interfaces ?

2001-01-07 Thread Patrick Mau
Hello, I would like to use IP-Aliasing to create a private network between a few machines without buying more hardware. That's easy, but ifconfig tells me: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:x.x.x.x Mask:x.x.x.x UP BROADCAST

Re: FW: compile problem in 2.4.0-ac3

2001-01-07 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:02:40 -0800, A Guy Called Tyketto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still seeing #include linuxpi.h at line 25 of acpi_ksyms.c. This is also the same line, in patch-2.4.0-ac2 (counted the lines of each). Neither patches compile from this. Not happening here. -ac2

Re: [PATCH] Fix compile warnings in 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:19:50 -0500, "Rich Baum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch should fix the rest of the warnings about #endif statements when using the 20001225 gcc snapshot. Thanks to Keith Owens for providing a script to automate this process. It got the job done sooner and found

Bug: Frame-buffer (icon) rotates right in 2.4.0 when SMP

2001-01-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Apoligies in advance if this is not the right place to send this report. When displaying a screen-wide icon in the frame buffer for the graphics console: Linux version 2.4.0 Console Drivers Video mode selection support Support for frame buffer devices (EXPERMENTAL) VESA VGA

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:27:45PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:16:15PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: 99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of protestors and

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 5) # glibc versions. Take the last symbolic link, # extract the version number from the file it points to. if [ `expr "X$1" : 'Xl'` -eq 2 ] then

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Matt Beland
On Sunday 07 January 2001 18:22, Michael H. Warfield wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:27:45PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:16:15PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: 99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other numbering .com or .net.

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread Matthias Juchem
On 7 Jan 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote: Why don't you, as the other script suggested, execute libc.so.6? Symlinks can be missing or can be wrong. I'll have a look at this shell script and take the best out of both to make a new one. BTW, lots of version dependencies found in older Changes

Re: Related VIA PCI crazyness?

2001-01-07 Thread Evan Thompson
Could anybody with a VIA chip who has the energy please do something for me: - enable DEBUG in arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h - do a "/sbin/lspci -xxvvv" on the interrupt routing chip (it's the "ISA bridge" chip - the VIA numbers are 82c586, 82c596, the PCI numbers for them are

Software requirements in Changes document

2001-01-07 Thread Matthias Juchem
Hi Chris, Comparing the Changes document for 2.4.0 against the one from 2.3.11 one can see that many requirements were removed. Nine out of 22 are still there. Have the removed ones been unnecessary or only less important than the remaining ones? Regards, Matthias - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Matthias Juchem wrote: BTW, lots of version dependencies found in older Changes document (i.e. for 2.3.11) were removed now (2.4.0 shows only 9 where the old one had 22). Have the removed ones been completely unnecessary? Quoting from 2.4.0's Changes file: [snip] trying life on the Bleeding

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:31:11PM -0700, Matt Beland wrote: Thereby killing how many hundreds of innocent people? China doesn't much believe in fining minor offenders, remember. You don't like Spam? Join the club. Blacklisting any domain - ANY domain - for spamming, unless you can

PROBLEM: 2.4.0: not loading fore200e

2001-01-07 Thread Rafal Maszkowski
Pure 2.4.0 on sparc32 with RedHat 6.2: root@etest:/usr/src/6,0# modprobe fore200e /lib/modules/2.4.0lt/kernel/drivers/atm/fore200e_sba_fw.o: couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for /lib/modules/2.4.0lt/kernel/drivers/atm/fore200e_sba_fw.o: insmod

Re: Related VIA PCI crazyness?

2001-01-07 Thread Albert Cranford
Linus Torvalds wrote: Could anybody with a VIA chip who has the energy please do something for me: - enable DEBUG in arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h - do a "/sbin/lspci -xxvvv" on the interrupt routing chip (it's the "ISA bridge" chip - the VIA numbers are 82c586, 82c596, the PCI

[PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
I've put a patch up for testing on the kernel.org mirrors: /pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.0-1.diff.gz It provides a framework for zerocopy transmits and delayed receive fragment coalescing. TUX-1.01 uses this framework. Zerocopy transmit requires some driver support, things run

[PATCH] Fix typo in drivers/video/amifb.c in 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Rich Baum
This fixes a comment at the end of an #endif. This should fix all of the warnings about tokens at the end of #endifs. Please disregard the parts of my earlier patch which made changes to comments and .S files. I should have reviewed the patch the script made more closely. diff -urN -X

Linux 2.4.0-ac4

2001-01-07 Thread Alan Cox
Handle with care. I think the fs updates are right but I don't guarantee it. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.0-ac4 o Fix dereference of freed skbuff in iphase (Hans Grobler) o Fix dereference of freed skbuff in isdn_ppp (Hans Grobler) o

Re: Related VIA PCI crazyness?

2001-01-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On 7 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Philip Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In supplement to Evan Thompson's emails with the subject "Additional info. for PCI VIA IDE crazyness. Please read." I've noticed the following message with recent 2.4.0 test +

Re: Paket counters for aliased interfaces ?

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
Patrick Mau wrote: [...] And here's the question: I would like to collect statistics for eth0:0 but obviously the pakets are only counted for the real interface. If I had enough time and knowledge, how should I implement paket counters for aliased interfaces ? PS: Am I right that it isn't

How to boot linux kernel from floppy

2001-01-07 Thread Barry Wu
Hi, all, I am new to this maillist. I want to boot my system from a single floppy. If I use 1.44MB, the space is too small. So I format my floppy to 1.6MB. I do the following things, #fdformat /dev/fd0H1600 #cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /dev/fd0 #rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 #rdev -r

Re: Software requirements in Changes document

2001-01-07 Thread Chris Ricker
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Matthias Juchem wrote: Hi Chris, Comparing the Changes document for 2.4.0 against the one from 2.3.11 one can see that many requirements were removed. Nine out of 22 are still there. Have the removed ones been unnecessary or only less important than the remaining ones?

Re: Bug: Frame-buffer (icon) rotates right in 2.4.0 when SMP

2001-01-07 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
when you use SMP there's suppOsed to be one icon that shows up for every CPU you have. 2 cpu = 2 icons, 4 cpu = 4 icon. That's what the for loop in fbcon_show_logo(). So this really isnt a bug, depending on how you look at it. It's definitely something the lpp author needs to account for. On

Re: FW: compile problem in 2.4.0-ac3

2001-01-07 Thread A Guy Called Tyketto
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:42:12AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:02:40 -0800, A Guy Called Tyketto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still seeing #include linuxpi.h at line 25 of acpi_ksyms.c. This is also the same line, in patch-2.4.0-ac2 (counted the lines of

setfsuid on ext2 weirdness (2.4)

2001-01-07 Thread Bjorn Wesen
Ok.. I'm going bananas. It could be a 4am braindeath or a rh7.0 bungholio but this is annoying: main(int argc, char **argv) { int fd; setfsuid(atoi(argv[1])); fd = open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY); printf("got fd %d\n", fd); } [root@wizball /root]# ./setfstest 0

Re: Related VIA PCI crazyness?

2001-01-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Albert Cranford wrote: Could anybody with a VIA chip who has the energy please do something for me: - enable DEBUG in arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h - do a "/sbin/lspci -xxvvv" on the interrupt routing chip (it's the "ISA bridge" chip - the VIA numbers are

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
Alan Cox wrote: Um, what about people running their box as just a VLAN router/firewall? That seems to be one of the principle uses so far. Actually, in that case both VLAN and IP traffic would come through, so it would be a tie if VLAN came first, but non-vlan traffic would suffer

IDE HD DMA not being enabled in 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Josh Straub
Hello, this is my first post to Linux-Kernel so I hope I get this right. On my Pentium 200 system with Intel i430VX chipset and PIIX3, my Maxtor 3.5GB IDE HD would always have DMA enabled even in 2.4.0-test10, but then sometime between 2.4.0-test12 and 2.4.0 (final), DMA was not being enabled

[OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:22:28PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: I already run several sugarplum sites with teergrubes. I also use various blackhole lists and take other action against spammers, including blocking entire rogue domains. If that rogue domain happens to be a two

understanding gunzip

2001-01-07 Thread dhammika
hi, i tried 2.4.0 kernel with rmk and np patches in my brutus board. (Brutus is a StrongArm based development environment) my patched kernel is 2.4.0-rmk1-np1 the kernel uncompresses fine. but uncompressing the ramdisk fails. In this instance my uncompressed ramdisk is about 3.5mb. i looked

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 10:30:14PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:22:28PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: I already run several sugarplum sites with teergrubes. I also use various blackhole lists and take other action against spammers, including blocking

Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote: This sounds like a bug that I posted a fix for a long time ago. cramfs calls bforget on the superblock area, destroying that block of the ramdisk, even when the ramdisk does not contain a cramfs file system. Normally, bforget is called on

Ooops on 2.4.0 SMP Sparc32...

2001-01-07 Thread Brian Macy
This is very easily repeated... happens a few minutes after boot. After it happens one CPU gets stuck on a spin lock owned by the other. This kernel was built from code pulled down from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/vger on Jan 5th. Looked like the first merge of the 2.4.0 released code... but the Ooops

2.4.0 APM w/ Compaq 16xx laptop...

2001-01-07 Thread Brian Macy
Anyone get this working? If so please tell me the version of you APM utilities and what Power Management options you have on in the kernel. Ever since I started trying 2.3.x, as soon as the box gets a change in it's power status (even just an update of the % battery) Linux locks solid. It's 100%

Re: 2.4.0: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.

2001-01-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 07 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. This debugging check should probably be removed around 2.4.5, in the mean time it is much too useful to track down badly behaving device drivers ;) It need not be a badly written driver, it could be a fine

Re: routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOTmeet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-07 Thread Ben Greear
jamal wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ben Greear wrote: Hrm, what if they just made each IP-SEC interface a net_device? If they are a routable entity, with it's own IP address, it starts to look a lot like an interface/net_device. As in my response to Matti, i thing a netdevice is a

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological barriers to a minority expressing speech that is unacceptable to the majority. This is not acceptable. See Rowan v. United States Post Office. *Your* right to free speech stops at

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dmitri Pogosyan
Even not specifically disagreeing, but Dan Hollis wrote: See Rowan v. United States Post Office. Why necessarily should I care about United States Post Office or United States in general ? *Your* right to free speech stops at *my* property. Under no circumstances does your right to

Re: [PATCH] VM fixes + RSS limits 2.4.0-test13-pre5

2001-01-07 Thread Peter Chubb
Ingo wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:43:54AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2000, Mike Sklar wrote: If I wanted to adjust the rlim_cur value of a running processes, is there any sort of interface for that? Hmmm, I don't think there is an interface to adjust the

Re: Network Performance?

2001-01-07 Thread Tim Sailer
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:11:40PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: this issue was discussed on the netdev mailing list a few weeks back. It's very unfortunate that the web archives of netdev stopped working several months ago and there now appears to be no web archive of [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH] More Configure.help fixes

2001-01-07 Thread Jeremy M. Dolan
Dag Wieers caught all the double word's in Configure.help (from the looks of the patch we're quite a bunch of stutterers), here's another patch that catches mainly some combined words, a '2.3' - '2.4', and inproper capitalizations. Also, two of the translation's for Configure.help have stale

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:24:16PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological barriers to a minority expressing speech that is unacceptable to the majority. This is not acceptable. See Rowan v.

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Matt Beland
On Sunday 07 January 2001 21:24, Dan Hollis wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological barriers to a minority expressing speech that is

Re: [PATCH] More Configure.help fixes

2001-01-07 Thread Jeremy M. Dolan
As per usual, when sending a mail with an attachment, I forgot to attach it after I :wq'd. -- Jeremy M. Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key = http://turbogeek.org/openpgp-key OpenPGP fingerprint = 494C 7A6E 19FB 026A 1F52 E0D5 5C5D 6228 DC43 3DEE diff -rub 2.4.0/Documentation/Configure.help

[PATCH] mm/mmap.c find_vma(), kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Robert Wienholt, Jr.
Gentlemen, I was looking through some of the memory management code today and came across something that may provide a minor performance boost. I have included a patch below for the 2.4.0 source. In the find_vma function a cached vma is checked and if that is not the requested

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