Normal Response Mode of HDLC for linux

2001-01-07 Thread aprasad
Hi all, Has anybody written any support for HDLC normal response mode. I could only find the support of HDLC asynchronous balanced mode (LAPB). Any pointers will highly be appreciated. Thanks, Anil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

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

2001-01-07 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Robert Wienholt, Jr. wrote: 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

Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions

2001-01-07 Thread Wayne . Brown
Actually, I have another reason for using patch-kernel, besides being inexperienced or lazy: being weird. :-) For some reason, I have an aversion to downloading complete kernels, and just grab the patches. That's usually OK, because I apply each patch one at a time, within a few hours after

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-07 Thread Wayne Whitney
On Sunday, January 7, 20001, Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now if 2.4 has worse _performance_ than 2.2 due to one reason or another, that I'd like to hear about ;) Well, here is a workload that performs worse on 2.4.0 than on 2.2.19pre, and as it is the usual workload on my little

Re: posix_types.h error

2001-01-07 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Barry K. Nathan wrote: 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

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

2001-01-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:01:04AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:13:08 +1300 From: Chris Wedgwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I'm a liar -- bind does handle this. Cool. Standard BSD allows it, what do you expect :-) This is good news, because it means

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

2001-01-07 Thread Robert Wienholt, Jr.
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Robert Wienholt, Jr. wrote: 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

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 09:29:29PM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote: The application is some mathematics computations (modular symbols) using a package called MAGMA; at times this requires very large matrices. The RSS can get up to 870MB; for some reason a MAGMA process under linux thinks it has

2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH: Nosuch process)

2001-01-07 Thread Paul Cassella
[1.] One line summary of the problem: write() returns -1 and sets errno non-sensically. 2.4.0{,-ac[23]} [2.] Full description of the problem/report: write() sometimes returns -1 and sets errno to one of 1 (EPERM: "Operation not permitted") 3 (ESRCH: "No such process") 8 (ENOEXEC: "Exec

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

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: 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

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 09:29:29PM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote: The application is some mathematics computations (modular symbols) using a package called MAGMA; at times this requires very large matrices. The RSS can get up to

Broken tty handling

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
Every once in a while I have a very frustrating problem develop. All tty handling stops. Packets flow in and out of the machine fine, but anything with a tty halts. I don't know exactly what is happening but I have found that killing the last user that logged in (all his processes) usually

[PATCH] 2.4.0-ac4 : fs/qnx4/inode.c

2001-01-07 Thread Frank Davis
Hello, While compiling 2.4.0-ac4, I receivied the following..Looks like a typo...Patch is also below. Regards, Frank inode.c: In function `qnx4_read_super':inode.c:372: `sb' undeclared (first use in this function)inode.c:372: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only onceinode.c:372:

Re: posix_types.h error

2001-01-07 Thread Niels Kristian Bech Jensen
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Barry K. Nathan wrote: Richard is asking for source code. Documentation/Changes only gives the location of binaries. This is a bit of a problem IMO (I also tried, and failed, to find the egcs 1.1.2 source code). Now that I know where it is, I'll soon post a patch for

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

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Matt Beland wrote: 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

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-07 Thread Blu3Viper
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: If this is really true, 2.5.x is an appropriate time to make this, no sooner. I think it would be better to keep it. The ifa based alias interface emulation adds minor overhead (currently it's only a few lines of code, assuming we need named if

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

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: 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 ? I suspect canadian law has similar precedents. *Your* right to free speech stops at *my*

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH: No such process)

2001-01-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:55:28PM -0600, Paul Cassella wrote: [1.] One line summary of the problem: write() returns -1 and sets errno non-sensically. 2.4.0{,-ac[23]} Would it be possible to provide a compiling test case that shows these errors ? Also over what interface do you run

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH: Nosuch process)

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:55:28 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Cassella [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1.] One line summary of the problem: write() returns -1 and sets errno non-sensically. 2.4.0{,-ac[23]} What you describe I can only say is "impossible". There are only four cases when _ANY_

Re: DHCP Problems with 3com 3c905C Tornado

2001-01-07 Thread Tim Wright
Sounds somewhat familiar. The pump that came with RedHat 6.2 never worked correctly at work, but dhcpcd worked just fine (we don't have static IP addresses, but there are fewer machines than there are addresses in the pool, so effectively, we do :-). The odd thing is that I (mis?)understood in

2.4.0test12: problems timing events

2001-01-07 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi, I tried to time events inside the kernel in 2.4.0test12: Basically the same code works fine in 2.2.18 with about 1us jitter. However in 2.4.0test12 the jitter is around 600ms! What I did is this: I modified the interrupt routine of the serial driver to get a precision time-stamp via

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

2001-01-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:12:09PM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:32:14AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: I think it would be better to keep it. The ifa based alias interface emulation adds minor overhead (currently it's only a few lines of code, assuming we

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: Who says that it names a device? It names interfaces. There are good reasons to have names for ifas, and I see no really good convincing reasons not to put these names into the interface name space. (in addition it'll save a lot of people a lot of grief)

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (New Benchmarks)

2001-01-07 Thread Ben Greear
See a pretty graph showing performance of ifconfig and ip both with and without my device-hashed-lookup patch: http://grok.yi.org/~greear/hashed_dev.png (If you can't get to it, let me know and I'll email it to you...some cable modem networks have I firewalled.) I ran ifconfig -a and ip addr

Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: PROBLEM: SCSI hangs with aic7xxx in 2.4.0 SMP

2001-01-07 Thread Rainer Tammer
Hello, On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 16:43:03 -0800, mull wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:26:55PM -, Craig Freeze wrote: [1.] One line summary of the problem: SCSI hangs with aic7xxx in 2.4.0 SMP [2.] Full description of the problem/report: SCSI device errors and bus resets observed in 2.4.0

3CCFE575CT problem in 2.4.0, Maybe a PCI subsystem bug

2001-01-07 Thread Tommy Wu
I've a 3CCFE575CT card. It is work fine in 2.2.18 kernel. But when I change to kernel 2.4.0, I found it could not detect as 2.2.18. I've report to pcmcia-cs maintainer, he suggest me to report this to here. #-- By:

[PATCH] wrong stat of NTFS volume in linux-kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Willem Dekker
I tested the 2.4.0 kernel and it reported a wrong volume size for ntfs partitions. The size of the partition (as reported by df -k) was a factor of 8 too high. After some searching I found that super.c in /usr/src/linux/fs/ntfs was changed. In my previous kernel 2.2.16 a division by the number

Are PCI add-on Cardbus Readers supported by the 2.4.0 kernel?

2001-01-07 Thread Miles Lane
I would like to perform more PCMCIA/Cardbus testing on a wider array of systems. I am considering buying a Ratoc Cardbus PC Adapter (model number CBS51U). Here are the specs: PCI-CardBus Bridge adapter board Allows CardBus PC Cards to be shared by both portable and desktop PC.

Re: devfs breakage in 2.4.0 release

2001-01-07 Thread Andris Pavenis
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote: On my Sony PictureBook PCG-C1VN, 2.4.0 hangs in the boot process while 2.4.0-prerelease boots just fine. At first I thought the problem was devfs-related, but skipping devfsd just caused the hang to occur a little later, this time in

Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in D state)

2001-01-07 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Add UnlockPage(page) at the end of ramfs_writepage(). Shit. You are quite fast. Works. Sure, especially considering the fact that patch was sent to Linus about a month ago (several times, actually)... ;-/ Its in all the -ac trees 8)

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH:No such process)

2001-01-07 Thread Paul Cassella
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:55:28 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Cassella [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1.] One line summary of the problem: write() returns -1 and sets errno non-sensically. 2.4.0{,-ac[23]} What you describe I can only say is

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH:No such process)

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:16:27 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Cassella [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would it be more helpful if I were to check something like socki_lookup(file-f_dentry-f_inode)-ops == tcp_prot instead? No, helpful would be for you to present us with a test case program and the

Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in D state)

2001-01-07 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:35:32PM +, Alan Cox wrote: BTW Al: We have another general vfs/fs problem to handle - which is exceeding max file sizes on limited file systems. Pretty much nobody is getting it right. Ext2 can be

Which Bind version..

2001-01-07 Thread Mike
Hi!! I wanna install Bind on my DNS. Which Bind version is most stabel and secure. Regards, Nauman Ansari - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH:No such process)

2001-01-07 Thread Paul Cassella
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:55:28PM -0600, Paul Cassella wrote: write() returns -1 and sets errno non-sensically. 2.4.0{,-ac[23]} Would it be possible to provide a compiling test case that shows these errors ? The CVS version (perhaps even version

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