Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > Rik van Riel writes: > > Anyway, since linux-kernel has chosen to not receive email from me > > Funny how this posting went through then... > > If it is specifically when you are sending mail from some other place, > state so, don't make blanket

Re: 8139too.c and 2.4.4-pre1 kernel burp

2001-04-08 Thread Frank Jacobberger
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Frank Jacobberger wrote: > >> Jeff, >> >> I noticed the following on boot with 2.4.4-pre1: >> >> kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001. >> >> What is this saying to me :) > > > How often does this occur? A lot, or just once or twice? > Every

Re: race condition on looking up inodes

2001-04-08 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <000201c0c0a4$eb5c7b10$321ea8c0@saturn> you wrote: >rename("/usr/hybrid/cfg/data","/usr/mytemp/data1"); /*for process 1*/ > rename("/usr/mytemp/data1","/usr/test");/* for process 2*/ Rename syscall is expected to be atomic on unixoid systems. And I dont know of a case where a

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread David S. Miller
Rik van Riel writes: > Anyway, since linux-kernel has chosen to not receive email from me Funny how this posting went through then... If it is specifically when you are sending mail from some other place, state so, don't make blanket statements which obviously are not wholly true. Later,

Re: race condition on looking up inodes

2001-04-08 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, warren wrote: > > > Hi, > I had post a simillar message before. > Thanks for the replay from Albert D. Cahalan. But i found some results > confusing me. > For example, process 1 and process 2 run concurrently and execute the > following system calls. > >

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote: > The incentive behind the DUL is to force users not to post > straight out to the world, but to use their ISP's servers > for outbound email --- normal M$ users do that, after all. > Only spammers - and UNIX powerusers - want to

Network Driver

2001-04-08 Thread Rajeev Nigam
Hello All, I have a blue tooth stack and a BT device and the device connects on the serial port, over that I have to run tcpip. Can u tell me which driver I have to need or Is there no need to write any driver. Should I have to write any character driver or network driver, can u pls suggeste

Re: rw_semaphores

2001-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
The "down_writer_failed()" case was wrong: On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > __down_write_failed(sem) > { > > /* >* Ignore other pending writers: but if there is >* are pending readers or a

Fast & Wide chip info

2001-04-08 Thread Jeff Walther
You may already have this information, but in case this info will be useful to someone, the data sheets for the successor (pin compatible) chip to the SYMBIOS LOGIC 53C825A is here: http://www.lsilogic.com/techlib/techdocs/storage_stand_prod/PCISCSICont/Chip s/825A.BK.pdf LSI Logic bought

The same Maestro 2E Driver problems (2.2.17)

2001-04-08 Thread Scott A Crosby
Hi... I was going through kernel traffic and read the article on the Maestro Driver problems.. I'm having very similar problems on my Dell i5000e laptop. The symtoms are: When I play MP3's, on an otherwise unloaded system, I notice progressive noisiness.. The longer it plays, (5-60 minutes),

race condition on looking up inodes

2001-04-08 Thread warren
Hi, I had post a simillar message before. Thanks for the replay from Albert D. Cahalan. But i found some results confusing me. For example, process 1 and process 2 run concurrently and execute the following system calls. rename("/usr/hybrid/cfg/data","/usr/mytemp/data1");

user-mode port 0.40-2.4.3

2001-04-08 Thread Jeff Dike
The user-mode port of 2.4.3 is available. Added --help and --version, which do the obvious things UML now creates a /tmp/uml/ pid file. The name can be set with the '-umid=' switch. This is intended to make it easier for a UI to control a number of virtual machines. There is a more general

Re: rw_semaphores

2001-04-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > > One issue with the current implementation is the (necessary) > design where one reader (or writer) is sleeping in > down_x_failed_biased(), with its bias in place, whereas > all other sleepers are sleeping in down_x_failed(), with > their bias not in

Re: 8139too.c and 2.4.4-pre1 kernel burp

2001-04-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Frank Jacobberger wrote: > > Jeff, > > I noticed the following on boot with 2.4.4-pre1: > > kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001. > > What is this saying to me :) How often does this occur? A lot, or just once or twice? -- Jeff Garzik | Sam: "Mind if I drive?"

8139too.c and 2.4.4-pre1 kernel burp

2001-04-08 Thread Frank Jacobberger
Jeff, I noticed the following on boot with 2.4.4-pre1: kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x0001. What is this saying to me :) Thanks, Frank - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

[QUESTIONS] Transision from pcmcia-cs to 2.4 built-in PCMCIA

2001-04-08 Thread Ryan Mack
I have a 3c595 CardBus card and a Lucent Orinoco card under pcmcia-cs I used the following drivers: pcmcia_core, ds, and (I think) cs for low level stuff, i82365 for the controller, cb_enabler and 3c595_cb for the 3c595, and wvlan_cs for the Orinoco under the kernel pcmcia support, I use:

2.4.4-pre1 Unresolved symbols "strstr"

2001-04-08 Thread Jeff Chua
depmod version 2.4.5 Compiled 2.4.4-pre1 but running "depmod" generates a lot of these ... depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.4-pre1/kernel/drivers/char/ltmodem.o depmod: strstr depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.4-pre1/kernel/drivers/char/serial.o

Re: Zero Copy IO

2001-04-08 Thread Douglas Gilbert
"Alex Q Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to find a way to pin down user space > memory from kernel, so that these user space buffer > can be used for direct IO transfer or otherwise > known as "zero copying IO". Searching through the > Internet and reading comments on various

[patch] read/write semaphores

2001-04-08 Thread Andrew Morton
This is a new implementation. After ~20 hours effort I couldn't get the current x86 rwsem code to work. This patch breaks all architechtures, but it's a good break and trivial to fix. It removes the `RW_LOCK_BIAS' arg in include/linux/sched.h:INIT_MM(). This code is architecture-independent.

RE: No USB under 2.4.3 and 2.4.3-ac?

2001-04-08 Thread Sid Boyce
I found that the SuSE 7.1 install didn't put "usbdevfs" in /etc/fstab on the Athlon, the PIII has broken USB port hardware. Regards -- Sid Boyce ... hamradio G3VBV ... Cessna/Warrior Pilot Linux only shop.. Tel. 44-121 422 0375 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Sources of entropy - /dev/random problem for network servers

2001-04-08 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:46:21PM +0100, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote: > The following patch fixes eepro100.c - others can be > patched similarly. Problem is that it allows someone with sniffer access to your network to make a pretty good estimate of your random pool. If you search the

Re: Zero Copy IO

2001-04-08 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 04:31:27PM -0700, Alex Q Chen wrote: > I am trying to find a way to pin down user space memory from kernel, so > that these user space buffer can be used for direct IO transfer or > otherwise known as "zero copying IO". Searching through the Internet and > reading

Re: Sources of entropy - /dev/random problem for network servers

2001-04-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote: > The machine in question is locked in a data center (can't be > the only one) and thus sees none of the former two. IDE Entropy > comes from executed IDE commands. The disk is physically largely > inactive due to caching. But there's plenty of network traffic >

Zero Copy IO

2001-04-08 Thread Alex Q Chen
I am trying to find a way to pin down user space memory from kernel, so that these user space buffer can be used for direct IO transfer or otherwise known as "zero copying IO". Searching through the Internet and reading comments on various news groups, it would appear that most developers

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-08 Thread Jamie Lokier
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > .. but there should be a cleaner way to get at the CFLAGS used > to compile the kernel. There is a way though I'd not call it clean. Here is an extract from the Makefile I am using for separately-distributed modules. It should work with kernels 2.0 to 2.4, all

Sources of entropy - /dev/random problem for network servers

2001-04-08 Thread Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
In debugging why my (unloaded) IMAP server takes many seconds to open folders, I discovered what looks like a problem in 2.4's feeding of entropy into /dev/random. When there is insufficient entropy in the random number generator, reading from /dev/random blocks for several seconds. /dev/random

To: davidel@xmailserver.org [Fwd: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

2001-04-08 Thread David
Your email address seems to be broken ;) I tried from different networks. rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 550 Relay denied -d The original message was received at Sun, 8 Apr 2001 14:48:51 -0700 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [208.179.59.198] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote: > SMTP receivers should have the option of inserting a header line > instead of blocking "bad" Emails. Then other layers can decide what to > do with this Email. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.20/doc/html/spec_46.html#SEC810 rbl_domains =

cpu binding bug?

2001-04-08 Thread Manfred Spraul
Afaics cpu bindings could allow a thread to run with an "unlimited" timeslice. cpu0: one thread running with 'nice==19'. NICE_TO_TICKS==1. cpu1: lots of other threads with 'nice==0' (NICE_TO_TICKS==6) cpu0 will enter schedule() every tick. can_schedule() returns '0' for all

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marvin Stodolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for responding. But I would still like to understand what the >functionality is of the build --> /usr/src/linuc. Is it dispensable, >once the module tree has been installed? It's needed for modules that are

[PATCH] Re: softirq buggy

2001-04-08 Thread Manfred Spraul
I've attached a new patch: * cpu_is_idle() moved to * function uninlined due to header dependencies * cpu_is_idle() doesn't call do_softirq directly, instead the caller returns to schedule() * cpu_is_idle() exported for modules. * docu updated. I'd prefer to inline cpu_is_idle(), but

Re: All processes hung under 2.4.3

2001-04-08 Thread Disconnect
Althought I was unable to do any debugging, I found the same thing earlier today. Syslog showed everything normal (uptimed reports, MARK, etc) and ctrl-sysrq worked, but it had frozen hard. I was using xlock, and it was stopped in the middle of an opengl saver. I had suspected it was related

Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (serial+parport)

2001-04-08 Thread Martin Mares
Hi Jeff! > Is Martin still alive? He hasn't been active in PCI development well > over six months, maybe a year now. Ivan (alpha hacker) appeared on the > scene to fix serious PCI bridge bugs, DaveM has added some PCI DMA > stuff, and I've added a couple driver-related things. I haven't seen

PROBLEM: kernel oops in reiserfs under 2.4.2-ac28 and 2.4.3-ac3 when rming files

2001-04-08 Thread xOr
[1.] kernel oops in reiserfs under 2.4.2-ac28 and 2.4.3-ac3 when rming files [2.] when removing a directory on my harddrive with rm -rf, i get this oops. it occurs every time i try, and only on this one folder (so far). its actually in a subdirectory of the folder, im guessing at one file, but

Re: mouse problems in 2.4.2 -> lost byte -> Patch(2.4.3)!

2001-04-08 Thread Gunther Mayer
Original Problem: PS/2 mouse pointer goes upper right corner and stays there. Diagnosis: one byte was lost and this is fatal for the mouse driver. Various people wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:19:33PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. > > > > > > > I am experiencing debilitating

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Ben Ford
john slee wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:07:20PM -0700, Colonel wrote: > >> Some ISPs rely on crap software & OS to process email, and have other > > > so you don't use those ISPs Some people don't have a choice of ISPs. Some people are lucky if they can even *get* dial-up. -b -

All processes hung under 2.4.3

2001-04-08 Thread Steven Walter
Earlier today, I tried to unlock xscreensaver on my desktop. After typing in the password, it said "Checking..." and then hung. In response, I hit Ctrl+Alt+Bksp, which killed X. However, gdm did not restart X. I tried logging in on the console, but none of them were responsive; characters

Re: struct stat{st_blksize} for /dev entries in 2.4.3

2001-04-08 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > diff -ru textutils-2.0/src/cat.c textutils-new/src/cat.c > --- textutils-2.0/src/cat.c Sun Apr 8 22:55:10 2001 > +++ textutils-new/src/cat.c Sun Apr 8 23:23:54 2001 > @@ -790,6 +790,9 @@ >if (options == 0) > { >

2.2.19: cross-compile patch for drivers/net/Makefile

2001-04-08 Thread Philip Blundell
Cross-compiles need to use the target linker here. p. --- linux/drivers/net/Makefile~ Sun Apr 8 17:48:31 2001 +++ linux/drivers/net/Makefile Sun Apr 8 19:31:29 2001 @@ -1445,7 +1445,7 @@ rm -f core *.o *.a *.s wanpipe.o: $(WANPIPE_OBJS) - ld -r -o $@ $(WANPIPE_OBJS) +

Re: softirq buggy [Re: Serial port latency]

2001-04-08 Thread Manfred Spraul
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Manfred Spraul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 7:58 PM Subject: Re: softirq buggy [Re: Serial port latency] > Hello! > > > But with a huge overhead. I'd prefer to call it directly from within the > > idle functions, the

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

2001-04-08 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > You do. PCI-space registers are volatile and they may change depending > on what was written (or read) previously. A memory barrier before a PCI > read will ensure you get a value that is relevant to previous code > actions.

Re: softirq buggy [Re: Serial port latency]

2001-04-08 Thread kuznet
Hello! > But with a huge overhead. I'd prefer to call it directly from within the > idle functions, the overhead of schedule is IMHO too high. + if (current->need_resched) { + return 0; + } + if (softirq_active(smp_processor_id()) &

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Davide Libenzi
On 08-Apr-2001 Rogier Wolff wrote: > Matti Aarnio wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:10:52PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > How about creating an additional ML, >> > the new ML (say LKML-DUL) is used to send mails from DUL to LKML, but >> > such mails are not sent to LMKL. >> >>

Re: UDMA(66) drive coming up as UDMA(33)?

2001-04-08 Thread Wilfried Weissmann
"David St.Clair" wrote: > > I'm trying to get my hard drive to use UDMA/66. I'm thinking the cable > is not being detected. When the HPT366 bios is set to UDMA 4; using I think that should be UDMA 5 for 66? As far as I can remember UDMA4 is 33MHz with S.M.A.R.T. which add some reporting

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-08 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Russell Thanks for responding. But I would still like to understand what the functionality is of the build --> /usr/src/linuc. Is it dispensable, once the module tree has been installed? Incidentally, per below, my own modutils is current, though some of the folks using our ltmodem.o

Re: softirq buggy [Re: Serial port latency]

2001-04-08 Thread Manfred Spraul
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello! > > > + if (softirq_active(smp_processor_id()) & softirq_mask(smp_processor_id())) { > > + do_softirq(); > > + return 0; > > BTW you may delete do_softirq()... schedule() will call this. > But with a huge overhead. I'd prefer to call it directly from within the

Re: TCP stack misbehaviour?

2001-04-08 Thread kuznet
Hello! > empty, except for occasional ACKs. The utilization of the channel is about 4%. 1. tcpdump is required. 2. exact vesion of used kernel is required too. Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: new queuing discipline

2001-04-08 Thread kuznet
Hello! > packet in the queue. No other conditions i found. But i need repeatedly test > the top packet in the queue. > > How to accomplish it? Look into sch_tbf.c for example. Hint: timer. Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: softirq buggy [Re: Serial port latency]

2001-04-08 Thread kuznet
Hello! > + if (softirq_active(smp_processor_id()) & softirq_mask(smp_processor_id())) { > + do_softirq(); > + return 0; BTW you may delete do_softirq()... schedule() will call this. > + * > + * Isn't this identical to default_idle with the 'no-hlt' boot > + *

kgdb for 2.4.3 kernels

2001-04-08 Thread Amit S. Kale
Hi, OOPS! I sent a wrong mail earlier under the same subject. Linux kernel source level debugger, kgdb for linux kernel 2.4.3 is available from http://kgdb.sourceforge.net/ This version has following improvements over kgdb for 2.4.2 kernels: 1. Changed #ifdef __SMP__ statements to #ifdef

Re: TCP stack misbehaviour?

2001-04-08 Thread clock
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:07:55PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Could you add more details and post them to linux-kernel? > > * which kernel version 2.2.18 > * both sides linux, or one side linux, the other one something else both sides 2.2.18 linux > * a tcpdump that shows the problem,

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:22:49PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > ORBS ... well, they called one of my old ISPs' mail an open relay when > > it wasn't and took 3 months to decide to rectify the situation and > > remove us from their list. That doesn't instill much confidence. > > I've heard

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-08 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 09:47:06AM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > It's presence has required some gymnastics, per below, during module > installation for the Winmodem driver, ltmodem.o requiring a subsequent > "depmod -a" You need to update your modutils package - there have been a number of

build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-08 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
MODULE SUPPORT [GENERAL], KMOD P: Keith Owens M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Though I've done some rational searching through the Documetation, an explanation hasn't manifested, as to why there has appeared in the 2.4.nn

TCP stack misbehaviour?

2001-04-08 Thread clock
The TCP stack in the linux kernel behaves this way: I have got a FULL-DUPLEX 28.800kbps channel with BER <= 1*10-9 a) I start a long TCP connection in one direction b) After 5 minutes I start another connection in the opposite direction The second connection rusn for about half a minute, then

[OPPS] 2.2.19

2001-04-08 Thread James Stevenson
Hi i woke up to these this morning :( ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.2.19. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (specified) -L (specified) -o /lib/modules/2.2.19/ (default) -m /boot/System.map (specified) No modules in ksyms, skipping objects Unable to handle kernel

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Rogier Wolff
Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:10:52PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How about creating an additional ML, > > the new ML (say LKML-DUL) is used to send mails from DUL to LKML, but > > such mails are not sent to LMKL. > > Layering and technology problem. > >

struct stat{st_blksize} for /dev entries in 2.4.3

2001-04-08 Thread Russell Coker
When you stat() the files under /dev the st_blksize is returned as 1024 bytes. Currently cat will look at the input block size and the output block size and use the maximum of them as it's buffer size. I believe that programs such as cat should never use a buffer size smaller than a page of

swsusp & 2.4.3

2001-04-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I found it works if I disable "save/restore of hw state". I still need to restart driver of my psaux mouse. Pavel PS: BTW you should talk to acpi maintainers: acpi requires _os_ to do this kind of stuff. PPS: You should warn

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Joseph Carter wrote: > ORBS ... well, they called one of my old ISPs' mail an open relay when > it wasn't and took 3 months to decide to rectify the situation and > remove us from their list. That doesn't instill much confidence. I've heard that accusation many times, and

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Rogier Wolff
john slee wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:07:20PM -0700, Colonel wrote: > > Some ISPs rely on crap software & OS to process email, and have other > > so you don't use those ISPs Out here I have choice between dialup (lots to chose from): $200/month(*), not always online. cable (one

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Jeff Mcadams
Also sprach Joseph Carter >Even in those cases where broadband users are given a choice of providers, >they have to know to ask for that choice since it is never offered and by >exercising that choice you will usually find the price to be at least >double if not triple - often through no fault of

Re: How to build modules outside the kernel tree? [Was: Proper way to release binary driver?]

2001-04-08 Thread Jamie Lokier
Eric W. Biederman wrote: > So for solutions (That I know of): > > With recent kernels with modules_install a: > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build > directory is created, that effectively points to the kernel source > tree the modules were built with. With the 2.4.x currently this is a > symlink so

Re: problem when booting 2.4.3 from a floppy disk

2001-04-08 Thread Thomas Molina
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, François Dupoux wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange bug when trying to boot a kernel-2.4.3 (official release) > from an 1.44 MB floppy disk. Just after the "Loading...", there is an > infinite loop, and this message is printed: > 0200 > AX: 0212 > BX: BC00 > CX: 5101 >

Re: Multi-function PCI devices

2001-04-08 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:05:36PM +0200, Michael Reinelt wrote: > The simple solution: Gunters 'multifunction quirks' > clean solution #1: a new module according to Jeffs sample code > clean solution #2: 'invisible PCI bridge' from Linus [...] > Suggestion: multifunction quirks for 2.4, one of

Re: Possible bug for Kernel 2.4.3 -> make modules_install

2001-04-08 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Patrick Shirkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having trouble installing modules. The command hangs at the > following point in the install... > > --- > Finished dependencies of target file `_modinst_post'. > Must remake target `_modinst_post'. > if [ -r System.map ];

Re: Multi-function PCI devices

2001-04-08 Thread Michael Reinelt
Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:40:13PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Who said you have to have a separate driver for every single multi-IO > > card? A single driver could support all serial+parallel multi-IO cards, > > for example. > > Okay, I misunderstood. I'll take a

Re: Multi-function PCI devices

2001-04-08 Thread Michael Reinelt
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Another (design) question: How will such a driver/module deal with > > autodetection and/or devfs? I don't like to specify 'alias /dev/tts/4 > > netmos', because thats pure junk to me. What about pci hotplugging? > > pci hotplugging happens pretty much transparently.

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Olaf Titz
> It scares me that peoples' messages would be denied based on what > degree of connection they choose to mail via. I sincerely hope that > the DUL lists only list netblocks that are actively being used for > spam. This would be sort of like the Usenet Death Penalty, instating > bans on providers

Re: 2.4.3-ac2 -- How do I determine if shm is being used?

2001-04-08 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Miles, On Sat, 07 Apr 2001, Miles Lane wrote: > I have mounted: > > none on /var/shm type shm (rw) Not necessary any more. > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) Also not necessary, but recommended for POSIX shm. BTW it will not work with Linus' kernel. Type "shm" is supported by

kgdb for 2.4.3 kernels

2001-04-08 Thread Amit S. Kale
Hi, Here is another way of allowing sane access to file system specific information, statistics and configuration. It involves using the translation filesystem (http://trfs.sourceforge.net/). An example of filesystem configuration: configurable forcing data flush for all writes to files in a

Re: Multi-function PCI devices

2001-04-08 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Waugh) wrote on 07.04.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 01:23:27PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > You asked in your last message to show you code, here is a short > > example. Note that I would love to rip out the SUPERIO code in parport > > and make

2.4.2 ac2x & 2.4.3. loss of VC displays

2001-04-08 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
hi all regently I see weird things with X. XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 18 December 2000 (II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA128, RIVATNT, RIVATNT2, RIVATNT2 (Ultra), RIVATNT2 (Vanta), RIVATNT2 M64,

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:10:52PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How about creating an additional ML, > the new ML (say LKML-DUL) is used to send mails from DUL to LKML, but > such mails are not sent to LMKL. Layering and technology problem. SMTP receiver does those

new queuing discipline

2001-04-08 Thread Oldrich Kepka
Hi, I am developing new queuing disciline. The purpose of this queue is to delay outgoing packets. I wrote module sch_delay.o. This module implements delay_e nqueue() and delay_dequeue() functions. I also modify tc to comunicate throu gh netlink with my module. Because i want to dequeue only when

Possible bug for Kernel 2.4.3 -> make modules_install

2001-04-08 Thread Patrick Shirkey
I am having trouble installing modules. The command hangs at the following point in the install... --- Finished dependencies of target file `_modinst_post'. Must remake target `_modinst_post'. if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.3; fi Putting child

Re: P-III Oddity.

2001-04-08 Thread Manfred Spraul
Just a guess: Perhaps one bios is older and contains an older microcode patch? Have you tried the microcode driver? -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: softirq buggy [Re: Serial port latency]

2001-04-08 Thread Manfred Spraul
Pavel Machek wrote: > > Ok. I was missing the fact it is checked on going userspace. > What about the attached patch? -- Manfred // $Header$ // Kernel Version: // VERSION = 2 // PATCHLEVEL = 4 // SUBLEVEL = 3 // EXTRAVERSION = -ac3 --- 2.4/include/linux/interrupt.h Thu Feb

rep nop question

2001-04-08 Thread Manfred Spraul
The Intel documentation recommends that spinlocks should use loop: rep;nop; cmp $0,lock_var jne loop ftp://download.intel.com/design/perftool/cbts/appnotes/sse2/w_spinlock.pdf but the linux spinlock implementation uses loop: cmp $0, lock_var rep; nop;

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:32:28AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > The incentive behind the DUL is to force users not to post > straight out to the world, but to use their ISP's servers > for outbound email --- normal M$ users do that, after all. > Only spammers - and UNIX

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:32:28AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: The incentive behind the DUL is to force users not to post straight out to the world, but to use their ISP's servers for outbound email --- normal M$ users do that, after all. Only spammers - and UNIX

Re: softirq buggy [Re: Serial port latency]

2001-04-08 Thread Manfred Spraul
Pavel Machek wrote: Ok. I was missing the fact it is checked on going userspace. What about the attached patch? -- Manfred // $Header$ // Kernel Version: // VERSION = 2 // PATCHLEVEL = 4 // SUBLEVEL = 3 // EXTRAVERSION = -ac3 --- 2.4/include/linux/interrupt.h Thu Feb 22

rep nop question

2001-04-08 Thread Manfred Spraul
The Intel documentation recommends that spinlocks should use loop: rep;nop; cmp $0,lock_var jne loop ftp://download.intel.com/design/perftool/cbts/appnotes/sse2/w_spinlock.pdf but the linux spinlock implementation uses loop: cmp $0, lock_var rep; nop;

Re: P-III Oddity.

2001-04-08 Thread Manfred Spraul
Just a guess: Perhaps one bios is older and contains an older microcode patch? Have you tried the microcode driver? -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Possible bug for Kernel 2.4.3 - make modules_install

2001-04-08 Thread Patrick Shirkey
I am having trouble installing modules. The command hangs at the following point in the install... --- Finished dependencies of target file `_modinst_post'. Must remake target `_modinst_post'. if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.3; fi Putting child

new queuing discipline

2001-04-08 Thread Oldrich Kepka
Hi, I am developing new queuing disciline. The purpose of this queue is to delay outgoing packets. I wrote module sch_delay.o. This module implements delay_e nqueue() and delay_dequeue() functions. I also modify tc to comunicate throu gh netlink with my module. Because i want to dequeue only when

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:10:52PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about creating an additional ML, the new ML (say LKML-DUL) is used to send mails from DUL to LKML, but such mails are not sent to LMKL. Layering and technology problem. SMTP receiver does those

2.4.2 ac2x 2.4.3. loss of VC displays

2001-04-08 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
hi all regently I see weird things with X. XFree86 Version 4.0.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 18 December 2000 (II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA128, RIVATNT, RIVATNT2, RIVATNT2 (Ultra), RIVATNT2 (Vanta), RIVATNT2 M64,

Re: Multi-function PCI devices

2001-04-08 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Waugh) wrote on 07.04.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 01:23:27PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: You asked in your last message to show you code, here is a short example. Note that I would love to rip out the SUPERIO code in parport and make it a

kgdb for 2.4.3 kernels

2001-04-08 Thread Amit S. Kale
Hi, Here is another way of allowing sane access to file system specific information, statistics and configuration. It involves using the translation filesystem (http://trfs.sourceforge.net/). An example of filesystem configuration: configurable forcing data flush for all writes to files in a

Re: 2.4.3-ac2 -- How do I determine if shm is being used?

2001-04-08 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Miles, On Sat, 07 Apr 2001, Miles Lane wrote: I have mounted: none on /var/shm type shm (rw) Not necessary any more. tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) Also not necessary, but recommended for POSIX shm. BTW it will not work with Linus' kernel. Type "shm" is supported by

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Olaf Titz
It scares me that peoples' messages would be denied based on what degree of connection they choose to mail via. I sincerely hope that the DUL lists only list netblocks that are actively being used for spam. This would be sort of like the Usenet Death Penalty, instating bans on providers who

Re: Multi-function PCI devices

2001-04-08 Thread Michael Reinelt
Jeff Garzik wrote: Another (design) question: How will such a driver/module deal with autodetection and/or devfs? I don't like to specify 'alias /dev/tts/4 netmos', because thats pure junk to me. What about pci hotplugging? pci hotplugging happens pretty much transparently. When a new

Re: Multi-function PCI devices

2001-04-08 Thread Michael Reinelt
Tim Waugh wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:40:13PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Who said you have to have a separate driver for every single multi-IO card? A single driver could support all serial+parallel multi-IO cards, for example. Okay, I misunderstood. I'll take a look at doing

Re: Possible bug for Kernel 2.4.3 - make modules_install

2001-04-08 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Patrick Shirkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having trouble installing modules. The command hangs at the following point in the install... --- Finished dependencies of target file `_modinst_post'. Must remake target `_modinst_post'. if [ -r System.map ]; then

Re: Multi-function PCI devices

2001-04-08 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:05:36PM +0200, Michael Reinelt wrote: The simple solution: Gunters 'multifunction quirks' clean solution #1: a new module according to Jeffs sample code clean solution #2: 'invisible PCI bridge' from Linus [...] Suggestion: multifunction quirks for 2.4, one of the

Re: How to build modules outside the kernel tree? [Was: Proper way to release binary driver?]

2001-04-08 Thread Jamie Lokier
Eric W. Biederman wrote: So for solutions (That I know of): With recent kernels with modules_install a: /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build directory is created, that effectively points to the kernel source tree the modules were built with. With the 2.4.x currently this is a symlink so but it

Re: problem when booting 2.4.3 from a floppy disk

2001-04-08 Thread Thomas Molina
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Franois Dupoux wrote: Hi, I have a strange bug when trying to boot a kernel-2.4.3 (official release) from an 1.44 MB floppy disk. Just after the "Loading...", there is an infinite loop, and this message is printed: 0200 AX: 0212 BX: BC00 CX: 5101 DX:

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Jeff Mcadams
Also sprach Joseph Carter Even in those cases where broadband users are given a choice of providers, they have to know to ask for that choice since it is never offered and by exercising that choice you will usually find the price to be at least double if not triple - often through no fault of

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Joseph Carter wrote: ORBS ... well, they called one of my old ISPs' mail an open relay when it wasn't and took 3 months to decide to rectify the situation and remove us from their list. That doesn't instill much confidence. I've heard that accusation many times, and on

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