Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-31 Thread Stephen Degler
Hi, I'm guessing that the tulip driver is not setting the chip up correctly. I've seen this happen with other tulip variants (21143) when tries to autonegotiate. if you do an ifconfig eth1 you will see numerous carrier and crc errors. Set the tulip_debug flag to 2 or 3 in /etc/modules.conf and

[PATCH] CSLIP compiled as module in 2.4.[345]

2001-05-31 Thread Michael Guntsche
Hello List, The attached patch should fix the missing symbols in SLIP with CSLIP support, if compiled as module. It applies cleanly against 2.4.3 but should work with 2.4.5 too. Regards, Michael Guntsche slip.patch

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
Looking at the diff of "lspci -vvvxxx" between MPS1.1 and MPS1.4 (on the same system) may be quite useful... maybe I missed the earlier "lspci -vvvxxx", but I only see one here... -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from

Re: [CHECKER] 2.4.5-ac4 security holes

2001-05-31 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:49:14PM -0700, Dawson Engler wrote: > - > [BUG] fixed in ac5, I believe. > /u2/engler/mc/oses/linux/2.4.5-ac4/drivers/usb/bluetooth.c:438:bluetooth_write: >ERROR:PARAM:461:438: Deref tainted var 'buf' (tainted

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread thunder7
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:45:17PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16) (prog-if 00 >[UHCI]) > > Subsystem: Unknown device 0925:1234 > > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ

Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-31 Thread Ben Greear
John William wrote: > > >Depends on what is driving it... An application I built can only push > >about > >80 Mbps bi-directional on PII 550Mhz machines. It is not the most > >efficient program in > >the world, but it isn't too bad either... > > > >I missed the rest of this thread, so maybe

Patch for Promise PDC20267 FastTrack100 Controller

2001-05-31 Thread Konstantin Volckov
Hi! I've found that 2.4.5-ac kernels can't detect hdd's connected to FastTrack100 Promise controller, but Ultra100 works fine. Here is the patch, that solve this problem. Controllers tested - FastTrack100, Ultra100. Kernel - 2.4.5-ac4. -- Good luck, Konstantin linux-2.4.4-ac10-promise.patch

Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-31 Thread John William
>Depends on what is driving it... An application I built can only push >about >80 Mbps bi-directional on PII 550Mhz machines. It is not the most >efficient program in >the world, but it isn't too bad either... > >I missed the rest of this thread, so maybe you already mentioned it, but >what

[CHECKER] 2.4.5-ac4 use of freed pointers

2001-05-31 Thread Dawson Engler
Three use-after-free bugs: - [BUG] /u2/engler/mc/oses/linux/2.4.5-ac4/net/rose/rose_dev.c:127:rose_rebuild_header: ERROR:FREE:122:127: Use-after-free of 'skbn'! set by 'kfree_skb':122 skb_set_owner_w(skbn, skb->sk);

[CHECKER] 2.4.5-ac4 security holes

2001-05-31 Thread Dawson Engler
Hi All, Here's a few apparent security holes in 2.4.5-ac4. The biggest is in fs/ioctl.c where it looks like a new option was added that seems to write directly to the user pointer, essentially giving anyone complete control over the machine. 4 | drivers/net/wan/cosa.c 2 |

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis time)

2001-05-31 Thread Dax Kelson
Tim Hockin said once upon a time (Thu, 31 May 2001): > Aattached is a (large, but self contained) patch for Cobalt Networks suport > for x86 systems (RaQ3, RaQ4, Qube3, RaQXTR). Please let me know if there > is anything that would prevent this from general inclusion in the next > release. I

Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-31 Thread Ben Greear
John William wrote: > > >I've seen many reports like this where the NIC is invalidly in > >full-duplex more while the router is in half-duplex mode. > > [root@copper diag]# ./tulip-diag eth1 -m > tulip-diag.c:v2.08 5/15/2001 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >

Re: [lkml]Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
Manfred Spraul wrote: > > > > > I know that with MPS 1.4, the USB controller finds itself at an > > unshared interrupt 19. I can't reboot at the moment to check. > > > lspci -vxxx -s 00:07.0 > > the APIC sits in the southbridge. > the low 2 bits of offset 0x58 must be set [route USB IRQ to

should reiserfs root be ro?

2001-05-31 Thread John R Lenton
Should a box that has its root filesystem on a reiser fs mount this root readonly? i.e. should 'read-only' be in lilo.conf? -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. PGP signature

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-31 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:07:22PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Yes, but that's because the interfaces are broken. The decision has > > been that these values should be

Re: PID of init != 1 when initrd with pivot_root

2001-05-31 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Well, I upgraded and found pivot_root and the problem is that how do I make init > run with PID 1. My linuxrc gets PID 7. > > 1 ?00:03:05 swapper > 2 ?00:00:00

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-05-31 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> Aattached is a (large, but self contained) patch for Cobalt Networks suport > for x86 systems (RaQ3, RaQ4, Qube3, RaQXTR). Please let me know if there > is anything that would prevent this from general inclusion in the next > release. Looks interesting. Seemingly literate use of spinlocks.

Re: how to crash 2.4.4 w/SBLive

2001-05-31 Thread John R Lenton
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:01:05PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Content-Description: emu10k1 patch > Index: audio.c > === > RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/emu10k1/audio.c,v > retrieving revision 1.166 > diff -u -r1.166 audio.c > ---

Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-31 Thread John William
>I've seen many reports like this where the NIC is invalidly in >full-duplex more while the router is in half-duplex mode. [root@copper diag]# ./tulip-diag eth1 -m tulip-diag.c:v2.08 5/15/2001 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html Index #1: Found a Lite-On 82c168

Re: missing sysrq

2001-05-31 Thread Dieter Nützel
> D. Stimits wrote: > > > Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > However, if I go to /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq does not exist. > > > > It is a compile time option, so the person who compiled your kernel > > left it out. > > I compiled it, and the sysrq is

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-31 Thread Hans Reiser
Daniel Phillips wrote: > Graciously accepted. Coming up with something sensible in a mere 6 > months would be a minor miracle. ;-) > > - what happens if the user forgets to close the transaction? then the user has branched into his own version, or at least that would be my take on it.

Re: [PATCH] save source address on accept()

2001-05-31 Thread David S. Miller
Tim Hockin writes: > attached is a (small) patch which saves the src address on tcp_accept(). > Please let me know if there are any problems taking this for general > inclusion. And what would this even be used for? I see no need for it. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To

Re: include/asm-sparc/ptrace.h is broken

2001-05-31 Thread David S. Miller
Felix von Leitner writes: > on line 76, it includes , which does not exist. > > This is critical because this include file does not work when used from > a libc. ptrace.h is from 1997 on my 2.4.5 kernel, so this is not > something that broke recently. > > My suggestion is to remove the

[PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Hockin
apparently, LKML silently (!) bounces messages > a certain size. So I'll try smaller patches. This is part 2/2 of the general Cobalt support. Alan, Aattached is a (large, but self contained) patch for Cobalt Networks suport for x86 systems (RaQ3, RaQ4, Qube3, RaQXTR). Please let me know if

[PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Hockin
apparently, LKML silently (!) bounces messages > a certain size. So I'll try smaller patches. This is part 1/2 of the general Cobalt support. Alan, Aattached is a (large, but self contained) patch for Cobalt Networks suport for x86 systems (RaQ3, RaQ4, Qube3, RaQXTR). Please let me know if

Linux Ethernet

2001-05-31 Thread Yunqu Liu
Hi, Team I am useing a dynamic address to access the cable modem. But I cann't establishe the eth0 interface. It looks I didn't receive a address. The ethernet card is connected to a cable modem. The second question is I recompiled the kernal which included Crystal sound card. And it passed

[PATCH] almost forgot this one

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Hockin
Add a rwproc entry to the ide structure, for recalling what happened last time! Please let me knwo if there are any problems with this patch (some of the patches I sent earlier depend on this). Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances [EMAIL

PID of init != 1 when initrd with pivot_root

2001-05-31 Thread Ivan
Well, I upgraded and found pivot_root and the problem is that how do I make init run with PID 1. My linuxrc gets PID 7. 1 ?00:03:05 swapper 2 ?00:00:00 keventd 3 ?00:00:00 kswapd 4 ?00:00:00 kreclaimd 5 ?00:00:00 bdflush 6 ?

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-31 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:07:22PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Yes, but that's because the interfaces are broken. The decision has > been that these values should be exported using the default HZ for the > architecture, and that it is the kernel's responsibility to scale them > when HZ !=

RE: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems

2001-05-31 Thread Nerijus Baliunas
> Aattached is a (large, but self contained) patch for Cobalt Networks suport Is not? ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ

[PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Hockin
Alan, Aattached is a (large, but self contained) patch for Cobalt Networks suport for x86 systems (RaQ3, RaQ4, Qube3, RaQXTR). Please let me know if there is anything that would prevent this from general inclusion in the next release. (patch against 2.4.5) Thanks Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems

[PATCH] HPT370 misc (for real this time)

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Hockin
Andre, Attached is a patch for hpt366.c for the following: better support for multiple controllers better /proc output 66 MHz PCI timings implement the HDIO_GET/SET_BUSSTATE ioctls (see previous patch) This patch does rely on the PCI busspeed patch (sent to lkml

[PATCH] HPT370 misc

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Hockin
Andre, Attached is a patch for hpt366.c for the following: better support for multiple controllers better /proc output 66 MHz PCI timings implement the HDIO_GET/SET_BUSSTATE ioctls (see previous patch) This patch does rely on the PCI busspeed patch (sent to lkml

[Fwd: Plain 2.4.5 VM... (and 2.4.5-ac3)]

2001-05-31 Thread Benjamin Redelings I
Here is a message from Steve Kieu that he couldn't get through... -- Einstein did not prove that everything is relative. Einstein explained how the speed of light could be constant. Benjamin Redelings I <>< http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~bredelin/ Just add my experience here... I use up

Re: [PATCH] new PCI ids

2001-05-31 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:17:06PM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: > Attached is a patch for cleaning up some PCI ids and adding a few that were > missing. Please let me know of any problems with this. > > (diff against 2.4.5) > > Tim > > -- > Tim Hockin > Systems Software Engineer > Sun

[PATCH] save source address on accept()

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Hockin
All, attached is a (small) patch which saves the src address on tcp_accept(). Please let me know if there are any problems taking this for general inclusion. Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -ruN

[PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Hockin
All, Attached is a patch for sym53c8xx.c to handle the error timer better, and be more proper for SMP. The changes are very simple, and have been beaten on by us. Please let me know if there are any problems accepting this patch for general inclusion. Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems Software

[PATCH] IDE GET/SET_BUSSTATE ioctls

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Hockin
Andre, We spoke a while back about a GET/SET BUSSTATE API for IDE. Attached is my (very simple) patch adding 2 ioctls, and obsoleting 1. I will send the implementation of this for the HPT370 in a different message. Please let me know if there are any problems with this preventing general

[PATCH] new PCI ids

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Hockin
Attached is a patch for cleaning up some PCI ids and adding a few that were missing. Please let me know of any problems with this. (diff against 2.4.5) Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -ruN

Re: udp server in kernel mode

2001-05-31 Thread Lee Ho
I think this example would be help. Linux Magazine December 2000 The Design of an In-Kernel Server by Alessandro Rubini http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-12/gear_01.html *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Lee, Ho. Software Engineer, Embedded Linux Dep, LinuxOne ICQ :

[PATCH] 66MHz PCI flag from commandline

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Hockin
Martin, We spoke a while back about a pcispeed= command line param to set the PCI busspeed values (for later querying, if needed). Attached is my patch to implement the feature we agreed upon. It is against linux-2.4.5. Below is our previous discussion, as a refresher :). Please let me know

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Christopher Zimmerman
Actually I take everything back. I've been testing on linux-2.4.5-xfs and seen major improvements. -zim Christopher Zimmerman wrote: > Christopher Zimmerman wrote: > > > "Trever L. Adams" wrote: > > > > > In my opinion 2.4.x is NOT ready for primetime. The VM has been getting > > > worse

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Christopher Zimmerman
Christopher Zimmerman wrote: > "Trever L. Adams" wrote: > > > In my opinion 2.4.x is NOT ready for primetime. The VM has been getting > > worse since 2.4.0, I believe. Definitely since and including 2.4.3. I > > cannot even edit a few images in gimp where the entire working set used > > to

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread José Luis Domingo López
On Thursday, 31 May 2001, at 14:23:21 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > José Luis Domingo López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Would it be great to have a similar documentation for those hundreds of > > "files" under /proc ?. > > Yes, this would be wonderful. Are you volunteering to write it? > I'm

Re: missing sysrq

2001-05-31 Thread D. Stimits
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > However, if I go to /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq does not exist. > > It is a compile time option, so the person who compiled your kernel left it > out. I compiled it, and the sysrq is definitely in the config. No doubt at all.

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Trever L. Adams
Christopher Zimmerman wrote: > > I've found that with the latest kernel release (2.4.5) VM performance has > been greatly improved. kswapd and bdflush no longer use 200% of my cpu > cycles when simply doing a dd bs=1024 count=8388608 if=/dev/zero > of=test.file. All of my test systems remain

Re: your mail

2001-05-31 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > BTW, linux-kernel readers: anybody is a volunteer for making the kernel size > counter 32-bit here? This would enable using the simple bootloader for > greater kernel

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Christopher Zimmerman
"Trever L. Adams" wrote: > In my opinion 2.4.x is NOT ready for primetime. The VM has been getting > worse since 2.4.0, I believe. Definitely since and including 2.4.3. I > cannot even edit a few images in gimp where the entire working set used > to fit entirely in memory. The system now

[QUESTION] which routines must be re-entrant?

2001-05-31 Thread Dawson Engler
Is there an easy way to tell which routines must be re-entrant? (it doesn't have to be exhaustive, even an incomplete set is useful) I was going to write a checker to make sure supposedly re-entrant routines actually were, but was having a hard time figuring out which ones were supposed to

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Alan Cox
> Actually I have tried 1x,2x,3x. In 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 I had some issues but > never a system freeze of any kind. With 2.4.4 I had more problems, but > I was ok. 2.4.5 I now have these freezes. Maybe I should go back to > 2x, but I still find this behavior crazy. > This still doesn't negate

Re: [Emu10k1-devel] Re: how to crash 2.4.4 w/SBLive

2001-05-31 Thread David Raufeisen
Great, No more oops. Thanks On Thursday, 31 May 2001, at 20:33:54 (+0200), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2001, David Raufeisen wrote: > > But now it progressed a bit more ;) > > New patch attached. > -- David Raufeisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cell: (604) 818-3596 - To unsubscribe

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Alan Cox
> My system has 128 Meg of Swap and RAM. Linus 2.4.0 notes are quite clear that you need at least twice RAM of swap with 2.4. Marcelo is working to change that but right now you are running something explicitly explained as not going to work as you want - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: AT keyboard optional on i386?

2001-05-31 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Pavel Roskin wrote: >> You can a few nice tricks with it like plug in two PS/2 keyboards. I >> have this for my home setup. The only thing is make sure you don't >> have both keyboards plugged in when you turn your PC on. I found BIOS >> get confused by two PS/2 keyboards. As

2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Trever L. Adams
In my opinion 2.4.x is NOT ready for primetime. The VM has been getting worse since 2.4.0, I believe. Definitely since and including 2.4.3. I cannot even edit a few images in gimp where the entire working set used to fit entirely in memory. The system now locks in some loop (SAK still

Re: [Ext2-devel] [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2

2001-05-31 Thread Andreas Dilger
Daniel writes: > On Thursday 31 May 2001 21:44, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > I think Al's idea of doing the validation once on the initial > > read is a good one. > > I'm doing that in the current patch, for leaf blocks, look at > ext2_bread. For index blocks, ext2_bread needs help to know that a

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-31 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Peter Waltenberg wrote: > Yes, I know we have a chance of being rescheduled simply because "something > else" has also yielded. However thats fairly hit and miss. > > I don't disagree with your statement that thats how the interface should be > designed, but the most of the

Re: 2.4 freezes on VIA KT133

2001-05-31 Thread Tomas Styblo
It seems the problem is caused by some DMA related bug in the VIA chipset and/or in the Linux DMA-IDE VIA driver. I finnaly get rid of the freezes, by simply compiling the kernel completely without IDE-DMA support. Now hdparm shows disks do not use DMA and the system is stable, as far as I can

RE: no sound with CS4281 card

2001-05-31 Thread Woller, Thomas
I Can not reproduce the problem with 2.4.5-ac5 driver or with latest rev of the driver that I have been working on, or with any of the previous 4 internal releases back to early april. although I do not have a Toshiba laptop to test on and don't doubt that there might be a problem on your

Re: [CHECKER] 2.4.5-ac4 non-init functions calling init functions

2001-05-31 Thread Dawson Engler
> These are actual (performance) bugs. > Patch is appended. Thanks for the quick feedback! > BTW: I don't if you did so already, but if you extended the checker to > find functions which are only called from __init functions, but not > marked __init themselves, you'd most likely find lots more

Re: unmount issues with 2.4.5-ac5, 3ware, and ReiserFS (was: kernel-2.4.5

2001-05-31 Thread Jordan
Alan Cox wrote: > > > I'm staying on 2.4.5-ac5 for whatever it's worth (putting my life on the > > line for the community? kidding...) and will report anything new. I will > > be on the lookout for later ac patches, 2.4.6 ... and hopefully anything > > anybody can share with me about this. I

Re: your mail

2001-05-31 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
> > Minor issue with bootsect.s. 1. bootsect.S is the source file > The single instance of the lds assembly instruction includes the comment of > ! ds:si is source > ... > seg fs > lds si,(bx)! ds:si is source > ... > Is this comment not in reverse order (i.e should be lds >

Re: missing sysrq

2001-05-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > However, if I go to /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq does not exist. It is a compile time option, so the person who compiled your kernel left it out. > vm.freepages = 383 766 1149 tat feature is removed in recent VM Systems. Greetings Bernd - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] net #6

2001-05-31 Thread Alan Cox
> > They are done this way to get good non SMP performance. Your changes would > > ruin that. > > Maybe macro "spin_lock_irqsave_on_smp()" would be good idea? These > ifdefs look ugly. Maybe local to driver, maybe even global. I had that argument with Linus about globally and ended up with

Defragging/refragging IPv6 packets

2001-05-31 Thread Brad Chapman
Hello, My name is Brad Chapman and I am currently attempting to port the iptables ip_conntrack component of Netfilter to the IPv6 protocol. My port is almost feature-complete, but I cannot figure out how to properly defragment/refragment IPv6 packets. Also, I have written an IPv6 header

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread Alan Cox
> Between SCSI and IEEE 1394; > Fusion MPT device support ---> doesn't lead anywhere. It does for me.. fusion requires scsi and experimental - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

include/asm-sparc/ptrace.h is broken

2001-05-31 Thread Felix von Leitner
on line 76, it includes , which does not exist. This is critical because this include file does not work when used from a libc. ptrace.h is from 1997 on my 2.4.5 kernel, so this is not something that broke recently. My suggestion is to remove the offending line altogether or at least protect

Re: [Ext2-devel] [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2

2001-05-31 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 31 May 2001 21:44, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Daniel, you write: > > - Fall back to linear search in case of corrupted index > > OK, I have _some_ of the code needed to do this, but in one case I'm > not sure of what your intention was - in dx_probe() you check for > "unused_flags & 1"

2.4.5 crash on boot, SMP Alpha

2001-05-31 Thread Jay Thorne
Further variations on a theme. 2.4.4-ac15 works like a charm on these machines. -- Jay Thorne Manager, Systems & Technology, UserFriendly Media, Inc. ksymoops 2.4.0 on alpha 2.4.4-ac15. Options used -V (default) -K (specified) -L (specified) -o /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac5/

Re: [lkml]Re: [lkml]Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread Manfred Spraul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) > Subsystem: Unknown device 0925:1234 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 > I/O ports at a000 [size=32] > Capabilities: [80] Power

Re: Makefile patch for cscope and saner Ctags

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Frazer
Khachaturov, Vassilii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01/05/31 15:00]: > Don't forget to bug RH package maintainer on that. Whatever bugzilla submitted > I use source-built cscope v.15.1, and -k works for me here, works for me too! > WHY?! Isn't it better to put $(shell cat cscope.files) on the list

fork/open race results in wasted fd

2001-05-31 Thread Brian J. Watson
Two tasks (A & B) share the same files_struct. A calls open() at the same time as B calls fork(). After A runs get_unused_fd() but before it calls fd_install(), B runs copy_files(). It looks like the result is one of the bits is set in B's open_fds field with no corresponding file pointer in its

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Linux Kernel v2.4.5-ac5 Configuration > > CML1 > > > > Bottom of IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices; > > > > < > Support Promise software RAID (NEW) -> Help > > There is no help available for this kernel option. > > How about > "Say "Y" or "M" if you

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread Arjan van de Ven
BH wrote: > > Great work, its nice to see none, or fewer No help availables in the kernel > configuration. > Some quick glances: > > Linux Kernel v2.4.5-ac5 Configuration > CML1 > > Bottom of IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices; > > < > Support Promise software RAID (NEW) -> Help > There is no

RE: no sound with CS4281 card

2001-05-31 Thread Woller, Thomas
I'll send the latest driver that I have via separate email. Toshiba refuses to supply equipment, and there are some design issues with Toshiba laptops. I recently sent a driver to another Toshiba owner and he had good luck with the latest driver. I have never seen any Toshiba laptop not generate

Re: [lkml]Re: [lkml]Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread thunder7
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:21:55PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > > > I know that with MPS 1.4, the USB controller finds itself at an > > unshared interrupt 19. I can't reboot at the moment to check. > > > lspci -vxxx -s 00:07.0 > > the APIC sits in the southbridge. > the low 2 bits of

Re: [lkml]Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread Manfred Spraul
> > I know that with MPS 1.4, the USB controller finds itself at an > unshared interrupt 19. I can't reboot at the moment to check. > lspci -vxxx -s 00:07.0 the APIC sits in the southbridge. the low 2 bits of offset 0x58 must be set [route USB IRQ to APIC], and lspci -vx -s 00:07.2 offset

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread BH
Great work, its nice to see none, or fewer No help availables in the kernel configuration. Some quick glances: Linux Kernel v2.4.5-ac5 Configuration CML1 Bottom of IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices; < > Support Promise software RAID (NEW) -> Help There is no help available for this kernel

RE: union mounting file systems...

2001-05-31 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
well... I just wondered how to (if possible) union mount two or more filesystems on a single mount point. The point that I want to bypass a bug/weakness in RedHat's installer is not really the case. I've tried to search the kernel mailing list archive, and find it's possible with mount -o union

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > José Luis Domingo López wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 31 May 2001, at 13:24:54 -0400, > > Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > > > It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Configure.help master > > > file is now complete with respect to 2.4.5.

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:48:35PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:06:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:39:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What information would be necessary to debug this? > > > > Which kernel version? > > > >

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread Arjan van de Ven
José Luis Domingo López wrote: > > On Thursday, 31 May 2001, at 13:24:54 -0400, > Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Configure.help master > > file is now complete with respect to 2.4.5. Every single one of the > > 2699 configuration symbols actually

Re: [lkml]Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread thunder7
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:06:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:39:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What information would be necessary to debug this? > > Which kernel version? > > greg k-h > 2.4.5-ac4, but I rebooted in 2.4.4 and it did the same. I'll try and

Re: [Ext2-devel] [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2

2001-05-31 Thread Andreas Dilger
Daniel, you write: > - Fall back to linear search in case of corrupted index OK, I have _some_ of the code needed to do this, but in one case I'm not sure of what your intention was - in dx_probe() you check for "unused_flags & 1" to signal a bad/unsupported index. Why only check the low bit

Re: [PATCH] net #6

2001-05-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > They are neccessary > > > @@ -643,9 +631,7 @@ > > eexp_hw_tx_pio(dev,data,length); > > } > > dev_kfree_skb(buf); > > -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP > > spin_unlock_irqrestore(>lock, flags); > > -#endif > > enable_irq(dev->irq); > > return 0; > > They are done this way

Re: [PATCH] reclaim dirty dead swapcache pages

2001-05-31 Thread Vasco Figueira
Hi again, Vasco Figueira wrote: >I've opened x, gnome, mozilla, mozilla -mail, 3 gnome-terminals, pan, >xmms, some files and javac. Swap was totally filled up and it didn't >froze (good!). However suddently it came very busy (i thougth it was >going to freeze again), the music stopped,

[PATCH] simple_strtoull export

2001-05-31 Thread Jason McMullan
Missing kernel export for 'simple_strtoull' diff -u --recursive --new-file 2.4.5/kernel/ksyms.c 2.4.5.fixed/kernel/ksyms.c --- 2.4.5/kernel/ksyms.cWed May 30 10:13:14 2001 +++ 2.4.5.fixed/kernel/ksyms.cThu May 31 12:15:49 2001 @@ -461,6 +461,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdevname);

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:39:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What information would be necessary to debug this? Which kernel version? greg k-h - 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: Scsi data parity errors on aix7xxx in kernel 2.4.5

2001-05-31 Thread Alok K. Dhir
Forgot to mention (in case it matters) that I'm running ReiserFS on sdd6 which is hanging off of scsi1. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alok K. Dhir > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Scsi

RE: Makefile patch for cscope and saner Ctags

2001-05-31 Thread Khachaturov, Vassilii
> From: Mark Frazer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Khachaturov, Vassilii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Great stuff. May I suggest adding -k to the cscope cmdline: > > + cscope -b -k -I include > > The cscope on my RH7.0 box didn't take -k! > [root@mjftest linux-2.4.5]# cscope -b -k -I include >

Scsi data parity errors on aix7xxx in kernel 2.4.5

2001-05-31 Thread Alok K. Dhir
Running kernel 2.4.5 with two scsi controllers - scsi0 is a sym53c8xx, scsi1 is aic7xxx. For the last month or so, I've been getting the following error in my syslog 10 or so times a day: - May 31 14:09:51 dog kernel: scsi1: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x8e May 31 14:09:51 dog

interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread thunder7
Hardware: Abit VP6 (Via 694x) x86/SMP motherboard with USB controller If I set the bios for MPS 1.1, USB runs fine. If I set the bios for MPS 1.4, I get this: May 31 13:08:06 middle kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 4 May 31 13:08:09 middle kernel:

union mounting file systems...

2001-05-31 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I just read the "Wonderful world of linux (2.4)", where it's said that the Linux kernel 2.4 supports so-called union mounted file systems. I recently downloaded the RedHat 7.1 distribution and loop-back mounted the CD's to be able to install over ftp, but no... RedHat's install script

Re: [Emu10k1-devel] Re: how to crash 2.4.4 w/SBLive

2001-05-31 Thread rui.sousa
On Thu, 31 May 2001, David Raufeisen wrote: > Hi, > > I used this patch on 2.4.5, still oops's .. But now it progressed a bit more ;) > > >>EIP; c01b91eb<= > Trace; c01bc853 > Trace; c01b86c4 > Trace; c01b8666 > Trace; c01b4f4f > Trace; c012cf46 > Trace; c0106bab > New patch

PROBLEM: isdn connecting error(auth failed) with 2.4.4-ac9 and 2.4.5

2001-05-31 Thread CZUCZY Gergely
Hi! Here come the bugreport: 1: isdn connecting error(auth failed) with 2.4.4-ac9 and 2.4.5 2.: when trying to connect to my ISP with kernels 2.4.4-ac9 and 2.4.5 it always drops my connection with this(from syslog): May 27 15:00:50 kign kernel: ippp0: dialing 1 0651201201... May 27 15:00:51 kign

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread Alan Cox
> José Luis Domingo López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Would it be great to have a similar documentation for those hundreds of > > "files" under /proc ?. > > Yes, this would be wonderful. Are you volunteering to write it? Some of it is documented - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] reclaim dirty dead swapcache pages

2001-05-31 Thread Vasco Figueira
Hi, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > I tested it and yes, it works. (...) > Please test. I've tested it against vanilla 2.4.5 and it resolves the freeze problem, though: I've opened x, gnome, mozilla, mozilla -mail, 3 gnome-terminals, pan, xmms, some files and javac. Swap was totally filled up

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-05-31 Thread Eric S. Raymond
José Luis Domingo López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Would it be great to have a similar documentation for those hundreds of > "files" under /proc ?. Yes, this would be wonderful. Are you volunteering to write it? -- http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/;>Eric S. Raymond [W]hat country can

Panic in initrd umount on 2.4.5 with analysis and fix

2001-05-31 Thread James Bottomley
This is an interesting one, the panic is: Trying to unmount old root ... <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0011 c018bf0d *pde = Oops: CPU:2 EIP:0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010202 eax:

Re: Makefile patch for cscope and saner Ctags

2001-05-31 Thread Mark Frazer
Pete Wyckoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01/05/31 13:56]: > > You seem not to have read my response to your earlier mail proprosing > such a thing (for tags only, not cscope): > > http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2001week21/1869.html I did. I didn't want to sign up to maintain the

no sound with CS4281 card

2001-05-31 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi, my notebook (Toshiba 1755) comes with CS4281 built-in, with all 2.4 kernels I tried this sound card doesn't generate any sound, or interrupts for that matter. The driver detects the card fine, but doesn't seem to be able to do anything with it, on 2.4.5-ac2: /proc/pci Bus 0,

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