I have recently developed a patch that allows linux to directly boot
into another linux kernel. With the code freeze it appears
inappropriate to submit it at this time.
Linus in principal do you have any trouble with this kind of
functionality?
The immediate applications of this code, are:
Hello!
Alexey! Even someone understood all this already, look
to include/net/sock.h SOCK_SLEEP_{PRE,POST} macros :-)
I will compose a patch to fix all this.
O! But who was this wiseman? 8)
Alexey
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"David S. Miller" wrote:
Date:Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:11:49 -0800
From: Mike Kravetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The following code in __wake_up_common() is then
executed:
if (best_exclusive)
best_exclusive-state = TASK_RUNNING;
Hi,
I have to own up and say that it was me :-) you'll see that DECnet is the
only protocol to use these macros at the moment. I'm sure though that I
only copied what IPv4 was doing at the time, along with the hints I had
from yourself and Dave,
Steve.
Hello!
Alexey! Even someone
Hello,
This is a bit long and I apologize (since there are kdb captures in it).
We are developing an advanced networking services driver (loadable module)
and are having problems porting it to work on 2.4.x kernel.
The driver is supposed to provide services such as fault tolerance, load
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:46:53 +0530
I was looking into the vmm code and trying to work out exactly
how to fix this
Let me save you some time, below is the fix I sent to
Linus this evening:
diff -u --recursive --new-file --exclude=CVS
Second or Third here!!!
TRG plans to create and publish a native RING 0 kernel and packages.
This may end up as a bolt on ./arch or something.
Not everyone in the world needs a SUPERCHARGED, FUEL-INJECTED, ALCOHOL,
FIRE-BREATHING kernel, but some do!
Andre Hedrick
CTO Timpanogas Research Group
On RedHat 6.2 with X 3.3.6-20:
Caught signal 11.
Server aborting...
eip: 0822e4e8 eflags: 00013293
eax: 0004 ebx: 4018c608 ecx: 0004 edx:
esi: 0008 edi: 408a12f4 ebp: b860 esp: b7d4
Stack: 438a2008 b880 084b7ea8 0002 408a12f4 0004 000c
The power switch is totally unresponsive in this situation.
Richard
Dan Streetman wrote:
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Richard Polton wrote:
the power switch is disabled
too and the only way in which the machine responds is by switching
off at the wall and pulling the battery.
I have seen this
Linus,
This replaces an explict __MOD_INC_USE_COUNT in do_fork() with the right
macro (get_exec_domain) to reflect the counterpart (put_exec_domain) in
do_exit().
--- linux/kernel-2.4.0-test11-pre1/fork.c Sun Nov 5 00:27:50 2000
+++ linux/kernel/fork.c Thu Nov 9 10:04:50 2000
@@
Hi,
More testing and more problems 8-( Mind you, that is not to say that
many
things do not work wonderfully, because they do ;-)
With regard to point one yesterday about the warm reboot problem, it was
suggested that I toggle the PnP BIOS option and retry. Well, I did that
and indeed
there
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:40:39PM -0800, David Hinds wrote:
[..] I would need to know what kernel versions and what PCMCIA driver
versions were involved. [..]
Is there actually a way to work out what version of userspace utilities
you are using?
I read Changes and it tells me that I need
Let be clear about one thing: the GKHI make no statement about enabling
proprietary extensions and that's a common misconception. GKHI is intended
to make optional facilities easier to co-install and change. We designed it
for DProbes, and when modularised will remain a GPL opensource offering.
Hi Larry,
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:44:11AM +0100, Christoph Rohland wrote:
*Are you crazy?* =:-0
Proposing proprietary kernel extensions to establish an enterprise
kernel? No thanks!
Actually, I think this idea is a good one. I'm a big opponent
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
The kernel isn't going non-ELF. Too painful, for dubious advantages,
namely:
perhaps we should extend ELF. After all, where linux goes, gcc
follows
I would like to see some features added to ELF. Resource binding support
would be nice, i.e. bitmaps used
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, James Simmons wrote:
Sure - but this was always the case. And using 2.2 with the same
(or more) stress the Xserver is still able to set the video hardware
back to vga text mode. I just want to know whats the difference
between 2.2 and 2.4 that causes failure in 2.4.
On Thu, Nov 09 2000, Neil Brown wrote:
[snip]
DEADLOCK
I have two patches which address this problem.
The first is simple and simply drops ui_request_lock before calling
getblk. This may be the appropriate one to use given the code
freeze.
rd still
On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:54:36 Athanasius wrote:
Oh no it wasn't, doh *;-).
One other try...
--
Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta # cd /pub
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] # more beer
patch-nvdriver-2.4.0-test11
Alpha, 2.4.0-test10.
kernel: memory.c:83: bad pmd 0001.
Happened right when I ^Ced a vmstat that had been running all day, but
that could be coincidence.
It must be Florida's fault.
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:08:32PM +0100, Michele Iacobellis wrote:
[Summary]
No tcp connection establishment with 2.4
[snip]
Disable "Explicit congestion notification support" in the networking
options. It breaks with certain Cisco firewalls.
Erik
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Hi Richard,
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, richardj moore wrote:
Let be clear about one thing: the GKHI make no statement about
enabling proprietary extensions and that's a common
misconception. GKHI is intended to make optional facilities easier
to co-install and change. We designed it for DProbes,
Sasi Peter wrote:
Broken link:
[root@iq patches]# wget
ftp://oss.sgi.com/www.projects/nfs3/download/nfs_tcp-2.2.17.dif
--08:31:28--
ftp://oss.sgi.com:21/www.projects/nfs3/download/nfs_tcp-2.2.17.dif
= `nfs_tcp-2.2.17.dif'
Connecting to oss.sgi.com:21... connected!
Logging in as
Christoph Rohland wrote:
If we would not allow binary only modules I would not have such a big
problem with that...
I'm not sure how you would do that.
I understand that the one size fits all approach has some limitations
if you want to run on PDAs up to big iron. But a framework to
Christoph Rohland wrote:
If we really need a special enterprise tree lets do
it without module tricks.
Why? I think the IBM GKHI code would be of tremendous value. It would
make the kernel much more flexible, and for users, much more friendly.
No more patch-and-recompile to add a filesystem or
On 2000-11-09T07:25:52,
Michael Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Why? I think the IBM GKHI code would be of tremendous value. It would
make the kernel much more flexible, and for users, much more friendly.
No more patch-and-recompile to add a filesystem or whatever. There's no
reason to
On 2000-11-09T07:20:27,
Michael Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I understand that the one size fits all approach has some limitations
if you want to run on PDAs up to big iron. But a framework to overload
core kernel functions with modules smells a lot of binary only, closed
source,
Greetings,
I've been trying to compile the kernel with the QoS code as modules.
The net/Makefile didn't have 'sched' listed as a module subdirectory,
so it wasntt getting walked in a make_modules... any way, the
following patch fixes the problem.
Paul Schulz ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Foursticks
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
Same as before -- freedom and low cost. The primary advantae of Linux
over other OSes is the GPL.
Now, that's more than slightly insulting...
The problem with the hooks et.al. is very simple - they promote every
bloody implementation detail to
Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
And we already refuse to support those kernels - your point being?
Who says you would support theirs? My point is, forks have been made in
the past and are useful for the people that use them, and prevent
"pollution" of the common kernel with hghly specialized
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Larry McVoy wrote:
As long as Linus continues in his current role, I doubt much of
anything that the big iron boys do will really make it back into the
generic kernel.
That is great, thank you. At least I know now someone on this planet who
agrees with me! Everyone
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
Why? I think the IBM GKHI code would be of tremendous value. It would
make the kernel much more flexible, and for users, much more friendly.
No more patch-and-recompile to add a filesystem or whatever. There's no
reason to hamstring their efforts
Paul Jakma wrote:
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
Why? I think the IBM GKHI code would be of tremendous value. It would
make the kernel much more flexible, and for users, much more friendly.
No more patch-and-recompile to add a filesystem or whatever. There's no
reason to
Alexander Viro wrote:
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
Same as before -- freedom and low cost. The primary advantae of Linux
over other OSes is the GPL.
Now, that's more than slightly insulting...
Well, it wasn't meant to be. I imagine RMS would make the same type of
You need ioremap(), etc. Paging is enabled, you need ioremap() to
create a page-table entry (PTE).
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.0 on an i686 machine (799.54 BogoMips).
"Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of
course you get it all back when you
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 07:13:46PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Hi all,
Finally, a word to you, Alan, and others doing request_region work: it
is more informative to pass the device name (minor, etc.) into
request_region. Ditto for request_irq. Many (most, except net?)
drivers use
Would you care to comment on the VPN Masquerade patch that has been
floating around? Will it make it into an official 2.2.x kernel soon? The
VPN-Masq HOWTO seems to think it is going into 2.2.18 proper.
There is already more than enough in 2.2. The code is on my pending queue
(some of it
Andrey Panin wrote:
1) how about drivers requesting 2 (or more) irq for one device ?
AFAIK some PowerMac net drivers do it (bmac.c for example).
Should be fine.. If the driver distinguishes between the irqs, maybe
you should do "eth0-rx dma", "eth0-tx dma", etc.
2) i found that some net
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
What is your chipset, CMD646 rev 5 Ultra DMA 33 ???
Yep. I've tried building with the CMD64x driver, and that didn't help
matters, if you were wondering. Any thoughts?
Did you try the bitkeeper PPC kernel ? (or Paul Mackerras rsync tree ?)
Not all PPC
I really really think this should be backed out -- or at the very least
disabled. The code wasn't part of the dhiggen merge, it wasn't tested,
and it doesn't work well. Heck, it's still experimental and not recommended
in 2.4.0-test.
Its now an experimental option in my pre21 build tree. So
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I think a default whereby the kernel built will run on any
Linux-capable machine of that architecture would be sensible - so if I
grab the 2.4.0t10 tarball and build it now, with no changes, I'll be
able to boot the kernel on any x86 machine.
I have four machines on
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
Alexander Viro wrote:
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
Same as before -- freedom and low cost. The primary advantae of Linux
over other OSes is the GPL.
Now, that's more than slightly insulting...
Well, it wasn't
reason to hamstring their efforts because of the possibility of binary
modules. The GPL allows that, right? So any developer of binary-only
Its not clear the GPL does allow it.
extensions using the GKHI would not be breaking the license agreement, I
don't think. There's lots of binary
Making this "commonplace" is a nightmare. Go away with that.
It would be a third major fork (AFAIK), not a first, and not a
nightmare. Are RTLinux and uclinux nightmares? How much do they impact
your life?
RTLinux is hardly a fork. UcLinux is a fork, it has its own mailing list, web
site
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
Well, then, problem solved.
:)
afaik linus allows binary modules in most cases.
And since an "Advanced Linux Kernel Project" wouldn't be a Linus kernel,
what then? Would they have the same discretion as Linus? Would Linus'
exception apply
2) i found that some net drivers (3c527.c, sk_mca.c) use io region and
don't call request_region() at all. Should they be fixed ?
Probably.
MCA bus ensures there can be no collisions of I/O space but it does mean the
user cannot see what is where as is
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Alexander Viro wrote:
Figure 1?
Use search engine. On google "See Figure 1" brings the thing in the first
5 hits.
http://www.google.com/search?q=See+Figure+1btnG=Google+Search
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http://spiffy.cso.uiuc.edu/~kline/Stuff/see-figure-1.html
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http://spiffy.cso.uiuc.edu/~kline/Stuff/f-you.gif
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
Alexander Viro wrote:
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
Same as before -- freedom and low cost. The primary advantae of Linux
over other OSes is the GPL.
Now, that's more than slightly insulting...
Well, it wasn't meant
Hi,
Sorry if it is a naive question.
I would like to know if there are any measurements made on a typical Pentium
machine with respect to the latency for buffer copying from the user to kernel
and vice versa. While there are many papers, and arguments that attempt to
ban buffering copying of
I would like to see some features added to ELF. Resource binding support
would be nice, i.e. bitmaps used internally by GUI apps and such, so
that they can be shared between processes if they are in a shared lib,
You can do shared mappings of almost anything anyway. In fact most of the
shared
Alan Cox wrote:
RTLinux is hardly a fork. UcLinux is a fork, it has its own mailing list, web
site and everything. Post 2.4 I'm still very interested in spending time merging
the 2.4 uc and the main tree. I think it can be done and they are doing it in
a way that leads logically to this.
Alan Cox wrote:
2) i found that some net drivers (3c527.c, sk_mca.c) use io region and
don't call request_region() at all. Should they be fixed ?
Probably.
MCA bus ensures there can be no collisions of I/O space but it does mean the
user cannot see what is where as is
Ditto for
arch/i386/lib/mmx.c does not export modversioned symbols.
any module using include/asm-i386/[string.h/string-486.h/page.h]
with 3DNOW enabled will fail to load.
-therp
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Jason Fayre wrote:
Hello,
Does the 2.4 series compile on Cobalt Networks MIPS-based servers? There
is a cobalt directory under the arch/mips directory.
Hi, I don't think so since the last things I have heard from
this are a while back. You may want to join the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailinglist
Larry McVoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:44:11AM +0100, Christoph Rohland wrote:
Hi Michael,
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
Sounds great; unfortunately, the core group has spoken out against a
modular kernel.
Perhaps IBM should get together with
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
Well, then, problem solved.
:)
afaik linus allows binary modules in most cases.
And since an "Advanced Linux Kernel Project" wouldn't be a Linus kernel,
what then? Would they have the same
Date:Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:39:04 + (GMT)
From: Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I actually think Linus has been too loose/vague on modules. The
official COPYING txt file in the tree contains an exception on linking
to the kernel using syscalls from linus and the GPL. nothing
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:56:05 +0100,
therapy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
arch/i386/lib/mmx.c does not export modversioned symbols.
any module using include/asm-i386/[string.h/string-486.h/page.h]
with 3DNOW enabled will fail to load.
arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c exports _mmx_memcpy, mmx_clear_page
Date:Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:43:14 -0500
From: Michael Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And how would a hypothetical Advanced Linux Kernel Project be different?
Set aside the GKHI and the issue of binary-only hook modules; how would
an "enterprise" fork be any different than RT or
Actually, he's been quite specific. It's ok to have binary modules as
long as they conform to the interface defined in /proc/ksyms.
What is completely unclear is if he has the authority to say that given that
there is code from other people including the FSF merged into the tree.
I've
Date:Wed, 08 Nov 2000 16:35:33 -0500
From: Michael Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds great; unfortunately, the core group has spoken out against a
modular kernel.
This is true; that's because a modular kernel means that interfaces have
to be frozen in time, usually forever.
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:27:29PM +1300, david wrote:
2 . put the save / restore code in my code (NOT! GOOD! i do not wont to
do it this way it is not the right way)
It is the right way because it only penalizes your code, not everybody else.
A
-Andi
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Alan Cox wrote:
Actually, he's been quite specific. It's ok to have binary modules as
long as they conform to the interface defined in /proc/ksyms.
What is completely unclear is if he has the authority to say that given that
there is code from other people including the FSF merged into
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 03:48:11PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
Whee! We're back in Bootsville.
Cool!
Meanwhile this base/limit stuff got confirmation :-)
Here is a patch against bridges-2.4.0t11-rth.
Ivan.
--- 2.4.0t11p1/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c Wed Nov 8 19:44:42 2000
+++
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:43:54PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I am still worried that the conditions which generate the following
message indicate a problem still exists. (this message exists w/out
your patch..)
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
Well, I believe that transparent
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Larry McVoy wrote:
smart about that stuff, are least it seems so to me; he seems to be
well aware that 99.% of the hardware in the world isn't big iron
and never will be, so something approximating 99% of the effort should
be going towards the common platforms, not
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Anil kumar wrote:
Hi,
I ahave installed Red Hat 7.0 kernel ver 2.4.0-test9
After I boot, when I do
#startx
I get an error as server crash.
My processor is Pentium II
I am attaching with this mail the error output I get
and also
Where the heck did you get idea?
By reading the man page in the middle of the night and reading
realloc() as malloc().
My error.
-hpa
Igmar
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Please read
[ radio cards ]
These drivers seem to be unmantained :)
Erm, no. I'm still behind the radio-aztech driver plus my mods on
radio-aimslab and radio-cadet. Calling them unmaintained is going too
far. As for the others, that's up to their respective authors.
I use the cadet every couple of
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:20:22PM +0200, Andrea Pintori wrote:
[/tmp/old] mv . ../new
[/tmp/old](should be /tmp/new !!)
You forgot to 'cd .'
Tim.
*/
PGP signature
Tim Waugh wrote:
You forgot to 'cd .'
Look for "pebsak" messages in /var/log/syslog
;)
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Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:20:22PM +0200,
Andrea Pintori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've a Debian dist, Kernel 2.2.17, no patches, all packages are stable.
I've Debian unstable, Kernel 2.2.17
here what I found:
[/tmp] mkdir old
[/tmp] chdir old
[/tmp/old] mv . ../new
[/tmp/old]
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Andrea Pintori wrote:
I've a Debian dist, Kernel 2.2.17, no patches, all packages are stable.
here what I found:
[/tmp] mkdir old
[/tmp] chdir old
[/tmp/old] mv . ../new
[/tmp/old](should be /tmp/new !!)
The shell might not read this all the
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:20:22PM +0200, Andrea Pintori wrote:
I've a Debian dist, Kernel 2.2.17, no patches, all packages are stable.
here what I found:
[/tmp] mkdir old
[/tmp] chdir old
[/tmp/old] mv . ../new
[/tmp/old](should be /tmp/new !!)
[/tmp/old] mkdir fff
Hi,
The code which sets up the page table at pg0 (in head.S) goes all the way
until it hits empty_zero_page so I don't understand why we need the label
pg1 in between, since it is never referred to by any other code?
Also, is the comment in asm/pgtable.h
/* page table for 0-4MB for everybody
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
i'm happy to see my cheap little camera working again.
i have observations though:
using uhci.o, i only get black image from video camera in xawtv.
using usb-uhci.o, i get a picture, but i periodically get:
kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
OK. This is a lot more reasonable.
Just the same what was in my first in email.
I'm actually looking into putting non-overcommit as a configurable
option in the kernel.
Nice to hear, please make it a boot time option, not a compile time
one. Also a
It was posted to lkml, so no link (except if you want to dig through
lkml mail archives).
It booted but then it oops'ed before userland I belive. I tried it this
morning and didn't have much time. It did find the scsi controller (which
is across the bridge) and the drives attached so it does
It was posted to lkml, so no link (except if you want to dig through
lkml mail archives).
It booted but then it oops'ed before userland I belive. I tried it this
morning and didn't have much time. It did find the scsi controller (which
is across the bridge) and the drives attached so it does
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Philipp Rumpf wrote:
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:32:35PM +0300, Petko Manolov wrote:
It is not so difficult as it looks.
I don't see it being difficult at all ...
The master pgd looking as:
.org 0x1000
ENTRY(swapper_pg_dir)
.long 0x00102007
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
Hi,
The code which sets up the page table at pg0 (in head.S) goes all the way
until it hits empty_zero_page so I don't understand why we need the label
pg1 in between, since it is never referred to by any other code?
Also, is the comment in
hi all,
Sorry, but i could not find a more appropriate group list to post this on.
my fault in anyways.
I like to keep track of what is installed after each RPM or any other
install command is performed. Like dates inatlled and who installed it,
Like create a log of changes,...
what is
From: David Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[snip]
Is the external hub a externally powered hub, or self
powered hub (does
it get it's power from a plug in the wall, or from the USB
bus)? Self
powered hubs are notoriously flaky and have been known to
evil things to the USB bus.
In 2.4 init/main.c we have...
* Versions of gcc older than that listed below may actually compile
* and link okay, but the end product can have subtle run time bugs.
* To avoid associated bogus bug reports, we flatly refuse to compile
* with a gcc that is known to be too old from the very
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:06:31AM -0800, Dunlap, Randy wrote:
Bus-powered != self-powered.
Self-powered means that it has its own power cord.
Bus-powered means that it gets its power from the USB cable.
You're right, I used the wrong terms (but used the correct
descriptions). I meant
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:02:45PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I have an (untested) update for the cs46xx driver in Linux 2.4.
It includes Nils' 2.2 changes, use of initcalls (so compiled-in
should work) and use of the 2.4 PCI interface.
Patch Generally looks ok. Comments:
1) This code
Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
shrug RMS had repeatedly demonstrated what he's worth as a designer
and programmer. Way below zero. You may like or dislike his ideology,
but when it comes to technical stuff... Not funny.
Huh?
annoying valspeak tone
*Hello*? GNU gcc? GNU emacs?
On 9 Nov 2000, Mike Coleman wrote:
Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
shrug RMS had repeatedly demonstrated what he's worth as a designer
and programmer. Way below zero. You may like or dislike his ideology,
but when it comes to technical stuff... Not funny.
Huh?
annoying
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:02:45PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I have an (untested) update for the cs46xx driver in Linux 2.4.
It includes Nils' 2.2 changes, use of initcalls (so compiled-in
should work) and use of the 2.4 PCI interface.
Patch Generally
do_ioctl is inside rtnl_lock...
Remember if you need to alter the rules, you can always queue work in
the current context, and have a kernel thread handle the work. The nice
thing about a kernel thread is that you start with a [almost] clean
state, when it comes to locks.
Jeff
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Is it possible to get a process's name / full execution path (from
kernelspace) given only a task struct? I can't find any pointers to this
information in the task struct, and I don't know where else it might be. ps
seems to be able to get the process name, but that's from userspace.
Apologies in
Chris Swiedler wrote:
Is it possible to get a process's name / full execution path (from
kernelspace) given only a task struct? I can't find any pointers to this
information in the task struct, and I don't know where else it might be. ps
seems to be able to get the process name, but that's
Hello.
I am about to modify a Linux v2.2.x-compatible Ethernet driver to allow it to
work in the new v2.4.x kernel. Are there any documents which describe the
differences in the device driver models (particularly PCI and Ethernet) of the 2
kernel versions? If so, where can I find them?
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Jens Axboe wrote:
The second is more elegant in that it side steps the problem by
giving rd.c a make_request function instead of using the default
_make_request. This means that io_request_lock is simply never
claimed my rd.
And this solution is much
Search the lkml archives. Here are 2 instances
to find:
from jamal, 2000-jan-6: [ANNOUNCE] SOFTNETing Network Drivers HOWTO
from kuznet, 2000-feb-14: "softnet" drivers: an attempt to clarify
from dave miller, 2000-feb-9: new network driver interface changes, README
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello.
I am about to modify a Linux v2.2.x-compatible Ethernet driver to allow it to
work in the new v2.4.x kernel. Are there any documents which describe the
differences in the device driver models (particularly PCI and Ethernet) of the 2
kernel versions? If
...and the attached document, referred to in the previous mail. :) I
think I posted this recently, but it's small so a repost is no big deal.
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On Thu, 09 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I think a default whereby the kernel built will run on any
Linux-capable machine of that architecture would be sensible - so if I
grab the 2.4.0t10 tarball and build it now, with no changes, I'll be
able to boot the
As to the real reason for stalls on /proc/pid/stat, I bet it has nothing
to do with IO except indirectly (the IO is necessary to trigger the
problem, but the _reason_ for the problem lies elsewhere).
And it has everything to do with the fact that the way Linux semaphores
are implemented, a
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:55:59PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
Note! This _has_ to be in the / filesystem so it works before mounting the
rest of the stuff (if ever). This would rule out /var, and leave just
/lib/modules/version. Makes me quite unhappy...
The /lib filesystem is likely not
`lsmod` shows that a device is open twice when using Linux-2.4.0-test9
when, in fact, it has been opened only once.
lsmod is version 2.3.15, the latest-and-greatest.
Here are the open/close routines for a module.
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