Re: Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile

2001-05-19 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: I think the header file you're talking about is the db1 header file, which has nothing to do with yacc -- it's the Berkeley libdb version 1, which is a pretty bad thing to require. I've got

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-19 Thread Pete Zaitcev
[about Aunt Tullie] Because, for example, a kernel compile can be a part of the standard install now, and you will end up with a kernel built specifically for your machine that doesn't print 50 initialization failed messages on boot. [...] And you can also now run a kernel built for your

MSI6321 + PDC20265 + reiserfs + IBM deskstar = kernel BUG

2001-05-19 Thread John R Lenton
Running kernel 2.4.4 w/Jeff Garzik's via-apic patch, using reiserfs on a IBM Deskstar on the PDC20265 of a MSI-6321, some weird shtuff starts happening. # mount /dev/hde /mnt reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 21:00) ... hde: timeout waiting for DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

2001-05-19 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:44:39PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: This is the core of why we cannot (IMHO) have a discussion of whether a patch introducing new VM tunables can go in: there is no

Linux 2.4.4 folks

2001-05-19 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hello linux-kernel, I've trying to move some of my servers to 2.4.4 kernel from 2.2.x. Everything goes fine, notable perfomance increase occures, but the problem is I'm really often touch the following problem: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed. __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation

Linux RAID5 issues.

2001-05-19 Thread Peter Zaitsev
Hello linux-kernel, I'm using software raid5 on about 30 servers, and Yet twice I had a serious data loss becouse of the behavior of linux RAID device. In several cases I've got more then one of drives completely disconnected. I have no ideas why this happened but this had

Re: Bad udelay usage in drivers/net/aironet4500_card.c

2001-05-19 Thread Paul Gortmaker
H . J . Lu wrote: In 2.4.4, drivers/net/aironet4500_card.c has udelay(10); udelay(20); udelay(25); But on ia32, you cannot use more than 2 for udelay (). You will get undefined symbol, __bad_udelay. mv driver.c driver.c~ sed 's/udelay\(

Re: Linux 2.4.4 folks

2001-05-19 Thread Mike Galbraith
Hi, On Sat, 19 May 2001, Peter Zaitsev wrote: Hello linux-kernel, I've trying to move some of my servers to 2.4.4 kernel from 2.2.x. Everything goes fine, notable perfomance increase occures, but the problem is I'm really often touch the following problem: allocation failures

Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-19 Thread Sasi Peter
On 18 May 2001, reiser.angus wrote: not really the same box look at the disk subsystem 7 x 9GB 10KRPM Drives and 1 x 18GB 15KRPM (html+log os) for Win2000 5 x 9GB 10KRPM Drives (html+log+os) for TUX 2.0 this is sufficient for a such difference Don't you think that all the really needed

Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-19 Thread Sasi Peter
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Sean Hunter wrote: Why would you want to run a web server with 8 processors rather than four webservers with 2 each? As you might already know, after the interviews to Mingo I assumed, that a major portion of the achievements was enabled by the 2.4 scalability

HangOops on boot using latest -ac kernels with irda

2001-05-19 Thread Roel Teuwen
Hello, My HP Omnibook 5700CTX running redhat 7.0 and kernel 2.4.4-ac8 and up (I haven't verified on older kernels) hangs on boot when bringing up interface lo. Sometimes I experience an Oops at this point, one of which I have copied by hand and decoded below. When I boot a kernel without irda,

Re: Using Parallel Port to Receive Signals

2001-05-19 Thread Philip Blundell
I am trying to use the data port of parallel port to receive data, so I= set the bit 5 of the control port to enable the bi-directional port, b= ut it doesn't work. My parallel supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode, does it sup= port bi-directional mode? if yes, how can I config it? You might have to

Why We Should All Test the New Linux Kernel updated

2001-05-19 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I have updated my article Why We Should All Test the New Linux Kernel that was originally posted on Advogato just before 2.4.0 was release and posted it in a new location: http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/whytestkernel/ I welcome your comments, please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A number

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Erdfelt) wrote on 17.05.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, May 17, 2001, Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Erdfelt) wrote on 15.05.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I had always made the assumption that sockets were created because

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Lundell) wrote on 17.05.01 in p05100301b72a335d4b61@[10.128.7.49]: At 11:23 PM +0200 2001-05-17, Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Lundell) wrote on 15.05.01 in p05100316b7272cdfd50c@[207.213.214.37]: What about: 1 (network domain). I

VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-05-19 Thread Axel Thimm
This are the latest suggestions for handling the VIA Southbridge bug as derived from the hardware site www.au-ja.de (Many thanks to doelf). Could a linux kernel specialist review and form this pseudo-patch to a real kernel patch? Given the old patch found in 2.4.4 I could have written the part

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code inuserspace

2001-05-19 Thread Christer Weinigel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: 3. Userspace partition code proposal Given the above two bits, here's a brief explaination of a proposal to move management of the partitioning scheme into userspace, along with portions of raid startup, lvm, uuid and mount by

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code inuserspace

2001-05-19 Thread Christer Weinigel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wrote: The only problem I can see with this is that it removes one useful thing, the ability to give a user access to a whole partition. chown wingel /dev/hda5 won't work anymore since there is no such device node. Apologies, this should have gone to

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-19 Thread Ben Ford
Pete Zaitcev wrote: [about Aunt Tullie] Because, for example, a kernel compile can be a part of the standard install now, and you will end up with a kernel built specifically for your machine that doesn't print 50 initialization failed messages on boot. [...] And you can also now run a kernel

no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants]

2001-05-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! They might also be exactly the same channel, except with certain magic bits set. The example peter gave was fine: tty devices could very usefully be opened with something like fd = open(/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8, O_RDWR); where we actually open up exactly the same

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! But no, I don't actually like sockets all that much myself. They are hard to use from scripts, and many more people are familiar with open/close and read/write. Agreed. It would be nice to use open/close/read/write for control and bulk and sockets for interrupt

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-19 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:34:36PM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: hose-sg_pci = iommu_arena_new(hose, 0xc000, 0x0800, 32768); *(vip)CIA_IOC_PCI_W3_BASE = 0xc000 | 1; *(vip)CIA_IOC_PCI_W3_MASK = (0x0800 - 1) 0xfff0; *(vip)CIA_IOC_PCI_T3_BASE = 0x8000

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Second, how many kernels does Redhat ship in order to have one for 386/486/586/k6/Athlon . . . . We build a lot of them :) Quite a pain in the ass. And look at how much shit has to be built in in order to get a kernel that works for everybody!

Re: VIA/PDC/Athlon - IDE error theory

2001-05-19 Thread Wilfried Weissmann
Alan Cox wrote: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } CRC errors are cable errors so that bit is reasonable in itself Could this be caused by the RAID configuration? The first sector of the first disk holds the

icache flushing in kernel/ptrace.c

2001-05-19 Thread Paul Mackerras
I would like to change kernel/ptrace.c to call something else instead of flush_icache_page in access_one_page in kernel/ptrace.c. Currently it calls flush_icache_page on the page after modifying it. Now of course on many architectures (including PPC) we need to do some sort of i-cache flush -

Re: VIA/PDC/Athlon - IDE error theory

2001-05-19 Thread Jussi Laako
Wilfried Weissmann wrote: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } CRC errors are cable errors so that bit is reasonable in itself Could this be caused by the RAID configuration? The first sector of the Yes, it's

Re: Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile

2001-05-19 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:41:16PM +0600, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2001, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: I think the header file you're talking about is the db1 header file, which has nothing to do with yacc -- it's the

[PATCH] winbond-840 update

2001-05-19 Thread Manfred Spraul
Minor update to the winbond-840 driver: * improved SMP locking, one or 2 races fixed. * memory leak in _close fixed. * partial implementation of _suspend and _resume. The chip is disabled and restarted, but not yet put into sleep mode. [lack of hardware to test it] -- Manfred ---

Re: /dev/sch0 interface

2001-05-19 Thread G.W. Wettstein
On May 15, 6:35pm, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: } Subject: Re: /dev/sch0 interface On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:44:23PM +, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:08:01PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Is anyone actuaslly using the /dev/sch0 interface for SCSI tape changers in

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:46:17PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: The most interesting thing here is the pyxis tbia fix. Whee! I can now copy files from SCSI to bus-master IDE, or between two IDE drives on separate channels, or do other nice things without hanging lx/sx164. :-) The pyxis tbia

Re: dget()

2001-05-19 Thread Pete Wyckoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: # cd /usr/src/linux # find -name '*.[ch]' | ctags -L- On 15 May 2001, Xavier Bestel wrote: # cd /usr/src/linux # make tags No, I never use that one because it skips very useful entries like the ones from EXPORT_SYMBOL etc. Also, it only shows the current

Negative inode-nr ?

2001-05-19 Thread Jakob Østergaard
Hello all, I was investigating a problem we believed we had with our monitoring software (from sysorb.com), where it failed to report the number of free and allocated inodes. However, looking into the problem I found that it's the kernel that's returning bogus values. What do you think of

Q: fdatasync on block device?

2001-05-19 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, Could someone enlighten me whether fdatasync() system call on Linux, when called on the fd of an open()-ed block device, will result in the committing of all dirty device buffers to disk? If not, how do I achieve this? Should I use the BLKFLSBUF ioctl? Thanks in advance. Best regards,

Q: ioctl BLKGETSIZE return value units?

2001-05-19 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, What are the units of the return value of the BLKGETSIZE ioctl on Linux? Is it allways in units of 512 bytes or is it in units of sector size bytes as returned by BLKSSZGET ioctl? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov aia21 at cam.ac.uk (replace at

Re: HangOops on boot using latest -ac kernels with irda

2001-05-19 Thread Alan Cox
Code; c0204004 irda_device_event+4/20 = 0: 66 81 78 5c 0f 03 cmpw $0x30f,0x5c(%eax) = Someone passed NULL to a netdevice notifier. That isnt allowed. Your call trace indicates that it was passed by dev_open which would itself have oopsed in that situation. Beats

PATCH: Make Acer Extensa 50X Sound work without hanging the whol

2001-05-19 Thread Michael Leun
Hello, since ages owners of a Extensa 50X notebook apply the following diff to the kernel to make the sound work without hanging the whole system. I've no idea if anybody ever suggested to put this in the mainstream kernel, so do I. Note: I modified the original patch to work with 2.4 but I

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-05-19 Thread Alan Cox
This are the latest suggestions for handling the VIA Southbridge bug as derived from the hardware site www.au-ja.de (Many thanks to doelf). I'd rather people left this except for the obvious fixed that were done for non VIA northbridge combinations until 2.5. 2.4 is not an appropriate place to

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-19 Thread Alan Cox
Second, how many kernels does Redhat ship in order to have one for 386/486/586/k6/Athlon . . . . Quite a pain in the ass. And look at how much shit has to be built in in order to get a kernel that works for everybody! People bitch at Microsoft for doing it, then turn around and do the

Re: PATCH: Make Acer Extensa 50X Sound work without hanging the whol

2001-05-19 Thread Alan Cox
since ages owners of a Extensa 50X notebook apply the following diff to the kernel to make the sound work without hanging the whole system. With what sound card ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Negative inode-nr ?

2001-05-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 19 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote: What do you think of this ? [root]# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr 157097-180 I think you should upgrade to a newer kernel; Al Viro fixed this bug and the fix went into 2.4.5-pre1. regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-05-19 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Axel Thimm wrote: This are the latest suggestions for handling the VIA Southbridge bug as derived from the hardware site www.au-ja.de (Many thanks to doelf). Sorry - little off-topic. I can't find the clean answer anywhere. I use KT7A-RAID, with one disc connected to

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:29:32PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote: Or you can fall back to mounting by UUID, which is globally unique and still avoids referencing physical location. You also don't need to manually set LABELs for UUID to work: all e2fsprogs over the past

Re: Negative inode-nr ?

2001-05-19 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:33:10PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote: What do you think of this ? [root]# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr 157097 -180 I think you should upgrade to a newer kernel; Al Viro fixed this bug and the fix

[RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

2001-05-19 Thread Mike Galbraith
Hi, On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also why magic numbers tend to suck in the VM.) Magic numbers might be sucking some performance right now

[PATCH] 2.4.4 fix bug in nfs_refresh_inode() and cleanup...

2001-05-19 Thread Trond Myklebust
Linus, A bug was recently found in which nfs_refresh_inode() was returning EIO when servers, such as the Hummingbird, don't return the optional attributes on calls such as the setattr() call. This error was then being passed back to userland. When investigating the bug, I also found a load

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 10:42 AM +0200 2001-05-19, Kai Henningsen wrote: Make your config script look at the hardware MAC addresses. Those don't change. They're not necessarily unique, though. So if you plug both into the same network segment, that segment is broken? That looks like very stupid design to

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 10:42 AM +0200 2001-05-19, Kai Henningsen wrote: Jeff Garzik's ethtool extension at least tells me the PCI bus/dev/fcn, though, and from that I can write a userland mapping function to the physical location. I don't see how PCI bus/dev/fcn lets you do that. I know from system

Potential help for VIA problems and ASUS motherboards

2001-05-19 Thread John Cavan
Hi, I've seen a lot of messages regarding problems with the VIA chipset... I've experienced them myself. Anyways, I just put in a new ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard, BIOS revision 1004. Once installed, I ran into a raft of problems when IO-APIC was enabled... and discovered that ASUS had a BIOS

Re: Q: ioctl BLKGETSIZE return value units?

2001-05-19 Thread Andries . Brouwer
What are the units of the return value of the BLKGETSIZE ioctl on Linux? Sectors of size 512. or is it in units of sector size bytes as returned by BLKSSZGET No. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-05-19 Thread Adam Schrotenboer
/dev/raw* Where? I can't find it in my .config (grep RAW .config). I am using 2.4.4-ac11 and playing w/ 2.4.5-pre3. TIA Adam Schrotenboer - 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: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Hans Reiser
Chris Wedgwood wrote: Or you can fall back to mounting by UUID, which is globally unique and still avoids referencing physical location. You also don't need to manually set LABELs for UUID to work: all e2fsprogs over the past couple of years have set UUID on partitions, and

Re: PATCH: Make Acer Extensa 50X Sound work without hanging the

2001-05-19 Thread Michael Leun
Hello, On 19-May-2001 Alan Cox wrote: since ages owners of a Extensa 50X notebook apply the following diff to the kernel to make the sound work without hanging the whole system. With what sound card ? opl3sa2. I use alsa 0.5.11. -- Bye, Michael Leun - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNumber Registrants]

2001-05-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
[ Attribution is gone, so I just deleted it.. ] fd = open(/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8, O_RDWR); Hmm, there might be problem with this. How do you change speed without reopening device? [Remember: your mice knows when you close device] The naming scheme is not a replacement

mount misbehaviour?

2001-05-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I just had small surprise with 2.4.0: root@bug:/zip# mount /zip root@bug:/zip# ls -al total 8 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Dec 1 08:29 . drwxr-xr-x 31 65534root 4096 Apr 24 20:56 .. root@bug:/zip# cd /zip root@bug:/zip# ls -al total 22182 drwxr-xr-x4 root

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-19 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 03:55:02PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Reading the tsunami specs I learnt 1 tlb entry caches 8 pagetables (not 1) so the tlb flush will be invalidate immediatly by any PCI DMA run after the flush on any of the other 7 mappings cached in the same tlb entry. I have

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants]

2001-05-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! fd = open(/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8, O_RDWR); Hmm, there might be problem with this. How do you change speed without reopening device? [Remember: your mice knows when you close device] The naming scheme is not a replacement for these kinds of ioctl's - it's just

Re: mount misbehaviour?

2001-05-19 Thread Andries . Brouwer
root@bug:/zip# mount /zip root@bug:/zip# ls -al total 8 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Dec 1 08:29 . drwxr-xr-x 31 65534root 4096 Apr 24 20:56 .. root@bug:/zip# cd /zip root@bug:/zip# ls -al total 22182 ... Is that okay? Yes. Your working directory does not

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNumber Registrants]

2001-05-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: Well, if we did something like modify(int fd, char *how), you could do modify(0, nonblock,9600) What you're really proposing is to make ioctl's be ASCII strings. Which is not necessarily a bad idea, and I think plan9 did something similar (or

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Signal-per-fd for RT signals

2001-05-19 Thread Gerold Jury
Vitaly Luban wrote: Hi, snip/ the form of POLL_... This will bring functionality of RT signals event notification on the level with 'select' or 'poll' one, while more efficient and scalable. If there's an interest in such a feature, I'd be eager to publish a patch. Thanks,

Re: Getting FS access events

2001-05-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: resume from disk is actually pretty hard to do in way it is readed linearily. While playing with swsusp patches (== suspend to disk) I found out that it was slow. It needs to do atomic snapshot, and only reasonable way to do that is free half of

Re: Getting FS access events

2001-05-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! resume from disk is actually pretty hard to do in way it is readed linearily. While playing with swsusp patches (== suspend to disk) I found out that it was slow. It needs to do atomic snapshot, and only reasonable way to do that is free half of RAM, cli() and copy. Note that

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants]

2001-05-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Well, if we did something like modify(int fd, char *how), you could do modify(0, nonblock,9600) What you're really proposing is to make ioctl's be ASCII strings. Yup. Which is not necessarily a bad idea, and I think plan9 did something similar (or rather, if I remember

Re: Getting FS access events

2001-05-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: Don't get _too_ hung up about the power-management kind of invisible suspend/resume sequence where you resume the whole kernel state. Ugh. Now I'm confused. How do you do usefull resume from disk when you don't restore complete state? Do you

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNumber Registrants]

2001-05-19 Thread Abramo Bagnara
Linus Torvalds wrote: [ Attribution is gone, so I just deleted it.. ] fd = open(/dev/tty00/nonblock,9600,n8, O_RDWR); Hmm, there might be problem with this. How do you change speed without reopening device? [Remember: your mice knows when you close device] The

VIA politics (was: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch)

2001-05-19 Thread Axel Thimm
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:11:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: This are the latest suggestions for handling the VIA Southbridge bug as derived from the hardware site www.au-ja.de (Many thanks to doelf). I'd rather people left this except for the obvious fixed that were done for non VIA

Re: Potential help for VIA problems and ASUS motherboards

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
John Cavan wrote: Hi, I've seen a lot of messages regarding problems with the VIA chipset... I've experienced them myself. Anyways, I just put in a new ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard, BIOS revision 1004. Once installed, I ran into a raft of problems when IO-APIC was enabled... and

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants]

2001-05-19 Thread Tim Jansen
On Saturday 19 May 2001 21:43, Pavel Machek wrote: I think that plan9 uses something different -- they have ttyS0 and ttyS0ctl. This would leave us with problem how do I get handle to ttyS0ctl when I only have handle to ttyS0? One possibility is to add multiforked (multi-stream) file support

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

2001-05-19 Thread Steven Walter
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 09:38:03PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: But /dev/sda/offset=234234,limit=626737537 isn't a file! ls it and see if it's there. writing to files that aren't shown in directory listings is plain evil. I really don't want to explain why. It's extremely messy and

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-19 Thread Tom Vier
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 02:48:15PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: This is incorrect. If you want directly mapped PCI window then you don't need the iommu_arena for it. If you want scatter-gather mapping, you should write address of the SG page table into the T3_BASE register. i've tried both

serpent loopback crypto EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted

2001-05-19 Thread spam goes to /dev/null
hi, i created a 10mb file called .enc2 with random data and ran # losetup -e serpent -k 128 /dev/loop0 /mnt/hda7/.enc2 then i ran # mke2fs /dev/loop0 and tried to # mount /dev/loop0 /enc. but i get the following error messages when trying to mount: May 19 21:32:10 HOST2 kernel: EXT2-fs error

[PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 aironet fixes

2001-05-19 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
Hi, The following patch fixes aironet drivers. It contains - fixed Config.in to disable non-working configurations (PNP without isapnp, built-in ISA or I365) - marked __init/__devinit/__devinitdata some initial code/variables - disable (#if 0) currently unused function (awc4500_pnp_hw_reset) -

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

2001-05-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also why magic numbers tend to suck in the VM.) Magic numbers

[PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

2001-05-19 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
From kufel!root Sat May 19 23:39:35 2001 Return-Path: kufel!root Received: from kufel.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by green.mif.pg.gda.pl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id XAA02226 for green.mif.pg.gda.pl!ankry; Sat, 19 May 2001 23:39:35 +0200 Received: (from root@localhost) by

2.4.4 del_timer_sync oops in schedule_timeout

2001-05-19 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
This is 2.4.4 with the aic7xxx driver version 6.1.13 dropped in. The oops got eaten by klogd, my apologies, but it seems sane even so. I haven't tried newer -ac or -pre kernels so I'm sure it's probably already fixed there but just in case it isn't... kdm[350]: Server for display :0 terminated

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-19 Thread Ben Ford
Alan Cox wrote: Second, how many kernels does Redhat ship in order to have one for 386/486/586/k6/Athlon . . . . Quite a pain in the ass. And look at how much shit has to be built in in order to get a kernel that works for everybody! People bitch at Microsoft for doing it, then turn around

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Patch looks decent. Adding module descriptions was quite nice. One flaw that is repeated multiple times is that you add #ifdef MODULE printk(version); #endif in an ISA driver's probe routine. This instead should always be the first operation of init_module. Also make

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 aironet fixes

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Patch looks generally ok. Comments: * you forgot to cc Elmer Joandi, the maintainer, who wakes up every now and then :) * When is aironet4500_card version string printed, for the modular case? * did you actually trace the code paths to mark sure code marked __init was never called by the pcmcia

Has anybody a working pppoed for 2.4 (2.4.4-ac10/11)?

2001-05-19 Thread Dieter Nützel
I have pppoed-0.48b1-6, ppp-2.4.0-5 (SuSE 7.1) but it didn't work (with kernel pppoe.o/pppox.o). So I have to use rp-pppoe-2.5-5 (which should be slower I've heard) for the German Telekom ADSL (product name TDSL). Thanks, Dieter -- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-05-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, May 19 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: /dev/raw* Where? I can't find it in my .config (grep RAW .config). I am using 2.4.4-ac11 and playing w/ 2.4.5-pre3. It's automagically included, no config options necessary (drivers/char/raw.c) -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNumber Registrants]

2001-05-19 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: Well, if we did something like modify(int fd, char *how), you could do modify(0, nonblock,9600) What you're really proposing is to make ioctl's be ASCII strings. Which is not necessarily a

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNumber Registrants]

2001-05-19 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: I thought about how to do networking without sockets, and it seems to me like this kind of modify syscall is needed, because network sockets connect to *two* different places (one local address and one remote). Sockets are really nasty :-(. Pavel,

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-19 Thread Alan Cox
No, my point was, if I don't have SCSI or RAID on this box, I don't want them to be built into the kernel! They arent built into the kernel. I still think you have your facts confused - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

2001-05-19 Thread Dieter Nützel
Three back to back make -j 30 runs for three different kernels. Swap cache numbers are taken immediately after last completion. The performance increase is nice, though. Do you see similar changes in different kinds of workloads ? I you have a patch against 2.4.4-ac11 I will do some

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-05-19 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:11:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: If it had been a manufacturer in most respectable areas of business they'd be recalling and reissuing components, and paying for the end resllers to notify each customer This is consumer hardware. Consumer products are optimized for a

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

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Here's a dumb question, and I apologize if I am questioning computer science dogma... Why are LVM and EVMS(competing LVM project) needed at all? Surely the same can be accomplished with * md * snapshot blkdev (attached in previous e-mail) * giving partitions and blkdevs the ability to grow and

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

2001-05-19 Thread Benedict Bridgwater
This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it. This sort of thing would never ship in CML2, because the compiler would throw

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-19 Thread Richard Henderson
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:46:17PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: -void -cia_pci_tbi(struct pci_controller *hose, dma_addr_t start, dma_addr_t end) -{ - wmb(); - *(vip)CIA_IOC_PCI_TBIA = 3; /* Flush all locked and unlocked. */ - mb(); - *(vip)CIA_IOC_PCI_TBIA; -} I'd

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

2001-05-19 Thread Miles Lane
On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote: This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it. This sort of

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

2001-05-19 Thread Miles Lane
On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote: This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it. This sort of

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-05-19 Thread Adam Schrotenboer
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: On Sat, May 19 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: /dev/raw* Where? I can't find it in my .config (grep RAW .config). I am using 2.4.4-ac11 and playing w/ 2.4.5-pre3. It's automagically included, no config options necessary (drivers/char/raw.c) then

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

2001-05-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such that it can be passed directly to printk like printk(version); Nit

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

2001-05-19 Thread Ben Bridgwater
Miles Lane wrote: On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote: This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Keith Owens wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such that it can be passed directly to printk like

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-05-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a result the system performance goes down. I'm still able to use my applications, but es every single piece of unused memory is swapped out, and swapping in costs a certain amount of time. That's why streaming media

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:11:31PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 03:55:02PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Reading the tsunami specs I learnt 1 tlb entry caches 8 pagetables (not 1) so the tlb flush will be invalidate immediatly by any PCI DMA run after the flush on

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

2001-05-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 19 May 2001 22:14:33 -0400, Ben Bridgwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To present a dumbed down UI targeted for Aunt Millie or whoever against the protests of the mainstream kernel tool audience makes zero sense to me, as don't Eric's repeated antagonistic comments. How many times do we

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

2001-05-19 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also why magic

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

2001-05-19 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dieter Nützel wrote: Three back to back make -j 30 runs for three different kernels. Swap cache numbers are taken immediately after last completion. The performance increase is nice, though. Do you see similar changes in different kinds of workloads ? I you

kernel.org: 2.4.5-pre4 missing ChangeLog info

2001-05-19 Thread Shawn Starr
Someone add the changelog info to kernel.org? merci. Shawn. - 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 at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: kernel.org: 2.4.5-pre4 missing ChangeLog info - scratch that

2001-05-19 Thread Shawn Starr
It's in ChangeLog but not patch-2.4.5.log. Shawn. On Sat, 19 May 2001, Shawn Starr wrote: Someone add the changelog info to kernel.org? merci. Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

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