Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-21 Thread Ben Ford
Mike Castle wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:29:17AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: distributions). 18 months is more realistic for it to be deployed widely enough. People who are going to be savvy enough to install a development 2.5.* kernel that is defining a new configuration utility are

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What discussion is that? Unless Linus has changed his mind and I don't know about it, CML2 is going in between 2.5.1 and 2.5.2. Because it is evidently confusing the issue. Perhaps because it sounds like you were intending to feed Linus large patches for 2.5.[12]

compile failure in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread Allan Duncan
This addition for 2.4.5-pre4 has caused a compile failure with a parsing error: drivers/ide/ide-pci.c:711 if (!IDE_PCI_DEVID_EQ(d-devid, DEVID_CS5530) In my case CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not defined. -- Allan Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+613) 9253 6708, Fax 9253 6775 (We

Re: compile failure in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 21 May 101 16:38:45 +1000 (EST), Allan Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drivers/ide/ide-pci.c:711 if (!IDE_PCI_DEVID_EQ(d-devid, DEVID_CS5530) for (i = 0; i 1000; ++i) printf(I must scan kernel archives before report bugs\n);

Re: compile failure in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread Jeff Chua
On Mon, 21 May 101, Allan Duncan wrote: This addition for 2.4.5-pre4 has caused a compile failure with a parsing error: drivers/ide/ide-pci.c:711 if (!IDE_PCI_DEVID_EQ(d-devid, DEVID_CS5530) In my case CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not defined. if (!IDE_PCI_DEVID_EQ(d-devid,

3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] problem ...

2001-05-21 Thread Robert Vojta
Hi, I have this card in intranet server and I'm very confused about very often message in log like this: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 20979238(6) current 20979242(10) Transmit list 1f659290 vs. df659260. 0: @df659200 length 85ea status

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-21 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Guest section DW writes: On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:35:55AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: The PC partition table has such an ID. The LILO change log mentions it. I think it's 6 random bytes, with some restriction about being non-zero. You are confused. The partition table contains IDs,

Re: Negative inode-nr ?

2001-05-21 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 19 May 2001 18:33, 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 went into

Re: const __init

2001-05-21 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 20 May 2001 17:34:48 -0400, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (let me know if the following test is flawed) [jgarzik@rum tmp]$ cat sectest.c #include linux/module.h #include linux/init.h static const char version[] __initdata = foo; [jgarzik@rum tmp]$ gcc -D__KERNEL__

Re: const __init

2001-05-21 Thread Richard Henderson
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:07:50PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: does cause a section conflict, egcs 1.1.2. Interestingly enough, if var[12] are together, without the intervening text, then gcc does not flag an error, instead it puts both variables in section .data.init and marks it as read

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread Alan Cox
What are these devices, and what drivers just program the cards to start the dma on those hundred mbyte of ram? Are we designing Linux for hypothetical systems with hypothetical devices and drivers, or for the real world? Ok how about a PIV Xeon with 64Gb of memory and 5 AMI Megaraids,

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread Alan Cox
Alan Cox writes: And how do you propose to implemnt cache coherent pci allocations on machines which lack the ability to have pages coherent between I/O and memory space ? Pages, being in memory space, are never in I/O space. Ok my fault. Let me try that again with clearer Linux

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread David S. Miller
Alan Cox writes: Pages allocated in main memory and mapped for access by PCI devices. On some HP systems there is now way for such a page to stay coherent. It is quite possible to sync the view but there is no sane way to allow any pci_alloc_consistent to succeed This is not what the HP

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread David S. Miller
Alan Cox writes: Ok how about a PIV Xeon with 64Gb of memory and 5 AMI Megaraids, which are limited to the low 2Gb range for pci mapping and otherwise need bounce buffers. Or how about any consistent alloc on certain HP machines which totally lack coherency - also I suspect the R10K on

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread Alan Cox
Look at the history of kernel API's over time. Everything that can go wrong eventually does. I agree, and it will be dealt with in 2.5.x The scsi layer in 2.4.x is simply not able to handle failure in these code paths, as Gerard Roudier has mentioned. On that I am unconvinced. It is

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

2001-05-21 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2001-05-19T16:25:47, Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How about: # mkpart /dev/sda /dev/mypartition -o size=1024k,type=swap # ls /dev/mypartition basesizedevice type # cat /dev/mypartition/size 1048576 # cat /dev/mypartition/device /dev/sda #

Re: 00_rwsem-11, 2.4.4-ac11 and gcc-3(2001-05-14)

2001-05-21 Thread David Howells
The compiler should be now fixed in this respect, for both my stuff that's in the kernel and Andrea's desired replacement. The problem appears to have been triggered by having two input+output constraints (eg: +r, +m). However, I can't test this because the head of the CVS trunk doesn't seem to

Hang with SMP 2.4.4 snd log

2001-05-21 Thread kees
Hi I got a next hang with my SMP system, kdb log attached. Something strange with the backtrace for CPU 0. Here is the first cut from the kdb log.. -- [0]kdb cpu Currently on cpu 0 Available cpus: 0, 1 [0]kdb bt EBP

Re: APIC errors on 2.4.4

2001-05-21 Thread Hermann Himmelbauer
Andy Arvai wrote: Hi, I'm having IO-APIC errors with 2.4.4. I spent some time searching the web to understand more about this problem and I'm still not sure if it is a hardware problem on the motherboard or a problem with the kernel. I will try the noapic boot option, but are there any

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread Helge Hafting
Eric S. Raymond wrote: To reduce the problem further, I looked for symbols with missing entries that I could turn into derivations, eliminating their questions and the requirement for a help entry. Adding help entries is nice. But please don't go around making unlikely choices

also in 2.4: RTL8139 difficulties in 2.2, not in 2.4

2001-05-21 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sat, 19 May 2001, I wrote: I'm having difficulties with a RTL8139 with Linux 2.2.19 (both drivers), but not with Linux 2.4.4's 8139too driver. The card is an Allied Telesyn AT-2500TX, the chip is reported as 8139C/rev. 0x10. The card shares its IRQ 9 with an nVidia Riva TNT 128 [NV04],

Re: Hang with SMP 2.4.4 snd log

2001-05-21 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 21 May 2001 10:26:20 +0200 (CEST), kees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a next hang with my SMP system, kdb log attached. Something strange with the backtrace for CPU 0. Here is the first cut from the kdb log.. I do not trust either of those backtraces. There is no way to get from

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-21 Thread Jes Sorensen
Ben == Ben Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Mike Castle wrote: People who are going to be savvy enough to install a development 2.5.* kernel that is defining a new configuration utility are going to be savvy enough to install python. Ben Not only that, but Alan said that somebody is

Re: tulip driver BROKEN in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes
Could you post the output of #tulip-diag -mm -aa -f with the broken driver? Some code that's required for Linksys Tulip clones was moved from pnic specific part into the generic part, perhaps that causes problems. -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

CRAK: a process checkpoint/restart kernel module

2001-05-21 Thread Hua Zhong
This project has been there for over one year, and I've got quite a few emails asking about it. Before it becomes more reliable, I think letting more people know about it is a good idea. Thanks to those who ever pushed me on it :-) I guess many of you have already known about epckpt, a patch

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Because it is evidently confusing the issue. Perhaps because it sounds like you were intending to feed Linus large patches for 2.5.[12] which effect _both_ changes. I'm going to give Linus the same installation kit the people working with CML2 have now.

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread David S. Miller
Andrea Arcangeli writes: I just given you a test case that triggers on sparc64 in earlier email. If you are talking about the bttv card: 1) I showed you in a private email that I calculated the maximum possible IOMMU space that one could allocate to bttv cards in a fully loaded Sunfire

lockups with SMP 2.4.4 (next one)

2001-05-21 Thread kees
Hi Within one hour I got the next one, kdb log in attachment. first line of kdb_log: Entering kdb (current=0xc2168000, pid 1593) kdb: Debugger re-entered on cpu 1, new reason = 10 on processor 0 Strange, cpu 1 should not be running

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread Gerd Knorr
This without considering bttv and friends are not even trying to use the pci_map_* yet, I hope you don't watch TV on your sparc64 if you have enough ram. The bttv devel versions[1] are fixed already, they should work out-of-the box on sparc too. Just watching TV is harmless (needs lots of

Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-21 Thread Sean Hunter
Yup. The problem is that you're trying to measure scalability in performance of an i/o-bound task by comparing a machine with greater i/o resource but less processing power with one with greater processing but poorer i/o. Surprisingly enough, the one with the best i/o wins. This isn't really a

Re: [PATCH][RFT] smbfs bugfixes for 2.4.4

2001-05-21 Thread Xuan Baldauf
Urban Widmark wrote: On 7 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: It has code to do that in smb_revalidate_inode(), but it may be that something else refreshes the inode size _without_ doing the proper invalidation checks. Or maybe Urban broke that logic by mistake while fixing the other one

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't think there is a less contentious part. The same people who bitched about the engine are now bitching about the changes I'm contemplating in the rulesfiles. It seems clear to me that their attitude, in general, has little to do with technical specifics of

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:59:58AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: This still leaves around 800MB IOMMU space free on that sparc64 PCI controller. if it was 400mbyte you were screwed up too, the point here is that the marging is way too to allows ignore the issue completly, furthmore there can

use of CBQ for output queue...

2001-05-21 Thread Deepika Kakrania
Hi, I want to use CBQ for device output queue. there is tc(user space ) program which can be used to set queueing discipline, classes and filter rules. But I want to do it within kernel. Can anyone tell me how do I set these rules from kernel itself? Thanks in advance. regards, Deepika

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread Jonathan Morton
order to hold down ruleset complexity and simplify the user experience. The cost of deciding that the answer to that question is The user experience can be simplified by a NOVICE/EASY/SANE_DEFAULTS option, and perhaps a HACKER option for the really strange but _theoretically_ ok stuff.

[PATCH] Soft block sizes for RAM disks

2001-05-21 Thread Herbert Xu
Here's a slightly different approach to the CRAMFS over RAM disk problem. This patch (against 2.4) allows the RAM disk block size to be changed through set_blocksize() without destroying its previous content. Comments are welcome. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )

(Fwd) about timer in linux kernel.

2001-05-21 Thread Ulrich Windl
Maybe one of the people having written the code want to explain... Thanks, Ulrich --- Forwarded message follows --- From: meng-ju [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:about timer in linux kernel. Date sent:

Re: 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] problem ...

2001-05-21 Thread Robert Vojta
This is a `transamit reclaim' error. It is almost always caused by this host being in half-duplex mode, and another host on the network being in full-duplex mode. Hi, I tried to force this to be in fullduplex mode by options=0x204 (0x200 + 0x4) and it works fine now. Please, can you send

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Having now briefly looked at the language constructs first-hand, I can see two ways to go about this: 1) Have a HACKER symbol which unsuppresses the unusual options, and suppresses the generalised ones 2) Have a HACKERS submenu system which contains all the

Re: 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] problem ...

2001-05-21 Thread Andrew Morton
Robert Vojta wrote: This is a `transamit reclaim' error. It is almost always caused by this host being in half-duplex mode, and another host on the network being in full-duplex mode. Hi, I tried to force this to be in fullduplex mode by options=0x204 (0x200 + 0x4) and it works

[PATCH] allow acpi to be turned off at boot

2001-05-21 Thread Peter T. Breuer
ACPI seemed a fine thing until I found that it doesn't allow for hibernation or suspension of my laptop, and there is no way (apparently) to turn it off at boot and let APM take over. Here's a patch to allow acpi=off at boot. There's room for more parsing in the code. I didn't notice the problem

Re: const __init

2001-05-21 Thread Jamie Lokier
Richard Henderson wrote: No, the problem is not with which section, but what flags that section should have. If you put only const data in a section, then the section should have SHF_WRITE clear. Conversely, if you put writable data in a section then SHF_WRITE should be set. Now, one

Re: tulip driver BROKEN in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread J Brook
Could you post the output of #tulip-diag -mm -aa -f with the broken driver? Some code that's required for Linksys Tulip clones was moved from pnic specific part into the generic part, perhaps that causes problems. Here is the output from the kernels I've tested to try to get the driver

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread David S. Miller
Andrea Arcangeli writes: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:19:54AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: max bytes per bttv: max_gbuffers * max_gbufsize 64 * 0x208000 == 133.12MB 133.12MB * 8 PCI slots == ~1.06 GB Which is still only half of the total IOMMU

kernel-source-2.2.19 - error in menuconfig

2001-05-21 Thread Justin Slootsky
I downloaded the .deb package for kernel-source-2.2.19. I tried to run make menuconfig and the following happened... bash-2.05# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory

Re: question: permission checking for network filesystem

2001-05-21 Thread Jan Hudec
Hi, I'm trying to impelemnt a lightweight network filesystem and ran into trouble implementing lookup, permissions and open. The protocol requires me to specify open mode in it's open command. The open mode has 4 bits: read, write, append and execute. But I can't tell There are two

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-21 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 04:20:11PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:17:50PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Presumably, a new UUID is created each time format a partition, which means it is a slight bit of hassle if you have to reload a partition from a dump, or

Another bug? linux/fs/nfs/write.c

2001-05-21 Thread Trond Myklebust
Linus, The following mail from Matt describes a problem in the NFS read/write code that can cause a vicious hang. Obvious patch to fix it is attached... Cheers, Trond == Matt Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trond, Here's another bug which seems to be causing crashes.

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

2001-05-21 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:04:31AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: Looking at the locking and trying to think SMP (grunt) though, I don't like the thought of taking two locks for each page until 100%. The data in that block is toast anyway.

Re: 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] problem ...

2001-05-21 Thread Robert Vojta
mm.. It _should_ autonegotiate. Perhaps the device at the other end is old or not very good. Hi, it should but do not autonegotiating. All computers are connected to switch CentreCOM FH716SW and there are several types of cards on this computers like 3COM Tornado, 8139 chip, NE2000, etc.

Gdb reports about broken mmap()

2001-05-21 Thread Bohdan Vlasyuk
Hi !! Well, don't warry about this issue any more :-). That's entirely RedHat's mistake -- they didn't took a look at ./configure --help. I've done ./configure --with-mmalloc and it does not complin amy more. However, it still does not work :-)).. -- 17:16:02 ~/src/db # gdb -q dummy -m

Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Kegel
Sean Hunter wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:31:01AM +0200, Sasi Peter wrote: 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

Simple question on kstat

2001-05-21 Thread Zou Min
Hi, I just want to clarify some fields in the kstat struct in kernel 2.4. does kstat.pgpgin record all the real disk reads(not from buffer cache) ? does kstat.pswpin record all the disk reads from swap partitions? is kstat.pswpin already counted in kstat.pgpgin? Thanks a lot! -- Cheers! --Zou

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread David S. Miller
Andrea Arcangeli writes: Tell me a best way to get rid of those bugs all together if you can. Please give me a test case that triggers the bug on sparc64 and I will promptly work on a fix, ok? I mean a test case you _actually_ trigger, not some fantasy case. In theory it can happen, but

Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuinfo

2001-05-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Martin.Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel Hi, while trying to enhance a small hardware inventory script, I found that cpuinfo is missing the details of L1, L2 and L3 size, although they may be available at boot time.

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the record, the kgcc mess you speak of was used by Conectiva, and I believe also by debian Debian never had that mess. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is

Compile fails an Alpha: include/asm/pci.h included from arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c

2001-05-21 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
Hi! Kernel 2.4.5-pre[34] don't compile on Alpha: In incluse/asm-alpha/pci.h (include during compile of arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c), there is 150 static __inline__ int pci_controller_num(struct pci_dev *pdev) 151 { 152 struct pci_controller *hose = pdev-sysdata; 153

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-05-21 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: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-05-21 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, May 21 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: 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

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-21 Thread Alexander Viro
On 21 May 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the record, the kgcc mess you speak of was used by Conectiva, and I believe also by debian Debian never had that mess. I think that Mike refers to gcc272 being used as a

Re: [PATCH] ppc xconfig 2.2.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:29:31AM +0200, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote: The following patch fixes ppc xconfig potential problem introduced in 2.4.5-pre4. xconfig has other issues on PPC at the momement, if you select and 8xx or 8260 CPU. See the inlined. -- Tom Rini (TR1265)

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-21 Thread Steven Cole
On Monday 21 May 2001 10:01, Tom Rini wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:58:04AM -0600, Steven Cole wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 09:36, Tom Rini wrote: Which brings up another point, RedHat (7.1?) and Debian/woody both have the option of having python2 around. Anyone know about mandrake?

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Tom Rini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: python1.5.x is compatiable w/ python2 EXCEPT in the cases where the script uses undocumented things which did work in python1.5.x. That's true of the core language. The reason I moved to 2.0 was that there are library changes in 2.0 that enabled me to to cut CML2's

ACPI - console problems 2.4.4

2001-05-21 Thread Nick Papadonis
Is anyone having problems with ACPI causing console problems in kernel 2.4.4 w/ Intel's patches? When watching my system boot over the serial console, things work fine. When looking at my VAIO-FX140's LCD, my console no longer updates after ACPI starts initializing _INI methods. I am able to

Giant disk on 2.2.17: Any concerns?

2001-05-21 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, For running some kind of database application (ClearCase 4.1) I would like to attach an external RAID array with 6*30GByte to a RedHat 6.2 machine, using kernel 2.2.17. I don't expect huge files (maximum file size should be about 250MByte), but a lot of middle size files and

Re: Giant disk on 2.2.17: Any concerns?

2001-05-21 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, For running some kind of database application (ClearCase 4.1) I would like to attach an external RAID array with 6*30GByte to a RedHat 6.2 machine, using kernel 2.2.17. I don't expect huge files (maximum file size should be about 250MByte), but a lot of

tmpfs + sendfile bug ?

2001-05-21 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Hi all, I just found a problem GETting a file stored in tmpfs using proftpd; I always get a 426 Transfer aborted. Data connection closed. That could be a bug with tmpfs and sendfile in 2.4.5-pre4 : [...] read(8, %PDF-1.4\r%\342\343\317\323\r\n870 0 obj\r \r/L..., 8192) = 8192

Re: Giant disk on 2.2.17: Any concerns?

2001-05-21 Thread Harald Dunkel
Mohammad A. Haque wrote: I've used a 250GB and 400GB RAID array with 2.2.x kernels w/o any problems. We have several thousands of ~1 MB and 100 MB files. Many thanx for your fast answer. What kind of controller did you use? Regards Harri - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: tmpfs + sendfile bug ?

2001-05-21 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Pierre, On Mon, 21 May 2001, Pierre Etchemaite wrote: I just found a problem GETting a file stored in tmpfs using proftpd; I always get a 426 Transfer aborted. Data connection closed. That could be a bug with tmpfs and sendfile in 2.4.5-pre4 : [...] read(8,

Re: Giant disk on 2.2.17: Any concerns?

2001-05-21 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Harald Dunkel wrote: Many thanx for your fast answer. What kind of controller did you use? Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100. It's not sold anymore I don't think. -- = Mohammad A. Haque

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-21 Thread Mike Castle
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:33:20PM -0700, Ben Ford wrote: Not only that, but Alan said that somebody is rewriting it in C. I'll believe it when I see it. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work

Re: PATCH: maestro ported to 2.4 PCI API

2001-05-21 Thread Francois Romieu
Marcus Meissner [EMAIL PROTECTED] ecrit : [...] if( request_region(iobase, 256, card_names[card_type]) == NULL ) { printk(KERN_WARNING maestro: can't allocate 256 bytes I/O at 0x%4.4x\n, iobase); - return 0; - } - - /* this was tripping up

3C905C and error e401 : problem solved

2001-05-21 Thread francois . cami
Hi Mr Morton and all linux-kernel, I have been experimenting with the 3C905C, trying to get rid of the annoying e401 error (too much work in interrupt). I've tried using 64 as max_interrupt_work and it solves completely the e401 problem on this particular machine : - yoda.rez-gif.supelec.fr

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

2001-05-21 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Gerhard Mack wrote: Its what I would describe as lack of enforcement by trading standards bodies, and I suspect what the US would call 'insufficient class action lawsuits' What we need is a web page for listing crap hardware so less people buy it. Not just crap hardware, but also

Re: compile failure in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread Shawn Starr
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586-c -o ide-pci.o ide-pci.c ide-pci.c: In function `ide_setup_pci_device': ide-pci.c:712: parse error before `hwif' make[3]: ***

Re: compile failure in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread Shawn Starr
Ok, so the code was easy to fix ;p On Mon, 21 May 2001, Keith Owens wrote: On Mon, 21 May 101 16:38:45 +1000 (EST), Allan Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drivers/ide/ide-pci.c:711 if (!IDE_PCI_DEVID_EQ(d-devid, DEVID_CS5530) for (i = 0; i 1000; ++i) printf(I must scan

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread Wayne . Brown
On 05/21/2001 at 05:04:40 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See, I've already written off the chronic bellyachers. Since I can't please them without scrapping the whole plan, I'm going to ignore them. In particular, anybody who repeated fsck Python... after Linus ruled that Python is not an issue

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNum

2001-05-21 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2001, Abramo Bagnara wrote: It may have several. Which one? Can you explain better this? Example: console. You want to be able to pass font changes. I'm less than sure that putting them on the same channel as, e.g., keyboard

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread Richard Henderson
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:51:51PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: I'm unable reproduce it with *8Mb* window, so I'm asking. Me either. But Tom Vier, the guy who started this thread was able to use up the 8MB. Which is completely believable. The following should aleviate the situation on these

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Speaking from the perspective of a user of the CML tools, rather than as a developer, all I've been trying to say is this: When I type make menuconfig or make oldconfig in the future, I want to see the same interface and the same results that I've always

Re: [PATCH][RFT] smbfs bugfixes for 2.4.4

2001-05-21 Thread Urban Widmark
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Xuan Baldauf wrote: Hello Urban, I've been playing around a while with that patch and so far could not find any problems anymore. But I've noticed some other annoying behaviour, which might Good. be caused by trying to work around the initially reported bug where the

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNum

2001-05-21 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Oliver Xymoron wrote: If you've got side channels that are of a packet nature (aka commands), then they can all happily coexist on one device. If you've got channels that are streams or intended for mmap, those ought to be different devices. Since you've been refering

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

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: Not just crap hardware, but also vendors who refuse to release proper material required for writing drivers. NVidia springs to my mind. This would be a browser-busting webpage, the page would be so long... -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list:

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

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Gerhard Mack wrote: Its what I would describe as lack of enforcement by trading standards bodies, and I suspect what the US would call 'insufficient class action lawsuits' What we need is a web page for listing crap hardware so less people buy it. And then get sued by

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNum

2001-05-21 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2001, Oliver Xymoron wrote: If you've got side channels that are of a packet nature (aka commands), then they can all happily coexist on one device. If you've got channels that are streams or intended for mmap, those ought to be

Re: 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] problem ...

2001-05-21 Thread Wilfried Weissmann
Robert Vojta wrote: Hi, I have this card in intranet server and I'm very confused about very often message in log like this: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 20979238(6) current 20979242(10) Transmit list 1f659290 vs. df659260. 0:

2.2.19+ide: corrupts ide tape output

2001-05-21 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! 2.2.19+ide, applied the patch because this box has a new Promise PDC20267 ide controller. 14GB HP Colorado tape drive. Before we installed the new ide controller and patched the kernel, i.e. with unpatched 2.2.19 running on a different ide controller, this setup works just fine.

RE: tmpfs + sendfile bug ?

2001-05-21 Thread David Schwartz
That could be a bug with tmpfs and sendfile in 2.4.5-pre4 : [...] read(8, %PDF-1.4\r%\342\343\317\323\r\n870 0 obj\r \r/L..., 8192) = 8192 shmat(11, 0x4cfe65, 0x3)= 0xb4d4 sendfile(11, 8, [0], 5045861) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) [...] Any idea ?

Re: PATCH: maestro ported to 2.4 PCI API

2001-05-21 Thread Zach Brown
- ported to Linux 2.4 PCI API, PCI module based, cleaned up return values. (taking into account all the hints Jeff has given me ;) cool :) - did NOT change any power management support, since I don't know anything about power management. someone else

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNum

2001-05-21 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Oliver Xymoron wrote: K - so what? I'm guessing what you want me to see is that these implement multiple channels. Is there a reason that eia001stat couldn't be implemented as f=open(/dev/eia001ctl,O_RDWR); write(f,stat\n); status=read(f); /* returns stat foo\n

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-21 Thread arjan
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:29:17AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: distributions). 18 months is more realistic for it to be deployed widely enough. People who are going to be savvy enough to install a development 2.5.* kernel that is defining a new

Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending DeviceNum

2001-05-21 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2001, Oliver Xymoron wrote: K - so what? I'm guessing what you want me to see is that these implement multiple channels. Is there a reason that eia001stat couldn't be implemented as f=open(/dev/eia001ctl,O_RDWR);

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread Wayne . Brown
On 05/21/2001 at 12:58:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CML2 drops its configuration results in the same place, in the same formats, as CML1. So you should in fact be able to type `make menuconfig' and `make oldconfig' with good results. Have you actually tried this? No, I haven't tried it yet.

Linux 2.4.4-ac12

2001-05-21 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org 2.4.4-ac12 o Just tracking Linus 2.4.5pre4 - A chunk more merged with Linus - dropped

Re: Giant disk on 2.2.17: Any concerns?

2001-05-21 Thread Guest section DW
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:25:39PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Do you expect any problems with the partition table? No. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

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2001-05-21 Thread Thomas Palm
- moved from comp.os.linux.hardware: Hi, I still have problems with the VIA Apollo southbridge (Kernel 2.4.2 (Redhat 7.1) and Kernel 2.4.4). In rare circumstances, there ist still file-corruption. I use an ASUS A7V133 (Revision 1.05, including Sound + Raid). My tests: - copying 4 GB of

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread Urban Widmark
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: the NEW tag). That phase ended almost a month ago. Nobody who has actually tried the CML2 tools more recently has reported that the UI changes present any difficulty. What happened with the discussion on configurable colors in make menuconfig?

Re: const __init

2001-05-21 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 05.21 Richard Henderson wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:07:50PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: does cause a section conflict, egcs 1.1.2. Interestingly enough, if var[12] are together, without the intervening text, then gcc does not flag an error, instead it puts both variables in

CML2 and Python 1.5.x?

2001-05-21 Thread John Stoffel
I've seen alot of people bitching and moaning about CML2 and mostly it seems to be a need for Python 2.x that is really upsetting people. I don't know the status of the port to C, but I do remember that Eric said he had looked at doing it in Python 1.5 language, but decided against it. Would

Re: your mail

2001-05-21 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Thomas Palm wrote: there ist still file-corruption. I use an ASUS A7V133 (Revision 1.05, including Sound + Raid). My tests: 1st run of diff -r srcdir destdir - no differs 2nd run of diff -r srcdir destdir - 2 files differ 3rd run of diff -r srcdir destdir - 1 file

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