Which Bind version..

2001-01-07 Thread Mike
Hi!! I wanna install Bind on my DNS. Which Bind version is most stabel and secure. Regards, Nauman Ansari - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH:"No such process")

2001-01-07 Thread Paul Cassella
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:55:28PM -0600, Paul Cassella wrote: > > write() returns -1 and sets errno non-sensically. 2.4.0{,-ac[23]} > Would it be possible to provide a compiling test case that shows these > errors ? The CVS version (perhaps even

Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state)

2001-01-07 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:35:32PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > BTW Al: We have another general vfs/fs problem to handle - which > is exceeding max file sizes on limited file systems. Pretty much > nobody is getting it right. Ext2 can be

Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state)

2001-01-07 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Add UnlockPage(page) at the end of ramfs_writepage(). > > > Shit. You are quite fast. Works. > > > > Sure, especially considering the fact that patch was sent to > > Linus about a month ago (several times, actually)... ;-/ > > Its in all the

Re: devfs breakage in 2.4.0 release

2001-01-07 Thread Andris Pavenis
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote: > On my Sony PictureBook PCG-C1VN, 2.4.0 hangs in the boot > process while 2.4.0-prerelease boots just fine. At first I thought > the problem was devfs-related, but skipping devfsd just caused the > hang to occur a little later, this time in

Are PCI add-on Cardbus Readers supported by the 2.4.0 kernel?

2001-01-07 Thread Miles Lane
I would like to perform more PCMCIA/Cardbus testing on a wider array of systems. I am considering buying a Ratoc Cardbus PC Adapter (model number CBS51U). Here are the specs: PCI-CardBus Bridge adapter board Allows CardBus PC Cards to be shared by both portable and desktop PC.

[PATCH] wrong stat of NTFS volume in linux-kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Willem Dekker
I tested the 2.4.0 kernel and it reported a wrong volume size for ntfs partitions. The size of the partition (as reported by df -k) was a factor of 8 too high. After some searching I found that super.c in /usr/src/linux/fs/ntfs was changed. In my previous kernel 2.2.16 a division by the number

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH:"No such process")

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:16:27 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Cassella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Would it be more helpful if I were to check something like socki_lookup(file->f_dentry->f_inode)->ops == tcp_prot instead? No, helpful would be for you to present us with a test case program

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH:"No such process")

2001-01-07 Thread Paul Cassella
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:55:28 -0600 (CST) >From: Paul Cassella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >[1.] One line summary of the problem: > >write() returns -1 and sets errno non-sensically. 2.4.0{,-ac[23]} > > What you describe I can only

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (New Benchmarks)

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Mon, 08 Jan 2001 01:12:21 -0700 From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://grok.yi.org/~greear/hashed_dev.png (If you can't get to it, let me know and I'll email it to you...some cable modem networks have I firewalled.) It just seems that this shows that the

3CCFE575CT problem in 2.4.0, Maybe a PCI subsystem bug

2001-01-07 Thread Tommy Wu
I've a 3CCFE575CT card. It is work fine in 2.2.18 kernel. But when I change to kernel 2.4.0, I found it could not detect as 2.2.18. I've report to pcmcia-cs maintainer, he suggest me to report this to here. #-- By:

Re: PROBLEM: SCSI hangs with aic7xxx in 2.4.0 SMP

2001-01-07 Thread Rainer Tammer
Hello, On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 16:43:03 -0800, mull wrote: >On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:26:55PM -, Craig Freeze wrote: >> [1.] One line summary of the problem: >> SCSI hangs with aic7xxx in 2.4.0 SMP >> >> [2.] Full description of the problem/report: >> SCSI device errors and bus resets observed

Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > -ac has the rather extended ramfs with resource limits and stuff. That one > > > also has rather more extended bugs 8). AFAIK none of those are in the > vanilla

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (New Benchmarks)

2001-01-07 Thread Ben Greear
See a pretty graph showing performance of ifconfig and ip both with and without my device-hashed-lookup patch: http://grok.yi.org/~greear/hashed_dev.png (If you can't get to it, let me know and I'll email it to you...some cable modem networks have I firewalled.) I ran ifconfig -a and ip addr

2.4.0test12: problems timing events

2001-01-07 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi, I tried to time events inside the kernel in 2.4.0test12: Basically the same code works fine in 2.2.18 with about 1us jitter. However in 2.4.0test12 the jitter is around 600ms! What I did is this: I modified the interrupt routine of the serial driver to get a precision time-stamp via

Re: DHCP Problems with 3com 3c905C Tornado

2001-01-07 Thread Tim Wright
Sounds somewhat familiar. The pump that came with RedHat 6.2 never worked correctly at work, but dhcpcd worked just fine (we don't have static IP addresses, but there are fewer machines than there are addresses in the pool, so effectively, we do :-). The odd thing is that I (mis?)understood in

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > Who says that it names a device? It names interfaces. > There are good reasons to have names for ifas, and I see no really good > convincing reasons not to put these names into the interface name space. > (in addition it'll save a lot of people a lot of

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH: "No such process")

2001-01-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:55:28PM -0600, Paul Cassella wrote: > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > write() returns -1 and sets errno non-sensically. 2.4.0{,-ac[23]} Would it be possible to provide a compiling test case that shows these errors ? Also over what interface do you

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:12:09PM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:32:14AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I think it would be better to keep it. The ifa based alias > interface emulation adds minor overhead (currently it's only a > few lines of code, assuming

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > See Rowan v. United States Post Office. > Why necessarily should I care about United States Post Office > or United States in general ? I suspect canadian law has similar precedents. > > *Your* right to free speech stops at *my*

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH: "Nosuch process")

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:55:28 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Cassella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1.] One line summary of the problem: write() returns -1 and sets errno non-sensically. 2.4.0{,-ac[23]} What you describe I can only say is "impossible". There are only four cases when _ANY_

[OT] Re: performance boost from merging linux-2.4.0, xfree86-4.02

2001-01-07 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, dep wrote: > for what it's worth: > > this afternoon i conducted an experiment: i copied everything that > was newer from > [xfree-4.02-sourcedir]/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel > to my [linux-2.4.0-sourcedir]/drivers/char/drm and then built a

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!)

2001-01-07 Thread Blu3Viper
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > > If this is really true, 2.5.x is an appropriate time to make > > this, no sooner. > > I think it would be better to keep it. The ifa based alias interface > emulation adds minor overhead (currently it's only a few lines of code, > assuming we need named

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Matt Beland wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2001 21:24, Dan Hollis wrote: > > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological > > >

Re: posix_types.h error

2001-01-07 Thread Niels Kristian Bech Jensen
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > Richard is asking for source code. Documentation/Changes only gives the > location of binaries. > > This is a bit of a problem IMO (I also tried, and failed, to find the egcs > 1.1.2 source code). Now that I know where it is, I'll soon post a patch >

[PATCH] 2.4.0-ac4 : fs/qnx4/inode.c

2001-01-07 Thread Frank Davis
Hello,     While compiling 2.4.0-ac4, I receivied the following..Looks like a typo...Patch is also below. Regards, Frank   inode.c: In function `qnx4_read_super':inode.c:372: `sb' undeclared (first use in this function)inode.c:372: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only

Broken tty handling

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
Every once in a while I have a very frustrating problem develop. All tty handling stops. Packets flow in and out of the machine fine, but anything with a tty halts. I don't know exactly what is happening but I have found that killing the last user that logged in (all his processes) usually

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 09:29:29PM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote: >> The application is some mathematics computations (modular symbols) using a >> package called MAGMA; at times this requires very large matrices. The >> RSS

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:24:16PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological > > > barriers to a minority expressing speech that is unacceptable to

2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH: "Nosuch process")

2001-01-07 Thread Paul Cassella
[1.] One line summary of the problem: write() returns -1 and sets errno non-sensically. 2.4.0{,-ac[23]} [2.] Full description of the problem/report: write() sometimes returns -1 and sets errno to one of 1 (EPERM: "Operation not permitted") 3 (ESRCH: "No such process") 8 (ENOEXEC: "Exec

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 09:29:29PM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote: > The application is some mathematics computations (modular symbols) using a > package called MAGMA; at times this requires very large matrices. The > RSS can get up to 870MB; for some reason a MAGMA process under linux > thinks it

Re: [PATCH] mm/mmap.c find_vma(), kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Robert Wienholt, Jr.
> > > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Robert Wienholt, Jr. wrote: > > > Gentlemen, > > > > I was looking through some of the memory management code today and > > came across something that may provide a minor performance boost. I have > > included a patch below for the 2.4.0 source. > > > > In the

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:01:04AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:13:08 +1300 >From: Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >OK, I'm a liar -- bind does handle this. Cool. > > Standard BSD allows it, what do you expect :-) > >This is good news, because

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-07 Thread Wayne Whitney
On Sunday, January 7, 20001, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now if 2.4 has worse _performance_ than 2.2 due to one reason or > another, that I'd like to hear about ;) Well, here is a workload that performs worse on 2.4.0 than on 2.2.19pre, and as it is the usual workload on my

Re: posix_types.h error

2001-01-07 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > [snip] > > > None of the named compilers gripe? Where, prey tell, do I get the source- > > > code of a compiler that works? The only source provided in the site > > > listed in

Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions

2001-01-07 Thread Wayne . Brown
Actually, I have another reason for using patch-kernel, besides being inexperienced or lazy: being weird. :-) For some reason, I have an aversion to downloading complete kernels, and just grab the patches. That's usually OK, because I apply each patch one at a time, within a few hours after

Re: [PATCH] mm/mmap.c find_vma(), kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Robert Wienholt, Jr. wrote: > Gentlemen, > > I was looking through some of the memory management code today and > came across something that may provide a minor performance boost. I have > included a patch below for the 2.4.0 source. > > In the find_vma

Normal Response Mode of HDLC for linux

2001-01-07 Thread aprasad
Hi all, Has anybody written any support for HDLC normal response mode. I could only find the support of HDLC asynchronous balanced mode (LAPB). Any pointers will highly be appreciated. Thanks, Anil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

[PATCH] mm/mmap.c find_vma(), kernel 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Robert Wienholt, Jr.
Gentlemen, I was looking through some of the memory management code today and came across something that may provide a minor performance boost. I have included a patch below for the 2.4.0 source. In the find_vma function a cached vma is checked and if that is not the requested

Re: [PATCH] More Configure.help fixes

2001-01-07 Thread Jeremy M. Dolan
As per usual, when sending a mail with an attachment, I forgot to attach it after I :wq'd. -- Jeremy M. Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key = http://turbogeek.org/openpgp-key OpenPGP fingerprint = 494C 7A6E 19FB 026A 1F52 E0D5 5C5D 6228 DC43 3DEE diff -rub

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Matt Beland
On Sunday 07 January 2001 21:24, Dan Hollis wrote: > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological > > barriers to a minority expressing speech that

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:24:16PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological > > barriers to a minority expressing speech that is unacceptable to the > > majority. This is not acceptable. > > See

[PATCH] More Configure.help fixes

2001-01-07 Thread Jeremy M. Dolan
Dag Wieers caught all the double word's in Configure.help (from the looks of the patch we're quite a bunch of stutterers), here's another patch that catches mainly some combined words, a '2.3' -> '2.4', and inproper capitalizations. Also, two of the translation's for Configure.help have stale

Re: Network Performance?

2001-01-07 Thread Tim Sailer
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:11:40PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > this issue was discussed on the netdev mailing list a few weeks > back. > > It's very unfortunate that the web archives of netdev > stopped working several months ago and there now appears > to be no web archive of [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] VM fixes + RSS limits 2.4.0-test13-pre5

2001-01-07 Thread Peter Chubb
Ingo wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:43:54AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Dec 2000, Mike Sklar wrote: > > > If I wanted to adjust the rlim_cur value of a running > > > processes, is there any sort of interface for that? > > > > Hmmm, I don't think there is an interface to

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.0: not loading fore200e

2001-01-07 Thread Rafal Maszkowski
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:56:56AM +0100, Rafal Maszkowski wrote: > Pure 2.4.0 on sparc32 with RedHat 6.2: > root@etest:/usr/src/6,0# modprobe fore200e > /lib/modules/2.4.0lt/kernel/drivers/atm/fore200e_sba_fw.o: couldn't find the kernel >version the module was compiled for >

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dmitri Pogosyan
Even not specifically disagreeing, but Dan Hollis wrote: > > See Rowan v. United States Post Office. Why necessarily should I care about United States Post Office or United States in general ? > > > *Your* right to free speech stops at *my* property. > > Under no circumstances does your right

Re: routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOTmeet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-07 Thread Ben Greear
jamal wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ben Greear wrote: > > > Hrm, what if they just made each IP-SEC interface a net_device? If they > > are a routable entity, with it's own IP address, it starts to look a lot > > like an interface/net_device. > > As in my response to Matti, i thing a

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological > barriers to a minority expressing speech that is unacceptable to the > majority. This is not acceptable. See Rowan v. United States Post Office. *Your* right to free speech stops

Re: 2.4.0: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.

2001-01-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 07 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed. > > This debugging check should probably be removed around > 2.4.5, in the mean time it is much too useful to track > down badly behaving device drivers ;) It need not be a badly written driver, it could be a

2.4.0 APM w/ Compaq 16xx laptop...

2001-01-07 Thread Brian Macy
Anyone get this working? If so please tell me the version of you APM utilities and what Power Management options you have on in the kernel. Ever since I started trying 2.3.x, as soon as the box gets a change in it's power status (even just an update of the % battery) Linux locks solid. It's 100%

Ooops on 2.4.0 SMP Sparc32...

2001-01-07 Thread Brian Macy
This is very easily repeated... happens a few minutes after boot. After it happens one CPU gets stuck on a spin lock owned by the other. This kernel was built from code pulled down from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/vger on Jan 5th. Looked like the first merge of the 2.4.0 released code... but the Ooops

Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote: > > This sounds like a bug that I posted a fix for a long time ago. > cramfs calls bforget on the superblock area, destroying that block of > the ramdisk, even when the ramdisk does not contain a cramfs file system. > Normally, bforget is called

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 10:30:14PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:22:28PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > I already run several sugarplum sites with teergrubes. I also use > > various blackhole lists and take other action against spammers, including > >

understanding gunzip

2001-01-07 Thread dhammika
hi, i tried 2.4.0 kernel with rmk and np patches in my brutus board. (Brutus is a StrongArm based development environment) my patched kernel is 2.4.0-rmk1-np1 the kernel uncompresses fine. but uncompressing the ramdisk fails. In this instance my uncompressed ramdisk is about 3.5mb. i looked

[OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:22:28PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > I already run several sugarplum sites with teergrubes. I also use > various blackhole lists and take other action against spammers, including > blocking entire rogue domains. If that rogue domain happens to be a two >

IDE HD DMA not being enabled in 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Josh Straub
Hello, this is my first post to Linux-Kernel so I hope I get this right. On my Pentium 200 system with Intel i430VX chipset and PIIX3, my Maxtor 3.5GB IDE HD would always have DMA enabled even in 2.4.0-test10, but then sometime between 2.4.0-test12 and 2.4.0 (final), DMA was not being enabled

Re: Related VIA PCI crazyness?

2001-01-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Albert Cranford wrote: > > Could anybody with a VIA chip who has the energy please do something for > > me: > > - enable DEBUG in arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h > > - do a "/sbin/lspci -xxvvv" on the interrupt routing chip (it's the > >"ISA bridge" chip - the VIA numbers

setfsuid on ext2 weirdness (2.4)

2001-01-07 Thread Bjorn Wesen
Ok.. I'm going bananas. It could be a 4am braindeath or a rh7.0 bungholio but this is annoying: main(int argc, char **argv) { int fd; setfsuid(atoi(argv[1])); fd = open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY); printf("got fd %d\n", fd); } [root@wizball /root]# ./setfstest 0

Re: FW: compile problem in 2.4.0-ac3

2001-01-07 Thread A Guy Called Tyketto
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:42:12AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:02:40 -0800, > A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm still seeing > > > >#include > > > >at line 25 of acpi_ksyms.c. This is also the same line, in > >patch-2.4.0-ac2 (counted the

Re: Bug: Frame-buffer (icon) rotates right in 2.4.0 when SMP

2001-01-07 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
when you use SMP there's suppOsed to be one icon that shows up for every CPU you have. 2 cpu = 2 icons, 4 cpu = 4 icon. That's what the for loop in fbcon_show_logo(). So this really isnt a bug, depending on how you look at it. It's definitely something the lpp author needs to account for. On

Re: Software requirements in Changes document

2001-01-07 Thread Chris Ricker
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Matthias Juchem wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Comparing the Changes document for 2.4.0 against the one from 2.3.11 one > can see that many requirements were removed. Nine out of 22 are still > there. > Have the removed ones been unnecessary or only less important than the >

How to boot linux kernel from floppy

2001-01-07 Thread Barry Wu
Hi, all, I am new to this maillist. I want to boot my system from a single floppy. If I use 1.44MB, the space is too small. So I format my floppy to 1.6MB. I do the following things, #fdformat /dev/fd0H1600 #cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /dev/fd0 #rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 #rdev -r

Re: Paket counters for aliased interfaces ?

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
Patrick Mau wrote: [...] > And here's the question: > I would like to collect statistics for eth0:0 but obviously the > pakets are only counted for the real interface. If I had enough time > and knowledge, how should I implement paket counters for aliased > interfaces ? > > PS: Am I right that

Re: Related VIA PCI crazyness?

2001-01-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On 7 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Philip Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In supplement to Evan Thompson's emails with the subject "Additional > >info. for PCI VIA IDE crazyness. Please read." I've noticed the > >following message with recent 2.4.0

Linux 2.4.0-ac4

2001-01-07 Thread Alan Cox
Handle with care. I think the fs updates are right but I don't guarantee it. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.0-ac4 o Fix dereference of freed skbuff in iphase (Hans Grobler) o Fix dereference of freed skbuff in isdn_ppp (Hans Grobler) o

[PATCH] Fix typo in drivers/video/amifb.c in 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Rich Baum
This fixes a comment at the end of an #endif. This should fix all of the warnings about tokens at the end of #endifs. Please disregard the parts of my earlier patch which made changes to comments and .S files. I should have reviewed the patch the script made more closely. diff -urN -X

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread David Ford
Alan Cox wrote: > > Um, what about people running their box as just a VLAN router/firewall? > > That seems to be one of the principle uses so far. Actually, in that case > > both VLAN and IP traffic would come through, so it would be a tie if VLAN > > came first, but non-vlan traffic would

Re: Related VIA PCI crazyness?

2001-01-07 Thread Albert Cranford
Linus Torvalds wrote: > Could anybody with a VIA chip who has the energy please do something for > me: > - enable DEBUG in arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h > - do a "/sbin/lspci -xxvvv" on the interrupt routing chip (it's the >"ISA bridge" chip - the VIA numbers are 82c586, 82c596, the PCI >

PROBLEM: 2.4.0: not loading fore200e

2001-01-07 Thread Rafal Maszkowski
Pure 2.4.0 on sparc32 with RedHat 6.2: root@etest:/usr/src/6,0# modprobe fore200e /lib/modules/2.4.0lt/kernel/drivers/atm/fore200e_sba_fw.o: couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for /lib/modules/2.4.0lt/kernel/drivers/atm/fore200e_sba_fw.o: insmod

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:31:11PM -0700, Matt Beland wrote: > Thereby killing how many hundreds of innocent people? China doesn't much > believe in fining minor offenders, remember. > You don't like Spam? Join the club. Blacklisting any domain - ANY domain - > for spamming, unless you can

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Matthias Juchem wrote: > BTW, lots of version dependencies found in older Changes document (i.e. > for 2.3.11) were removed now (2.4.0 shows only 9 where the old one had > 22). Have the removed ones been completely unnecessary? Quoting from 2.4.0's Changes file: [snip] > trying life on the

Software requirements in Changes document

2001-01-07 Thread Matthias Juchem
Hi Chris, Comparing the Changes document for 2.4.0 against the one from 2.3.11 one can see that many requirements were removed. Nine out of 22 are still there. Have the removed ones been unnecessary or only less important than the remaining ones? Regards, Matthias - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Related VIA PCI crazyness?

2001-01-07 Thread Evan Thompson
> Could anybody with a VIA chip who has the energy please do something for > me: > - enable DEBUG in arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h > - do a "/sbin/lspci -xxvvv" on the interrupt routing chip (it's the >"ISA bridge" chip - the VIA numbers are 82c586, 82c596, the PCI >numbers for them are

[PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-07 Thread David S. Miller
I've put a patch up for testing on the kernel.org mirrors: /pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.0-1.diff.gz It provides a framework for zerocopy transmits and delayed receive fragment coalescing. TUX-1.01 uses this framework. Zerocopy transmit requires some driver support, things run

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread Matthias Juchem
On 7 Jan 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Why don't you, as the other script suggested, execute libc.so.6? > Symlinks can be missing or can be wrong. I'll have a look at this shell script and take the best out of both to make a new one. BTW, lots of version dependencies found in older Changes

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Matt Beland
On Sunday 07 January 2001 18:22, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:27:45PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:16:15PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > > 99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other > > > numbering .com or

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 5) > # glibc versions. Take the last symbolic link, > # extract the version number from the file it points to. > if [ `expr "X$1" : 'Xl'` -eq 2 ] >

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:27:45PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:16:15PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > 99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other > > numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of > >

Bug: Frame-buffer (icon) rotates right in 2.4.0 when SMP

2001-01-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, Apoligies in advance if this is not the right place to send this report. When displaying a screen-wide icon in the frame buffer for the graphics console: Linux version 2.4.0 Console Drivers Video mode selection support Support for frame buffer devices (EXPERMENTAL) VESA VGA

Re: [PATCH] Fix compile warnings in 2.4.0

2001-01-07 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:19:50 -0500, "Rich Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This patch should fix the rest of the warnings about #endif >statements when using the 20001225 gcc snapshot. Thanks to >Keith Owens for providing a script to automate this process. It got >the job done sooner and

Re: FW: compile problem in 2.4.0-ac3

2001-01-07 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:02:40 -0800, A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm still seeing > >#include > >at line 25 of acpi_ksyms.c. This is also the same line, in >patch-2.4.0-ac2 (counted the lines of each). Neither patches compile from this. Not happening here. -ac2

Paket counters for aliased interfaces ?

2001-01-07 Thread Patrick Mau
Hello, I would like to use IP-Aliasing to create a private network between a few machines without buying more hardware. That's easy, but ifconfig tells me: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:x.x.x.x Mask:x.x.x.x UP BROADCAST

Re: routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ben Greear wrote: > Hrm, what if they just made each IP-SEC interface a net_device? If they > are a routable entity, with it's own IP address, it starts to look a lot > like an interface/net_device. As in my response to Matti, i thing a netdevice is a generalized link

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:16:15PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > 99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other > numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of > protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr > or .br.

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 06:43:14 -0800, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Matthias Juchem wrote: >> My script is intended for the one who likes to provide bug reports but is >> too lazy to look up all the information or simply is not sure about what >> to include. > >Why can't it be done in sh?

Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:53:16PM -0500, John O'Donnell wrote: > Only on my company's e-mail server. My company typically gets "zero" > emails from outside the US. If I get a piece of spam (sorry they are > typically from outside the US), I just block the entire .com.br domain. > I get far

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread jamal
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:10:52PM -0500, jamal wrote: > > OK. I suppose an skb->vlan_tag is passed to the driver and it will know > > what to do with it (pass it on a descriptor etc). > > Sure, nice. WHY SHOULD THERE BE MORE LAYER-2 STUFF ADDED

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > 99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other > numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of > protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr > or .br. I'm fully in favor of

Re: [PATCH] typo in vesafb.c (against 2.4.0-ac3)

2001-01-07 Thread Michael D. Crawford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > this looks like a typo and fixes a compile error in > 2.4.0-ac3. (replacing temp_sze with temp_size in drivers/video/vesafb.c) I had this problem too. For some reason this patch kept getting rejected by the patch program when I tried to apply it, but editing the

Re: Related VIA PCI crazyness?

2001-01-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philip Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In supplement to Evan Thompson's emails with the subject "Additional >info. for PCI VIA IDE crazyness. Please read." I've noticed the >following message with recent 2.4.0 test + release kernels: > >IRQ routing conflict

Re: ip_conntrack locks up hard on 2.4.0 after about 10 hours

2001-01-07 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > It seems that for one reason or another, ip_conntrack totally locks (not > removeable) after about 10 hours of continued use. All i found were > these messages in my dmesg output What was the contents of /proc/net/ip_conntrack? Being unremovable can

CML2 0.9.1 is available

2001-01-07 Thread Eric S. Raymond
The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Release 0.9.1: Sun Jan 7 18:05:36 EST 2001 * Synchronized with 2.4.0 final. * Fixed bugs in handling of -W and -D flags. * "source" pathnames are now evaluated relative relative to the

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:03:19AM +0100, Pedro M. Rodrigues wrote: >Lucky b*st*rd! ;-) My spam is mostly from USA. Just deleted 78 > of those, and only 7 seemed to be from abroad. I wish i could block > .com ... ;-) 99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other

Re: FW: compile problem in 2.4.0-ac3

2001-01-07 Thread A Guy Called Tyketto
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:57:08PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 04:32:25 -0800, > A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi' > >gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 >

Re: xfs mount opts (was: More better in mount(2))

2001-01-07 Thread Nathan Scott
hi, On Jan 5, 3:51pm, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Subject: Re: More better in mount(2) > Nathan Scott wrote: > > On Jan 5, 3:26am, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > ... > > > This filesystem mount option parsing code is completely ad hoc, and uses > > > strtok which is horribly horribly broken. (Do

[OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Pedro M. Rodrigues
Lucky b*st*rd! ;-) My spam is mostly from USA. Just deleted 78 of those, and only 7 seemed to be from abroad. I wish i could block .com ... ;-) Pedro On 7 Jan 2001, at 17:53, John O'Donnell wrote: > Only on my company's e-mail server. My company typically gets "zero" > emails from

Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread John O'Donnell
Only on my company's e-mail server. My company typically gets "zero" emails from outside the US. If I get a piece of spam (sorry they are typically from outside the US), I just block the entire .com.br domain. I get far less SPAM now! I cannot express how much I loathe SPAM! I have taken this

Re: posix_types.h error

2001-01-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: [snip] > > None of the named compilers gripe? Where, prey tell, do I get the source- > > code of a compiler that works? The only source provided in the site > > listed in the Documentation does not. > > It's not the only

Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

2001-01-07 Thread 5116
On 7 Jan, Alan Cox wrote: >> Um, what about people running their box as just a VLAN router/firewall? >> That seems to be one of the principle uses so far. Actually, in that case >> both VLAN and IP traffic would come through, so it would be a tie if VLAN >> came first, but non-vlan traffic

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