hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }

2001-01-27 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
I've been getting this during the boot sequence for quite some time now. They don't seem to impact the functionality of the drive any though. Just another extra-verbose kernel message I should ignore? :) (This is from the 2.4.1-pre10 btw.) hdd: CD-ROM TW 120D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd:

Re: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }

2001-01-27 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
I gave it a whirl. Sadly, no change. On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: My gut tells me that this is the 'get last written' command, and even with the quiet flag we get the IDE error status printed. Could you try and add goto use_toc; add the top of

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: 2.4.4 del_timer_sync oops in schedule_timeout

2001-05-20 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 78626970 this appears to be some sort of DMA-corruption or other memory scribble problem. hexa 78626970 is ASCII pibx, which shows in the direction of some sort of disk-related DMA corruption.

Re: 2.4.4 del_timer_sync oops in schedule_timeout

2001-05-21 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: It could be timer-list corruption. Someone released some memory which had a live timer in it. The memory got recycled and then the timer list traversal fell over it. Well I do have another oops now (artsd this time). Once again it's in

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote: 1 : a group, body, or mass composed of many distinct parts or individuals 2 a : the collecting of units or parts into a mass or whole b : the condition of being so collected You have to argue that absolutely

re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:176, 2.4.0test9pre7

2000-10-01 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
This bug, which I posted about earlier tonight, appears to be resolved by Rik van Riel's latest vm patch (www.surriel.com/patches/2.4.0-t9p7-vmpatch) although I can't be certain. But prior to the patch I could trigger the BUG quite easily with a kernel compile or such and I have been compiling

Re: test-10 tulip eth0 timed out (smp, heavy IDE use)

2000-11-27 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
Linksys LNE version 4, 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 0985 (rev 11) [...] Nov 28 04:04:52 twoey kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Nov 28 04:04:52 twoey kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status fc664010, CSR12 , resetting... I can

Re: [PATCH (2.4)] atomic use count for proc_dir_entry

2000-11-16 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
I'm not (yet) a kernel guru, so just point and laugh if I'm wrong, but... On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote: - if (!--de-count) { + if (atomic_dec_and_test(de-count)) { Doesn't this reverse the sense of the test? -Jacob -- "My my, the cruelest lies are

Re: [PATCH (2.4)] atomic use count for proc_dir_entry

2000-11-17 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote: If you are right, I guess put_files_struct() of kernel/exit.c would have cleaned files_struct everytime someones called it. Everywhere in the kernel, objects are freed when atomic_dec_and_test() returns true. Indeed, after studying the asm in question

Re: tulip driver broken in 2.4.4?

2001-05-01 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
Well, I guess I should chip in here with the rather amusing fact that 2.4.4 is the first kernel *not* to do this to me... ;-) I am, of course, glad to help out testing stuff if needed. My card is also a LinkSys LNE100TX v4.1, which the tulip driver identifies as an ADMtek Comet rev 17

Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregistertable

2001-06-11 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for ^ Preferred by whom? The FSF? Richard Stallman? Hackers in general when they take a vote? Programmers in general? What if the market is

Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-17 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
Speaking as a Linux _USER_, if this happens, can I get said print engine working on my ARM machines with these closed source drivers? Can Alpha users get this print system working? Can Sparc uses get it working? What? I can't? They can't? Well, its no good to me nor them. You've just

use the kernel to change an irq?

2001-03-22 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
Oh Great Gurus: I have an agp video card that seems quite picky about interrupts, and a bios that is insisting on sharing the video card's interrupt with whatever is in the first pci slot. So my question is, is there any way for the kernel to more or less say ``screw you'' to the bios and pick

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: 2.4.4 del_timer_sync oops in schedule_timeout

2001-05-20 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 78626970 > this appears to be some sort of DMA-corruption or other memory scribble > problem. hexa 78626970 is ASCII "pibx", which shows in the direction of > some sort of disk-related DMA

Re: 2.4.4 del_timer_sync oops in schedule_timeout

2001-05-21 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > It could be timer-list corruption. Someone released some memory > which had a live timer in it. The memory got recycled and then > the timer list traversal fell over it. Well I do have another oops now (artsd this time). Once again it's in

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote: > 1 : a group, body, or mass composed of many distinct parts > or individuals > 2 a : the collecting of units or parts into a mass or whole > b : the condition of being so collected > > You have to argue that

hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }

2001-01-27 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
I've been getting this during the boot sequence for quite some time now. They don't seem to impact the functionality of the drive any though. Just another extra-verbose kernel message I should ignore? :) (This is from the 2.4.1-pre10 btw.) hdd: CD-ROM TW 120D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd:

Re: hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }

2001-01-27 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
I gave it a whirl. Sadly, no change. On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > My gut tells me that this is the 'get last written' command, and even > with the quiet flag we get the IDE error status printed. Could you > try and add > > goto use_toc; > > add the top of

Re: tulip driver broken in 2.4.4?

2001-05-01 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
Well, I guess I should chip in here with the rather amusing fact that 2.4.4 is the first kernel *not* to do this to me... ;-) I am, of course, glad to help out testing stuff if needed. My card is also a LinkSys LNE100TX v4.1, which the tulip driver identifies as an ADMtek Comet rev 17

Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregistertable

2001-06-11 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for ^ Preferred by whom? The FSF? Richard Stallman? Hackers in general when they take a vote? Programmers in general? What if the market is

Re: test-10 tulip "eth0 timed out" (smp, heavy IDE use)

2000-11-27 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
> > Linksys LNE version 4, 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Bridgecom, Inc: > > Unknown device 0985 (rev 11) [...] > > Nov 28 04:04:52 twoey kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > > Nov 28 04:04:52 twoey kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status fc664010, > > CSR12 , resetting...

re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:176, 2.4.0test9pre7

2000-10-01 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
This bug, which I posted about earlier tonight, appears to be resolved by Rik van Riel's latest vm patch (www.surriel.com/patches/2.4.0-t9p7-vmpatch) although I can't be certain. But prior to the patch I could trigger the BUG quite easily with a kernel compile or such and I have been compiling

Re: [PATCH (2.4)] atomic use count for proc_dir_entry

2000-11-16 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
I'm not (yet) a kernel guru, so just point and laugh if I'm wrong, but... On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote: > - if (!--de->count) { > + if (atomic_dec_and_test(>count)) { Doesn't this reverse the sense of the test? -Jacob -- "My my, the cruelest lies are

Re: [PATCH (2.4)] atomic use count for proc_dir_entry

2000-11-17 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote: > If you are right, I guess put_files_struct() of kernel/exit.c would > have cleaned files_struct everytime someones called it. > Everywhere in the kernel, objects are freed when > atomic_dec_and_test() returns true. Indeed, after studying the asm in

Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-17 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
> Speaking as a Linux _USER_, if this happens, can I get said print > engine working on my ARM machines with these closed source drivers? > Can Alpha users get this print system working? Can Sparc uses > get it working? What? I can't? They can't? Well, its no good to > me nor them. You've

use the kernel to change an irq?

2001-03-22 Thread Jacob Luna Lundberg
Oh Great Gurus: I have an agp video card that seems quite picky about interrupts, and a bios that is insisting on sharing the video card's interrupt with whatever is in the first pci slot. So my question is, is there any way for the kernel to more or less say ``screw you'' to the bios and pick