Re: 3c59x: Using bad IRQ 0

2000-11-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
i_resource_xxx calls until after pci_enable_device too. A caveat to this whole scheme is that usb-uhci -already- calls pci_enable_device before checking dev-irq, and yet cannot get around the "assign IRQ to USB: no" setting in BIOS. I hope that is an exception rather than the rule. Reg

Re: [uPATCH] fix IDE/ServerWorks OSB4 config option (test11)

2000-11-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
. IMHO even if the southbridge is currently only known to be used on x86's, that doesn't mean that the hardware, or the driver, will always be limited to the X86 platform. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense Ma

Re: [PATCH] removal of static foo = 0 from drivers/ide (test11)

2000-11-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
is nothing wrong with that change. Standard kernel style cleanup, which saves a few bytes in the output kernel image. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense MandrakeSoft| -- Picasso - To unsubs

Re: Patch(?): pci_device_id tables for linux-2.4.0-test11/drivers/block

2000-11-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
linux/drivers/block/cpqarray.c Wed Nov 22 12:34:53 2000 ok -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense MandrakeSoft| -- Picasso - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&

Re: Patch(?): pci_device_id tables for linux-2.4.0-test11/drivers/block

2000-11-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andi Kleen wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 05:14:38PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: *This* is the over-engineering attitude I was talking about. The only reason why you are preferring named initializers is because pci_device_id MIGHT be changed. And if it is changed, it makes

Re: [NEW DRIVER] firestream

2000-11-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
, that there are some headers that IMHO need to be moved out of include/linux because they aren't used in userspace, and they aren't public interfaces, nor shared across directories. -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense Ma

[PATCH] Re: PROBLEM: kernel 2.4.0-test11-ac1 hang with usb-uhci and emu10k1

2000-11-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
not make a difference, but that check is flat out wrong. Apply this patch... (untested, you may need to include ioport.h) -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense MandrakeSoft| -- Picasso Index: drive

Re: Patch: linux-2.4.0-test11/drivers/sound/maestro.c port to new PCI interface

2000-11-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
into one place. You can obtain include/linux/oss_audio.h and drivers/sound/oss_audio.c from gkernel CVS. Check out module 'linux_2_4', tag 'hack_2_4_0_test11'. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/) I thought alsa is going in in 2.5... Yep. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik

Re: beware of dead string constants

2000-11-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
of this? Advantage of what? If you mean preferring 'if ()' over 'ifdef'... Linus. :) And I agree with him: code looks -much- more clean without ifdefs. And the compiler should be smart enough to completely eliminate code inside an 'if (0)' code block. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024

Re: 3c59x: Using bad IRQ 0

2000-11-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
ctually says that we _should_), and there is no need to do it separately for each interrupt router. So calling eisa_set_level_irq() means nothing will scream if we do not update [for example] the above register? Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | The chief

Re: changing BIOS setting

2000-11-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
t all have a BIOS-related problem, or similar, you should just reboot and adjust your BIOS... Of course, if you are really motivated, you could just flash your own BIOS. Check out http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/ Regards, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 |

Re: 3c59x: Using bad IRQ 0

2000-11-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: A caveat to this whole scheme is that usb-uhci -already- calls pci_enable_device before checking dev-irq, and yet cannot get around the "assign IRQ to USB: no" setting in BIOS. I hope that is an exception r

Re: [PATCH] removal of static foo = 0

2000-11-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
of knowing and internalizing "the rules" in your head. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense MandrakeSoft| -- Picasso - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: Patch: linux-2.4.0-test11ac4/drivers/net/tokenring/{tmspci,abyss}.c __devinit fixes

2000-11-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Adam J. Richter" wrote: I hope this patch will be applied both to the development version of the driver and, ideally, to Alan's tree, and really ideally, propagated to Linus with the rest of Adam Fritzler's port. These are not fixes, please do not apply. Jeff

Re: Pls add this driver to the kernel tree !!

2000-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, John B. Jacobsen wrote: /* winbond-840.c: A Linux PCI network adapter skeleton device driver. */ It is already in 2.4.x Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read

Re: corruption

2000-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: Alexander Viro wrote: Confirms. That's definitely an empty list_head at address 0xc3c49058 and -pre2 has O_SYNC patches. foo. The overnight run wedged tight in mmap002. No progress. I bet this'll catch it: ---

Re: why volatile on vgacon.c?

2000-12-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:24:15PM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: That was on 2.2 series, but since I moved it to 2.4 series I don't have that cga card found anymore. I have looked on the kernel code and followed it to the __init function

Re: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3)

2000-12-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: Indeed, you are correct. Is vpnd broken then, for assuming that it can gather the required randomness in one read? Yep. It assumes that if the required randommness numbers aren't met a read to /dev/random will block. And it's not the only

Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

2000-12-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit : [...] We already have a standard interface for this, but many drivers do not support it. Its called "ifconfig eth0 media xxx": Actually, I starteed work on adding this to the 3c59x code

Re: 2.4.0-test11: arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S incompatible with Vaio C1VE (Crusoe) floppy

2000-12-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: 2.4.0-test11, arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S has a probe_loop: to determine the number of sectors that can be read at once (i.e. in one track). This routine does not work with the Sony UDF5 USB floppy disk, mapped as an Int13 device by the Vaio C1VE

Re: 2.4.0-test11: hangs while Probing PCI hardware for Sony Vaio C1VE (Crusoe)

2000-12-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: PhoenixBIOS, Sony Vaio C1VE I did some printk() debugging, but the kernel hangs at various places in pci_setup_device(), mostly in pci_read_bases(). This is a Transmeta laptop, right? See the recent thread with "Transmeta" in the subject. The

Re: sunhme.c patch for new PCI interface (UNTESTED)

2000-11-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
odule_init(happy_meal_pci_driver); +#else + return (cards 0) ? 0 : -ENODEV; #endif ifdef not needed +#ifdef CONFIG_PCI + pci_unregister_driver (happy_meal_pci_driver); +#endif ifdef not needed. -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | The chief enemy of creativit

Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote: If you go down this path, please add a standard performance monitoring method to query the current capacity of an interface. to report "eth0 is handling 1 Megabyte/second, but we cannot tell if that is 90% (10BaseT) or 9% (100BaseT) utilization". We

Re: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3)

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: Any programmer who has evolved sufficiently from a scriptie should take necessary precautions to check how much data was transferred. Those who don't..well, there is still tomorrow. There is no reason to add any additional documentation. If

Re: sunhme.c patch for new PCI interface (UNTESTED)

2000-11-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Adam J. Richter" wrote: Jeff Garzik writes: Are you aware of any hotplug sunhme hardware? If no, don't change it to __devinit... Can I have a hot plug PCI bridge card that connects to a regular PCI backplane (perhaps as some kind of CardBus docking station card)? If s

Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: Was borking on dummy.c. This seemed to fix it. Verification please? gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686

Re: test12-pre4 drivers/net/dummy

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
the fix is in module.h which needs extra parens in the def of set_module_owner... Jeff On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: Patch posted here... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=97590235825341w=2 "Garst R. Reese" wrote: Fails to compile module at line

Re: [PATCH] i810_audio 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Thomas Sailer wrote: And before killing format conversion you should kill the mmap stunt, because the format conversion complexity (~25 LOC) is by far dwarfed by the mmap emulation stuff. mmap -emulation- ?? Ug. Is Quake really worth that much? :) The underlying

Re: 2.4.0.12.4: drivers/net/dummy.c fails compile

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: SPARC64, Red Hat 6.2 + local updates A better patch has already been posted, and is present in the 2.4.0-test11-ac series. module.h needs to be modified to protect the argument of SET_MODULE_OWNER. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
patch, but it looks good. Immediately following pci_enable_device is generally a really good place for the call to pci_set_master. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi mind trick. - To unsubs

Re: test12-pre6

2000-12-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Miles Lane wrote: Hmm. Your patch doesn't test whether pci_enable_device(dev) was successful, does it? eh? It's self-evident from Erik's patch that pci_enable_device's return call is already being tested, thus you only need to add a call to pci_set_master. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik

Re: [RFC-2] Configuring Synchronous Interfaces in Linux

2000-12-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
fr_protocol struct eth_physical Not yet another one for eth... We now have ethtool for this. And a generic netdevice::set_config wrapper can be created that simply calls the ethtool ioctl with the proper info and locking. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024

Re: [PATCH] NTFS repair tools

2000-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
-- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi mind trick. - 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://w

Re: D-LINK DFE-530-TX

2000-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
site http://www.scyld.com/network. 2.4.x-test has some fixes for via-rhine which don't appear to have made it into the Becker driver yet... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi mind trick

Re: question about tulip patch to set CSR0 for pci 2.0 bus

2000-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
of cpu generation? A good suggestion, too... Some other hardware behaves differently based on PCI bus version, it would be nice for the driver to notice that and enable (or disable) advanced features. To blindly assume is just a PCI bus lockup waiting to happen... Jeff -- Jeff

Re: Kernel Development Documentation?

2000-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
stuck into Documentation/*, that's fine. The preferred is 'make {pdf,ps,html}docs' as yanked from Documentation/DocBook. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi mind trick. - To unsubscribe from

Re: [Fwd: NTFS repair tools]

2000-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
s out. We don't need any messages. If (DANGEROUS) is not sufficient, then disable the feature unconditionally. Someone hacking on the code will be smart enough to enable the stuff while they are debugging. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you

Re: Serial cardbus code.... for testing, please.....

2000-12-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
itech Jack of Spades is unusual in some way, since your (Linus) BestData card and other serial CardBus cards sound like they work. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi mind trick. - To unsubs

Re: hotplug mopup

2000-12-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Add events like NETDEV_UP, NETDEV_DOWN, and NETDEV_GOING_DOWN to netdev_event_names[] if you want to call /sbin/hotplug for other netdev events. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi

Re: Serial cardbus code.... for testing, please.....

2000-12-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: Oh, serial_cb shouldn't work anyway, I think. As soon as the serial.c hotplug patch appear, you'll be receiving a patch that eliminates serial_cb. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft

Re: Serial cardbus code.... for testing, please.....

2000-12-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote: Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 11:13:59 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note how the "rs_interrupt()" routine _tries_ to avoid this by having a pass counter value, but that logic never triggers because we will loop fore

Re: Serial cardbus code.... for testing, please.....

2000-12-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
think you should sit on fixes until post 2.4.0... and I would like to get CardBus serial working because it's broken in the current tree... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi

Swapping-over-nbd deadlock fixed?

2000-12-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
I see in the 2.2.18 release notes that a deadlock, related to swapping over a network via nbd, was fixed. Is this bug present in 2.4.x-test? -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi mind trick

Re: [PATCH] generic_serial's block_til_ready

2000-12-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
he version specified as being required in Documention/CHANGES? If so, then I'm not surprised the patch has not been applied (how many times have you sent it?). His patch is a namespace cleanup, which IMHO should be applied... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Bui

Re: National Semiconductor DP83815 ethernet driver?

2000-12-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
. And Tim Hockin mentioned that he was using an NSC driver, but had made some minor modifications. Use drivers/net/natsemi.c... it's in 2.4.x-test. -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi mind trick

Re: D-LINK DFE-530-TX

2000-12-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Simon Huggins wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:56:15AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Peter Horton wrote: If the PCI device ID is 3065 then it's via-rhine, but not supported by the driver in the kernel. Get updated via-rhine from Donald Becker's site http://www.scyld.com/network. 2.4.x

Re: insmod problem after modutils upgrading

2000-12-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
n't be related to the modutils. Yep, that's the correct fix -- remove that line. My apologies to Keith Owens for originally saying the opposite (I deal with so many net drivers they all get jumbled up in my mind) Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These

Re: insmod problem after modutils upgrading

2000-12-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
ess lately... :) Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi mind trick. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAI

Re: Fwd: [Fwd: [PATCH] cs89x0 is not only an ISA card]

2000-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
can source the file, and be presented with a proper list of devices for that platform. For an embedded board that supports cs89x0, as you suggest, defining CONFIG_ISA is a much better option. Or, making cs89x0 dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED_PLATFORM -and- CONFIG_ISA. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
The test13-pre1 changelog was something along the lines of "alright, I am sick of this Makefile crap. I fixed some, clean up the rest." ;-) -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi

Re: FIXED! Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI resourcecollisions (fwd)

2000-10-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
for skipping already-configured bus numbers. */ #define pcibios_assign_all_busses() 1 And Jamal, can you privately e-mail me your 'dmesg' output (with debugging enabled in pci-i386.h), from -before- applying patches. Regards, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik

PATCH 2.4.0.10.6: always no-strict-aliasing

2000-10-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
/Makefile be appropriate? -- Jeff Garzik| Raft naked... Building 1024 | It adds color to your cheeks. MandrakeSoft | Index: Makefile === RCS file: /cvsroot/gkernel/linux_2_4/Makefile

Re: [patch] kernel/module.c (plus gratuitous rant)

2000-10-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
to? Regards, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik| "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't mind me clawing at the MandrakeSoft | dash and screaming like a cheerleader." | -Max -

PATCH 2.4.0.10.6: video4linux API update, bttv mmap rewrite

2000-10-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Thought some people here might be interested in this too... Description quoted below. -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't mind me clawing at the MandrakeSoft| dash and screaming lik

Re: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0

2000-10-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
gives this warning? Can you post the output of dump_pirq, from the pcmcia_cs package? (if you don't have it already, http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/) -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't mind me clawing at t

Re: [patch] NE2000

2000-10-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
in ne.c, and it seems silly to duplicate ne2000 PCI support. Regards, Jeff P.S. Pavel, for the future, patches made with "diff -u" are preferred. -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't mind me cl

PATCH 2.4.0.10.6: wrapper.h cleanup

2000-10-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
module_unregister_blkdev inode_get_rdev file_get_flags mem_map_inc_count mem_map_dec_count -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't mind me clawing at t

Re: kmalloc() allocation.

2000-10-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
nd vmalloc allocate pages, but neither will allocate pages that the system will swap out (page out). [vk]malloc pages are always around during an interrupt. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't mind me cl

Re: kmalloc() allocation.

2000-10-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tigran Aivazian wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: Now, I could set up a linked-list of buffers and use vmalloc() if the buffers were allocated from non-paged RAM. I don't think they are. These buffers must be present during an

Re: [PATCH] kiobuf/rawio fixes for 2.4.0-test10-pre6

2000-10-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
the way I do it currently -- without kiobufs... Honestly interested, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't mind me clawing at the MandrakeSoft| dash and shrieking lik

Re: kmalloc() allocation.

2000-10-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: Now, I could set up a linked-list of buffers and use vmalloc() if the buffers were allocated from non-paged RAM. I don't think they are. These buffers mu

Re: [PATCH] kiobuf/rawio fixes for 2.4.0-test10-pre6

2000-10-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:19:21PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Take a look at drivers/sound/via82cxxx_audio.c. How can that mmap be improved by using kiobufs? I think so - but you need Stephen's kvmap patch, that is in the same patchset the forward-ported fixes

Re: [patch] NE2000

2000-10-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
all boards ne.c does, and includes some fixes that ne.c does not, it seems like removing the PCI support in ne.c is a bug fix change. It looks like ne2k-pci.c does need a HZ scaling fixing from ne.c though... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Bui

Re: [PATCH] kiobuf/rawio fixes for 2.4.0-test10-pre6

2000-10-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:56:07PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: My question from above is: how can the via audio mmap in test10-preXX be improved by using kiobufs? I am not a kiobuf expert, but AFAICS a non-kiobuf implementation is better for audio drivers

Re: test10-pre7

2000-10-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Keith Owens wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:01:20 -0500, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Owens wrote: USB still gets unresolved symbols when part is in kernel, part is in modules and modversions are set. Patch against 2.4.0-test10-pre7, only affects drivers/usb/Makefile

Re: test10-pre7

2000-10-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
be the expanded (but not ordered) list? That should take care of it, no? As an aside: remember you mentioned we should try to go 100% OX_OBJS anyway, eliminating O_OBJS completely... -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't

Re: / on ramfs, possible?

2000-10-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
are creating a lot of temporary files and such, though, initrd is indeed a much better solution from many perspectives. (IMHO) Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't mind me clawing at the MandrakeSoft

Re: [PATCH] Re: Negative scalability by removal of lock_kernel()?(Was: Strange performance behavior of 2.4.0-test9)

2000-10-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
-writer locks. Some of the lock test routines simply scan the list, without modifying it. -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't mind me clawing at the MandrakeSoft| dash and screaming lik

Re: test10-pre7 (LINK ordering)

2000-10-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
local USB patches... -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't mind me clawing at the MandrakeSoft| dash and shrieking like a cheerleader." | -Max config.bz2

Re: [patch] NE2000

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
, ne2.c, ne2k-pci.c, and pcnet_cs.c, all of which do pretty much the same thing at their core. [and AFAICS, all but pcnet_cs might easily call a common ne2k library] Regards, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if yo

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
for 2.4.x, our concern is whether a particular net driver needs further SMP protection internally, or if rtnl_lock (a semaphore, not a spinlock) is sufficient. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
"J . A . Magallon" wrote: On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 02:12:31 Jeff Garzik wrote: You're not changing 2.4.x to use kgcc, are you? It seems to be working fine under gcc 2.95.2+fixes... What means "using kgcc" ? Alan has a script in 2.2.x which attempts to fi

Re: Announce: Via audio driver update

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
TimO wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: An update of the Via audio driver for Linux 2.4.x kernels has been posted at http://gtf.org/garzik/drivers/via82cxxx/ Hi Jeff, Somewhere between v1.1.8 and 1.1.10 (I haven't tried 1.1.9), the output Please grab 1.1.14, there were

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
not gcc-2.95.2 on my system. and why another compiler even needs to be installed. Cuz the kernel should not dictate the compiler choice for the entire distro. -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't mind me clawing at t

Re: test10 won't boot

2000-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
es it boot with the attached patch? -- Jeff Garzik | "Mind if I drive?" -Sam Building 1024 | "Not if you don't mind me clawing at the MandrakeSoft| dash and shrieking like a cheerleader." | -Max

Re: vesafb doesn't work in 240t10?

2000-11-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
linux_2_4]$ perl -e 'printf "%d\n", 0x317;' 791 So, use "vga=791" in your lilo.conf. -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: Poll and OSS API

2000-11-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
tribe. We are stuck with the current OSS API, including warts aplenty, until ALSA replaces it. (but even then OSS will live on in infamy...) Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/gam

Re: Poll and OSS API

2000-11-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
the "emu10k1" module from Creative's CVS server, and look in the emu10k1/utils/oss-test directory. Regards, Jeff Creative CVS info: export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot echo note - password is 'cvsguest' -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready whe

Re: non-gcc linux?

2000-11-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
us nothing. Removing gcc-isms without a pragmatic reason -- and no, ISO C compliancy is not a pragmatic reason -- is silly, extra work for little or no value. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft|

Re: 255.255.255.255 won't broadcast to multiple NICs

2000-11-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Rob Landley wrote: Under 2.2.16, broadcast packets addressed to 255.255.255.255 do not go out to all interfaces in a machine with multiple network cards. They're getting routed out the default gateway's interface instead. Are the network cards on the same network? -- Jeff Garzik

Re: PATCH 2.4.0.10: Update hotplug

2000-11-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
code, because /sbin/network has utility outside the domain of hotplug. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page (Updated as of 2.4.0-test10)

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
in test10 release. I have a PC LinkSys dual 10/100 and 56K card that will kill the machine if you physically pull it out no matter what cardctl/module steps are taken. It uses the ne2k and serial drivers. Part of that might be that serial doesn't support hotplug without patching. -- Jeff Garzik

Re: Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page (Updated as of 2.4.0-test10)

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
. de4x5 is becoming EISA-only in 2.5.x too, since its PCI support is duplicated now in tulip driver. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune - To unsubscribe from

Re: Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page (Updated as of 2.4.0-test10)

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
- many net drivers are not SMP. They are most of the way there, but there are still small races which exist in some drivers. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune - To u

Re: Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page (Updated as of 2.4.0-test10)

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
may want those drivers? de4x5 is stable. Its hopeless to add stuff to it, or try to any fix of the (IMHO small) issues, but its fine as is. For maintenance issues, its PCI support will be eliminated in 2.5.x because it is a duplicate of support in the tulip driver. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik

Re: Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page (Updated as of 2.4.0-test10)

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
the tulip driver for their card. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: linux-2.4.0-test9

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
ut this), the kernel has never really been good about that... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page (Updated as of 2.4.0-test10)

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
, it sees and registers the PCI serial port. 3) eject card, which serial.c doesn't presently notice. ... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune - To unsubscribe from

Re: Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page (Updated as of 2.4.0-test10)

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
_cs (which is impossible at the moment, AFAIK). -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: linux-2.4.0-test9

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: (3) With the new kernel, I can't access screen memory anymore. When testing software drivers for hardware that I don't have, I usually use the screen-regen buffer t

Re: Oops when loading 3c509-module in test10

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
actually does allocate its device structure correctly. Please apply this patch... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune Index: linux_2_4/drivers/net/3c509.c diff -u

Re: Poll and OSS API

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
by OSS' ugliness) Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: Sample device driver - 2.2 and 2.4 support?

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
should look at ? That depends on both the changes and your driver... Every driver is different, so nothing is really canonical WRT driver API changes. If your driver is similar to a sound card, then look at drivers/sound/*.c ... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when

Re: Poll and OSS API

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: So fix the stupid API. The above is just idiocy. We're pretty much stuck with the API, until we look at merging ALSA in 2.5.x. Broken API or not, OSS is a mature API, and there are spec-correct apps that depend

Re: Poll and OSS API

2000-11-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please re

Re: USB init order dependencies.

2000-11-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
kefiles... touching linux/Makefile link order this close to 2.4.0 is asking for trouble. Compared to that, adding a few lines to init/main.c isn't so bad. IMHO, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft

Re: linux-2.4.0-test9

2000-11-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ingo Oeser wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:12:31PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: But if you are going to eliminate info-vxi_base, it seems like that would flush out all direct de-refs, whether they are buried in an obscure macro or not. And if you find all that crap, you might as well

Re: kernel 2.4-test10: new wrapper.h brakes drivers

2000-11-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
good luck in finding an alternative, or just leave it in, or whatever. if the nvidia kernel shell needs to support multiple kernel versions, they should add #ifndef mem_map_inc_count ...compat code... #endif -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm go

Re: Who will be responsible for 2.4.0 patches?

2000-11-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
it can go in. Otherwise, yeah, you'll have to wait until 2.4.0 is released... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Locking Between User Context and Soft IRQs in 2.4.0

2000-11-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
uld always beware of deadlocks! Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft| -/usr/games/fortune struct net_device synchronization rules === dev-open:

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