Linux-Development-Sys Digest #407, Volume #6 Wed, 17 Feb 99 10:15:34 EST
Contents:
Re: Ncurses with g++ (William McBrine)
Linux and MSDOS partitions (Christopher)
kernel2.2.1 and shutdown on asus-pii-board ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: spurious inter-package dependencies (Stuart Miles)
Re: Really slow tar (Jayasuthan)
Looking for timer and load monitor (Didier Nghia Le Tien)
Getting to ethernet HW address (Philip Rademakers)
Re: Linux programming jobs? (Bill Ripley)
Re: need to count "real" disk accesses (Felix Rauch)
Re: How do dynamically linked binaries find their shared libraries? (Karl Heyes)
Re: Linux and MSDOS partitions (Karsten Tinnefeld)
Re: X Windows Graphics programing (Karsten Tinnefeld)
need to count "real" disk accesses (FabC)
Re: Clock Skew (Stefan Monnier)
Re: Internal PCI modem (Johan Kullstam)
Re: dosemu and wine (Mike Cole)
Race condition in 2.2.1 (Andrew D Lenharth)
Re: C Programming for ISA Card (Emile van Bergen)
Re: spurious inter-package dependencies (Emile van Bergen)
X windows mounting program (chris bingham)
X Windows mounting (Christopher)
X windows (Christopher)
Re: drivers/block/genhd.c & MINIX subpartitioning & where do I send what? (Adrian
'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William McBrine)
Subject: Re: Ncurses with g++
Date: 17 Feb 1999 10:31:05 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system RD Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Following the instructions on the man page, I added '#include ncurses.h'
: to my C++ program.
Try '#include <ncurses.h>' (with angle brackets). :-)
--
William McBrine | http://www.clark.net/~wmcbrine/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ./\./\./\./\./\./\./\./\./\./\.
------------------------------
From: Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and MSDOS partitions
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:24:26 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know if you can install and run Linux applications on a
mounted MSDOS partition mounted and viewable from Linux?
Thanks.
Christopher.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: kernel2.2.1 and shutdown on asus-pii-board
Date: 17 Feb 1999 11:07:58 GMT
hy,
after installing the new kernel 2.2.1 (before it was 2.0.36) my system
doas not turn off the computer after shutdown.
i have a "asus p2b" board. in the kernelconfig i used "CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y".
any ideas?
in kernel 2.0.36 it worked realy fine!
volker
--
Volker Widor - Kiewittsholm 6a - D-24107 Ottendorf
Fon.: +49 431 583572 Fax: +49 431 583502
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP-Key fingerprint = F0A3275365F351D3 EFE469138BC0ACE3
------------------------------
From: Stuart Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: spurious inter-package dependencies
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:43:47 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> So all I'm asking is for a system where the dependencies are done a bit more
> carefully than in the RedHat distribution.
You could do a lot worse than trying Debian
--
Stuart Miles Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alenia Marconi Systems Phone: +44 1276 63311
Views expressed are mine and not those of Alenia Marconi Systems
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:59:58 -0800
From: Jayasuthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Really slow tar
I did something ... dangerous ..
try some setting on hdparm on you hard disk... It works for me.
man hdparm
Daren Scot Wilson wrote:
>
> tar runs very slowly on my machine. This started about a month ago, after
> reloading linux (RH5.0) and upgrading the kernel, compilers, etc. Everything
> else runs normal. There are no symptoms other than that tar runs slow. It's
> not unzipping - I can run gunzip in a few seconds, then tar -xzvf takes
> forever. The -v option shows one to maybe six files flying by, then many
> seconds paused, then one to a few files, the another pause, etc.
>
> How slow? A tarball several meg in size used to untar in just a minute or two
> or three, depending on CPU load. Now i have time to eat lunch, see a movie,
> see another movie... Linux kernel 2.2.1 took all hours overnight to untar.
>
> Once the stuff is untarred, it's good. I'm running a 2.2.1 kernel, 2.1 glibc,
> and the latest xterm, bash, netscape all having been slowly untarred.
>
> Tar, and nearly everything else, was compiled with gcc 2.8.1, using glibc 2.0.6
> and since today, glibc 2.1.
>
> Computer is a PII-400, 96RAM, 6G HD nowhere near full, 100M swap. Plenty of
> raw material - nothing else runs anomalously slow.
>
> Any good diagnostics suggestions? Fixes?
>
> --
> Daren Scot Wilson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.newcolor.com
> ----
> "A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for"
> -- William Shedd
------------------------------
From: Didier Nghia Le Tien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Looking for timer and load monitor
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:12:03 +0100
In order to do precise performance evaluation
of my program, i'd like to know the most efficient way to
get time performance and system load monitoring.
Does anyone got information about that?
Thanx a lot,
Didier L.
------------------------------
From: Philip Rademakers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting to ethernet HW address
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:18:30 +0100
Hi,
I would like to find out from within my C program the hardware address
corresponding to a particular interface (e.g. "eth0"). Does anybody have
some lines of code available that show how to do this?
I've tried "ether_hostton" call but that does not seem to work.
Thanks for any help.
--
Philip Rademakers Tel: +32 2 724 86 81
SONY Digital Network Solutions Europe - Brussel
Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 Fax: +32 2 726 26 86
1130 Brussels - Belgium
Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
WWW: http://www.sonycom.com
------------------------------
From: Bill Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux programming jobs?
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 07:16:26 -0500
1. Don't get discouraged!
2 Keep at it. 20 applications or resumes is not all that many.
3 Apply even if you are not 100% qualified (degree, etc), they often advertise for
the ideal candidate but will hire someone not as qualified when the ideal never
appears.
"Pavel V. Zaitesev" wrote:
> Hello, fellow linux hackers.
> I'm currently looking for work, that involves linux/unix programming, but
> can find none. All jobs here require degree and /or 5-10 paid work
> experience. I am a little upset now, because local authorities changing
> law locally to allow programmer to work for more hours, but I couldn't
> find a single job. Would the problem be:
> 1. Bad resume
> 2. looking in the worng places
> 3. too dumb
> I am 20 and abviously have no degree, nor any paid work experience.
> I finished high school, I know linux/w95 well as well as C++, perl, Java,
> Pascal, sh, bash. I know how to setup any kind of software. Able to
> troubleshoot any software conflict. Currently I am working on a electronic
> sales system.
> Here in Victoria, BC. Canada, they are changing laws so that high tech
> employees can work more, but I see no sign of shortage of computer
> programmers. I applied at ~ 20 local places 2 interviews, one of them, was
> promising, but no can do. It seems like many employers are arrogant.
> I went to dice.com and hotjobs.com and they had few jobs, but most in the
> states or other side of Canda(toronto). Most of them required degree or
> large work experience periods. Should I even bother to apply?
> What tactics should I use?
> I do not know NT, but know Win32 programming. NT is way too expensive for
> me, but I am willing to learn. Actually that where I concentrated my
> efforts, to learn how to learn quickly...
> So would you think that I should earn my money for education in Macs or
> subway, or should I try harder? I am willing to move, but would company
> pay for my relocation? I have no idea of how and where to look for
> high-tech jobs. I wonder if you can give me any hints , like which way
> should I direct my energy...
> I posted to this group because most people here, may be working with linux
> for a job.
> Thank you for your time.
> Pavel
>
> .*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~
> "Nobody has a right to complain about your own code, but you..."
> -- Linus Torvalds http://victoria.tc.ca/~ws821
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Felix Rauch)
Subject: Re: need to count "real" disk accesses
Date: 17 Feb 1999 13:23:10 +0100
FabC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to count disk accesses in my program to have a reference for
> code performance. I think that to count read()/write() (of <stdio.h>)is
> not a good idea bacause of system's bufferization. I think that I have
> to put a counter in the Linux read/write, that is to put a counter in
> Linux kernel. I try to understand kernel sources but It's not simple .
> Where I can put these counters ?
What about an alternative: You could probably use /proc/stat or the
program vmstat? It probably depends on how accurate your measurements
should be.
- Felix
--
Felix Rauch, research assistant @ ETH Zurich, Institute for Computersystems
Homepage: http://nice.ethz.ch/~felix/ (includes PGP public key)
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> This article contains my personal views only <-
------------------------------
From: Karl Heyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do dynamically linked binaries find their shared libraries?
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:17:25 -0500
Mike Dowling wrote:
> I'm just curious. Normally, this is the responsibility of ldconfig. As
> long as /etc/ld.so.conf contains the locations of the shared libraries, then
> there should be no problem, or, at least, so I thought.
>
> Old binaries linked to X11 libraries suddenly ceased to do so once I updated
> to XFree-3.3.3.1, even though the new libraries had the same major and minor
> version numbers as the old ones. Notably, netscape and gnuplot could not
> find the libraries. With gnuplot, the problem was easily solved; simply
> re-compile the binary. With netscape, I could only tell it where the
> libraries were by setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
> (Netscape then issued segmentation faults, so I had to re-install the
> XFree-3.3.2 libraries in a subdirectory of the netscape directory!)
>
> So, why, for example, could emacs find the X11 shared libraries, and gnuplot
> not be able to do so? The only significant difference bewteen the two as
> far as I can see is that emacs was compiled about a year ago, whereas
> gnuplot was compiled about three or more years ago.
>
use ldd gnuplot and ldd netscape to see what libs are required. you may even
find
gnuplot/netscape were in the old a.out format and couldn't link against the ELF
libs.
karl.
------------------------------
From: Karsten Tinnefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and MSDOS partitions
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:07:42 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Does anyone know if you can install and run Linux applications on a
> mounted MSDOS partition mounted and viewable from Linux?
Why not? A filesystem is a filesystem is a filesystem. Anyway, some
applications might rely on long filenames or the possibility to create
symbolic links. The first may be aided by using the partition as a VFAT
fs. The second are lost.
--
Karsten Tinnefeld
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:
I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
------------------------------
From: Karsten Tinnefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X Windows Graphics programing
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:13:29 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> is there a book or a group or a site where I can learn about
> programing graphix code in X windows
Ask your favorite bookshop for some tons of books about Motif or any
other graphics library. Read the qt toolkit library for kde-style
widget. If you like to do know some really simple access to graphics,
either use some scripting toolkit like tk or take a look at GUI
programming in C with GraphApp:
http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~loki/graphapp/
--
Karsten Tinnefeld
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:
I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
------------------------------
From: FabC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: need to count "real" disk accesses
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:42:41 +0100
Hi everybody,
I need to count disk accesses in my program to have a reference for
code performance. I think that to count read()/write() (of <stdio.h>)is
not a good idea bacause of system's bufferization. I think that I have
to put a counter in the Linux read/write, that is to put a counter in
Linux kernel. I try to understand kernel sources but It's not simple .
Where I can put these counters ?
Thanks.......
FAB
------------------------------
From: Stefan Monnier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Clock Skew
Date: 17 Feb 1999 06:40:24 -0500
Phalan wrote:
> something like this "Clock Skew detected. Your build may be incomplete"
Make sure your machines are all in sync by using something like xntpd.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I get the same result running multiple boxen with out of sync clocks off
> a central (nfs based) filestore. I don't worry about it.
It's so simple to setup NTP and have your machines synchronized within a
handful of milliseconds that I can't believe people still suffer from
out-of-syncness. But then again, most people still run MickeySoft products:
"I get the same reboots ever few hours, but I don't worry about it".
Stefan
------------------------------
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Internal PCI modem
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 Feb 1999 08:24:04 -0500
Julian Robert Yon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> > this is a common problem when buying anything bundled. they lure you
> > in with one good component, e.g., fast cpu, and then give substandard
> > components all around. bundling is about reducing choice and
> > unloading less desirable parts with the desirable.
>
>
> It wasn't! I built the system myself, but I was naive enough to take my
> suppliers word for it that the modem was "normal". It later transpired
> that they don't sell real modems. But they wouldn't, of course, tell me
> this when I first asked... And I don't fancy trying to get any money
> back for a modem that sat in a computer for three months, even if it was
> doing nothing. I've not bought much from them since then.
argh! *that* hurts. you have my sympathies.
--
Johan Kullstam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Don't Fear the Penguin!
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Cole)
Subject: Re: dosemu and wine
Date: 16 Feb 1999 15:33:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, chris bingham wrote:
>Linux users are not supposed to like Microsoft so
>why would you want to install emulators to emulate dos and
>windows?!
>However, ZX Spectrum, Atari, Apple etc emulators are cool !!!!
>and these systems used firmware o/s' so did not crash that often!
>
>
>Chris.
DOSEMU is not just for MS-DOS or even PC-DOS for that matter. Microsoft
doesn't own DOS! You have heard about the Caldera suit against them havent
you? You must be one of those people that was forced to ONLY use the DOS
that Microsoft wants you to.
------------------------------
From: Andrew D Lenharth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Race condition in 2.2.1
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:35:53 GMT
I seem to have run into a race condition in 2.2.1
It occured while transfering a file via ftp from my alpha.
the eth driver is hp100
the scsi driver is buslogic
if some one could point me to the person I sould be reporting this to I'd
appreciate it.
Andrew LEnharth
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: C Programming for ISA Card
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:56:24 +0100
mlw wrote:
>
> Rick Wheeler wrote:
> >
> > I have an ISA Industrial Digital I/O card, caple of driving up to 64
> > seperate outputs (namely, Relays). I need to be able to drive solenoids off
> > each relay separately & eclusively. I have programming examples for VB on
> > Windows 95/NT using the DLL provided by the manufacturer. I wish to control
> > the card via a Linux application written in C.
> >
> > Can anyone provide programming examples, documentation or other advise that
> > may be of benefit to me?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Rick
>
> Who makes the card? Is it a Keithley or a Computer boards product? Is it
> based on standard PIO chips? It should be easy enough to write a device
> driver to do it.
It doesn't even have to be in the kernel, as a process which has root
privileges may read/write I/O ports. Interrupts are something else,
though.
Note: newsgroups trimmed a bit.
--
M.vr.gr. / Best regards,
Emile van Bergen (e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
This e-mail message is 100% electronically degradeable and produced
on a GNU/Linux system.
------------------------------
From: Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: spurious inter-package dependencies
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:52:44 +0100
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Emile" == Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Slang and ncurses have different .h's with the same name
>
> What do I care ?
> Isn't it one of the points of distributions like RedHat to solve those issues ?
> ncurses will be installed pretty much on all systems and slang will most likely
> be installed as well because tons of RedHat-specific packages use it (I know
> because I've way too often felt like removing this package), so clearly RedHat
> should deal with the conflict somehow.
Okay. So you just expect a resolution for this problem. I could go
along with that.
> > they assume you need at least a terminal emulator in
> > X if you don't want any other applications.
>
> Really bad assumption. A terminal emulator is anything but necessary to run
> fvwm. A saner policy would not impose such random choices.
Of course you are right. But I assumed I didn't have to explain to
you that it is very likely that some fvwmbuttons or menu declaration
in the system.fvwm2rc that IS INSTALLED BY THE PACKAGE contains
a reference to xterm-color. So my point is valid; they chose not
to be flamed by someone who says 'hey, I installed it, now I click
on it and it doesn't work! Isn't this RPM thing supposed to take care
of that?'. And for more experienced users like yourself, there are
other, less 'guide-against-all-possible-evil' distributions.
> > The decision by whom they
> > want to be flamed (you or a newbie saying 'why on earth don't they warn
> > about that' is a political one.
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm is part of the XFree86 rpm package (the core package of
> the whole XFree86 distribution), so if a newbie ends up without a terminal
> emulator, he deserves it. Furthermore, many newbies might never use a terminal
> emulator.
First point: right. But you would still need the "either"-type of
dependancies to account for this one. And what kind of nifty
installation script would change the fvwm2rc to contain the ref
to xterm instead of xterm-color??
Second point: I don't agree. I don't think anybody using his/her
own linux system will never do something at the '$' or '#'.
> > yourself, why not do a rpm -i --nodeps <package>?
>
> What the point of using rpm then ? Or do you really want me to install a
> package that breaks a dependency I wasn't aware of ?
The point is that it WARNS YOU: my sequence is always
rpm -i --test blabla-1.2.3-i386.rpm
Depends on... <something I can fix>
rpm -i --nodeps blabla-1.2.3-i386.rpm
> > Wouldn't that solve your problem?
>
> No, because sometimes I need `--force' instead.
Fine. But then my point stays: why don't you just regard the
rpm -i --test <package> as a WARNING system, and if YOU DECIDED that
the warning is not applicable TO YOU, use rpm -i --force, --nodeps,
depending on the nature of the warning! Again, I don't see why this
is such a big problem. Elegance is something else, though.
A real packaging BUG is also something else, however, and I would
agree that in the two examples you point out the packaging is least
fuzzy.
> > I guess it would be more constructive than to disregard
> > the system altogether and ask for a more 'sane' packaging system /
> > packages.
>
> I have complaints about the packaging system regarding other issues
> (installation of several different versions of the same package is one.
> `virtual installation' by installation of a package on an NFS server is
> another), but this particular post was about the actual packages themselves.
Why do you refuse so stubbornly to see the philosophy of rpm? They
want to make sure that if rpm doesn't warn, everything will work as
expected, so that if you are a nice obedient user, you will never
get a broken system. That's what they are trying to accomplish. It
isn't perfect. It isn't the one solution for everybody. Surely it
isn't fit for you. But that FOLLOWS FROM THE PURPOSE OF RPM!
> > By the way, a possible solution would be dependancy groups, e.g. fvwm2
> > is dependent on any of { rxvt | xterm | etc. }.
>
> No, fvwm is not dependent on any of rxvt, xterm, xterm-color, ...
> I can run fvwm+emacs or fvwm+netscape or fvwm+myDatabaseClient or
> fvwm+myDemoProgram.
See the above statement about the config file.
> > Why not talk to the rpm guys about it? Or design something like that
> > yourself?
>
> It's not a question of design, it's a question of care. And yes, I can send
> bug reports to RedHat about some packages where the dependencies or conflicts
> have not been carefully considered. But sending those bug reports is a lot
> more trouble than I'd like (to me something like
>
> Mail -s fvwm2-2.0.46-8.i386.rpm [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<EOF
>
> there's an unnecessary dependency in the fvwm2 package:
>
> xterm-color is needed by fvwm2-2.0.46-8.1
>
> -- Stefan
> EOF
>
> is all that I should need to do. Instead I have to go through pages and pages
> of their web site and fill those obnoxious web forms (with very rudimentary
> editing facilities)). Furthermore, fixing those bugs will take a long time (if
> they even get fixed) and I feel like I shouldn't need to do that part of the
> debugging.
I agree fully on that point.
> That's why I'm asking if some other distribution (based on rpm or on something
> else) has a saner policy concerning inter-package conflicts/dependencies.
> It seems that Debian might be an answer.
I guess so too! RPM isn't the best and only solution for everyones
needs when it comes to package management.
P.S. I don't want to have this thread turn into a flame war.
You should rcognise that I respect your position on this matter,
but that you are overdoing things a bit because you expect
something from RPM which wasn't one of the main goals IMHO.
Priorities have been decided by RedHat to lie elsewhere, so
just accept it and switch distributions...!
--
M.vr.gr. / Best regards,
Emile van Bergen (e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
This e-mail message is 100% electronically degradeable and produced
on a GNU/Linux system.
------------------------------
From: chris bingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X windows mounting program
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:50:26 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
does anyone know of a graphical program for X Windows that
mounts/unmounts/formats drives like Redhat has but for Slackware?
------------------------------
From: Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X Windows mounting
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:58:51 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
does anyone know if there is a GUI utilty in Slackware in X Windows to
mount,unmount and format drives? Like in Redhat disk manager.
Thanks
------------------------------
From: Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X windows
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:05:48 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
does anyone know if there is an X Windows GUI to
mount, unmount and format drives in Slackware 3.6
like there is in Red Hat 5.2 (disk manager).
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder)
Subject: Re: drivers/block/genhd.c & MINIX subpartitioning & where do I send what?
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:13:58 GMT
Original msg attached below.
Hi Rene!
[Please note that I'm not invelved in kernel development myself
(yet), but am merely very interested]
=46rom what I understand you should join one of the kernel mailing
lists (linux-kernel, I don't know wether there is a specific one for
file systems) and post your patch (probably best against 2.2.1)
there, or directly to the File system maintainer (I'm sure there is
one)
And, yes, make your code an option, especially since (so it seems)
you're so far the only person to have tested this feature - so it
will be considered alpha or beta stage.
As you noticed, there is no 2.3.xx series yet. This means that your
code will not be incorporated in any kernel (Torvalds sais he'll
only accept bug fixes for _big_ bugs in the 2.2. series), but
perhaps it will be tested by other people that are interested. Then,
as soon as 2.3.xx is opened, resubmit your patch (against 2.3.0).
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:37:34 +0100, "Rene Herman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello everyone ...
>
>Please forgive if I should have been able to figure the following out
>myself, but I'm new at this...
>
>I just finished a patch to support the Minix subpartitioning scheme =
(adding
>to drivers/block/genhd.c). How do I proceed?
>
>Most importantly, who do I contact about maybe merging this into the =
regular
>kernel? MAINTAINERS doesn't seem to name a specific contact for this.
>
>Also, I believe I should send a diff?. A diff against an entire kernel
>source tree? If so, which source tree? There doesn't yet seem to be a =
2.3
>line?
>
>Futhermore, am I also supposed to decide myself whether or not this =
should
>be an option, and if yes, should I include diffs for Configure.help and =
the
>relevant Config.in? Any other files?
>
>Thanks in advance for any advice ...
>
>Regards,
>Rene
>
--
Greets from over there
Dagurashibanipal
EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nothing travels faster than light.
With, of course, the exception of bad news. -- D. Adams
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.development.system) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Development-System Digest
******************************
