Re: Hangup: Promise ATA100 (PDC20267) and Quantum disk

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Lars Knudsen wrote: > I tried in two different boxes. I have 3 of the 'QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 30' drives >and one > 'QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 30' all having the same problem. I tried the IBM-DPTA-373420 > and a Seagate ST38431A on the controllers and cables, without problems. Any

Re: Hangup: Promise ATA100 (PDC20267) and Quantum disk

> > PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit DISABLED Primary PCI Mode > Secondary PCI Mode. > ^ > You have to force the driver into action. > You have no way to get UltraDMA enabled. OK, I removed the CD-rom, and the driver states upon boot: PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENA

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

Hi, On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > Then they need more competant admins. It isnt _hard_ to transproxy outgoing > smtp traffic via a spamtrapper that checks for valid src/destination and > headers. You get into a dangerous field here. If you start arguing like this, how do you explain to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

Hello! In article <8ovlia$nq2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >[...] >There are even countries (like Germany) where you CAN'T give up your >copyright and put things into public domain. There is no such thing as >public domain here. You _always_ keep a certain copyright until >someone else assumes

Re: Hangup: Promise ATA100 (PDC20267) and Quantum disk

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Lars Knudsen wrote: > > > PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit DISABLED Primary PCI Mode > > Secondary PCI Mode. > > ^ > > You have to force the driver into action. > > You have no way to get UltraDMA enabled. > > OK, I removed the CD-rom, and the d

Promise FASTTRAK100 Ultra/100 Raid Card

Does anyone know how to get the Fasttrak100 Ultra Raid Card going in Linux? (different than the Ultra100) the PDC driver does not find any of the hard drives attached to the drive.   Thanks Craig Whitmore  

Re: [Danger] Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

Simon Kirby wrote: > There is something definitely now even more broken with test8pre4. > > I just upgraded to test8pre4 from test7 and was reading this and some > other emails with mutt. Upon quiting mutt, mutt reported that there was > some sort of error while attempting to write the folder.

Re: Promise FASTTRAK100 Ultra/100 Raid Card

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Craig Whitmore wrote: > Does anyone know how to get the Fasttrak100 Ultra Raid Card going in > Linux? (different than the Ultra100) > the PDC driver does not find any of the hard drives attached to the > drive. You can't period. FastTrak is IP of Promise Technologies and wil

POSIX message passing implementation

Hello, Is there somewhere an implementation of the mq_xxx() POSIX functions (mq_open(), mq_receive() & Co), close enough to the kernel to achieve good performance ? Thanks in advance, A+, -- Thierry Danis Poste : 01 71 71 57 96 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # rm *;o o : commande non trou

Re: Hangup: Promise ATA100 (PDC20267) and Quantum disk

> Lars, > Did you add your drives to > const char *pdc_quirk_drives[] = { > }; My current quirk_drives from pdc202xx.c const char *pdc_quirk_drives[] = { "QUANTUM FIREBALLlct08 08", "QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 30", "QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 30", "QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA6.4",

BUG?

Hello, Since upgrading from 2.4.0-test6 to 2.4.0-test7 I have noticed I can't connect to some webs, www.amazon.com, www.linuxtoday.com... (trying telnet www.linuxtoday.com 80 returns connection refused). It works with 2.2.X series, 2.4.0-test6 and bellow... It has been tested in three dif

[PATCH] char/drm/i810_drv.c - compile fix

Linus, Please apply this self explainatory tiny patch against test8-pre4. Dan Aloni (dax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux/drivers/char/drm/i810_drv.c Tue Sep 5 11:47:15 2000 +++ linux.vanilla/drivers/char/drm/i810_drv.c Tue Sep 5 12:21:30 2000 @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ if (len > name##_len

Re: [Danger] Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:41:43AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > Of the 650 messages I kept in my Inbox, only the first 51 > remained. The rest was replaced by 0x00. Not nice. Not at all. Feels > like your ordinary Microsoft Word virus. Nothing like that happened > with earlier kernels up to -t

Re: zero-copy TCP

Ingo, I looked through some of the Tux docs and stuff over the weekend. You are correct, it looks an awful lot like the Topology Support Module Layer in NetWare, and I agree it provides very similiar semantics. I won't know how Alan's code stacks up against NetWare until I complete the port, b

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

Someone has to port it to Linux. It runs on MANOS only at present, but I posted the source code months ago and told folks they could have it. You can download the MANOS sources and a binary and run it to see how it works. It's at vger.timpanogas.org. Jeff Jeff Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > On

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

Linux is more buggy than NT, but at least the source code comes with it so there's no excuse for not getting soeone to fix it Jeff Bob Taylor wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jeff V. Merkey" > writes: > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Jes Sorensen wrote: > > > > > > > > Yea

Re: zero-copy TCP

Ingo, When I have time to do this exercise, I will. I've finished merging Alan's Code into MANOS (completed last night). Most of the cases I saw where there were copies were not fast path. It takes some time to go through all this code you guys have written. It is actually looking good. J

Re: zero-copy TCP

Intel Nitro Card - i960 processor on the card. The SMP debugging involved the use of a bus analyser since this card had a piggish memory bus footprint (i960 processors do not have an IO address space, so everything is memory mapped. The big weakness of early I2O stuff was that the I960 running

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > M-Systems is in the process of creating a new driver that works as a > module and contains no GPL code. A modular driver for rootfs doesn't really strike me as being particularly useful on an embedded system where you're trying to save every byte possible, and you d

Re: zero-copy TCP

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > while (x) > > > { > > > x = x->next > > > } > > > > > > all over the place that increases latency. [...] > > > > i challenge you to show one such place in the 2.4.0-test8-pre2 kernel. If > > it's all over the place and if it increases latency, y

Re: [Fwd: Client Server NEWS FLASH: Novell Plans To Can 60% Over Time]

Herr Henning, I care a lot about the people who work at Novell. There's also a lot of folks up there I don't like, and it's mutual. I particularly don't care for Eric Schmidt and his associates and you can be assured this is also mutual. This is a small tightly woven community out here in Uta

Re: zero-copy TCP

Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Basically, only TCP and UDP really matter. Decnet, IPX, etc don't really > make a big selling point any more. > > Linus, IPX is a really good LAN protocol (but totally sucks for internet). A full blown NCP server in-kernel that's toughtly coupled to the page

Re: BUG?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Since upgrading from 2.4.0-test6 to 2.4.0-test7 I have noticed I > can't connect to some webs, www.amazon.com, www.linuxtoday.com... > (trying telnet www.linuxtoday.com 80 returns connection refused). It > works with 2.2.X series, 2.4.0-test6 and bellow... It has b

Re: [patch] string-486.h modified

Alan Cox wrote: > > Alan, can you send me again the list of CPUs you think > > is worth using 486 string routines. > > Sorry, i lost your previous mail. > > I suspect it is > > 486 > K5 > IDT Winchip > Rise > NexGen Take a look at http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Td/b

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

If someone writes it, I'll put in into the code. The problem is that this won't stop them. They'll take the code anyway, use it, then lie about it... Jeff Dan Hollis wrote: > > On 3 Sep 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Hedrick) writes: > > >Apology to Jeff,

Re: BUG?

Angel Luis Uruñuela wrote: > Hello, > > Since upgrading from 2.4.0-test6 to 2.4.0-test7 I have noticed I can't > connect to some webs, www.amazon.com, www.linuxtoday.com... (trying > telnet www.linuxtoday.com 80 returns connection refused). It works with > 2.2.X series, 2.4.0-test6 and be

Question regarding kernel_threads

Hi, I'm using kernel threads in my driver & they work fine however I'm getting left with zombie processes when they exit. As I have no parent process calling wait. I've tried attaching making init my parent process this doesn't appear to help. The new daemonize function in 2.3 doesn't fix this

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0-test7 to Enable Variable Block Chaining

Neil, I think Linus knows this, and from what I've seen, it may break a ton of shit. I think folks need to let Linus know these issues. NT and NetWare both support variable length and offset sectors read/write requests. This fixed block size stuff is tough for non-Linux file systems like NTFS

Re: [patch] string-486.h modified

Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > Alan, can you send me again the list of CPUs you think > > > is worth using 486 string routines. > > > Sorry, i lost your previous mail. > > > > I suspect it is > > > > 486 > > K5 > > IDT Winchip > > Rise > > NexGen > >

Re: zero-copy TCP

Alright Ingo, you asked for it. I am going through it now and going over ALL my notes. I will catalog ALL of them and post it. Is this what you really want? :-) Jeff Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > while (x) > > > > { > > > > x = x->next >

Re: [patch] string-486.h modified

Petko Manolov wrote: > I don't see the point of string-486.c - string-486.h is a replacement > of string.h for i[45]86 machines so let stay in include directory. The point is it may run faster due to better i-cache usage. Remember also that 486 machines don't have much memory, so the gain from r

Re: zero-copy TCP

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Alright Ingo, you asked for it. I am going through it now and going > over ALL my notes. I will catalog ALL of them and post it. Is this > what you really want? yes, this would be the best indeed, to get those places fixed. But if you dont want to spe

Re: zero-copy TCP

btw., - the maintainers of the 2.4 networking and TCP/IP code are Alexey Kuznetsov and David S. Miller - please direct your findings towards them, not me :-) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Plea

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

Ricky Beam wrote: > As an aside, they also have/had agressive transparent web proxying in > the network... everything on port 80 coming and going is/was cached. > EVERYTHING. That's quite nice when it works, but sometimes the proxy breaks. Then it really _sucks_. You fetch a page and get a blan

Re: zero-copy TCP

The origin of this comment was related to a comparison of the MSM/TSM/CSM layer in NetWare and Linux. I've already said that Alan's code handles fast paths well and from what I've seen is comparable to NetWare. The areas I saw where sideband cases and issues of fragment re-assembly. It

Re: zero-copy TCP

You opened your mouth. :-) Jeff Ingo Molnar wrote: > > btw., - the maintainers of the 2.4 networking and TCP/IP code are Alexey > Kuznetsov and David S. Miller - please direct your findings towards them, > not me :-) > > Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: [patch] string-486.h modified

Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Petko Manolov wrote: > > I don't see the point of string-486.c - string-486.h is a replacement > > of string.h for i[45]86 machines so let stay in include directory. > > The point is it may run faster due to better i-cache usage. Remember > also that 486 machines don't h

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

Ricky Beam wrote: > >Tell me, would you like this done to you? You may assume typical > >corporate enhancements: no PGP, filter runs on Windows 2000, any > >unknown headers get stripped out, etc. > > ... message size restrictions, attachment mangling, false virus detection... ... restricted From

Re: [patch] string-486.h modified

Petko Manolov wrote: > > You'd still want string-486.h to _call_ the larger routines in > > string-486.c, using FASTCALL or your choice of alternate registers. > > I am not very sure if Linus will like the idea. There is precedent: arch/i386/mmx.c. I expect he'd prefer it over inlining unrolled

Re: zero-copy TCP

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > The origin of this comment was related to a comparison of the > MSM/TSM/CSM layer in NetWare and Linux. I've already said that Alan's > code handles fast paths well and from what I've seen is comparable to > NetWare. [...] can we thus take this as a r

[OFFTOPIC] brief whinge about mail filtering

You know, some of us have mail filters installed for us without our consent or knowledge... At least, I noticed (some weeks later) when mail from some of my friends was being rejected (policy reject) by my main email account... bah, bah, complain, complain. -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this

Re: zero-copy TCP

Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > The origin of this comment was related to a comparison of the > > MSM/TSM/CSM layer in NetWare and Linux. I've already said that Alan's > > code handles fast paths well and from what I've seen is comparable to > > NetWare.

Re: [Danger] Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Simon Kirby wrote: > I just upgraded to test8pre4 from test7 and was reading this and some > other emails with mutt. Upon quiting mutt, mutt reported that there was > some sort of error while attempting to write the folder. My folder now > looks like this: > > <1073152 by

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

> M-Systems is in the process of creating a new driver that works as a module > and contains no GPL code. Fortunately other people are working on GPL M-Systems drivers, and also on flash file systems that seem to avoid the billion vague m-systems patents. - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: GPL violations: make it harder

> Correct, in fact you have to explicitely state "I place this code in th= > e > public domain" before it becomes so. You should btw never do this. Placing something in the public domain does not imply any disclaimer of warranty or liability. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

> > Then they need more competant admins. It isnt _hard_ to transproxy > > outgoing smtp traffic via a spamtrapper that checks for valid > > src/destination and headers. > > Tell me, would you like this done to you? You may assume typical > corporate enhancements: no PGP, filter runs on Windows 2

2.2.18-3 seems to break pcmcia-cs-3.1.20

# make all make[1]: Entering directory /usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.20/modules' cc -MD -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -I../include -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -c cs.c In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:12, from /usr/src/linux/include/linux

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

** On Sep 05, Jeff V. Merkey scribbled: > > Linux is more buggy than NT, but at least the source code comes with it > so there's no excuse for not getting soeone to fix it Excuse me for adding my irrelevant 0.2$ - but what are you doing with Linux then?? Why don't you just stick with NT and

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre2: AGP and the i810

> > > You need it for some new video cards (for example those cheap intel i810 boards > > > that are becoming extremely common). > > > > I got my i810 to work on Debian (kernel 2.0.34) without agpgart by setting > > a switch in the driver code. > > That limits you to 1Mb of video ram I believe >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

Marek Habersack wrote: > > ** On Sep 05, Jeff V. Merkey scribbled: > > > > Linux is more buggy than NT, but at least the source code comes with it > > so there's no excuse for not getting soeone to fix it > Excuse me for adding my irrelevant 0.2$ - but what are you doing with Linux > then

Re: [patch] Updated ext2 to use new mark_buffers_dirty interface

(reposted with non-mangled From address) Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > Rasmus, you introduced a bug because you removed the code but left the > > comment around. now /* this should go into ->truncate */ is there and very > > confusing - what should g

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

** On Sep 05, Jeff V. Merkey scribbled: > > > Linux is more buggy than NT, but at least the source code comes with it > > > so there's no excuse for not getting soeone to fix it > > Excuse me for adding my irrelevant 0.2$ - but what are you doing with Linux > > then?? Why don't you just stic

[Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux]

Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > Thats great. I'm sorry about the hard times up there It's good to see > you being constructive. > I hope you understand why I need to pull this back right now. Linux will get NDS when MANOS goes out, but only after we have an Open Source NetWare that the Li

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

Marek Habersack wrote: > > ** On Sep 05, Jeff V. Merkey scribbled: > > > > Linux is more buggy than NT, but at least the source code comes with it > > > > so there's no excuse for not getting soeone to fix it > > > Excuse me for adding my irrelevant 0.2$ - but what are you doing with Linu

Re: Rik van Riel's VM patch

On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:33:21PM -0400, safemode wrote: > Both disks are Matrox UDMA66 7200rpm hdd's but one is 10.2GB and the other is I guess You meant Maxtor. Matrox is a Graphics Card manufacturer. -- Live long and prosper - Harald Welte / [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.sunbeam.franken.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: >> > > Linux is more buggy than NT, but at least the source code comes with it >> > > so there's no excuse for not getting soeone to fix it >> > Excuse me for adding my irrelevant 0.2$ - but what are you doing with Linux >> > then?? Why don't you j

Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The mailbox corruption thread is at least partly due to a pine bug that is > triggered by a bugtraq posting. > confirmed: it is due to multi-line X-Keyword headers (as contained in a recent posting to bugtraq). The bug is in wu c-client, used by pine

Re: test8-pre2 fs corruption?

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > Someone has sent a dodgy message to bugtraq. Delete > the mailbox or open it in an editor and look for the > header line that's a lot longer than the others. > that wasn't enough for me. i ended up deleting most of the emails to bugtraq from sep 1

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 08:38:38 -0400 (EDT) Tue, 5 Sep 00 13:45:17 BST, you wrote: >Sorry, but I just don't take anything he says too seriously >anymore... it's either trolling, or arguing mostly, or babbling >about how much better other OS's are, but not actually using them >for some reason... I j

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

Alex Buell wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 08:38:38 -0400 (EDT) Tue, 5 Sep 00 13:45:17 BST, > you wrote: > > >Sorry, but I just don't take anything he says too seriously > >anymore... it's either trolling, or arguing mostly, or babbling > >about how much better other OS's are, but not actually

Re: Linux 2.2 - BSD/OS 4.1 ARP incompatibility

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, David Luyer wrote: > So if I want it to work I most likely need to make the ARP request ignore > the higher level bindings of the socket. > or just set a route pointing net d.e.f to ethX. > David. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [Danger] Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > I'll try to reproduce this sucker... Did it. Gentlemen, how long will it take you to notice something strange in the following? static inline int all_zeroes(u32 *p, u32 *q) { while (p < q) if (*p++) re

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

"Mike A. Harris" wrote: Here Mike, we need to update your email signature block to reflect your new avocation (this is where I try to be your mega-buddy). I think the reason I'm so obtuse is that God gave me such a thick skin (or perhaps a thick skull). :-) Jeff > -- > Mike A. Harris

Re: [Danger] Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > Damn... OK, I'm building it with the obvious fix. Works here (truncates of files with different sizes, holes and not, with cold and populated caches). Linus, could you please do the following: ed fs/ext2/inode.c

Re: zero-copy TCP

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:35:43AM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > IPX is a really good LAN protocol (but totally sucks for internet). A > full blown NCP server in-kernel that's toughtly coupled to the page > cache running over IPX would make flames shoot out of the back of a > Linux server, and

Re: zero-copy TCP

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: >Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> >> >> Basically, only TCP and UDP really matter. Decnet, IPX, etc don't really >> make a big selling point any more. >> >> >Linus, >IPX is a really good LAN protocol (but totally sucks for internet). A >full blown N

PCMCIA initialisation & hotplug problems in 2.4

I have been getting some very erratic behaviour in 2.4 with Cardbus initialisation and hotplug. In particular, timeouts when resetting the cards and total failure of the PCMCIA subsystem, necessitating a reboot. If anyone else is having difficulties could you please try the patch (against 2.4.0

2.2 / 2.4 ethernet detection order

Hello All, I have a box with 2 ethernet cards. One is a ne2k-pci and one is a tulip. Under 2.2.X the ne card is eth0 and the tulip is eth1. Unfortunatly if I boot a 2.4.X kernel, the tulip card is assigned eth0 and the ne card eth1, which of course breaks all my networking setup scripts.

Re: 2.2 / 2.4 ethernet detection order

I got the same problem. The consequence was that if my eth0 card (static ip) was "ifupped" before my eth1 card (dhcp), it became impossible to ifup my eth1 card (I could no more obtain an ip from the dhcp server). - Message d'origine - De : James Lewis Nance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : <[EMA

Re: 2.2 / 2.4 ethernet detection order

Hi, one of the easiest ways of fixing this problem is probably using modules and declaring eth0 and eth1 in conf.modules (or was it modules.conf ... ) ... Markus Florent Cueto wrote: > > I got the same problem. > The consequence was that if my eth0 card (static ip) was "ifupped" before my > et

Re: PCMCIA initialisation & hotplug problems in 2.4

Andrew Morton writes: > > I have been getting some very erratic behaviour in 2.4 with Cardbus > initialisation and hotplug. In particular, timeouts when resetting the > cards and total failure of the PCMCIA subsystem, necessitating a > reboot. > > If anyone else is having difficulties could you

Re: [PATCH *] VM patch w/ drop behind for 2.4.0-test8-pre1

Hi Rik, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > today I released a new version of my VM patch for 2.4.0-test. Are you aware that this breaks shm swapping? Greetings Christoph - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: GPL violations: make it harder

Brian Hayward writes: > I also think it's a logical conclusion that a patch to a GPL'd program is > released under the GPL - even if you don't specifically say so. Actually, this totally makes sense, because a patch contains "context" lines and therefore includes GPL code in it - hence it MUST be

Re: eepro100 trouble

Has this been integrated into the 2.4.0-testX kernels? And if so which version? Thanks, Kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:57:54PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > > > I'm having endless problem with an eepro100 he

Re: zero-copy TCP

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > Basically any copy <= 4 cache lines is "free" compared to trying to be > > > clever. > > > > We're obviously interested in larger packets than 128 bytes. > > "obviously"?

O_CLOEXEC (was Re: thread rant)

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > dean gaudet wrote: > > > an example of brokenness in the traditional fd API is close-on-exec -- > > > there's a race between open()/socket()/pipe() and fcntl(FD_CLOEXEC) during > > > which if another thread

Test, please ignore

Traffic stopped again for me... - 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: 2.2.18-3 seems to break pcmcia-cs-3.1.20

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:13:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip snip] > make[1]: *** [cs.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.1.20/modules' > make: *** [all] Error 2 It's fixed in pcmcia-cs.05-Sep-00 (aka pcmcia-cs-3.1.21-testX-tryY-preZ? ;->) -- \Peter. - To

test8-pre4 data corruption?

Hi, Just a heads up. I've reverted to test7, I was getting wierd things happening with test8-pre4. Like I lost 90% of the messages in my inbox. It isn't that Pine/BUGTRAQ thing as I'm using mutt, and I'm not subscribed to bugtraq. Also I loaded a page off slashdot - the interview with Kernigh

Re: zero-copy TCP

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > It's not faster than card->card DMA, which falls out naturally from my > > > zero-copy proposal :-) > > > > We already support card->card DMA for routing with fastrouting > > ..but not for user space proxies which was the above's c

3ware controllers and fatal failure mode design decision

I was wondering if any one knows of a way around the following problem, and I wanted to warn people considering 3ware controllers as a storage solution. I talked to 3ware already and they don't have a solution. The latest 3ware firmware for their current products requires that all drives in an a

Re: test8-pre4 data corruption?

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jon Evans wrote: > Just a heads up. I've reverted to test7, I was getting wierd > things happening with test8-pre4. Like I lost 90% of the > messages in my inbox. I hope Linus will release an "emergency" 2.4.0-test8-pre5 really soon, maybe even with /only/ Al Viro's two-lin

PATCH: sd.c -- fix for testing WP bit

Attached is a patch to linux/drivers/scsi/sd.c which fixes the behavior of the code which tests the WP bit. This patch is generated against 2.4.0-test8-pre4. Specifically, thsi code fixes the case where the device in question does not have a page 1 (I found one, this is how I found the bug). Si

Re: [Fwd: Client Server NEWS FLASH: Novell Plans To Can 60% Over Time]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: >Herr Henning, It's my first name, you know... >friends in Utah who can join it and make new lives out of it since this >will give them the ability to slowly transition towards assimilation by >the Linux World). Wasn't this the MANOS world? Oh, I forg

Re: [PATCH *] VM patch w/ drop behind for 2.4.0-test8-pre1

On 5 Sep 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote: > Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > today I released a new version of my VM patch for 2.4.0-test. > > Are you aware that this breaks shm swapping? Nope. Nobody told me yet. I'll work on a new (working) version today... regards, Rik -- "What yo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: >> Yes, it seems so. So you're telling us that this entire thread is joke on >> your part? If not, then please show me the joke above or, for the future, >> mark your "jokes" somehow in the text so that dumbsticks like myself >can >> uderstand the jokes

Re: 2.2 / 2.4 ethernet detection order

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:55:48AM -0400, James Lewis Nance wrote: > I have a box with 2 ethernet cards. One is a ne2k-pci and one is a > tulip. Under 2.2.X the ne card is eth0 and the tulip is eth1. Unfortunatly > if I boot a 2.4.X kernel, the tulip card is assigned eth0 and the ne card

[GETTING WILDLY OFFTOPIC] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open SourceNDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

On 5 Sep 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: > > >Get off my ass. > > Why do you old people always have to get personal? Umm, somehow I have the feeling this thread is ready for Usenet or IRC ;) alt.flame.die.die.die or rec.misc.flamewar.misc com

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:15:29PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > 2.5 the following? > * things like CONFIG_FOO are _always_ defined. As 0 or 1, that is. > * #ifdef CONFIG_FOO => if (CONFIG_FOO) in *.c. gcc will kill the unused >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Jes Sorensen wrote: > > HAve you contributed code to anything but your own private project > > which you have just declared to be withdrawn so you can go stick it > > into your own custom OS? I don't remember seeing you contribute code > > to any othe

Re: zero-copy TCP

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > [...] The point is that a write() is only used if some sort of > dynamic data is generated on the fly. > > There are exsiting applications out there that use mmap+write > (caching the maps), it would be nice for the authors of these not to > h

Re: zero-copy TCP

NT only uses RIP/SAP. Jeff Jes Sorensen wrote: > > > "Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jeff> Only Linux makes the lights flash with IPX RIP/SAP. NetWare > Jeff> uses NLSP routing and has since 1993 for IPX/SPX. I agree if > Jeff> someone is running NetWare 3 or

Re: Suggestion for laptop suspension

Richard Stallman writes: > Well, while it would be a good option to have, I'm not sure it's a > good idea to make it the default. If you flush the buffer+page caches, > then later you will need to repopulate them. > > It is worth caching data, in ordinary circumstances, because it ha

Re: zero-copy TCP

> "Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> Only Linux makes the lights flash with IPX RIP/SAP. NetWare Jeff> uses NLSP routing and has since 1993 for IPX/SPX. I agree if Jeff> someone is running NetWare 3 or NetWare 4.1 or earlier there's a Jeff> lot of RIP/SAP traffic, but

Re: 2.2.18-3 seems to break pcmcia-cs-3.1.20

> ../include/pcmcia/k_compat.h:64: ait_queue_head_t' previously declared > here > {standard input}: Assembler messages: > {standard input}:9: Warning: Ignoring changed section attributes for > .modinfo Im working on weeding out the tons of duplicated gunge in the header files. For the moment ass

Re: Question regarding kernel_threads

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm currently thinking of adding a PF_NOZOMBIE flag to the process > flags which releases the process immeadiately instead of calling > exit_notify in do_exit in exit.c I think this should happen if the exit signal is zero. At least I would like to use it this way.

dds4 problems in 2.2.14 (RH6.2)

We are trying to use a Dell poweredge 1300 with a dds4 tape drive When we try reading from a tape, the reading process gets stuck in D state after the last data has been read. According to ps l, the process is stuck in down_failed. Turning hardware compression on and off, or switching to a DDS2 t

RE: Quick memory corruption with cramfs

Hello Pavel; > Is anyone using cramfs? > We use cramfs everyday at http://handhelds.org with Linux 2.4.0-test6-rmk1-np2-hh1. We have no problems. > I copy cramfs image from nfs onto /dev/ram0, then mount it. It mounts, > and first few accesses are okay, but then it breaks. ls shows garbage > e

[PATCH] devfs support for LVM

Hi Linus, I've updated my devfs for lvm patch to 2.4.0-test8pre. Here it is. Christoph -- Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. --- linux.orig/drivers/block/lvm.c Fri Jul 14 14:38:29 2000 +++ linux/drivers/block/lvm.c Sun Sep 3 13:54:00 2000 @@ -299,6

Re: zero-copy TCP

Only Linux makes the lights flash with IPX RIP/SAP. NetWare uses NLSP routing and has since 1993 for IPX/SPX. I agree if someone is running NetWare 3 or NetWare 4.1 or earlier there's a lot of RIP/SAP traffic, but not the NLSP versions -- they do not use RIP/SAP but NLSP. Jeff Jes Sorensen wr

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