loader tunables for modules

2003-05-30 Thread Alexander Langer
Hi! How would one give flags to kernel modules? I.e. a kernel module I wrote starts a kernel thread. It should be controlable what kernel thread it starts depending on a sysctl. Of course the sysctl isn't available before the module is loaded. So is there a way to pass a kernel module options

Re: loader tunables for modules

2003-05-30 Thread Alexander Langer
Also sprach Lara Harti Brandt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It turns out that kenv is just handy for this. I use it to pass debugging information and configuration info to the ATM drivers. And you can set kenv entries from the loader and the shell. Great, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a

Re: gcc bug? Openoffice port impossibel to compile on 4.8

2003-05-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Bruce M Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, we're dealing with something a bit more stable in terms of code base, anyway. Having to commit a whole bunch of fixes for the sake of a compiler upgrade isn't acceptable. Sounds like the GCC guys have been

Re: pcic setup / wi0 timeout

2003-05-30 Thread John Baldwin
On 29-May-2003 M. Warner Losh wrote: OK. You might have a little better luck with 5.1-BETA, or you might not. However, you might try http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/pir.c as root and tell me if it finds a $PIR table. The boot verbose says no, but I can't recall if 5.0-RELEASE printed it

Re: pcic setup / wi0 timeout

2003-05-30 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 29 May 2003, John Baldwin wrote: On 29-May-2003 M. Warner Losh wrote: OK. You might have a little better luck with 5.1-BETA, or you might not. However, you might try http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/pir.c as root and tell me if it finds a $PIR table. The boot verbose says

HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread Thorsten Futrega
Dear users, The HEAD code freeze was extended by three days to allow for some final pending work to be committed and prepare 5.1 to be a good release. The code freeze will likely end sometime tomorrow, May 30. We ask that large scale changes still be deferred until after 5.1 is actually

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread The Anarcat
On the tune of some cute Ramones song... Beat on the Troll Beat on the Troll Beat on the Troll With a baseball bat Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah! A. On Thu May 29, 2003 at 06:18:42PM +0100, Thorsten Futrega wrote: Dear users, The HEAD code freeze was extended by three days to allow for some

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread Thorsten Futrega
--- The Anarcat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the tune of some cute Ramones song... Beat on the Troll Beat on the Troll Beat on the Troll With a baseball bat Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Erm, this is not really funny. I'm trying to do my job the best I can. Do you think being on core@ and

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
The HEAD code freeze was extended by three days to allow for some final pending work to be committed and prepare 5.1 to be a good release. The code freeze will likely end sometime tomorrow, May 30. We ask that large scale changes still be deferred until after 5.1 is actually released so

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread Bosko Milekic
For the benefit of the majority: This post was FAKE. Now please return to your regularly scheduled discussion and kindly ignore all future posts to this thread. -Bosko On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:50:33PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: The HEAD code freeze was extended by three days to allow

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Thorsten Futrega wrote: The most important changes I'm going to commit today: - Remove gcc and replace it with a new TenDRA snapshot. - Remove GNU tar. I really don't see a need for any version of tar to be in the base system. I mean, where does it actually get used (other than things like

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-05-29T18:04:08Z, Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shouldn't we also drop support for the earlier pentium systems as well? I think that we can safely assume that everyone is running a pentium 4 or better. Intel? Bah! I use only AMD, so I think that CPUTYPE=k7 is a

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread Thorsten Futrega
--- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thorsten Futrega wrote: - Remove GNU tar. I really don't see a need for any version of tar to be in the base system. I It's not needed if we have pax, and GNU tar generates broken tar files that can't be extracted with, e.g.

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread Scott Long
Please go away. Thorsten Futrega wrote: --- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thorsten Futrega wrote: - Remove GNU tar. I really don't see a need for any version of tar to be in the base system. I It's not needed if we have pax, and GNU tar generates broken tar files that

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread Thorsten Futrega
--- Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please go away. Scott, learn how to quote. Only Outlook users do top quoting. Then we'll talk about the myriad of crap patches you committed and I had to back out to reach minimal stability before code freeze. Thank you. Thorsten.

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread Samy Al Bahra
To all interested parties... THIS WHOLE THREAD IS GARBAGE, PLEASE DISREGARD IT. IT IS A HOAX STARTED BY A GOOD-FOR-NOTHING TROLL. THERE IS NO Thorsten Futrega IN -CORE AND THERE ARE NO PLANS A LONG THE LINES THAT HE LISTED ORIGINALLY. P.S. Troll: Stop, or atleast move this to -chat Thank you

left over shells/processes

2003-05-30 Thread jason fiddian
i feel i'm missing something simple here. we have a freebsd 4.6 server that approx 20 users telnet into to access a retail application. if a user closes their telnet session without logging out correctly it leaves behind the shell and any processes attached to it. how can we kill these leftover

Re: left over shells/processes

2003-05-30 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 30 May 2003, jason fiddian wrote: i feel i'm missing something simple here. we have a freebsd 4.6 server that approx 20 users telnet into to access a retail application. if a user closes their telnet session without logging out correctly it leaves behind the shell and any processes

Preliminary gbde performance patchset

2003-05-30 Thread Jason Stryker
Hello hackers, I've finished testing my first set of performance patches for gdbe. After some testing it seems to work ok. The performance gain is about 15% on i386 and sparc64. Other systems haven't been tested yet, but I encourage all of you to test and give feedback. There's a weird bug in SMP

RBEM10/100+56k at 32-bit cardBus

2003-05-30 Thread Victor Bratsev
Greetings! Can anybody help me to solve this - I've got RBEM10/100+56k PCMCIA card and I can't get it work. Because my cardBus - it's 32-bit, and driver is 16-bit. I've got a message at startup pcmcia: 32-bit cardbus is unsupported and as result if_xe.ko is unloaded with strange fhdjklsah - if I

Re: Preliminary gbde performance patchset

2003-05-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
How cute. Our favourite troll has given us a link which redirects to an url which he thinks will send a message to SCO: http://www.sco.com/company/feedback/thanks.html?location=206category=10[EMAIL PROTECTED]subject=FUCK_YOU_ASSHOLES!!!message=SCOsuckmydick!! Unfortunately, his skills are

Re: Preliminary gbde performance patchset

2003-05-30 Thread Jason Stryker
On Fri, 30 May 2003 09:58:09 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Our favourite troll has given us a link which redirects to an url which he thinks will send a message to SCO: Stay out of it Pull, you have no poul with me and you know it. It was simply a heads up to warn people.

Re: Preliminary gbde performance patchset

2003-05-30 Thread Jason Stryker
On Fri, 30 May 2003 10:30:23 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well, apart from the fact that it seems that I can tell vowels apart a fair bit better than you, I clearly seem to have quite some pull with you because you feel compelled to react to my emails to you. Stay out of

Re: Preliminary gbde performance patchset

2003-05-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Stay out of it Pull, you have no poul with me and you know it. I is so sad to see how you keep repeating this silly thing. Do you expect that by repeating it we will suddenly get it and fall in awe with your skills with words ? I hate to think this is the best you can do when you try to be

Re: Preliminary gbde performance patchset

2003-05-30 Thread Jason Stryker
On Fri, 30 May 2003 11:19:40 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I is so sad to see how you keep repeating this silly thing. I don't think it means what you think it means. Do you expect that by repeating it we will suddenly get it and fall in awe with your skills with words ?

Re: Preliminary gbde performance patchset

2003-05-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Why am I not using my real name? I don't want to be threatened again by members of FreeBSD. Since you are obviously to dim to realize the following very simple fact I will spell it out in detail to you: A better strategy would be to not upset the members of the FreeBSD project by lamely

Re: Preliminary gbde performance patchset

2003-05-30 Thread Jason Stryker
On Fri, 30 May 2003 11:52:54 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Since you are obviously to dim to realize the following very simple fact I will spell it out in detail to you: A better strategy would be to not upset the members of the FreeBSD project by lamely trolling

kqueue/kevent support in scsi device drivers

2003-05-30 Thread Jayasheela Bhat
Hi All, At present, kevent is supported for vnode, fifos, pipes and sockets, I believe. I would like to use kevent notification in scsi devices. But the drivers scsi_xx.c do not support it. Whether I can implement it in scsi device driver using KNOTE? I was going through tty.c where KNOTE is

Re: RBEM10/100+56k at 32-bit cardBus

2003-05-30 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:38:21AM +0400, Victor Bratsev wrote: Greetings! Can anybody help me to solve this - I've got RBEM10/100+56k PCMCIA card and I can't get it work. Because my cardBus - it's 32-bit, and driver is 16-bit. I've got a message at startup pcmcia: 32-bit cardbus is