[PATCH] 0 byte writes should not seek even with O_APPEND

2000-11-19 Thread Christopher Yeoh
Hi Linus, Currently when a zero byte write is done on a regular file opened with O_APPEND the file offset is set to the end of the file. For POSIX compliant behaviour this shouldn't happen. The attached patch fixes this. Chris. --- mm/filemap.c.orig Mon Nov 20 14:05:38 2000 +++ mm/filemap.c

Re: [PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff Chua
Werner, Thanks for fix. Applied the patch and it's working now. Linus, please add this patch to the kernel source codes for 2.4.0. Under 2.2.18, it's working fine without the patch. Thanks, Jeff [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] - Original Message - From: "Werner Almesberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PATCH] 36 bit MTRRs (fix for some big memory machines)

2000-11-19 Thread Boszormenyi Zoltan
Hi, Linus! Will you consider applying the following patchset? You will find it at ftp://ftp.externet.hu/pub/people/zboszor/mtrr-new2.tar.gz I know that you like plain text patches inlined in the mail but I do not know how to get pine to inline the (plain text) attachments... Here is the README

Re: Linux 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-19 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > - Asit Mallick: enable the APIC in the official order What is this intended to fix? Please revert it -- it breaks for i82489DX APICs configured to the PIC mode upon boot -- local interrupt registers are hardwired to 0x0001 and cannot be

easy-to-fix bug in /dev/null driver

2000-11-19 Thread Alan Kennington
It seems to me that this code in linux/drivers/char/mem.c is a bug: === static ssize_t write_null(struct file * file, const char * buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { return count; }

user-mode port 0.34-2.4.0-test11

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff Dike
The user-mode port of 2.4.0-test11 is available. UML is now able to run as a daemon, i.e. with no stdin/stdout/stderr. The hostfs filesystem now works as a readonly filesystem. It's now configurable. I'm using it as a module. It ought to work compiled into the kernel, but I haven't checked

Re: ext2 sparse superblocks

2000-11-19 Thread Andreas Dilger
Michael Rothwell write: > I'm looking for documentation on Ext2's support for sparse superblocks. > What it the method uses to reduce the number of superblocks? How are > they laid out before vs after sparse_super is enabled? Any caveats? In an old-style (non-sparse) filesystem, every block

Re: run level 1, login takes too long, 2.4.X vs. 2.2.X

2000-11-19 Thread M.H.VanLeeuwen
Hi David, Yup, I know rpc.portmap isn't running, the point is that it wasn't running on either 2.2.17 or 2.4.X. Isn't run level 1 supposed to only be the bare minimum of running processes, a few kernel processes, init and getty. No network services... What's changed in the kernel to elicit

Re: NCPFS not returning Volume Size (???)

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 05:10:06PM +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 08:40:29PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Petr, > > > > NCPFS in 2.2.18-pre21 is not returning volume size via df -h. I checked > > your code and found this comment: > > > > static int ncp_statfs(struct

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre22

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:09:01PM +0100, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > o Small ISDN documentation fixes (Kai Germaschewski) > > > > Alan, On the ISDN issue, isdn4K-utils seems to be out of sync with > > kernels older than 2.2.16.

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre22

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:57:35PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > > o Small ISDN documentation fixes (Kai Germaschewski) > > > > Alan, On the ISDN issue, isdn4K-utils seems to be out of sync with=20 > > kernels older than 2.2.16. Some #define's that used to be in > > the 2.2.14

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Wayne . Brown
David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please turn this off. >> >My vcard size is the same or smaller than the average signature. Using mime, you >have the option of easily filtering vcards. Signatures aren't as easily >identified for filtering. I think the complaint was due not to the

Re: run level 1, login takes too long, 2.4.X vs. 2.2.X

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
rpc.portmap isn't running, your login configuration/nss requires yp or something provided ans an RPC. -d "M.H.VanLeeuwen" wrote: > I had occasion to "telinit 1" today and found that it took a long time > to login after root passwd was entered. this doesn't happen with 2.2.X > kernels. > > Is

RE: videodev.c won't compile in test11-pre6/pre7/final

2000-11-19 Thread Frank Davis
Hello, The undeclared variables are defined in include/linux/videodev.h , which is included in videodev.c . ... #define VID_TYPE_SUBCAPTURE 512 #define VID_TYPE_MPEG_DECODER 1024 #define VID_TYPE_MPEG_ENCODER 2048 #define VID_TYPE_MJPEG_DECODER 4096 #define VID_TYPE_MJPEG_ENCODER 8192 ...

[PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF

2000-11-19 Thread Werner Almesberger
Hi Al, Jeff Chua reported a while ago that BLKFLSBUF returns EBUSY on a RAM disk that was obtained via initrd. I think the problem is that the effect of the blkdev_open(out_inode, ...) in drivers/block/rd.c:rd_load_image is not undone at the end. I've attached a patch for 2.4.0-test11-pre7 that

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Rogier Wolff wrote: > Someone wrote: > > > > So change the CMOS-settings so that the BIOS changes the boot order > > > > from A, C, CD-ROM to C first instead. *grin* How long do you want > > > > to keep playing Tic-Tac-Toe? > > > Writeprotect the flashbios with the

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > > Writeprotect the flashbios with the motherboard jumper, and remove the > > cmos battery. > > Checkmate. :-) > Only if you run your kernel XIP from the flash. If you load it into RAM, > it's still possible for

Re: run level 1, login takes too long, 2.4.X vs. 2.2.X

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff Epler
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:42:03PM -0600, M.H.VanLeeuwen wrote: > I had occasion to "telinit 1" today and found that it took a long time > to login after root passwd was entered. this doesn't happen with 2.2.X > kernels. > > Is this to be expected with the 2.4 series kernels? or a bug? It

videodev.c won't compile in test11-pre6/pre7/final

2000-11-19 Thread Ari Pollak
I was going to report this back in pre6, but I thought someone had caught it already.. When the bttv driver is enbabled as a module in test11, make modules fails with: videodev.c: In function `videodev_proc_read': videodev.c:283: `VID_TYPE_MPEG_DECODER' undeclared (first use in this function)

Re: Linux 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Rich Baum wrote: > > The patch is in the v2.3 directory. You may want to move it to the > v2.4 directory so people can find it easier. Oops. Thanks. Done. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Linux 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-19 Thread Rich Baum
The patch is in the v2.3 directory. You may want to move it to the v2.4 directory so people can find it easier. On 19 Nov 2000, at 18:19, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, test11 is out there. The most noticeable fixes since pre7 are the > Athlon lockup fix, the PCI routing handling, and getting

Re: Freeze on FPU exception with Athlon

2000-11-19 Thread Horst von Brand
=?iso-8859-1?q?Markus=20Schoder?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > --- Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > [...] > > Markus, can you make the irq13 test the first thing > > - don't worry about > > 3dnow as that seems to not be a deciding factor.. > Ok, that was it! It's IRQ 13. Guess I

Re: Freeze on FPU exception with Athlon

2000-11-19 Thread Horst von Brand
=?iso-8859-1?q?Markus=20Schoder?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > I will also try to compile a non AMD specific kernel > and see if that makes a difference. If just this 40GB > drive would fsck faster :) mount -o remount,ro [...] -- Horst von Brand [EMAIL

Linux 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ok, test11 is out there. The most noticeable fixes since pre7 are the Athlon lockup fix, the PCI routing handling, and getting the Joliet stuff right for iso9660. Linus - final: - Patrick Mochel: export the ACPI facs table in /proc too - Brian Gerst: Video4Linux

[PATCH] bttv_card & bttv_radio (was Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5)

2000-11-19 Thread Werner Almesberger
Gerd Knorr wrote: > Why? What is the point in compiling bttv statically into the kernel? Well, I see the modules vs. static flame war is already in progress ;-) My reason for wanting static kernels is that I usually build many, very different versions of the same kernel, among which I

Re: Value of TASK_UNMAPPED_SIZE on 2.4

2000-11-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 02:36:22PM -0800, Josue Emmanuel Amaro wrote: > Andrea, > > We will give it a try. > > How difficult would it be to move that patch to 2.4? I moved it to 2.4.0-test11-pre5 (should work with pre7 too):

PROBLEM: tmscsim driver on test11-pre7 stops working when starting X

2000-11-19 Thread Malte Cornils
Hi, my Dawicontrol 2974 SCSI-adapter fails with kernel 2.4.0-test10 with pre-11 and reiserfs for kernel test-10 patched in: -- Nov 20 01:30:23 wh36-b407 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 08 c0 6c 00 00 f8 00 Nov 20

Re: lseek/llseek allows the negative offset

2000-11-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:20:34PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote: > --- linux/fs/proc/mem.c.lseek Tue Jan 4 10:12:23 2000 > +++ linux/fs/proc/mem.c Sat Nov 18 17:19:28 2000 > @@ -196,14 +196,17 @@ static long long mem_lseek(struct file * > { > switch (orig) { > case 0: > -

Re: "No IRQ known for interrupt pin A..." error message

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
Gerhard Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That looks exactly like the message I get if I tell the bios not to > assign an interrupt to my video card. > unfortunately, i don't get such a choice. and if what you say is true, isn't the message ("No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre7: isapnp hang

2000-11-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Try reserving ports 0x300-0x31f on the kernel command line > > ("reserve=0x300,0x20"). > > > > I'm surprised isapnp uses a port in such a commonly used range, > > though. > > It

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > Writeprotect the flashbios with the motherboard jumper, and remove the > cmos battery. > > Checkmate. :-) Only if you run your kernel XIP from the flash. If you load it into RAM, it's still possible for an attacker to modify it. You can load new code

Re: 2.4 sendfile() not doing as manpage promises?

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote: > Moreover, the text Dan Hollis quotes is rather strange It's from redhat 6.0 man-pages-1.23-3 rpm package. -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre7: isapnp hang

2000-11-19 Thread Alan Cox
> Try reserving ports 0x300-0x31f on the kernel command line > ("reserve=0x300,0x20"). > > I'm surprised isapnp uses a port in such a commonly used range, > though. It seems to be a combination of two bugs. The one I posted a patch for and something odd that is taking port 0x279 before the pnp

[PATCH] Re: What is 2.4.0-test10: md1 has overlapping physical units with md2!

2000-11-19 Thread Neil Brown
Linus, Ingo: the attached patch, modifies a warning message in md.c which seems to often cause confusion - the following email includes one example there-of (there have been others over the months). Hopefully the new text is clearer. (patch against 2.4.0-test11-pre7) NeilBrown On

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre7: isapnp hang

2000-11-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Reading from port 0x313 (my ISA NE2000 is at 0x300-0x31f) hangs my > machine dead. Unfortunately, reading from that port is exactly what > the isapnp code does on boot, if compiled

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre7: isapnp hang

2000-11-19 Thread Alan Cox
> > Is it the network card's fault (probably), or is there a less invasive > > probe that isapnp could use (unlikely, I guess)? > > > That shouldnt be possible - we are supposed to start at 0x203 and skip the > problem area. And a quick read of the code I pasted instead of just pasting

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using oldBIOS

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Aloni
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote: > > > Well, I could patch it so it adds that one sector ;-) But that's not the > > right way. The true number of sectors is 90069840, since 90069839 doesn't > > divide by the number of *real* heads (6) and the

Re: "No IRQ known for interrupt pin A..." error message

2000-11-19 Thread Gerhard Mack
That looks exactly like the message I get if I tell the bios not to assign an interrupt to my video card. Gerhard On 19 Nov 2000, Alex Romosan wrote: > Martin Mares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > During boot, I get the message: > > > > > > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre7: isapnp hang

2000-11-19 Thread Alan Cox
> Reading from port 0x313 (my ISA NE2000 is at 0x300-0x31f) hangs my > machine dead. Unfortunately, reading from that port is exactly what > the isapnp code does on boot, if compiled into the kernel. > > Is it the network card's fault (probably), or is there a less invasive > probe that isapnp

Compile bugfix for ramfs limits

2000-11-19 Thread David Gibson
Oops.. not . The patch below implements resource limits for ramfs, and unlike the previous version actually compiles. -- David Gibson, Technical Support Engineer, Linuxcare, Inc. +61 2 6262 8990 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. diff -uNr

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using oldBIOS

2000-11-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote: > Well, I could patch it so it adds that one sector ;-) But that's not the > right way. The true number of sectors is 90069840, since 90069839 doesn't > divide by the number of *real* heads (6) and the number of recording zones > (15). So it needs fixing.

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using oldBIOS

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Aloni
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Taisuke Yamada wrote: > > > > > This patch is not good...[snip] > > > > > > Please retest with hdc=... > > > > Ok, I've booted without the parameter, and without the jumper on > > clipping mode (I'll do it tommorow, it's 1AM now) got something > > similiar to what you've

Re: ATA/IDE: dmaproc error 14 testers wanted!

2000-11-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.17/README /pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.17/ide.2.2.17.all.20001118.patch.bz2 There you go Sean, hope that helps. Cheers, On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Sean B. Estabrooks wrote: > > > It is on kernel.org and the README tells you what to do to

2.4.0-test11-pre7: isapnp hang

2000-11-19 Thread Tim Waugh
Reading from port 0x313 (my ISA NE2000 is at 0x300-0x31f) hangs my machine dead. Unfortunately, reading from that port is exactly what the isapnp code does on boot, if compiled into the kernel. Is it the network card's fault (probably), or is there a less invasive probe that isapnp could use

Loud screech after reboot of 2.2.18-pre22

2000-11-19 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hi, I have a Sony VAIO Z505JE with ymfpci sound and built-in microphone and speaker. Everything worked fine with 2.2.17 plus ymfpci patch, but the 2.2.18-pre22 produces a loud screech starting as sound initializes and ending when startup scrips load mixer settings. This happens because of audio

VFS busy inodes after umount -- have a nice day...

2000-11-19 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi, Here is how I manage to hit this under 2.4.0-test11-pre6 1. mkfs an ext2 filesystem on a 36G disk 2. do a complex combination of data and metadata io on it by means of SPECsfs with LOADs high enough to run out of space 3. observe that both high and low memory are almost zero, i.e. about

USB Mass Storage and test11pre7

2000-11-19 Thread Drizzt
I have testing a HP 8200e USB CDRW Driver with this version of kernel. With the vainilla test10, after wrinting 14 MB, the cdrecotrd proccess lock, and I have the next messsage imn the logs: Nov 19 22:35:34 localhost kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout These doesn't happen with test10. But

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using old BIOS

2000-11-19 Thread Taisuke Yamada
> > > This patch is not good...[snip] > > > > Please retest with hdc=... > > Ok, I've booted without the parameter, and without the jumper on > clipping mode (I'll do it tommorow, it's 1AM now) got something > similiar to what you've written, and everything looks ok. Great, so it worked. #

Re: [patch] Remove tq_scheduler

2000-11-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This patch removes tq_scheduler from the kernel. All uses of > tq_scheduler are migrated over to use schedule_task(). > > Notes: > - If anyone sleeps in a callback, then all other users of > schedule_task() also sleep. But there's nothing new

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when usingoldBIOS

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Aloni
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Taisuke Yamada wrote: > > This patch is not good. It compiles, but when I boot the kernel, it > > decides to ignore the hdc=5606,255,63 parameter that I pass to the kernel, > > and limits the number of sectors to fill 8.4GB. > > Please retest with hdc=... parameter removed.

run level 1, login takes too long, 2.4.X vs. 2.2.X

2000-11-19 Thread M.H.VanLeeuwen
I had occasion to "telinit 1" today and found that it took a long time to login after root passwd was entered. this doesn't happen with 2.2.X kernels. Is this to be expected with the 2.4 series kernels? or a bug? Martin strace for 2.4.0-test11-pre7 ---snip--- gettimeofday({974665658,

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using old BIOS

2000-11-19 Thread Taisuke Yamada
> > With this patch, you will be able to use disk capacity above > > 32GB (or 2GB/8GB depending on how clipping take effect), and > > still be able to boot off from the disk because you can leave > > the "clipping" turned on. > > I suppose you know that no kernel patch is required (since >

Re: ATA/IDE: dmaproc error 14 testers wanted!

2000-11-19 Thread Sean B. Estabrooks
> It is on kernel.org and the README tells you what to do to enable the stub > in ide-dma.c If it works let me know! Andre, Where on kernel.org are you hiding the README and patch files you mention? Regards, Sean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.4 sendfile() not doing as manpage promises?

2000-11-19 Thread bert hubert
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 05:36:23PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: > DESCRIPTION >This call copies data between one file descriptor and >another. Either or both of these file descriptors may >refer to a socket. in_fd should be a file descriptor >

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using oldBIOS

2000-11-19 Thread Taisuke Yamada
> > Earlier this month, I had sent in a patch to 2.2.18pre17 (with > > IDE-patch from http://www.linux-ide.org/ applied) to add support > > for IDE disk larger than 32GB, even if the disk required "clipping" > > to reduce apparent disk size due to BIOS limitation. > > This patch is not good.

Re: "No IRQ known for interrupt pin A..." error message

2000-11-19 Thread Pavel Rabel
> During boot, I get the message: > > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:00.1. Please try > using pci=biosirq. It is related to VGA card (at least on my system). Enabling 'Assign IRQ for VGA' in BIOS causes the message to disapear. Pavel - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: rdtsc to mili secs?

2000-11-19 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > Anyway, this should be solvable by checking for clock change in the > > > > timer interrupt. This way we should be able to detect when the clock > > > > went weird with a 10 ms accuracy. And compensate for that. It

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:03:52 +0100 (CET), Gerd Knorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Keith Owens wrote: >> On my list for 2.5. If foo is declared as MODULE_PARM in object bar >> then you will be able to boot with bar.foo=27 or even foo=27 as long as >> variable foo is unique

2.4.0-test11-pre6 Destroyed vfat filesystem

2000-11-19 Thread John McCutchan
Hello, After I mounted my windows partition under 2.4.0-test11pre6 the file system was corrupted. John - 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

Re: [PATCH] megaraid driver update for 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-19 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "dalecki" == dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A few questions after scanning through your patch, it's likely I missed something but I am kind acurious. dalecki> The attached patch does the following: 1. Merge the most dalecki> current version (aka: 1.08) of the MegaRAID driver from

VFAT corrupt files :?

2000-11-19 Thread Drizzt
I'm using 2.4.0-test11pre7 I calcute md5sum of some files in a ext2 partition. I move those files to a vfat partition. I duplicate the directory im the vfat partition. The duplicate set doesn't pass the md5sum. I have done various test and I can replicate they don't pass the md5 sum. Are there

Re: "No IRQ known for interrupt pin A..." error message

2000-11-19 Thread Steven Walter
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 08:20:33PM +0100, Martin Mares wrote: > > During boot, I get the message: > > > > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:00.1. Please try > > using pci=biosirq. > > Can you send me 'lspci -vvx' output, please? > Here you go: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Ben Ford
Alexander Viro wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Christer Weinigel wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > >On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > >> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, David Lang wrote: > > >> > there is a rootkit kernel module out there that, if loaded onto your > > >>

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Ben Ford
Christer Weinigel wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > >> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, David Lang wrote: > >> > there is a rootkit kernel module out there that, if loaded onto your > >> > system, can make it almost impossible to detect that

[PATCH] dmfe.c transmission performance patch

2000-11-19 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
[Please help me test this patch (for linux-2.4.0-test10/11)!] This is my tx performance patch for dmfe, excluding the locking fixes, which will appear in a separate patch. I would like feedback from testing and code inspection. New since the last patch is the line printed when a new card is

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Rogier Wolff
Someone wrote: > > > So change the CMOS-settings so that the BIOS changes the boot order > > > from A, C, CD-ROM to C first instead. *grin* How long do you want > > > to keep playing Tic-Tac-Toe? > > > > Writeprotect the flashbios with the motherboard jumper, and remove the > > cmos battery.

Re: Odd behaviour with agpgart

2000-11-19 Thread John Cavan
Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:43:20PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: > > Bus 1, device 0, function 0: > > VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 5). > > IRQ 16. > > Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=32. > >

Re: XMMS not working on 2.4.0-test11-pre7

2000-11-19 Thread J Sloan
Just a data point I'm listening to mp3s now via xmms, running 2.4.0-test11-pre7 # uname -r -s Linux 2.4.0-test11-pre7 # rpm -q xmms xmms-1.2.3-0_helix_1 the "flags/features" switch doesn't seem to hurt it: # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family

Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

2000-11-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
Pavel Machek wrote: > > Actually, I was planning on doing on putting in a hack to do something > > like that: calculate a checksum after every buffer data update and check > > it after write completion, to make sure nothing scribbled in the buffer > > in the interim. This would also pick up some

Re: rdtsc to mili secs?

2000-11-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Anyway, this should be solvable by checking for clock change in the > > > timer interrupt. This way we should be able to detect when the clock > > > went weird with a 10 ms accuracy. And compensate for that. It should be > > > possible to keep a 'reasonable' clock running even through

Re: Q: Linux rebooting directly into linux.

2000-11-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The code wasn't trivially reusable, and the structures had a lot > > of overhead. > > There's some overhead, but I think it's not too bad. I'll give it a > try ... > > > The rebooting is done the rest is not yet. >

Re: Advanced Linux Kernel/Enterprise Linux Kernel

2000-11-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > book, Ext2 throws safety to the wind to achieve speed. This also ties > > into Linux' convoluted VM system, and is shot in the foot by NFS. We > > would need minimally a journaled filesystem and a clean VM design, > > probably with a unified cache (no separate buffer, directory entry and

Re: [PATCH] swap= kernel commandline

2000-11-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi1 > > Did you try to load an initrd on a low-memory machine? > > It shouldn't work and it probably won't ;) > > You must be really low on memory ;-) > > # zcat initrd.gz | wc -c > 409600 > > (ash, pwd, chroot, pivot_root, smount, and still about 82 kB free.) Your solution requires 400K

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >One note for the archives, if you are presented a choice between a OHCI > >or a UHCI controller, go for the OHCI. It has a "cleaner" interface, > >handles more of the logic in the silicon, and due to this provides > >faster transfers. > > I'd disagree. UHCI has tons of advantages, not

Re: "No IRQ known for interrupt pin A..." error message

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
Martin Mares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > During boot, I get the message: > > > > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:00.1. Please try > > using pci=biosirq. > > Can you send me 'lspci -vvx' output, please? > i am not the original poster, but i get the same message (save

Re: Odd behaviour with agpgart

2000-11-19 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:43:20PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: > Bus 1, device 0, function 0: > VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 5). > IRQ 16. > Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=32. > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf600

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Gerd Knorr
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > On 19 Nov 2000 12:56:17 GMT, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerd Knorr) wrote: > >Some generic way to make module args available as kernel args too > >would be nice. Or at least some simple one-liner I could put next to > >the MODULE_PARM() macro... > > On my

Re: reordering pci interrupts?

2000-11-19 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! > I have a motherboard with a broken bios that is unable to set interrupts > correctly, i.e. it initializes the devices corerctly but swaps the > interrupts for slot1/slot3 and slot2/slot4. > > Now, is there a way to forcefully re-order the pci-interrupts? I do not > have an io-apic

Re: "No IRQ known for interrupt pin A..." error message

2000-11-19 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! > During boot, I get the message: > > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:00.1. Please try > using pci=biosirq. Can you send me 'lspci -vvx' output, please? Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] semaphore fairness patch against test11-pre6

2000-11-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I don't see a path where David's patch can cause a lost wakeup in the > way you describe. Basically, if there are two up() calls, they might end up waking up only one process, because the same process goes to sleep twice. That's wrong. It should

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Gerd Knorr
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, David Lang wrote: > there is a rootkit kernel module out there that, if loaded onto your > system, can make it almost impossible to detect that your system has been > compramised. with module support disabled this isn't possible. Wrong. I've seen messages on bugtraq saying

Re: PROBLEM: isofs crash on 2.4.0-test11-pre7 [1.] MAINTAINERS: ISO FILESYSTEM

2000-11-19 Thread Luuk van der Duim
Hi Vincent and Tony, Hate to spoil the fun :( but, try the patch Tom Leete commited on Saturday november 18th. Since your Oopses are related to get_joliet_filename(), this might just do the trick? Luuk >Hi, > > >The second and third arguments of get_joliet_filename() are swapped. > > >Tom >

Re: XMMS not working on 2.4.0-test11-pre7

2000-11-19 Thread James A . Sutherland
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, David Ford wrote: > > My guess is that it's a plugin, the source for xmms doesn't have "cpuinfo" anywhere >in it. > > -d > > Gianluca Anzolin wrote: > > > it seems there has been a change in the format of the /proc/cpuinfo file: infact >'flags: ' became 'features: ' > >

Re: Freeze on FPU exception with Athlon

2000-11-19 Thread Markus Schoder
--- Brian Gerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, that was it! It's IRQ 13. Guess I should have > > tried that first. Now everything works perfectly. > > Thanks everybody. > > What motherboard do you have? I can't reproduce > this on my FIC SD11. > > -- > >

Re: PROBLEM: 3c509 driver broken in 2.4.0-test10, not in -test9

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Peter Rottengatter wrote: > > Sorry for using this address, there does not appear to be a special maintainer > for the 3c509 network driver. > > 1. > 3c509 driver broken in 2.4.0-test10, not in -test9 > > 2. > The 3c509 network driver worked fine for decades almost ;-) that is 2.0.x, > 2.2.x,

PROBLEM: 3c509 driver broken in 2.4.0-test10, not in -test9

2000-11-19 Thread Peter Rottengatter
Sorry for using this address, there does not appear to be a special maintainer for the 3c509 network driver. 1. 3c509 driver broken in 2.4.0-test10, not in -test9 2. The 3c509 network driver worked fine for decades almost ;-) that is 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and 2.4.0-test up to 9. In 2.4.0-test10 it

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using old BIOS

2000-11-19 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:30:34AM +0900, Taisuke Yamada wrote: > Earlier this month, I had sent in a patch to 2.2.18pre17 (with > IDE-patch from http://www.linux-ide.org/ applied) to add support > for IDE disk larger than 32GB, even if the disk required "clipping" > to reduce apparent disk size

2.4.0-test11-pre3: kernel: Attempt to read inode for relocated directory

2000-11-19 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
2.4.0-test11-pre3 kernel said Nov 19 17:40:25 iapetus kernel: Attempt to read inode for relocated directory Nov 19 17:40:25 iapetus last message repeated 8 times while doing a mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom cd /cdrom find -depth |cpio -pdm /dst Is reproducable here,

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Alan Cox
> > So change the CMOS-settings so that the BIOS changes the boot order > > from A, C, CD-ROM to C first instead. *grin* How long do you want > > to keep playing Tic-Tac-Toe? > > Writeprotect the flashbios with the motherboard jumper, and remove the > cmos battery. > > Checkmate. :-) You can

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using oldBIOS

2000-11-19 Thread Andre Hedrick
The original was good, but the changes made to do the callout fail to return structs that need to be filled. This is my fault. On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Taisuke Yamada wrote: > > > Earlier this month, I had sent in a patch to 2.2.18pre17 (with > > IDE-patch

Re: How to add a drive to DMA black list?

2000-11-19 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 11:26 17/11/2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > drive problem, considering that another ide drive on the same controller > > works fine with DMA enabled (a QUANTUM TRB850A) while the Conner > > Peripherals 1275MB - CFS1275A fails with DMA enabled. They are in fact > both > >And the Conner drives work

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using oldBIOS

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Aloni
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Taisuke Yamada wrote: > Earlier this month, I had sent in a patch to 2.2.18pre17 (with > IDE-patch from http://www.linux-ide.org/ applied) to add support > for IDE disk larger than 32GB, even if the disk required "clipping" > to reduce apparent disk size due to BIOS

Re: 2.4 sendfile() not doing as manpage promises?

2000-11-19 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:53:00AM +0100, bert hubert wrote: : On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 03:15:28PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: : ::: In that case, the wording of the manpage needs to be changed, as it ::: implies that 'either or both' of the filedescriptors can be sockets. :: :: Its quite

Re: XMMS not working on 2.4.0-test11-pre7

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
My guess is that it's a plugin, the source for xmms doesn't have "cpuinfo" anywhere in it. -d Gianluca Anzolin wrote: > it seems there has been a change in the format of the /proc/cpuinfo file: infact >'flags: ' became 'features: ' > > This change broke xmms and could broke any other program

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
Christer Weinigel wrote: > >Kernel on writeprotected floppy disk... > > So change the CMOS-settings so that the BIOS changes the boot order > from A, C, CD-ROM to C first instead. *grin* How long do you want > to keep playing Tic-Tac-Toe? > > Of course, using capabilities and totally disabling

Re: [PATCH] megaraid driver update for 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-19 Thread dalecki
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >1. Merge the most current version (aka: 1.08) of the > > MegaRAID driver from AMI in to the most current kernel > > (2.4.0-test10 and

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread David Ford
> Why not? /me has nearly everything compiled as modules. Some people have extensive sh, awk and sed scripts to manage their systems, some have compiled programs. > > There is an introduced security weakness by using kernels. > > ??? Guess you mean "by using modules"? Which weakness? Other

Re: [PATCH] megaraid driver update for 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-19 Thread dalecki
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > dalecki wrote: > > -#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > 0x020024 > > #include > > -#endif > > *cheer* I missd this point... > > > -u32 RDINDOOR (mega_host_config * megaCfg) > > +ulong RDINDOOR (mega_host_config * megaCfg) > > -void WRINDOOR (mega_host_config * megaCfg, u32

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > >Kernel on writeprotected floppy disk... > Cute. And when (not if) we get hit by new bug in the net/*/* you will drive > to the location of said router to upgrade the thing. No, post/email a floppy to tech who swaps the floppy and reboots router.

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Christer Weinigel wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > >> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, David Lang wrote: > >> > there is a rootkit kernel module out there that, if loaded onto your > >> > system, can make it almost

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