Re: test12-pre4 drivers/net/dummy

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

Re: test12-pre4

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

2.4.0test11: some issues and a possible show stopper

2000-12-03 Thread Ulrich Windl
Reading the article in the German computer magazine c't that Linux 2-4 is scheduled for release in December, and that Linux complained people do not want to test the new kernel, I decided to test it. The Hardware was: Spacewalker/Shuttle AV11 (VIA Apollo Pro chipset), Intel Celeron-500

Re: Soundconfig

2000-12-03 Thread Russell King
Jordi Colomer writes: > There is a little bug in the kernel file drivers/sound/Config.in for ARM > machines. This mail has been forwarded to the ARM Linux lists since this is not in the standard kernel tree (yet). _ |_| - ---+---+- |

Oops in pdev_sort_resources

2000-12-03 Thread Tom Holroyd
Alpha DP264, test12. Panic during boot. I copied this from the console (by hand): swapper(1): Oops 0 pc = [] ra = [] ps = v0 = fc003ff70300 t0 = 0001 t1 = 01f7 t2 = 01f0 t3 = t4 = 03f6 t5 = 03f6 t6

Re: IDE_TAPE problem wiht ONSTREAM DI30

2000-12-03 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Eckhard Jokisch wrote: > Am Don, 30 Nov 2000 schrieben Sie: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:26:09PM +, Eckhard Jokisch wrote: > > > > > > I tried the ide-tape driver for several weeks now. And after some time during > > > writing or reading tar stops because of errors. >

Soundconfig

2000-12-03 Thread Jordi Colomer
Hello, There is a little bug in the kernel file drivers/sound/Config.in for ARM machines. When I do make xconfig, an error shows up. The cause is in line 11 of this file : if [ "$CONFIG_SA1100_ASSABET" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_SA1100_BITSY" = "y" -o \ "$CONFIG_SA1100_PANGOLIN" = "y" -o

Re: test12-pre4 drivers/net/dummy

2000-12-03 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Patch posted here... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=97590235825341=2 "Garst R. Reese" wrote: > > Fails to compile module at line 103, > invalid type argument of -> > Sorry if this well known. > Garst > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

test12-pre4 drivers/net/dummy

2000-12-03 Thread Garst R. Reese
Fails to compile module at line 103, invalid type argument of -> Sorry if this well known. Garst - 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/

[PATCH] inode dirty blocks Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-03 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Synching up with Alan and various other stuff. The most important one > being the fix to the inode dirty block list. It doesn't solve the problem. If you unlink a file with dirty metadata you have a nice chance to hit the BUG() in inode.c:83. I

Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-03 Thread Tom Holroyd
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8 -mcpu=ev6 -Wa,-mev6-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c pci.c pci.c: In function `pci_read_bases': pci.c:576: `tmp' undeclared (first use in this function) pci.c:576:

Re: multiprocessor kernel problem

2000-12-03 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > yes, but is it a dual machine or is it an N-way SMP with N > 2? the > other guy with iptables/SMP problems also has a quad box. could this > perhaps be a problem only when you have more than two processors? Yes, hacked my machine to think it had 4

Re: negative NFS cookies: bad C library or bad kernel?

2000-12-03 Thread Kevin Buhr
Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The problem then arises that lseek tries to cram both a returned > offset and an error value into the return values. Oops. You're right; I didn't think of this. So, I guess the best short-term solution is to fix the C library so it always uses

Linux for local languages - patch

2000-12-03 Thread K Ratheesh
Hi, I am Ratheesh , student of Indian Institute of Technology Madras. I am working on enabling Linux console for Local languages. As the current PSF format doesn't support variable width fonts , I have made a patch in the console driver so that it will load a user defined multi-glyph mapping

Re: test12-pre4

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

Re: Phantom PS/2 mouse persists..

2000-12-03 Thread Steven N. Hirsch
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 05:42:03PM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > > FWIW, USB isn't compiled into the kernel in question. > > Yes it is. I am also seeing compile problems. I will post to a new subject > since they are not mouse related, but IPVS

Re: Phantom PS/2 mouse persists..

2000-12-03 Thread Steven N. Hirsch
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Daniel Roesen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 10:24:19AM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > > Unfortunately, 2.2.18pre24 is still convinced that I have a PS/2 mouse > > attached to my machine. > > Nod. Which board? I'm seeing the problem with Asus CUWE. Asus P2B-DS here.

Exporting access_process_vm

2000-12-03 Thread Erik Paulson
Hi, Back in September, David Howells sent in a one-line patch that just exported access_process_vm. It doesn't seem to have been applied, and there was no discussion of it. Was it simply overlooked, or was there a good reason not to apply it and no one ever replied to the list about it?

test12-pre4

2000-12-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
Synching up with Alan and various other stuff. The most important one being the fix to the inode dirty block list. Linus - pre4: - Andries Brouwer: final isofs pieces. - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN - play CD audio correctly, don't stop after 12 minutes. -

Re: Phantom PS/2 mouse persists..

2000-12-03 Thread Linux Kernel Developer
- Original Message - From: "Steven N. Hirsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 5:42 PM Subject: Re: Phantom PS/2 mouse persists.. > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Jeff V. Merkey

Re: ip_nat_ftp and different ports

2000-12-03 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Martin Josefsson wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm having trouble masquerading ftp-ports other than 20/21. > > > For some service i'm using, i need to masquerade port

Re: multiprocessor kernel problem

2000-12-03 Thread Roger Crandell
Rusty, I have two identical machines and the problem exists on both. The machines have Megaplex II quad Pentium III Xeon PCI ISA system boards. I have 550 Pentium III Xeon, 100/512 processors. I am running test11 which I downloaded a few days ago. I have installed no patches. My iptables

Re: 2.4.0-11 AIC7xxx.o driver barfs on AHA27XX adapter

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 06:15:24PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > On a four processor POCA system with dual Fast-SCSI AHA274X/VLB bus > controllers I am seeing the following timeout errors right after > the sequencer scripts are downloaded and the driver starts polling. > It does not happen

Re: ip_nat_ftp and different ports

2000-12-03 Thread Taco IJsselmuiden
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Martin Josefsson wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble masquerading ftp-ports other than 20/21. > > For some service i'm using, i need to masquerade port 42,43,62,63 for FTP > > (I know it's weird...). > > Now, when using

PATCH - documentation for ll_rw_block and generic_make_request

2000-12-03 Thread Neil Brown
Linus, below is a patch for 2.4.0-test that adds documentation for ll_rw_block and generic_make_request. It also corrects a type error in a printk call. I would really like to change a couple of names in the file: "generic_make_request" would sound much better as "raw_rw_block". that

Re: multiprocessor kernel problem

2000-12-03 Thread Johan Kullstam
Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > > > I have 2.4.0 test 10 and test 11 installed on a multiprocessor (Intel) > > machine. I have tried both test versions of the kernel. I configured > > the kernel for single > > and multi processor.

2.4.0-11 AIC7xxx.o driver barfs on AHA27XX adapter

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On a four processor POCA system with dual Fast-SCSI AHA274X/VLB bus controllers I am seeing the following timeout errors right after the sequencer scripts are downloaded and the driver starts polling. It does not happen when compiled in kernel, only when loaded from an initrd image. The root

Re: test12-pre3 (FireWire issue)

2000-12-03 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:00:07PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: > Linus Torvalds said once upon a time (Tue, 28 Nov 2000): > > > - pre3: > > - Andreas Bombe: ieee1394 cleanups and fixes > > Linus, Andreas, > > I've been using this same config since FireWire was merged, just tried out >

Re: 2.2.18-24 with IPVS patch has compile errors

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 05:52:26PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > With the 2.2.17 IPVS patch applied to 2.2.18-24, I am seeing the following > compile errors. > > -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/ute/BUILD/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 >-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing

Re: [resync?] Re: corruption

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 05:45:57PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Sorry, it's still failing. It took three hours. > > Yes. For one thing, original was plain wrong wrt locking (lru_list_lock > should be held). For another, it does not take

Re: Phantom PS/2 mouse persists..

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:49:47AM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 10:24:19AM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > > Unfortunately, 2.2.18pre24 is still convinced that I have a PS/2 mouse > > attached to my machine. > > Nod. Which board? I'm seeing the problem with Asus CUWE.

2.2.18-24 with IPVS patch has compile errors

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
With the 2.2.17 IPVS patch applied to 2.2.18-24, I am seeing the following compile errors. -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/ute/BUILD/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m386 -DCPU=386 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS

Re: Phantom PS/2 mouse persists..

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 05:42:03PM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 06:27:52PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > > > I've fixed the major case. I can see no definitive answer to the other ghost > > > > PS/2 stuff (except

Re: Phantom PS/2 mouse persists..

2000-12-03 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 10:24:19AM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > Unfortunately, 2.2.18pre24 is still convinced that I have a PS/2 mouse > attached to my machine. Nod. Which board? I'm seeing the problem with Asus CUWE. Best regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

2.4.0-test11: kernel: waitpid(823) failed, -512

2000-12-03 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
While playing with routing (zebra) and PPP I regularly see this message appearing. It always happens when pppd terminates a connection, e.g: Dec 3 23:09:08 mimas pppd[784]: Modem hangup Dec 3 23:09:08 mimas pppd[784]: Connection terminated. Dec 3 23:09:08 mimas pppd[784]: Connect time 2.0

[resync?] Re: corruption

2000-12-03 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > Sorry, it's still failing. It took three hours. Yes. For one thing, original was plain wrong wrt locking (lru_list_lock should be held). For another, it does not take care of metadata. And that's way more serious. What really happens:

Re: Phantom PS/2 mouse persists..

2000-12-03 Thread Steven N. Hirsch
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 06:27:52PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > I've fixed the major case. I can see no definitive answer to the other ghost > > > PS/2 stuff (except maybe USB interactions). I take it like the others 2.4test > > > also

Re: Phantom PS/2 mouse persists..

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 02:45:58PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 06:27:52PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Unfortunately, 2.2.18pre24 is still convinced that I have a PS/2 mouse > > > attached to my machine. > > > > I've fixed the major case. I can see no definitive answer

Re: ip_nat_ftp and different ports

2000-12-03 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble masquerading ftp-ports other than 20/21. > For some service i'm using, i need to masquerade port 42,43,62,63 for FTP > (I know it's weird...). > Now, when using 2.2.x kernels i could use > 'insmod ip_masq_ftp

Re: corruption

2000-12-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It appears that this problem is not fixed. > > Sure, it isn't. Place where the shit hits the fan: fs/buffer.c::unmap_buffer(). > Add the call of remove_inode_queue(bh) there and see if it helps. I.e. > > ed fs/buffer.c <

Re: Phantom PS/2 mouse persists..

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 06:27:52PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > Unfortunately, 2.2.18pre24 is still convinced that I have a PS/2 mouse > > attached to my machine. > > I've fixed the major case. I can see no definitive answer to the other ghost > PS/2 stuff (except maybe USB interactions). I take

Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 07:29:10 +1100, Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 07:43:01 -0600 (CST), >Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote: >>> If you go down this path, please add a standard performance monitoring >>> method to query

Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 07:43:01 -0600 (CST), Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote: >> If you go down this path, please add a standard performance monitoring >> method to query the current capacity of an interface. >Well, ethtool interface supports reporting

Re: corruption

2000-12-03 Thread Jonathan Hudson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AV> >> > ed fs/buffer.c <> > /unmap_buffer/ >> > /}/i AV> spin_lock(_list_lock); >> >remove_inode_queue(bh); AV> spin_unlock(_list_lock); >> > . >> > wq >> > EOF AV>

Re: IDE_TAPE problem wiht ONSTREAM DI30

2000-12-03 Thread Eckhard Jokisch
Am Don, 30 Nov 2000 schrieben Sie: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:26:09PM +, Eckhard Jokisch wrote: > > > > I tried the ide-tape driver for several weeks now. And after some time during > > writing or reading tar stops because of errors. > > > > Error messages are: > > Nov 30 15:32:20

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

2000-12-03 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> This is standard stuff... You are really pissing into the wind here ;) Guess I am. Still isn't an explaination why I see a lot of broken code out there regarding this issue. Igmar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

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

2000-12-03 Thread David Ford
Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > This is standard stuff... You are really pissing into the wind here ;) > > Guess I am. Still isn't an explaination why I see a lot of broken code out > there regarding this issue. > > Igmar Broken code due to broken programmers. -d begin:vcard

Re: [patch] Re: test12-pre2

2000-12-03 Thread Wakko Warner
> > It just oops continuously. It finds the scsi drives and says it's enabling > > a few pci devices but it scrolls too fast to see what it really does > > If it finds scsi drives, PCI setup is probably ok. There could be > a lot of other problems - too much changes since 2.2. > > Capturing

Re: lost dirs after fsck-1.18 (kt133, ide, dma, test10, test11)

2000-12-03 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
From: "Saber Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Sun, 03 Dec 2000 05:59:47 - Well that's the last time I run a devel kernel with a nontest system. sigh. Had one directory replaced with a different directory and also a directory replaced with a file. Possible further

ip_nat_ftp and different ports

2000-12-03 Thread Taco IJsselmuiden
Hi, I'm having trouble masquerading ftp-ports other than 20/21. For some service i'm using, i need to masquerade port 42,43,62,63 for FTP (I know it's weird...). Now, when using 2.2.x kernels i could use 'insmod ip_masq_ftp ports=21,41,42,62,63' but using 2.4.0-testx the 'ports=' parameter

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

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

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-12-03 Thread Alan Cox
> Where can this Lucent driver be found? The one I use with my Thinkpad is > version 5.68. It comes as a loadable module (ltmodem.o) with no serial.c, and I > havent gotten it to work with any kernel later than 2.2.14. The serial API had to change in 2.2.15. I know it broke the lucent driver,

Re: mmap_sem (and generic) semaphore fairness question

2000-12-03 Thread kernel
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Yes, it can happens. It for sure happens in ncpfs - as ncpfs uses > ping-pong protocol, and I'm lazy to use different thing than semaphore, > connection to server is guarded by semaphore. If you use a rw semaphore taken for writing by two writers, it

Re: corruption on my ext2fs with 2.4.0-test10

2000-12-03 Thread Adam Sampson
Mircea Damian writes: > ... file-utils like ls, rm say: > root@invasion:/usr/src/perl-5.6.0/t# ls -sail > /bin/ls: big: Value too large for defined data type > total 8 > 10973604 drwx-- 2 504 1001 4096 Dec 3 13:43 ./ > 13549794 drwxr-xr-x 3 504 1001 4096

Re: Phantom PS/2 mouse persists..

2000-12-03 Thread Alan Cox
> Unfortunately, 2.2.18pre24 is still convinced that I have a PS/2 mouse > attached to my machine. I've fixed the major case. I can see no definitive answer to the other ghost PS/2 stuff (except maybe USB interactions). I take it like the others 2.4test also misreports a PS/2 mouse being

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-12-03 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Where can this Lucent driver be found? The one I use with my Thinkpad is > version 5.68. It comes as a loadable module (ltmodem.o) with no serial.c, and I > havent gotten it to work with any kernel later than 2.2.14. Search [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, it was there.

Bug in implementation of fcntl64 syscall?

2000-12-03 Thread Roderich Schupp
Hi, I'm trying to investigate why my apache compiled with -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (and glibc 2.2 build against 2.4.0-test10 headers) immediately dies with [emerg] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: fcntl: F_SETLKW: Error getting accept lock, exiting! This happens while

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-12-03 Thread Wayne . Brown
Where can this Lucent driver be found? The one I use with my Thinkpad is version 5.68. It comes as a loadable module (ltmodem.o) with no serial.c, and I havent gotten it to work with any kernel later than 2.2.14. Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/02/2000 10:50:35 AM To: Alan Cox

Re: corruption on my ext2fs with 2.4.0-test10

2000-12-03 Thread Mircea Damian
OK, problem found. Something is broken (I've tested on a new 2.4.0-test12-pre3). Look here: If I run strace through the perl script I get something like: root@invasion:/usr/src/archives/perl-5.6.0/t# strace ./perl op/lfs.t ... open("big", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 3 fstat(3,

Re: [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre3] microcode update for P4 (fwd)

2000-12-03 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:11:28PM +, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > Second attempt. The linux-kernel list is broken at the moment (reported > > fault to postmaster already) so some messages get lost at random: > >Tigran has local problems with his

Re: [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre3] microcode update for P4 (fwd)

2000-12-03 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:11:28PM +, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Second attempt. The linux-kernel list is broken at the moment (reported > fault to postmaster already) so some messages get lost at random: Tigran has local problems with his outgoing email. Nothing to do with

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

2000-12-03 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> Well, that's the Unix interface you. I you don't like it, why don't you > become a Windows programmer and try your hand at the Win32 interface? :-) > > Seriously, doing something different for /dev/random compared to all > other read(2) calls is a bad idea; it will get people confused. The

HP E60 strange network problems

2000-12-03 Thread Vytautas Kasparavicius
Hello, Have strange problem: HP E60 server(Intel 82559 onboard NIC) + RedHat 6.2 with latest fixes. About 40 computers(WIN9X) in local network, 3COM dual speed switch and 3 compex 10Mb hubs. Everything is OK except sometimes can't ping workstations from linux server. From workstations I can ping

Phantom PS/2 mouse persists..

2000-12-03 Thread Steven N. Hirsch
Alan, Unfortunately, 2.2.18pre24 is still convinced that I have a PS/2 mouse attached to my machine. Steve - 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: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3)

2000-12-03 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> > Making /dev/random block if the amount requirements aren't met makes sense > > to me. If I request x bytes of random stuff, and get less, I probably > > reread /dev/random. If it's entropy pool is exhausted it makes sense to be > > to block. > > This is the job of the program accessing

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

2000-12-03 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> > I know. Still leaves lot's of people that assume that reading /dev/random > > will return data, or will block. > > > > I've seen lots of programs that will assume that if we request x bytes > > from /dev/random it will return x bytes. > > I find this really humorous honestly. I see a lot

Q: tq_scheduler slower on SMP ?

2000-12-03 Thread Armin Schindler
Hi, with kernel 2.2.17 I need to have a function in my driver to handle some data. I used BH with tq_immediate, but I found out, that my function need to be called outside of interrupt context, but still as soon as I need it. So I decided to use the tq_scheduler queue and put my function on the

Re: how to compile redhat6.0 kernel

2000-12-03 Thread Pete Keller
At 03:00 AM 12/3/00 +, Mourad wrote: >hi: > >i wanna recompile the kernel to reset some variables "ip multicasting", >and i have a root access. > >so can you please tell me in steps (detailed) , how to recompile an >installed kernel of redhat6.0. > >thanx >mourad, Here is a URL for a

Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

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

negative NFS cookies: bad C library or bad kernel?

2000-12-03 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, who's to blame here? It can't be CFS---any four-byte > cookie should be valid, right? > Is the kernel NFS client code to blame? If it's going to be > using cookies as offsets, shouldn't we have an nfs_lseek

Problems with CDROMVOLCTRL

2000-12-03 Thread Roderich Schupp
Hi, CDROMVOLCTRL does not work with my configuration in test11. The ioctl always returns an error and volume stays the same (seen with xmcd and gtcd). I tried the patch at *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.0-test11/cd-1.bz2 This changed the error code from some bogus large

Re: corruption on my ext2fs with 2.4.0-test10

2000-12-03 Thread Mircea Damian
Sorry that I have to follow my self but I forgot to say that e2fsck is happy with it: root@invasion:~# e2fsck -C 0 -f /dev/hda2 e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure

Re: Problems building test10 or test11 with AMD Duron CPU

2000-12-03 Thread Jens Taprogge
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:56:32AM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Hi, > > I've been unable to build kernel 2.4.0test10 or test 11 on my new system, > which has an Asus A7V mb and a AMD Duron 700 CPU, running Debian Woody > (gcc 2.95.2). If I select as CPU: Athlon/K7, building the kernel

corruption on my ext2fs with 2.4.0-test10

2000-12-03 Thread Mircea Damian
Hello people, Since I've seen that there are some problems with corruption on ext2fs I thought that it would be a good idea to report my problem too. I have a 2.4.0-test10 patched with reiserfs (but I do not use it - it was just in my plan to create a partition sometime; so I think that it

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

2000-12-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Alexander Viro wrote: > > Erm... Not that ignoring the return values was a bright idea, but the > lack of reliable ordered datagram protocol in IP family is not a good > thing. It can be implemented over TCP, but it's a big overkill. IL is a > nice thing to have... Pet peeve? There are about

Re: Multi-Chanel ATA, was: Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-12-03 Thread Sasi Peter
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Uwe Bonnes wrote: > I bought the 2 channel thing for 400 DM (~160$). I guess the 8 chanel You can buy one for under $30 with two channels. So even is the 8 channel one is $200 and not $120 (4x30) I would still prefer this one. > thing is about 1000DM. That's not too much I

Bugs in test8 and test11

2000-12-03 Thread Tobias Hunger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! I encountered some wiered bugs in test8 -- and after an upgrade to test11 there too -- yesterday. I hope this address is not totally inadequate for this report. test8: I noticed for a while now, that the keyboard on my console does not

Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Russell King
(CC list trimmed) Philip Blundell writes: > >Does it? At which point? To me it looks like it calls dev->do_ioctl > >or am I missing something? > > It uses SIOCSIFMAP, which (I think) winds up in dev.c here: > > case SIOCSIFMAP: > if (dev->set_config) { >

Re: [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre3] ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c compilation fix.

2000-12-03 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Yoann Vandoorselaere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c.origSat Dec 2 16:18:05 >2000 > +++ linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c Sat Dec 2 16:19:04 2000 > @@ -228,6 +228,6 @@ > } > > struct ip_conntrack_protocol

Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Philip Blundell
>Does it? At which point? To me it looks like it calls dev->do_ioctl >or am I missing something? It uses SIOCSIFMAP, which (I think) winds up in dev.c here: case SIOCSIFMAP: if (dev->set_config) { if (!netif_device_present(dev))

Re[2]: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-03 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
-Original Message-An interesting addition: I've just got a reply from WD - they say my disk only supports PIO4 and not DMA... > I'm taking the case off the machine right now, i can guarantee you its not UDMA >compatible, simply because this thing was made in early1997. :) > > Here we

Problems building test10 or test11 with AMD Duron CPU

2000-12-03 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi, I've been unable to build kernel 2.4.0test10 or test 11 on my new system, which has an Asus A7V mb and a AMD Duron 700 CPU, running Debian Woody (gcc 2.95.2). If I select as CPU: Athlon/K7, building the kernel fails. If I choose PPro, the kernel builds fine, and I can use it. Is this normal

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > But the camera is cool, and works beautifully (once you get XFree86 > > happy) thanks to Andrew Tridgell. (If I could just coax the X server > > into giving my a YUV overlay I could play DVD's with this thing). > > Start at

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: But the camera is cool, and works beautifully (once you get XFree86 happy) thanks to Andrew Tridgell. (If I could just coax the X server into giving my a YUV overlay I could play DVD's with this thing). Start at

Problems building test10 or test11 with AMD Duron CPU

2000-12-03 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi, I've been unable to build kernel 2.4.0test10 or test 11 on my new system, which has an Asus A7V mb and a AMD Duron 700 CPU, running Debian Woody (gcc 2.95.2). If I select as CPU: Athlon/K7, building the kernel fails. If I choose PPro, the kernel builds fine, and I can use it. Is this normal

Re[2]: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-03 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
-Original Message-An interesting addition: I've just got a reply from WD - they say my disk only supports PIO4 and not DMA... I'm taking the case off the machine right now, i can guarantee you its not UDMA compatible, simply because this thing was made in early1997. :) Here we go:

Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Philip Blundell
Does it? At which point? To me it looks like it calls dev-do_ioctl or am I missing something? It uses SIOCSIFMAP, which (I think) winds up in dev.c here: case SIOCSIFMAP: if (dev-set_config) { if (!netif_device_present(dev))

Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

2000-12-03 Thread Russell King
(CC list trimmed) Philip Blundell writes: Does it? At which point? To me it looks like it calls dev-do_ioctl or am I missing something? It uses SIOCSIFMAP, which (I think) winds up in dev.c here: case SIOCSIFMAP: if (dev-set_config) {

Re: [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre3] ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c compilation fix.

2000-12-03 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Yoann Vandoorselaere [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c.origSat Dec 2 16:18:05 2000 +++ linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c Sat Dec 2 16:19:04 2000 @@ -228,6 +228,6 @@ } struct ip_conntrack_protocol

Bugs in test8 and test11

2000-12-03 Thread Tobias Hunger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! I encountered some wiered bugs in test8 -- and after an upgrade to test11 there too -- yesterday. I hope this address is not totally inadequate for this report. test8: I noticed for a while now, that the keyboard on my console does not

Re: Multi-Chanel ATA, was: Re: ATA-4, ATA-5 TCQ status

2000-12-03 Thread Sasi Peter
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Uwe Bonnes wrote: I bought the 2 channel thing for 400 DM (~160$). I guess the 8 chanel You can buy one for under $30 with two channels. So even is the 8 channel one is $200 and not $120 (4x30) I would still prefer this one. thing is about 1000DM. That's not too much I

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

2000-12-03 Thread Andrew Morton
Alexander Viro wrote: Erm... Not that ignoring the return values was a bright idea, but the lack of reliable ordered datagram protocol in IP family is not a good thing. It can be implemented over TCP, but it's a big overkill. IL is a nice thing to have... Pet peeve? There are about five

corruption on my ext2fs with 2.4.0-test10

2000-12-03 Thread Mircea Damian
Hello people, Since I've seen that there are some problems with corruption on ext2fs I thought that it would be a good idea to report my problem too. I have a 2.4.0-test10 patched with reiserfs (but I do not use it - it was just in my plan to create a partition sometime; so I think that it

Re: Problems building test10 or test11 with AMD Duron CPU

2000-12-03 Thread Jens Taprogge
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:56:32AM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: Hi, I've been unable to build kernel 2.4.0test10 or test 11 on my new system, which has an Asus A7V mb and a AMD Duron 700 CPU, running Debian Woody (gcc 2.95.2). If I select as CPU: Athlon/K7, building the kernel

Re: corruption on my ext2fs with 2.4.0-test10

2000-12-03 Thread Mircea Damian
Sorry that I have to follow my self but I forgot to say that e2fsck is happy with it: root@invasion:~# e2fsck -C 0 -f /dev/hda2 e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure

Problems with CDROMVOLCTRL

2000-12-03 Thread Roderich Schupp
Hi, CDROMVOLCTRL does not work with my configuration in test11. The ioctl always returns an error and volume stays the same (seen with xmcd and gtcd). I tried the patch at *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.0-test11/cd-1.bz2 This changed the error code from some bogus large

negative NFS cookies: bad C library or bad kernel?

2000-12-03 Thread Trond Myklebust
" " == Kevin Buhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, who's to blame here? It can't be CFS---any four-byte cookie should be valid, right? Is the kernel NFS client code to blame? If it's going to be using cookies as offsets, shouldn't we have an nfs_lseek that

Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

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

Re: how to compile redhat6.0 kernel

2000-12-03 Thread Pete Keller
At 03:00 AM 12/3/00 +, Mourad wrote: hi: i wanna recompile the kernel to reset some variables "ip multicasting", and i have a root access. so can you please tell me in steps (detailed) , how to recompile an installed kernel of redhat6.0. thanx mourad, Here is a URL for a Linux Journal

Q: tq_scheduler slower on SMP ?

2000-12-03 Thread Armin Schindler
Hi, with kernel 2.2.17 I need to have a function in my driver to handle some data. I used BH with tq_immediate, but I found out, that my function need to be called outside of interrupt context, but still as soon as I need it. So I decided to use the tq_scheduler queue and put my function on the

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