Re: [linux-usb-devel] PROBLEM: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP Linux 2.2.18.

2000-12-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:07:59PM -, Laramie Leavitt wrote: > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP kernel 2.2.18. > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: > When trying to install a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (USB) >

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 12 Dec 00 at 17:43, Niels Kristian Bech Jensen wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > > > Any one else experiencing problems when they do lots of disk activity > > in test12? > > > Yes, I've had some complete freezes (nothing working at all) in > test12-pre8 and test12. They

PROBLEM: SMP, SCSI and test11,12 cause repeatable oops

2000-12-12 Thread Aron Rosenberg
Hello All, this is my first bug report so bear with me (I'm trying to follow the directions.) This was sent to linux-smp, linux-scsi, but no answer Alright, I hope this helps everybody! Aron Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Video Conferencing for Linux http://cu30.sourceforge.net [1] SMP machine

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Niels Kristian Bech Jensen
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Any one else experiencing problems when they do lots of disk activity > in test12? > Yes, I've had some complete freezes (nothing working at all) in test12-pre8 and test12. They can be triggered by e.g. Netscape. test12-pre7 seems to be stable. --

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using > /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? > > Baiscally if I want to duplicate the environment in

OOPS on i586 2.4.0-test9

2000-12-12 Thread Thilo Mezger
Hi, i've just discovered this oops in my logs. it's a plain red hat linux 7 system with all updates applied (incl. glibc 2.2). the kernel running is a stock 2.4.0-test9. i have no idea what could have caused this oops but i'm running an onstream di-30 tape streamer with the ide-tape.c driver.

[PATCH] unresolved symbols in ext2.o (2.4.0-test12)

2000-12-12 Thread raubitsj
Below is a patch i need to fix two unresolved symbols when ext2 was compiled as a module. -jeff --- linux-2.4.0-test12/kernel/ksyms.c Tue Dec 12 11:19:17 2000 +++ linux/kernel/ksyms.cTue Dec 12 11:18:57 2000 @@ -252,6 +252,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(lock_may_read);

Re: [PATCH] generic_serial's block_til_ready

2000-12-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nick Holloway wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick van de Lageweg) writes: > > This patch renames the block_til_ready of generic serial to > > gs_block_til_ready. > > > > it helps when other modules have a "static block_til_ready" defined when > > used older modutils. > > Do you mean older

Re: [PATCH] generic_serial's block_til_ready

2000-12-12 Thread Nick Holloway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick van de Lageweg) writes: > This patch renames the block_til_ready of generic serial to > gs_block_til_ready. > > it helps when other modules have a "static block_til_ready" defined when > used older modutils. Do you mean older than the version specified as being

Re: [PATCH] ide-pci.c: typo

2000-12-12 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Frédéric L . W . Meunier wrote: > > I disagree with the patch. The bug is in printk > > No problem. So, it's a bug report instead. I have no clues, and just > thought it'd be a fix :) > > Not sure if 2.2.17 reported the double %% from syslog. I usually look > at my dmesg.

PROBLEM: Inode<0 in /proc/net/unix (2.2.16)

2000-12-12 Thread sigmunds
[1.] Inode<0 in /proc/net/unix (2.2.16) [2.] I found that Inode in /proc/net/unix often is less than zero on a debian system with a 2.2.16 kernel. If I understand correctly, this should not happen. I haven't found any mention of this anywhere. The corresponding values in the filesystem and in

[NEW DRIVER] firestream

2000-12-12 Thread Patrick van de Lageweg
Hi Linus, This is the driver for the Fujitsu Firestream atm cards (fs50 and fs155). Please consider including this driver in the tree. Thanks Patrick diff -u -r --new-file linux-2.4.0-test11.clean/Documentation/Configure.help linux-2.4.0-test11.fs50/Documentation/Configure.help ---

[NEW DRIVER] New user space serial port driver

2000-12-12 Thread Patrick van de Lageweg
Hi Linus, Please consider including this user space serial driver. It was writen for the Perle 833 RAS Server but can also be used for other serial devices more appropriately driven from a userspace program. Patrick diff -u -r --new-file

Re: Swapping-over-nbd deadlock fixed?

2000-12-12 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > I see in the 2.2.18 release notes that a deadlock, related to > swapping over a network via nbd, was fixed. Is this bug present > in 2.4.x-test? It _should_ be fixed in 2.4 as well. Then again, I don't know if there are any other deadlocks left .. ;)

[PATCH] generic_serial's block_til_ready

2000-12-12 Thread Patrick van de Lageweg
Hi Linus, This patch renames the block_til_ready of generic serial to gs_block_til_ready. it helps when other modules have a "static block_til_ready" defined when used older modutils. Patrick diff -r -u linux-2.4.0-test10.clean/drivers/char/generic_serial.c

Re: Swapping-over-nbd deadlock fixed?

2000-12-12 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > I see in the 2.2.18 release notes that a deadlock, related to swapping > over a network via nbd, was fixed. Is this bug present in 2.4.x-test? The bug is not related to swapping via nbd. The problem happens because the allocation code (kmalloc)

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 12 Dec 00 at 13:31, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and > > > see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. > > > > shift+pageup ? > > the problem with Shift-PgUP is that all the framebuffer drivers I tried > (matrox,

Swapping-over-nbd deadlock fixed?

2000-12-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
I see in the 2.2.18 release notes that a deadlock, related to swapping over a network via nbd, was fixed. Is this bug present in 2.4.x-test? -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi mind trick. - To

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Wakko Warner
> What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long > oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? > > I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and > see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. Tried using a printer?

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-12 Thread Michael Rothwell
josef höök wrote: > > What about implementing 9P instead That would rock. Plan9 is unix done the right way -- i.e., the fully consistent way. I'd love to see 9p in Linux. We're heading that direction anyway, with procfs, devfs, etc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

[PATCH] make config w/ Pentium-II

2000-12-12 Thread Matthew Wilcox
I built 2.4.0-test10 for my laptop and got caught out by `make config'. When I typed `Pentium-II' for my CPU type, it selected Pentium-III and my kernel wouldn't boot. To prevent errors of this type, please apply this patch. As a bonus, `Celeron' will now work as an answer too. Please apply.

Re: PROBLEM: cdrom doesnt work anymore with 2.4

2000-12-12 Thread Guest section DW
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:17:04PM +0100, Matthias Czapla wrote: > I have a quite old cdrom drive, called Cyberdrive 240D. With linux 2.2.17 > it worked with soemtimes odd behavior, but it worked. > With 2.4.0-test11 I can mount cdroms in it but if I want to access it (eg. > ls, cd...) I get

[BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Jasper Spaans
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:52:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, there it is. Noticeable changes from pre8 are mainly (a) new tq list > compile fixes and (b) the NetApp snapshot thing. > - final: > - Neil Brown: raid and md cleanups Hmm, while doing some not-so-heavy things with a

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Steven Cole
Helge Hafting wrote: >Steven Cole wrote: >[...] >>Simple question here, and risking displaying great ignorance: >>Does it make sense to use make -jN where N is much greater than the >>number of CPUs? > >No, but it makes sense to have N at least one more than the number of >cpus, >if you have the

followup: 2.4.0-test12 unresolved SCSI symbols

2000-12-12 Thread Bob_Tracy
The quick (not necessarily correct) fix is to back out that portion of the linux/drivers/scsi/Makefile patch that moves "scsi_syms.o" from line 33 to line 126. "It works for me." (tm) -- Bob Tracy[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? Baiscally if I want to duplicate the environment in which I'm getting the oops, I need to be dialed out. That takes out COM1. I

Build failure in 2.2.18

2000-12-12 Thread root
I've just patched and reconfigured to 2.2.18 (from 2.2.17 on an i686-linux-gnu[2.2]). make bzImage fails with: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.18/arch/i386/lib' cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -E -C -P -I/usr/src/linux/include -imacros

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > > Building kernels is something we do so frequently and this test > > is so easy to reproduce is why I performed it in the first > > place. I think it may be as good a test of real performance as > > some of

PROBLEM: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP Linux 2.2.18.

2000-12-12 Thread Laramie Leavitt
[1.] One line summary of the problem: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP kernel 2.2.18. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: When trying to install a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (USB) to a SMP kernel, I get the following error multiple times: usb.c: USB device

ds problem ?

2000-12-12 Thread Maciej Bogucki
HI! I have IBM NETFINITY 5100 server with 2.4.0-test12-pre8 . When I run it I got : After : "NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0." i have get : "ds: no socket drivers loaded!" I don't think it is serious problem . Regards Maciej Bogucki, Network Administrator --- 3dart.com /

Re: [PATCH] remove warning from drivers/net/hp100.c (240-test12-pre7)

2000-12-12 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:09:31PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Rasmus Andersen] > > How about this patch? It moves the offending struct to the __init > > function where it is used and inside an existing #ifdef CONFIG_PCI. > > H, if you're messing around with the pci device table, why

Re: kernel error

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 12:53:33PM +0100, jordi wrote: > I try to upgrade my 2.2.5-17 kernel to 2.4-test11 but when I put make > modules_install and it is in pcmacia module the make crash because it > put -F option. > > when I see the syntax not appear this option and I don't have a answer? >

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
No go. Xavier Bestel wrote: > > shift+pageup ? -- = Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Alcohol and calculus don't mix.

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On 12 Dec 2000, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long > > oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? > > > > I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and > > see if that'll hold it all when

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
> What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long > oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? > > I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and > see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. shift+pageup ? Xav -

2.4.0-test12 unresolved SCSI symbols

2000-12-12 Thread Bob_Tracy
Someone else mentioned the problem in a different context, so this report isn't exactly new... LOTS of unresolved symbols in several SCSI modules. Here's the list for "st.o": scsi_unregister_module scsi_block_when_processing_errors scsi_release_request scsi_do_req scsi_allocate_request

Re: PROBLEM: cdrom doesnt work anymore with 2.4

2000-12-12 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Matthias Czapla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. > > I have a quite old cdrom drive, called Cyberdrive 240D. With linux 2.2.17 > it worked with soemtimes odd behavior, but it worked. > With 2.4.0-test11 I can mount cdroms in it but if I want to access it (eg. if you use the kernel-rpm you

PROBLEM: cdrom doesnt work anymore with 2.4

2000-12-12 Thread Matthias Czapla
Hi. I have a quite old cdrom drive, called Cyberdrive 240D. With linux 2.2.17 it worked with soemtimes odd behavior, but it worked. With 2.4.0-test11 I can mount cdroms in it but if I want to access it (eg. ls, cd...) I get messages like: _isofs_bmap: block >= EOF (1096810496, 2048) or

how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. --

Re: linux-2.4.0-test12 problem with init

2000-12-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Bill Maidment wrote: > Hi > > I reported a problem with using 'init 1' with 2.4.0-test12-pre8 and was > told it wasn't a kernel problem. I beg to differ, as it still happens > with 2.4.0-test12 but not with 2.4.0-test12-pre7. What changed between > pre7 and pre8 to make

Re: NFS v2 attribute problem with 2.2.18?

2000-12-12 Thread Jens-Uwe Mager
>It would help a lot more if you ran tcpdump with "-s 1500" or some >similar large number. As Neil points out truncated packets do not help, so the trace again with -s 1500 as an argument to tcpdump: 13:48:05.395685 ramses.helios.de.1693569633 > ans.nfs: 132 lookup fh 9,65537/2147693539 "xxx"

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
I spoke too soon. It did it again while I was in X. Fetchmail/sendmail was doing mail stuff. The two were also running the other times also so its possible that this could be the trigger. "Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > > Weird. I just booted from a test12 kernel I compiled (under test11) from >

Re: Bad behavior of recv on already closed sockets.

2000-12-12 Thread Denis Perchine
Hi, > > Looks like it tries to read on socket which is already closed from other > > side. And it seems like recv did not return in this case. Is this OK, or > > kernel bug? > > This smells like an unknown bug in kernel. > > It is unknown, hence there is no workaround (but upgrading to 2.4). > >

Re: 2.2.18pre24 spurious diskchanges

2000-12-12 Thread Alan Cox
> on my ide CDROm I get, roughly each 2 seconds, disk changes although the > drive is empty and I don't touch it: some drives report a disk change every time they are asked when empty. This confuses magicdev somewhat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Kernel 2.4.12 - USB-STORAGE module problem

2000-12-12 Thread Tony Spinillo
When trying to load the usb-storage module (after executing the rc.usb script) I get the following (when using the latest 2.4Test12 from yesterday): Using /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o:

Re: CPU attachent and detachment in a running Linux system

2000-12-12 Thread Alan Cox
> thanks for your input but I think it won't work this way because the value > of smp_num_cpus needs to be increased by one right before a new cpu gets > started. Then one can imagine the following situation at one of the cpus > that needs to be captured: This is fine providing the code is aware

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Weird. I just booted from a test12 kernel I compiled (under test11) from completely clean sources and tried this again and no problems. I'm just gonna put this down as a fluke unless someone else someone else sees it or I lockup again. The only problem I have now is unresolved symbols in some

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2000-12-12T12:26:26, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > And thus it follows that 2.2.18 is the least buggy kernel ever, since > > it has gotten the most bug fixes. > > > > Right? (: > Hopefully not. I _do_ hope that 2.2.18 is the least buggy kernel ever... Why do you hope otherwise?

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread Alan Cox
> - maybe they'll need to patch lm_sensors to accommodate the increased > temperature range since the P4 runs so hot. (: (: Also there is a new 'rep nop' instruction that means 'short pause' and is used in spinlocks. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread Alan Cox
> And thus it follows that 2.2.18 is the least buggy kernel ever, since > it has gotten the most bug fixes. > > Right? (: Hopefully not. Remove arch/m68k arch/arm include/asm-m68k include/asm-arm drivers/usb drivers/char/agp

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread Adrian Cox
"David S. Miller" wrote: > Interpreting physical BAR values is another issue altogether. Kernel > wide interfaces for this may be easily added to include/asm/pci.h > infrastructure, please just choose some sane name for it and I will > compose a patch ok? :-) There's a semi-respectable use for

2.2.17 with Hedrick's IDE patch compiled with gcc-2.95.3-0.20000323

2000-12-12 Thread Peter Hanecak
Hello, I saw announcement about new 2.2.18 release and notice about newer compilers. So I'm writing ... Since Sep 6 2000 I'm running kernel 2.2.17 with Andre Hedrick's IDE patch (2904) compiled with gcc-2.95.3-0.2323 (RedHat package). I'm runing it on Pentium III/650 MHz system with 256

kernel error

2000-12-12 Thread jordi
hi I try to upgrade my 2.2.5-17 kernel to 2.4-test11 but when I put make modules_install and it is in pcmacia module the make crash because it put -F option. when I see the syntax not appear this option and I don't have a answer? You can help me? Thanks a lot for all Jordi Pallarès - To

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
If anyone is interested, this is what I am doing before it blows up everytime... sudo tar zxfv ~mhaque/linux-2.4.0-test5.tar.gz cd linux cat ~mhaque/kernel-patches/patch-2.4.0-test? ~mhaque/kernel-patches/patch-2.4.0-test1? | sudo patch -p1 sudo make mrproper sudo cp ~/kernel-config .config

2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Hey guys, Any one else experiencing problems when they do lots of disk activity in test12? I was able to grab the tail end of an oops. Probably not too usefull. Code: 89 42 04 89 10 b8 01 00 00 00 07 43 04 00 00 00 00 c7 03 00 Aiee, killing interrupt handler Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the

Re: 2.2.18pre24 spurious diskchanges

2000-12-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Dec 12 2000, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > >on my ide CDROm I get, roughly each 2 seconds, disk changes although the > > >drive is empty and I don't touch it: > > > > > >Dec 12 08:57:43 localhost kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device > > >ide0(3,64) > > >Dec 12 08:58:14 localhost last

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:30:37PM -0600, Paul Fulghum wrote: > From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Linux 2.2.18 Release Notes > > patch-2.2.18.tar.gz size=2.9MBytes Ehrm?! A tar'ed-up patch?! You didn't mean something like: 3049653 Dec 11 00:45 patch-2.2.18.gz now did you?! :^) >

Re: cpu stepping

2000-12-12 Thread richardj_moore
Stepping is Intel teminology for chip revisions - possibly other manufacturers have used the same terminology. Intel documents the fixes, or rather the bugs and work-arounds, for each stepping level in the addendum to the particular processor's reference manual. Probably, I haven't checked,

NFS v2 attribute problem with 2.2.18?

2000-12-12 Thread Jens-Uwe Mager
I just installed the new 2.2.18 kernel and I get a strange problem with NFS v2 servers (for example AIX 4.1.5). The problem does not appear if the NFS server is a newer V3 for example from Solaris 7. The problem is that I am unable to create new files in a newly created directory for a while:

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Helge Hafting
Steven Cole wrote: [...] > Simple question here, and risking displaying great ignorance: > Does it make sense to use make -jN where N is much greater than the > number of CPUs? No, but it makes sense to have N at least one more than the number of cpus, if you have the memory. This because your

Re: 2.2.18pre21 oops reading /proc/apm

2000-12-12 Thread Neale Banks
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Neale Banks wrote: [...] > Diff against unmolested 2.2.18pre24 is attached. Hold that one, I just found another case I haven't covered: booting with apm=debug causes oops and nukes the bootup. Reading the source, I can't see how this doesn't also affect the "dell_crap"

linux-2.4.0-test12 problem with init

2000-12-12 Thread Bill Maidment
Hi I reported a problem with using 'init 1' with 2.4.0-test12-pre8 and was told it wasn't a kernel problem. I beg to differ, as it still happens with 2.4.0-test12 but not with 2.4.0-test12-pre7. What changed between pre7 and pre8 to make 'init 1' behave like 'init 5'? 'init 3' works correctly.

[patch-2.4.0-test12] oneliner bugfix (microcode driver again)

2000-12-12 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Linus, If misc registration fails but devfs registration succeeds then we should return 0 from microcode_init. Regards, Tigran --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c Tue Dec 12 09:25:10 2000 +++ work/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c Tue Dec 12 09:55:28 2000 @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@

cpu stepping

2000-12-12 Thread Jon Hulatt
hi,   sorry to ask this here but i'm finding difficulty getting this info elsewhere...   I'm not an assembly programmer and i know little about cpu's. it's a hole in my knowledge i guess. i'm looking for some technical introduction doc to explain what diff. aspects of cpu do, what is

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread Bruce Korb
Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [AC] > > > ... added basic support for the Pentium IV. > [Android] > > How is the Pentium IV more advanced than the Pentium III, other than > > speed? Why would LInux care about a 1500 MHz clock or 400 MHz bus > > speed? Just treat the PIV as a faster

Re: 2.2.18pre24 spurious diskchanges

2000-12-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
> >on my ide CDROm I get, roughly each 2 seconds, disk changes although the > >drive is empty and I don't touch it: > > > >Dec 12 08:57:43 localhost kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device > >ide0(3,64) > >Dec 12 08:58:14 localhost last message repeated 16 times > >Dec 12 08:59:16 localhost

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > Building kernels is something we do so frequently and this test > is so easy to reproduce is why I performed it in the first > place. I think it may be as good a test of real performance as > some of the more formal benchmarks. Comments anyone? Just

BUG and fix: area->map's size is incorrect

2000-12-12 Thread uaca
Hi the bug doesn't impact stability but wastes memory, when more memory you have more memory you waste. please look this, it's a ONE line patch! this is an email I sent here two weeks ago, since I've got no reply (and neigher from linux-mm) i resend it to again, I've also attached aditional

recursive exports && linux nfs

2000-12-12 Thread Marc Lehmann
Hi ;) I am trying to export the whole filesystem hierarchy on one of my servers (this includes /fs, which is an automounted directory using autofs). Now I have two problems: 1) exporting: exportfs does not really exports filesystems that are not present when exportfs is being called (some

2.2.18pre24 spurious diskchanges

2000-12-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, on my ide CDROm I get, roughly each 2 seconds, disk changes although the drive is empty and I don't touch it: Dec 12 08:57:43 localhost kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64) Dec 12 08:58:14 localhost last message repeated 16 times Dec 12 08:59:16 localhost last message

2.2.18pre24 spurious diskchanges

2000-12-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, on my ide CDROm I get, roughly each 2 seconds, disk changes although the drive is empty and I don't touch it: Dec 12 08:57:43 localhost kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64) Dec 12 08:58:14 localhost last message repeated 16 times Dec 12 08:59:16 localhost last message

recursive exports linux nfs

2000-12-12 Thread Marc Lehmann
Hi ;) I am trying to export the whole filesystem hierarchy on one of my servers (this includes /fs, which is an automounted directory using autofs). Now I have two problems: 1) exporting: exportfs does not really exports filesystems that are not present when exportfs is being called (some

BUG and fix: area-map's size is incorrect

2000-12-12 Thread uaca
Hi the bug doesn't impact stability but wastes memory, when more memory you have more memory you waste. please look this, it's a ONE line patch! this is an email I sent here two weeks ago, since I've got no reply (and neigher from linux-mm) i resend it to again, I've also attached aditional

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: Building kernels is something we do so frequently and this test is so easy to reproduce is why I performed it in the first place. I think it may be as good a test of real performance as some of the more formal benchmarks. Comments anyone? Just one

Re: 2.2.18pre24 spurious diskchanges

2000-12-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
on my ide CDROm I get, roughly each 2 seconds, disk changes although the drive is empty and I don't touch it: Dec 12 08:57:43 localhost kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64) Dec 12 08:58:14 localhost last message repeated 16 times Dec 12 08:59:16 localhost last message

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread Bruce Korb
Peter Samuelson wrote: [AC] ... added basic support for the Pentium IV. [Android] How is the Pentium IV more advanced than the Pentium III, other than speed? Why would LInux care about a 1500 MHz clock or 400 MHz bus speed? Just treat the PIV as a faster PIII. It all

cpu stepping

2000-12-12 Thread Jon Hulatt
hi, sorry to ask this here but i'm finding difficulty getting this info elsewhere... I'm not an assembly programmer and i know little about cpu's. it's a hole in my knowledge i guess. i'm looking for some technical introduction doc to explain what diff. aspects of cpu do, what is

[patch-2.4.0-test12] oneliner bugfix (microcode driver again)

2000-12-12 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Linus, If misc registration fails but devfs registration succeeds then we should return 0 from microcode_init. Regards, Tigran --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c Tue Dec 12 09:25:10 2000 +++ work/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c Tue Dec 12 09:55:28 2000 @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@

linux-2.4.0-test12 problem with init

2000-12-12 Thread Bill Maidment
Hi I reported a problem with using 'init 1' with 2.4.0-test12-pre8 and was told it wasn't a kernel problem. I beg to differ, as it still happens with 2.4.0-test12 but not with 2.4.0-test12-pre7. What changed between pre7 and pre8 to make 'init 1' behave like 'init 5'? 'init 3' works correctly.

Re: 2.2.18pre21 oops reading /proc/apm

2000-12-12 Thread Neale Banks
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Neale Banks wrote: [...] Diff against unmolested 2.2.18pre24 is attached. Hold that one, I just found another case I haven't covered: booting with apm=debug causes oops and nukes the bootup. Reading the source, I can't see how this doesn't also affect the "dell_crap" case

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Helge Hafting
Steven Cole wrote: [...] Simple question here, and risking displaying great ignorance: Does it make sense to use make -jN where N is much greater than the number of CPUs? No, but it makes sense to have N at least one more than the number of cpus, if you have the memory. This because your

NFS v2 attribute problem with 2.2.18?

2000-12-12 Thread Jens-Uwe Mager
I just installed the new 2.2.18 kernel and I get a strange problem with NFS v2 servers (for example AIX 4.1.5). The problem does not appear if the NFS server is a newer V3 for example from Solaris 7. The problem is that I am unable to create new files in a newly created directory for a while:

Re: cpu stepping

2000-12-12 Thread richardj_moore
Stepping is Intel teminology for chip revisions - possibly other manufacturers have used the same terminology. Intel documents the fixes, or rather the bugs and work-arounds, for each stepping level in the addendum to the particular processor's reference manual. Probably, I haven't checked,

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:30:37PM -0600, Paul Fulghum wrote: From: "Alan Cox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux 2.2.18 Release Notes patch-2.2.18.tar.gz size=2.9MBytes Ehrm?! A tar'ed-up patch?! You didn't mean something like: 3049653 Dec 11 00:45 patch-2.2.18.gz now did you?! :^) from my

Re: 2.2.18pre24 spurious diskchanges

2000-12-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Dec 12 2000, Xavier Bestel wrote: on my ide CDROm I get, roughly each 2 seconds, disk changes although the drive is empty and I don't touch it: Dec 12 08:57:43 localhost kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64) Dec 12 08:58:14 localhost last message repeated 16

2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Hey guys, Any one else experiencing problems when they do lots of disk activity in test12? I was able to grab the tail end of an oops. Probably not too usefull. Code: 89 42 04 89 10 b8 01 00 00 00 07 43 04 00 00 00 00 c7 03 00 Aiee, killing interrupt handler Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
If anyone is interested, this is what I am doing before it blows up everytime... sudo tar zxfv ~mhaque/linux-2.4.0-test5.tar.gz cd linux cat ~mhaque/kernel-patches/patch-2.4.0-test? ~mhaque/kernel-patches/patch-2.4.0-test1? | sudo patch -p1 sudo make mrproper sudo cp ~/kernel-config .config

kernel error

2000-12-12 Thread jordi
hi I try to upgrade my 2.2.5-17 kernel to 2.4-test11 but when I put make modules_install and it is in pcmacia module the make crash because it put -F option. when I see the syntax not appear this option and I don't have a answer? You can help me? Thanks a lot for all Jordi Pallarès - To

2.2.17 with Hedrick's IDE patch compiled with gcc-2.95.3-0.20000323

2000-12-12 Thread Peter Hanecak
Hello, I saw announcement about new 2.2.18 release and notice about newer compilers. So I'm writing ... Since Sep 6 2000 I'm running kernel 2.2.17 with Andre Hedrick's IDE patch (2904) compiled with gcc-2.95.3-0.2323 (RedHat package). I'm runing it on Pentium III/650 MHz system with 256

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread Alan Cox
And thus it follows that 2.2.18 is the least buggy kernel ever, since it has gotten the most bug fixes. Right? (: Hopefully not. Remove arch/m68k arch/arm include/asm-m68k include/asm-arm drivers/usb drivers/char/agp drivers/char/drm

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread Alan Cox
- maybe they'll need to patch lm_sensors to accommodate the increased temperature range since the P4 runs so hot. (: (: Also there is a new 'rep nop' instruction that means 'short pause' and is used in spinlocks. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2000-12-12T12:26:26, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And thus it follows that 2.2.18 is the least buggy kernel ever, since it has gotten the most bug fixes. Right? (: Hopefully not. I _do_ hope that 2.2.18 is the least buggy kernel ever... Why do you hope otherwise? ;-)

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Weird. I just booted from a test12 kernel I compiled (under test11) from completely clean sources and tried this again and no problems. I'm just gonna put this down as a fluke unless someone else someone else sees it or I lockup again. The only problem I have now is unresolved symbols in some

Re: CPU attachent and detachment in a running Linux system

2000-12-12 Thread Alan Cox
thanks for your input but I think it won't work this way because the value of smp_num_cpus needs to be increased by one right before a new cpu gets started. Then one can imagine the following situation at one of the cpus that needs to be captured: This is fine providing the code is aware of

Kernel 2.4.12 - USB-STORAGE module problem

2000-12-12 Thread Tony Spinillo
When trying to load the usb-storage module (after executing the rc.usb script) I get the following (when using the latest 2.4Test12 from yesterday): Using /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o:

Re: 2.2.18pre24 spurious diskchanges

2000-12-12 Thread Alan Cox
on my ide CDROm I get, roughly each 2 seconds, disk changes although the drive is empty and I don't touch it: some drives report a disk change every time they are asked when empty. This confuses magicdev somewhat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: Bad behavior of recv on already closed sockets.

2000-12-12 Thread Denis Perchine
Hi, Looks like it tries to read on socket which is already closed from other side. And it seems like recv did not return in this case. Is this OK, or kernel bug? This smells like an unknown bug in kernel. It is unknown, hence there is no workaround (but upgrading to 2.4). It would be

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread Adrian Cox
"David S. Miller" wrote: Interpreting physical BAR values is another issue altogether. Kernel wide interfaces for this may be easily added to include/asm/pci.h infrastructure, please just choose some sane name for it and I will compose a patch ok? :-) There's a semi-respectable use for BAR

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
I spoke too soon. It did it again while I was in X. Fetchmail/sendmail was doing mail stuff. The two were also running the other times also so its possible that this could be the trigger. "Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: Weird. I just booted from a test12 kernel I compiled (under test11) from

Re: linux-2.4.0-test12 problem with init

2000-12-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Bill Maidment wrote: Hi I reported a problem with using 'init 1' with 2.4.0-test12-pre8 and was told it wasn't a kernel problem. I beg to differ, as it still happens with 2.4.0-test12 but not with 2.4.0-test12-pre7. What changed between pre7 and pre8 to make 'init 1'

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