So, I brought up the idea of a linux/sys for kernel level include files.
A few other people came up with a desire of a 'kernel' dir under
include, parallel w/linux.
So I ran into a snag with that scenario. Let's suppose we have
a module developer or a company developing a driver in their own
* Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
machine? For no apparent reason after 5 days running 2.4.0test12
everything going through my firewall (set up using iptables) I got about
100ms time added on to pings and traceroutes. I'll probably reboot the
machine tonight and see if that helps.
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:54:16PM -0800, Adam Scislowicz wrote:
From your subject you seem not to.
Im sorry for the subject I just wanted to give the environmental factors, and it is a
non-blocking socket. At this point I am not sure if that is relavent or not.
To the best of my
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
This go around I compiled everything into the kernel, actually.
If it would be useful I can compile them as modules reboot and then see
what happens...
Even when compiled into the kernel, you might just ifdown/ifup the device.
That will
This fixes FAT32 on 64-bit platforms (notably, IA-64 and Alpha);
without this you can't mount any FAT32 filesystems. A similar patch
is already in 2.2.18.
Bill
--- linux/fs/fat/cache.c.fooSat Nov 25 16:30:47 2000
+++ linux/fs/fat/cache.cSat Nov 25 16:32:29 2000
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The same thing is true of *any* gcc release.
For example, C++-ABI wise, 2.95.x is incompatible BOTH with egcs 1.1.x
_and_ the upcoming 3.0 release.
Yes, but 2.96 is also binary incompatible with all non-redhat
I had tons of problems with K6III/450s in ASUS P5A motherboards with
various kinds of 128MB SIMMs. There were multiple different symptoms,
including just sig11s on compiles, corrupted input (leading to syntax
error) in compiles, and corrupted input in the buffer cache (same crash
over and over,
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
Any idea if these issues would cause a general slow-down of a
machine? For no apparent reason after 5 days running 2.4.0test12
everything going through my firewall (set up using iptables) I
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
LA Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which works because in a normal compile environment they have /usr/include
in their include path and /usr/include/linux points to the directory
under /usr/src/linux/include.
No, that a redhat-ism.
Sane distributions simply include
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, LA Walsh wrote:
So I ran into a snag with that scenario. Let's suppose we have
a module developer or a company developing a driver in their own
/home/nvidia/video/drivers/newcard directory. Now they need to include
kernel
development files and are used to just doing
On 15 Dec 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
LA Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which works because in a normal compile environment they have /usr/include
in their include path and /usr/include/linux points to the directory
under /usr/src/linux/include.
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
This go around I compiled everything into the kernel, actually.
If it would be useful I can compile them as modules reboot and then see
what happens...
Even when compiled into the kernel,
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
A 100ms delay sounds like some interrupt shut up or similar (and then
timer handling makes it limp along).
Hmm, it's happening on all interfaces.
Ok, never mind me then. It's not an
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:44:01PM -0600, Mike Castle wrote:
Then again, isn't Jim some how involved in ORBit and GNOME? Or just a big
supporter? :-
Jim works on XFree86 (among other things). So yes, he is indeed
*somehow* involved in GNOME ;-)
Erik
--
J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
Becker's site http://www.scyld.com/network.
2.4.x-test has some fixes for via-rhine which don't appear to have made
it into the Becker driver yet...
Is either of these likely to make it into the stock 2.2 via-rhine?
If someone ports them
Which works because in a normal compile environment they have /usr/include
in their include path and /usr/include/linux points to the directory
under /usr/src/linux/include.
No, that a redhat-ism.
Umm, its a most people except Debianism. People relied on it despite it
being wrong. RH7
Yes, but 2.96 is also binary incompatible with all non-redhat distro's.
And since redhat is _the_ distro that commercial entities use to
release software for, this was very arguably a bad move.
Except you conveniently ignore a few facts
o Someone else moved to 2.95 not RH . In fact
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 15 Dec 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
LA Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which works because in a normal compile environment they have /usr/include
in their include path and
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, but 2.96 is also binary incompatible with all non-redhat distro's.
And since redhat is _the_ distro that commercial entities use to
release software for, this was very arguably a bad move.
Except you conveniently ignore a
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
Which works because in a normal compile environment they have /usr/include
in their include path and /usr/include/linux points to the directory
under /usr/src/linux/include.
No, that a redhat-ism.
Umm, its a most people except Debianism.
Alexander Viro wrote:
Actually, I suspect that quite a few of us had done that since long -
IIRC I've got burned on 1.2/1.3 and decided that I had enough. Bugger if I
remember what exactly it was - ISTR that it was restore(8) built with
1.3.something headers and playing funny games
Sticking my nose where it doesn't belong...
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
Yes, but 2.96 is also binary incompatible with all non-redhat distro's.
And since redhat is _the_ distro that commercial entities use to
release software for, this was very arguably a bad move.
o We tell
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:55:43AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:07:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Ion Badulescu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm afraid I won't be able to answer this question, since I'm
leaving for a 3-week vacation in about 50 minutes and I need my
I do the following
sudo modprobe iptable_nat
Module Size Used by
iptable_nat17440 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack 19808 1 [iptable_nat]
ip_tables 12320 3 [iptable_nat]
Oops start flying by when I access via NFS.
If you need the actual
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:20:00 +0100
From: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or is there something wrong with:
- packet arrives in net/ipv4/ip_input.c:ip_rcv()
- netfilter hook NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING is called
- net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:ip_conntrack_in() is called
-
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, David Riley wrote:
Alexander Viro wrote:
Actually, I suspect that quite a few of us had done that since long -
IIRC I've got burned on 1.2/1.3 and decided that I had enough. Bugger if I
remember what exactly it was - ISTR that it was restore(8) built with
o We tell vendors to build RPMv3 , glibc 2.1.x
Curious HOW do you tell vendors??
When they ask. More usefully Dan Quinlann and most vendors put together a
recommended set of things to build with and use. It warns about library
pitfalls, kernel changes and what packaging is supported. It is
This would seem to be an error on the part of ll_rw_block.
Setting b_end_io to a default handler without checking to see
a callback has already been defined defeats the purpose of having
a function op.
void ll_rw_block(int rw, int nr, struct buffer_head * bhs[])
{
@@ -928,7 +1046,8 @@
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:11:10PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:20:00 +0100
From: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or is there something wrong with:
- packet arrives in net/ipv4/ip_input.c:ip_rcv()
- netfilter hook NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING is called
-
Problem only happens when ip_conntrack is loaded.
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
I do the following
sudo modprobe iptable_nat
Module Size Used by
iptable_nat17440 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack 19808 1 [iptable_nat]
ip_tables
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:48:32AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
Also is it sure that the backtrace involves ip_rcv ? A more likely
guess is that it happens during the IP_LOCAL_OUT hook, when skb-dev
isn't set yet, but conntrack already has to already reassemble fragments.
Oh, thanks Andi. This
I have an Abit KT7-RAID mobo which sports an HPT370 ATA-100 IDE
controller. When I configure support for the 370 into a 2.4.0-test12
kernel, the resulting kernel will hang at boot time. The ide2 and ide3
channels are detected, but when the kernel gets to the part where it
usually displays info
This patch should be obviously correct.
diff -urN linux-2.4.0t13p1/arch/i386/Makefile linux/arch/i386/Makefile
--- linux-2.4.0t13p1/arch/i386/Makefile Thu Dec 14 20:54:41 2000
+++ linux/arch/i386/MakefileThu Dec 14 21:04:34 2000
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
ifdef CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION
SUBDIRS +=
Heads up everybody. Scott McNealy has apparently been
calling Solaris Sun's implementation of Linux.
Trademark violation time.
The article's here:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-14-020-04-NW-CY
Quick quote:
When asked by a reporter why Sun's new clustering
software was
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Russell Cattelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This would seem to be an error on the part of ll_rw_block.
Setting b_end_io to a default handler without checking to see
a callback has already been defined defeats the purpose of having
a function op.
No.
It just means
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Joseph Cheek wrote:
hi,
ps axufw shows it as pid 1.
Interesting.. init running out of control. I've seen that, and it
was init taking endless page faults.
I wager (one virtual brew) that you'll see an endless stream of output
if you apply this.
---
losetup allows for setting a starting offset within a file for the loop
block device. There however is no length parameter to permit setting the
length. Adding a length parameter would allow for multiple fs images in
a single file (or device) and would correctly handle programs like
resize2fs.
"David S. Miller" wrote:
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:35:48 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mohammad A. Haque" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll be trying in a few hours.
Meanwhile for people wanting the crashes to be fixed, please
apply this patch.
This was _always_ broken, and really what netfilter
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Russell Cattelan wrote:
So one more observation in
filemap_sync_pte
lock_page(page);
error = filemap_write_page(page, 1);
- UnlockPage(page);
This unlock page was removed? is that correct?
Yes. The "writepage" thing changed: "struct file" disappeared (as I'm
I'm reading the book Linux Internals by Moshe Bar.
Early on he describes the use of the real time clock
to generate an interrupt 100 times a second. He
explains that this value was chosen early in the
development cycle of the linux kernel and is therefore
relatively low compared to what current
Hi,
Since we use bitops on wb_flags it needs to be unsigned long. With this
fix nfs works on sparc64 again.
Anton
--- linux/include/linux/nfs_page.h Wed Dec 6 22:19:17 2000
+++ linux_work/include/linux/nfs_page.h Fri Dec 15 14:38:18 2000
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
unsigned long
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, David Riley wrote:
Alexander Viro wrote:
Actually, I suspect that quite a few of us had done that since long -
IIRC I've got burned on 1.2/1.3 and decided that I had enough. Bugger if I
remember what
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote:
Any idea if these issues would cause a general slow-down of a
machine? For no apparent reason after 5 days running 2.4.0test12
everything going through my firewall (set up using iptables) I got
The user-mode port of 2.4.0-test12 is finally available. It has been in CVS
for a couple of days, but SourceForge only today fixed up the site enough to
allow projects to make releases.
hostfs now mostly works. It's still somewhat buggy. It is also possible to
specify what host directory you
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Russell Cattelan wrote:
Ok one more wrinkle.
sync_buffers calls ll_rw_block, this is going to have the same problem as
calling ll_rw_block directly.
Good point.
This actually looks fairly nasty to fix. The obvious fix would be to not
put such buffers on the dirty
Neil Brown wrote:
The simplest fix for this is the patch below. Exactly what will get
into test13 has not yet been decided.
NeilBrown
Thanks for your advice.
I will try it soon, maybe tonight or tomorrow.
---
Atsuhiro Kojima
Library Science Information Center, Osaka Prefecture
I'm having some problems with unresolved symbols in my modules with
test13-pre1. This worked just fine before, and the symbols are all stuff
that I'm sure it there.
It looks like the modules were compiled for non-versioned symbols, while my
kernel uses versioned symbols. The modules are
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Good point.
This actually looks fairly nasty to fix. The obvious fix would be to not
put such buffers on the dirty list at all, and instead rely on the VM
layer calling "writepage()" when it wants to push out the pages.
That would be the nice
This fixes FAT32 on 64-bit platforms (notably, IA-64 and Alpha);
without this you can't mount any FAT32 filesystems. A similar patch
is already in 2.2.18.
...
- next = CF_LE_L(((unsigned long *) bh-b_data)[(first
+ next = CF_LE_L(((__u32 *) bh-b_data)[(first
...
-
On Saturday 09 December 2000 06:39, Tim Riker wrote:
I'd like to see these patches as well. They may be useful on the iPAQ
(and similar hardware like my Yopy here... ;-)
I wish some hardware vendor out there would build an x86 box that used
memory addressable flash from 0 up and RAM up
I am trying to port the Userlink driver (used for IPsec) to 2.4.0-test10. I
have 2 questions:
Firstly has anyone already done this?
Secondly, how do I re-write the following code to work with 2.4.0?
static int
net_ul_start(struct net_device *dev)
{
dev-start = 1;
dev-tbusy = 0;
Huh?
% ls -ld /usr/include/linux
drwxr-xr-x6 root root18432 Sep 2 22:35
/usr/include/linux/
So if we create a separate /usr/src/linux/include/kernel dir, does that
imply that we'll have a 2nd link:
What 2nd link? There should be _no_ links from /usr/include to the
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