Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers

2001-01-11 Thread kenbo
I sent an email to the NetFinity mailing list, and here is there response after they started testing with 2.4.0. FYI: I've tried all suggestions (non-SMP, flag at boot time,...) and none of them have worked yet; I did see that someone thought they had found an nfs bug and posted a patch for it,

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > And how is that different from the current situation? > > It's not, which is the point I was making: COW doesn't actually solve > the pthreads problem. Far better to do it in user space. Oh, certainly. We need COW for completely unrelated

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:03:48PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:12:05PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > > > > What's wrong with copy-on-write style semantics? IOW, anyone who > > > wants to change the

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-11 Thread Frank de Lange
Another observation wrt. behaviour with 'noapic'... When streaming time-critical data over the network (running esound to another server, etc), sometimes there are hiccups in the stream. These hiccups seem to be much less frequent, if at all present, when running with 'noapic'. I'm currently

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Stephen C. Tweedie writes: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:50:21AM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >> Stephen C. Tweedie writes: >>> But is it really worth the pain? I'd hate to have to audit the >>> entire VFS to make sure that it works if another thread changes our >>> credentials in the middle

Re: Compile error: DRM without AGP in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Bill Nottingham
Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > What if your motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot? I'm running an older > > Micro Star pentium with a ATI All-in-Wonder with the Rage 128 chipset. > > Then I believe you cant use direct render right now In 4.0.1 r128 DRM sort of worked with a PCI card in

Re: [PATCH] 8139too.c patch to allow setting of MAC address to actually work.

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ben Greear wrote: > > This was gleaned from conversations with Donald Becker w/regard > to why: ifconfig eth1 hw ether a:b:c:d:e:f > fails to work with the RTL drivers. > > This fixes the problem, at least on my machine: > > (The new line has ### in front of it..) > > 8139too.c, line 1229,

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
> /dev/hdb1: Inode 522901, i_blocks is 64, should be 8. FIXED Ok, culprit identified: /var/spool/lpd/lpd.lock On another partition I had the same problem with httpd's error_log. Since both of those seem to be log- and lock-files, maybe there's something wrong with file locking? Anyway,

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-11 Thread Frank de Lange
Here's another posting to the list which mentions problems with NE2K and BP6: http://web.gnu.walfield.org/mail-archive/linux-kernel/2000-August/0132.html "...In another machine, a dual celeron abit-bp6, recent 2.3.x kernels seem to dislike my realtek 8029 NIC. (I know, it's garbage plugged in

Re: inode leak 2.2.12+ why??

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:16:27PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:01:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The most puzzling thing is happeneing. I have compiled a vanillat 2.2.18 > > kernel with scsi aic7xxx compiled in, 3com network support.

Re: inode leak 2.2.12+ why??

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:01:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > The most puzzling thing is happeneing. I have compiled a vanillat 2.2.18 > kernel with scsi aic7xxx compiled in, 3com network support. (nothing fancy > no sound, no isdn, video, etc...) > > I installed this kernel on

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:12:05PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > > What's wrong with copy-on-write style semantics? IOW, anyone who > > wants to change the credentials needs to make a private copy of the > > existing structure

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:11:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > That said, we can easily support the notion of CLONE_CRED if we absolutely > > have to (and sane people just shouldn't use it), so if somebody wants to > > work on

[PATCH] lance.c: check kmalloc return and get rid of check_region

2001-01-11 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Hi, Please consider applying. - Arnaldo --- linux-2.4.0-ac6/drivers/net/lance.c Wed Jan 10 22:31:42 2001 +++ linux-2.4.0-ac6.acme/drivers/net/lance.cThu Jan 11 15:08:06 2001 @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ Forward ported v1.14 to 2.1.129, merged the PCI and misc changes from the

inode leak 2.2.12+ why??

2001-01-11 Thread technews
Hi, The most puzzling thing is happeneing. I have compiled a vanillat 2.2.18 kernel with scsi aic7xxx compiled in, 3com network support. (nothing fancy no sound, no isdn, video, etc...) I installed this kernel on a redhat 5.2 system, it boots in fine, but then after some time I get messages

Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Benson Chow wrote: > Not very portable at all... > > hpux = HP/UX 10.2 > > hpux:~/foo$ rmdir . > rmdir: cannot remove .. or . Same on FreeBSD, by the way bash-2.04# uname -a FreeBSD freebsd.redhat.de 5.0-20001112-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-20001112-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 12 14:04:55

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w"

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:48:21PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Ah no, I even better, just pass `nofxsr` to the 2.4.1-pre2 kernel. (no > need to recompile) Ok here the right fix against 2.4.1-pre2 so now you can use 3dnow and fxsr at the same time (and nofxsr can still dynamically disable

2.4.0 on a bigmemory machine (2GB) with ramdisk+initrd

2001-01-11 Thread Adam Scislowicz
Summary: When booting 2.4.0 on x86 with 2GB of memory, the initial ramdisk fails to mount. The initial ramdisk is 48MB. Debugging so far: I can increment and decrement the memory in 512MB intervals. The initial ramdisk does mount with 512MB of memory installed, but does not with 1GB+ of memory

[PATCH] ATM breakage introduced in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Jan Rekorajski
Hi, 2.4.0 introduced serious breakage to LANE. It's impossible to do ifdown lec? ; ifup lec? because memory allocated by lec? is freed but unregister_netdev() is not called, so SIOCGIFFLAGS tells me ok, but SIOCSIFFLAGS tells me -ENODEV. No, rmmod lec ; insmod lec does not help. Patch follows

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:30:49PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > OK. In that case my patch, would just be amended to eliminate the > redundant comparison as is the case below. This patch looks fine w.r.t. alignment but given the below seems called at runtime (not just at mount time) for

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > "Udo A. Steinberg" wrote: > > Upon fscking after reboot, I always have errors on a > > single inode and it's always the same one: > > > > /dev/hdb1: Inode 522901, i_blocks is 64, should be 8. FIXED > > > > Can someone tell me an easy and reliable

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:22:03PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > [..] Are there any > alignment requirements on them? On some arch int can be read only at a sizeof(int) byte aligned address (details in my example in reply to Russell). Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Compile error: DRM without AGP in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Michael Meding
On Thursday, 11. January 2001 19:18, Matthew D. Pitts wrote: > Robert, > > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Giacomo Catenazzi spoke: > > > Here a valid configuration (no AGP, but all DRM set) > > > compiling [2.4.0]: > > > [...] > > > > DRM requires AGPGART. > > What if your motherboard doesn't have an AGP

Re: Compile error: DRM without AGP in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
> What if your motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot? I'm running an older > Micro Star pentium with a ATI All-in-Wonder with the Rage 128 chipset. Then I believe you cant use direct render right now - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
As previously reported by someone, there are occasional problems when shutting down with unmounting partitions, that are reported as busy for strange reasons. Keith Owens said it was supposedly a Redhat shutdown script issue and I since I'm not using Redhat, it's most likely not that. Upon

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - if (file->f_handle.fh_dcookie == fh->fh_dcookie && > - !memcmp(>f_handle, fh, sizeof(*fh))) > + if (file->f_handle.fh_dcookie == fh.fh_dcookie && > + !memcmp(>f_handle, , sizeof(fh))) >

Re: Compile error: DRM without AGP in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Matthew D. Pitts
Robert, > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Giacomo Catenazzi spoke: > > Here a valid configuration (no AGP, but all DRM set) > > compiling [2.4.0]: > > [...] > > DRM requires AGPGART. What if your motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot? I'm running an older Micro Star pentium with a ATI All-in-Wonder with the

Apology for duplicates (was Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7 (fwd))

2001-01-11 Thread Manfred Spraul
Mark Hahn wrote: > > hi. I've received 8 copiies of this message (via linux-kernel) so far. > headers indicate that the following hop is being repeated: > 8. That's weird - according to my maillogs colorfullife.com (my own server) only sent 6 copies to everyone. The attached one is the 5.

swap size

2001-01-11 Thread Mike Black
Now that bigmem and bigfiles are supported in 2.4.0 what's the maximum swap size now? I couldn't seem to find any reference to it. Michael D. Black Principal Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 321-676-2923,x203 http://www.csihq.com Computer Science

Re: FS callback routines

2001-01-11 Thread Daniel Phillips
Jesse Pollard wrote: > > Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > > > > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > DN_OPEN A file in the directory was opened > > > > > > > > You open the top level directory and register for events. When somebody > > > > opens a

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w"

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:46:45PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Until I fix the 3dnow code to use the i387.c library please workaround > this way: > > --- ./arch/i386/config.in.~1~ Thu Jan 11 17:52:05 2001 > +++ ./arch/i386/config.in Thu Jan 11 18:38:29 2001 > @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ >

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w"

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:36:05PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:31:21AM +0100, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > > CONFIG_MK7=y > > I'm looking into it. The fxsr fixes from 2.4.1-pre1 allows athlon to correctly use FXSR too (when nofxsr isn't passed to the kernel of

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trond Myklebust wrote: >> >> >> As for the issue of casting 'fh->data' as a 'struct knfsd' then >> that is a perfectly valid operation. >> > No it isn't. > fh-> data is an array of characters, thus

AMD760/765 DDR Athlon testers needed....

2001-01-11 Thread Andre Hedrick
Calling AMD Geeks^H^H^H^H^HUsers, I have one of these DDR boxes from AMD with the AMD760/765 cores, if you have one please let me know if you wnat to test this new code? It is only ATA66 limited and the DOCS I have do not have the ATA100 timings. Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development

Re: Oops while loading ppa in 2.2.19-pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:29:27PM +0100, f5ibh wrote: > I got this non-fatal oops while loading the ppa module for my IOMEGA parallel > port ZIP drive. It doesn't look like it's related to the ZIP drive though: > Warning: kfree_skb passed an skb still on a list (from c8074fc1). > Oops: 0002 >

[OOPS] APIC on Athlon [was Re: Linux 2.4.0-ac6]

2001-01-11 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
"Udo A. Steinberg" wrote: > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > 2.4.0-ac6 > > o Fix athlon crash on boot with local apic/nmi(Ingo Molnar) > > Still crashes here with -ac6 on my Athlon. I'll have to write down the > oops by hand later on or set up a serial console, but once that's done > I'll

Re: Compile error: DRM without AGP in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Robert M. Love
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Giacomo Catenazzi spoke: > Here a valid configuration (no AGP, but all DRM set) > compiling [2.4.0]: > [...] DRM requires AGPGART. -- Robert M. Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:50:21AM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Stephen C. Tweedie writes: > > > > But is it really worth the pain? I'd hate to have to audit the > > entire VFS to make sure that it works if another thread changes our > > credentials in the middle of a syscall, so we

2.4.0-ac6 : Processes missing from "ps -ef" output

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have been trying out 2.4.0-ac6, and the RedHat 6.1 init scripts really don't like it. (They liked 2.4.0-ac3 OK.) The visible symptom is that rc.sysinit now hangs, waiting for me to press 'i'. Once I do, it successfully hands over to the correct runlevel script, and I can go back to

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w"

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:31:21AM +0100, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > CONFIG_MK7=y I'm looking into it. Andrea - 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: PPP: VJ decompression error

2001-01-11 Thread Joseph Anthony
Thanks, that seemed to do the trick, thanks also for the ppp list info. -Joe On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Miles Lane wrote: > Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:13:00 -0800 > From: Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: PPP: VJ decompression error > >

Re: [PATCH] klogd busy loop on zero byte (output from 3c59x driver)

2001-01-11 Thread David Hinds
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:03:31PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Yep. %02x%02x it now is. > > The code in question was snitched from pcmcia-cs's 3c575_cb.c, and > I assume David would have heard if it was busting klogd. Maybe > there's a klogd version problem, or maybe your NIC's EEPROM is

Oops while loading ppa in 2.2.19-pre7

2001-01-11 Thread f5ibh
I got this non-fatal oops while loading the ppa module for my IOMEGA parallel port ZIP drive. included : -- - raw oops - oops processed by ksymoops - configuration raw oops : -- ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.2.x) ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit ppa:

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-11 Thread David Hinds
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:55:38PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The other problem is that in 2.4 cardmgr isn't told the > name of the interface which was bound to the newly-inserted NIC. > I don't know why more people aren't getting bitten by this > with pcmcia-cs+2.4. 2.4 cardmgr should be

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH:"No such process")

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:45:13 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Cassella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm not familiar enough with the tcp code to know if this patch (against -ac6) is a solution, band-aid, or, in fact, wrong, but I've run with it (on -ac3) and haven't seen the errors for over

Re: Floating point broken between 2.4.0-ac4 and -ac5?

2001-01-11 Thread junio
> "AC" == Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> A Duron box running 2.4.0-ac5 (and -ac6) shows NaN in many >> places (such as df output showing usage "nan%"). Right now I >> reverted back to 2.4.0-ac4 which does not show the problem. >> The kernel was compiled with CONFIG_MK7 and without

Compile error: DRM without AGP in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Here a valid configuration (no AGP, but all DRM set) compiling [2.4.0]: r128_cce.c: In function `r128_cce_init_ring_buffer': r128_cce.c:339: structure has no member named `agp' r128_cce.c:333: warning: `ring_start' might be used uninitialized in this function r128_cce.c: In function

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH:"No such process")

2001-01-11 Thread Paul Cassella
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Paul Cassella wrote: > and mss_now seems to be less than skb->len when the printk happens. My > copy of K is at work; could that comparison be being done unsigned > because of skb->len? I wouldn't think so, but the alternative seems > somewhat worse... That'll teach me to

Re: Kernel (2.4.0) lock-up in "write" (using PTS).

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
> 2.4.0 Kernel hangs up when I do the following stuff: > > * Create a new PTY using openpty(); > * Fork using forkpty. Now, the child process does this: > - Set the fd 0 line discipline to PPP; > - tries infinitely to read the standard input. > >

Re: KIOBUFS ??

2001-01-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jan 10 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > LT, > > Will this maddness insure that the granularity of the request will be > dependent to the k_dev_t? Specifically, can one make KIOBUFS do the > sizing of buffer to match the ideal or specified size limits imposed by a > given block device?

Re: Is ECN useful yet?

2001-01-11 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:36:32PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > Does anyone know if ECN is supported by the Internet backbone routers yet, > i.e. will I gain anything by enabling ECN in my Linux boxes at this point? > (except pushing this excellent technology, of course). No, at least not

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB Config fix for 2.2.19-pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Franz Sirl
At 01:44 2001-01-11, Greg KH wrote: >Hi, > >Here's a fix for the USB Config for 2.2.19-pre7. I messed up and took >out the HID devices in the patch I sent you for 2.2.19-pre6. Why do the input handlers depend on CONFIG_USB_HID? On PPC we already have trouble with them depending on CONFIG_USB,

[PATCH-2.4] verify_write not needed 486 & up

2001-01-11 Thread Paul Gortmaker
The existing CONFIG_WP_WORKS_OK can be used to exclude verify_write from being built into kernels for 486 and higher. Paul. --- arch/i386/mm/fault.c~ Mon Nov 20 04:19:42 2000 +++ arch/i386/mm/fault.cThu Jan 11 09:03:50 2001 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 1995 Linus Torvalds

[PATCH-2.2] verify_write not needed 486 & up

2001-01-11 Thread Paul Gortmaker
The existing CONFIG_WP_WORKS_OK can be used to exclude verify_write from being built into kernels for 486 and higher. Paul. --- arch/i386/mm/fault.c.orig Thu May 11 16:41:59 2000 +++ arch/i386/mm/fault.cThu Jan 11 09:16:48 2001 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 1995 Linus Torvalds

Kernel (2.4.0) lock-up using ppp_async - SEVERE - EXPLOIT RUNS AS ANY USER.

2001-01-11 Thread Alvaro Lopes
Hi all, hi Paulus. Is somewhat odd how I got it, but here it goes. I found a bug in 2.4.0 async PPP driver. I tested the same program in 2.2.17 and it run perfectly (and without hanging). So, here goes the description: 2.4.0 Kernel hangs up when I do the following stuff: * Create a

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-11 Thread Frank de Lange
> Do you get any transmit timeout messages in the logs? If > so, send them. In addition to my previous message, here's what I get from the debug log facility: Jan 10 22:56:51 behemoth kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jan 10 22:56:51 behemoth kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Stephen C. Tweedie writes: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:11:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> That said, we can easily support the notion of CLONE_CRED if >> we absolutely have to (and sane people just shouldn't use it), >> so if somebody wants to work on this for 2.5.x... > > But is it really

IDE DMA problem in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
When copying huge files from one disk to another (hda->hdc), I get the following error (after some hundred megabytes): hdc: timeout waiting for DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd1 { Busy } hdc: DMA disabled ide1: reset: success I got

Kernel (2.4.0) lock-up in "write" (using PTS).

2001-01-11 Thread Alvaro Lopes
Hi all This is somewhat odd, but I seemed to have found some kind of bug in 2.4.0. I tested the same program in 2.2.17 and it run perfectly. So, here goes the description: 2.4.0 Kernel hangs up when I do the following stuff: * Create a new PTY using openpty(); * Fork using

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Hans Grobler
Hi Danny, If you're willing, would you please follow "REPORTING-BUGS" and send some more info. Also cat /proc/interrupts. This one's intriging... -- Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the

Re: FS callback routines

2001-01-11 Thread Jesse Pollard
Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > DN_OPEN A file in the directory was opened > > > > > > You open the top level directory and register for events. When somebody > > > opens a subdirectory of the top level directory, you

Is ECN useful yet?

2001-01-11 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
Does anyone know if ECN is supported by the Internet backbone routers yet, i.e. will I gain anything by enabling ECN in my Linux boxes at this point? (except pushing this excellent technology, of course). /Tobias - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Danny ter Haar
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does this patch help at all? Nope, unfortunatly it didn't > filename="pcnet32.patch" pcnet32_probe_pci: found device 0x001022.0x002000 ioaddr=0x00fce0 resource_flags=0x000101 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0f.0 PCnet chip version is

Re: Benchmarking 2.2 and 2.4 using hdparm and dbench 1.1

2001-01-11 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
[regarding the buffer cache hash size and bad performance on machines with little memory... (<32MB)] On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > Where is the size defined, and is it easy to modify? > > Look in fs/buffer.c:buffer_init() I experimented some, and increasing the huffer cache

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Manfred Spraul
Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > As for the issue of casting 'fh->data' as a 'struct knfsd' then that > is a perfectly valid operation. > No it isn't. fh->data is an array of characters, thus without any alignment restrictions. 'struct knfsd' begins with a pointer, thus it must be 4 or 8 byte

Re: FS callback routines

2001-01-11 Thread Daniel Phillips
Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > DN_OPEN A file in the directory was opened > > > > You open the top level directory and register for events. When somebody > > opens a subdirectory of the top level directory, you receive > > notification and register for events

[PATCH] dgrs.c: kmalloc release on failure

2001-01-11 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Hi, Please consider applying. - Arnaldo --- linux-2.4.0-ac6/drivers/net/hp100.c Tue Dec 19 11:25:41 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-ac6.acme/drivers/net/hp100.cThu Jan 11 11:52:34 2001 @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ ** along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software ** Foundation, Inc.,

Re: Linux 2.4.0-ac6

2001-01-11 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Alan Cox wrote: > > 2.4.0-ac6 > o Fix athlon crash on boot with local apic/nmi(Ingo Molnar) Still crashes here with -ac6 on my Athlon. I'll have to write down the oops by hand later on or set up a serial console, but once that's done I'll post the trace - unless someone already knows

RE: cs46xx only works as a module still (post 2.4.0)

2001-01-11 Thread Woller, Thomas
appreciate the info. i'll look at it. glad it works as a module :) tom > -Original Message- > From: David Ford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:35 PM > To: LKML; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: cs46xx only works as a module still

[PATCH] 2.4.1p2: compile fix (PKMAP_BASE undefined)

2001-01-11 Thread Peter Blomgren
Three one-liners to make 2.4.1p2 compile. --- linux/fs/proc/kcore.c.orig Thu Jan 11 07:35:16 2001 +++ linux/fs/proc/kcore.c Thu Jan 11 07:36:29 2001 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ #include #include #include - +#include static int open_kcore(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp) { ---

Re: Possible deadlock with ->writepaged version offlush_dirty_buffers() and 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 05:56:09 PM -0200 Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > It seems there is a possible deadlock condition with your patch which > changes flush_dirty_buffers() to use ->writepage (something which we > _definately_ want for 2.5). Take a

Re: FS callback routines

2001-01-11 Thread Jamie Lokier
Daniel Phillips wrote: > DN_OPEN A file in the directory was opened > > You open the top level directory and register for events. When somebody > opens a subdirectory of the top level directory, you receive > notification and register for events on the subdirectory, and so on, >

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far I can see the only reason size makes sense to be 32bit > is to get some more strict behaviour in the below code (to > avoid discarding the most significant 16bits in sanity checks > like this): >

Re: Anybody got 2.4.0 running on a 386 ?

2001-01-11 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Robert Kaiser wrote: > > The one I'm currently using is an old Olivetti 386SX with 5 MB, I also > tried two more boards, one 386SX, one 386DX, both with 8MB. All showed > the same behavior. I tested 2.4.0 on probably the exact same box - an Olivetti M300-05 386sx with 5MB and it came up ok,

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-11 Thread Frank de Lange
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:48:23PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > Losing both NICs at the same time could be the elusive "APIC > stops generating interrupts" problem. Yup, that's what I thought... But the real question is, is this a software/configuration problem or a hardware problem which can

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Doug McNaught
James Brents <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > Since this looks like either a chipset, drive, or driver problem, I am > submitting this. > > I have recently started using DMA mode on my harddisk. However, I occasionally > (not often/constant, but sometimes) get CRC errors: > > hda:

Re: es1371 module dependencies problem

2001-01-11 Thread Doug McNaught
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > kernel: 2.4.0 > modutils: 2.3.23 > > loading the es1371 module gives me the following error: > /lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o: unresolved symbol > ac97_probe_codec_Rsmp_1c61c357 It works for me (tm). Kernel 2.4.0, modutils 2.3.23-2 (Debian

Re: ACPI lockup on boot in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nathan Thompson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:51:59PM +1100, Robert Lowery wrote: > > > I compiled it with ACPI compiled as a module and APM not compiled in at all, but >on booting I get the following. > > ACPI: System description tables found > > ACPI: System description tables loaded

Re: ACPI lockup on boot in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Nathan Thompson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:51:59PM +1100, Robert Lowery wrote: > I compiled it with ACPI compiled as a module and APM not compiled in at all, but on >booting I get the following. > ACPI: System description tables found > ACPI: System description tables loaded > > and then the system locks

[patch] Lowlatency Patch for 2.4.0-ac6 and 2.4.1-pre2

2001-01-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
a new version against recent 2.4 kernels of my multimedia-lowlatency patchset is now available. These patches are the 2.4-adapted versions of my 2.2 lowlatency patch, which project has now reached an age of 1.5+ years. the lowlatency patch against 2.4.0-ac6 can also be found at:

[PATCH] dgrs.c: kmalloc release on failure

2001-01-11 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Hi, Please consider applying, comments in the patch. - Arnaldo --- linux-2.4.0-ac6/drivers/net/dgrs.c Tue Dec 19 11:25:40 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-ac6.acme/drivers/net/dgrs.c Thu Jan 11 11:05:05 2001 @@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ * into the kernel. * - Better handling of multicast

2.4.0 ne2k-pci lockup

2001-01-11 Thread Jon Miles
Hey, After upgrading from -test11 to 2.4.0, I find that under heavy network load the eth0 interface seems to lockup... with the following output in dmesg: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x97, t=18556. NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
> us who have via chipset motherboards, suggesting that it is limited > to that chipset, that chipset is ubiquitous, or via chipset > motherboard owners are generally the complaining type. no idea which > applies there, either. Or there are a lot of them. 90% of scsi bug reports I get are

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Hahn
> Since this looks like either a chipset, drive, or driver problem, I am no: the only entities involved with udma crc's are the drive, the controller (and the cable). the kernel is not involved in any way (except to configure udma, of course.) > occasionally (not often/constant, but

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread dep
On Thursday 11 January 2001 08:33 am, James Brents wrote: | Since this looks like either a chipset, drive, or driver problem, I | am submitting this. | I have recently started using DMA mode on my harddisk. However, I | occasionally (not often/constant, but sometimes) get CRC errors: | hda:

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Jim Gettys
> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:03:03 -0800 (PST) > To: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Zlatko Calusic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Eric W. Biederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Rik van Riel <[EMAIL

Re: FS callback routines

2001-01-11 Thread Daniel Phillips
Jamie Lokier wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > [things that can benefit from dnotify] > > locate (reindex only those directories that have changed, keep index > > database current). > > Not a chance. dnotify doesn't work recursively, so you can't monitor > just a few top level directories

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Danny ter Haar wrote: > > >Jan 11 12:45:49 multimedia kernel: eth0: pcnet32_start_xmit() called, csr0 07f3. > >Jan 11 12:46:01 multimedia last message repeated 12 times > > hot from the ethernet wire: more info just arrived: > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > eth0: transmit timed

PCMCIA Cards on 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, I have a Digital HiNote VP. PCMCIA's works fine with Kernel 2.4.0 test12 (I think that I cannot change pcmcia card with the computer running because the new PCMCIA is not detected). With Kernel 2.4.0 and the same .config PCMCIA don't work. It is detected on boot, yenta socket, assigns two

Re: bugreporting script - second try

2001-01-11 Thread Matthias Juchem
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: > I have a suggestion, there is a kernel patch to add a config.gz entry in > the /proc fs. It reflects the configuration used in building the running > kernel, which may differ from the one you have in /usr/src/linux. It's > part of the suse

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:12:05PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > What's wrong with copy-on-write style semantics? IOW, anyone who > wants to change the credentials needs to make a private copy of the > existing structure first. Because COW only solves the problem if each task is only

Re: bugreporting script - second try

2001-01-11 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Matthias Juchem wrote: > http://www.brightice.de/src/bugreport.sh I have a suggestion, there is a kernel patch to add a config.gz entry in the /proc fs. It reflects the configuration used in building the running kernel, which may differ from the one you have in /usr/src/linux. It's part of the

sym-2.1.0-20001230 vs. sg (cdrecord)

2001-01-11 Thread Boszormenyi Zoltan
Hi! I just wanted to let you know that I successfully ruined a CD with 2.4.0 + sym-2.1.0-20001230. The system is a RH 7.0 with glibc-2.2-9, cdrecord-1.9. When will it be really usable? Regards, Zoltan Boszormenyi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

RE: [PATCH] klogd busy loop on zero byte (output from 3c59x driver)

2001-01-11 Thread Troels Walsted Hansen
> Yep. %02x%02x it now is. I suppose it might be worthwhile to search the kernel sources for other instances of printk("%c"), there's no telling when all distributions will be up to date with new sysklogd releases... > The code in question was snitched from pcmcia-cs's 3c575_cb.c, and > I

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Danny ter Haar
>Jan 11 12:45:49 multimedia kernel: eth0: pcnet32_start_xmit() called, csr0 07f3. >Jan 11 12:46:01 multimedia last message repeated 12 times hot from the ethernet wire: more info just arrived: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: transmit timed out, status 07f3, resetting. Ring

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Daniel Phillips
"David S. Miller" wrote: > 2) It affects only code which can burn a lot of cpu without > scheduling. Compare this to schemes which make the kernel > fully pre-emptable, causing _EVERYONE_ to pay the price of > low-latency Is there necessarily a

CRC and ECC error burning CD (adaptec 2940), kernel 2.2.18

2001-01-11 Thread Wojciech Czuba
Hi, Please, get the information below and help me, if possible... Regards, Wojtek Czuba [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1.] CRC and ECC error burning CD (adaptec 2940), kernel 2.2.18 [2.] VMWARE Workstation said that my cdrom will work as an audio device with Windows 9x under the vmware with the

Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers

2001-01-11 Thread kenbo
The problem I'm seeing must be different. I tried your suggestion of booting with nmi_watchdog=0, and I still see the same crashes. I'm now in the process of getting a SMP Dell to try and do the same testing. Thanks! kenbo __ Firebirds rule, `stangs serve! Kenneth

IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread James Brents
Hello, Since this looks like either a chipset, drive, or driver problem, I am submitting this. I have recently started using DMA mode on my harddisk. However, I occasionally (not often/constant, but sometimes) get CRC errors: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda:

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct->unmap in 2.4.0 go?

2001-01-11 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > So you want two services, one static for code that does not do any > initialisation and one dynamic for code that does do initialisation. > Can you imagine the fun when somebody adds startup code to a routine > that was using static registration? Oh come on. If you

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