2.4.3 aic7xxx nevermind

2001-03-29 Thread George Bonser
I grabbed a complete 2.4.3 tarball and that seems to have fixed the problem. Something must have gotten borked in the patching process somewhere. And the sad part is that I know to do that before posting ... :-( - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

[PATCH] New video4linux device driver announcement.

2001-03-29 Thread Jakob Kemi
Hi. Ok, don't fry me. I'm not sure if this mail reached you some days ago, coz' I wasn't subscribing to the list back then. I've encountered mailproblems lately with my ISP so I don't trust that my mail gets through until I actually see them on the list. I've created a video4linux driver for

Re: memcpy in 2.2.19

2001-03-29 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:04:17 +0100, "Chris Funderburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >drivers/scsi/scsi.a(aic7xxx.o): In function `aic7xxx_load_seeprom': >aic7xxx.o(.text+0x116bf): undefined reference to `memcpy' Under some circumstances gcc will generate an internal call to memcpy(). Alas this

2.4.3 aic7xxx wont compile

2001-03-29 Thread George Bonser
Just tried to build 2.4.3, got: make[6]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm' gcc -I/usr/include -ldb1 aicasm_gram.c aicasm_scan.c aicasm.c aicasm_symbol.c -o aicasm aicasm/aicasm_gram.y:45: ../queue.h: No such file or directory aicasm/aicasm_gram.y:50: aicasm.h:

memcpy in 2.2.19

2001-03-29 Thread Chris Funderburg
What's wrong with this picture: ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/kernel/stable/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ --start-group \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-03-29 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Dalecki) wrote on 28.03.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > Exactly. It's just that for historical reasons, I think the major for > > > "disk" should be either the old IDE or SCSI one, which just can show > > > more devices. That way old installers

RE: linux scheduler limitations?

2001-03-29 Thread Giuliano Pochini
On 29-Mar-01 Fabio Riccardi wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on an enhanced version of Apache and I'm hitting my head > against something I don't understand. > > I've found a (to me) unexplicable system behaviour when the number of > Apache forked instances goes somewhere beyond 1050, the

Re: EXT2-fs error

2001-03-29 Thread Rogier Wolff
khromy wrote: > Linux vingeren.girl 2.4.3-pre7 #5 Mon Mar 26 23:33:59 EST 2001 i686 unknown > > EXT2-fs error (device ide2(33,3)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block >1048576 > EXT2-fs error (device ide2(33,3)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block >1048576 > > ^ > I

Re: [ISDN-ERR]

2001-03-29 Thread Ronald Jeninga
Hello, man isdn_cause says E = EDSS1 00 = User Message 1B = Destination out of order The other end seems to have a problem Doesn't seem to be a kernel issue though Ronald Jeninga hugang wrote: > > Hello all: > > --- > OPEN: 10.0.0.2 -> 202.99.16.1 UDP,

Re: [PATCH for 2.5] preemptible kernel

2001-03-29 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:51:02 -0800, george anzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dipankar Sarma wrote: >> 1. Disable pre-emption during the time when references to data >> structures >> updated using such Two-phase updates are held. > >Doesn't this fly in the face of the whole Two-phase system?

Re: Original destination of transparent proxied connections?

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Landley
Yeah, I found it. While researching replacing the 2.2 kernel with 2.4 to get my proxy-oid to work, I stumbled accross the following section in the unofficial NAT-HOWTO (which is not on linuxdoc's website as far as I can tell). At this address:

Re: RFC: configuring net interfaces

2001-03-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
On 29 Mar 2001, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Maybe it's a better idea to have just two ioctl's here (GET and SET), and > > > have "subioctl's" inside the structure passed to the HDLC layer (and > > > defined by the HDLC layer). This would allow

bug in natsemi driver 1.07 for linux 2.4.2

2001-03-29 Thread Sebastian Klemke
Hi! The driver for the natsemi NIC does not properly filter out requested multicast groups when in multicast mode. Multicast groups I joined are simply dropped by the MAC address filter of the card, the kernel filters them correctly in allmulti or promiscuous mode. I've tested driver versions

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Amit D Chaudhary
>(none):/mnt/ramfs/root# df -h /mnt/ramfs/ >FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on >ramfs0 0 0 - /mnt/ramfs I am not sure, how related this is, but we have / on ramfs and using rpm to install(-iUvh) fails with the mesages, need 12K on / Amit -

EXT2-fs error

2001-03-29 Thread khromy
Linux vingeren.girl 2.4.3-pre7 #5 Mon Mar 26 23:33:59 EST 2001 i686 unknown EXT2-fs error (device ide2(33,3)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 1048576 EXT2-fs error (device ide2(33,3)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 1048576 ^ I got the following while rm

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Michael Peddemors
Looking over the last few weeks of postings, there are just WAY to many conflicting ways that people want the OOM to work.. Although an incredible amount of good work has gone into this, people are definetely not happy about the benifits of OOM ... About 10 different approaches are being made

Re: linux scheduler limitations?

2001-03-29 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Hi Mike, somebody else on the list already pointed me at your stuff and I quickly downloaded your multiqueue patch for 2.4.1 to try it out. It works great! I finally manage to have 100% CPU utilization and keep the machine decently responsive. On a two 1GHz pentium box i went from 1300 specweb

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Tim Wright
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:51:18AM -0800, Justin Carlson wrote: > You don't need write perms on a file to remove it, you need write perms on the > directory. If you've got write permissions on the directory, you can remove > any file in the directory, regardless of the permissions. > > -Justin

[ISDN-ERR]

2001-03-29 Thread hugang
Hello all: --- OPEN: 10.0.0.2 -> 202.99.16.1 UDP, port: 1024 -> 53 ippp0: dialing 1 86310163... isdn: HiSax,ch0 cause: E001B<--- error !! isdn_net: local hangup ippp0 ippp0: Chargesum is 0 ---

[OT] Re: Linux connectivity trashed.

2001-03-29 Thread David
Might I suggest seeking a new employer whose IT department doesn't seek the smell of fresh fertilizer compounds about their head and neck. -d Richard B. Johnson wrote: > This is for information only. > > Last week a standard RH distribution of Linux was rooted from what looks > like a

Re: linux scheduler limitations?

2001-03-29 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:55:11PM -0800, Fabio Riccardi wrote: > I'm using 2.4.2-ac26, but I've noticed the same behavior with all the 2.4 > kernels I've seen so far. > > I haven't even tried on 2.2 > > - Fabio Fabio, Just for fun, you might want to try out some of our scheduler patches

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Jaswinder Singh
There is some problem in my computer's clock . please do not mind . I am sorry for inconvenience. Jaswinder. - Original Message - From: "Jaswinder Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linus Torvalds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jamey Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stephen L

Re: How to debug an oops?

2001-03-29 Thread Tony Hoyle
Sorry, came across a bit strong on that message. It's 2am and I'm tired. Stupid thing is I fixed the bug... Tony -- Don't click on this sig - a cyberwoozle will eat your underwear. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.nothing-on.tv - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

[PATCH] Fix SMP lockup in usbdevfs

2001-03-29 Thread Tony Hoyle
This fixes a lockup when calling the USBDEVFS_SUBMITURB ioctl in an SMP kernel. Tony -- Don't click on this sig - a cyberwoozle will eat your underwear. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.nothing-on.tv --- devio.c.old Fri Mar 30 02:22:32 2001 +++ devio.c Fri Mar 30 02:12:09 2001 @@

Fw: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Jaswinder Singh
I am sorry, i am sending this mail again because earlier my Computer's time was not set properly. Jaswinder - Original Message - From: "Jaswinder Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Linus Torvalds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jamey Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stephen L

Re: how can I send a signal like kill

2001-03-29 Thread hugang
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:46:42 +0200 Cedric Lienart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how can I send a signal like 'kill (pid_t pid, int sig);' from a driver > module to a user program. When I include signal.h in my module I have Try use force_sig(int sig, struct task_struct *p), Can read

Original destination of transparent proxied connections?

2001-03-29 Thread Rob Landley
Help. I thought transparent proxying would allow some means for the recipient of the proxied connections to find out what their original destination port and socket address were. This does not seem to be the case. The socket structure only has one address and one socket, and those have the

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Linus, > What does /proc/slabinfo say? The most likely leak is a dentry leak or > an inode leak, and both of those should be fairly easy to see in the > slab info (dentry_cache and inode_cache respectively). > I am attaching details before and during my application . Mainly changes are

How to debug an oops?

2001-03-29 Thread Tony Hoyle
Nobody seems interested in the spinlock bugs in usb so I'm trying to track it down myself. I have a copy of an oops (posted earlier) but it doesn't give the line number of the error, so it's impossible to find out where it's failing. Will kdb be any help? Is it a source debugger or just a

Re: [PATCH for 2.5] preemptible kernel

2001-03-29 Thread Nigel Gamble
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Nigel Gamble wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Thoughts? > > Perhaps synchronize_kernel() could take the run_queue lock, mark all the > tasks on it and count them. Any task marked when it calls schedule() > voluntarily (but not if it is preempted) is

IRQ routing conflict & ressource assignment on Thinkpad

2001-03-29 Thread Andreas Bombe
Something that was itching me for a while (and I had a bad conscience for not reporting a bug for so long): I have an IBM Thinkpad i1200 (1161-267, Celeron 550, see lspci below). The PCI code in 2.4 always complains about an IRQ routing conflict wrt the CardBus controller. That used to make it

Re: Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen L Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >A group of us from the handhelds.org site think that we have found a memory >leak in the ramfs file system. After a long period of create and deleting >small files in a mounted ramfs partition we have substantially

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Brian Beattie
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Xavier Ordoquy writes: > > I just made a manipulation that disturbs me. So I'm asking whether it's a > > bug or a features. > > > > user> su > > root> echo "test" > test > > root> ls -l > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root5 Mar 29 19:14 test

Re: WG: 2.4 on COMPQ Proliant

2001-03-29 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Frank , Highly recommend the sym53c* . JimL On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Butter, Frank wrote: > 2.2.16 claimes to find a ncr53c1510D-chipset, supported by > the driver ncr53c8xx. Which kernel-param would be the correct one for this? > Frank > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > >

Re: [PATCH] pcnet32 compilation fix for 2.4.3pre6

2001-03-29 Thread Tom Leete
Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > with the new ansi standard, this use of __inline__ is no longer > > necessary, > > This is not correct. Since the semantics of inline in C99 and gcc > differ all code which depends on the gcc semantics should continue to > use

Re: linux scheduler limitations?

2001-03-29 Thread Fabio Riccardi
"J . A . Magallon" wrote: > It all depends on your app, as every parallel algorithm. In a web-ftp-whatever > server, you do not need any synchro. You can start threads in free run and > let them die alone. even if you don't need synchronization you pay for it anyway, since you will have to use

Re: how mmap() works?

2001-03-29 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 03.30 Jerry Hong wrote: > Hi, > mmap() creates a mmaped memory associated with a > physical file. If a process updates the mmaped memory, > Linux will updates the file "automatically". If this > is the case, why do we need msync()? If this is not Where did you heard that ? man mmap(2):

Re: linux scheduler limitations?

2001-03-29 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 03.30 Fabio Riccardi wrote: > > Despite of all apparences this method performs beautifully on Linux, pthreads > are > actually slower in many cases, since you will incur some additional overhead > due > to thread synchronization and scheduling. > It all depends on your app, as every

how mmap() works?

2001-03-29 Thread Jerry Hong
Hi, mmap() creates a mmaped memory associated with a physical file. If a process updates the mmaped memory, Linux will updates the file "automatically". If this is the case, why do we need msync()? If this is not the case, what is the interval between 2 "WRITE" (IO request operation) request

Re: linux scheduler limitations?

2001-03-29 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Apache uses a pre-fork "threading" mechanism, it spawns (fork()s) new instances of itself whenever it finds out that the number of idle "threads" is below a certain (configurable) threshold. Despite of all apparences this method performs beautifully on Linux, pthreads are actually slower in many

Memory leak in the ramfs file system

2001-03-29 Thread Stephen L Johnson
A group of us from the handhelds.org site think that we have found a memory leak in the ramfs file system. After a long period of create and deleting small files in a mounted ramfs partition we have substantially less freemem. The problem has been confirmed on 2.4.2 on an i386 and StormARM

Re: linux scheduler limitations?

2001-03-29 Thread Fabio Riccardi
I'm using 2.4.2-ac26, but I've noticed the same behavior with all the 2.4 kernels I've seen so far. I haven't even tried on 2.2 - Fabio David Lang wrote: > 2.2 or 2.4 kernel? > > the 2.4 does a MUCH better job of dealing with large numbers of processes. > > David Lang > > On Thu, 29 Mar

Re: linux scheduler limitations?

2001-03-29 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 03.29 Fabio Riccardi wrote: > > I've found a (to me) unexplicable system behaviour when the number of > Apache forked instances goes somewhere beyond 1050, the machine > suddently slows down almost top a halt and becomes totally unresponsive, > until I stop the test (SpecWeb). > Have you

Re: linux scheduler limitations?

2001-03-29 Thread David Lang
2.2 or 2.4 kernel? the 2.4 does a MUCH better job of dealing with large numbers of processes. David Lang On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 13:19:05 -0800 > From: Fabio Riccardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: linux scheduler

Re: [PATCH] pcnet32 compilation fix for 2.4.3pre6

2001-03-29 Thread Ulrich Drepper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > with the new ansi standard, this use of __inline__ is no longer > necessary, This is not correct. Since the semantics of inline in C99 and gcc differ all code which depends on the gcc semantics should continue to use __inline__ since this keyword will hopefully

Re: [PATCH] pcnet32 compilation fix for 2.4.3pre6

2001-03-29 Thread Eli Carter
Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > with the new ansi standard, this use of __inline__ is no longer > > necessary, > > This is not correct. Since the semantics of inline in C99 and gcc > differ all code which depends on the gcc semantics should continue to > use

linux scheduler limitations?

2001-03-29 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Hello, I'm working on an enhanced version of Apache and I'm hitting my head against something I don't understand. I've found a (to me) unexplicable system behaviour when the number of Apache forked instances goes somewhere beyond 1050, the machine suddently slows down almost top a halt and

Re: [PATCH] pcnet32 compilation fix for 2.4.3pre6

2001-03-29 Thread dank
Eli Carter wrote: > Hmm... I used __inline__ because the other function in the same > headerfile used it... What is the difference between the two, and is > one depricated now? (And what about in 2.2.x?) the inline keyword was not added into the c language until the ansi/iso c99 revision,

2.4.2 IDE data point

2001-03-29 Thread Mike Castle
I like to play with old junky hardware. Except for disk drives. I like the storage. As a result, I have a P5/233 with 250G across 5 IDE's. It's kludgy, yes, but it's fun. Anyway, the 5th IDE drive (and cdrom) is on an old sound blaster card. Depending on configuration, linux times out

Re: Linux connectivity trashed.

2001-03-29 Thread Roger Larsson
Hi, I assume that it is ok to sue any company that forwards viruses too... (not only the author...) Are Raytheon suing the company were you work, or some unknown/unnamed company made up by Microsoft? (you were not specific about this) /RogerL On Thursday 29 March 2001 15:34, Richard B.

Re: WG: 2.4 on COMPQ Proliant

2001-03-29 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Butter, Frank wrote: > 2.2.16 claimes to find a ncr53c1510D-chipset, supported by > the driver ncr53c8xx. Which kernel-param would be the correct one for this? There is no specific kernel option apart configuring the NCR53C8XX and/or the SYM53C8XX driver. (And not the

RE: Mount locks on bad ISO image?

2001-03-29 Thread Aaron Lunansky
I'm running 2.4.2 so it's probably just the broken loop device. Thanks, Aaron -Original Message- From: Guest section DW [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: March 29, 2001 15:13 To: Aaron Lunansky; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mount locks on bad ISO image? On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at

Re: Mount locks on bad ISO image?

2001-03-29 Thread Guest section DW
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:16:03PM -0500, Aaron Lunansky wrote: > I tried mounting a file as an ISO image (turns out it was corrupted) - after > running mount file.iso /cdrom -o loop > mount hung and did not respond.. I could not ^Z it into the background, or > kill, or kill -9 it... > > I'm

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hi, > > Hm, OK, then never mind. :) I don't have an opl3sa2 here to test > > how well the current driver works. > I have the feeling that there is going something wrong with the parameters. > I modified the opl3sa2 driver and manually set the hw_config->io_base > variable to 0x538 and now THIS

Obtaining new Device Numbers

2001-03-29 Thread tom_gall
Hi All, According to Documentation/devices.txt to request new major / numbers, all you should have to do is get ahold of H. Peter Anvin. Does anybody know if he is still doing this? Perhaps has he passed this duty on to someone else? It would appear he isn't answering requests mailed to

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Jesse Pollard
avid Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >one of the key places where the memory is 'allocated' but not used is in >the copy on write conditions (fork, clone, etc) most of the time very >little of the 'duplicate' memory is ever changed (in fact most of the time >the program that forks then executes some

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Jesse Pollard
- Received message begins Here - > > > Hi, > > I just made a manipulation that disturbs me. So I'm asking whether it's a > bug or a features. > > user> su > root> echo "test" > test > root> ls -l > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root5 Mar 29 19:14 test > root> exit >

Mount locks on bad ISO image?

2001-03-29 Thread Aaron Lunansky
I tried mounting a file as an ISO image (turns out it was corrupted) - after running mount file.iso /cdrom -o loop mount hung and did not respond.. I could not ^Z it into the background, or kill, or kill -9 it... I'm certain that I have ISO and loopback support compiled into my kernel. Anyone

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hi, > > Control I/O: 0x538 > > MPU I/O: 0x330 > Hm, OK, then never mind. :) I don't have an opl3sa2 here to test > how well the current driver works. I have the feeling that there is going something wrong with the parameters. I modified the opl3sa2 driver and manually set the

Re: Linux connectivity trashed.

2001-03-29 Thread Doug Ledford
John Jasen wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > >snipped< >more snippage< > In short, your security administrator needs to be dragged out, shot, and > left hanging by the front door as a warning to his replacement. > > Or, at least fired. That, or have all the Unix

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread John Jasen
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Xavier Ordoquy wrote: > OK, thanks for the answer. > I've spoken to a few people before and they hadn't heard about it. > Since once upon the time on a solaris system I've had a root file that I > couldn't remove even if I hold the rights of the directory. > This is why I

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Justin Carlson
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Xavier Ordoquy wrote: > Hi, > > I just made a manipulation that disturbs me. So I'm asking whether it's a > bug or a features. > > user> su > root> echo "test" > test > root> ls -l > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root5 Mar 29 19:14 test > root> exit > user> rm test >

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Xavier Ordoquy
OK, thanks for the answer. I've spoken to a few people before and they hadn't heard about it. Since once upon the time on a solaris system I've had a root file that I couldn't remove even if I hold the rights of the directory. This is why I figured out this was a bug. Anyway, thanks for that.

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Andreas Dilger
Xavier Ordoquy writes: > I just made a manipulation that disturbs me. So I'm asking whether it's a > bug or a features. > > user> su > root> echo "test" > test > root> ls -l > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root5 Mar 29 19:14 test > root> exit > user> rm test > rm: remove write-protected

insmod message explanation

2001-03-29 Thread clock
insmod g_NCR5380 ncr_addr=0xcc000 ncr_irq=255 ncr_53c400a=1 Using /lib/modules/2.2.19/scsi/g_NCR5380.o scsi : 0 hosts. /lib/modules/2.2.19/scsi/g_NCR5380.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Stephen Clouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:20:32PM +, Xavier Ordoquy wrote: > This is in the user home directory. > Since the file is read only for the user, it should not be able to remove > it. Moreover, the user can't write to test. > So I think this is a

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Klaus Reimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Hi, > > > > modprobe opl3sa2 io=0x538 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 > > > isapnp=0 > > It would be what you put in the io= parameter. 0x538 does *not* look > > right. > > These are the sound-settings in the BIOS: > > WSS I/O: 0x530 >

RE: Incorrect mdelay() results on Power Managed Machines x86

2001-03-29 Thread Woller, Thomas
i talked with Keith Frechette at IBM, he is in charge of Linux for IBM. he indicated that they are working issues with INTEL speedstep and Linux for their newer laptops, albeit not at a swift pace. he will probably contact the linux community at some point to help solve issues with SpeedStep,

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hi, > > modprobe opl3sa2 io=0x538 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 > > isapnp=0 > It would be what you put in the io= parameter. 0x538 does *not* look > right. These are the sound-settings in the BIOS: WSS I/O: 0x530 SBPro I/O: 0x220 Synth I/O: 0x388 IRQ: 5 WSS (Play) DMA: 1 WSS

Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Xavier Ordoquy
Hi, I just made a manipulation that disturbs me. So I'm asking whether it's a bug or a features. user> su root> echo "test" > test root> ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root5 Mar 29 19:14 test root> exit user> rm test rm: remove write-protected file `test'? y user> ls test ls: test:

Re: 2.4.3-p8 pci_fixup_vt8363 + ASUS A7V "Optimal" = IDE diskcorruption

2001-03-29 Thread Wayne Whitney
On 29 Mar 2001, Juan Quintela wrote: > Hi I have the same motherboard and BIOS version. I was having > filesystem corruption. There is a bugfix (from Arjan van der Ven) in > the ac tree (around ac20 I think), could you test the last ac patch > and test if the filesystem corruption persist?? I

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread David Lang
one of the key places where the memory is 'allocated' but not used is in the copy on write conditions (fork, clone, etc) most of the time very little of the 'duplicate' memory is ever changed (in fact most of the time the program that forks then executes some other program) on a lot of production

Re: question on ip_masq_irc.c

2001-03-29 Thread S. Shore
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Deja User wrote: > I am working on a NAT product and trying provide mIRC support in it. I am looking >into ip_masq_irc.c file of Linux 2.2.12 for reference, and have some doubts. > 1. In 2.2.12 ip_masq_irc.c, DCC RESUME protocol is not supported. In which patch can >I find

[PATCH] Support for "mode" parameter in ramfs

2001-03-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! This patch adds support for the "mode" parameter in ramfs. This parameter only affects one inode - the top-level directory (since you can specify mode in open() and mkdir() for everything else) and thus eliminates the race condition between "mount" and "chmod" by eliminating the need to

[ANNOUNCE] Linux Trace Toolkit 0.9.5pre1

2001-03-29 Thread Karim Yaghmour
LTT 0.9.5pre1 is out. As the name says, this is a development version and should be treated as such. Only one kernel is supported with 0.9.5pre1, linux 2.4.0-test10. What it includes: -Cross-platform reading capability submitted by Andy Lowe -Visualizer enhancements submitted by Rocky Craig

Panic after using bonding driver

2001-03-29 Thread Jeff Golds
I have been working on a driver similar to the bonding driver and have come across a bug in the bonding driver code. When the bonding driver enslaves a device, it modifies the slave's multicast list to be the master's multicast list. Later, after the master is downed, the kernel gets a panic if

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Stephen Satchell
At 07:41 AM 3/29/01 -0800, David Konerding wrote: >Now, if you're going to implement OOM, when it is absolutely necessary, at >the very >least, move the policy implementation out of the kernel. One of the general >philosophies of Linux has been to move policy out of the kernel. In this >case,

Re: rate limiting error messages

2001-03-29 Thread Khalid Aziz
Eli Carter wrote: > > Can someone point me to a "standard way" of doing rate limiting of error > messages in the kernel? > > TIA, > > Eli > ---. Rule of Accuracy: When working toward > Eli Carter |the solution of a problem, it always >

Re: [WISHLIST] Addition of suspend patch into 2.5?

2001-03-29 Thread Shawn Starr
Not only for laptops :) It's nice for PCs too also. On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Robert-Velisav MICIOVICI wrote: > > Just a small adition to the 2.5 whislist: > Is "hibernation" on linux possible? Ideally it should write out on the / > running on ext2fs and the new journaling fs's like reiserfs, xfs,

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Re: Disturbing news..

2001-03-29 Thread Jesse Pollard
Walter Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote: [snip] > > Now, if ELF were to be modified, I'd just add a segment checksum > > for each segment, then put the checksum in the ELF header as well as > > in the/a segment header just to make things harder. At exec time

Re: [OT] fb programming documentation

2001-03-29 Thread James Simmons
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rate limiting error messages

2001-03-29 Thread Eli Carter
Can someone point me to a "standard way" of doing rate limiting of error messages in the kernel? TIA, Eli ---. Rule of Accuracy: When working toward Eli Carter |the solution of a problem, it always eli.carter(at)inet.com

Re: Linux connectivity trashed.

2001-03-29 Thread John Jasen
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >snipped< First mistake: your security administrator relied on the firewall for protection. It is an _aid_ to security; not the 'be all and end all'. IOW, the hosts weren't hardened to resist penetration in case the firewall didn't cover

Re: kernel apm code

2001-03-29 Thread John Fremlin
David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Fremlin wrote: [...] > > > To implement off-button you only need the APM_IOC_REJECT ioctl and > > > > The problem on my computer with my (re)implementation of > > APM_IOC_REJECT is that the screen goes into powersaving when the user > >

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dr. Michael Weller wrote: > Applications forking and then dirtying their shared data pages > madly? OOps.. nothing.. Why? It cannot be done! In eager mode Solaris, Tru64, Irix, non-overcommit patch for Linux by Eduardo Horvath from last year can do (you get ENOMEM at

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hi, > > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.054774500 {kern|info} kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec > > driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 > > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.070692500 {kern|notice} kernel: opl3sa2: No cards > > found 2001-03-29 10:02:50.070703500 {kern|notice} kernel: opl3sa2: 0 PnP > > card(s)

Re: Linux connectivity trashed.

2001-03-29 Thread Jesse Pollard
"J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 03.29 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > The penetration occurred because somebody changed our firewall > > configuration > > so that all of the non-DHCP addresses, i.e., all the real IP addresses had > > complete > > connectivity to the outside

Re: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-29 Thread Dennis
At 05:35 PM 03/28/2001, Steve VanDevender wrote: >Dennis writes: > > I KNOW this..my point is that menuconfig is not intuitive in providing > the > > choices. > >Linux kernel configuration isn't intuitive. menuconfig isn't there to >handhold newbies through the process. Arguing that

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dr. Michael Weller wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > > The point is AIX *can* guarantee [even for an ordinary process] that > > your signal handler will be executed, Linux can *not*. It doesn't matter > No it can't... and the reason is... So AIX is

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Jesse Pollard
Guest section DW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:02:38PM +0100, Sean Hunter wrote: > > > The reason the aero engineers don't need to select a passanger to throw out > > when the plane is overloaded is simply that the plane operators do not allow > > the plane to become

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Klaus Reimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > If I am doing this, I can't even load the module and I get the following > message in syslog: > > 2001-03-29 18:13:14.184156500 {kern|err} kernel: opl3sa2: Control I/O port > 0x0 not free > > What is that "control i/o port"? Is this normally 0x100? I

Re: 2.4.3-p8 pci_fixup_vt8363 + ASUS A7V "Optimal" = IDE disk corruption

2001-03-29 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:29:46PM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote: > I'm running kernel 2.4.3-pre8 on an ASUS A7V (BIOS 1007) motherboard and > recently noticed that it sometimes corrupts my hard disk, an IBM 75GXP on > the onboard PDC20265 IDE controller. The corruption is detectable with a >

Re: Newbie to Kernel Development

2001-03-29 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, George Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a newbie to Linux Kernel Development, with a very basic knowledge of C, ...and there is a kernel-newbies mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive:

Re: [OOPS] 2.2.19 USB and Digianswer/Tektronix sniffer

2001-03-29 Thread Dave Airlie
And of course the olibgatory self-followup... usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1080, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb.c: USB new device

Re: OOPS: reiserfs, 2.4.2-ac26 SMP

2001-03-29 Thread Elmer Joandi
Chris Mason wrote: > > Most likely compiled with redhat gcc 2.96. Please upgrade to their latest, > or use kgcc. Ok, after 1. upgrading redhat gcc 2. applying that BKL in vmtruncate minipatch now it copies about 50MB before cp gets stuck on do_journal 2.4.0 with reiserfs patch and

[OOPS] 2.2.19 USB and Digianswer/Tektronix sniffer

2001-03-29 Thread Dave Airlie
when boot Linux 2.2.19 with a Digianswer Bluetooth Sniffer plugged into the USB I get the following oops ... I know the device isn't supported but I'd like to be able to leave it plugged in without oopsen between Linux/Windows.. Regards, Dave. ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.2.19. Options

WG: 2.4 on COMPQ Proliant

2001-03-29 Thread Butter, Frank
2.2.16 claimes to find a ncr53c1510D-chipset, supported by the driver ncr53c8xx. Which kernel-param would be the correct one for this? Frank > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Butter, Frank > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. März 2001 17:11 > An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Betreff: 2.4 on COMPQ

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Klaus Reimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.054774500 {kern|info} kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver > Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.070692500 {kern|notice} kernel: opl3sa2: No cards found > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.070703500 {kern|notice} kernel:

Re: Solved with MTRR was: ISSUE: very slow (factor 100) 4-way 16GByte server, with 2.4.2

2001-03-29 Thread David Wragg
Robert Suetterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. I was not allowed to do `base=0 size=0x4 > type=write-back`, because of the overlap with the memory range at > base=0x0fb00. /proc/mtrr does allow overlapping regions in some cases, but the conditions turned out to be stricter than

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