Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-16 Thread Simon Richter
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Andreas Ferber wrote: > > Okay, but at least take a better signal than SIGINT, probably one that the > > init maintainers like so it gets adopted faster (or extend SIGPWR). > Extending SIGPWR will break inits not yet supporting the extensions, > so this is IMO not an

802.1Q VLAN patch for 2.4.4-pre3 & 2.2.19

2001-04-16 Thread Ben Greear
I just updated the VLAN patches slightly. The 2.2 series patch did not change, but is now known to patch into 2.2.19 w/out trouble. The 2.4 series patch was briefly tested against 2.4.4-pre3 and seems to be working OK. The changes are: Allow MAC change to work correctly by recognizing

Re: Athlon runtime problems

2001-04-16 Thread Ray Shaw
>CPU model/stepping AMD Duron, 800mhz >chipset VIA KT-133; motherboard is an ABIT KT7A-RAID >amount of RAM 256M, single PC-133 SDRAM >/proc/mtrr output reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 reg05: base=0xd000 (3328MB), size= 64MB: write-combining, count=1

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > o Fix the Zoran driver build (me) > | This is still not up to date with the master copy > | that is intentional - first things first. Probably that's why drivers/media/video/Makefile contains references to zoran.o, while

Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yes, but they could be. Changing the Linux keycodes is a major > > break with compatibility. If the Linux keycodes are to be changed, > > then they ought to be become something that would allow XFree86 > > to become keyboard-independent. Why invent yet

Re: Files not linking/replacing.

2001-04-16 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > > Normally /usr/src/linux on a redhat system contains a kernel with a > > known good set of kernel headers. /usr/include/linux and > > /usr/include/asm are symlinks that point into the known good kernel > > headers. It

Re: Documentation of module parameters.

2001-04-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 11:30 PM -0400 2001-04-16, Chris Kloiber wrote: >I was recently looking for a single location where all the possible >module parameters for the linux kernel was located. Hear him. A DocBook document would be a dandy place for this to get pulled together, too. >I figured I would look at the

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get

2001-04-16 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Miles Lane writes: >> Randolph Bentson wrote: >>> I've heard of conferences where a wireless audience >>> microphone was put inside a Nerf ball. It could >>> then be tossed to the audience member who wished >>> to speak. > > Seriously though, this would probably still be an > impediment to the

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please getbetter audio.

2001-04-16 Thread David Lang
have a couple of these and you would be able to keep one trained on the most common speakers in any given discussion (then you only have the problem of more speakers then mikes, but short of putting enough mikes around to get the entire room you will always have this problem) David Lang On

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Miles Lane
Larry McVoy wrote: > > > Are you talking about one of those "eavesdropper" > > parabolic microphones? Are you thinking of having > > someone on stage redirecting the microphone as > > each speaker starts talking? It could work well, > > but you'd either lose the first few words each > > person

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Larry McVoy
> Are you talking about one of those "eavesdropper" > parabolic microphones? Are you thinking of having > someone on stage redirecting the microphone as > each speaker starts talking? It could work well, > but you'd either lose the first few words each > person in the audience said or need to

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Miles Lane
Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 08:46:33PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > > Randolph Bentson wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:45:31PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > > > > There is one major shortcoming of the recordings. > > > > Usually, only the comments of the presenter(s)

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Larry McVoy
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 08:46:33PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > Randolph Bentson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:45:31PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > > > There is one major shortcoming of the recordings. > > > Usually, only the comments of the presenter(s) > > > can be heard. > > > > I've

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Miles Lane
Randolph Bentson wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:45:31PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > > There is one major shortcoming of the recordings. > > Usually, only the comments of the presenter(s) > > can be heard. > > I've heard of conferences where a wireless audience > microphone was put inside

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Miles Lane
Ben Ford wrote: > > Randolph Bentson wrote: > > >On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:45:31PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > > > >>There is one major shortcoming of the recordings. > >>Usually, only the comments of the presenter(s) > >>can be heard. > >> > > > >I've heard of conferences where a wireless

Re: module load/unload race protection?

2001-04-16 Thread Maneesh Soni
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:26:40PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Does the kernel's module loader (kernel/module.c, not kmod) > protect adequately against concurrent load/load or load/unload > requests? The question applies to both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. > > I'm trying to track down a problem

Documentation of module parameters.

2001-04-16 Thread Chris Kloiber
I was recently looking for a single location where all the possible module parameters for the linux kernel was located. I figured I would look at the source first, hoping that each module maintaier would clearly document at the beginning of each .c file all of the parameters his or her module

Re: CML2 1.1.3 is available

2001-04-16 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wait ... I thought you were just using Python bindings to Tk. Are you > telling us the Tk library, which for 8 or 10 years has been pretty much > *the* X toolkit/widget set for scripting, does not include an interface > to X resources? If it does, it's not

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Ben Ford
Randolph Bentson wrote: >On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:45:31PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > >>There is one major shortcoming of the recordings. >>Usually, only the comments of the presenter(s) >>can be heard. >> > >I've heard of conferences where a wireless audience >microphone was put inside a Nerf

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-16 Thread Manfred Bartz
Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:07:31PM +1000, Manfred Bartz wrote: > > Resetable counters guarantee that no two programs can co-exists if > > they happen to reset the same counters. > > That sounds like crap (sorry). Care to explain how two independent

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Randolph Bentson
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:45:31PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > There is one major shortcoming of the recordings. > Usually, only the comments of the presenter(s) > can be heard. I've heard of conferences where a wireless audience microphone was put inside a Nerf ball. It could then be tossed to

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-16 Thread Harald Welte
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:07:31PM +1000, Manfred Bartz wrote: > > If there really is a performance issue with a few hundred rules, then > it can be overcome by grouping rules in separate custom chains. F.e. > if you have 1024 rules create 32 custom chains with 32 rules each. > Then have 32

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-16 Thread Harald Welte
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:53:28AM +1000, David Findlay wrote: > In the 2.5 series of kernels, working towards 2.6, could you please make the > IP Accounting so that I can set a single rule that will make it watch all IP > traffic going from the local network, through the masquerading service

Re: comments on CML 1.1.0

2001-04-16 Thread Harald Welte
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 03:51:53PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > jeff millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Selecting IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS turns off IP_NF_CONNTRACK and friends. But, > > I think CML1, allowed both support to the new iptables and compatibility > > modes to allow old ipchains scripts

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Miles Lane
"David S. Miller" wrote: > > Miles Lane writes: > > There is one major shortcoming of the recordings. > > Usually, only the comments of the presenter(s) > > can be heard. > > The problem is that nobody wants to wait for one of the microphones to > go across the entire room before they can

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:16:58PM +0100, Alan Cox escreveu: > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.3ac7/include -Wall >-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe >-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include

Re: CML2 1.1.3 is available

2001-04-16 Thread Peter Samuelson
[esr] > If there were already a library in ths stock Python distribution to > digest .Xdefaults files I might consider this. Perhaps I'll write > one. But I'm not going to bulk up the CML2 code with this marginal > feature. Wait ... I thought you were just using Python bindings to Tk. Are you

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-16 Thread Manfred Bartz
Leif Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Manfred Bartz responded to > > Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who writes: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:07:31PM +1000, Manfred Bartz wrote: > > > > There is another issue with logging in general: > > > > > > > > *COUNTERS MUST

PROBLEM: Slowdown for ATA/100 drive on PCI card, after 2.4.3 upgrade.

2001-04-16 Thread Bobby D. Bryant
[1.] One line summary of the problem: ATA/100 drive on PCI ATA/100 controller was very fast under 2.4.0 and 2.4.2, but becomes *very* slow under 2.4.3 [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I have an ATA/100 controller card in a PCI slot, and an ATA/100 drive hanging off it. Under

Is printing broke on sparc ?

2001-04-16 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , On Linux-Sparc I can send data to the /dev/par0 & /dev/lp0 but the data appears to be garbled . Sending the below printcap to either of the above ports ... # /etc/printcap # # Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing! # Be

Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.1.3 is available

2001-04-16 Thread Eric S. Raymond
james rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Instead, read the colors from the .Xdefaults system. > > Yes, truly this should be done. Sensible defaults should be used (and I > think we may be at that point) and then use .Xdefaults (.Xresources or > whatever) to allow site overrides. And I really do

Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread David S. Miller
Miles Lane writes: > There is one major shortcoming of the recordings. > Usually, only the comments of the presenter(s) > can be heard. The problem is that nobody wants to wait for one of the microphones to go across the entire room before they can begin speaking, this is what was happening.

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-16 Thread george anzinger
Mark Salisbury wrote: > > > Given a system speed, there is a repeating timer rate which will consume > > 100% of the system in handling the timer interrupts. An attempt will > > be made to detect this rate and adjust the timer to prevent system > > lockup. This adjustment will look like timer

Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

2001-04-16 Thread Miles Lane
http://www.osdn.com/conferences/kernel/ Thanks to all responsible for getting these captures of the Kernel 2.5 Workshop prosentations put together. There is one major shortcoming of the recordings. Usually, only the comments of the presenter(s) can be heard. This reduces the value of

PROBLEM: Real Audio doesn't work with 2.4.3 pre4

2001-04-16 Thread Dheeraj Reddy
Hi, I am too inexperienced to file this, so pls excuse me. I am trying to follow just the Documentation. 1.> Audio doesn't work properly in linux-2.4.3 pre4 (i810_audio). [Real Audio] 2.> I tried to run it with patches applied on 2.4.2 kernel. I tested with pre1, pre2 and pre4. The problem

RE: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-16 Thread Leif Sawyer
> From: Ian Stirling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Manfred Bartz responded to > > > Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who writes: > > > > You just illustrated my point. While there is a reset capability > > > people will use it and accounting/logging programs will get wrong > > > data.

Re: Athlon runtime problems

2001-04-16 Thread Gary White (Network Administrator)
Alan Cox wrote: > Can the folks who are seeing crashes running athlon optimised kernels all mail > me > > - CPU model/stepping vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model: 4 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1009.002

Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Cox
> Yes, but they could be. Changing the Linux keycodes is a major > break with compatibility. If the Linux keycodes are to be changed, > then they ought to be become something that would allow XFree86 > to become keyboard-independent. Why invent yet another encoding? You dont need to break

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-16 Thread Mark Salisbury
> Given a system speed, there is a repeating timer rate which will consume > 100% of the system in handling the timer interrupts. An attempt will > be made to detect this rate and adjust the timer to prevent system > lockup. This adjustment will look like timer overruns to the user > (i.e. we

RE: CML2 1.1.3 release announcement

2001-04-16 Thread Leif Sawyer
It also appears that upon a re-configuration of 2.4.3 from 2.2.17: > cd /usr/src/linux > cp ../linux-2.2.17/.config . > make oldconfig where the old configuration did not include FrameBuffer support, then performing an Xconfig to tweak some settings and enable FB, no default fonts were

IGNORE earlier mails from me, mailed today

2001-04-16 Thread smaneesh
Hello All, Please ignore all mails from me, sent out today. I tried switching my mailer to KMail from mutt and KMail has decided to mail out all the stuff in my outbox which were sent earlier through mutt. I will stay away from KMail :-( Iam extermely sorry for any inconvenience this may

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-16 Thread Ian Stirling
> > Manfred Bartz responded to > > Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who writes: > > You just illustrated my point. While there is a reset capability > > people will use it and accounting/logging programs will get wrong > > data. Resetable counters might be a minor convenience when debugging >

Re: buz.c compile error

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Cox
> Kernel 2.4.4-pre3. > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/marcelo/rpm/BUILD/kernel-2.4.3/linux/include > -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing > -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i386 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS > -include >

Re: Still cannot compile

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Cox
> gcc-3.0-pre-2001-04-08. > I will test with today's or tomorrow's gcc-snapshot when I'll get the > time but > I'm at work at the moment and this does cope more than "just the > kernel". > But we _do need_ a working current-kernel. Use gcc 2.95/2.96 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Cox
> I tried it on my dual P3 box with the VIA chipset and I'm definitely > getting timeouts for the USB devices. Booting with "noapic" resolves the > problem for me. Output of lspci for the VIA stuff is: Thats an unrelated problem. The BIOS on the tyan tiger is broken > - To unsubscribe from

RE: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-16 Thread Grover, Andrew
> From: Pavel Machek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > There are 32 signals, and signals can carry more information, if > required. I really think doing it way UPS-es are done is right > approach. I would think that it would make sense to keep shutdown with all the other power management events.

Re: loop problems continue in 2.4.3

2001-04-16 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Well, I wrote the script. It has been running for 10 minutes now > mounting and unmounting an iso image. Nothing happens. I guess I > should be happy. Still don't undertand where the original Oops came > from It's a great shame that your distribution vendor shipped

Re: USB with 2.4.3-ac{1,3,7} without devfs

2001-04-16 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
You should probably bring up things like this on the Linux USB list. On Tue, Apr 17, 2001, FAVRE Gregoire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Under 2.4.3 I manage uploading photo from my Digital IXUS using USB_UHCI > with s10h, but under ac series, I don't manage, only other things I have > changed is

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-16 Thread Andreas Ferber
Hi, On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:44:20PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > > Okay, but at least take a better signal than SIGINT, probably one that the > init maintainers like so it gets adopted faster (or extend SIGPWR). Extending SIGPWR will break inits not yet supporting the extensions, so this

Re: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > The second one is the valid one, but both interfaces seem to answer to the > broadcasted packet with their own ARP addresses. it is because the kernel does not know if both interfaces are on one subnet, or not. The easisets thing to solve this is t use

kernel space getcwd()? (using current() to find out cwd)

2001-04-16 Thread Michael L. Welles
This is probably a stupid question, and probably directed to the wrong list. Apologies in advance, but I'm stumped I've been working on a kernel module to report on "changed files". It works just fine -- I wrap the orignal system calls with my replacements which queue the filenames being

USB with 2.4.3-ac{1,3,7} without devfs

2001-04-16 Thread FAVRE Gregoire
Hello, Under 2.4.3 I manage uploading photo from my Digital IXUS using USB_UHCI with s10h, but under ac series, I don't manage, only other things I have changed is removing devfs which I don't need in fact... from dmesg (2.4.3): ... usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-16 Thread Ben Ford
Simon Richter wrote: >On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > >>>Then a more general user space tool could be used that would do policy >>>appropriate stuff, ending with init 0. >>> >>init _is_ the tool which is right for defining policy on such issues. >> >>Take a look how UPS managment is

Re: PATCH 2.4.4.3: pci_enable/disable_device stuff

2001-04-16 Thread Martin Mares
Hi! > The attached patch does two things: > > 1) Take PCI devices to D0 state before enabling them. We both think > this is the right thing to do, but there is always the crazy chance this > change will break something. So, think twice before applying, but IMHO > apply :) I'm not able to

RE: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-16 Thread Leif Sawyer
Manfred Bartz responded to > Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who writes: > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:07:31PM +1000, Manfred Bartz wrote: > > > There is another issue with logging in general: > > > > > > *COUNTERS MUST NOT BE RESETABLE!!!* > > > > Umm, no. Counters can be

Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.1.3 is available

2001-04-16 Thread james rich
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, John Cowan wrote: > Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > Release 1.1.3: > > * Freeze color changed from cyan to blue. > > Instead, read the colors from the .Xdefaults system. Yes, truly this should be done. Sensible defaults should be used (and I think we may be at that

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-16 Thread george anzinger
"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > > CLOCK_10MS a wall clock supporting timers with 10 ms resolution (same as > > linux today). > > Except on the Alpha, and on some ARM systems, etc. > The HZ constant varies from 10 to 1200. I suspect we will want to use 10 ms resolution for a clock named

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-16 Thread Manfred Bartz
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:07:31PM +1000, Manfred Bartz wrote: > > There is another issue with logging in general: > > > > *COUNTERS MUST NOT BE RESETABLE!!!* > > Umm, no. Counters can be resetable - you just specify that accounting >

Re: CML2 1.1.3 release announcement

2001-04-16 Thread Leif Sawyer
Hmm. Looking better - I'm in the process of configuring v2.4.3.. It looks as if the TUN/TAP selection isn't being grok'd right. It should be available as a module, yet the 'm' is greyed out and not selectable. I don't see any prerequistes in the drivers/net/rules.cml either, although i'm not

amd/nfs with 2.4.3 BigMem kernel

2001-04-16 Thread pandya
1. amd/nfs can not mount other disks under 2.4.3 BigMem kernel 2. I compiled 2 kernels(one with BigMem, one without). Both are SMP kernels. The one without BigMem supports works just fine. The only difference is that I turned on BigMem support, and recompiled kernel and modules.

Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.1.3 is available

2001-04-16 Thread Steven Cole
On Monday 16 April 2001 16:06, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Whoops, I just tried out 1.1.3 using make xconfig, and now all the > > option labels are dark green, not just the ones set to y. > > That's because they're set in your .config, dude! Well, lets look at a

Re: Serial Port Communication

2001-04-16 Thread Pavel Janík
From: Rajeev Nigam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:35:54 +0530 Hi, > How can I write to, read from the com port. I have linux 6.2 and kernel > 2.2.14 version. there is no Linux with that version number. Upgrade your kernel. > Is anybody having a sample code

Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.1.3 is available

2001-04-16 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Whoops, I just tried out 1.1.3 using make xconfig, and now all the > option labels are dark green, not just the ones set to y. That's because they're set in your .config, dude! -- http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond See, when the

Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.1.3 is available

2001-04-16 Thread Steven Cole
On Monday 16 April 2001 15:42, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > CML2 NEWS > > The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ > > Release 1.1.3: > * Freeze color changed from cyan to blue. > * Tom Rini's network-configuration patches. > * Better detection of

Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.1.3 is available

2001-04-16 Thread John Cowan
Eric S. Raymond wrote: > CML2 NEWS > > The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ > > Release 1.1.3: > * Freeze color changed from cyan to blue. I suggest you stop dinking the colors. There will always be some colors, for

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-16 Thread Simon Richter
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Because we'd be running out of signals soon, when all the other ACPI > > events get available. > There are 32 signals, and signals can carry more information, if > required. I really think doing it way UPS-es are done is right > approach. Okay, but

CML2 1.1.3 is available

2001-04-16 Thread Eric S. Raymond
CML2 NEWS The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Release 1.1.3: * Freeze color changed from cyan to blue. * Tom Rini's network-configuration patches. * Better detection of set variables to be colored

mount --bind and knfsd

2001-04-16 Thread Olivier Galibert
mount --bind is a very nice tool to create multiple / directories for diskless workstations. Or, well, would be, if knfsd accepted to export them. I didn't try with 2.4.3 yet, only with an earlier version, does it work there? Or is it on womeone's todo? Doesn't seem that impossible, at least

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

2001-04-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > A power failure is a different thing from a power button press. > > > And why not do exactly this with init? Have a look in /etc/inittab: > > > You can shut down your machine there, but you can also have it play a > > cancan on power failure. It is up to your gusto. And now tell me,

Re: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-16 Thread Eric Weigle
Hello- This is a known 'feature' of the Linux kernel, and can help with load sharing and fault tolerance. However, it can also cause problems (such as when one nic in a multi-nic machine fails and you don't know right away). There are three 'solutions' I know of: * In recent 2.2 kernels, it

Re: List of all-zero .data variables in linux-2.4.3 available

2001-04-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I am aware of a couple of cases where code relied on static > > variables being allocated contiguously, but, in both cases, those > > variables were either all zeros or all non-zeros, so my proposed > > change would not break such code. > > Continuous placement is not the only

Re: Linux-Kernel Archive: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > /* > * Timeouts for various operations: > */ > #define WAIT_DRQ(5*HZ/100) /* 50msec - spec allows up to 20ms */ > #ifdef CONFIG_APM > #define WAIT_READY (5*HZ) /* 5sec - some laptops are very slow */ Broken broken broken. CONFIG_APM has *nothing* to do with

Slow LAN /w 2.4.3

2001-04-16 Thread swds . mlowe
Hi, I've just switched from kernel 2.2.16 to 2.4.3 (because of a smbfs bug). Anyways, all is well except for one little thing. Over the LAN in 2.2.16 I was getting around 900k/sec between the linux server and the rest of the computers. After I upgraded I only get 200k/sec. I've rebooted using

Re: system call logging in userspace

2001-04-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Man strace, or http://subterfugue.org > Hello, > > I'm not very experienced with dealing directly with the kernel, so I was > hoping for a little advice... > > I'd like to implement some sort of rudimentary (file)system-call logging.   > Specifically, I'd like information about write, open,

Re: Oscillations in disk write compaction, poor interactive performance

2001-04-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > It also seems that in the 2.4 kernels, we can get into a sort of > oscillation mode, where we can have long periods of disk activity > where nothing can get done - the low points, where only 2-3 writes > per second can occur, so completely screw up the interactive > performance that you

Re: loop problems continue in 2.4.3

2001-04-16 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 16 2001, Ian Eure wrote: > Jens Axboe writes: > > On Wed, Apr 11 2001, Ian Eure wrote: > > > i get this message when it panics: > > > > > > -- snip -- > > > loop: setting 534781920 bs for 07:86 > > > Kernel panic: Invalid blocksize passed to set_blocksize > > > -- snip -- > >

Re: Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

2001-04-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
Wilfried, Why a module? Why not have the detection and flags that hook the md driver for linux and use linux's software raid? Cheers, On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Wilfried Weissmann wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > >

ARP responses broken!

2001-04-16 Thread Sampsa Ranta
Hello, I had a mystery with my Linux running 2.4.2 kernel with ARP packet response. I have two interfaces that share same subnet, I call eth0 194.29.192.37 and eth1 194.29.192.38. I have forwarding turned on, proxy arp is not neighter are redirects. When I flush local neighbor table in other

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-16 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
> CLOCK_10MS a wall clock supporting timers with 10 ms resolution (same as > linux today). Except on the Alpha, and on some ARM systems, etc. The HZ constant varies from 10 to 1200. > At the same time we will NOT support the following clocks: > > CLOCK_VIRTUAL a clock measuring the elapsed

Re: 2.4.3-ac{6,7} LVM hang

2001-04-16 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 16 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > Hi, > > 2.4.3-ac4 seems to work great on my test box (UP K6-2 with SCSI > disk), but 2.4.3-ac6 and 2.4.3-ac7 hang pretty hard when I try > to access any of the logical volumes on my test box. > > The following changelog entry in Linus' changelog

Re: Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

2001-04-16 Thread Wilfried Weissmann
Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > However as far as I can see everyone who has a FastTrak which is "stuck" > > in RAID mode[1] would be happy if it worked as a normal IDE controller > > in Linux, which is (usually?) not the case

Re: 2.4.3 VFS bug and namei.c bug

2001-04-16 Thread Andre Hedrick
dev 08:01 This is a SCSI device sorry... On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Mickey Lalescu wrote: > I am not sure if this is an IDE problem it seems to be an VFS one but I > can't find the maintainer for VFS. Ouch while I was trying to submit this > other bug I've got another one. Here is the output of the

Re: [new PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads

2001-04-16 Thread Andrew Morton
John Fremlin wrote: > > > > So it seems that we must reparent the thread to init, and > > make sure that it delivers SIGCHLD to init when it exits. > > Sounds good. Why isn't SIGCHLD a stronger default anyway. mm? The caller gets to choose... > [...] > > > + /* Set the exit signal to

2.4.3-ac{6,7} LVM hang

2001-04-16 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi, 2.4.3-ac4 seems to work great on my test box (UP K6-2 with SCSI disk), but 2.4.3-ac6 and 2.4.3-ac7 hang pretty hard when I try to access any of the logical volumes on my test box. The following changelog entry in Linus' changelog suggests me whom to bother: ;) - Jens Axboe: LVM and loop

Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-16 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Guest section DW writes: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:29:11AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> If we can try to keycodes in 8-bits it would be nice. The difficulty >> is that X cannot handle more than 8-bits without telling it you have >> multiple keyboards. The keycode (at least in X) is

buz.c compile error

2001-04-16 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Kernel 2.4.4-pre3. gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/marcelo/rpm/BUILD/kernel-2.4.3/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i386 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include

Re: via udma100 fix

2001-04-16 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > > Technical discussion of the workaround (in german): > > http://home.tiscalinet.de/au-ja/review-kt133a-4.html > This was sent to me the other day, is this waht you are talking about? Yes, is any of the

Re: [new PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads

2001-04-16 Thread John Fremlin
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > None of these will work. The problems with globally setting > exit_signal to SIGCHLD are that > > a) If the parent does waitpid(pid, status, __WCLONE), the >waitpid will fail. request_module() does this. I don't >know _why_ it does

Re: Bug in EZ-Drive remapping code (ide.c)

2001-04-16 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Andries.Brouwer writes: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Apr 16 08:35:09 2001 >>Andries.Brouwer writes: >>> What one wants is to remap access to sector 0 to sector 1, >>> and leave all other sectors alone. Thus, if someone asks >>> for sectors 0 1 2 3 4, she should get sectors 1 1 2 3 4. >> >> No,

Re: No 100 HZ timer!

2001-04-16 Thread george anzinger
Mark Salisbury wrote: > > all this talk about which data structure to use and how to allocate memory is > wy premature. > > there needs to be a clear definition of the requirements that we wish to meet, > including whether we are going to do ticked, tickless, or both > > a func spec, for

Re: PROBLEM: Won't compile new aic7xxx driver

2001-04-16 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>My machine won't compile the kernel with the new aic7xxx driver, it compiles >fine with the old driver. Says : You need to upgrade to a leter version of the driver from here: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/ -- Justin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-16 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:51:52PM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote: ... > > If I've got the numbering right; > 0 - concatenated stripes => no sync required > 1 - mirrored => resync required > a: which drive has the correct info? a: there are timestamps in the superblocks.

PROBLEM: Won't compile new aic7xxx driver

2001-04-16 Thread Mario Doria
My machine won't compile the kernel with the new aic7xxx driver, it compiles fine with the old driver. Says : - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: drivers/block/loop.c:max_loop

2001-04-16 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 16 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > Ok, just noticed that the module option is missing. Attached patch > should rectify that oversight. duh, already there of course. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: lilo + raid + kernel-2.4.x failure to boot

2001-04-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 16 April 2001 06:47, Linas Vepstas wrote: > I am running kernel-2.4.x. Two ide hard drives, with partitions 1,5,6,7,8 > in use. The partitions on the two drives are mirrored using RAID-1 to > create /dev/md1, /dev/md5, /dev/md6, etc. The root fs is on /dev/md1. What partitions are

Re: drivers/block/loop.c:max_loop

2001-04-16 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Apr 16 2001, Jan Kasprzak wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > : On Mon, Apr 16 2001, Jan Kasprzak wrote: > : > Hello, > : > > : > I run a relatively large FTP server, and I've just reached > : > the max_loop limit of loop devices here (I use loopback mount of ISO 9660 > : > images of Linux

Re: Should mount --bind not follow symlinks?

2001-04-16 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro) wrote on 12.03.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Anthony Heading wrote: > > > Hi, > > My automounted dirs have up till now been symlinks, where > > e.g. /opt/perl defaults to automounting /export/opt/perl/LATEST > > which is a symlink. > >

Re: drivers/block/loop.c:max_loop

2001-04-16 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Jens Axboe wrote: : On Mon, Apr 16 2001, Jan Kasprzak wrote: : > Hello, : > : > I run a relatively large FTP server, and I've just reached : > the max_loop limit of loop devices here (I use loopback mount of ISO 9660 : > images of Linux distros here). Is there any reason for keeping : >

RE: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Grover, Andrew
> From: Chris Meadors [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I saw no mention of the ACPI idle problem I see on my Athlons. Is the > acpi=no-idle work around the perminate fix? Fixed. I will be submitting a big ACPI patch to Linus & Alan very soon. Regards -- Andy - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [test-PATCH] Re: [QUESTION] 2.4.x nice level

2001-04-16 Thread george anzinger
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > One rule of optimization is to move any code you can outside the loop. > > > Why isn't the nice_to_ticks calculation done when nice is changed > > > instead of EVERY recalc.? I guess another way to ask this is, who needs

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