On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
> Sounds to me like you really don't get the whole concept of permissions
> and that it's how Unix works.
>
> Besides, why should the kernel do anythign different for you when there
> are userland tools that you
Someone else here traced the process flags of a FP-intensive program
on a machine before and after it is put in the faulty FPU state. He
periodically sampled /proc/pid/stat while the program was running.
He found that PF_USEDFPU was always set before the machine was broken.
After he found that
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2001 14:44 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > So let him log in as root, do everything as root and be cracked
> > like a bloody moron he is. Next?
>
> come on, it's hard for me as it's hard for you. not everybody
> expect a computer t
Sorry, sorry.
The lists are open.
Please tell us if mailman still bothers.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:46:53PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> > "Jens" == Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Jens> First one gets a mail saying that the mail sent is queued for
> Jens> moderator appr
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:44:17PM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> with multi-user concept, conceptually there should be an
> administrator to create account, grant permission, etc.
> no my sister doesn't want that. i bet there are billions of
> people not willing to learn how to use a computer,
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:35:43PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, AJ Lewis wrote:
>
> > It is unfortunate that this could not have been resolved in a more mature
> > manner. Saying "I don't like the way somebody is doing something. I won't
> > bother to talk to them about it,
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:48:19PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19 2001, AJ Lewis wrote:
> > It is unfortunate that this could not have been resolved in a more mature
> > manner. Saying "I don't like the way somebody is doing something. I won't
> > bother to talk to them about it, I'll
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip long wankage]
Equivalent of your "patch" can be achieved by making login(1) and
friends let everyone in as root without asking password. End of
story. If you don't understand even _that_ - you don't understand
the bloody basics of the system a
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:44:17PM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > What, makes it hard to write viruses for it? Awww, poor skr1pt k1dd13z...
> >
> > And would that "use" by any chance include access to network?
> >
> > So let him log in as root,
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 08:00:17AM -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
> I neglected to cc you for this small patch I sent just a few minutes ago.
I have several megs more of patches for Linus / Alan pending and this would
also be part of them. Just to avoid driving Linus & Alan completly into
insanity I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> What I would like to avoid is scenario like
> Maintainers of filesystems with large private inodes: Why would we
> separate them? We would only waste memory, since the other filesystems
> stay in ->u and keep it large.
> Maintainers of the rest of filesystems: Since th
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use
>for personal/casual win user.
>
>i found out that one of the big problem with linux and most
>other operating system is the multi-user thing.
>
>i think, no personal computer user should know
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>
> hi,
>
> a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use
> for personal/casual win user.
>
> i found out that one of the big problem with linux and most
> other operating system is the multi-user thing.
>
> i think, no personal computer user should know a
Hello,
someone found out that in Linux adjtime()'s correction is limited to
something like 2000s (signed 32bit microseconds for i386). This is not
a true problem, but for those who desperately need/want it, I have a
patch proposal (incomplete, but essential) to implement the full range
(maybe
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> What, makes it hard to write viruses for it? Awww, poor skr1pt k1dd13z...
>
>
> And would that "use" by any chance include access to network?
>
>
> So let him log in as root, do everything as root and be cracked
> like a bloody moron he is. Next?
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> grep '__BUG__' System.map | cut -d\ -f3
Nice try, but nothing prevents even a correct compiler from including it in
System.map even though it wouldn't have been called.
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Hi!
Problem description:
* drivers/ide/ide.c assumes the IDE controller is mapped in such a way
that it can access it by "hardcoded" I/O commands (IN_BYTE/OUT_BYTE)
* drivers/ide/ide.c assumes that polled ide/atapi transfers should be
done the way a PC would
* drivers/ide/Makefil
There is a bug in both the C version and asm version of my rwsem
and it is the slow path where I forgotten to drop the _irq part
from the spinlock calls ;) Silly bug. (I inherit it also in the
asm fast path version because I started hacking the same C slow path)
I catched it now because it locks
> > The following patch moves the __GFP_IO check down to prune_icache(),
> > allowing !__GFP_IO allocations to free clean unused inodes.
>
> Forget about this.
>
> We may have to write quota information back to disk while freeing the
> inode and then we are fucked.
Also you are looking at the
Roger Gammans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> It's entirley possible the problem will solve itself
> when/if people like myself who hang around the edge of
> kernel dev , find their favourite piece of kernel has
> no maintainer - and volunteer.
>
> So Eric solution may get new maintainers to appear for
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use
> for personal/casual win user.
>
> i found out that one of the big problem with linux and most
> other operating system is the multi-user thing.
What, makes it hard to write viruses for
As it seems my original Messages didn't get through, a Repost here:
Original Message
Subject: Re: AHA-154X/1535 not recognized any more
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:07:51 +0200 (MEST)
From: Markus Schaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: Markus Schaber <[EMA
As my original message seems to have disappeared, here a Repost:
Original Message
Subject: Re: AHA-154X/1535 not recognized any more
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:28:14 +0200 (MEST)
From: Markus Schaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rafael E. Herrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: Markus Schab
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 01:49:16PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Then you're going to conjure up maintainers for the code which is currently
> > > orphaned?
> >
> > That's a *really* hard problem. I don't
How about correcting the needed gcc version in Documentation/Changes?
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > after having had trouble with compilation due to old gcc version, i have
> > updated to gcc 3.0 and received the following error:
>
> 2.4.4pre6 only builds with gcc 2.96. If you apply
How can i implement "Event and Semaphore" at kernel leverl(in any driver) in
Linux like
KeInitializeEvent
KeResetEvent
KeInitializeSemaphore
KeReleaseSemaphore
KeWaitForSingleObject
given in NT.
I wud appriciate if there is any suggestion or guidence.
Thanx & Regards
Rajeev Nigam
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On Tuesday 24 April 2001 11:40, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Tim Jansen wrote:
> > The Linux Device Registry (devreg) is a kernel patch that adds a device
> > database in XML format to the /proc filesystem. It collects all
> OH SHIT!! ^^^
> Why don't you just add postscript output to /proc?
XML w
hi,
a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use
for personal/casual win user.
i found out that one of the big problem with linux and most
other operating system is the multi-user thing.
i think, no personal computer user should know about what's
an operating system idea of a use
Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> short version:
>this is the international crypto patch, which is built outside of
>the kernel source tree. you don't even have to reboot (unless your
>kernel didn't have loop devices enabled, or some other unthought
>situation exists... :)
>
> As a
I've noticed the same for 2.4.x kernels for quite a while back The first
appearence in logs/kernel is for 2.4.2-ac17.
Afaik I haven't noticed any resultant problems so I presume its just some
over-informative debugging code??
Cheers,
Matt Johnston.
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:32, Byron Albert
time prime before x
real1m23.535s
user0m40.550s
sys 0m42.980s
/proc/mtrr before x
reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xfd80 (4056MB), size= 4MB: write-combining, count=1
time prime after x
real0m48.732s
user0m41.070s
sys 0m
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:18:57PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote:
> > There's also AthlonLinux http://athlonlinux.org/ and AthlonGCC
> > http://athlonlinux.org/agcc/about.shtml, but I have no experience with those
> > (I have no Athlon ;( ).
>
> A warning a
Hello Doug,
Monday, April 23, 2001, 9:54:35 PM, you wrote:
DL> Both B and C are cases of the whole chip acting flat busted. I would suspect
DL> that possibly Win2k drivers set this thing up some way that we don't recover
DL> from. Is there any pattern like maybe "I listen to X in Win2k then re
Steven Walter wrote:
>
> It would seem that I have a modem (hardware based, not winmodem) of
> PCI_CLASS_COMMUNICATION_OTHER. This, unfortunately, prevents it from
> being automagically detected by the serial driver, which only looks for
> devices of
>
> I've fixed this here merely by adding a
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:39:22AM -0700, you [Joseph Carter] claimed:
>
> A warning about agcc, I've discovered that it does not always compile code
> quite the way you expect it. This is unsurprising given it's based on
> pgcc which is known to change alignments on you in ways that sometimes
>
On 24 Apr 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >> Half an hour? If it takes more than about 5 minutes for JFFS2 I'd
> >> be very surprised.
> >
> > What's stopping you?
> > You _are_ JFFS maintainer, aren't you?
>
> So is this the start t
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:33:13AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> *grin* Fun ain't it... Try it on a dual athlon or P4 and the answer may come
> out differently.
compile with -mathlon and the compiler then should generate (%%eax) if that's
faster even if the sem is a constant, that's a compiler is
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:25:23AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > I'd love to hear this sequence. Certainly regression testing never generated
> > this sequence yet but yes that doesn't mean anything. Note that your slow
> > path is very different than mine.
>
> One of my testcases fell over on
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, george anzinger wrote:
> "Robert H. de Vries" wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 23 April 2001 19:45, you wrote:
> >
> > > By the way, is the user land stuff the same for all "arch"s?
> >
> > Not if you plan to handle the CPU cycle counter in user space. That is at
> > least what
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:18:57PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote:
> There's also AthlonLinux http://athlonlinux.org/ and AthlonGCC
> http://athlonlinux.org/agcc/about.shtml, but I have no experience with those
> (I have no Athlon ;( ).
A warning about agcc, I've discovered that it does not always comp
Hi Al,
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
>> Half an hour? If it takes more than about 5 minutes for JFFS2 I'd
>> be very surprised.
>
> What's stopping you?
> You _are_ JFFS maintainer, aren't you?
So is this the start to change all filesystems in 2.4? I am not sure
we should do that
Hello Doug,
Monday, April 23, 2001, 9:54:35 PM, you wrote:
DL> Eugene Kuznetsov wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am a happy owner of Intel D815EEA2 mother board. This board
>> comes with integrated AC-97 audio. When I try to load i810_audio
>> driver for it, driver identifies the device as
>>
> I see what you meant here and no, I'm not lucky, I thought about that. gcc x
> 2.95.* seems smart enough to produce (%%eax) that you hardcoded when the
> sem is not a constant (I'm not clobbering another register, if it does it's
> stupid and I consider this a compiler mistake).
It is a compil
> I'd love to hear this sequence. Certainly regression testing never generated
> this sequence yet but yes that doesn't mean anything. Note that your slow
> path is very different than mine.
One of my testcases fell over on it...
> I don't feel the need of any xchg to enforce additional serializ
Alex Riesen wrote:
> Should it be fixed? And, maybe the other define's around
> should be fixed too?
The comment line above actually says it all. The defines
have been added because at the time of writing this file
rw semaphores did not work in a module, so they were
replaced with mutexes using
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:33:00AM -0400, you [Tom Leete] claimed:
>
> The build problen with Athlon+SMP was solved by AA's patch. I had tested a
> similar patch on UP over 2.4.0-test and previous 2.4 releases with nary a
> problem.
>
> This may be too experimental for your purposes, but FWIW I'm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> What's stopping you? You _are_ JFFS maintainer,
> aren't you?
It already uses...
#define JFFS2_INODE_INFO(i) (&i->u.jffs2_i)
It's trivial to switch over when the size of the inode union goes below the
size of struct jffs2_inode_info. Until then, I'd just be wasti
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:56:11AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> | +: "+m" (sem->count), "+a" (sem)
^^ I think you were comenting on
the +m not +a ok
>
> >From what I've been told,
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Oh, for crying out loud. All it takes is half an hour per filesystem.
>
> Half an hour? If it takes more than about 5 minutes for JFFS2 I'd be very
> surprised.
What's stopping you?
You _are_ JFFS maintainer, aren
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Al posted a patch to the NFS code which removes nfs_inode_info from the
> inode union. Since it is (AFAIK) the largest member of the union, we
> have just saved 24 bytes per inode (hfs_inode_info is also rather large).
> If we removed hfs_inode_info
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Note that the generic list structure already has support for "batching".
> It only does it for multiple adds right now (see the "list_splice"
> merging code), but there is nothing to stop people from doing it for
> multiple deletions too. The code is som
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Oh, for crying out loud. All it takes is half an hour per filesystem.
Half an hour? If it takes more than about 5 minutes for JFFS2 I'd be very
surprised.
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Tim Jansen wrote:
>
> The Linux Device Registry (devreg) is a kernel patch that adds a device
> database in XML format to the /proc filesystem. It collects all information
OH SHIT!! ^^^
Why don't you just add postscript output to /proc?
> about the system's physical devices, creates pers
Just if you are interrested in Linux startup, you may have a look
at gujin/vmlinuz.[ch]:
Howto (with changelog at end):
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=1989&group_id=15465
Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15465&release_id=18235
Discussion For
On Tue, Apr 24 2001, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> > You wouldn't happen to have 4kB ext2 filesystems on those?
>
> Sure I do.
>
> > When ext2 mounts, it sets the soft blocksize to that then, I would expect
> > this to give at least some benefit over using 1kB blocks (as your IDE
> > partition otherwise
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:58:58AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24 2001, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> > There are enough partitions to see a clear pattern: Those with mounted ext2
> > filesystems perform better. Umounting them does not harm, they just need to
> > have been mounted once. reiser
It may be possible that this is not the good choice...
but u can try ... schedule_timeout(timeout) function see kernel/sched.c for
more details about this function
Amol
Rajeev Nigam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/24/2001 03:29:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Amol Lad/HSS)
Subje
Hi,
I want to look into this problem. Its seems to be very interesting. But I
was not following the thread from the beginning (and I mistakely deleted all
these mails :( .. ).. I hope you won't mind answering following questions...
1) you are doing this on an MP or a uniprocessor ?
2) I
Rajeev Nigam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/24/2001 03:29:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Amol Lad/HSS)
Subject: Delay Function
What function i have to use to put a delay in a driver at kernel mode
between reading from and writing to com port.
Looking forward for ur help.
Tha
> Ok I finished now my asm optimized rwsemaphores and I improved a little my
> spinlock based one but without touching the icache usage.
And I can break it. There's a very good reason the I changed __up_write() to
use CMPXCHG instead of SUBL. I found a sequence of operations that locked up
on thi
On Tue, Apr 24 2001, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> I get it. But not over the whole disk.
> Doing a read speed measurement on /dev/hda, I constantly get ~16 MB/s.
> Not bad, but less than I'd expect. Measuring single partitions, some show
> the same, some show significantly more, 26MB/s--18MB/s, depending
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:54:10PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> > - extern void __buggy_fxsr_alignment(void);
> > - __buggy_fxsr_alignment();
> > + extern void
>__BUG__task_struct__data_is_not_properly_all
What function i have to use to put a delay in a driver at kernel mode
between reading from and writing to com port.
Looking forward for ur help.
Thanx & Regards
Rajeev Nigam
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Hi,
mirabilos wrote:
> > > It whould nice also if we include the type of the license (GPL,...).
> > > This for a fast parsing (and maybe also to replace the few lines
> > > of license)
> > Is there any kernel code that isn't GPLed?
> It must not, due to the GPL viral effect.
Well, would it be p
Hi, again
i do not know whether it may be important, but the warning
makes me anyway curios.
In 2.4.3-ac13 the compiler says that init_rwsem in the
usbdevice_fs.h is redefined. It was previously defined in a .ver-file.
/*
* sigh. rwsemaphores do not (yet) work from modules
*/
#define rw_semap
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:11:15AM +0200, Paolo Castagna wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm an Italian student and I'm doing a Master Thesis on TCP rate
> control.
You have already posted this very same message to
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and:
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lists. If you don't get reply f
At 05:58 PM 4/23/01 +0200, you wrote:
>>On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:26:27PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>>>last entry should not have a trailing comma.
>>Sadly not. This isn't a gcc thing: ANSI says that trailing comma is ok (K&R
>>Second edition, A8.7 - pg 218 &219 in my copy)
>
>You are right, I j
Hi,
I'm an Italian student and I'm doing a Master Thesis on TCP rate
control.
TCP rate control is a new technique for transparently augmenting
end-to-end TCP performance by controlling the sending rate of a TCP
source. The sending rate of a TCP source is determined by its window
size, the roun
Hi,
I want to look into this problem. Its seems to be very interesting. But I
was not following the thread from the beginning (and I mistakely deleted all
these mails :( .. ).. I hope you won't mind answering following questions...
1) you are doing this on an MP or a uniprocessor ?
2) I wa
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> I'm sure you've run across this one:
>
> http://netfilter.samba.org/security-fix/
>
> I'd like to know how official this patch is, ie how
> well checked out?
Hi Dale,
The preferred patch is available, and has been tested (several
new te
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> return (waitall ? len : min(sk->rcvlowat, len)) ? : 1;
>
> To be strictly correct the second expression (between '?' and ':' )
> should not be omitted (all you guys already know that ofcourse).
It's a GCC extension. From Documentation/DocBoo
"Mike A. Harris" wrote:
>
> Would the current state of athlon support be considered stable?
> I've got a colleague interested in getting a dual athlon box, and
> I'll be making the decision as to what hardware to purchase. I'm
> wondering is dual Athlon viable for a business solution right
> now
Hello,
SUMMARY:
Netgear FA311TX with natsemi.o driver fails when set_power_state(0x100,
APM_STATE_READY) is called.
DESCRIPTION:
I have been trying to figure out why my Netgear FA311TX would stop seeing
packets on the lan when an X server quit. I have traced the problem
through the VT code and
"Manfred Spraul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Well looking a little more closely than I did last night it looks like
> > access_process_vm (called from ptrace) can cause what amounts to a
> > page fault at pretty arbitrary times.
>
> It's also used for several /proc/ files.
>
> I remember th
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