Linux NAT questions

2001-05-01 Thread Sim, CT (Chee Tong)
what I am trying to do is this. I have a genuine network, say 1.1.1.x, and my Linux host is on it, as 1.1.1.252 (eth0). I also have a second network at the back of the Linux box, 192.168.200.x, and a web server on that network, 192.168.200.2. The Linux address is 192.168.200.1 on eth1. What I

Unknown HZ value! (2000) Assume 1024.

2001-05-01 Thread Tom Holroyd
Alpha. 2.4.1. Hz = 1024. Uptime > 48.54518 days (low idle). (Subject message from ps and friends.) /proc/uptime: 4400586.27 150439.36 /proc/stat: cpu 371049158 3972370867 8752820 4448994822 (user,nice, system, idle) In .../fs/proc/proc_misc.c:kstat_read_proc(), the cpu line

Re: someody help me out

2001-05-01 Thread Hacksaw
>I am just a beginner in linux programming and I want to write a >script for disconnecting users in cisco router. This would be the wrong list to ask such a question. It is for the discussion of the inner workings of the Linux kernel, not for questions about applications which can be run on a

someody help me out

2001-05-01 Thread Ajay Dangol
Hello all, I am just a beginner in linux programming and I want to write a script for disconnecting users in cisco router.Could anybody help me out. The scenario is like this. I have been using Cisco router2500 and in that we have users connected to it in async port. when

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

2001-05-01 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This patch replaces a wee bit of code vmware wanted in include/linux/skbuff.h > > although I'm guessing it was removed for a reason and vmware should be patched > > to use the new method. > > > > Better to patch vmware

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-05-01 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>Since the official aic7xxx site doesn't carry a patch against 2.4.4 yet >(just 2.4.3) which has cosmetic issues when being patched, I made a >patch against 2.4.4: I took the 2.4.3-aic7xxx-6.1.12 patch, applied to >2.4.4, bumped the version to read -ma1 in EXTRAVERSION, and made a new >patch

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-05-01 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>I guess we'll just have to wait for Justin to come out with the real patch... It's out. -- Justin - 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 Please

Re: New aic7xxx driver locking disk access

2001-05-01 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
> >1. New aic7xxx driver locking disk access The 6.1.5 version of the aic7xxx driver is quite stale. Can you try 6.1.13 from: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/ and see if this clears up your problem? Thanks, Justin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: 2.4.3-ac9/4 - NFS corruption

2001-05-01 Thread Raphael Manfredi
Quoting Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from ml.linux.kernel: :> " " == Raphael Manfredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > An "ls -l" on the file yields: : : > -rw--- 1 ram users 1642491 May 1 00:00 inbox : : > (on the server, and via NFS), which is *abnormal*, since

PATCH: fix mxser driver for MOXA C104/PCI

2001-05-01 Thread Tim Hockin
The attached patch fixes the MOXA driver properly. Indexing is 0 based, so rather than adjust the enum, don't subtract 1 from each index. Also use a for loop for the PCI devices, and up the version number. -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Hahn
> > this has nothing to do with the very specific disk corruption > > being discussed (which has to do with the ide controller, according > > to the most recent rumors.). > > Actually, I think there are 2 problems that have been discussed -- the > disk corruption and a general instability

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-01 Thread Wayne Whitney
In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, Seth wrote: > Because lspci does not display all 256 bytes of pci configuration >information. Umm, "lspci -xxx"? At least, on lspci version 2.1.8 from RedHat 7.1. Wayne - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

How can do to disable the L1 cache in linux ?

2001-05-01 Thread Alex Huang
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Re: Question on including 'math.h' from C runtime...

2001-05-01 Thread Horst von Brand
"Steven J. Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I checked in the archives and did not see a discussion of this > anywhere. I have received some Linux kernel code from a project > that I have inherited and a couple of the drivers are including > math.h from the C library. This being the header file

Re: inserting a Forth-like language into the Linux kernel

2001-05-01 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote: > (kspamd) is the Linux-side wrapper for H3sm C|N>K OK, you owe me a new keyboard. And thanks for new .sig. BTW, Rick, out of curiosity - how many Greencard Lawyers does it take to upgrade the thing to full-blown H1 S? - To unsubscribe from

Question on including 'math.h' from C runtime...

2001-05-01 Thread Steven J. Hill
Greetings. I checked in the archives and did not see a discussion of this anywhere. I have received some Linux kernel code from a project that I have inherited and a couple of the drivers are including math.h from the C library. This being the header file from '/usr/include/math.h' in most

Re: [PATCH][CFT] (updated) ext2 directories in pagecache

2001-05-01 Thread Albert Cranford
Hello Daniel, This combination against 2.4.4 won't allow directories to be moved. Ex: mv a b #fails with I/O error. See attached strace. But with ext2-dir-patch-S4 by itself, mv works as it should. Later, Albert Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Patch is on

How can do to disable the L1 cache in linux ?

2001-05-01 Thread Alex Huang
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inserting a Forth-like language into the Linux kernel

2001-05-01 Thread Rick Hohensee
( H3sm is my 3-stack Forth variant. ) I have a Linux 2.4.0-test10 kernel building and booting nicely with H3sm partially installed as an in-kernel thread ala kswapd, the virtual memory swapper. This means H3sm runs in cooperative multitasking with the Linux schuduler, i.e. it's something of a

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac3

2001-05-01 Thread Mads Martin Jørgensen
* Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [May 01. 2001 18:50]: > This patch is not showing up on ftp.kernel.org. > Can you check that you actually got is pushed? > Perhaps something is busted in the mirroring? ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk:/pub/linux/alan/ -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make

Re: Followup to previous post: Atlon/VIA Instabilities

2001-05-01 Thread Seth Goldberg
Manfred Spraul wrote: > > > So it seems that CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW is simply used to > > enable access to the routines in mmx.c (the athlon-optimized > > routines on CONFIG_K7 kernels), so then it appears that somehow > > this is corrupting memory / not behaving as it should (very > > technical,

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-01 Thread Seth Goldberg
Mark Hahn wrote: > > > And that's exactly what I did :)... I found that ONLY the combination > > of USE_3DNOW and forcing the athlon mmx stuff in (by doing #if 1 in > > results in this wackiness. I should alos repeat that I *DO* see that > > I doubt that USE_3DNOW is causing the problem,

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac3

2001-05-01 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 01 May 2001 18:42:01 -0700, Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This patch is not showing up on ftp.kernel.org. hpa says it is a bandwidth problem in kernel.org, have patience. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

2001-05-01 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This patch replaces a wee bit of code vmware wanted in include/linux/skbuff.h > although I'm guessing it was removed for a reason and vmware should be patched > to use the new method. > Better to patch vmware rather than the kernel. Here's a patch thet should be

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

2001-05-01 Thread David S. Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > --- skbuff.h.orig Tue May 1 18:41:50 2001 > +++ skbuff.hTue May 1 18:41:55 2001 > @@ -244,6 +244,11 @@ > > /* Internal */ > #define skb_shinfo(SKB)((struct skb_shared_info *)((SKB)->end)) > +/* for vmware */ > +static inline

[PATCH] 2.4.4 breaks VMware

2001-05-01 Thread tpepper
Despite VMware's webpage claiming compatibility issues with 2.4.x kernels I'd been using it without any problem until I upgraded to 2.4.4. I couldn't use their precompiled modules of course but compiling to match the running kernel worked fine previously. This patch replaces a wee bit of code

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac3

2001-05-01 Thread Miles Lane
Hi Alan, This patch is not showing up on ftp.kernel.org. Can you check that you actually got is pushed? Perhaps something is busted in the mirroring? Thanks, Miles - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-05-01 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Roger Larsson wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2001 02:43, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Tue, 1 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > > Rik van Riel writes: > > > > Then we will be scanning through memory looking for something to > > > > swap out (otherwise we'd not be in need of

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-05-01 Thread Roger Larsson
On Wednesday 02 May 2001 02:43, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > Rik van Riel writes: > > > Then we will be scanning through memory looking for something to > > > swap out (otherwise we'd not be in need of swap space, right?). > > > At this point we can

How can do to turn off the L1 cache in linux

2001-05-01 Thread Alex Huang
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Re: isa_read/write not available on ppc - solution suggestions ??

2001-05-01 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linus Torvalds writes: > I would suggest the opposite approach instead: make the PPC just support > isa_readx/isa_writex instead. We can certainly do that, no problem. BUT that won't get a token ring pcmcia card working in the newer powerbooks, such as the titanium G4 powerbook, because the

APM idle behaviour

2001-05-01 Thread Richard Gooch
Hi, all. I've been staring at the APM code and trying to figure out some things related to idle behaviour. I'm staring at the code for 2.2.19. My first question is why does cpu_idle() wait for 0.33 seconds of idling before calling acpi_idle() (apm_cpu_idle() in fact)? Why not wait less time,

Re: Compiling modules for kernel 2.4

2001-05-01 Thread Keith Owens
On 1 May 2001 13:11:33 CDT, shreenivasa H V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am having trouble compiling the modules for kernel 2.4. The compilation >doesn't go through, it just goes into each directory and says "nothing to do" >and comes out. The object files are not created. Does your 2.4.4

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-05-01 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 1 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > Rik van Riel writes: > > Then we will be scanning through memory looking for something to > > swap out (otherwise we'd not be in need of swap space, right?). > > At this point we can simply free up swap entries while scanning > > through memory

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-05-01 Thread David S. Miller
Rik van Riel writes: > Then we will be scanning through memory looking for something to > swap out (otherwise we'd not be in need of swap space, right?). > At this point we can simply free up swap entries while scanning > through memory looking for stuff to swap out. Sounds a lot like my

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-05-01 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > The right fix is to reclaim such pages only when we need to. To > disable swap caching when we still have enough swap free would hurt > users who have the spare swap to cope with it. That's easy enough. When we are: 1. almost out of swap and 2.

Re: Meaning of major kernel version number

2001-05-01 Thread george anzinger
Oliver Neukum wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1. May 2001 22:49, Erik Hensema wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A little question which may be a FAQ: what does the major version number > > [1] of the Linux kernel (still) mean? What is the policy on increasing the > > major version (eg. on what basis it is decided

Re: 2.2.19 locks up on SMP

2001-05-01 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > I'll give your patch a spin tomorrow, after I catch some > > zzz's. :-) > > Right you are. And indeed, the tcp-hang patch fixed the problem! Thanks a lot! > FYI I've now put up those patches of which I am aware against 2.2.19 > on > >

reason for VIA performance drop since 2.4.2-ac21

2001-05-01 Thread Jacek Popławski
I have motherboard with VIA MVP3 chipset. I noticed big video slowdown since 2.4.2-ac21. Watching "divx" by avifile with new kernels is impossible, becouse very bad performance. Now, after few hours - I found the reason, and I don't understand it. It has nothing to do with mtrr or K6. In file

Re: [PATCH] Dead keys

2001-05-01 Thread Stian Sletner
* At 2001-05-02T01:12+0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : | The first line makes unadorned [no Shift, Ctrl, Alt] slash | (on my keyboard the key with keytop / has keycode 53 as showkey tells me) | into a dead ASCII slash. The 0d part is for "dead". Well, if I had known this, I could've saved us

Re: Aironet doesn't work

2001-05-01 Thread Francois Gouget
I tried 2.4.4-ac2 this morning. The warning about rx_queue_len is gone :-) but I have one about tx_full_rate: May 1 12:37:25 oleron cardmgr[150]: + Warning: /lib/modules/2.4.4-ac2/kernel/drivers/net/aironet4500_core.o symbol for parameter tx_full_rate not found That's easily solved by

Re: DHCP comiling issues under sparc linux

2001-05-01 Thread David S. Miller
Leif Sawyer writes: > Below is the end of a thread between myself and Ted Lemon > regarding building DHCP under Sparc Linux. > > I'm not well versed in parsing the kernel code to know > what the subtle differences in the different implementations > of this IOCtl, and am looking for some

Re: Breakage of opl3sax cards since 2.4.3 (at least)

2001-05-01 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Tue, 1 May 2001, David Bronaugh wrote: > opl3sax cards have refused to init in Linux with the in-kernel OSS driver > since 2.4.3 at least (last I tested and worked was 2.4.1). I'm pretty sure > this is a kernel issue as it's happened on 2 different machines, one of > which I never goofed

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-05-01 Thread Rik van Riel
On 1 May 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > >> paging in just released 2.4.4, but in previuos kernel, a page that > >> was paged-out, reserves its place in swap even if it is paged-in > >> again, so once you have paged-out all your ram at least once, you > >>

Re: * Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread Frank de Lange
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:00:53PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > Frank, thanks for doing all the legwork to resolve the networking > side of this problem. No problem... I just diff'd the 'old' and 'new' kernel trees. The one which produced the ravenous skb_hungry kernels was for all

Re: [PATCH] Dead keys

2001-05-01 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> The issue here is that the dead keys themselves > are producing the wrong characters. No. If someone without diaeresis key uses the double quote, and attaches dead_diaeresis to it, she probably wants that double quote when it is followed by a space. When programming one needs quotes etc. When

[BUG] pdc20267 and dma timeouts

2001-05-01 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, I am running 2.4.4 with the lvm -0.91 beta7 patches applied on a debian sid base. When I checked my box this morning the follow greeted me on the serial console. The reiserfs errors are caused by the DMA timeout. Note this is a ultra100 controller not supporting raid. hde: timeout

DHCP comiling issues under sparc linux

2001-05-01 Thread Leif Sawyer
Below is the end of a thread between myself and Ted Lemon regarding building DHCP under Sparc Linux. I'm not well versed in parsing the kernel code to know what the subtle differences in the different implementations of this IOCtl, and am looking for some guidance from the appropriate

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-05-01 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:51:55AM +, Ton Hospel wrote: > Resettable counters are evil. Perhaps "evil" should be reserved to describe counters which automatically reset as a side effect of being read. > I really think cisco got this right: from the commandline interface > you can reset

Actual patch for next gen PM interface

2001-05-01 Thread John Fremlin
This is an attempt at a generic PM event interface for the kernel. The design is more or less obvious and was laid out in a previous message. Comments appreciated. Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The entire PM layer for the embedded board I worked on was > > > 3Kbytes. How small

Re: 2.4.4: Kernel crash, possibly tcp related

2001-05-01 Thread David S. Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > See? > > I see! Dave, please, take the second Andrea's patch (appended). > It is really the cleanest one. Thanks a lot Andrea and Alexey. I've applied the patch. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: * Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread David S. Miller
Frank, thanks for doing all the legwork to resolve the networking side of this problem. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Maximum files per Directory

2001-05-01 Thread Andreas Dilger
H. Peter Anvin writes: > Not correct, there can't be more than 2^15 *directories* in a single > directory. I belive this is an ext2 limitation. This is imposed by a number of issues: - EXT2_LINK_MAX=32000 is checked for new subdirectories - ext2 bg_used_dirs_count is a __u16 - inode->i_nlink

Re: * Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread Chris Mason
On Tuesday, May 01, 2001 03:11:58 PM -0700 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can't say for a definite fact that it was reiserfs but I can say for a > definite fact that something fishy happens sometimes. > > If I have a text file open, something.html comes to mind, If I edit it > and save it

Re: reiserfs+lndir problem [was: 2.4.4 SMP: spurious EOVERFLOW"Value too large for defined data type"]

2001-05-01 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:41:52 AM +0200 Daniel Elstner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:03:47 -0400 Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Apparently it's a reiserfs/symlink problem. >> > I tried doing the lndir on an ext2 partition, sources still >> >

Re: isa_read/write not available on ppc - solution suggestions ??

2001-05-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Russell King wrote: > > In which case, can we change the following in IO-mapping.txt please? Oh, sorry. I misread your question. The _return_ value is a cookie. The first argument should basically be the start of a "struct pci_dev" resource entry, but obviously

Re: reiserfs+lndir problem [was: 2.4.4 SMP: spurious EOVERFLOW "Value too large for defined data type"]

2001-05-01 Thread Daniel Elstner
Hi, On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:03:47 -0400 Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apparently it's a reiserfs/symlink problem. > > I tried doing the lndir on an ext2 partition, sources still > > on reiserfs. And it worked just fine! > > Neat, thanks for the extra details. Does that mean you

Breakage of opl3sax cards since 2.4.3 (at least)

2001-05-01 Thread David Bronaugh
OK, cutting to chase: opl3sax cards have refused to init in Linux with the in-kernel OSS driver since 2.4.3 at least (last I tested and worked was 2.4.1). I'm pretty sure this is a kernel issue as it's happened on 2 different machines, one of which I never goofed around with. Usually message is

Re: * Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread David
Can't say for a definite fact that it was reiserfs but I can say for a definite fact that something fishy happens sometimes. If I have a text file open, something.html comes to mind, If I edit it and save it in one rxvt and open it in another rxvt, my changes may not be there. If I save it

Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...]

2001-05-01 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:35:12PM -0400, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:31:12PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > You are proposing an interface that will handle easy cases but blow > > up in the user's face in any hard one. That's poor design, frustrating > > the user

Re: Followup to previous post: Atlon/VIA Instabilities

2001-05-01 Thread Manfred Spraul
> So it seems that CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW is simply used to > enable access to the routines in mmx.c (the athlon-optimized > routines on CONFIG_K7 kernels), so then it appears that somehow > this is corrupting memory / not behaving as it should (very > technical, right?) :)... Do you use any

Re: OnStream USB

2001-05-01 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:58:59PM -0400, Geoffrey Gallaway wrote: > I see that the SCSI version of the drive seems to be supported in linux > but I can only find tidbits of information that don't confirm or deny > this. Listed below are two sites that have some information which seem > to

Re: Maximum files per Directory

2001-05-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > cyrus-imapd i ran into problems. > > At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be > > more files in a directory. > > > > Is this a vfs-Issue or an

* Re: Severe trashing in 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread Frank de Lange
Well, When a puzzled Alexey wondered whether the problems I was seeing with 2.4.4 might be related to a failure to execute 'make clean' before compiling the kernel, I replied in the negative as I *always* clean up before compiling anything. Yet, for the sake of science and such I moved the

Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...]

2001-05-01 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:31:12PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > You are proposing an interface that will handle easy cases but blow > up in the user's face in any hard one. That's poor design, frustrating > the user exactly when he/she most needs help. Yeah, but what is the current method,

Re: isa_read/write not available on ppc - solution suggestions ??

2001-05-01 Thread Russell King
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:19:33PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Russell King wrote: > > Talking around this issue, is there any chance of getting the > > official use of the first parameter to ioremap documented in > > Documentation/IO-mapping.txt please? There appears to

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
> reserved.But if you did such a hot swap you would have "bigger > fish to fry" in a HA application... I mean, none of your data would be > there! You need to realise this has happened and do the right thing. Since it could be an md raid array the hotswap is not fatal.

Linux 2.4.4-ac3

2001-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org 2.4.4-ac3 o Fix hang on boot with SMP (Andrea Arcangeli) | and fixes a few more uglies too o

Re: isa_read/write not available on ppc - solution suggestions ??

2001-05-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Russell King wrote: > > Talking around this issue, is there any chance of getting the > official use of the first parameter to ioremap documented in > Documentation/IO-mapping.txt please? There appears to be > confusion as to whether it is: > > a) PCI bus address > b) CPU

Re: Maximum files per Directory

2001-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
> cyrus-imapd i ran into problems. > At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be > more files in a directory. > > Is this a vfs-Issue or an ext2-issue? Bit of both. You exceeded the max link count, and your performance would have been abominable too. cyrus should

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-01 Thread Eric Z. Ayers
Alan Cox writes: > > Does this package also tell the kernel to "re-establish" a > > reservation for all devices after a bus reset, or at least inform a > > user level program? Finding out when there has been a bus reset has > > been a stumbling block for me. > > You cannot rely on a bus

Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch

2001-05-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 1 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > Oh bother, you're right of course. We need some kind of standardized > > macro for indirecting through a potentially unaligned pointer. > > No we don't - because it already exists. > > It's called "get_unaligned()". >

Re: Maximum files per Directory

2001-05-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <27280.988750082@hades> By author:Andreas Rogge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > While trying to create 100.000 (in words: one hundred thousand) Mailboxes > with > cyrus-imapd i ran into problems. > At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling

Re: Meaning of major kernel version number

2001-05-01 Thread Oliver Neukum
On Tuesday, 1. May 2001 22:49, Erik Hensema wrote: > Hi, > > A little question which may be a FAQ: what does the major version number > [1] of the Linux kernel (still) mean? What is the policy on increasing the > major version (eg. on what basis it is decided the next kernel isn't going > to be

Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch

2001-05-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 1 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Oh bother, you're right of course. We need some kind of standardized > macro for indirecting through a potentially unaligned pointer. No we don't - because it already exists. It's called "get_unaligned()". Linus - To unsubscribe

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-01 Thread James Bottomley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Does this package also tell the kernel to "re-establish" a reservation > for all devices after a bus reset, or at least inform a user level > program? Finding out when there has been a bus reset has been a > stumbling block for me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > You cannot

Maximum files per Directory

2001-05-01 Thread Andreas Rogge
While trying to create 100.000 (in words: one hundred thousand) Mailboxes with cyrus-imapd i ran into problems. At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be more files in a directory. Is this a vfs-Issue or an ext2-issue? Andreas Rogge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Meaning of major kernel version number

2001-05-01 Thread Erik Hensema
Hi, A little question which may be a FAQ: what does the major version number [1] of the Linux kernel (still) mean? What is the policy on increasing the major version (eg. on what basis it is decided the next kernel isn't going to be 2.6 but 3.0)? I'm asking this question because I think there

Re: DPT I2O RAID and Linux I2O

2001-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
> Is this I2O implementation supporting PCI devices ? Yes > Yesterday I post something about that, I have a CompactPCI computer with 2 > computers in it. One master and one slave. The slave one, is has a non > transparent pci-to-pci bridge : DEC (INTEL) 21554, wich support I2O > messaging, I

Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch

2001-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
> Oh bother, you're right of course. We need some kind of standardized > macro for indirecting through a potentially unaligned pointer. It can get_unaligned() - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load

2001-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
> OK I found the explanation now. The reason ksoftirqd was deadlocking on > me without the explicit clear of SCHED_YIELD in p->policy is because a > softirq event was pending at the time of the first kernel_thread() and > then while returning from the syscall it was so taking the ret_from_irq Oh

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
> Does this package also tell the kernel to "re-establish" a > reservation for all devices after a bus reset, or at least inform a > user level program? Finding out when there has been a bus reset has > been a stumbling block for me. You cannot rely on a bus reset. Imagine hot swap disks on an

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
> I'm wary of this, because Linus has stated that the current "struct > pci_dev" is really meant to be a generic thing, and it might change to > "struct dev" (now that we've renamed the old "struct dev" to "struct > netdev"). It is already being (ab)used this way. Its an isa pnp device in 2.4.*.

Still hudge sound problem on 2.4.4-ac2

2001-05-01 Thread FAVRE Gregoire
Hello, I don't know what have changed since 2.4.4-pre6 or 2.4.3-ac13 which are the last kernel I had tested before 2.4.4 which introduced that sound problem... I have a sound card, but I don't load the modules for it: I just use my DVB-s card from Hauppauge to watch TV or playing DVD. It

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Hahn
> And that's exactly what I did :)... I found that ONLY the combination > of USE_3DNOW and forcing the athlon mmx stuff in (by doing #if 1 in > results in this wackiness. I should alos repeat that I *DO* see that I doubt that USE_3DNOW is causing the problem, but rather when you USE_3DNOW,

Re: OnStream USB

2001-05-01 Thread Matthew Dharm
I'm the owner of that first URL. The driver works for me. Make sure you enable the "Freecom USB/ATAPI" support under the USB Mass Storage option in the kernel configuration. Note that this is only supported for 2.4.x series kernels. Matt On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:58:59PM -0400, Geoffrey

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-01 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi :) And that's exactly what I did :)... I found that ONLY the combination of USE_3DNOW and forcing the athlon mmx stuff in (by doing #if 1 in mmx.c) results in this wackiness. I should alos repeat that I *DO* see that wierdness you described with 3DNOW (in my case, it was that kde locks up

Re: isa_read/write not available on ppc - solution suggestions ??

2001-05-01 Thread Russell King
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:22:39AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I bet that the patch will be smaller too. It's a simple case of > - do the ioremap() _once_ at bootup, save the result in a static >variable somewhere. > - implement the (one-liner) isa_readx/isa_writex functions. > > On

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-01 Thread Seth Goldberg
Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Seth Goldberg wrote: > > I Should clarify that this is the KX133A chipset. > > No such thing. Surely you mean KT133A. No X. > Surely :)... That's what sleep deprivation does to you ;). --S - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Test. Please ignore.

2001-05-01 Thread Seth Goldberg
Wow. My very first pseudo-flame. Thank you for making me feel welcome ;). --S Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Seth Goldberg wrote: > > > Test. > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > More majordomo

Re: bandwidth

2001-05-01 Thread Russell King
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:53:12PM +0200, J . A . Magallon wrote: > What you have todo is to learn how to configure your mailer to display > headers you want. elm and balsa can do it. Do not know about Outlook... > (btw, it is curious, mailing to lkml with outlook...) Outlook express is

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-01 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Seth Goldberg wrote: > I Should clarify that this is the KX133A chipset. No such thing. Surely you mean KT133A. No X. -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH] Dead keys

2001-05-01 Thread Stian Sletner
* At 2001-05-01T21:20+0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : | I think the main reason why it shouldn't be applied is that it changes | something. This keyboard stuff is unbelievably complicated. Many people | and distributions have wrestled with it and have got it working for them. | When you change

Re: isa_read/write not available on ppc - solution suggestions ??

2001-05-01 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:52:30AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > Personally I'd rather not have arch dependent macros in the driver, but I > know there is a good reason why the isa_read/write functions were > introduced in the first place. I did that because I was lazy to use ioremap

Re: [PATCH] Dead keys

2001-05-01 Thread Andries . Brouwer
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 1 20:05:26 2001 Normally, you wouldn't notice this too much, since the compose rules are set up in such a way that you can use the dead keys to compose what you would expect, anyway. However, if you were to press a dead key and

Re: [PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac2

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Hahn
> + * Make sure the child gets the SCHED_YIELD flag cleared, even if > + * it inherited it, to avoid deadlocks. can anyone think of a reason that SCHED_YIELD *should* be inherited? I think it's just oversight that fork doesn't clear it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

OnStream USB

2001-05-01 Thread Geoffrey Gallaway
Hello, I am considering getting an OnStream USB tape backup drive. I want the USB version because I have about 4 machines all on different networks that need to be backed up. Using USB would allow me to move the unit from one machine to another without rebooting the machine. I see that the SCSI

[PATCH] strtok -> strsep (The Easy Cases)

2001-05-01 Thread Rene Scharfe
Hello, the patch at the bottom does the bulk job of strtok replacement. It's a very boring patch, containing easy cases, only. It became a bit big, too, but I trust you can digest it nevertheless. It's made against kernel version 2.4.4. What is the benefit of getting rid of strtok? It is for

Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability

2001-05-01 Thread Seth Goldberg
Will Newton wrote: I Should clarify that this is the KX133A chipset. In any event, there are a bunch of people having this problem (check out the list archives). I just upgraded to this IWILL board from an Abit KA7-RAID (which worked with no problem), so I'm just trying tofgure it out :)

[PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac2

2001-05-01 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 05.01 Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > > > > > OK works here ... > > > > Me too. > > > > Perhaps this reschedules ok in UP but kinda fails in SMP... > > Great. And see Andrea's SCHED_YIELD explanation in the "sluggish" > mail thread. Well, I didn't

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