On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:40:13AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
I was only talking about when you get the pci_map_sg failed because
you have not 3 but 300 scsi disks connected to your system and you are
writing to all them at the same time allocating zillons of pte, and one
of your drivers
Getting a list of all ioctls in the tree, along with types of their arguments
would be a great start. Anyone willing to help with that?
% man 2 ioctl_list
gives a very outdated list. Collecting the present list is trivial
but time-consuming. If anyone does I would be happy if he also
sent me
On Sun, 20 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Getting a list of all ioctls in the tree, along with types of their arguments
would be a great start. Anyone willing to help with that?
% man 2 ioctl_list
gives a very outdated list. Collecting the present list is trivial
but
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Russell King wrote:
I still see read()/write() being a pass any crap interface. The
implementer of the target for read()/write() will probably still be
a driver which will need to decode what its given, whether its in
ASCII or binary.
And driver writers are already
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pavel Machek) wrote on 19.05.01 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think that plan9 uses something different -- they have ttyS0 and
ttyS0ctl. This would leave us with problem how do I get handle to
ttyS0ctl when I only have handle to ttyS0?
I've seen this question several times in
On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400,
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete
and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such
that it can be passed directly to printk like
printk(version);
On 20 May 2001, Kai Henningsen wrote:
I've seen this question several times in this thread. I haven't seen the
obvious answer, though.
Have a new system call:
ctlfd = open_device_control_fd(fd);
If fd is something that doesn't have a control interface (say, it already
is a
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:12:34PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:40:13AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
I was only talking about when you get the pci_map_sg failed because
you have not 3 but 300 scsi disks connected to your system and you are
writing to all them
Andries, I wouldn't call it trivial.
I am a mathematician. Definition of trivial in this case:
No intelligence required, just patience and careful work.
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DMA-mapping.txt assumes that it cannot fail.
DMA-mapping.txt is wrong. Both pci_map_sg and pci_map_single failed if
they returned zero. You either have to drop the skb or to try again later
if they returns zero.
Andrea
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DMA-mapping.txt assumes that it cannot fail.
DMA-mapping.txt is wrong. Both pci_map_sg and pci_map_single failed if
they returned zero. You either have to drop the skb or to try again later
if they returns zero.
Well this is news to me. No
On Sunday 20 May 2001 15:40, Alexander Viro wrote:
ctlfd = open_device_control_fd(fd);
If fd is something that doesn't have a control interface (say, it already
is a control filehandle), this returns an appropriate error code.
It may have several. Which one?
That's why I proposed using
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Tim Jansen wrote:
That's why I proposed using multi-stream files. With a syscall like
fd2 = open_substream(fd, somename)
You also have streams thay are related to many device nodes at once. Sorry.
you could have several control streams and also be prepared if you want
Alexander Viro wrote:
On 20 May 2001, Kai Henningsen wrote:
I've seen this question several times in this thread. I haven't seen the
obvious answer, though.
Have a new system call:
ctlfd = open_device_control_fd(fd);
If fd is something that doesn't have a control interface
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:05:20AM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
[ cc'ed to l-k ]
DMA-mapping.txt assumes that it cannot fail.
DMA-mapping.txt is wrong. Both pci_map_sg and pci_map_single failed if
they returned zero. You either have to drop the skb or to
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
It may have several. Which one?
Can you explain better this?
Example: console. You want to be able to pass font changes. I'm
less than sure that putting them on the same channel as, e.g.,
keyboard mapping changes is a good idea. We can do it,
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Matthias Andree wrote:
eth1: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0005 media 18.
It looks like I found a workaround which may help you debugging, if new
questions arise, please ask. Willing to help so this issue can be
resolved for Linux 2.2.20.
1. I'm compiling my eth drivers
Alexander Viro wrote:
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
It may have several. Which one?
Can you explain better this?
Example: console. You want to be able to pass font changes. I'm
less than sure that putting them on the same channel as, e.g.,
keyboard mapping changes is
Hello
My name is Calin
I have a Cx 486/66 with 12 Megs of ram AST computer
gcc 2.95.3, glibc 2.1.3, make 3.79.1 binutils 2.11 ??
Problems:
1. When I try to run multiple (2) compilations on a
2.4.4 kernel usually one
of them dies -- if it's gcc - signal 11 , if it's sh
or rarely make -
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
Face it, we _already_ have more than one side band.
This does not imply it's necessarily a good idea.
We are comparing
echo 9600 /proc/self/fd/0/speed (or /dev/ttyS0/speed)
echo 8 /proc/self/fd/0/bits (or /dev/ttyS0/bits)
with
echo
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The dependencies in CML1 are (supposed to
be) absolute - the 'advisory' dependencies you're adding are arguably a
useful feature, but please don't make it possible to confuse the two, and
please do make sure it's possible to
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:45:07AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
It may have several. Which one?
Can you explain better this?
Example: console. You want to be able to pass font changes. I'm
less than sure that putting them on the same
On Sun, 20 May 2001 11:18:56 -0400,
Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The dependencies in CML1 are (supposed to
be) absolute - the 'advisory' dependencies you're adding are arguably a
useful feature, but please don't make
Hi,
I'm trying to impelemnt a lightweight network filesystem and ran into
trouble implementing lookup, permissions and open.
The protocol requires me to specify open mode in it's open command. The
open mode has 4 bits: read, write, append and execute. But I can't tell
execution from read in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I don't understand this request. I have no concept of `advisory'
dependencies. What are you talking about? Is my documentation
horribly unclear?
By 'dependency' I refer to the case where the value of one symbol is derived
entirely from, or the range of possible
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On one hand you have dependencies which are present to make life easier for
Aunt Tillie, by refraining from confusing her with strange questions to
which the answer is _probably_ 'no'. Like the question of whether she has
an IDE controller on her MVME
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:29:49AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
I'm not sure why that helps. I didn't put it in as a trick or
anything though. I put it in because it didn't seem like a
good idea to ever have more cleaned pages than free pages at a
time when we're yammering for help.. so I
On Sun, 20 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob Østergaard wrote:
Face it, we _already_ have more than one side band.
Wouldn't it be natural to
write(fd, control type)
write(fd, control information)
read(fd, reply)
Only one control file for all controls a device understands
That's
Alexander Viro wrote:
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
Face it, we _already_ have more than one side band.
This does not imply it's necessarily a good idea.
We are comparing
echo 9600 /proc/self/fd/0/speed (or /dev/ttyS0/speed)
echo 8 /proc/self/fd/0/bits (or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
There are no `advisory' dependencies in CML2. They're all absolute.
What you call an `advisory' dependency would be simulated by having a
policy symbol for Aunt Tillie mode and writing constraints like this:
require AUNT_TILLIE implies FOO = BAR
This is exactly
At 3:37 AM -0600 2001-05-20, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Jonathan Lundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 10:42 AM +0200 2001-05-19, Kai Henningsen wrote:
Jeff Garzik's ethtool
extension at least tells me the PCI bus/dev/fcn, though, and from
that I can write a userland mapping
At 2:16 AM +1200 2001-05-21, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:36:14AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
I know from system documentation, or can figure out once and for
all by experimentation, the correspondence between PCI
bus/dev/fcn and physical locations. Jeff's
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
How about reading from them? You are forcing restriction that may make
sense in some cases, but doesn't look good for everything.
exec 3/dev/ttyS0/ioctl
exec 43
echo speed 3
cat 4
exec 3-
exec 4-
Can you make a counter example where
I have a Cx 486/66 with 12 Megs of ram AST computer
gcc 2.95.3, glibc 2.1.3, make 3.79.1 binutils 2.11 ??
Problems:
1. When I try to run multiple (2) compilations on a
2.4.4 kernel usually one
of them dies -- if it's gcc - signal 11 , if it's sh
looks like an out-of-memory (OOM) kill.
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 03:49:58PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
they returned zero. You either have to drop the skb or to try again later
if they returns zero.
BTW, pci_map_single is not a nice interface, it cannot return bus
address 0, so once we start the fixage it is probably better to
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 03:49:58PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
they returned zero. You either have to drop the skb or to try again later
if they returns zero.
BTW, pci_map_single is not a nice interface, it cannot return bus
address 0, so once we start the
I'm implementing start_thread for the VAX port and am wondering does
start_thread have to return to load_elf_binary? I'm working on the init
thread and what is happening is it is returning the whole way back to the
execve caller .. which I know shouldn't happen.
so I suppose what I'm
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:21:18AM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Would it not be sufficient to define a machine-specific
macro which queries it for error? On x86 it would be:
#define BUS_ADDR_IS_ERR(addr) ((addr) == 0)
that would be more flexible at least, however
The attached .config file created a working kernel
for 2.4.2. Now, with the one compiled from
2.4.5pre2aa1, it only gives kernel panic during boot
with the following message:
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idel task
In idle task -- not syncing
This happened on LX164 with AlphaBIOS
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
I can't find *any* pci_map_single() in the 2.4.4-ac9 tree
which can fail, BTW.
I assume you mean that no one single caller of pci_map_single is
checking if it failed or not (because all pci_map_single can fail).
No. Most of the pci_map_single() implementations
Obviously there has to be some standard base
with which to work, especially for computer language
keywords as these can't be converted due to name
clashes. What would be cool is to pick a better base
language than English that everyone would have to
learn to use computers. This is especially
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:54:16AM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
No. Most of the pci_map_single() implementations just
use virt_to_bus()/virt_to_phys(). [..]
then you are saying that on the platforms without an iommu the pci_map_*
cannot fail, of course, furthmore even a missing pci_unmap
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dave Airlie wrote:
I'm implementing start_thread for the VAX port and am wondering does
start_thread have to return to load_elf_binary? I'm working on the
init thread and what is happening is it is returning the whole way
back to the execve caller .. which I know
Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
We have ~180 first-order ioctl() methods. Several (my guess would be
Hehe. I suppose you already know about the way strace (@sourceforge)
kind of automatically tries to figure out the args for the common
ones?
[...]
--
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 03:49:58PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
they returned zero. You either have to drop the skb or to try again later
if they returns zero.
BTW, pci_map_single is not a nice interface, it cannot return bus
address 0,
who says?
A value of
Those of you who have become confused about the current argument over CML2
should read this...
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
After the discussion of MAC and SCSI config options many moons ago in this
thread, I was left with the impression that the constraints which were
being objected
the system with problem is using kernel 2.4.2 on an P200 with 64mb ram. It
has about 20 users that use the box... (ftp, telnet, lynx, bitchx,...).
the problem is when the parameter tcp_mem HIGH gets exeded after about a day
of use! Then the box is going from the net and its not awailable. I
Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are
trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also
why magic numbers tend to suck in the VM.)
Magic
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:59:25AM +0900, root wrote:
Andrea told us that he will not care for anything
compiled with gcc-2.95 or version lower than that.
I said I don't care about bugreport of alpha kernel crashes if the
_alpha_ kernel was compiled with gcc 2.95.*. 2.95 is fine on the x86,
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:16:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 03:49:58PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
they returned zero. You either have to drop the skb or to try again later
if they returns zero.
BTW, pci_map_single is not a nice
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:40:13AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
I was only talking about when you get the pci_map_sg failed because
you have not 3 but 300 scsi disks connected to your system and you are
writing to all them at the same time
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote:
This is 2.4.4 with the aic7xxx driver version 6.1.13 dropped in.
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 78626970
this appears to be some sort of DMA-corruption or other memory scribble
problem. hexa 78626970 is ASCII pibx,
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:29:49AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
I'm not sure why that helps. I didn't put it in as a trick or
anything though. I put it in because it didn't seem like a
good idea to ever have more cleaned pages than free pages at a
Thankyou for the clarification.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I used case 3 to explore a touchy question about design philosophy,
which is really what caused all hell to break loose. The question is
this: holding down configuration complexity is a good thing, but
supporting all hardware
Folks, patch below (_completely_ untested) is a backport of
a neat stuff from namespace-patch.
It does (OK, is supposed to do) the following: make noexec, nosuid
and nodev properties of vfsmount, not superblock.
In other words, different instances of the same fs may
On 20 May 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
That's the main problem with static parameters. The problem you are
trying to solve is fundamentally dynamic in most cases (which is also
why
Hi Peter.
I've trying to move some of my servers to 2.4.4 kernel from
2.2.x. Everything goes fine, notable perfomance increase
occures, but the problem is I'm really often touch the following
problem:
__alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed.
__alloc_pages: 1-order allocation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm implementing start_thread for the VAX port and am wondering does
start_thread have to return to load_elf_binary? I'm working on the
init thread and what is happening is it is returning the whole way
back to the execve caller .. which I know shouldn't happen.
1. The Mac derivations were half-right. The MAC_SCC one is good but Macs
can have either of two different SCSI controllers. I fixed that with help
from Ray Knight, who maintains the 68K Mac port.
If I understand the philosophy correctly, it is still possible to specify
additional cards for
Hi.
The following trivial patch against 2.4.4(-ac11) makes ps2esdi compile.
--- linux-244-ac10-clean/drivers/block/ps2esdi.cSat May 19 21:06:29 2001
+++ linux-244-ac10/drivers/block/ps2esdi.c Sun May 20 14:47:04 2001
@@ -953,10 +953,10 @@
break;
}
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Paul Mackerras wrote:
The patch below adds a page * argument to copy_user_page and
clear_user_page.
If you add the page argument, why leave the old arguments lingering there
at all? They only create confusion, and add no information.
Linus
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To
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 78626970
this appears to be some sort of DMA-corruption or other memory scribble
problem. hexa 78626970 is ASCII pibx, which shows in the direction of
some sort of disk-related DMA corruption.
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 78626970
this appears to be some sort of DMA-corruption or other memory scribble
problem. hexa 78626970 is ASCII pibx, which shows in the direction of
some sort of disk-related DMA
I would have never signed up for this list, or any other if it didn't give me at
least a few hours worth of email bouncing neither myself, or usa.net is up
24/7/365, and i wouldn't expect that everyone has a dedicated email server, for
almost any list. plus I have had many problems with the
Davem, check the last thing, please.
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
How about moratorium on new ioctls in the meanwhile? Whatever we do in
fs/ioctl.c, it _will_ take time.
Ehh.. Telling people don't do that simply doesn't
If it had been a manufacturer in most respectable areas of business they'd be
recalling and reissuing components, and paying for the end resllers to notify
each customer
This is consumer hardware. Consumer products are optimized for a
good buzzword count per $ ratio. Everything else is
printk(%s\n, version);
Not quite as optimal but safer.
I disagree. Don't work around an escape bug in a version string, fix
it...
A % in a version string might be quite reasonable. You are asking to have
an accident by avoiding it. If you want to fight over 4 bytes, then add
Hy to all !
I am experiencing big problems using wait queues in a device driver
(module)
on kernel 2.4.3-20mdk (gcc version 2.96).
I dont know if this is the right place to ask for - but its my last hope...
The device driver i write is for a measuring device connected to parallel
port-
so i'm
On Sunday 20 May 2001 21:51, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Since a while include/linux/init.h contains the line
* Also note, that this data cannot be const.
Why is this? Because const data will be put in a different section?
Yes, and gcc3 errors on these constructs, cause it cannot decide
Jonathan Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
One caveat though - not all Macs have SCSI controllers, and not all that do
even have one of the two standard ones.
I know. But these derivations are only for the old 68K macs, which don't
have PCI. Closed issue.
3. The MVME derivations are correct *if*
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Since a while include/linux/init.h contains the line
* Also note, that this data cannot be const.
Why is this? Because const data will be put in a different section?
Causes a section type conflict build error,
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:33:15PM +0200, David Osojnik wrote:
the system with problem is using kernel 2.4.2 on an P200 with 64mb ram. It
has about 20 users that use the box... (ftp, telnet, lynx, bitchx,...).
the problem is when the parameter tcp_mem HIGH gets exeded after about a day
of
hi,
is there a sqrt function in the kernel? any other math functions?
i tried finding/grepping around, and found some various arch-specific
stuff for fpu emulation... is there a general sqrt function? is there a
single file to look through with the various math functions?
thanks,
--
Robert
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think you already have the mechanism required to answer this - in NOVICE
mode you disallow the strange choices, in EXPERT mode you allow them.
That pushes the third button. I'm nervous that if we go down this path
we will end up with a thicket of modes
the system with problem is using kernel 2.4.2 on an P200 with 64mb ram. It
has about 20 users that use the box... (ftp, telnet, lynx, bitchx,...).
the problem is when the parameter tcp_mem HIGH gets exeded after about a
day
of use! Then the box is going from the net and its not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm nervous that if we go down this path we will end up with a
thicket of modes and a combinatorial explosion in ruleset complexity,
leading immediately to a user configuration experience that is more
complex than necessary, and eventually to an unmaintainable mess
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:47:00PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
In order to prevent that happening, I would like to have some recognized
criterion for configuration cases that are so perverse that it is a
net loss to accept the additional complexity of handling them within the
configurator.
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
Also in all recent kernels, if the machine is swapping, swap cache
grows without limits and is hard to recycle, but then again that is
a known problem.
This one bugs me. I do not see that and can't understand why.
To throw away dirty and
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:33:20PM -0400, Robert M. Love wrote:
hi,
is there a sqrt function in the kernel? any other math functions?
No. (Assuming FP math sqrt function is your interest.)
If you do scaled integers (fractions, with 2^n denominator),
you can do
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On 20 May 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
Also in all recent kernels, if the machine is swapping, swap cache
grows without limits and is hard to recycle, but then again that is
a known problem.
This one bugs me. I do not see that and can't
After man-pages-1.36 and kbd-1.06 today util-linux-2.11c.
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On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:51:04PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Appendix: here's the list of affected source files:
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
Thanks for pointing it out.
--
Russell King ([EMAIL PROTECTED])The developer of ARM Linux
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:34:48PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
This might be a very valid point...
(let me know if the following test is flawed)
It is imho.
[jgarzik@rum tmp]$ cat sectest.c
#include linux/module.h
#include linux/init.h
static const char version[] __initdata = foo;
Okay I think I've gotten it solved most of the way, we weren't calling
execve via the system call interface, so once I made it go via the system
call and I fill out pc, sp and psl registers in start_thread, it seems to
go further..
Thanks for all the help...
Dave.
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Kenn
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
@@ -1054,7 +1033,7 @@
if (!zone-size)
continue;
- while (zone-free_pages zone-pages_low) {
+ while (zone-free_pages
I can't see anything immediately wrong with your code - make sure you're
compiling against the source for the kernel you're running, with the same
options enabled.
In general, though, you shouldn't be using any of the sleep_on() functions
if you care about the fact that you'll miss wakeup
Hi
I'm trying to impelemnt a lightweight network filesystem and ran into
trouble implementing lookup, permissions and open.
The protocol requires me to specify open mode in it's open command. The
open mode has 4 bits: read, write, append and execute. But I can't tell
execution from read
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Maybe it would be possible to separate hard dependencies like the
current system has with the soft ones one needs for entry-level
configtools.
Actually, the current system has both types. As well as the hard
dependencies, we also have stuff like
Hi,
I am using Proxim Symphony Wireless LAN card on one of my systems with kernel
2.2.19. I may reinstall with a different Linux distro and upgrade to kernel 2.4.
The Proxim Symphony Wireless LAN site (http://www.komacke.com) has disappeared.
Does anyone know where I can find drivers for Linux
On Sun, 20 May 2001 11:47:38 -0400,
Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Somebody failed to track a module name change.
-obj-$(CONFIG_BBC_I2C) += bbc.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BBC_I2C) += bbc_i2c.o
bbc-objs := bbc_i2c.o bbc_envctrl.o
The module is bbc.o, bbc_i2c.o is
90% of drivers contain code written by stupid gits.
From: Alan Cox
I think thats a very arrogant and very mistaken view of the problem. 90%
of the driver are written by people who are
- Copying from other drivers
- Using the existing API's to make their job easy
- Working to timescales
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Paul Fulghum wrote:
I'll be the first to admit there is some ugliness in my driver.
So will anyone here regarding his or her code. Count me in, BTW.
Could you reread the posting you are refering to?
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On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:05:18PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
Ok. What do you think about reorg like this:
basically leave the old code as is, and add
if (is_pyxis)
alpha_mv.mv_pci_tbi = cia_pci_tbi_try2;
else
tbia test
...
Eric == Eric S Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric The first candidates I found were questions associated with
Eric built-in SCSI and Ethernet on Macintoshes, on the Sun 3 and
Eric Sun3x, and with built-in facilities on the MVME147 single-board
Eric computer. So I wrote derivations that
David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Let's not talk about CONFIG_AUNT_TILLIE any more, or change the existing
behaviour of config options to make that the default, until we've settled
the discussion about CML2.
What discussion is that? Unless Linus has changed his mind and I don't
know about
Hi,
The following patch fixes ppc xconfig potential problem introduced in
2.4.5-pre4.
Andrzej
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diff -uNr linux-2.4.5-pre4/arch/ppc/config.in linux-pre4/arch/ppc/config.in
--- linux-2.4.5-pre4/arch/ppc/config.in Mon May 21
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 06:07:17PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
Andrea Arcangeli writes:
[..] Even sparc64's fancy
iommu-based pci_map_single() always succeeds.
Whatever sparc64 does to hide the driver bugs you can break it if you
pci_map 4G+1 bytes of phyical memory.
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 06:01:40PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
Andrea Arcangeli writes:
Well this is news to me. No drivers understand this.
Yes, almost all drivers are buggy.
No, the interface says that the DMA routines may not return failure.
The alpha returns a faliure
The hardware: UP1000 Alpha, with ALI M1543C IDE. Fujitsu 2GB udma33
drive, I think. ATAPI UDMA CDROM.
The problem: 2.2.15 (as packaged with MDK 7.1 for Alpha) works fine.
2.4.current, both ac tree and linus tree, fail to work at all. I've
tried all combinations I can think of, for: with
Ingo Molnar wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote:
This is 2.4.4 with the aic7xxx driver version 6.1.13 dropped in.
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 78626970
this appears to be some sort of DMA-corruption or other memory scribble
problem.
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