replay on read-only filesystem

2001-06-23 Thread Jeff Chua
what's the impact of mounting reiserfs as Read-Only (specified in fstab)? >From syslog ... Jun 24 01:10:30 boston kernel: Warning, log replay starting on readonly filesystem Is this a problem? Thanks, Jeff [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Making a module 2.4 compatible

2001-06-23 Thread James Lamanna
I have a kernel module for a robot that was developed for the 2.0 and 2.2 kernels and does not work under 2.4. Unfortunately, the company that made it is not in business anymore. It would be nice to have it working under 2.4, so is there someplace that outlines some of the major things that would

Re: 2.4.5 and gcc v3 final

2001-06-23 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:29:25AM +0400, Anatoly Ivanov wrote: > > I hope that lk-developers would fix it one day. Multi-string literals is a nice little ANSI C feature that appears everywhere. Why it is necessary to "fix" them? Anuradha -- Debian GNU/Linux (kernel 2.4.6-pre5) For some

Re: How to compile on one machine and install on another?

2001-06-23 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 06:50:33PM -0300, John R Lenton wrote: > > make-kpkg takes care of all that for you (it's part of kernel-package) It does. But only for Debian users like you and me. Regards, Anuradha -- Penguin : Linux 2.4.6-pre5 on an i586 "Language shapes the way we think, and

Re: [RFC] Early flush (was: spindown)

2001-06-23 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:58:51PM -0400, Tom Sightler wrote: > > 1. When running a compile, or anything else that produces lots of small disk > writes, you tend to get lots of little pauses for all the little writes to disk. > These seem to be unnoticable without the patch. > > 2. Loading

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread Mike Castle
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:41:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ah, yes, the RT/PC. That brings back some fond memories. My first exposure to > Unix was with AIX on the RT. I still have some of those weird-sized RT AIX > manuals around somewhere... We always ran AOS on RT's. Actually,

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread Wayne . Brown
Ah, yes, the RT/PC. That brings back some fond memories. My first exposure to Unix was with AIX on the RT. I still have some of those weird-sized RT AIX manuals around somewhere... Wayne John Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/23/2001 07:49:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Wayne

RE: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread Wayne . Brown
I have a complete set of the "XENIX System V" manuals and diskettes (User's Guide, User's Reference, Runtime Operating System, and Development System) for the AT Personal Computer 6300. The slipcases have the AT "Death Star" logo on the spines, and the manuals have separate copyrights listed

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ummm... GEM was the Geos stuff? (Yeah I remember it, I haven't researched > it yet though...) GEM was a gui from Digital Research I believe. Geoworks/Geos was a seperate entity. It's been a long time since I looked but they both run fine under

Re: Possible freezing bug located after ac13

2001-06-23 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've recently been going slightly nuts with the fact ac15, 16, and 17 > all like deadlocking/slowing to a crawl for seconds/minutes on my K6-III > with 64MB of ram and a swap space of 128MB... > > Recently I noticed something VERY odd, I'd been

Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-23 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Allan Duncan writes: > Since the 2.4.x advent of shm as tmpfs or thereabouts, > /proc/meminfo shows shared memory as 0. It is in > reality not zero, and is being allocated, and shows > up in /proc/sysvipc/shm and /proc/sys/kernel/shmall > etc.. > Neither 2.4.6-pre5 nor 2.4.5-ac17 have the

Re: sizeof problem in kernel modules

2001-06-23 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 21:56:06 -0400 (EDT), > "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >FYI, structures are designed to be accessed only by their member-names. > >Therefore, the compiler is free to put members at any offset. In fact, > >members,

Possible freezing bug located after ac13

2001-06-23 Thread tcm
I've recently been going slightly nuts with the fact ac15, 16, and 17 all like deadlocking/slowing to a crawl for seconds/minutes on my K6-III with 64MB of ram and a swap space of 128MB... Recently I noticed something VERY odd, I'd been keeping an eye on gkrellm while I was doing stupid things

Re: sizeof problem in kernel modules

2001-06-23 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Der Herr Hofrat wrote: > > Hi ! > > can someone explain to me whats happening here ? > > --simple.c-- > #include > #include > > struct { short x; long y; short z; }bad_struct; > struct { long y; short x; short z; }good_struct; > [SNIPPED...] >

Re: GPIB support

2001-06-23 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Wan Hing Wah wrote: > I'm doing a project which port a component testing program in DOS which > use GPIB to linux > Does the Linux kernel support GPIB? > > > I find a linux gpib driver in the linux lab project > http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de/ > GPIB is terribly

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-23 Thread D. Stimits
Alan Cox wrote: > > Linux 2.4 BIOS usage reference > > Boot Sequence > - > > Linux is normally loaded either directly as a bootable floppy image or from > hard disk via a boot loader called lilo. The kernel image is transferred > into low memory and a parameter block above it. > >

[OOPS] linux-2.4.6-pre5aa1

2001-06-23 Thread khromy
I got the following oops about 41 minutes after booting into linux-2.4.6-pre5aa1. I noticed a lot of programs that were running were segfaulting so I checked 'dmesg' and found the oops.. I'm now running linux-2.4.6-pre5aa1 but this time with a more stable compiler(2.95.4) and havn't had any

Re: Is this part of newer filesystem hierarchy?

2001-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
> The point was that Stimits says that on its Red Hat 7.1 he has no > ldscripts directory, and so no files like elf_i386.x and so on. > I was just surprised, since i know thay are all necessary to /usr/bin/ld > to work. > two libc > /lib/libc.so.6 and /lib/i686/libc.so.6, one is tripped and the

Re: Is this part of newer filesystem hierarchy?

2001-06-23 Thread D. Stimits
Alan Cox wrote: > > > glad to know this, i do wonder how does /usr/bin/ld work for red hat. > > to my old mentality this seems red hat is going out of any resonable > > standard. > > It works like /usr/bin/ld on any other platform I know of > > > if the same libc stripped would not run

cd writer problems with 2.4.5ac17

2001-06-23 Thread safemode
I'm thinking that this is a kernel scsi emu problem rather than a CDR problem due to the past scsi emulation mails i've seen about previous kernels. I've been forced to move to 2.4.x because i want to use my promise ata66 ide controller and the 2.2 promise drivers dont work for it. My CDR

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread John Adams
On Saturday 23 June 2001 10:07, Rob Landley wrote: > Here's what I'm looking for: > > AIX was first introduced for the IBM RT/PC in 1986, which came out of the > early RISC research. It was ported to PS/2 and S/370 by SAA, and was > based on unix SVR2. (The book didn't specify whether the

GCC3.0: Again

2001-06-23 Thread Alexander V. Bilichenko
Again: make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/net/core' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-tri graphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack -boundary=2 -march=i686-c -o datagram.o datagram.c {standard input}:

Re: Is this part of newer filesystem hierarchy?

2001-06-23 Thread Luigi Genoni
The point was that Stimits says that on its Red Hat 7.1 he has no ldscripts directory, and so no files like elf_i386.x and so on. I was just surprised, since i know thay are all necessary to /usr/bin/ld to work. Then he was alo wondering why he has two libc /lib/libc.so.6 and

Hello, your friend recommended openxxx to you

2001-06-23 Thread friends
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Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That would be the X version of emacs. And there's the explanation > for the split between GNU and X emacs: it got forked and the > closed-source version had a vew years of divergent development > before opening back up, by which point it was very

Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5

2001-06-23 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > There's a really simple solution to that. Eric can just make up his > own help file entries that are wildly inaccurate and actively > insulting to whoever it is who owns the symbol. Heh. Lets not be too harsh though. Chasing people who add config options without

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-23 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Alan. Brief critique... > Linux 2.4 BIOS usage reference > Boot Sequence > - > > Linux is normally loaded either directly as a bootable floppy > image or from hard disk via a boot loader called lilo. The > kernel image is transferred into low memory and a parameter >

Re: GCC3.0 support: Kernel 2.4.5 compilation troubles

2001-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
> Hello all! > trying to compile kernel I got following: Use 2.95 or 2.96 not gcc 3.0 if you want a peaceful time of it. If you are feeling bold and adventurous then 1. Get 2.4.6pre5 - this has the compile bug you see fixed (older gcc just missed seeing/reporting it) 2.

Re: Is this part of newer filesystem hierarchy?

2001-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
> glad to know this, i do wonder how does /usr/bin/ld work for red hat. > to my old mentality this seems red hat is going out of any resonable > standard. It works like /usr/bin/ld on any other platform I know of > if the same libc stripped would not run library, and they HAVE to mantein > a

GCC3.0 support: Kernel 2.4.5 compilation troubles

2001-06-23 Thread Alexander V. Bilichenko
Hello all! trying to compile kernel I got following: make bzImage make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib' /usr/src/linux/scripts/mkdep -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Ws trict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mprefe

Re: Is this part of newer filesystem hierarchy?

2001-06-23 Thread Luigi Genoni
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, D. Stimits wrote: > > > The RH 7.1 comes with: > > > :~# ld --version > > > GNU ld 2.10.91 > > > Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > > This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms > > > of > > > the GNU General Public License. This

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 22 June 2001 18:41, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am not subscribed to the list, but I scan the archives and saw the > following. Please cc e-mail me in followups. I've had several requests to start a mailing list on this, actually... Might do so in a bit... > I was working (and still

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-23 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 22 June 2001 10:46, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > I did some threaded programming on OS/2 and it was real pain. The main > design flaw in OS/2 API is that thread can be blocked only on one > condition. There is no way thread can wait for more events. For example Sure. But you know what a

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-23 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 22 June 2001 12:20, Alan Cox wrote: > int 0x10 service 3 is used during the boot loading sequence to obtain the > cursor position. int 0x10 service 13 is used to display loading messages > as the loading procedure continues. int 0x10 AH=0xE is used to display a > progress bar of '='

Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5

2001-06-23 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 22 June 2001 10:00, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You're a bit irritated. That's good. I *want* people who don't write > >help entries for their configuration symbols to be a bit irritated. > >That way, they

Re: Maintainers master list?

2001-06-23 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 22 June 2001 17:19, Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 22 Jun > 2001 17:09:45 -0400 > > > What happens now when somebody takes over responsibility for a file > > or subsystem and the MAINTAINERS file doesn't get patched, either

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread Rob Landley
On Saturday 23 June 2001 13:57, Mike Jagdis wrote: > > I hope the following adds a more direct perspective on this, as I > > was a user at the time. > > I was _almost_ at university :-). However I do have a first edition > of the IBM Xenix Software Development Guide from december 1984. It has >

Re: Two nfsd bugs in 2.4.x

2001-06-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday June 24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Since I switched to the kernel nfsd I have troubles exporting my > filesystems. I think in kernel 2.2.x there was no problem, neither was > it with the userspace nfsd. Currently I run kernel 2.4.5pre1 on the > server. Sounds like you might

Re: Two nfsd bugs in 2.4.x

2001-06-23 Thread James Stevenson
>Since I switched to the kernel nfsd I have troubles exporting my >filesystems. I think in kernel 2.2.x there was no problem, neither was >it with the userspace nfsd. Currently I run kernel 2.4.5pre1 on the >server. i have also had a few problems with nfsd when i have moved to 2.4.x (2.4.5-ac15

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-23 Thread Scott Wood
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:05:13PM -0400, Rick Hohensee wrote: > Richard Stallman is the creator of the license. It's his greatest work. > Linus is in no way priviledged as to interpretation of it, other than > tolerance on the part of the parties that own the copyright to the > license. Neither

Two nfsd bugs in 2.4.x

2001-06-23 Thread Hans-Joachim Baader
Hi, Since I switched to the kernel nfsd I have troubles exporting my filesystems. I think in kernel 2.2.x there was no problem, neither was it with the userspace nfsd. Currently I run kernel 2.4.5pre1 on the server. 1. When I try to boot one of my diskless clients (kernel 2.0.34), it mounts its

Re: KDSKBLED

2001-06-23 Thread Andries . Brouwer
Why does the console ioctl, KDSKBLED, work with caps and num lock, but not scroll lock. ... But "setleds +scroll" changes the scroll lock led without changing the behavior of the keyboard. I then have to press the scoll lock key twice to get the scroll lock light to turn

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-23 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Linux 2.4 BIOS usage reference Pretty decent. It misses a lot of hardware details that we still depend on the BIOS to reliably setup for us. I've got code that does all of this so, setup on a couple of boards so it should just be a matter of tracking it

Re: What are the VM motivations??

2001-06-23 Thread watermodem
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Jason McMullan wrote: > > > Or heck, let's just make the VM a _real_ Neural Network, > > that self trains itself to the load you put on the system. > > Hideously complex and evil? > > Considering the amount of parameters the neural network >

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-23 Thread Fabrice Gautier
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:14:42 -0400 "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >As copyright holder of the Linux kernel, Linus is the only person with > >standing to sue for license violation. [...] This means > >that in order for them to lose, a court must rule that module linking >

3C905B module/builtin lockup on 2.4.6-pre3-5

2001-06-23 Thread Glenn C. Hofmann
After attempting different configurations for the past 3 hours, I am at a loss. I have attempted to successfully load the 3C59x driver with kernel 2.4.6-pre5 and pre3 with no luck. As soon as the module loads, I can switch consoles, but can type nothing into any of them. I can hit the Num

Re: Is this part of newer filesystem hierarchy?

2001-06-23 Thread D. Stimits
Luigi Genoni wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, D. Stimits wrote: > > > Luigi Genoni wrote: > > > > > > Again i am confused. > > > > > > /usr/bin/ld is linker at compilation time, at it works how i told in > > > second part > > > of my mail, (just try to compile it, it comes with binutils, > > >

[OPPS] 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-23 Thread James Stevenson
Hi when using eject to eject a cd from an atapi cd writer that had the tray locked by cdreored (which had messed up) i got the following opps on 2.4.5-ac15 Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 7200 Rev: 3.01 Type: CD-ROM

RE: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-23 Thread Mike Jagdis
> I hope the following adds a more direct perspective on this, as I > was a user at the time. I was _almost_ at university :-). However I do have a first edition of the IBM Xenix Software Development Guide from december 1984. It has '84 IBM copyright and '83 MS copyright. The SCO stuff I have

Re: [PATCH] add kmalloc check in drviers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c (245-ac16)

2001-06-23 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:09:37PM +0200, Eric Lammerts escreveu: > > On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > > > +if (!b) { > > + printk(" -- aborting.\n"); > > + printk(KERN_ERR "Out of memory."); > > + return; > > +} > > Why not printk(KERN_ERR "rsrc_mgr: Out of

HPT370 driver problems

2001-06-23 Thread Edward Tandi
People, I have an IWill IDE Raid card with the Highpoint HPT370 Chip. I am running this on a Dual Processor board (800MHz PIIIs) with a Mandrake 8.0 Disrtibution (2.4.3 Kernel). 200MB of RAM and all slots filled with lots of cards. I was glad to see that Linux auto-detected the IDE/Raid card.

Re: [PATCH] add kmalloc check in drviers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c (245-ac16)

2001-06-23 Thread Eric Lammerts
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > +if (!b) { > + printk(" -- aborting.\n"); > + printk(KERN_ERR "Out of memory."); > + return; > +} Why not printk(KERN_ERR "rsrc_mgr: Out of memory.\n"); ? Then at least people will know what it was that ran out of memory. Eric

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-23 Thread watermodem
Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Do they include the source? There's a CD of source that you can buy > > > for $20 but gcc isn't listed > > > > I'm not sure if they are allowed to do that. See clause 1 (c): > > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-files/027/001/516/eula_mit.htm > Minor note: 1) The

Re: Is this part of newer filesystem hierarchy?

2001-06-23 Thread Luigi Genoni
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, D. Stimits wrote: > Luigi Genoni wrote: > > > > Again i am confused. > > > > /usr/bin/ld is linker at compilation time, at it works how i told in > > second part > > of my mail, (just try to compile it, it comes with binutils, > > ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils).

Re: plain 2.2.X: no ide CD-RW?

2001-06-23 Thread Carlos E Gorges
HI all, > For a while now, I've been running a 2.4 kernel, but (for my research) > I need to now run a 2.2 kernel. I was hoping to just run a stock > 2.2.19, but I've found that I can't use my CD-RW drive, either as a > plain IDE cdrom, or as a scsi-emulated one. (I have ide-scsi, ide-cd, >

Re: RPC vs Socket

2001-06-23 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Jan Hudec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Both seem to have pros and cons. RPC should be easier to write > (especialy the server side), but it performs bad with UDP on > slow links. (NFS did not work on 115200 serial line because of > too many dropped packets - TCP

Re: sizeof problem in kernel modules

2001-06-23 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 04:54:20PM +0200, Der Herr Hofrat wrote: > struct { short x; long y; short z; }bad_struct; > struct { long y; short x; short z; }good_struct; > > I would expect both structs to be 8byte in size , or atleast the same size ! > but good_struct turns out to be 8bytes and

Re: [PATCH] add kmalloc checking to fs/jffs/intrep.c (245-ac16)

2001-06-23 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The following patch adds some checks for kmalloc returning NULL to fs/ > jffs/intrep.c along with some way of getting that propagated back. > Applies against 245ac16 and 246p5. These dereferences were reported by > the Stanford team a way back. Fixed in my tree at

sizeof problem in kernel modules

2001-06-23 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi ! can someone explain to me whats happening here ? --simple.c-- #include #include struct { short x; long y; short z; }bad_struct; struct { long y; short x; short z; }good_struct; int init_module(void){ printk("good_struct %d, bad_struct

[PATCH] add kmalloc checking to fs/jffs/intrep.c (245-ac16)

2001-06-23 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. The following patch adds some checks for kmalloc returning NULL to fs/jffs/intrep.c along with some way of getting that propagated back. Applies against 245ac16 and 246p5. These dereferences were reported by the Stanford team a way back. --- linux-245-ac16-clean/fs/jffs/intrep.c Thu

pci_fixup_via691_2 Holy Crusade

2001-06-23 Thread Jacek Popławski
- I am 2.4.2-ac21 and I will destroy all your divx!!! - said little egg - How can you destroy my divx, if you are just a minor kernel version...? - I asked, it was first time in my life I talked to egg - You will see!!! - said egg and disappear >From this time - every day was sad. Whenever I

Re: RPC vs Socket

2001-06-23 Thread Jan Hudec
> I am in the way of building a new remote file system. > Presently I decided to use sockets for remote communication. Lately I > understood that RPC is used in coda and nfs file systems(is it so). I want to > know the fessibility in using RPC in the new file system. Both

Re: How does ramfs actually fills the page cache with data?

2001-06-23 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:45:27PM -0400, Ho Chak Hung wrote: > In fs/ramfs/inode.c, how does ramfs actually fills the page > cache with data? In the readpage operation, it only zero-fill > the page if it didn't already exist in the page cache. However, > how do I actually fill the page with

[PATCH] add kmalloc check in drviers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c (245-ac16)

2001-06-23 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. The patch below adds a kmalloc check to drivers/pcmcmia/rsrc_mgr.c. Against 245-ac16 but aplies to 256p6 also. Reported a while back by the stanford team. --- linux-245-ac16-clean/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c Sat May 19 20:59:21 2001 +++ linux-245-ac16/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.cSat

Re: osst & ide-2.2.19 conflict?

2001-06-23 Thread Willem Riede
"Anil B. Somayaji" wrote: > > In the ide.2.2.19.05042001 patch, there is the following bit of code > in ide-scsi.c, which prevents the ide-scsi driver from allowing access > to an OnStream DI-30 tape drive. This is strange, since this same > drive can be used with the included ide-scsi + osst

Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-23 Thread Allan Duncan
Since the 2.4.x advent of shm as tmpfs or thereabouts, /proc/meminfo shows shared memory as 0. It is in reality not zero, and is being allocated, and shows up in /proc/sysvipc/shm and /proc/sys/kernel/shmall etc.. Neither 2.4.6-pre5 nor 2.4.5-ac17 have the correct display. - To unsubscribe from

Some new problems with 2.4.5

2001-06-23 Thread Vasil Kolev
(I'm resending this, it looks like it was lost somewhere ... and there is some more mem info...) Hello, I have a machine that's dual coppermine/927 (that's what /proc/cpuinfo say:) ), with 1.2G ram, Dell PercRaid, 3com 3c905B NIC. I'm using kernel 2.4.5 with the percraid patches. The

[PATCH] 2.2.20-pre, parport_probe, output truncated

2001-06-23 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon
Hi, When I load the 'lp' module, I got the following [jean-luct@debian-f5ibh] ~ # modprobe lp parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] parport0: Unspecified, EPSON Styl lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). After increasing the 'giveup' delay in parport_probe.c,

Re: Kernel BUG in inode.c line 486 in 2.4.5

2001-06-23 Thread Dylan Griffiths
I should mention, there are also NFS3 mounts on the system.. Dylan Griffiths wrote: > -=- > > kernel BUG at inode.c:486! > invalid operand: > CPU:0 > EIP:0010:[] > EFLAGS: 00013286 > eax: 001b ebx: c726a2c0 ecx: 0001 edx: c022a068 > esi: c022cee0 edi: d489c9c0

Kernel BUG in inode.c line 486 in 2.4.5

2001-06-23 Thread Dylan Griffiths
Found these lurking in dmesg.. no timestamp on them, so I have no idea when they happened.. the system seems ok, but I'm going to go fsck it a bit now.. Asus A7M266 board (VIA Southbridge). VIA82CXXX chipset support is on, use DMA by default is on. ext2 partitions on a 20gb drive: Filesystem

Re: Annoying kernel behaviour

2001-06-23 Thread Colonel
In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > > I upgraded a fileserver to 2.4.5 because of the RAID support (the 0.90 >patch I grabbed did not apply cleanly to 2.2.19, despite it being a fresh >copy). Look in the people/mingo directory for a patch > Besides a nice speed increase (the EEPro

Re: ACPI or Advanced power ...

2001-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
> I agree ACPI sucks, but I have a SMP box that I need to be able to > powerdown remotely. Is there any reason APM can't do that? I mean, I > understand APM was never meant for SMP, but... ? You can tell 2.4 to do APM poweroffs on SMP boxes. It works for most BIOSes - To unsubscribe from this

Re: ACPI + Promise IDE = disk corruption :-(((

2001-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
> It's just *one* issue that has generated all the disk corruption reports. > Putting the processor into the C3 power state, in combination with bus > mastering. This is disabled in the most recent release. I'd love to fix this > one, but if it were easy, it'd be fixed by now. Maybe you can shed

plain 2.2.X: no ide CD-RW?

2001-06-23 Thread Anil B. Somayaji
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For a while now, I've been running a 2.4 kernel, but (for my research) I need to now run a 2.2 kernel. I was hoping to just run a stock 2.2.19, but I've found that I can't use my CD-RW drive, either as a plain IDE cdrom, or as a scsi-emulated one.

Re: [OT]Re: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux andOpen Source.

2001-06-23 Thread Alexander Viro
On 22 Jun 2001, Miles Lane wrote: > It would be great to see the "Shared Source" licenses that Microsoft has > made people sign. It would be especially interesting to compare the It would be great to see you learning WTF "offtopic" means and taking the advocacy crap to the places where it

osst & ide-2.2.19 conflict?

2001-06-23 Thread Anil B. Somayaji
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the ide.2.2.19.05042001 patch, there is the following bit of code in ide-scsi.c, which prevents the ide-scsi driver from allowing access to an OnStream DI-30 tape drive. This is strange, since this same drive can be used with the included

Re: [OT]Re: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux andOpen Source.

2001-06-23 Thread Miles Lane
It would be great to see the "Shared Source" licenses that Microsoft has made people sign. It would be especially interesting to compare the agreements that were given to the various classes of licensees: University Research Departments, ISVs, Enterprises and so on. Then we'd be able to have a

Re: ACPI or Advanced power ...

2001-06-23 Thread John R Lenton
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:14:26AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I need an advice, my machine is i810 chipset and using > > ACPI bios, but not sure which one i should use in the > > kernel config. Now I use APM with kernel kapm-idle . > > If you have the option - use APM not ACPI. ACPI is larger,

Re: [OT]Re: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux andOpen Source.

2001-06-23 Thread Miles Lane
On 22 Jun 2001 20:45:14 -0700, Gerhard Mack wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Ben Ford wrote: > > > Miles Lane wrote: > > > > >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2777283,00.html > > > > > [ . . . ] > > > > Hey, Bill, here's my address, can you ship me the full source to Word? > > Funny

Re: [OT]Re: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux andOpen Source.

2001-06-23 Thread Miles Lane
On 22 Jun 2001 20:45:14 -0700, Gerhard Mack wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Ben Ford wrote: Miles Lane wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2777283,00.html [ . . . ] Hey, Bill, here's my address, can you ship me the full source to Word? Funny but by giving it to

Re: ACPI or Advanced power ...

2001-06-23 Thread John R Lenton
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:14:26AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: I need an advice, my machine is i810 chipset and using ACPI bios, but not sure which one i should use in the kernel config. Now I use APM with kernel kapm-idle . If you have the option - use APM not ACPI. ACPI is larger, and right

Re: [OT]Re: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux andOpen Source.

2001-06-23 Thread Miles Lane
It would be great to see the Shared Source licenses that Microsoft has made people sign. It would be especially interesting to compare the agreements that were given to the various classes of licensees: University Research Departments, ISVs, Enterprises and so on. Then we'd be able to have a

osst ide-2.2.19 conflict?

2001-06-23 Thread Anil B. Somayaji
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the ide.2.2.19.05042001 patch, there is the following bit of code in ide-scsi.c, which prevents the ide-scsi driver from allowing access to an OnStream DI-30 tape drive. This is strange, since this same drive can be used with the included

Re: [OT]Re: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux andOpen Source.

2001-06-23 Thread Alexander Viro
On 22 Jun 2001, Miles Lane wrote: It would be great to see the Shared Source licenses that Microsoft has made people sign. It would be especially interesting to compare the It would be great to see you learning WTF offtopic means and taking the advocacy crap to the places where it

plain 2.2.X: no ide CD-RW?

2001-06-23 Thread Anil B. Somayaji
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For a while now, I've been running a 2.4 kernel, but (for my research) I need to now run a 2.2 kernel. I was hoping to just run a stock 2.2.19, but I've found that I can't use my CD-RW drive, either as a plain IDE cdrom, or as a scsi-emulated one.

Re: Annoying kernel behaviour

2001-06-23 Thread Colonel
In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: I upgraded a fileserver to 2.4.5 because of the RAID support (the 0.90 patch I grabbed did not apply cleanly to 2.2.19, despite it being a fresh copy). Look in the people/mingo directory for a patch Besides a nice speed increase (the EEPro now

Kernel BUG in inode.c line 486 in 2.4.5

2001-06-23 Thread Dylan Griffiths
Found these lurking in dmesg.. no timestamp on them, so I have no idea when they happened.. the system seems ok, but I'm going to go fsck it a bit now.. Asus A7M266 board (VIA Southbridge). VIA82CXXX chipset support is on, use DMA by default is on. ext2 partitions on a 20gb drive: Filesystem

Re: Kernel BUG in inode.c line 486 in 2.4.5

2001-06-23 Thread Dylan Griffiths
I should mention, there are also NFS3 mounts on the system.. Dylan Griffiths wrote: -=- kernel BUG at inode.c:486! invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[c0141e43] EFLAGS: 00013286 eax: 001b ebx: c726a2c0 ecx: 0001 edx: c022a068 esi: c022cee0 edi: d489c9c0

[PATCH] 2.2.20-pre, parport_probe, output truncated

2001-06-23 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon
Hi, When I load the 'lp' module, I got the following [jean-luct@debian-f5ibh] ~ # modprobe lp parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] parport0: Unspecified, EPSON Styl lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). After increasing the 'giveup' delay in parport_probe.c,

Some new problems with 2.4.5

2001-06-23 Thread Vasil Kolev
(I'm resending this, it looks like it was lost somewhere ... and there is some more mem info...) Hello, I have a machine that's dual coppermine/927 (that's what /proc/cpuinfo say:) ), with 1.2G ram, Dell PercRaid, 3com 3c905B NIC. I'm using kernel 2.4.5 with the percraid patches. The

Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-23 Thread Allan Duncan
Since the 2.4.x advent of shm as tmpfs or thereabouts, /proc/meminfo shows shared memory as 0. It is in reality not zero, and is being allocated, and shows up in /proc/sysvipc/shm and /proc/sys/kernel/shmall etc.. Neither 2.4.6-pre5 nor 2.4.5-ac17 have the correct display. - To unsubscribe from

Re: osst ide-2.2.19 conflict?

2001-06-23 Thread Willem Riede
Anil B. Somayaji wrote: In the ide.2.2.19.05042001 patch, there is the following bit of code in ide-scsi.c, which prevents the ide-scsi driver from allowing access to an OnStream DI-30 tape drive. This is strange, since this same drive can be used with the included ide-scsi + osst drivers

[PATCH] add kmalloc check in drviers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c (245-ac16)

2001-06-23 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. The patch below adds a kmalloc check to drivers/pcmcmia/rsrc_mgr.c. Against 245-ac16 but aplies to 256p6 also. Reported a while back by the stanford team. --- linux-245-ac16-clean/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c Sat May 19 20:59:21 2001 +++ linux-245-ac16/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.cSat

Re: How does ramfs actually fills the page cache with data?

2001-06-23 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:45:27PM -0400, Ho Chak Hung wrote: In fs/ramfs/inode.c, how does ramfs actually fills the page cache with data? In the readpage operation, it only zero-fill the page if it didn't already exist in the page cache. However, how do I actually fill the page with data?

Re: RPC vs Socket

2001-06-23 Thread Jan Hudec
I am in the way of building a new remote file system. Presently I decided to use sockets for remote communication. Lately I understood that RPC is used in coda and nfs file systems(is it so). I want to know the fessibility in using RPC in the new file system. Both

pci_fixup_via691_2 Holy Crusade

2001-06-23 Thread Jacek Popawski
- I am 2.4.2-ac21 and I will destroy all your divx!!! - said little egg - How can you destroy my divx, if you are just a minor kernel version...? - I asked, it was first time in my life I talked to egg - You will see!!! - said egg and disappear From this time - every day was sad. Whenever I

[PATCH] add kmalloc checking to fs/jffs/intrep.c (245-ac16)

2001-06-23 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. The following patch adds some checks for kmalloc returning NULL to fs/jffs/intrep.c along with some way of getting that propagated back. Applies against 245ac16 and 246p5. These dereferences were reported by the Stanford team a way back. --- linux-245-ac16-clean/fs/jffs/intrep.c Thu

sizeof problem in kernel modules

2001-06-23 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
Hi ! can someone explain to me whats happening here ? --simple.c-- #include linux/module.h #include linux/kernel.h struct { short x; long y; short z; }bad_struct; struct { long y; short x; short z; }good_struct; int init_module(void){ printk(good_struct %d, bad_struct

Re: [PATCH] add kmalloc checking to fs/jffs/intrep.c (245-ac16)

2001-06-23 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The following patch adds some checks for kmalloc returning NULL to fs/ jffs/intrep.c along with some way of getting that propagated back. Applies against 245ac16 and 246p5. These dereferences were reported by the Stanford team a way back. Fixed in my tree at about

Re: sizeof problem in kernel modules

2001-06-23 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 04:54:20PM +0200, Der Herr Hofrat wrote: struct { short x; long y; short z; }bad_struct; struct { long y; short x; short z; }good_struct; I would expect both structs to be 8byte in size , or atleast the same size ! but good_struct turns out to be 8bytes and

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