Re: Kernel module_list

2005-04-14 Thread Allison
Right now , I am just learn. trying a test module that lists out all the modules Allison Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 19:53 +, Allison wrote: > > > > I am trying to access the module list kernel data structure from a > > kernel module. If I gather correctly, module_list

Re: 2.6.12-rc2: >100% memory usage

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 22:20 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:59:05 +1000 Nick Piggin wrote: > > | On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 12:48 +0800, Michael Deegan wrote: > | > Hi folks, > | > > | > I noticed something unusual on my home desktop machine (K6II, 448M RAM, > runs > | > KDE,

Re: 2.6.12-rc2: >100% memory usage

2005-04-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:59:05 +1000 Nick Piggin wrote: | On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 12:48 +0800, Michael Deegan wrote: | > Hi folks, | > | > I noticed something unusual on my home desktop machine (K6II, 448M RAM, runs | > KDE, samba, nfsd. 2.6.12-rc2 on Debian sarge). The machine seems to feel | >

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-14 Thread Al Viro
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:23:46PM -0500, Franco Sensei wrote: > Al Viro wrote: > >Elegant. Very elegant. Admirable exercise in misdirection - the word > >"third-party" used to conflate all things non-kernel with 3rd party > >kernel modifications. Followed by appeals to civic obligations, no

Re: 2.6.12-rc2: >100% memory usage

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Piggin
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 12:48 +0800, Michael Deegan wrote: > Hi folks, > > I noticed something unusual on my home desktop machine (K6II, 448M RAM, runs > KDE, samba, nfsd. 2.6.12-rc2 on Debian sarge). The machine seems to feel > slightly sluggish; it seems to swap a fair bit more than it did under

2.6.12-rc2: >100% memory usage

2005-04-14 Thread Michael Deegan
Hi folks, I noticed something unusual on my home desktop machine (K6II, 448M RAM, runs KDE, samba, nfsd. 2.6.12-rc2 on Debian sarge). The machine seems to feel slightly sluggish; it seems to swap a fair bit more than it did under 2.6.11, but at the same time it's not actually using more swap that

New kernel thread

2005-04-14 Thread Allison
Hi, I need to create a new kernel thread that will stay alive as long as the system is up. This should be created as soon as the system boots. I need this thread to perform a specific task. I am not very familiar with the code. Where should I put this thread creation and my function code (I

Re: {PATCH] Fix IBM EMAC driver ioctl bug

2005-04-14 Thread Eugene Surovegin
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:20:32AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > Fix IBM EMAC driver ioctl bug. > > I found IBM EMAC driver bug. > So mii-tool command print wrong status. > > # mii-tool > eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link > eth1: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link > > I can get correct status

[PATCH] Platform SMIs and their interferance with tsc based delay calibration

2005-04-14 Thread Venkatesh Pallipadi
Missed copying to the list earlier... sorry if this mail is a duplicate. Following up on earlier thread http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0501.3/index.html#1694 Changes from the earlier version: (1) Now this new routine is generic (2) Handles both i386 amd x86-64 (3) Repeates the

Re: [PATCH] sched: fix never executed code due to expression always false

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Piggin
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 12:59 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - if (unlikely((long long)now - prev->timestamp < 0)) > > + if (unlikely(((long long)now - (long long)prev->timestamp) > > < 0)) > > You can write this as > > (long

Re: Linux support for IBM ThinkPad Disk shock prevention update...

2005-04-14 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
05-04-14 at 16:58 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: We just need to figure out to get the specs from IBM Best bet is probably reverse engineering it... Lee, I know this is far from easy... but, What do we need to do this? I haven't seen such a cooler feature in a Thinkpad like the HDAPS.

Re: IBM Thinkpad T42 - Looking for a Developer.

2005-04-14 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
This is located in my home PC, Won't be the fastest downloads... http://wifitux.com/finger/ Under what terms did you obtain these documents and from where? Are they completely freely distributable or are there strings attached? I emailed the guys and they told me, "Hey, here

question about returning of a child process

2005-04-14 Thread Tomko
Hi all, What is the first code the new born child process run after it is forked by the system call and being schduled into the CPU to run ? what i concerned is , kernel will schdule once when leaving the system call for returning father process, will kernel schdule once again when leaving

Re: [PATCH] sched: fix never executed code due to expression always false

2005-04-14 Thread Herbert Xu
Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - if (unlikely((long long)now - prev->timestamp < 0)) > + if (unlikely(((long long)now - (long long)prev->timestamp) < > 0)) You can write this as (long long)(now - prev->timestamp) Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at

Re: [PATCH] sched: fix never executed code due to expression always false

2005-04-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:23:11AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > >As per this patch perhaps? : > > > > Thanks. I'll make sure it gets to the right place if nobody picks it up. Perhaps this ought to be wrapped up in sched_clock_before() or some such. -- Mathematics is

Re: Kernel module_list

2005-04-14 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:48:42PM +, Allison wrote: > I am trying to simply print out the module names and code sizes. > I am just learning how to rtraverse these data structures. Just read /proc/modules Coywolf > > Also, on what basis is the decision made whether to export a

Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix a few 'empty body in an if-statement' warnings.

2005-04-14 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:58:54 +0200 (CEST) Jesper Juhl wrote: | When building with gcc -W fs/reiserfs/namei.c:602 has a few warnings | about 'empty body in an if-statement'. This patch silences those warnings. So fix include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.h: change #define

Re: alsa es1371's joystick functionality broken in 2.6.11-mm4

2005-04-14 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Thursday 14 April 2005 09:26 pm, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:18 -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote: > > On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:17 am, Patrick McFarland wrote: > > > Nope, 2.6.7 is also fubar. Now to 2.6.6. > > > > I haven't tested 2.6.6 yet, but 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 is broken too.

Re: Git archive now available

2005-04-14 Thread Darren Williams
Hi David On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:01:47 +1000 > Darren Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks to the team at [EMAIL PROTECTED] we now have a > > no so complete Git archive at > > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/ > > > > If

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-14 Thread linux
> What if someone accesses the seed file directly before the machine > boots? Well, either (a) they have broken root already, or (b) have > direct access to the disk. In either case, the attacker with such > powers can just has easily trojan an executable or a kernel, and > you've got far worse

Re: [PATCH] fs/fcntl.c : don't test unsigned value for less than zero

2005-04-14 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:07:42AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > 'arg' is unsigned so it can never be less than zero, so testing for that > is pointless and also generates a warning when building with gcc -W. This > patch eliminates the pointless check. Didn't Linus already reject this one 6

Re: alsa es1371's joystick functionality broken in 2.6.11-mm4

2005-04-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:18 -0400, Patrick McFarland wrote: > On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:17 am, Patrick McFarland wrote: > > Nope, 2.6.7 is also fubar. Now to 2.6.6. > > I haven't tested 2.6.6 yet, but 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 is broken too. > There's no point in testing newer kernels if you have yet

Re: alsa es1371's joystick functionality broken in 2.6.11-mm4

2005-04-14 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:17 am, Patrick McFarland wrote: > Nope, 2.6.7 is also fubar. Now to 2.6.6. I haven't tested 2.6.6 yet, but 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 is broken too. -- Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids,

Re: Question On TSS

2005-04-14 Thread Imanpreet Arora
Never mind, I was missing something really simple. On 4/15/05, Imanpreet Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am a bit confused about the TSS. The documentation says that it > includes 3 fields SS0, SS1 and SS2 for privilige levels 0, 1, 2 > respectively. And are set up when a task

[PATCH] fs/fcntl.c : don't test unsigned value for less than zero

2005-04-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
'arg' is unsigned so it can never be less than zero, so testing for that is pointless and also generates a warning when building with gcc -W. This patch eliminates the pointless check. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3-orig/fs/fcntl.c2005-04-11

[PATCH] reiserfs: fix a few 'empty body in an if-statement' warnings.

2005-04-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
When building with gcc -W fs/reiserfs/namei.c:602 has a few warnings about 'empty body in an if-statement'. This patch silences those warnings. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3-orig/fs/reiserfs/namei.c 2005-04-11 21:20:55.0 +0200 +++

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-14 Thread linux
> Waiting for 256bits of entropy before outputting data is a good goal. > Problem becomes how do you measure entropy in a reliable way? This had > me lynched last time I asked it so I'll stop right there. It's a problem. Also, with the current increase in wireless keyboards and mice, that

[2.6 patch] drivers/video/intelfb/intelfbdrv.h

2005-04-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
Ingo Oeser noticed that all that intelfbdrv.h contains are prototypes for static functions - and such prototypes don't belong into header files. This patch therefore removes drivers/video/intelfb/intelfbdrv.h and moves the prototypes to intelfbdrv.c . Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL

[2.6 patch] change the SOUND_PRIME handling

2005-04-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
SOUND_PRIME (for OSS) is a tristate. This doesn't make much sense if most users are checking for SOUND_PRIME!=0. This patch changes the semantics of SOUND_PRIME to being a limit for all OSS modules, IOW: SOUND_PRIME=m does now say that all OSS drivers can only be modular. As a side effect,

[2.6 patch] sound/oss/sscape.c: remove dead code

2005-04-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
The Coverity checker found that sscape_sb_enable never get's assigned any value different from 0, and therefore some code paths are impossible. This patch removes this variable and the dead code paths. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 24

[2.6 patch] drivers/scsi/dpt*: remove version.h dependencies

2005-04-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 07:49:38AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 16:34 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This patch removes #if's for kernel 2.2 . > > this one looks like it's not quite complete: > > > -#ifndef LINUX_VERSION_CODE > > #include > > -#endif > > Once there are

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/arcnet/: possible cleanups

2005-04-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - arcnet.c: remove the outdated VERSION - arcnet.c: remove the unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL(arc_proto_null) - arcnet.c: remove the unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL(arcnet_dump_packet) Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL

Re: ALSA Oops (triggered by xmms)

2005-04-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Christian Kujau wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > ^ you should send such info inline in the email - having to go check > > external links makes a lot of people ignore the stuff right then and > > yeah, but the

Re: [PATCH] sched: fix never executed code due to expression always false

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Piggin
Jesper Juhl wrote: As per this patch perhaps? : Thanks. I'll make sure it gets to the right place if nobody picks it up. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3-orig/kernel/sched.c 2005-04-11 21:20:56.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3/kernel/sched.c

Re: ALSA Oops (triggered by xmms)

2005-04-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 02:16 +0200, Christian Kujau wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > > Fixed in 2.6.11.7. > > > > thank you & sorry for the noise. No need to apologize, this is not noise. Always err on the side of reporting the bug. It's

Re: [PATCH] sched: fix never executed code due to expression always false

2005-04-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > > > > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > > > > There are two expressions in kernel/sched.c that are always false since > > > > they > > > > test for <0 but the result of the expression is

Re: IBM Thinkpad T42 - Looking for a Developer.

2005-04-14 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:40:16PM -0400, abonilla wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:20:19 +0200 (CEST), Jesper Juhl wrote > > > This is located in my home PC, Won't be the fastest downloads... > > > > > > http://wifitux.com/finger/ > > > > > Under what terms did you obtain these documents and

Re: ALSA Oops (triggered by xmms)

2005-04-14 Thread Christian Kujau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesper Juhl wrote: > > ^ you should send such info inline in the email - having to go check > external links makes a lot of people ignore the stuff right then and yeah, but the oops doesn't wrap at 80 chars itsself and often oopses are

Question On TSS

2005-04-14 Thread Imanpreet Arora
Hello, I am a bit confused about the TSS. The documentation says that it includes 3 fields SS0, SS1 and SS2 for privilige levels 0, 1, 2 respectively. And are set up when a task is first created, I can't figure out why these fields are necessary. I think that these fileds are necessary when we

Re: ALSA Oops (triggered by xmms)

2005-04-14 Thread Christian Kujau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Revell wrote: > > Fixed in 2.6.11.7. > thank you & sorry for the noise. Christian. - -- BOFH excuse #20: divide-by-zero error -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird -

Re: [PATCH] sched: fix never executed code due to expression always false

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Piggin
Jesper Juhl wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: Jesper Juhl wrote: There are two expressions in kernel/sched.c that are always false since they test for <0 but the result of the expression is unsigned so they will never be less than zero. This patch implement the logic that I believe

Re: [PATCH] sched: fix never executed code due to expression always false

2005-04-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > There are two expressions in kernel/sched.c that are always false since they > > test for <0 but the result of the expression is unsigned so they will never > > be less than zero. This patch implement the logic that I believe is

Re: IBM Thinkpad T42 - Looking for a Developer.

2005-04-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Matti Aarnio wrote: > Could you show what/sbin/lsusb -vvtells in your T42 ? > Do that without external devices attached. Here's /sbin/lsusb -vv output from my Thinkpad T42 Type: 2373-F2G : Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Device

Re: [PATCH] sched: fix never executed code due to expression always false

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Piggin
Jesper Juhl wrote: There are two expressions in kernel/sched.c that are always false since they test for <0 but the result of the expression is unsigned so they will never be less than zero. This patch implement the logic that I believe is intended without the signedness issue and without the

Re: Git archive now available

2005-04-14 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:01:47 +1000 Darren Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to the team at [EMAIL PROTECTED] we now have a > no so complete Git archive at > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/ > > If somebody could send me a complete Git mbox I will > update the archive with

Git archive now available

2005-04-14 Thread Darren Williams
Hi All Thanks to the team at [EMAIL PROTECTED] we now have a no so complete Git archive at http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/ If somebody could send me a complete Git mbox I will update the archive with it. - dsw -- Darren Williams

Re: IBM Thinkpad T42 - Looking for a Developer.

2005-04-14 Thread Jeff Lessem
In your message of: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:15:13 +0300, you write: >On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:40:16PM -0400, abonilla wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:20:19 +0200 (CEST), Jesper Juhl wrote >> > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: >... >> > > This is located in my home PC, Won't be the

[PATCH] sched: fix never executed code due to expression always false

2005-04-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
There are two expressions in kernel/sched.c that are always false since they test for <0 but the result of the expression is unsigned so they will never be less than zero. This patch implement the logic that I believe is intended without the signedness issue and without the nasty casts. patch

[PATCH] hangcheck-timer: Update to 0.9.0.

2005-04-14 Thread Joel Becker
I recently realized that the in-kernel copy of hangcheck-timer was quite stale. Here's the latest. It adds support for s390, ppc64, and ia64 too. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Kconfig |2 - hangcheck-timer.c | 104

Re: ALSA Oops (triggered by xmms)

2005-04-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 01:22 +0200, Christian Kujau wrote: > maybe some guru can shed some light on what's going on in xmms-oops.txt > and tell me who's to bug here :-> Fixed in 2.6.11.7. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Serverworks LE and MTRR write-combining question

2005-04-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 19:00 -0400, Mike Russo wrote:Just > wondering if anyone had any updates on this issue, and if not, hey, > that's why the source is there -- for me to screw around with. ;) > I think it didn't go in just because no one bothered to repost the patch with the comment fixed,

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-14 Thread Al Viro
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:41:44PM -0500, Franco Sensei wrote: > The global feeling about kernel is that it seems that you don't care > about the purpose of your task, which of course is not the kernel by > itself. It can't be. It's about what it does (and already does it well), > and what it

ALSA Oops (triggered by xmms)

2005-04-14 Thread Christian Kujau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 howdy, yesterday i hit an Oops when i tried to play an mp3 with xmms. nothing unusual. the thing is - i've not changed the kernel (2.6.11-gentoo-r5) for a while, but changed some (multimedia related) libs on my system. xmms just segfaults and it all

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/wan/: possible cleanups

2005-04-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 05:38:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2005-03-27 at 15:34, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > - syncppp.c: sppp_input > > - syncppp.c: sppp_change_mtu > > - z85230.c: z8530_dma_sync > > - z85230.c: z8530_txdma_sync > > Please leave the z85230 ones at least. They are an

Re: IBM Thinkpad T42 - Looking for a Developer.

2005-04-14 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:40:16PM -0400, abonilla wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:20:19 +0200 (CEST), Jesper Juhl wrote > > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: ... > > > This is located in my home PC, Won't be the fastest downloads... > > > > > > http://wifitux.com/finger/ > > > >

[PATCH] crypto: resource release functions ought to check for NULL (crypto_free_tfm)

2005-04-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
As far as I'm aware there's a general concensus that functions that are responsible for freeing resources should be able to cope with being passed a NULL pointer. This makes sense as it removes the need for all callers to check for NULL, thus elliminating the bugs that happen when some forget

Re: poor SATA performance under 2.6.11 (with < 2.6.11 is OK)?

2005-04-14 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:08:15AM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > >>The performance under 2.6 kernels is *very* poor (Timing buffered disk > >>reads never more than 20 MB/sec); under 2.4 it runs quite fine (Timing > >>buffered disk reads around 60 MB/sec). > > > > > > 2.4 risk data corruption.

Re: Linux support for IBM ThinkPad Disk shock prevention update...

2005-04-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 18:46 -0400, abonilla wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:15:16 -0400, Lee Revell wrote > > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:58 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: > > > We just need to figure > > > out to get the specs from IBM > > > > Best bet is probably reverse engineering it... > > Lee, >

Re: 2.6.11.7 ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.

2005-04-14 Thread steve
Are you sure the ip_conntrack itself isn't ACTUALLY full? Have you tried increase this increasing this via /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max? Just did it, thanks for reply. The 2.4 kernel I ran in the same box does not have such problem, maybe there is a change in the algorithm of

Serverworks LE and MTRR write-combining question

2005-04-14 Thread Mike Russo
Hello, I'd like to begin by humbly thanking everyone who works on the kernel for their time and patience and energy. Without you my company would have had to spend a lot more on software and gotten nowhere near as much value in return! I have a question regarding my motherboard's serverworks

Re: [patch 1/1] nbd: Don't create all MAX_NBD devices by default all the time

2005-04-14 Thread Domen Puncer
On 14/04/05 13:23 +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This patches adds the "nbds_max" parameter to the nbd kernel module, > which limits the number of nbds allocated. Previously, always all 128 > entries were allocated unconditionally, which used

Re: 2.6.11.7 ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.

2005-04-14 Thread Omkhar Arasaratnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I thought this problem has been fixed but apparently not in 2.6.11.7. > Is there any patch for it ? Thanks > > Are you sure the ip_conntrack itself isn't ACTUALLY full? Have you tried increase this increasing this via

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-14 Thread Franco \"Sensei\"
Adrian Bunk wrote: Are you sure you know what you are talking about? ABI stability requires API stability [1]. Of course it requires API stability... as I said ``API and data structure stability should be something in mind''. I really meant that API shouldn't change suddenly. And from the moment

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-14 Thread Franco \"Sensei\"
Horst von Brand wrote: No I'm not confusing. As long as the .config has an influence on the makefiles I get different symbols names. Nope. I don't understand. The .config drives the kernel build, I don't get XFS functions and names if I don't compile it. I have different symbol names... At

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:11:53PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:53:52PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:27:22PM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > > > Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > Any sensible solution here is going to require remembering

Re: Linux support for IBM ThinkPad Disk shock prevention update...

2005-04-14 Thread abonilla
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:15:16 -0400, Lee Revell wrote > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:58 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: > > We just need to figure > > out to get the specs from IBM > > Best bet is probably reverse engineering it... Lee, I know this is far from easy... but, What do we need to do this? I

RE: IBM Thinkpad T42 - Looking for a Developer.

2005-04-14 Thread abonilla
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:20:19 +0200 (CEST), Jesper Juhl wrote > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > > > > > Jesper, > > > > Believe me that I would be more happy to have this working... :) > > > I've got a weeks vacation comming up next week - seems like a good > time to

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-14 Thread Franco \"Sensei\"
Arjan van de Ven wrote: this is a joke right? If you really think this you have no idea what ABI stability means and how extremely hard it is to even sort of remotely approach it. I know it's really hard, the only way of possibly having ABI is plannig things really carefully about every single

Re: poor SATA performance under 2.6.11 (with < 2.6.11 is OK)?

2005-04-14 Thread Chris Wright
* Tomasz Chmielewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > or should I wait for 2.6.11.7 (?), where it should be corrected? Wait, no longer, 2.6.11.7 has been here already ;-) However, nothing in this area was touched. If there's an outstanding issue, please chase it down, and if it's reasonable

Re: 2.6.11.7 ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.

2005-04-14 Thread steve
Hi, Maybe you are thinking of a problem I'm not aware of, but have you tried increasing /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max ? Ah, just check and discover, in 2.6.8 system the number is 8184 and in the 2.6.11.7 it is only 4088. Will try to increase it now and see if the internet slugish

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:18:12PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > So we would need to zero out the suspend image in swap to prevent the > > > retrieval of this data from the running machine (imagine a > > > remote-root-hole). > > > > > > Zeroing out the suspend image means "write lots

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-14 Thread Franco \"Sensei\"
Adrian Bunk wrote: Linux kernel development is working different. Getting changes quickly to the users is considered more important than API or even ABI compatibility. I don't agree about API, but that's how it goes :) APIs are too important to bring them down from my point of view. Offering

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-14 Thread John M Collins
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > A-Freakin'-MEN me droogy. > > Hehehe, either a slow system, or you know how to transfer a working > setup to another machine. > > My current image I use(d) for all of my machines was Built a long time > ago, I think slink was what I used

Re: 2.6.11.7 ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.

2005-04-14 Thread Daniel Andersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I thought this problem has been fixed but apparently not in 2.6.11.7. Is there any patch for it ? Thanks Steve Kieu PerfectPC Ltd. Technical Division. Web: http://www.perfectpc.co.nz/ Ph: 04 461 7489 Mob: 021 137 0260 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-14 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:53:52PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:27:22PM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > > Matt Mackall wrote: > > > Any sensible solution here is going to require remembering passwords. > > > And arguably anywhere the user needs encrypted suspend, they'll

Re: poor SATA performance under 2.6.11 (with < 2.6.11 is OK)?

2005-04-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:23:30PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: I have a Silicon Image SIL3112A SATA PCI controller + 2x 200GB, 8MB Barracuda drives. Bad combination. OK, from the link you gave I can see that there might be some problems with SIL3112 controller + seagate

E1000 - page allocation failure - saga continues :(

2005-04-14 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
Hello, today I tried 2.6.11.7 kernel with hoping that allocation failures disappear. Unfortunately they did not. Default min_free_kb is 3200kB. Here is stack trace: swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 [] __alloc_pages+0x2b3/0x420 [] kmem_getpages+0x31/0xa0 []

2.6.11.7 ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.

2005-04-14 Thread steve
Hi, I thought this problem has been fixed but apparently not in 2.6.11.7. Is there any patch for it ? Thanks Steve Kieu PerfectPC Ltd. Technical Division. Web: http://www.perfectpc.co.nz/ Ph: 04 461 7489 Mob: 021 137 0260 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

RE: IBM Thinkpad T42 - Looking for a Developer.

2005-04-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > > Jesper, > > Believe me that I would be more happy to have this working... :) > I've got a weeks vacation comming up next week - seems like a good time to play with this :) > This is located in my home PC, Won't be the fastest

Re: Linux support for IBM ThinkPad Disk shock prevention update...

2005-04-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:58 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: > We just need to figure > out to get the specs from IBM Best bet is probably reverse engineering it... Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

RE: Linux support for IBM ThinkPad Disk shock prevention update...

2005-04-14 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> > Has anyone started on such a project or would like to? We > just need to figure > out to get the specs from IBM I think such support would be good. > > Shawn. > - I believe I have emailed IBM about 20 times about this, and have sent emails to the people from IBM Research and the same guys

RE: IBM Thinkpad T42 - Looking for a Developer.

2005-04-14 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Jesper, Believe me that I would be more happy to have this working... :) This is located in my home PC, Won't be the fastest downloads... http://wifitux.com/finger/ - Alejandro. > > -Original Message- > > From: Jesper Juhl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent:

Re: BUGs in 2.6.12-rc2-RT-V0.7.45-01

2005-04-14 Thread William Weston
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: > what are you using kprobes for? Do you get lockups even if you disable > kprobes? Various processes will lockup on the P4/HT system, usually while under some load. The processes cannot be killed. X will lockup once or twice a day (which means my

Re: IBM Thinkpad T42 - Looking for a Developer.

2005-04-14 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry if this thread has been already discussed or if this is not the > right > place. I'm looking for a driver developer to make the driver for the IBM > Thinkpads Fingerprint reader. > > I have all the documentation

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

2005-04-14 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:56 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Is the VIA IRQ fixup related to the "spurious interrupts" messages in > any way? Googling the 2.4 threads on the issue gave me the impression > that it's related to broken hardware. I think excessive disk activity > might trigger it. If you

Linux support for IBM ThinkPad Disk shock prevention update...

2005-04-14 Thread Shawn Starr
Has anyone started on such a project or would like to? We just need to figure out to get the specs from IBM I think such support would be good. Shawn. - 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: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

2005-04-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 14:43 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:11 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > I get this message occasionally on both my machines. I googled and saw > > some references to this message on 2.4 but nothing for 2.6. Some of the > > references were to APIC, which

[2.6.12-rc2][panic][NET] qdisc_restart - When loading ipw2200 driver - not mangled

2005-04-14 Thread Shawn Starr
Here's the dmesg/panic dump: Any problems with the Network scheduling in 2.6.12-rc2? [4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.12-rc2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.0 20050319 (prerelease)) #1 Wed Apr 13 11:38:19 EDT 2005 [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [4294667.296000]

IBM Thinkpad T42 - Looking for a Developer.

2005-04-14 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi All, Sorry if this thread has been already discussed or if this is not the right place. I'm looking for a driver developer to make the driver for the IBM Thinkpads Fingerprint reader. I have all the documentation required from the Makers of the hardware, the so called

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2005-04-14 Thread Allison
I am trying to simply print out the module names and code sizes. I am just learning how to rtraverse these data structures. Also, on what basis is the decision made whether to export a symbol or not ? thanks, Allison Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 19:53 +, Allison wrote: >

Re: Disc driver is module, software suspend fails

2005-04-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > This patch makes software_resume not a late_initcall but rather an > > > external subroutine similar to software_suspend, and calls it at the > > > beginning of mount_root (in init/do_mounts.c), just _after_ the initrd > > > (if any) and its driver have been seen > > > > But the

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

2005-04-14 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:11 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > I get this message occasionally on both my machines. I googled and saw > some references to this message on 2.4 but nothing for 2.6. Some of the > references were to APIC, which I don't have enabled. > > Both machines are using VIA chipsets

Re: hard lockup on nx5000 laptop with 2.6.11+hack and FC2's 2.6.10-1.770_FC2

2005-04-14 Thread Ben Greear
Yu, Luming wrote: Do you have acpi enabled? Yes, in both of my custom kernels, and probably in the FC2 one as well. If the problem just happend with acpi enabled, please try latest acpi patch through testing latest mm tree, If it still doesn't work, please file a bug on www.kernel.org

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2005-04-14 Thread kwosvlowp
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Re: [PATCH] Fix reloading GDT on ACPI S3 wakeup (fwd)

2005-04-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > This patch - based on > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=110055503031009=2 - > makes ACPI S3 wakeup work for me on a ThinkPad T40p laptop with a SMP > kernel. Without it only UP kernels work. I've been using the patch for > three months now without any issues. > > The ACPI

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-14 Thread Horst von Brand
"Franco \"Sensei\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > David Lang wrote: > > some config changes are additions, some redefine things. > > > > you are mistakeing the .config file for a symbol table. > No I'm not confusing. As long as the .config has an influence on the > makefiles I get different

Re: PCI interrupt problem: e1000 & Super-Micro X6DVA motherboard

2005-04-14 Thread Ben Greear
Ganesh Venkatesan wrote: Ben: Have you checked if the BIOS on the super micro machine is the latest and greatest. I have had interrupt routing issues very similar to the one you are describing due to a BIOS Interrupt Routing issue. Moving to newer BIOS fixed it. A new BIOS didn't help.

[2.6.12-rc2][panic][NET] qdisc_restart - When loading ipw2200 driver

2005-04-14 Thread Shawn Starr
Here's the dmesg/panic dump: Any problems with the Network scheduling in 2.6.12-rc2? [4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.12-rc2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.0 20050319 (prerelease)) #1 Wed Apr 13 11:38:19 EDT 2005 [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [4294667.296000]

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > So we would need to zero out the suspend image in swap to prevent the > > retrieval of this data from the running machine (imagine a > > remote-root-hole). > > > > Zeroing out the suspend image means "write lots of megabytes to the > > disk" which takes a lot of time. > > Zero only the

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:40:09PM -0500, Franco Sensei wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>When a new component is added to the kernel, let's say support for a new > >>file system, a .config entry is created (CONFIG_MYFS=y|m). Why is this > >>entry breaking compatibility? I mean, symbols still

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