[PATCH] Re: diff command line?

2005-03-05 Thread Bodo Eggert
the resulting patch can be applied with patch -p1. This seems to be a common mistake. Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11/Documentation/SubmittingPatches.ori2005-03-05 21:29:26.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11/Documentation/SubmittingPatches2005-03-05 21:38

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it not be simpler to just add "resume=03:02" to the boot command line? Some devices have random device numbers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it not be simpler to just add resume=03:02 to the boot command line? Some devices have random device numbers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: userspace app needing signal on parport input change

2005-02-26 Thread Bodo Eggert
Melkor Ainur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way for a user space app to get a signal or > maybe woken up from select/read when there is a change > on a particular input pin on the parallel port? The easiest hack I can think of is: Change the db9-driver to be freely configurable and make

Re: userspace app needing signal on parport input change

2005-02-26 Thread Bodo Eggert
Melkor Ainur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way for a user space app to get a signal or maybe woken up from select/read when there is a change on a particular input pin on the parallel port? The easiest hack I can think of is: Change the db9-driver to be freely configurable and make

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-23 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, linux-os wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > linux-os <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You don't seem to understand. A process that's stuck in 'D' state > >> shows a SEVERE error, usually with a hardware driver. >

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-23 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, linux-os wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: linux-os [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't seem to understand. A process that's stuck in 'D' state shows a SEVERE error, usually with a hardware driver. Or a network filesystem mount to a no longer existing

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-22 Thread Bodo Eggert
linux-os <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't seem to understand. A process that's stuck in 'D' state > shows a SEVERE error, usually with a hardware driver. Or a network filesystem mount to a no longer existing server or share. > For instance, > somebody may have coded something in a

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-22 Thread Bodo Eggert
linux-os [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't seem to understand. A process that's stuck in 'D' state shows a SEVERE error, usually with a hardware driver. Or a network filesystem mount to a no longer existing server or share. For instance, somebody may have coded something in a critical

Re: proc path_walk glitch ?

2005-02-20 Thread Bodo Eggert
Der Herr Hofrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cd /proc/8655 > kill -9 8655 > ls > /usr/bin/ls: .: Stale NFS file handle Seems to be fixed in 2.6.10-ac9 or earlier - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: proc path_walk glitch ?

2005-02-20 Thread Bodo Eggert
Der Herr Hofrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cd /proc/8655 kill -9 8655 ls /usr/bin/ls: .: Stale NFS file handle Seems to be fixed in 2.6.10-ac9 or earlier - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH] add umask parameter to procfs

2005-02-17 Thread Bodo Eggert
Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:41:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >> Rene Scharfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Add proc.umask kernel parameter. It can be used to restrict permissions >> > on the numerical directories in the root of a proc filesystem,

Re: [PATCH] add umask parameter to procfs

2005-02-17 Thread Bodo Eggert
Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:41:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Rene Scharfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add proc.umask kernel parameter. It can be used to restrict permissions on the numerical directories in the root of a proc filesystem, i.e. the

[RESUBMIT] [PATCH] [BUGFIX] sound/oss/es1371.c: Don't print joystick address before it's set.

2005-02-13 Thread Bodo Eggert
lifier control *03.01.2003 0.32 open_mode fixes from Georg Acher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + *22.01.2004 0.33 fix output of joystick address + * by Bodo Eggert <[

[RESUBMIT] [PATCH] [BUGFIX] sound/oss/es1371.c: Don't print joystick address before it's set.

2005-02-13 Thread Bodo Eggert
control *03.01.2003 0.32 open_mode fixes from Georg Acher [EMAIL PROTECTED] + *22.01.2004 0.33 fix output of joystick address + * by Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ /*/ @@ -2849,8

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-12 Thread Bodo Eggert
Kendall Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Laptops are a little different as they will make calls from the Video > BIOS into the system BIOS, so you need to make sure that the system BIOS > is also available in the execution environment. Any video BIOS (especially EGA) may call system BIOS

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-12 Thread Bodo Eggert
Kendall Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laptops are a little different as they will make calls from the Video BIOS into the system BIOS, so you need to make sure that the system BIOS is also available in the execution environment. Any video BIOS (especially EGA) may call system BIOS

[OOPS] 2.6.10-ac9 while watching TV and disk IO

2005-02-06 Thread Bodo Eggert
This oops happened while watching TV and burning a CD. Other oopses (I guess, didn't verify at that time) happened while copying many large files and watching TV at the same time. Note1: /proc/ksyms does not exist. What to do? Note2: ksymoops prints this error message to /dev/stderr:

Re: 3TB disk hassles

2005-02-06 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Neil Conway wrote: > Since writing the above, I've been searching for more info. I > downloaded four different versions of grub (GNU Grub Legacy, GNU Grub2, > gentoo and Fedora Core 3). NONE of these showed any evidence of GPT > support (I was in a hurry, so I searched for

Re: 3TB disk hassles

2005-02-06 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Neil Conway wrote: Since writing the above, I've been searching for more info. I downloaded four different versions of grub (GNU Grub Legacy, GNU Grub2, gentoo and Fedora Core 3). NONE of these showed any evidence of GPT support (I was in a hurry, so I searched for

[OOPS] 2.6.10-ac9 while watching TV and disk IO

2005-02-06 Thread Bodo Eggert
This oops happened while watching TV and burning a CD. Other oopses (I guess, didn't verify at that time) happened while copying many large files and watching TV at the same time. Note1: /proc/ksyms does not exist. What to do? Note2: ksymoops prints this error message to /dev/stderr:

Re: 3TB disk hassles

2005-02-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought sure I had read somewhere that typical x86 PC BIOSes just > didn't understand the GPT ptbl, and thus couldn't boot from a GPT'ed > disk. No common x86 BIOS can understand any partition table. Booting is done by loading the first sector of the

Re: 3TB disk hassles

2005-02-04 Thread Bodo Eggert
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought sure I had read somewhere that typical x86 PC BIOSes just didn't understand the GPT ptbl, and thus couldn't boot from a GPT'ed disk. No common x86 BIOS can understand any partition table. Booting is done by loading the first sector of the boot

Re: Complex logging in the kernel

2005-01-25 Thread Bodo Eggert
John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What systems exist for complex logging and security auditing in the kernel? > > For example, let's say I wanted to register my specific code (i.e. a > security module) to log, and adjust to log level N. I also want another > module to log at log

Re: Complex logging in the kernel

2005-01-25 Thread Bodo Eggert
John Richard Moser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What systems exist for complex logging and security auditing in the kernel? For example, let's say I wanted to register my specific code (i.e. a security module) to log, and adjust to log level N. I also want another module to log at log level L,

[PATCH] oss/es1371.c: Don't print joystick address before it's set.

2005-01-22 Thread Bodo Eggert
: es1371 joystick at 0x218 Signed-off-by: Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- sound/oss/es1371.c.ori 2005-01-22 17:38:10.180308592 +0100 +++ sound/oss/es1371.c 2005-01-22 18:11:25.919910056 +0100 @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ * Fix SETTRIGGER non OSS API conformity *14.0

[PATCH] oss/es1371.c: Don't print joystick address before it's set.

2005-01-22 Thread Bodo Eggert
: es1371 joystick at 0x218 Signed-off-by: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- sound/oss/es1371.c.ori 2005-01-22 17:38:10.180308592 +0100 +++ sound/oss/es1371.c 2005-01-22 18:11:25.919910056 +0100 @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ * Fix SETTRIGGER non OSS API conformity *14.07.2001

Re: 2.4: "access beyond end of device" after ext2 mount

2005-01-21 Thread Bodo Eggert
Mario Holbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand the point that the device's blocksize affects the device's > length... obviously a block device can only consist of full blocks, > not half a block or something like that. > However, if that's right, a block device's length should IMHO also be

Re: 2.4: access beyond end of device after ext2 mount

2005-01-21 Thread Bodo Eggert
Mario Holbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand the point that the device's blocksize affects the device's length... obviously a block device can only consist of full blocks, not half a block or something like that. However, if that's right, a block device's length should IMHO also be

Re: User space out of memory approach

2005-01-19 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Edjard Souza Mota wrote: > > > > What about creating a linked list of (stackable) algorhithms which can > > > > be > > > > extended by loading modules and resorted using {proc,sys}fs? It will > > > > avoid > > > > the extra process, the extra CPU time (and task switches) to

Re: [PATCH] aoe: add documentation for udev users

2005-01-19 Thread Bodo Eggert
Ed L Cashin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +if test -z "$conf"; then > +conf="`find /etc -type f -name udev.conf 2> /dev/null`" > +fi > +if test -z "$conf" || test ! -r $conf; then > +echo "$me Error: could not find readable udev.conf in /etc" 1>&2 > +exit 1 > +fi This will

Re: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler

2005-01-19 Thread Bodo Eggert
Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Unconditionally execute make install assuming vmlinux is up-to-date. >make modules_install run unconditionally, so this is already know >practice (o) Vote for this. IMO, a make install should NEVER run the compiler. The reason is: I'm

Re: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler

2005-01-19 Thread Bodo Eggert
Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Unconditionally execute make install assuming vmlinux is up-to-date. make modules_install run unconditionally, so this is already know practice (o) Vote for this. IMO, a make install should NEVER run the compiler. The reason is: I'm deliberaely

Re: [PATCH] aoe: add documentation for udev users

2005-01-19 Thread Bodo Eggert
Ed L Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +if test -z $conf; then +conf=`find /etc -type f -name udev.conf 2 /dev/null` +fi +if test -z $conf || test ! -r $conf; then +echo $me Error: could not find readable udev.conf in /etc 12 +exit 1 +fi This will fail and print ---

Re: User space out of memory approach

2005-01-19 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Edjard Souza Mota wrote: What about creating a linked list of (stackable) algorhithms which can be extended by loading modules and resorted using {proc,sys}fs? It will avoid the extra process, the extra CPU time (and task switches) to frequently

Re: User space out of memory approach

2005-01-18 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Edjard Souza Mota wrote: > > If my system needs the OOM killer, it's usurally unresponsive to most > > userspace applications. A normal daemon would be swapped out before the > > runaway dhcpd grows larger than the web cache. It would have to be a mlocked > > RT task started

Re: User space out of memory approach

2005-01-18 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Edjard Souza Mota wrote: If my system needs the OOM killer, it's usurally unresponsive to most userspace applications. A normal daemon would be swapped out before the runaway dhcpd grows larger than the web cache. It would have to be a mlocked RT task started from

Re: User space out of memory approach

2005-01-16 Thread Bodo Eggert
Edjard Souza Mota wrote: > What do you think about the point we are trying to make, i.e., moving the > ranking of PIDs to be killed to user space? If my system needs the OOM killer, it's usurally unresponsive to most userspace applications. A normal daemon would be swapped out before the runaway

Re: User space out of memory approach

2005-01-16 Thread Bodo Eggert
Edjard Souza Mota wrote: What do you think about the point we are trying to make, i.e., moving the ranking of PIDs to be killed to user space? If my system needs the OOM killer, it's usurally unresponsive to most userspace applications. A normal daemon would be swapped out before the runaway

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