Re: Allow (O=...) from file

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:37:03PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > Here's a clue: when I build with ARCH=x86, I get some warnings, but the > targz-pkg builds succesfully: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/git/linux-2.6 > make ARCH=x86 allnoconfig > [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/git/linux-2.6

Re: Allow (O=...) from file

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:00:03PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:04:33PM -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote: > > Sam, > > > > This piece of the top-level Makefile in current git causes an > > out-of-tree driver Makefile to fail. > > > > 101 ifdef O > > 102 ifeq ("$(origin O)",

Re: Allow (O=...) from file

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:04:33PM -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote: > Sam, > > This piece of the top-level Makefile in current git causes an > out-of-tree driver Makefile to fail. > > 101 ifdef O > 102 ifeq ("$(origin O)", "command line") > 103 KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(O) > 104 endif > 105 endif > >

Re: Allow (O=...) from file

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:04:33PM -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote: Sam, This piece of the top-level Makefile in current git causes an out-of-tree driver Makefile to fail. 101 ifdef O 102 ifeq ($(origin O), command line) 103 KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(O) 104 endif 105 endif The out-of-tree

Re: Allow (O=...) from file

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:00:03PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:04:33PM -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote: Sam, This piece of the top-level Makefile in current git causes an out-of-tree driver Makefile to fail. 101 ifdef O 102 ifeq ($(origin O), command line)

Re: Allow (O=...) from file

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:37:03PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: Here's a clue: when I build with ARCH=x86, I get some warnings, but the targz-pkg builds succesfully: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/git/linux-2.6 make ARCH=x86 allnoconfig [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/git/linux-2.6 make ARCH=x86 targz-pkg

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc3

2007-11-19 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:33:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Go get it, and test it. I gav 2.6.24 a first try and "make targz-pkg" fails on i386: /bin/sh /home/erik/git/linux-2.6/scripts/package/buildtar targz-pkg Makefile:119: *** Output directory (O=...) specifies kernel src dir. Stop.

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc3

2007-11-19 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:33:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Go get it, and test it. I gav 2.6.24 a first try and make targz-pkg fails on i386: /bin/sh /home/erik/git/linux-2.6/scripts/package/buildtar targz-pkg Makefile:119: *** Output directory (O=...) specifies kernel src dir. Stop.

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/arm/00-INDEX add missing entries.

2007-09-06 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:35:12PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Index two unindexed documentation files. Looks OK to me, either submit to Russell's patch system, or maybe Andrew would like to take the patch. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/arm/00-INDEX add missing entries.

2007-09-06 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:35:12PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index two unindexed documentation files. Looks OK to me, either submit to Russell's patch system, or maybe Andrew would like to take the patch. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry.

Re: Versioning file system

2007-07-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:57:40AM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Erik> The only valid use of Streams in Windows I've seen was a virus > Erik> checker that stored a hash of the file in a separat

Re: Versioning file system

2007-07-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:47:59PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 07:32:34PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > > (sorry for the late reply, just got back from holiday) > > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:29:56PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > As I

Re: Versioning file system

2007-07-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:47:59PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 07:32:34PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: (sorry for the late reply, just got back from holiday) On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:29:56PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: As I mentioned in my Linux.conf.au presentation

Re: Versioning file system

2007-07-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:57:40AM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: Erik == Erik Mouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erik The only valid use of Streams in Windows I've seen was a virus Erik checker that stored a hash of the file in a separate Erik stream. Checking a file was a matter of rehashing

Re: Versioning file system

2007-07-04 Thread Erik Mouw
(sorry for the late reply, just got back from holiday) On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:29:56PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > As I mentioned in my Linux.conf.au presentation a year and a half ago, > the main use of Streams in Windows to date has been for system > crackers to hide trojan horse code and

Re: Versioning file system

2007-07-04 Thread Erik Mouw
(sorry for the late reply, just got back from holiday) On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:29:56PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: As I mentioned in my Linux.conf.au presentation a year and a half ago, the main use of Streams in Windows to date has been for system crackers to hide trojan horse code and

Re: no more git snapshots?

2007-06-07 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:22:06PM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >After that came -rc4. Next one will be -rc4-git1. > > Ah, ok. I'm using ketchup(1) to track 2.6-git, so it'd take a -rc4-git0 > (same as rc4) to notice that the next version came

Re: no more git snapshots?

2007-06-07 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:22:06PM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: After that came -rc4. Next one will be -rc4-git1. Ah, ok. I'm using ketchup(1) to track 2.6-git, so it'd take a -rc4-git0 (same as rc4) to notice that the next version came out... If

Re: Question about spinlock in linux kernel

2007-06-06 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:40:58AM +0800, jidong xiao wrote: > I found there is such a kernel symbol ".text.lock.spinlock", > for example, > # cat /proc/kallsyms | grep spinlock > 8011e440 T bust_spinlocks > 802d00fc t .text.lock.spinlock > 8832ae20 d state_spinlock

Re: Question about spinlock in linux kernel

2007-06-06 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:40:58AM +0800, jidong xiao wrote: I found there is such a kernel symbol .text.lock.spinlock, for example, # cat /proc/kallsyms | grep spinlock 8011e440 T bust_spinlocks 802d00fc t .text.lock.spinlock 8832ae20 d state_spinlock [nfs]

Re: O_DIRECT for FAT

2007-05-15 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:02:51AM +0100, Hubertus Grobbel wrote: > I found out, that the option O_DIRECT for opening a file on a fat- > filesystem successfully completes. But reading and writing to that > file leads to EINVAL errors (using kernel 2.6.18). Make sure your buffer is page aligned

Re: O_DIRECT for FAT

2007-05-15 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:02:51AM +0100, Hubertus Grobbel wrote: I found out, that the option O_DIRECT for opening a file on a fat- filesystem successfully completes. But reading and writing to that file leads to EINVAL errors (using kernel 2.6.18). Make sure your buffer is page aligned and

Re: Execute in place

2007-05-03 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:04:44PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Phillip Susi wrote: > > I seem to remember seeing some patches go by at some point that allowed one > > of > > the rom type embeded system filesystems to directly execute binaries out of > > the original rom

Re: Execute in place

2007-05-03 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:04:44PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2007, Phillip Susi wrote: I seem to remember seeing some patches go by at some point that allowed one of the rom type embeded system filesystems to directly execute binaries out of the original rom memory rather

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-17 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:47:32PM +0200, Tomasz K?oczko wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > [..] > >Well, that was totally useless answer from the ZFS developers. What > >he should have told you is to contact Sun management, since they are > >the only ones who can decide whether

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-17 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:47:32PM +0200, Tomasz K?oczko wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: [..] Well, that was totally useless answer from the ZFS developers. What he should have told you is to contact Sun management, since they are the only ones who can decide whether or not

Re: System hanging randomly (SMP Kernel 2.6.20) - ATI chipset+Pentium 4HT

2007-03-02 Thread Erik Mouw
m a primary Linux user, I'm a little > disapointed because I have not been able to find the solution since monts. Try to recreate the problem without the proprietary wlan driver. With that driver loaded it's impossible to debug. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 --

Re: System hanging randomly (SMP Kernel 2.6.20) - ATI chipset+Pentium 4HT

2007-03-02 Thread Erik Mouw
have not been able to find the solution since monts. Try to recreate the problem without the proprietary wlan driver. With that driver loaded it's impossible to debug. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft

Re: Changelog question

2007-02-26 Thread Erik Mouw
le to extract such infos from the ChangeLogs in the above > directories. Use git to figure out: git-log v2.6.17..v2.6.18 Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.nl -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe fr

Re: Changelog question

2007-02-26 Thread Erik Mouw
the ChangeLogs in the above directories. Use git to figure out: git-log v2.6.17..v2.6.18 Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.nl -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: smp and irq conflict

2007-02-02 Thread Erik Mouw
auge PVR 150 or PVR 500. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: smp and irq conflict

2007-02-02 Thread Erik Mouw
or PVR 500. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-01 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:45:06AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:59:03PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > > I can't remember that kind of corruption ever being reported to the > > bcm43xx-dev mailing list. > > Well I assumed it messed up the eeprom s

Re: Need all the patche from kernel-2.6.7 to kernel-2.6.19 related to VM

2007-02-01 Thread Erik Mouw
.v2.6.19 mm/" . Only disadvantage is that it will give you only the diff from 2.6.11. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-01 Thread Erik Mouw
alink on it. You could use a CardBus or USB card. > Seems the ralink driver maintainers are doing a lot of the work on the > core wifi infastructure too. Lots of work beyond just the driver then. So are the bcm43xx maintainers. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com --

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-01 Thread Erik Mouw
or USB card. Seems the ralink driver maintainers are doing a lot of the work on the core wifi infastructure too. Lots of work beyond just the driver then. So are the bcm43xx maintainers. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26

Re: Need all the patche from kernel-2.6.7 to kernel-2.6.19 related to VM

2007-02-01 Thread Erik Mouw
/ . Only disadvantage is that it will give you only the diff from 2.6.11. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-01 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:45:06AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:59:03PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: I can't remember that kind of corruption ever being reported to the bcm43xx-dev mailing list. Well I assumed it messed up the eeprom settings, since we had to go

Re: [PATCH] Print number of oopses in Sysrq-P output

2007-01-18 Thread Erik Mouw
alised at 0. They live in the .bss segment so they will automatically initialised at 0 and not take space in the kernel image. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH] Print number of oopses in Sysrq-P output

2007-01-18 Thread Erik Mouw
in the kernel image. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: query related to serial console

2007-01-17 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:26:54AM +, Seetharam Dharmosoth wrote: > Is Linux having 'non-break interface for serial > console' ? No idea. Could you explain what a 'non-break interface for serial console' is? Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 --

Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-17 Thread Erik Mouw
17 11:03:41 localhost kernel: [254985.117447] EXT2-fs: sdb1: couldn't > mount RDWR because of unsupported optional features (1). I don't know if any of those tools tell the kernel that the partition table changedand that it has to reread them. To be sure the kernel knows, run "bloc

Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-17 Thread Erik Mouw
because of unsupported optional features (1). I don't know if any of those tools tell the kernel that the partition table changedand that it has to reread them. To be sure the kernel knows, run blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370

Re: query related to serial console

2007-01-17 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:26:54AM +, Seetharam Dharmosoth wrote: Is Linux having 'non-break interface for serial console' ? No idea. Could you explain what a 'non-break interface for serial console' is? Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab

Re: How can I create or read/write a file in linux device driver?

2007-01-12 Thread Erik Mouw
you read Dilbert about that. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: How can I create or read/write a file in linux device driver?

2007-01-12 Thread Erik Mouw
> Please search the archives, this get asked a lot and it has been > explained a million times why it's a bad idea. > You can also read http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8110 Rather point to http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/WhyWritingFilesFromKernelIsBad Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www

Re: How can I create or read/write a file in linux device driver?

2007-01-12 Thread Erik Mouw
asked a lot and it has been explained a million times why it's a bad idea. You can also read http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8110 Rather point to http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/WhyWritingFilesFromKernelIsBad Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab

Re: How can I create or read/write a file in linux device driver?

2007-01-12 Thread Erik Mouw
about that. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: can't cleanup /proc/swaps without rebooting ?

2007-01-11 Thread Erik Mouw
-118 > # "swapoff /dev/sdc1" or "swapoff /tmp/swa5TlBva/swapfilenext". Don't know if the latter works when the file is unlinked, just try. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-11 Thread Erik Mouw
ECT. Use things like madvise() and posix_fadvise() > instead. Both don't do what I want it to do: only read the sector I request you to read and certainly do not try to outsmart me by doing some kind of readahead. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 9

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-11 Thread Erik Mouw
madvise() and posix_fadvise() instead. Both don't do what I want it to do: only read the sector I request you to read and certainly do not try to outsmart me by doing some kind of readahead. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark

Re: can't cleanup /proc/swaps without rebooting ?

2007-01-11 Thread Erik Mouw
/swapfilenext. Don't know if the latter works when the file is unlinked, just try. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2006-12-22 Thread Erik Mouw
ublish your invention? Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2006-12-22 Thread Erik Mouw
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Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Mouw
"However, we thought the legal and technical expense involved in writing this binary driver and possibly violating the Linux kernel copyright was well spend." My 0.02 EUR. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:48:42AM +0545, Manish Regmi wrote: > Yes... my application does large amount of I/O. It actually writes > video data received from ethernet(IP camera) to the disk using 128 K > chunks. Bursty video traffic is really an application that could take advantage from the

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:48:42AM +0545, Manish Regmi wrote: Yes... my application does large amount of I/O. It actually writes video data received from ethernet(IP camera) to the disk using 128 K chunks. Bursty video traffic is really an application that could take advantage from the kernel

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Mouw
expense involved in writing this binary driver and possibly violating the Linux kernel copyright was well spend. My 0.02 EUR. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] Add a new section to CodingStyle, promoting include/linux/kernel.h.

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Mouw
he printk() KERN_ALERT etc. levels? I've seen quite some people using "<1>" on the kernelnewbies list. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: Detecting disk I/O errors

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Mouw
e started in a monitor mode. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majo

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 06:24:39PM +0545, Manish Regmi wrote: > On 12/18/06, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >if you want truely really smooth writes you'll have to work for it, > >since "bumpy" writes tend to be better for performance so naturally the > >kernel will favor those. > >

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 06:24:39PM +0545, Manish Regmi wrote: On 12/18/06, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you want truely really smooth writes you'll have to work for it, since bumpy writes tend to be better for performance so naturally the kernel will favor those. to get

Re: Detecting disk I/O errors

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Mouw
mode. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: [PATCH] Add a new section to CodingStyle, promoting include/linux/kernel.h.

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Mouw
() KERN_ALERT etc. levels? I've seen quite some people using 1 on the kernelnewbies list. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Linux slack space question

2006-12-11 Thread Erik Mouw
rward the answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as possible. Hmm no. You asked a public forum so the reply will go to that same public forum. See http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#noprivate . Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab addr

Re: Linux slack space question

2006-12-11 Thread Erik Mouw
as possible. Hmm no. You asked a public forum so the reply will go to that same public forum. See http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#noprivate . Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands

Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

2006-12-05 Thread Erik Mouw
at's too close to wifi_*, try frwr_. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

2006-12-05 Thread Erik Mouw
a better idea. Do you see a problem with using fw_* as a prefix in the code though? I don't see anybody using that prefix, but Stefan pointed out to me that it's often used to abbreviate firmware too. So what about fiwi_*? If that's too close to wifi_*, try frwr_. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw

Re: A problem about DIRECT IO on ext3

2005-08-31 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:07:45AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29 2005, Erik Mouw wrote: > > There are four prerequisites for direct IO: > > - the file needs to be opened with O_DIRECT > > - the buffer needs to be page aligned (hint: use getpagesize() inst

Re: A problem about DIRECT IO on ext3

2005-08-31 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:07:45AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Aug 29 2005, Erik Mouw wrote: There are four prerequisites for direct IO: - the file needs to be opened with O_DIRECT - the buffer needs to be page aligned (hint: use getpagesize() instead of assuming that a page is 4k

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:33:29PM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: > On Aug 25 2005, at 16:04, Erik Mouw was caught saying: > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:08:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I really wanted to release a 2.6.13, but there's been enough changes > > &g

Re: A problem about DIRECT IO on ext3

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Mouw
; return 0; > } With the changes, the result is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp > ls -l directio aaa -rwxr-xr-x 1 erik erik 49152 2005-08-29 15:26 aaa* -rwxr-xr-x 1 erik erik 12628 2005-08-29 15:26 directio* Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12

Re: A problem about DIRECT IO on ext3

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Mouw
values. } while(count 0); free(ptr1); close(fd1); close(fd2); return 0; } With the changes, the result is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp ls -l directio aaa -rwxr-xr-x 1 erik erik 49152 2005-08-29 15:26 aaa* -rwxr-xr-x 1 erik erik 12628 2005-08-29 15:26 directio* Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:33:29PM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: On Aug 25 2005, at 16:04, Erik Mouw was caught saying: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:08:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: I really wanted to release a 2.6.13, but there's been enough changes while we've been waiting for other

Re: syscall: sys_promote

2005-08-26 Thread Erik Mouw
llowed to use those limits. AFAIK setrlimit() can't be used to change resource limits of other processes. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-26 Thread Erik Mouw
ably only work on one platform. Besides, initramfs was made to set up userland. A self-extracting binary creates a chicken-and-egg problem: when run it will create a userland, but in order to be run it needs a userland. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 9

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-26 Thread Erik Mouw
dy know. > > For one, if you do "dd if=/dev/zero of=foo" on a ramfs the system > will lock up. "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!" "Well, then don't do that." You found a nice case of "Unix, rope, foot". Erik PS: I'm not going to hunt throug

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-26 Thread Erik Mouw
over a possible reply from you. Any reply without such headers will most probably not been seen and just ignored. -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-26 Thread Erik Mouw
up userland. A self-extracting binary creates a chicken-and-egg problem: when run it will create a userland, but in order to be run it needs a userland. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands

Re: syscall: sys_promote

2005-08-26 Thread Erik Mouw
resource limits of other processes. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-25 Thread Erik Mouw
e system will not boot. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-25 Thread Erik Mouw
complete Linux system, > so a more robust filesystem (tmpfs) is useful. What makes you think tmpfs is more robust than ramfs? What do you mean with a "robust filesystem"? Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 26

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-25 Thread Erik Mouw
ther ACPI or cpufreq. When the system boots, I see that the CPU is correctly detected as a 1200 MHz mobile Athlon, but once I log in /proc/cpuinfo says it's 2.6 or 3.6 GHz CPU. I don't have the laptop with me right now, but I'll send the boot messages tonight. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-rec

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-25 Thread Erik Mouw
. When the system boots, I see that the CPU is correctly detected as a 1200 MHz mobile Athlon, but once I log in /proc/cpuinfo says it's 2.6 or 3.6 GHz CPU. I don't have the laptop with me right now, but I'll send the boot messages tonight. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-25 Thread Erik Mouw
ramfs? What do you mean with a robust filesystem? Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-25 Thread Erik Mouw
. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: IRQ problem with PCMCIA

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:31:58AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2005-08-23 at 09:49 +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > > Is there any place where we can get your current patches? > > Which ones - the PATA IDE ones are in 2.6.11-ac, a subset in Fedora > (other changes in the core IDE

Re: debug a high load average

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
d. 1.5 MB/s suggests you're using an IDE drive in PIO mode. Switch to DMA mode (hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda) and see if it gets any better. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: what does scsi sense means?

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
u can get "sense information" which tells you more about why a particular command failed. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: IRQ problem with PCMCIA

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
r current patches? Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majo

Re: IRQ problem with PCMCIA

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
? Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: debug a high load average

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
using an IDE drive in PIO mode. Switch to DMA mode (hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda) and see if it gets any better. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: IRQ problem with PCMCIA

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:31:58AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: On Maw, 2005-08-23 at 09:49 +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: Is there any place where we can get your current patches? Which ones - the PATA IDE ones are in 2.6.11-ac, a subset in Fedora (other changes in the core IDE code make forward

Re: what does scsi sense means?

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
information which tells you more about why a particular command failed. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: kernel

2005-08-12 Thread Erik Mouw
ost to this list at all. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More m

Re: kernel

2005-08-12 Thread Erik Mouw
to this list at all. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: VGER news

2005-08-09 Thread Erik Mouw
tti is talking about an increase, which implies a difference. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: VGER news

2005-08-09 Thread Erik Mouw
. In terms of Bogomips around 7-8, but for actual loads nearly twice as much. Wow, that's a lot of bogomips. That's just a little faster than my 386 (running 2.6.13-rc1): http://jengelh.hopto.org/GFX0/proc386.jpg Matti is talking about an increase, which implies a difference. Erik -- +-- Erik

Re: core file not generated when kernel is crashed with Sysrq key

2005-07-28 Thread Erik Mouw
projects for kernel crash dumps, search the archives. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: core file not generated when kernel is crashed with Sysrq key

2005-07-28 Thread Erik Mouw
for kernel crash dumps, search the archives. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

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