Change Compaq Array names to "HP Proliant Array Controllers" in KConfig

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Someone may wish to change the description of the Compaq Array Controllers under Block Devices to "HP" based controllers for the HP appliances. It's rather confusing and inaccurate since Compaq has not existed for several years now. The controllers come up and identify themselves as "HP

Change Compaq Array names to HP Proliant Array Controllers in KConfig

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Someone may wish to change the description of the Compaq Array Controllers under Block Devices to HP based controllers for the HP appliances. It's rather confusing and inaccurate since Compaq has not existed for several years now. The controllers come up and identify themselves as HP

Preemption Broken: centrino_target busted under SMP on 2.6.20.4

2007-04-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [0001] code: kondemand/0/2473 caller is centrino_target+0xfb/0x600 [<401e3646>] debug_smp_processor_id+0x9e/0xb0 [<40112afb>] centrino_target+0xfb/0x600 [<40112a00>] centrino_target+0x0/0x600 [<40305bd9>] __cpufreq_driver_target+0x5c/0x6b []

Preemption Broken: centrino_target busted under SMP on 2.6.20.4

2007-04-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [0001] code: kondemand/0/2473 caller is centrino_target+0xfb/0x600 [401e3646] debug_smp_processor_id+0x9e/0xb0 [40112afb] centrino_target+0xfb/0x600 [40112a00] centrino_target+0x0/0x600 [40305bd9] __cpufreq_driver_target+0x5c/0x6b [f897a537]

Re: Latest e1000 7.3.20 driver busted with 2.6.20.4

2007-04-04 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Kok, Auke wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Kok, Auke wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: CC [M] drivers/net/chelsio/mv88x201x.o CC [M] drivers/net/chelsio/my3126.o LD [M] drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb.o CC drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.o drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c:1185:45: error: macro

Re: Latest e1000 7.3.20 driver busted with 2.6.20.4

2007-04-04 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Kok, Auke wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: CC [M] drivers/net/chelsio/mv88x201x.o CC [M] drivers/net/chelsio/my3126.o LD [M] drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb.o CC drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.o drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c:1185:45: error: macro "INIT_WORK" passed 3 arguments,

Latest e1000 7.3.20 driver busted with 2.6.20.4

2007-04-04 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
CC [M] drivers/net/chelsio/mv88x201x.o CC [M] drivers/net/chelsio/my3126.o LD [M] drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb.o CC drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.o drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c:1185:45: error: macro "INIT_WORK" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2 ared (first use in this function)

Latest e1000 7.3.20 driver busted with 2.6.20.4

2007-04-04 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
CC [M] drivers/net/chelsio/mv88x201x.o CC [M] drivers/net/chelsio/my3126.o LD [M] drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb.o CC drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.o drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c:1185:45: error: macro INIT_WORK passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2 ared (first use in this function)

Re: Latest e1000 7.3.20 driver busted with 2.6.20.4

2007-04-04 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Kok, Auke wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: CC [M] drivers/net/chelsio/mv88x201x.o CC [M] drivers/net/chelsio/my3126.o LD [M] drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb.o CC drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.o drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c:1185:45: error: macro INIT_WORK passed 3 arguments, but takes

Re: Latest e1000 7.3.20 driver busted with 2.6.20.4

2007-04-04 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Kok, Auke wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Kok, Auke wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: CC [M] drivers/net/chelsio/mv88x201x.o CC [M] drivers/net/chelsio/my3126.o LD [M] drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb.o CC drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.o drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c:1185:45: error: macro

Re: Conclusions from my investigation about ioapic programming

2007-02-23 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Eric, Please find attached the APIC code I used in Gadugi. It's code for plain vanilla APICs, but does just this. This code not only allows interrupts to be migrated, but processors to be stopped and restarted on the fly without system interruption. You may find some useful ideas in it.

Re: Conclusions from my investigation about ioapic programming

2007-02-23 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Here's the include file that goes with it. Jeff #include "types.h" #include "emit.h" #define _82489APIC_MASK 0x00F0 #define APIC_IO_REG 0x #define APIC_IO_DATA 0x0004 // APIC registers are 128 bit aligned. accesses are offset * 4 #define APIC_TASKPRI (4 * 0x0008)

Re: Conclusions from my investigation about ioapic programming

2007-02-23 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Eric W. Biederman wrote: ** Conclusions. *IRQs must be reprogramed in interrupt context. The result of this is investigation is that I am convinced we need to perform the irq migration activities in interrupt context although I am not convinced it is completely safe. I suspect multiple

Re: Conclusions from my investigation about ioapic programming

2007-02-23 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Eric W. Biederman wrote: ** Conclusions. *IRQs must be reprogramed in interrupt context. The result of this is investigation is that I am convinced we need to perform the irq migration activities in interrupt context although I am not convinced it is completely safe. I suspect multiple

Re: Conclusions from my investigation about ioapic programming

2007-02-23 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Here's the include file that goes with it. Jeff #include types.h #include emit.h #define _82489APIC_MASK 0x00F0 #define APIC_IO_REG 0x #define APIC_IO_DATA 0x0004 // APIC registers are 128 bit aligned. accesses are offset * 4 #define APIC_TASKPRI (4 * 0x0008) #define

Re: Conclusions from my investigation about ioapic programming

2007-02-23 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Eric, Please find attached the APIC code I used in Gadugi. It's code for plain vanilla APICs, but does just this. This code not only allows interrupts to be migrated, but processors to be stopped and restarted on the fly without system interruption. You may find some useful ideas in it.

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff Garzik wrote: Great offer to folks for drivers, but it sends a mixed message. OSDL should offer to host a page somewhere to coordinate all of this. :-) Jeff Roland Dreier wrote: Just look at the in-tree drivers: there are tons of them that don't work on big-endian platforms, or

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff Garzik wrote: Great offer to folks for drivers, but it sends a mixed message. OSDL should offer to host a page somewhere to coordinate all of this. :-) Jeff Roland Dreier wrote: Just look at the in-tree drivers: there are tons of them that don't work on big-endian platforms, or

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:29:28PM +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote: You can install the Intel Matrix driver after "adjusting" the inf file... Hmm, I guess a good question is: Why should I have to edit the inf file? Is it an issue of them making it only install if

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:29:28PM +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote: You can install the Intel Matrix driver after adjusting the inf file... Hmm, I guess a good question is: Why should I have to edit the inf file? Is it an issue of them making it only install if

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. The chip worked

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:46:42PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. The chip worked

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. The chip worked for about 30 seconds before liquifying

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Auke Kok wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: root=/dev/hda2 is what was passed to the kernel from grub. Jeff I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff V. Merkey wrote: root=/dev/hda2 is what was passed to the kernel from grub. Jeff I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. The chip worked

Re: NTFS deadlock on 2.6.18.6

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Sergey Vlasov wrote: Yep. Hello! I have encountered a deadlock in the NTFS filesystem on a 2.6.18.6-based kernel (x86_64, CONFIG_SMP set, but the machine has only one CPU (Athlon64 3200+), no PREEMPT). The kswapd0 and mklocatedb processes were apparently involved in the deadlock: kswapd0

SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. The chip worked for about 30 seconds before liquifying in the chassis. I note that the 945 chipset in the

SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. The chip worked for about 30 seconds before liquifying in the chassis. I note that the 945 chipset in the

Re: NTFS deadlock on 2.6.18.6

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Sergey Vlasov wrote: Yep. Hello! I have encountered a deadlock in the NTFS filesystem on a 2.6.18.6-based kernel (x86_64, CONFIG_SMP set, but the machine has only one CPU (Athlon64 3200+), no PREEMPT). The kswapd0 and mklocatedb processes were apparently involved in the deadlock: kswapd0

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff V. Merkey wrote: root=/dev/hda2 is what was passed to the kernel from grub. Jeff I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. The chip worked

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Auke Kok wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: root=/dev/hda2 is what was passed to the kernel from grub. Jeff I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. The chip worked for about 30 seconds before liquifying

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:46:42PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. The chip worked

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. The chip worked

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Alexandre Oliva wrote: In other words, in the GPL, "Program" does NOT mean "binary". Never has. Agreed. So what? How does this relate with the point above? The binary is a Program, as much as the sources are a Program. Both forms are

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-18 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Things we can say without being hypocrites and without getting into legal theory: Kernel modules without source, or that don't have a GPL compatible license are inconsiderate and rude. ?? Please don't be rude. ??? J Eric - To unsubscribe from

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-18 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Things we can say without being hypocrites and without getting into legal theory: Kernel modules without source, or that don't have a GPL compatible license are inconsiderate and rude. ?? Please don't be rude. ??? J Eric - To unsubscribe from

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Alexandre Oliva wrote: In other words, in the GPL, Program does NOT mean binary. Never has. Agreed. So what? How does this relate with the point above? The binary is a Program, as much as the sources are a Program. Both forms are

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Open Source Protocol Reconstruction Project for Linux

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Corrected URL. http://sourceforge.net/projects/data-echo Jeff We have open sourced this project for our Linux based appliances and file systems. Anyone from Linux who wants to help port the program from Windows to Linux is welcome. The program supports all native

[ANNOUNCE] Open Source Protocol Reconstruction Project for Linux

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
We have open sourced this project for our Linux based appliances and file systems. Anyone from Linux who wants to help port the program from Windows to Linux is welcome. The program supports all native Linux forensics applications and formats. The program reconsutructs web session and email,

[ANNOUNCE] Open Source Protocol Reconstruction Project for Linux

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
We have open sourced this project for our Linux based appliances and file systems. Anyone from Linux who wants to help port the program from Windows to Linux is welcome. The program supports all native Linux forensics applications and formats. The program reconsutructs web session and email,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Open Source Protocol Reconstruction Project for Linux

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Corrected URL. http://sourceforge.net/projects/data-echo Jeff We have open sourced this project for our Linux based appliances and file systems. Anyone from Linux who wants to help port the program from Windows to Linux is welcome. The program supports all native

execv() problems with busybox on 2.6.18

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
/etc/init.d/rcS script execution fails with busybox on 2.6.18. Seems ldlinux.so related. J - 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://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
This whole effort is pointless. This is the same kind of crap MICROSOFT DOES to create incompatibilities DELIBERATELY. The code is either FREE or its NOT FREE.If the code is FREE then let it be. You can put whatever you want in the code -- I will remove any such constructs, just like I

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Yeah, like that one. WITH THE POLITICAL AGENDA CODE REMOVED. No. That's really a purely technical thing. I'm not certain I understand what you mean here. Nasty messages using the word "taint" is purely

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Martin J. Bligh wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Again, I agree with EVERY statement Linus made here. We operate exactly as Linus describes, and legally, NO ONE can take us to task on GPL issues. We post patches of affected kernel code (albiet the code resembles what Linus describes

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Again, I agree with EVERY statement Linus made here. We operate exactly as Linus describes, and legally, NO ONE can take us to task on GPL issues. We post patches of affected kernel code (albiet the code resembles what Linus describes as a "skeleton driver") and our proprietary non derived

Re: Need to enable caches in SMP ? (was Kernel 2.6 SMP very slow with ServerWorks LE Chipset)

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan wrote: As per Alan's suggestion I decompressed the kernel source tree with the processes pegged to one CPU then the other, and as he predicted it took vastly longer on one CPU than the other, but I don't know what that implies, or how to fix it. From the timing it sounds like one

Re: Need to enable caches in SMP ? (was Kernel 2.6 SMP very slow with ServerWorks LE Chipset)

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan wrote: As per Alan's suggestion I decompressed the kernel source tree with the processes pegged to one CPU then the other, and as he predicted it took vastly longer on one CPU than the other, but I don't know what that implies, or how to fix it. From the timing it sounds like one

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Again, I agree with EVERY statement Linus made here. We operate exactly as Linus describes, and legally, NO ONE can take us to task on GPL issues. We post patches of affected kernel code (albiet the code resembles what Linus describes as a skeleton driver) and our proprietary non derived code

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Martin J. Bligh wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Again, I agree with EVERY statement Linus made here. We operate exactly as Linus describes, and legally, NO ONE can take us to task on GPL issues. We post patches of affected kernel code (albiet the code resembles what Linus describes

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Yeah, like that one. WITH THE POLITICAL AGENDA CODE REMOVED. No. That's really a purely technical thing. I'm not certain I understand what you mean here. Nasty messages using the word taint is purely subjective

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
This whole effort is pointless. This is the same kind of crap MICROSOFT DOES to create incompatibilities DELIBERATELY. The code is either FREE or its NOT FREE.If the code is FREE then let it be. You can put whatever you want in the code -- I will remove any such constructs, just like I

execv() problems with busybox on 2.6.18

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
/etc/init.d/rcS script execution fails with busybox on 2.6.18. Seems ldlinux.so related. J - 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://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Phillip Susi wrote: If your comment here was in reply to my general comment about resierfs stability and not the specific hibernation issue the OP was having, please edit the quote down to just that portion instead of quoting the entire message, including the quotes it was replying to. I

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Phillip Susi wrote: Andrew Robinson wrote: Now I am confused on what may be the cause of the corruption. Could it have been just a ReiserFS problem (I will be using Ext3 or JSF on my next rebuild I think after reading some reviews on the ReiserFS and this recent experience). I have been

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Phillip Susi wrote: Andrew Robinson wrote: Now I am confused on what may be the cause of the corruption. Could it have been just a ReiserFS problem (I will be using Ext3 or JSF on my next rebuild I think after reading some reviews on the ReiserFS and this recent experience). I have been

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Phillip Susi wrote: If your comment here was in reply to my general comment about resierfs stability and not the specific hibernation issue the OP was having, please edit the quote down to just that portion instead of quoting the entire message, including the quotes it was replying to. I

[ANNOUNCE] DSFS File System Kernel Patches posted for kernel 2.6.18

2006-12-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
with the GPL license regarding modifications to the linux kernel core code sections. This patch DOES NOT contain the DSFS file system code, but only contains those portions of the Linux kernel which have been modified and are required to be released under the GPL. Jeff V. Merkey Chief Scientist

[ANNOUNCE] DSFS File System Kernel Patches posted for kernel 2.6.18

2006-12-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
with the GPL license regarding modifications to the linux kernel core code sections. This patch DOES NOT contain the DSFS file system code, but only contains those portions of the Linux kernel which have been modified and are required to be released under the GPL. Jeff V. Merkey Chief Scientist

Re: scst support for kernels above 2.6.15

2006-12-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: The code is not at sourceforge on your project site with these updates for 2.6.18. Where is the 2.6.18 version currently hosted? It is there on http://sourceforge.net/projects/scst (http://scst.sourceforge.net/). See 0.9.5 release version as well as

Re: scst support for kernels above 2.6.15

2006-12-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: I have noticed that scsi_do_req has apparently been obsoleted in 2.6.18 and above. Is scst and target support for FC-AL going to remain supported and/or merged at some point? If so, what is planned for scst support for later kernels

Re: scst support for kernels above 2.6.15

2006-12-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: I have noticed that scsi_do_req has apparently been obsoleted in 2.6.18 and above. Is scst and target support for FC-AL going to remain supported and/or merged at some point? If so, what is planned for scst support for later kernels

Re: scst support for kernels above 2.6.15

2006-12-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: The code is not at sourceforge on your project site with these updates for 2.6.18. Where is the 2.6.18 version currently hosted? It is there on http://sourceforge.net/projects/scst (http://scst.sourceforge.net/). See 0.9.5 release version as well as

scst support for kernels above 2.6.15

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I have noticed that scsi_do_req has apparently been obsoleted in 2.6.18 and above. Is scst and target support for FC-AL going to remain supported and/or merged at some point? If so, what is planned for scst support for later kernels? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

scst support for kernels above 2.6.15

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I have noticed that scsi_do_req has apparently been obsoleted in 2.6.18 and above. Is scst and target support for FC-AL going to remain supported and/or merged at some point? If so, what is planned for scst support for later kernels? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

2.6.18 X problems with ES4

2006-11-16 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
If the X server is started manually on 2.6.14 and above with "startx &" and if you hit the enter key in the detached session, the desktop will stop responding to keyboard and mouse events. It's easy to reproduce. Set to run level 3 on an ES4, then start the X server manually and hit enter

2.6.18 X problems with ES4

2006-11-16 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
If the X server is started manually on 2.6.14 and above with startx and if you hit the enter key in the detached session, the desktop will stop responding to keyboard and mouse events. It's easy to reproduce. Set to run level 3 on an ES4, then start the X server manually and hit enter in

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, but the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:00:45 MDT, "Jeff V. Merkey" said: There's also a more fundamental problem with the GPL language. The GPL stated it confers "RIGHT TO COPY". This is not the same as "RIGHT TO GRANT LICENSES TO DISTRIBUTE."

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Arjan van de Ven wrote: The GPL terms that require GPL conversion of any code that runs on Linux is not supported by US Law. Many would disagree, but that's OK. In short, it's just like any other proprietary app running on Linux. If it uses no Linux code (which it does not), then the GPL does

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: The Core File System code is a separate proprietary module and is not released under the GPL Are you going to post an analysis on the legality of this on merkeylaw.com ? ;) I am very open to discussions

[ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
of high performance network forensic open source applications on the Linux Operating System. DSFS is fully SMP enabled and supports Hyperthreaded architectures as well as native SMP. Jeff V. Merkey Solera Networks www.soleranetworks.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
of high performance network forensic open source applications on the Linux Operating System. DSFS is fully SMP enabled and supports Hyperthreaded architectures as well as native SMP. Jeff V. Merkey Solera Networks www.soleranetworks.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: The Core File System code is a separate proprietary module and is not released under the GPL Are you going to post an analysis on the legality of this on merkeylaw.com ? ;) I am very open to discussions

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Arjan van de Ven wrote: The GPL terms that require GPL conversion of any code that runs on Linux is not supported by US Law. Many would disagree, but that's OK. In short, it's just like any other proprietary app running on Linux. If it uses no Linux code (which it does not), then the GPL does

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:00:45 MDT, Jeff V. Merkey said: There's also a more fundamental problem with the GPL language. The GPL stated it confers RIGHT TO COPY. This is not the same as RIGHT TO GRANT LICENSES TO DISTRIBUTE. Under US copyright law, if you confer

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of derived work. Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, but the

Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Trever L. Adams wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:48 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Patent law in the US is based on section 113 of the United States Constitution, and patents are not going away. Merkey aren't you supposed to be a lawyer? Unless you do some funky concatenation of articles

Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 21:28 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 21:36, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Another Linux patent. ... and another - AFAICS obvious - trivial ("prior art") patent (but I'm

Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Why the hell would I want to look at the link in kwrite? Talk to the USPTO, they created these links from their website. BTW, if you check the verson of web server run on the uspto.gov server, you will discover it is Apache on IBM servers and IBM Linux. Ask them why IBM's sofware outputs

Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Why the hell would I want to look at the link in kwrite? Talk to the USPTO, they created these links from their website. BTW, if you check the verson of web server run on the uspto.gov server, you will discover it is Apache on IBM servers and IBM Linux. Ask them why IBM's sofware outputs

Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 21:28 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 21:36, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Another Linux patent. ... and another - AFAICS obvious - trivial (prior art) patent (but I'm not fluent

Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Trever L. Adams wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:48 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Patent law in the US is based on section 113 of the United States Constitution, and patents are not going away. Merkey aren't you supposed to be a lawyer? Unless you do some funky concatenation of articles

Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 21:36, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Another Linux patent. And that pretty much says it. Assigned to the Canopy Group. So SCO will have yet another lawsuit to threaten us with. If they survive the thrashing I've Been Moved will give them

[Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Another Linux patent. --- Begin Message --- http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2=HITOFF=1=/netahtml/search-bool.html=1=G=50=AND=ptxt=merkey.INZZ.=IN/merkey=IN/merkey

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: __Stable__ would be a good thing. The entire 2.6 development has been a disaster from a stability viewpoint. I have to maintain a huge tree of patches in order to ship appliance builds due to the lack of stability for 2.6. I

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Randy.Dunlap wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: __Stable__ would be a good thing. The entire 2.6 development has been a disaster from a stability viewpoint. I have to maintain a huge tree of patches in order to ship appliance builds due to the lack of stability for 2.6. I think that the even number

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
__Stable__ would be a good thing. The entire 2.6 development has been a disaster from a stability viewpoint. I have to maintain a huge tree of patches in order to ship appliance builds due to the lack of stability for 2.6. I think that the even number releases will take longer but it's worth

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
__Stable__ would be a good thing. The entire 2.6 development has been a disaster from a stability viewpoint. I have to maintain a huge tree of patches in order to ship appliance builds due to the lack of stability for 2.6. I think that the even number releases will take longer but it's worth

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Randy.Dunlap wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: __Stable__ would be a good thing. The entire 2.6 development has been a disaster from a stability viewpoint. I have to maintain a huge tree of patches in order to ship appliance builds due to the lack of stability for 2.6. I think that the even number

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: __Stable__ would be a good thing. The entire 2.6 development has been a disaster from a stability viewpoint. I have to maintain a huge tree of patches in order to ship appliance builds due to the lack of stability for 2.6. I

[Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Another Linux patent. ---BeginMessage--- http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFp=1u=/netahtml/search-bool.htmlr=1f=Gl=50co1=ANDd=ptxts1=merkey.INZZ.OS=IN/merkeyRS=IN/merkey

Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 21:36, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Another Linux patent. And that pretty much says it. Assigned to the Canopy Group. So SCO will have yet another lawsuit to threaten us with. If they survive the thrashing I've Been Moved will give them

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:50:44PM -0700, Ben Ford wrote: Microsoft is like a mountain with their installed base. Like it or not, no matter how loud the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it. :-) Jeff > Paul Mundt wrote: > > >On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:35:24PM -0400, Adam

Re: NWFS Submitted to Alan Cox

2001-07-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:23:17PM -0700, Justin Guyett wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:50:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > I'm not a file sustem hacker, nor since I work for one vendor the > > > appropriate owner for larg chunks of code

Re: NWFS Submitted to Alan Cox

2001-07-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:16:34AM -0400, Trever L. Adams wrote: > > I am doing very well with my consulting projects, but to be honest, > > my family has sufferred horribly in the past four years fighting with > > Novell every other week, and there's a very strong chance I will be > > moving

Re: NWFS Submitted to Alan Cox

2001-07-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:50:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > There are several areas that need restructuring and work, and I am > > available to answer questions, and assist with technical consulting, > > I'm not a file sustem hacker, nor since I work for one vendor the > appropriate owner

Re: NWFS Submitted to Alan Cox

2001-07-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 10:59:59PM -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote: > > From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Novell has recently threatened to try to take my house and > > assets if I post any more NWFS releases or MANOS. > [snip] > > T

Re: NWFS Submitted to Alan Cox

2001-07-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:54:18AM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:50:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I'm not a file sustem hacker, nor since I work for one vendor the > > appropriate owner for larg chunks of code in some people's eyes. I > > suspect the FSF is a much

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