The 2.4 /proc module change

In the old 2.x kernels, a /proc module registers itself through proc_register(&proc_root, &proc_self) and unregister itself through proc_unregister(&proc_root, inode) But in the 2.4.x kernels, proc_register and proc_unregister are no longer available. Compilation yields "implicit declaration of

Re: MM/VM todo list

About the RSS ulimit proposal, have we resolved the correctness of counting RSS in a process? Fei On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > Hi, > > here is a TODO list for the memory management area of the > Linux kernel, with both trivial things that could be done > for later 2.4 releases an

difference between kernel and bios report on drive status

Hi there: I am using PROMISE ultra100 with 2 UDMA66 disks. The PROMIS bios reports that both disks are using UDMA 4. But during kernel boot On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: up, the master disk is using UDMA 2 only. The reason is that master disk's pci->dma_ultra value is only 0x4

Re: kmalloc() allocation.

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:40:16PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > There are 256 megabytes of SDRAM available. I don't think it's > > > reasonable that a 1/2 megabyte allocation would fail, especially > > > since it's the first module being installed. >