Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kai Germaschewski writes: > > The patch is right, the explanation was wrong. Sorry, I didn't CC l-k when > > I found what was really going on. Other source files used a global > > initialized variable "divert_if" as well, so this became the same one as

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kai Germaschewski writes: The patch is right, the explanation was wrong. Sorry, I didn't CC l-k when I found what was really going on. Other source files used a global initialized variable "divert_if" as well, so this became the same one as the one

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-03 Thread Russell King
Kai Germaschewski writes: > The patch is right, the explanation was wrong. Sorry, I didn't CC l-k when > I found what was really going on. Other source files used a global > initialized variable "divert_if" as well, so this became the same one as > the one referenced in isdn_common.c. That's why

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-03 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On 3 Jan 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Kai Germaschewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think the problem was that we relied on divert_if being initialized to > > zero automatically, which didn't happen because it was not declared static > > and therefore not in .bss (*is this true?*). >

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Kai Germaschewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Gerold Jury wrote: > > > I have reversed the patches part by part, the only thing that makes a > > difference is the diversion services. > > The reason for this remains unknown for me. > > I think I found it. Could everybody

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-03 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > I think the problem was that we relied on divert_if being initialized to > zero automatically, which didn't happen because it was not declared static > and therefore not in .bss (*is this true?*). This is true in this particular case, and your

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-03 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Kai Germaschewski wrote: I think the problem was that we relied on divert_if being initialized to zero automatically, which didn't happen because it was not declared static and therefore not in .bss (*is this true?*). This is true in this particular case, and your added

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Kai Germaschewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Gerold Jury wrote: I have reversed the patches part by part, the only thing that makes a difference is the diversion services. The reason for this remains unknown for me. I think I found it. Could everybody who was

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-03 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On 3 Jan 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Kai Germaschewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the problem was that we relied on divert_if being initialized to zero automatically, which didn't happen because it was not declared static and therefore not in .bss (*is this true?*). All

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-03 Thread Russell King
Kai Germaschewski writes: The patch is right, the explanation was wrong. Sorry, I didn't CC l-k when I found what was really going on. Other source files used a global initialized variable "divert_if" as well, so this became the same one as the one referenced in isdn_common.c. That's why it

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Gerold Jury wrote (in a private message, sorry): > The machine is single CPU no SMP. > It hangs with or without X when i hangup the ippp0 interface. > One of the scripts that run when the line is hung up may do a ifconfig > ippp0 down afterwards which could be the actual

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Gerold Jury
It works for me. With and without the divert module loaded. Thanks a lot Gerold Kai Germaschewski wrote: > I think I found it. Could everybody who was getting the crash on ISDN line > hangup try if the following patch fixes the problem? > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Adam Sampson
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] the drm modules have unresolved symbols: > > Does this fix it for you (do a "make clean" before re-building your tree)? Yep, that works for a modular mga.o (although it also results in drmlib.a being installed into /lib/modules, which makes

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Gerold Jury wrote: > I have reversed the patches part by part, the only thing that makes a > difference is the diversion services. > The reason for this remains unknown for me. I think I found it. Could everybody who was getting the crash on ISDN line hangup try if the

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
> > On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some > > last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and > > the best I can do is make a prerelease. > > I just compiled that one into a 1032 kB kernel, and

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Gerold Jury
Sorry for that stupid mistake. The patches to the isdn part do not make a difference to the kernel hang that i experienced lately. When i reversed the patch for the mentioned files i checked the kernel configuration and noticed that the "diversion services for isdn" where on, a feature that i

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Alan Cox
> haven't finished this work yet. With this new work, however, the > end-user will still load a single module (e.g., tdfx.o), just like now. > (Loading a single kernel module is a significant win when dealing with > end users: there is no possibility of version skew or of having two > modules

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Rik Faith
On Tue 2 Jan 2001 08:32:45 +1100, Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 09:39:38 -0800 (PST), > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 1 Jan 2001, Adam Sampson wrote: > >> > >> It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious > >> Makefile

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:51:34AM +0100, Gerold Jury wrote: > > The ISDN changes for the HISAX drivers > > that came in since test12 have introduced a bug that causes a > > AIEE-something and a complete kernel hang when i hangup the isdn line. >

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some > > last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and > > the best I can do is make a prerelease. > > I just

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some > last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and > the best I can do is make a prerelease. I just compiled that one into a 1032 kB kernel, and it failed to be

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm using the hisax driver too (build in), and it works perfectly for > me. I've also seen my machine die on taking down the ippp0 interface ("service isdn stop") - not on hanging up ("isdnctrl hangup ippp0"). I keep forgetting to investigate, because it's extremely

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:51:34AM +0100, Gerold Jury wrote: > The ISDN changes for the HISAX drivers > that came in since test12 have introduced a bug that causes a > AIEE-something and a complete kernel hang when i hangup the isdn line. > I have reversed the patch for all occurences of

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:51:34AM +0100, Gerold Jury wrote: The ISDN changes for the HISAX drivers that came in since test12 have introduced a bug that causes a AIEE-something and a complete kernel hang when i hangup the isdn line. I have reversed the patch for all occurences of

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm using the hisax driver too (build in), and it works perfectly for me. I've also seen my machine die on taking down the ippp0 interface ("service isdn stop") - not on hanging up ("isdnctrl hangup ippp0"). I keep forgetting to investigate, because it's extremely

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and the best I can do is make a prerelease. I just compiled that one into a 1032 kB kernel, and it failed to be

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Matthias Andree wrote: On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and the best I can do is make a prerelease. I just compiled that

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:51:34AM +0100, Gerold Jury wrote: The ISDN changes for the HISAX drivers that came in since test12 have introduced a bug that causes a AIEE-something and a complete kernel hang when i hangup the isdn line. I also

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Rik Faith
On Tue 2 Jan 2001 08:32:45 +1100, Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 09:39:38 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Jan 2001, Adam Sampson wrote: It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious Makefile tweak), but the drm

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Alan Cox
haven't finished this work yet. With this new work, however, the end-user will still load a single module (e.g., tdfx.o), just like now. (Loading a single kernel module is a significant win when dealing with end users: there is no possibility of version skew or of having two modules that

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Gerold Jury
Sorry for that stupid mistake. The patches to the isdn part do not make a difference to the kernel hang that i experienced lately. When i reversed the patch for the mentioned files i checked the kernel configuration and noticed that the "diversion services for isdn" where on, a feature that i

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and the best I can do is make a prerelease. I just compiled that one into a 1032 kB kernel, and it failed

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Gerold Jury wrote: I have reversed the patches part by part, the only thing that makes a difference is the diversion services. The reason for this remains unknown for me. I think I found it. Could everybody who was getting the crash on ISDN line hangup try if the

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Adam Sampson
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] the drm modules have unresolved symbols: Does this fix it for you (do a "make clean" before re-building your tree)? Yep, that works for a modular mga.o (although it also results in drmlib.a being installed into /lib/modules, which makes depmod

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Gerold Jury
It works for me. With and without the divert module loaded. Thanks a lot Gerold Kai Germaschewski wrote: I think I found it. Could everybody who was getting the crash on ISDN line hangup try if the following patch fixes the problem? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Gerold Jury wrote (in a private message, sorry): The machine is single CPU no SMP. It hangs with or without X when i hangup the ippp0 interface. One of the scripts that run when the line is hung up may do a ifconfig ippp0 down afterwards which could be the actual reason.

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Gerold Jury
The ISDN changes for the HISAX drivers that came in since test12 have introduced a bug that causes a AIEE-something and a complete kernel hang when i hangup the isdn line. I have reversed the patch for all occurences of INIT_LIST_HEAD in the isdn patch part and it works for me now. The

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 09:39:38 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 1 Jan 2001, Adam Sampson wrote: >> >> It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious >> Makefile tweak), but the drm modules have unresolved symbols: > >Does this fix it for you (do a "make

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Frank Jacobberger
Linus Torvalds wrote: > On 1 Jan 2001, Adam Sampson wrote: > > > > It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious > > Makefile tweak), but the drm modules have unresolved symbols: > > Does this fix it for you (do a "make clean" before re-building your tree)? > >

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Daniel Phillips
Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some > last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and > the best I can do is make a prerelease. It's even better this way. Now we kick off the new millenium with a new kernel. :-) --

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
On 1 Jan 2001, Adam Sampson wrote: > > It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious > Makefile tweak), but the drm modules have unresolved symbols: Does this fix it for you (do a "make clean" before re-building your tree)? Linus ---

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
On 1 Jan 2001, Adam Sampson wrote: It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious Makefile tweak), but the drm modules have unresolved symbols: Does this fix it for you (do a "make clean" before re-building your tree)? Linus ---

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Daniel Phillips
Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and the best I can do is make a prerelease. It's even better this way. Now we kick off the new millenium with a new kernel. :-) --

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Frank Jacobberger
Linus Torvalds wrote: On 1 Jan 2001, Adam Sampson wrote: It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious Makefile tweak), but the drm modules have unresolved symbols: Does this fix it for you (do a "make clean" before re-building your tree)? Linus

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 09:39:38 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Jan 2001, Adam Sampson wrote: It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious Makefile tweak), but the drm modules have unresolved symbols: Does this fix it for you (do a "make clean"

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Gerold Jury
The ISDN changes for the HISAX drivers that came in since test12 have introduced a bug that causes a AIEE-something and a complete kernel hang when i hangup the isdn line. I have reversed the patch for all occurences of INIT_LIST_HEAD in the isdn patch part and it works for me now. The

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2000-12-31 Thread Ray Strode
Eric W. Biederman writes, >Some arches have separate maintenance but I don't believe alpha is. >Though I do believe it has a separate mailing list for alpha specific things, >to get better signal to noise ratio. Great! Do you know where I can find more info about it? --Ray - To unsubscribe from

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2000-12-31 Thread Adam Sampson
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some > last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and > the best I can do is make a prerelease. It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious

Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2000-12-31 Thread Ray Strode
>I want people to test it for a while, and I want to give other architectures >the chance to catch up with some of the changes Does that mean that other architectures have separate mailing lists and kernel source trees? Is that why i've been getting ignored =)? If so, what are they? I'd really

Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2000-12-31 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and the best I can do is make a prerelease. There's a 2.4.0-prerelease out there, and this is basically it. I want people to test it for a while, and I want to

Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2000-12-31 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and the best I can do is make a prerelease. There's a 2.4.0-prerelease out there, and this is basically it. I want people to test it for a while, and I want to

Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2000-12-31 Thread Ray Strode
I want people to test it for a while, and I want to give other architectures the chance to catch up with some of the changes Does that mean that other architectures have separate mailing lists and kernel source trees? Is that why i've been getting ignored =)? If so, what are they? I'd really

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2000-12-31 Thread Adam Sampson
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and the best I can do is make a prerelease. It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious Makefile

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2000-12-31 Thread Ray Strode
Eric W. Biederman writes, Some arches have separate maintenance but I don't believe alpha is. Though I do believe it has a separate mailing list for alpha specific things, to get better signal to noise ratio. Great! Do you know where I can find more info about it? --Ray - To unsubscribe from