On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
I see the point, but it bites sufficiently often that I don't
understand why there is no interesting in improving this
behaviour.
For a large number of scenarios it makes vastly more sense.
Please forgive my obtuseness, but I am unable to conceive of
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:57:44AM +0100, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
With both interfaces up, it's impossible to apply anti-martian
rules to the interfaces, since it's hard to predict which card
will answer an ARP request.
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/.../hidden
So when lightning fries the
Philipp Rumpf wrote:
isn't that what the version string (/proc/version at runtime, start_sys
in the bzImage) is for ?
Hmm yes, that should be good enough.
Most architectures can boot ELF images -- defining section names for
.config.gz and the version string in the ELF file can be done in an
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you write:
Hey,
I've been trying to get iptables to compile and run with kernel
2.4.0-test7 with absolutly no luck. I have tried patching it with both
the patch that comes with the iptables-1.1.1.tar.bz2 and the patches on
CVS. Could someone tell me which
Hi,
I have have serious problems using a specific Quantum disk connected to a Promise
ATA/100 controller. The disk causing problems is the QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 30. The
disk simply locks up the machine solid during boot at the point where it should report
its IRQ (normally 'ide2 at
Filling memory to zero does not help for my laptop. Perhaps it is
weird.
But this particular obscure model of laptop is not important. The
thing is to handle most laptops, to make suspending faster for most
users, and to build it in by default so that it works "out of the box"
on most
Neal H Walfield wrote:
Hello,
I am running Linux 2.2.12:
neal@colo:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.2.12 (root@gondor) (gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release))
#1 Sun Sep 12 00:22:57 EST 1999
Starting twelve days ago the load average has increased by one every
twenty-four hours.
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I'm sure that once the FSF is willing to step up, there will be lots
of supporters and sponsors to finance this.
Far smaller companies have _already_ got away with not only violating the
Linux kernel's GPL, but blatantly encouraging their customers to do so.
Why
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nfs_file_cred() - nfs_create_request() - nfs_update_request() -
nfs_updatepage() - nfs_commit_write() - generic_file_write() -
nfs_file_write() - write(2).
Fscked credentials during write(2) on NFS...
Is this known and fixed, or just known?
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Hi,
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:18:10PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm sure that once the FSF is willing to step up, there will be lots
of supporters and sponsors to finance this.
Far smaller companies have _already_ got away with not only violating the
Alan Cox wrote:
struct page of course). Note that it doesn't matter if another thread,
and this includes truncate/write in another thread, clobbers the page
data. That's just the normal effect of two concurrent writers to the
same memory.
Oh it does matter. You might send out a page
Please forgive my obtuseness, but I am unable to conceive of
one (beyond checking that your routing is symmetrical :-)
Multiple virtual hosts, routing for tunnels
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Far smaller companies have _already_ got away with not only violating the
Linux kernel's GPL, but blatantly encouraging their customers to do so.
Wakey wakey. Unless I am misreading this Andre gave/sold them code he wrote
all of for task file.
Why should we believe that anyone's actually
Dear David,
Dear GPL defenders,
As former engineering manager at IGEL I woud like to give you
some additional information to the situation as far as IGEL
is concerned. The German former company IGEL GmbH does not exist
any more and belongs now to Infomatec AG (http://www.infomatec.de).
(Alan Cox)
(Matt Kirkwood)
Please forgive my obtuseness, but I am unable to conceive of
one (beyond checking that your routing is symmetrical :-)
Multiple virtual hosts, routing for tunnels
And how is this in any way broken by arp-ing from the first interface
address (in terms of
Unfortunately we can't do much about M-System's low level code
because we are bound by the NDA. We have a good relationship to
M-Systems. Perhaps we can convince them to publish their code as
well, but I can't promise that.
That side has been dealt with actually.
(drivers/mtp/doc2000.c)
/*
Alan Cox wrote:
My server is in the tested/good list w/ orbs. Aren't you following your own advice
about properly setting up your MTA to allow good guys and stop bad guys in accord
with ORBS DNS?
I get too much junk to care about it.
Alan
How are we supposed to properly contact
Neal H Walfield wrote:
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:34:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does a top show you any processes running heavy on the box
No, it is 99% idle.
ps -auxww |grep D
will show you several (12) processes stuck in "D" state.
Which those are provides a
Linus Torvalds wrote:
(The "invalidate on write" is the sane way of doing SMP cache coherency,
which is probably why. Trying to have shared dirty cache-lines is just
not a viable option in the end).
With DMA from a device -- "snoop and update" still results in only one
owner of the dirty
That's B.S. The GPL is a Copyright license; it applies whether or not
it is in the kernel. Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter) can't
take your code and use it without consent. The GPL is one way of giving
consent, with certain strings attached.
But they can take the ideas and methods
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:41:03PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
unlink() and the last munmap()/exit() will get rid of it...
yep - and this isnt possible with traditional SysV shared memory, and isnt
possible with traditional SysV semaphores.
But they can take the ideas and methods demonstrated by the code in the
patch. Its not that they are going to take what he wrote and run patch
against their code. They can take a good idea, sit a skilled programmer in a
room and adapt the concepts without a bit of a problem.
I call this a
"Richard" == Richard Gooch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Richard Andrew Morton writes:
All of them except the 3c905 provide hardware Rx and Tx
checksumming of IP, TCP and UDP headers. No 64 bit addressing
support.
Richard And does the driver support it? Has anyone benchmarked the
Richard
"Ingo" == Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ingo On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
I did the same for fragment RX some months ago (simple fragment
lists that were copy-checksummed to user space). Overall it is
probably better to use a kiovec, because that can be more easily
used in
"Jamie" == Jamie Lokier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jamie Nice point! Only valid for TCP UDP though.
Jamie When people want _real_ low latency, they don't use TCP or UDP,
Jamie and they certainly don't put data checksums at the start. They
Jamie still aim for zero copies. That pass, even
Richard Stallman writes:
Filling memory to zero does not help for my laptop. Perhaps it is
weird.
But this particular obscure model of laptop is not important. The
thing is to handle most laptops, to make suspending faster for most
users, and to build it in by default so that it works
Jes Sorensen writes:
"Richard" == Richard Gooch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Richard Andrew Morton writes:
All of them except the 3c905 provide hardware Rx and Tx
checksumming of IP, TCP and UDP headers. No 64 bit addressing
support.
Richard And does the driver support it? Has anyone
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Thomas Molina wrote:
Odd. I started seeing mailbox corruption the day before the first post
showed up here. Since it was only one list (BUGTRAQ) and I'm still at
weird. currently my pine crashes on me when i close my bugtraq
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 07:29:56PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
I did the same for fragment RX some months ago (simple fragment lists
that were copy-checksummed to user space). Overall it is probably
better to use a kiovec, because that can be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
- convert drivers to new PCI API
Don't bother with drivers/char/applicom.c - I've already done it, just
waiting to borrow the hardware again to test it.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
- convert drivers to new PCI API
Don't bother with drivers/char/applicom.c - I've already done it, just
waiting to borrow the hardware again to test it.
Ok, up to now I've only did this for
Hi!
Filling memory to zero does not help for my laptop. Perhaps it is
weird.
But this particular obscure model of laptop is not important. The
thing is to handle most laptops, to make suspending faster for most
users, and to build it in by default so that it works "out of the box"
on
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Thomas Molina wrote:
Odd. I started seeing mailbox corruption the day before the first post
showed up here. Since it was only one list (BUGTRAQ) and I'm still at
weird. currently my
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:16:23AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
With all the talk about bugs and slowness on a 386/486/586 -- does anyone
think those platforms will have multi-T disks hooked up to them?
Yes. They are already doing it, and the
does anyone has so far came out with a standard "form"/letter I can just
forward to offending site? It seems another "guilty" site is
www.borland.com, while I would like to let them know, I not too eager nor
have time right now to come up with a well written rational letter
explaining the
"Jeff V. Merkey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I at present have the NWFS utilities and File System drivers as single
source base. Obviously, the way your tree is organized, the file system
driver proper should be in the kernel tree and the file system utitilies
somewhere else.
Yes.
Where
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
now the driver init sequence is not
serialized anymore, so races are possible
since when? In 2.4.0-test8-pre2 mod-init and mod-cleanup are called
under global kernel lock. As for static drivers they are initialised from
either
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
showed up here. Since it was only one list (BUGTRAQ) and I'm still at
weird. currently my pine crashes on me when i close my bugtraq
folder.
Ohh, so I'm not the only one having trouble reading bugtraq
lately? ;)
I'm
RvR Ohh, so I'm not the only one having trouble reading bugtraq
RvR lately? ;)
Yep. And to make things even more (or less?) confusing: it's happening to me
too but on _SOLARIS_, not Linux!!!
I'm just now checking my mailbox for a offending letter as I suspect a pine
bug. mutt is fine.
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I'm working on network drivers emulating ethernet over a PCI backplane.
For receives I need packet data located in a region of memory visible to
the backplane. I also want this data to be referenced by an skb, without
the expense of an extra memcpy. This region of memory will be somewhere
between
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
Odd. I started seeing mailbox corruption the day before the first post
showed up here. Since it was only one list (BUGTRAQ) and I'm still at
weird. currently my pine crashes on me when i close my bugtraq
folder.
Ohh, so
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 08:04:49AM +0200, Martin MaD Douda wrote:
I'm using 2.4-test since it was born and never saw this behavior. Could
you please strace and ltrace your ping so we can see where it waits?
Can't find source for ltrace, but I have strace.
Ping seems to be spending its
"Richard" == Richard Gooch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Richard I thought you said some of the GigE drivers supported this?
Richard Or were you just saying that the GigE cards were some of the
Richard few which supported scatter/gather DMA and IP checksumming?
The latter.
Jes
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Linus Torvalds wrote:
Basically any copy = 4 cache lines is "free" compared to trying to be
clever.
We're obviously interested in larger packets than 128 bytes.
"obviously"?
Take a look at some common traffic. Yes, even in servers.
Small
Hi Ted,
To be fixed for 2.4:
1) Non-atomic pte updates
The page aging code and mprotect both modify existing ptes
non-atomically. That can stomp on the VM hardware on other CPUs
setting the dirty bit on mmaped pages when using threads. 2.2 is
vulnerable too.
2) RSS locking
Hi Arnaldo,
That is a very decent list you have got there. How about to add to
it:
- go through all filesystems and convert them from using
mark_buffer_dirty(bh, [0,1]) to just mark_buffer_dirty(bh) since the flag
is now ignored and all buffers are flushed at equal intervals. Also,
change the
Russell Coker writes:
I made the following patch for the stallion non-intelligent driver based on
cut/paste from serial.c. I have tested it and it works, the directories
/dev/tte and /dev/cue are correctly created when the module is inserted.
Could this please be put in to 2.4.0-test8?
just try "traceroute -s 111.111.111.111 d.e.f.2"
What shows this simple test?
arp who-has d.e.f.2 tell a.b.c.1
or
arp who-has d.e.f.2 tell d.e.f.1
When I tried traceroute -s d.e.f.1 d.e.f.2, it worked, the first time the
Linux box in question talked to the BSD/OS in
Thanks! I really should read every single letter on BUGTRAQ, not
on linux-kernel ;)
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Thomas Molina wrote:
Readers of BUGTRAQ probably have already seen the message indicating
some of us have been seeing library problems, not fs corruption. At
least those of us with
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Henning P . Schmiedehausen wrote:
[snip]
If I give you a binary-only module which can either be loaded as a
driver or, maybe with some glue code, linked into the kernel and some
instructions how to do this, I am _not_at_all_ in violation of any
GPL. Because I distribute
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
Hi Arnaldo,
That is a very decent list you have got there. How about to add to
it:
- go through all filesystems and convert them from using
mark_buffer_dirty(bh, [0,1]) to just mark_buffer_dirty(bh) since the flag
is now ignored and all
Alexander, I did think of automating it but seeing fat (I am sure you saw
it as well) made me think that it is safer to do it by hand.
for fat, it is not the second argument but the first from the end (it has
three), so your macro approach is somewhat broken.
Actually, kernel is such a critical
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mark Hahn wrote:
You and several others know that I stink at describing a complex point
regardless that I understand it completely. I am just glad that you hung
in there long enough for me to get the point across.
Andre, as far as I can tell, this "complex point" is
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
Andre wrote:
Linux rejected the code because it does not understand nor does anyone
have the desire to learn what it does. Since it is not in the kernel
there is no GPL issue. Upon Microsoft's adpotion of the model they will
That's B.S.
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
This it will have to wait for 2.5, but everyone needs to get off the issue
that it is a filter and understand that it is a command completion
pre-handler. I hope that you finally understand the point and we do not
have to fight again, next will be to
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
Linux rejected the code because it does not understand nor does anyone
have the desire to learn what it does. Since it is not in the kernel
there is no GPL issue. Upon Microsoft's adpotion of the model they will
If its your code there isnt anyway.
Andre,
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:30:13PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
[...]
WOOHOO, you remember Way to go Alan
You and several others know that I stink at describing a complex point
regardless that I understand it completely. I am just glad that you hung
in there long
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
Erm... You do realize that "by hands" is "by editor commands", don't you?
Notice that it is not a global search and replace - you see the instance,
you decide whether to change it with the long sequence of editor commands
or with the short one.
Yes,
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
Russell Coker writes:
I made the following patch for the stallion non-intelligent driver based on
cut/paste from serial.c. I have tested it and it works, the directories
/dev/tte and /dev/cue are correctly created when the module is inserted.
Could
Russell Coker writes:
--Boundary-=_nWlrBbmQBhCDarzOwKkYHIDdqSCD
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Yuk! MIME!
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
That sounds logical, I have attached a patch that does that change and
changes serial.c (the code I copied from)
Hello,
I just upgraded to the 2.2.16 kernel (from 2.2.14) and compiled a new
kernel. I immediately started having problems with my eepro/10 card.
It would run for a short period of time, then die on me. If I reloaded
the module, it would run for a short period of time then die again.
My
On 9/3/00, 3:20:01 AM, Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding
Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?:
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Not at all. In fact, I'd prefer it that way, because this same thing is
obviously going to be useful
Ok Linux 2.2.17 official is now out. This is the same as 2.2.17pre20 without
the -pre20 id string
This is the version waiting Linus. Its in the queue for holy penguin pee so
either it will get peed on or I will get abuse from Linus depending whether
he likes it or not 8)
In the mean time I'm
On 4 Sep 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
I am sorry to here of this, but I know what you mean about microsoft.
My and co-worker's code for doing full taskfile access under linux was
rejected here but is being used in MicroSoft Whistler 2001. They are
quick to grab the very best of
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Al wrote:
it is in the kernel. Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter) can't
take your code and use it without consent. The GPL is one way of giving
consent, with certain strings attached.
But they can take the ideas and methods demonstrated by the code in the
patch.
Anyone out there know how to get on the reiserFS devel mailing
list? I was on the namesys pages, but they have wonderful
microsoft code on them or java or something so that you can't
actually _use_ their mailing list subscription thing if you don't
run java or whatever. Certainly doesn't work
The following change to the apm_get_power_status function makes my Sony
Vaio SR7K report sane battery life expectations. From surfing the web, I
believe this problem happens on other recent Sony laptops (outside of the
SR series). I'm thinking about making this fix run-time selectable via a
(OK, I've read enough of this crap.)
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, David Luyer wrote:
I'm seeing a problem between Linux 2.2 and BSD/OS 4.1 in the situation on one
of our backbones.
Why is it the people placed in charge of networks usually have no clue
how they work? (don't answer that.)
[broken
Hello!
Just a note: The patch to test8-pre3 contains 2 definitions of a
function to test is a memory-block is zero:
fs/buffer.c: int mem_is_zero(char *p, unsigned len)
fs/ext2/inode.c: static inline int all_zeroes(u32 *p, u32 *q)
driver/usb/hid.c: static __inline__ int search(__s32 *array,
I just downloaded the 2.2.17 kernel.
This problem seems to be resolved in that version of the eepro driver.
Thanks for the new kernel, Alan,
Brian Hayward
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I just upgraded to the 2.2.16 kernel (from 2.2.14) and compiled a new
kernel. I
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
"Albert D. Cahalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The rr.com service is expanding across the US. It is a cable
service recently bought by ATT. It serves areas without ISDN
or DSL, so the only alternative is a POTS modem. The rr.com
service is much cheaper
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, John Kennedy wrote:
Ping seems to be spending its time in a sendto()/poll() loop:
sendto(3, "U\3Z\241\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\206\240\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\3\0"..., 56, 0,
{sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}}, 16) = 56
poll([{fd=3,
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:24:02PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
Philipp Rumpf wrote:
Most architectures can boot ELF images -- defining section names for
.config.gz and the version string in the ELF file can be done in an
architecture-independent fashion.
Yep, then add some magic
Is it required that the O_NONBLOCK flag be copied from a listening
socket to an accepted socket? Dan Bernstein believes this is a bug.
Pavel Kankovsky writes:
What happens when x-tcpstate == 1 (i.e. waiting for the first byte of TCP
request length), x-io-revents == 0 (i.e. not ready for
Hi,
I would have liked to install RH 6.2 on the Athlon (700MHz) computer.
The installation from local CD was very easy, however, after reboot
I received some error messages. My questions are:
1. What exctly does a "Disabling CPUID Serial Number ... general protection
fault: 000" mean?
Hi.
(I hope you are the code maintainer for affs. Your name is in the
affs files.)
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts affs as per the following
patch.
diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/affs/amigaffs.c
Hi.
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per your
suggestion to Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo). This impacts bfs as per
the following patch.
diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/bfs/dir.c
linux/fs/bfs/dir.c
--- linux-240test8-pre2/fs/bfs/dir.cThu Aug 24
Hans,
We talked at LWE '99 about this issue.
As you can see that this is getting to be a bigger mess as I predicted
more than a year ago. As you explained to me that IGEL had verbal terms
of agreement that the code returned to M-Systems was returned with a GPL
license in it placed by IGEL.
Hi.
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts hpfs as per the following
patch.
diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/hpfs/anode.c
linux/fs/hpfs/anode.c
--- linux-240test8-pre2/fs/hpfs/anode.c Tue Oct 19 22:52:52
You need it for some new video cards (for example those cheap intel i810 boards
that are becoming extremely common).
I got my i810 to work on Debian (kernel 2.0.34) without agpgart by setting
a switch in the driver code.
That limits you to 1Mb of video ram I believe
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"QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 30"
Just add this ti the pdc_quirks_list and see if it fixes the problem.
It is an nIEN problem.
Cheers,
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Lars Knudsen wrote:
Hi,
I have have serious problems using a specific Quantum disk connected to a Promise
ATA/100 controller. The disk
"Ricky" == Ricky Beam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ricky On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
Much more of a reason to get them to clean up their act!
Ricky Excuse me? How the hell do you expect them to "clean up their
Ricky act" when their "dialup" users are the problem? Are you gonna
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
Then they need more competant admins. It isnt _hard_ to transproxy outgoing
smtp traffic via a spamtrapper that checks for valid src/destination and
headers.
I can't believe that you are suggesting this.
The moment you being to start encouraging
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:
I was under the understanding a "patch" to something GPL, means
the "patch" is also GPL. If the patch was not GPL, and it
patches GPL code, then it itself is in violation of the GPL.
The fact that the patch is a "derivative work" of the original
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
Hi.
(I think I have seen you name mentioned as (co-)maintainer of ext2.
Hence this mail.)
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts ext2 as per the following
patch.
Umm... Since
Hi.
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts a lot of places in the kernel
(trivially), noticeably the file systems. The URL below points a
big patch for all these changes.
(I have been advised against the fine granularity of the
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
Hi.
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per your
suggestion to Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo). This impacts bfs as per
the following patch.
Rasmus, thanks of course, but this idea _only_ makes sense if you produce
a big patch that
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
Hi.
(I think I have seen you name mentioned as (co-)maintainer of ext2.
Hence this mail.)
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts ext2 as per the following
patch.
Lest Stephen
Andre Hedrick wrote:
There is overproduction of generic-purpose software in world and
of course lots of companies are going to bancrupt soon, but if you
continue this way, GPL is going the same way...
Do not follow the thought, sorry.
The Novell stuff. Sorry to say, but who needs it in
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
Is it required that the O_NONBLOCK flag be copied from a listening
socket to an accepted socket? Dan Bernstein believes this is a bug.
My posix 1003.1g draft leaves it undefined. It is possible that
SuS clarifies this. Unless he can cite a SuS
On a side note, is there anyone/anyplace willing to allow relaying for my server?
One
by one all the networks around here are falling under the ORBS netblock blacklist
and
I'm not going to go through any more expense for myself, company, or LUG when we
are
perfectly legitimate,
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:29:56PM +0200, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts a lot of places in the kernel
(trivially), noticeably the file systems. The URL below points a
big patch for all
Hi folks,
as written earlier, I have several problems at boot time. This is
the output of 'dmesg | ksymoops':
ksymoops 2.3.4 on i586 2.4.0-test8. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test8/ (default)
-m
The IDE CD audio driver is broken in the 2.2.17pre series, since 2.2.17pre2.
I have attached below the patch fragment that causes the problem, and the
console error messages that appear. Backing out the one change fixes CD
audio playback in 2.2.17pre20, on this machine.
This is on an
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Few month ago, I gathered precice data and posted it on lk-ml. In our
experiment, I used four 100Base cards, the Web-Bench gained nearly 5%
performance by the patch. The CPU load reached over 95%.
I want to show the reference to experiments results, But
On Mon, Sep 04 2000, Nathan Myers wrote:
The IDE CD audio driver is broken in the 2.2.17pre series, since 2.2.17pre2.
I have attached below the patch fragment that causes the problem, and the
console error messages that appear. Backing out the one change fixes CD
audio playback in
Rik van Riel writes:
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:16:23AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
With all the talk about bugs and slowness on a 386/486/586
-- does anyone think those platforms will have multi-T disks
hooked up to them?
Note: no "686"
Ugh... yes, but not with an 80386, i486, Pentium, Pentium-MMX,
5x86, Crusoe, WinChip, K6, K6-2, or 6x86. Also not with XT disks
or anything off the EISA, VLB, and MCA busses.
Lots of people are building terabyte sized arrays on K6 type boxes. A PII
or Athlon is just overkill for the job
Alan
On Saturday September 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linus,
The attached patch is submitted to enable variable sector size block
chaining via ll_rw_block() in the I/O subsystem layer.
Jeff904a905,907
/
// This code is being commented out to allow support for variable chained
//
My home directory lives on a SunOS 4.1.4 server, which helpfully expands
16-bit UIDs to 32 bits as signed quantities, not unsigned. So any uid above
32768 gets 0x added to it.
Doesn't
http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?type=0doc=fpatches/102394
fix this on the 4.1.4
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