Broke md as module. I guess this is one way to fix it.
Linus Torvalds wrote:
Last pre-kernel - I'll do the real test9 before I fly off to Germany on
Tuesday.
Linus
---
- pre8:
- initialize to zero - put it in the .bss instead
- no extended dumb serial driver
On Mon, Oct 02 2000, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
:- "Pierfrancesco" == Pierfrancesco Caci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now I'm going to try the test9-pre7 stuff :-)
Tested. It works as a module now. Didn't try to actually _use_ the
scanner.
What was the problem, then ?
The scsi
Note that, yes, I ran make oldconfig and make clean before attempting
to build the SMP version of the kernel.
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686
-malign-functions=4 -fno-strict-aliasing
The new driver works fine on the box here, produces all sorts of debug
gorp to the console though. Most of the unnecessary printk's are
commented out, these are the three I've been seeing while playing around
with mpg123 and some mp3 files...
Other than that, it worked for me...
Rob
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Hi Markus,
Markus Döhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We're currently in the process switching our SAP R/3 systems over to linux.
Database is SAPDB (former ADABAS). The size is about 125 GB. For storing RAW
DEVSPACES are used (2 x RAID-5, 1 x RAID-1).
We have problems with the database under
Is it possible to run these intel 'speedstep' processors at full speed?
Its up to the SMM mode firmware to manage the processor. THe kernel changes
just make our delay loops cope with suprise cpu speed changes.
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fyi you can compile with egcs with using "gcc -V`egcs-version`" for
mandrake when you have the egcs package installed.
If you want mandrake builds to auto detect the compiler and use that one then
can you send me a diff
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Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you want mandrake builds to auto detect the compiler and use that one then
can you send me a diff
Actually for 7.2 i change our egcs package to add a kgcc script (which
call gcc with the egcs compiler) to be compatible with your last
changes on 2.2.18,
I've had reproduceable and repeatable problems with test9 -most of them-
that always leave my laptop stuck. Only sysrq-o seems to respond.
It seems it is related to the truncate proble that arised in test7 series.
When I'm reading my email in an xterm with pine and I expunge a mailbox,
if I'm
I'm getting calls to end_buffer_io_bad caused by block_truncate_page.
The path that is causing it is a update page with no buffers, so
create_empty_buffers gets called. (w/ all the buffers io set to
end_buffer_io_bad). Since the page is uptodate, the buffer is set to be
update and the b_end_io
Well, I've applied the IDE patches for 2.2.17, and everything
appears to be working with my VIA board much better now.
I'm not sure it is totally optimal yet though. My CDROM's are on
the second channel, and I don't much care about them.
Can I configure it somehow to optimize it for single
Can someone explain why core dumping can't be done in userspace?
...
There must be a good reason Unix and Linux don't do this ... but I
haven't thought of it yet. Anyone care to enlighten me?
The problem, I believe, is that once a process has reached the point
where it has been delivered a
Hello!
I know this may not be the right place but I tried in a lot of
different places:
Following problem: I have a nvidia card, the nvidia drivers 0.9-5
an ALi MoBo (P5A-B).
I have test7 running wonderful.
When I start X under test8 - test9-pre7 it reboots immediately.
Nothing in the
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:16:44AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 07:51:13PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
Hoping for security just by having more
PID's is a bit naive.
*1*
It is strange that people do not really seem to understand
the case for a 32-bit pid_t.
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Ben Fennema wrote:
I'm getting calls to end_buffer_io_bad caused by block_truncate_page.
The path that is causing it is a update page with no buffers, so
create_empty_buffers gets called. (w/ all the buffers io set to
end_buffer_io_bad). Since the page is uptodate,
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Ben Marsh wrote:
I have a Banksia iTra8 8 port internal ISA modem card (UART 16654) for dial
up access. To get the modem card to work I was told to replace serial.c and
SerialP.h from 2.2.x kernel source (used 2.2.14-12) and compile a kernel.
Hum. Tytso has his serial
If you read my entire post, rather than just the part that you quoted,
you'll see that I argue FOR, not against, a larger pid_t, based on just
these grounds; I know that sooner or later, we'll need those extra
processes. Well, my 486 won't...
S/390 folks run 70,000 sessions active within the
I'm sorry, this is TOTALLY irrelevant to any discussions on this list,
but...
Alan, I've sent you a couple of e-mail concerning v2.0.39 lately
(sunday and friday if I'm not all wrong), did you receive them? If
not, it seems I too got caught by your filtering...
/David
_
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:27:16 +0100 (BST),
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
S/390 folks run 70,000 sessions active within the same 60 second period off
one big box. Not on Linux (yet ;)) but its worth bearing in mind.
FYI, OS/390 Unix System Services uses a halfword for the maximum number
of
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:27:16 +0100 (BST),
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
S/390 folks run 70,000 sessions active within the same 60 second period off
one big box. Not on Linux (yet ;)) but its worth bearing in mind.
FYI, OS/390 Unix System Services uses a halfword for the maximum number
Andrea wrote:
In short you need set_current_state(x) when you do something that relies on the
ordering like:
set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
if (event_happened_meanwhile)
break;
schedule();
Btw, even if the code is protected with a
Hi Alan,
with the ethernet frame diverter in 2.2.18,
netdevice.h
breaks compilation of user space progs because of an
include of net/divert.h. The following one-liner
patch fixes it.
BTW, in the 2.2.18pre14 main Makefile, the "CC = "
statement should be replaced with "CC := ". On my box,
the
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:42:47AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
--- linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.c.orig Sat Sep 30 18:09:18 2000
+++ linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.cMon Oct 2 00:19:41 2000
@@ -706,7 +706,9 @@
static void refill_freelist(int size)
{
if
Christoph Rohland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I do not think that this is Linux kernel related. There was a bug in
the SAPDB kernel with raw devices.
Actually I have to correct myself :-(
I do not know what's happening. The fixed error was _not_ about this
problem. We will investigate further
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:32:40AM -0400, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
This would make more sense wouldn't it. I guess it doesn't help to look
right before heading off to bed.
Please note that my patch still has problems: It doesn't work with
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM both =y.
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 11:47:41AM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
Thus, "Hoping for security" is meaningless.
But "Hoping for more security by having more PID's" is quite
reasonable. If I am local user on your system then I can break in
using a wraparound. If that takes 2147483647
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:32:40AM -0400, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
This would make more sense wouldn't it. I guess it doesn't help to look
right before heading off to bed.
Please note that my patch still has problems: It doesn't work with
Linus,
The attached patch against 2.4.0-test9-pre8 greatly improves support
for maintaining open source modules outside the kernel.
This patch changes linux/Makefile to export all important Make settings
with each kernel build, so that external modules can then pick up that
info and build with
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:06:08AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Linus,
The attached patch against 2.4.0-test9-pre8 greatly improves support
for maintaining open source modules outside the kernel.
This patch changes linux/Makefile to export all important Make settings
with each kernel build,
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:01:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Christoph Hellwig sent me a better patch, with Cc: to Linus, so I hope this
will be fixed in test9.
*nudge* Here's hoping that one of you guys will post the patch, since
it's quite useful and I don't see it on lkml
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Could you change module.mak to use a new-style syntax (obj-foo).
We'd like to get rid of the old *_OBJS stuff as soon as possible.
(Or let Olaf do it ;).
module.mak? That is just the file that contains the build settings.
In any case I don't
Hi,
I am using 2.4.0-test8 on an i686 laptop. I find that netscape-4.72
keeps locking up. I am not able to kill the process at all (without
a reboot, and SysRQ cannot do a sync on the partition it is running
in either). I have been advised that RvR's memory patches will fix
this but I
Hi!
While doing modprobe hid or modprobe usb-uhci, I get the following unresolved
symbols. Config is P200MMX, 64Mb SDRAM.
-- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or look
-- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)
Linux debian-f5ibh 2.4.0-test9 #1 lun oct 2 14:44:11 CEST 2000
"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote:
Robert Redelmeier writes:
Daniel Phillips wrote in part:
One thing to keep in mind in all of this is: nobody is testing the
reliability of their journalling or any other kind of filesystem just by
running it. To test these things you have to
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Last pre-kernel - I'll do the real test9 before I fly off to
Germany on Tuesday.
- pre8:
- quintela: fix the synchronous wait on kmem_cache_shrink().
This should fix the mmap02 lockup.
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:33:54PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
The tricky part of the crash simulator would be recovering the resources
the filesystem was using and convincing the VFS to let go of the the
partition. If you could return the system to a stable state you could
do many, many
Richard Polton wrote:
Hi,
I am using 2.4.0-test8 on an i686 laptop. I find that netscape-4.72
keeps locking up. I am not able to kill the process at all (without
a reboot, and SysRQ cannot do a sync on the partition it is running
in either). I have been advised that RvR's memory
Queueing the tcores in the mm_struct could work though. Add a prctl [1]
that enables tcore core dumping. When tcore core dumping is enabled every
core dump that would dump a mm_struct with reference count 1 does not
actually dump it, but just queues a structure (tqueue) with its registers/
Greetings,
In order for hdparm -d 1 to work in test9-pre8, I had to reverse
this change. (Without being able to enable dma, performance here
is muy el-stinko;-) Is enabling dma manually now forbidden? (or
am I maybe missing something else?)
diff -urN
- opts-small_letter = 0;
+ opts-small_letter = 1;
opts-iocharset = NULL;
*debug = *fat = 0;
then msdos mounts work as they used to but vfat mounts are also
affected. I suspect someone didn't consider all the possibilities.
In any event, breaking long-standing
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
In order for hdparm -d 1 to work in test9-pre8, I had to reverse
this change. (Without being able to enable dma, performance here
is muy el-stinko;-) Is enabling dma manually now forbidden? (or
am I maybe missing something else?)
If this change
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:10:10PM +0100, James Cownie wrote:
Queueing the tcores in the mm_struct could work though. Add a prctl [1]
that enables tcore core dumping. When tcore core dumping is enabled every
core dump that would dump a mm_struct with reference count 1 does not
actually
I just tried out 2.4.0-test9-pre8, and Reiserfs-3.6.17 didn't get compiled
during the make. Up through test9-pre7 (pre2, pre5), this has worked smoothly.
In all cases, I apply the linux-2.4.0-test8-reiserfs-3.6.17-patch after the
test9-preX patch.
I initially configured using make xconfig,
[]
Another problem in Makefile. I guess this change between pre 12 and 13
is a typo:
CONFIG_SHELL := $(shell if [ -x "$$BASH" ]; then echo $$BASH; \
- else if [ -x /bin/bash ]; then echo /bin/bash; \
+ else if [ -x /bin/bash ]; then echo /bin/bash2; \
else echo sh; fi
i thought they were versus 2.2.17pre20 ?
-Tony
.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-.
Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if
[2.]
The problem is described in 5., i only got this
problem with this new kernel. Before i upgrade i was using kernel 2.2.14cl and
ppp runs nice, but i got problems with sound VIA-chipset(like in docs), then, i
decided to upgrade, with this kernel(2.2.17) my sound works fine, but ppp
Andi Kleen wrote:
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:33:54PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
The tricky part of the crash simulator would be recovering the resources
the filesystem was using and convincing the VFS to let go of the the
partition. If you could return the system to a stable state
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:34:03AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Last pre-kernel - I'll do the real test9 before I fly off to
Germany on Tuesday.
- pre8:
- quintela: fix the synchronous wait on kmem_cache_shrink().
This should fix
Hi!
Where does the idea that the kernel 'needs' a special compiler
come from ? I have been under the impression that that is just
Mostly from the sad fact that it does.
what we were trying to get away from . I am reminded of other
os's that required their
Warnings on build with v2.4.0test9pre8 (with Rik van Riel's extra fixes):
parport_pc.c:2283: warning: `parport_pc_superio_info' defined but not used
sg.c: In function `exit_sg':
sg.c:1321: warning: implicit declaration of function `sg_proc_cleanup'
page_alloc.c: In function `__alloc_pages':
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:47:54AM -0700, Clayton Weaver wrote:
What is the second "fi" for?
The first "if".
Tim.
*/
PGP signature
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote:
Warnings on build with v2.4.0test9pre8 (with Rik van Riel's extra fixes):
parport_pc.c:2283: warning: `parport_pc_superio_info' defined but not used
.config dependent I think.
sg.c: In function `exit_sg':
sg.c:1321: warning: implicit
Henrik Nordstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You are not late. In fact you are the first who have responded to my
linux-kernel messages at all.
Yes, I am well aware of sigwaitinfo.
sigwaitinfo blocks infinitely if there is no queued signals and is the
opposite of sigtimedwait with a zero
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:26:20AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote:
Warnings on build with v2.4.0test9pre8 (with Rik van Riel's extra fixes):
parport_pc.c:2283: warning: `parport_pc_superio_info' defined but not used
.config dependent I think.
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:24:58AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
If this change broke your DMA enabling, I think there are other bugs
lurking in the code...
This change also broke CMD646 IDE on alpha lx164.
CMD646: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 58
CMD646: chipset revision 1
CMD646: chipset
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:42:47AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
--- linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.c.orig Sat Sep 30 18:09:18 2000
+++ linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.c Mon Oct 2 00:19:41 2000
@@ -706,7 +706,9 @@
static void
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 05:17:46PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
Actually there's another compiler (codepro or how is it called), made
by SGI(?) for merced, available under gpl, and hving all gcc
extensions, including __asm__().
SGI Pro64 - it's IA64 only and uses the gcc frontends.
But I doubt
** Reply to message from Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 30 Sep
2000 00:24:43 +0100 (BST)
Unfortunately, this mapping is a requirement for our product. I'd hate to have
to create my own pte's and do it all manually.
If you are doing it at boot time as Id expect then you may need to -
Hi Alan,
2.2.18pre14 compiles and runs on Alpha with the
following patch. It only replaces loops_per_sec with
loops_per_jiffy*HZ. It works for me, although I'm not
totally sure this is quite correct.
BTW, I had to remove nvram and drm to compile. Will
see later why (unknown references to
This should help to analyse the mail-problem, hopefully (again
I ask the rest of the kernellist to forgive me for bringing off-topic
matters to this list, but I can't seem to be able to communicate with
Alan any other way at the moment):
Running /var/spool/mqueue/q3/e92Aogi17072 (sequence 1 of
Anyway, my original question has not yet been answered: why is it that I can
ioremap() any physical page by simply setting one bit, but I cannot always
iounmap() it? Why can't iounmap() simply undo what ioremap() did?
The fact you can doesn't mean you should. You need to be sole owner of
following patch. It only replaces loops_per_sec with
loops_per_jiffy*HZ. It works for me, although I'm not
totally sure this is quite correct.
loops_per_jiffy*HZ overflows at 2GHz for an int. If the alpha is using ulong
for this I guess it works fine at 64bits.
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:32:45AM -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
I just tried out 2.4.0-test9-pre8, and Reiserfs-3.6.17 didn't get compiled
during the make. Up through test9-pre7 (pre2, pre5), this has worked smoothly.
With me that was a simple makefile problem
linux/fs/Makefile
changed
Tim Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:47:54AM -0700, Clayton Weaver wrote:
|
| What is the second "fi" for?
|
| The first "if".
Btw, the Bourne language also has `elif':
CONFIG_SHELL := $(shell if [ -x "$$BASH" ]; then echo $$BASH; \
elif [ -x
[1.] 2.2.17 hangs when attempting to mount atapi cdrom Teac CD-540E
[2.] My kernel was compiled with flags
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
My cdrom Teac CD-540E supports UDMA mode2.
When I try to mount /cdrom kernel hangs.
If I invoke
hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc
Hi Rik,
the shm swapping still kills the machine(8GB mem) the machine with
somthing like '__alloc_pages failed order 0'.
When I do the same stresstest with mmaped file in ext2 the machine
runs fine but the processes do not do anything and vmstat/ps lock up
on these processes.
Greetings
On 2000-10-02 Claudius Link wrote:
With me that was a simple makefile problem
linux/fs/Makefile
changed quit a bit. So you have to add the line
subdir-$(CONFIG_REISERFS_FS)+= reiserfs
somewhere (for example after "subdir-$(CONFIG_JFFS_FS) += jffs")
then it works fine.
Right,
Albert Cahalan write:
Robert Redelmeier writes:
Daniel Phillips wrote in part:
One thing to keep in mind in all of this is: nobody is testing the
reliability of their journalling or any other kind of filesystem just by
running it. To test these things you have to crash/interrupt the
Throughout linux/fs/buffer.c, the struct buffer_head member b_blocknr has
integer values put into it, while it's defined to be an unsigned long in
fs.h. For architectures where sizeof(int) != sizeof(long), calls to bread()
could potentially do the wrong thing if the disk has more than 2^41
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Petko Manolov wrote:
Richard Polton wrote:
I am using 2.4.0-test8 on an i686 laptop. I find that netscape-4.72
keeps locking up. I am not able to kill the process at all (without
a reboot, and SysRQ cannot do a sync on the partition it is running
in either). I
On Mon, Oct 02 2000, Serge Gavrilov wrote:
[1.] 2.2.17 hangs when attempting to mount atapi cdrom Teac CD-540E
[2.] My kernel was compiled with flags
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
My cdrom Teac CD-540E supports UDMA mode2.
When I try to mount
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:08:10AM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
The subject tells everything:
...
28x481 23:49:14 penny kernel: fb0: MATROX VGA frame buffer device
Oct 1 23:49:14 penny kernel: pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Oct 1 23:49:14 penny kernel: ISDN subsystem Rev:
Andries Brouwer wrote:
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:33:20AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:
[you sounded as if you noticed a discrepancy somewhere - so I expected:
foo.c uses this in line 123 but bar.c uses that in line 666.]
No, I'm just
** Reply to message from Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 2 Oct 2000
17:18:59 +0100 (BST)
Anyway, my original question has not yet been answered: why is it that I can
ioremap() any physical page by simply setting one bit, but I cannot always
iounmap() it? Why can't iounmap() simply
On 2 Oct 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
the shm swapping still kills the machine(8GB mem) the machine
with somthing like '__alloc_pages failed order 0'.
When I do the same stresstest with mmaped file in ext2 the
machine runs fine but the processes do not do anything and
vmstat/ps lock up
This PCI stuff was discussed before...
pcic.c: At top level:
pcic.c:39: redefinition of `pcibios_present'
/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test/include/linux/pci.h:562: `pcibios_present' previously
defined here
make[1]: *** [pcic.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
[MM TODO list, updated for october 2000]
---
Here is the TODO list for the new VM. The only thing
really needed for 2.4 is the OOM handler and a fix
for the highmem deadlock.
The page-mapping-flush() callback is really wanted
by the journaling filesystem folks.
The rest are mostly extra's that
Why do you apparently ignore the fact that page-out write-back performance
is horribly crappy because it always starts out doing synchronous writes?
I pointed out previously in a private email that page_launder() must be
buggy as it stands now, you seem to have ignored that part (and the
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Why do you apparently ignore the fact that page-out write-back
performance is horribly crappy because it always starts out
doing synchronous writes?
Because it is fixed in the patch I mailed yesterday?
regards,
Rik
--
"What you're running that
--test9-pre8 blows up at boot, somewhere around the ALI5X3 init.
Here's the oops, with ksymoops decode. Copied by hand,
hope it's correct:
Darn. Made 3 typos in transcription:
ALI5X3: IDE controller on PCI buss 00 dev 78
^
Process swapper (pid: 2,
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Why do you apparently ignore the fact that page-out write-back
performance is horribly crappy because it always starts out
doing synchronous writes?
Because it is fixed in the patch I mailed yesterday?
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:48:41PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
I see you don't remember the original post. It argued in
favor of a large PID space "because the output of ps wouldn't
look nice otherwise"!!! (the poster wanted output sorted by
start time without using --sort=start to ask
Bug squash number three.
ARM, Alpha and x86 should be completely sorted for the loops_per_sec change.
S/390 merge yet to be done. PPC and Sparc still won't build.
Alan
Stuff left to do for 2.2.18final
- loops_per_jiffy for non x86, Alpha, ARM
- Merge the S/390 stuff and make
Please don't post attachments except for unique documents such as program
sources.
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Lucien Rocha wrote:
|[2.] The problem is described in 5., i only got this problem with this
|new kernel. Before i upgrade i was using kernel 2.2.14cl and ppp runs
|nice, but i got problems
Hi,
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:
These days I have as background activity the construction
of the corresponding patch for 2.4. Maybe we can start 2.5
without these arrays and with large device numbers.
I started something like this a few months ago, I was at the point to boot
The October 2000 Kernel Wiki Challenge is ...
"The most misunderstood part about in Linux 2.4 is "
1) Fill in the blanks, short and sweet, in your own words.
2) Go to http://kernelbook.sourceforge.net/wiki/?KernelWiki find
the appropriate subsection of the Wiki covering your area
My previous patch was a fix, but (brown paper bag time) standard IDE
devices no longer called chipset init. People either had no IDE, or
were stuck in legacy mode. This fixes it.
This fixes the bootup oops with 2.4.0-test9-pre8 i reported
on lkml an hour or 2 ago.
b
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi.
When I compile a test9pre8 kernel with quota support I get a lot of
link errors regarding quota stuff. The patch below fixes this by
correcting what seems to be a mailer/mime error:
--- linux-240test9-pre8-clean/fs/Makefile Mon Oct 2 21:07:54 2000
+++ linux/fs/Makefile Mon Oct 2
Hi,
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Comments?
When that is done, please don't call __sti() directly and use some macro
that can be overridden by the architectures.
bye, Roman
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James Antill wrote:
If you want to return imediatley (and there might not be data) the
answer given is usually...
sigqueue( ... );
sigwaitinfo( ... );
If the above will still schedule, then Linus might be more likely to
take a patch (I'd guess that he'd look at sigtimedwait() to be
Rik van Riel wrote:
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Petko Manolov wrote:
Richard Polton wrote:
I am using 2.4.0-test8 on an i686 laptop. I find that netscape-4.72
keeps locking up. I am not able to kill the process at all (without
a reboot, and SysRQ cannot do a sync on the partition it is
Could someone tell me what is the preferred method of having two drivers
communicate with each other? I know a driver can send an ioctl to another
driver, but since both drivers exist in kernel space, and the kernel is
monolithic, I figured that direct calls from one driver to another is not
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:45:36PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
When that is done, please don't call __sti() directly and use some macro
that can be overridden by the architectures.
What do you have in mind while making this suggestion? The irq highlevel layer
is pretty much architectural
Hello,
I ran RedHat 6.2 and tried all sorts of kernels.. no problem at all.
I ran kernel 2.2.17 and everytime MS-Windows has booted(I run a dual-boot
sys) my networkcard (eth0=dhcp=3c59x.o) doesn't want to connect to the
internet. First I thought this was my isp his fault or my redhat was
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Timur Tabi wrote:
Could someone tell me what is the preferred method of having two drivers
communicate with each other? I know a driver can send an ioctl to another
driver, but since both drivers exist in kernel space, and the kernel is
monolithic, I figured that direct
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Timur Tabi wrote:
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For driver-driver communication, it is totally dependent on what you
need to communicate. It could be something as simple as a small, shared
module protected by a spinlock, or something more
Willy TARREAU wrote:
Hello Thomas !
I've slightly enhanced the bonding code :
- MII link checking with automatic slave enabling/disabling :
Now the bond interface monitors all its MII-compliant slaves
and disables the ones which have a dead link, and enables those
which
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:35:47 -0600
From: Jeff V. Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Login prompt auto-regen
Alan,
Your mail server is getting errors at address [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I am
Thanks
Jeff
"Mike A. Harris" wrote:
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:35:47 -0600
From: Jeff V. Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Alan,
Your mail server
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:26:39PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:01:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Christoph Hellwig sent me a better patch, with Cc: to Linus, so I hope this
will be fixed in test9.
*nudge* Here's hoping that one of you guys will post the
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