Re: Status of ReiserFS + Journalling

2000-10-05 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:54:59PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: 2/ Arrange your filesystem so that you write new data to an otherwise unused stripe a whole stripe at a time, and store some sort of chechksum in the stripe so that corruption can be detected. This implies a log structured

Interrupt sharing problem (kernel freeze)

2000-10-05 Thread Bernhard Mogens Ege
I have for several month now had my kernel randomly freeze on me without me getting anything in the log files. The other day I let the machine stay in virtual console 1 (ascii mode) and let X run on virtual console 7 (vc7). The machine still crashed, but I got the kernel death cry. Here goes

Re: Status of ReiserFS + Journalling

2000-10-05 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:49:29AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:39:34AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Hmm, now that I think about it, this can be brought to data corruption even easier ... Imagine a case where a stripe isn't written completely. One of the drives

Re: Integrating Andre IDE patch into 2.2.18/19 kernel

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jeff Nguyen wrote: I hope you will consider to integrate Andre IDE patche into the 2.2.18 or 2.2.19 kernel. For Linux to become a successful desktop platform, it needs better IDE support. Andre has done a tremendous job in getting the IDE driver support for so many

Re: Would you help me ...?

2000-10-05 Thread Harald Welte
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:06:04AM +, qinghua huang wrote: Dear: My kernel is 2.2.5-15. I am studying buffer.c . And I can not I am not familiar wirth that part of the kernel, but I really recommend you to use a recent revision of the kernel. Otherwise you might end up

Re: [PATCH] Support for CS89x0 based PCMCIA cards

2000-10-05 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
"p2 wrote:" Oops. I forgot the patch. diff -u --new-file -x *.o -x .* linux.old/drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.in linux/drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.in --- linux.old/drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.inSun Aug 13 19:21:20 2000 +++ linux/drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.inSun Sep 24 19:02:19 2000

Re: patch installation

2000-10-05 Thread Harald Welte
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:09:30PM -0700, Anil kumar wrote: Hi, I am installing a RAID patch to my present kernel which is 2.2.12. Why keep people always using old kernels? Any specific reason for that? 2.2.17 is the latest stabel kernel. it seems like you have already applied the patch.

Re: hdparm settings: Can they be permanent?

2000-10-05 Thread Harald Welte
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:57:54PM +, Stephen Torri wrote: It was suggested to me that the way to make hdparm settings permanent was to create a script to change the settings on startup. Is this the best choice? Yes, indeed. It is the same for all kernel configurable parameters. Look at

Re: 2.4.0-test9 ipv6 module refcount problem?

2000-10-05 Thread Harald Welte
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:11:21PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: ipv6 142240 -1 go and check out the mailinglist archive. This is one of the most frequently asked questions. IPv6 currently has no clean code to remove itself from the network stack, so it is setting the

Re: 2.4.0-test9 ipv6 module refcount problem?

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Harald Welte wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:11:21PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: ipv6 142240 -1 go and check out the mailinglist archive. This is one of the most frequently asked questions. IPv6 currently has no clean code to remove itself

Re: 2.4.0-test9 ipv6 module refcount problem?

2000-10-05 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:52:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: That seems like a bug... If MOD_INC_USE_COUNT occurs, then unload (oops?) is possible. It isn't. Read the code ;) [ipv6 uses the can_unload hook in the modules code] -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Weightless process class

2000-10-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! A process can't grab a kernel lock and then switch back to user mode, can it?(if it could, I can imagine some nasty DoS attacks...) Problem is, when we decide to schedule in a process or not, we know the process was last stuck in schedule() ... in kernel mode ;( I'd love to be

RE: cannot connect to linuxtoday.com 80 with test9-pre9

2000-10-05 Thread Mike Jagdis
More with their firewall. But try echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Is there anyway that we could make ECN enable/disable a flag on a route? Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Status of ReiserFS + Journalling

2000-10-05 Thread Helge Hafting
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Hmm, now that I think about it, this can be brought to data corruption even easier ... Imagine a case where a stripe isn't written completely. One of the drives (independently whether it's the xor one or one the other one) has thus invalid data. Now how do you

Re: 2.4.0-test9 ipv6 module refcount problem?

2000-10-05 Thread Matti Aarnio
It is nothing new, and works as intended. On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:09:53AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:52:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: That seems like a bug... If MOD_INC_USE_COUNT occurs, then unload (oops?) is possible. It isn't. Read the code ;)

Re: Tux2 - evil patents sighted

2000-10-05 Thread john slee
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:02:36PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: Here's a gem of a claim from the main WAFL patent: "20. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of using one or more of said read-only copies of said file system to back-up said blocks comprising one or more

Re: instability after increasing file-max and inode-max

2000-10-05 Thread Meelis Roos
AM Thanks for the reply. Any idea why my system is rebooting itself at exactly Wild guess: because of too low inode limit (should be 2..3 times file limit). Somebody should check what happens if inbode-max is way too low compared to file-max. -- Meelis Roos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To

Re: [PATCH] Support for CS89x0 based PCMCIA cards

2000-10-05 Thread Andrew Morton
p2 wrote: Hi *, Attached you will find a patch which adds support for CS89x0 base PCMCIA cards such as the IBM EtherJet. Great work! Did you know that Danilo Beuche has written a Card Services driver for this device? An old version of that driver currently resides somewhere in the

Re: Status of ReiserFS + Journalling

2000-10-05 Thread Daniel Phillips
Neil Brown wrote: For RAID5 a 'stripe' is a set of blocks, one from each underlying device, which are all at the same offset within their device. For each stripe, one of the blocks is a "parity" block - though it is a different block for each stripe (parity is rotated). Content of the

Weird combo: VIA vt82c586b+IBM djna-371800+Toshiba XM-5702b

2000-10-05 Thread Gnea
So here's the scoop: I'm putting together this system for my sister to dual-boot Linux (debian) and Windows 98. Originally, I had an IBM 1.7gig ata33 hard drive in there, and everything worked fine. Then she decided she wanted to have Windows on there and thus this required more hard drive

Can't E-Mail you..

2000-10-05 Thread Steven N. Hirsch
Alan, Sorry to post this in public, but my last two E-Mails bounced (are you blocking the adelphia.net domain for some reason?). At any rate, the odd mouse problems I reported in 2.2.18pre12 did not appear in pre11, and I did not have USB present in the pre12 kernel either. I didn't see

Bug in test9's fs/open.c

2000-10-05 Thread Petko Manolov
Hi there, I ran into this oops with test9. It appears on irregular base i.e. it can be immediately after i run X or minutes later. As far as i can see the problem is a wild pointer (the first argument of filp_close - filp) in filp_close(), which is called by sys_close(). Actually to

Re: Weird combo: VIA vt82c586b+IBM djna-371800+Toshiba XM-5702b

2000-10-05 Thread Dan Aloni
On 5 Oct 2000, Gnea wrote: So there it is... I've essentially knocked this problem down to one of two things (possibly both): 1) VIA made a buggy chipset I'm also one of the "lucky" ones who got this chipset for their motherboard. With two hard drives and one CDROM - no problems here. That

Re: [PATCH] console palette fix

2000-10-05 Thread Dan Aloni
Hi James, Linus is not the maintainer of the 2.2.* kernels, Alan Cox is (see CC). Although this patch is correct, and was accepted in 2.4.*, it creates a secondary problem after applying it - A dark textmode console for some cards, unrelated to the frame buffer mode. An *additional* patch is

Re: Phase tree algorithm defined

2000-10-05 Thread richardj_moore
Daniel, This is very valuable - thanks for makeing the effort. You could enhance you document greatly if you provided a few diagrams to illustrate the structure, especially the example file system. I'd suggest converting the document to HTML or XML. Also, I'd like to understand how the

Re: Would you help me ...?

2000-10-05 Thread Eric Lowe
Hello, My kernel is 2.2.5-15. I am studying buffer.c . And I can not understand the relation or difference between generic_readpage() and getblk(). When I read a data file through a process they both are called . But I don't understand their order,relation,difference.

poll(2) semantics changed in 2.4.0-? vs. 2.2.16?

2000-10-05 Thread Martin Diehl
Hi, had some long network stalls during initscripts in 2.4.0-test9. newaliases appeared to block until timeout in do_poll() on udp socket. I've written a demo program to show what's going on without depending on initscript and config (DNS/RPC/NIS) issues - attached polltest.c It sends something

Re: Interrupt sharing problem (kernel freeze)

2000-10-05 Thread Manfred
Looking at the trace, I can see the cpu wasn't actually doing anything when it crashed. Well, an interrupt occured, and that apparently is fatal on my machine. Now I wonder why. It's easy to explain the crash: EIP: END_OF_CODE+37649e23/??? Trace: c01127ae timer_bh+2be/404

Re: 2.2.18pre and Duron detection

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:09:24PM +0200, Meelis Roos wrote: 2.2.18pre12 detects Duron 600 almost fine (even reports 64K cache) but fails to identify some cpu flags (6, 14, 17). /proc/cpuinfo output: According to the documentation I have, 6PAE 14 Machine Check

v2.4.0test9 NFSv3 server woes Linux--Solaris

2000-10-05 Thread David Weinehall
Using the NFSv3 server in the v2.4.0test9 kernel (I haven't tested any earlier v2.3.xx or v2.4.0testx kernels) I'm having problems with (for instance) compile glib. The setups I've tried are: wsize = rsize = 1kB Linux NFSv3 server -- Linux NFSv3 client (UDP mounted) -- WORKS wsize = rsize =

Re: 2.2.18pre and Duron detection

2000-10-05 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Oct 05, 2000 at 02:09:24PM +0200, Meelis Roos wrote: 2.2.18pre12 detects Duron 600 almost fine (even reports 64K cache) but fails to identify some cpu flags (6, 14, 17). /proc/cpuinfo output: I see the same thing on my Athlon. Funny I never noticed it before... andersen@slag:~$ cat

Re: Phase tree algorithm defined

2000-10-05 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:46:10PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good! I hope to meet you next week at ALS as I'm giving a pitch on DProbes next Thursday. When is your session? I'm using it successfully after a quick port to 2.4. Very nice work. The P-tree by the way is described by

2.2.x NFS service causing routing/networking failures?

2000-10-05 Thread joseph
(Not subscribed to linux-kernel. Please cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Okay, twice this evening I've seen my 2.2.16-kernel based i586 (K6-2) machine become ignorant of the utility of eth0. Both times I'd been playing mp3 audio on another linux box from an NFS volume served by the machine that went

[PATCH] tlan timer fix on tytso's list.

2000-10-05 Thread Torben Mathiasen
Linus, This patch includes the following: Fixes the timer being added twice bug (on tytso's list) Convertes driver to new PCI layout Adds support for EISA based TLAN adapters. Patch has been tested for over a month now and is ready for 2.4. Against final test9. --

Re: 2.2.x NFS service causing routing/networking failures?

2000-10-05 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Okay, twice this evening I've seen my 2.2.16-kernel based i586 (K6-2) machine become ignorant of the utility of eth0. Both times I'd been playing mp3 audio on another linux box from an NFS volume served by the machine that went nuts. Let me guess - eth0 is a tulip

Re: Incomplete Adaptec 29160 support!?

2000-10-05 Thread Ookhoi
Based on what I've been able to find out on the net, it appears that the support of the Adaptec 29160 is not complete (optimal?), but because the card works in a degraded mode with the current driver, there haven't been many complaints. A recent benchmark in Open Magazine (1.2, Sep

Re: v2.4.0test9 NFSv3 server woes Linux--Solaris

2000-10-05 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:58:39PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: Using the NFSv3 server in the v2.4.0test9 kernel (I haven't tested any earlier v2.3.xx or v2.4.0testx kernels) I'm having problems with (for instance) compile glib. The setups I've tried are: wsize = rsize = 1kB Linux

Re: v2.4.0test9 NFSv3 server woes Linux--Solaris

2000-10-05 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:38:26AM -0400, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:58:39PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: Using the NFSv3 server in the v2.4.0test9 kernel (I haven't tested any earlier v2.3.xx or v2.4.0testx kernels) I'm having problems with (for instance) compile

Re: Incomplete Adaptec 29160 support!?

2000-10-05 Thread Mitch Adair
Which is a bunch of bullsh*t. i have an Adaptec 39160 and it works beautifully. With regards to the docs, i found this under the "Supported cards/chipsets" section around line 42 of drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx (in both 2.4.0 and 2.2.17): AHA-29160M kernel

Re: [PATCH] tlan timer fix on tytso's list.

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
As tigran mentions, you should not explicitly zero static vars. You need to ask yourself if TLAN will -ever- be used in a hotplug situation, ie. do you find TLAN hardware on CardBus or PCMCIA cards? If no, you should: s/__devinit/__init/ s/__devexit/__exit/ If yes, you have

[PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-05 Thread Torben Mathiasen
Linus, This patch is a resend of my other link fix patch that didn't get in test9-pre9. I assume this is because of some other changes to upper layer scsi drivers. This patch is a lot smaller because the "moving files around" part has been omittet. So please apply this patch and do the

Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please include your patches inline so we can easily quote them via the standard e-mail reply feature. i2o_block.c: you don't need EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS (yes, I know it was there before) sd.c: why do you add two blank lines, but change nothing else? sg.c: ug. the worst part of the patch. you

Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-05 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Thu, Oct 05 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: Please include your patches inline so we can easily quote them via the standard e-mail reply feature. i2o_block.c: you don't need EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS (yes, I know it was there before) I' remove it. sg.c: ug. the worst part of the patch. you revert

Re: IDE problems 2.4.0-t9p8 and later

2000-10-05 Thread Eric Lowe
Hello, I did not change it and I have yet to get a good reason from the person who did. I have explained why it was wrong to change, but I guess things will have to start crashing again when Linus accepts changes that I never looked at or discussed. Take it up with ManDrake Linux folks,

Re: IDE problems 2.4.0-t9p8 and later

2000-10-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Eric Lowe wrote: Agreed. I ran into the same problem myself, but I figured you probably didn't break it. Would be nice to see it fixed though, I'm trying to help debug the new VM on that machine that just so happens to use that chipset, and it's hard to do that when it

good book on kernel

2000-10-05 Thread RAJESH BALAN
Hi, Iam interested in learning linux kernel. Can anyone suggest a really good book for kernel internals (im not bothered abt the price). i 've a book named "linux kernel internals". i want something more to follow the code completely. tx, rajesh balan

Re: [PATCH] tlan timer fix on tytso's list.

2000-10-05 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Thu, Oct 05 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: * return value from pci_module_init and TLan_EisaProbe is never checked. If you don't care about the return value, just remove 'rc' var. I was going to have some code here, but haven't had the time. I'll remove it. * does TLan_EisaProbe work? It

Re: good book on kernel

2000-10-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, RAJESH BALAN wrote: Hi, Iam interested in learning linux kernel. Can anyone suggest a really good book for kernel internals (im not bothered abt the price). i 've a book named "linux kernel internals". i want something more to follow the code completely. tx, rajesh

[PATCH] xconfig, Menuconfig fixes (2.4test9)

2000-10-05 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
Hi Linus, Two patches for 2.4.0test9 configuration follow. 1. I found two bugs in configuration utilities: - Menuconfig doesn't ignore commented out "endmenu" commands (while commented out "mainmenu_option" it does). I don't think it is intentional... Especially as it breaks s390

Re: good book on kernel

2000-10-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, RAJESH BALAN wrote: Hi, Iam interested in learning linux kernel. Can anyone suggest a really good book for kernel internals (im not bothered abt the price). i 've a book named "linux kernel internals". i want something more to follow the code completely. tx, rajesh

procfs info

2000-10-05 Thread George Anzinger
Where is the internal interface to procfs documented? George - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

kmem_grow

2000-10-05 Thread Eli Carter
Pardon my ignorance, but: Can anyone point me to a quick explaination of what kmem_grow: Called nonatomically from int - size-64 means or what to look for when you see something like this? I'm guessing size-64 is from the slab allocator... so kmalloc() or something is being called incorrectly

procfs docs...

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, George Anzinger wrote: Where is the internal interface to procfs documented? There is no documentation for the -exported- procfs interface as far as I know. As for internal interfaces, who knows what you are asking... Here's a rough outline: (maybe somebody should clean

Re: 2.4.0-pre9: mga drm still not working

2000-10-05 Thread Michael Meding
Hi there, just a side note. It is recommended that you use the mga.o from dri tree anyway... not the one from the kernel tree. That won't help much about the underlying problem with the loading order but since there is no way to compile the mga.o in from the dri tree the problem itself vanishes

Re: test9-pre? lockups using pine

2000-10-05 Thread iafilius
Hello Same problem wit test9-pre kernels (duno when this started, but test8 seems to be fine, and pre9-final is compiling now) For me it locked up in pine, just after sending an Email, but not always. (and sure i had to retype my emails serveral times) And yes my mailfolders are large (may be

Re: procfs docs...

2000-10-05 Thread George Anzinger
Great start. To complete it we need some info on the read/write interface. Is it the same as for other drivers? I have heard that read is called once after returning an EOF. Is this so? I suppose there are other interfaces also, e.g. ioctl, etc. George Jeff Garzik wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct

usb-audio, does it work at all?

2000-10-05 Thread Erik Mouw
Hi all, I just got a "Target USB speaker converter", which is basically a USB sound card. I opened the case and found a Philips UDA1321PS chip, which seems to be the same chip as used in the Philips DSS 330 USB speakers, according to the linux-usb pages[1]. However, if I connect it to my laptop,

Majordomo Problems?

2000-10-05 Thread Post, Mark K
I don't know if anyone else is seeing this, but I'm getting multiple copies of a lot of the emails to this list. For some, it's two copies, for others it is up to four copies. Am I the only one seeing this? Mark Post - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

RE: usb-audio, does it work at all?

2000-10-05 Thread Dunlap, Randy
Eric, usb audio will be made to work again, but it's currently broken 2 ways: usb-uhci was just broken in 2.4.0-test9. Besides that, the audio driver has been broken since 2.4.0-test7 or so. It worked in 2.4.0-test5 but not in -test7. I've been searching for the problem but haven't found it

Re: Majordomo Problems?

2000-10-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:40:01PM -0400, Post, Mark K wrote: I don't know if anyone else is seeing this, but I'm getting multiple copies of a lot of the emails to this list. For some, it's two copies, for others it is up to four copies. Am I the only one seeing this? No, somebody thinks

Re: Majordomo Problems?

2000-10-05 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Mark , I can confirm the (Very) recent start of some duplicates showing up . 4 for one message , 2 for another . Hth , JimL On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Post, Mark K wrote: I don't know if anyone else is seeing this, but I'm getting multiple copies of a lot

Re: 2.4.0-pre9: mga drm still not working

2000-10-05 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Michael Meding wrote: Hi there, just a side note. It is recommended that you use the mga.o from dri tree anyway... not the one from the kernel tree. That won't help much about the underlying problem with the loading order but since there is no way to compile the mga.o

Re: Majordomo Problems?

2000-10-05 Thread Sven Krohlas
Hello, I don't know if anyone else is seeing this, but I'm getting multiple copies of a lot of the emails to this list. For some, it's two copies, for others it is up to four copies. Am I the only one seeing this? No, I've got the same problem... -- Sven Krohlas, | __o |

Re: 2.4.0-test9-pre8, usb, unresolved symbols

2000-10-05 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:54:25AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Very strange, I'll beat on this some more today and try to see what's up. I tried this .config on test9 final last night and didn't have any problems. Could you see if this is still a problem with test9? thanks, greg k-h --

[PATCH] initdata and bss

2000-10-05 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, A few bss changes (to remove zero initialization) in test9 were not completly correct. Init data must be initialized if you want that it gets into the init section (it's also mentioned in the gcc documentation). The following patch fixes what I was able to find with grep and also adds a note

Re: Majordomo Problems?

2000-10-05 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Thu, Oct 05 2000, Post, Mark K wrote: I don't know if anyone else is seeing this, but I'm getting multiple copies of a lot of the emails to this list. For some, it's two copies, for others it is up to four copies. Am I the only one seeing this? I have the same problems, thought it was

Re: [PATCH] initdata and bss

2000-10-05 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, A few bss changes (to remove zero initialization) in test9 were not completly correct. Init data must be initialized if you want that it gets into the init section (it's also mentioned in the gcc documentation). The following patch fixes what I

Re: v2.4.0test9 NFSv3 server woes Linux--Solaris

2000-10-05 Thread Trond Myklebust
" " == David Weinehall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh, by the way, is there ANY sane reason whatsoever behind the decision that the Linux NFSv3 client in the v2.2.18pre15 kernel defaults to wsize = rsize = 1kB and the NFSv3 client in v2.4.0test9 defaults to wsize = rsize =

GET_USE_COUNT(THIS_MODULE) and i810_rng driver.

2000-10-05 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Keith, I tried to compile Jeff's i810_rng driver statically and I can't because of a construct like this: if (GET_USE_COUNT(THIS_MODULE) 0) MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT; if (GET_USE_COUNT(THIS_MODULE) == 0) rng_hw_enabled

Re: kmem_grow

2000-10-05 Thread Eric Lowe
Hello, Pardon my ignorance, but: Can anyone point me to a quick explaination of what kmem_grow: Called nonatomically from int - size-64 means or what to look for when you see something like this? I'm guessing size-64 is from the slab allocator... so kmalloc() or something is being

svc: unknown program 100227 (me 100003)

2000-10-05 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Maybe a stupid question, but it would be nice to know what this message means: fright kernel: svc: unknown program 100227 (me 13) 'fright' is the name of the machine in question (2.4.0-test6, x86). I get this about 40 times per day. Many thanx Harri - To unsubscribe

Majordomo is sick

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is sick and is sending messages in a circle. Better check the /etc/aliases file and make sure a record isn't pointing somewhere it should not. Jeff [Fwd: Returned mail: Too many hops 29 (25 max): from [EMAIL PROTECTED] via vger.kernel.org, to [EMAIL PROTECTED]] The

Re: 2.2.x NFS service causing routing/networking failures?

2000-10-05 Thread joseph
The card is a DLink DFE 530TX: via-rhine.c:v1.01 2/27/99 Written by Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.html eth0: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0xe000, 00:50:ba:a5:5f:e6, IRQ 5. eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 05e1 Link 40a1. PCI latency

No Subject

2000-10-05 Thread Matt_Domsch
I'm still trying to read physical sectors, and have made progress. Thanks for the pointers on set_blocksize(), that seems to do the trick. However, now I've got another problem. When I read blocks "too quickly", I guess the elevator algorithm in ll_rw_block() kicks in and re-organizes my

Re: Majordomo is sick

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
From the header, looks like several folks are responsible. Jeff Gerhard Mack wrote: It's not majodomo. It's somone who is subscribed to the list bouncing things back. Could be a broken mail to news gateway or some other mis scripted feature. Read the mail headers and you can see fairly

Re: poll(2) semantics changed in 2.4.0-? vs. 2.2.16?

2000-10-05 Thread David S. Miller
Fix your /etc/nsswitch.conf to not try to use NIS/NIS+ if you do not have these services available. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at

failure to burn CDs under 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
Comparing CD contents with the original after burning showed mismatches 4 times in a row. Booted into linux 2.2.18 and everything is fine. Together with the events of freezing in pine I would suggest that there is something in the kernel scribbling memory. I am back to 2.2 for good for now.

Re: NGROUPS_MAX

2000-10-05 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:39:11AM +1300, Craig Whitmore wrote: I need to set up a server with a user that is in more than 32 groups at a time and as far as I know NGROUPS_MAX in limits.h changes this maximum. If I increase (say to 256) this will this break anything or will linux work

Re: Majordomo Problems?

2000-10-05 Thread Frank van Viegen
++ 05/10/00 21:17 +0200 - Torben Mathiasen: I have the same problems, thought it was because my resubscription went wrong. Sorry, I caused this problem. The repeated messages were send out by a mail processing script I've actually been using for quite some time, but demonstrated to contain

Re: Status of ReiserFS + Journalling

2000-10-05 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:33:30AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: A power failure might leave you with a corrupt disk block. That is detectable (read failure) and you may then reconstruct it using the rest of the stripe. This will get you data from either before or after the update was

Re: Majordomo Problems?

2000-10-05 Thread Eric Lammerts
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote: The list has been experiencing loop via somebody. The likely suspect is now deleted from the list, and it remains to be seen if that helped. from a looping message: X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: v2.4.0test9 NFSv3 server woes Linux--Solaris

2000-10-05 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:27:56PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote: " " == David Weinehall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh, by the way, is there ANY sane reason whatsoever behind the decision that the Linux NFSv3 client in the v2.2.18pre15 kernel defaults to wsize = rsize = 1kB

locking user memory

2000-10-05 Thread Atul Mukker.
Hi, My driver needs to do a large DMA in the user address. Is there a way i can ensure the user buffer is not swapped out, while i am doing the IO. Please CC your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Compiling and linking with -gdwarf enable

2000-10-05 Thread Armin Kuster
Ralph Blach wrote: I am working with the monta-vista port of linux to the 405gp. arch/ppc/mm/4xx_tlb.o: In function `findPTE': /u/rcblach/405/2.4.0-test2/arch/ppc/mm/4xx_tlb.c:507: undefined reference to `pgd_none' /u/rcblach/405/2.4.0-test2/arch/ppc/mm/4xx_tlb.c:507: relocation

Re: [patch] enabling APIC and NMI watchdog on UP systems

2000-10-05 Thread Jamie Lokier
Philip J. Mucci wrote: Basically, reading the counters is a 2 step process: read the mmapped virtual counters and add that to the contents of rdpmc(). This means that (at least for the x86 series) the kernel interface only needs to 'guard' access to the MSR to make sure the user doesn't set

ack number in a connection-refused RST

2000-10-05 Thread Alan Curry
Usually, when I try to connect to a port with nothing listening on it, it looks like this: 17:11:20.809712 eth0 MYHOST.2514 OTHERHOST.auth: S 2807001202:2807001202(0) win 32120 mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 39176091 0,nop,wscale 0 (DF) 17:11:20.819712 eth0 OTHERHOST.auth MYHOST.2514: R 0:0(0)

Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger

2000-10-05 Thread Karim Yaghmour
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One big argument against RAS of any sort is that it bloats the kernel and not every one wants it (until they have a problem). A further argument with Linux is that you may have to do quite a bit of hard work to get the subset of RAS you need to co-exist, if it exists

Re: Why does everyone hate gcc 2.95?

2000-10-05 Thread Jamie Lokier
Alexander Viro wrote: ITYM "cute". As in "cute dancing paperclip". As colourized ls. Hey, colour ls is _useful_! Or --ignore-fail-on-non-empty as rmdir option. Or "let's replace config files with directories full of one-liners since packagers can't be arsed to learn sed(1)" religion.

Re: linux-2.4.0-test9

2000-10-05 Thread Jamie Lokier
David S. Miller wrote: These items are specifically placed into the data section, not the BSS, because these alignment games are not possible in the BSS. That would mean the BSS needs support alignment games. The problem is it doesn't work, please go try it. So until it does

Re: [PATCH-2.2] Bonding Driver Enhancements - final

2000-10-05 Thread Constantine Gavrilov
(defaults to MII link monitoring and does not include optimized transmit path) and the latest version I got during the time we were doing the tests -- patch-bonding-20001005.gz. TEST RESULTS. Hardware: Machine 1: IBM Tninkpad 600X with 3Com 3CCFE575BT Cyclone CardBus and 3Com Megahertz 574B

Re: [patch] APIC, NMI watchdog support on UP systems

2000-10-05 Thread Miles Lane
Ingo Molnar wrote: the latest UP-APIC patch against 2.4.0-test9 (upapic-2.4.0-test9-F5), can be downloaded from: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mingo/apic-patches/ this one should work on all systems - let me know how it behaves, reports, suggestions welcome. If any

Re: VGER

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
David, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not answering the "lists" test with a reply. The server shows to be up at 199.183.24.194, and nslookup reports: [root@vger /]# [root@vger /]# nslookup -querytype=mx vger.kernel.org Server: slkcpop1.slkc.uswest.net Address: 206.81.128.1 Non-authoritative answer:

Re: 2.2.x NFS service causing routing/networking failures?

2000-10-05 Thread Jorge Nerin
David Woodhouse wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Okay, twice this evening I've seen my 2.2.16-kernel based i586 (K6-2) machine become ignorant of the utility of eth0. Both times I'd been playing mp3 audio on another linux box from an NFS volume served by the machine that went nuts.

Intel 820 Chipset

2000-10-05 Thread John Wendel
Hi, Does anyone have an agpgart patch for the Intel 820 chipset? If not, I'll be happy to help if there is some dumbass work. I'm sorry I'm not smart enough to do this one myself. Thanks, John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: usb-audio, does it work at all?

2000-10-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:46:13AM -0700, Dunlap, Randy wrote: usb audio will be made to work again, but it's currently broken 2 ways: usb-uhci was just broken in 2.4.0-test9. Oh? It works perfectly well with my Wacom Graphire. Besides that, the audio driver has been broken since

Re: hdparm settings: Can they be permanent?

2000-10-05 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Harald Welte wrote: It was suggested to me that the way to make hdparm settings permanent was to create a script to change the settings on startup. Is this the best choice? Yes, indeed. It is the same for all kernel configurable parameters. Look at

RE: usb-audio, does it work at all?

2000-10-05 Thread Dunlap, Randy
From: Erik Mouw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:46:13AM -0700, Dunlap, Randy wrote: usb audio will be made to work again, but it's currently broken 2 ways: usb-uhci was just broken in 2.4.0-test9. Oh? It works perfectly well with my Wacom Graphire. So you are

Re: Integrating Andre IDE patch into 2.2.18/19 kernel

2000-10-05 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jeff Nguyen wrote: Hi Alan. I hope you will consider to integrate Andre IDE patche into the 2.2.18 or 2.2.19 kernel. Be advised that the big IDE patch for 2.2 (at least as of a month ago) contains a backport of the 2.4 ide-tape driver. That driver is BROKEN -- if the last

Status Update for Linux 2.4 Status/TODO

2000-10-05 Thread jamal
Ted, .. .. 4. Boot Time Failures .. Boot hangs on a range of Dell docking stations (Latitude) Almost certainly related: PCI code doesn't see devices behind DECchip 21150 PCI bridges (used in Dell Latitude). Reported by Simon Trimmer . (Patch from Martin Mares exists but

test9 PCI resource collisions

2000-10-05 Thread jamal
I have attached a few details of what appears to be a PCI resource alloc problem (IO ports from the look of it). Note: This is on a dell lattitude machine that never booted before with a docked setup. Enjoy! cheers, jamal pci.list.gz

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