Kernel bits

2000-11-22 Thread 64738
Hi. Is there a syscall or something that can tell me whether I'm working on a 32- or a 64-bit kernel? Greeting, Alain - 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/

Kernel bits

2000-11-22 Thread 64738
Hi. Is there a syscall or something that can tell me whether I'm working on a 32- or a 64-bit kernel? Greeting, Alain - 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/

filesystems

2000-11-22 Thread Joe Harrington
Does a typical Linux system or Mandrake boot using the ext2 filesystem? Do all filesystems have or use commands such as stat, read, write and chmod. I am trying to figure out without looking through the code how a VFS filesystem works. I am assuming that it does not use the major minor system,

Re: beware of dead string constants

2000-11-22 Thread Urban Widmark
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote: [someone wrote, and I am keeping it :) ] void foo (void) { if (0) printk(KERN_INFO "bar"); } [snip] Jakub Jelinek claims to have fixed this particular bug in the last week or so, although I have not

Re: Kernel bits

2000-11-22 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:25:46AM +0100, 64738 wrote: Hi. Is there a syscall or something that can tell me whether I'm working on a 32- or a 64-bit kernel? uname(2) It gives out various strings from which you must then deduce, what kind of kernel is needed to run

[PATCH] atmrefcount

2000-11-22 Thread Patrick van de Lageweg
Hi Linus, This patch contains the fix for the atmrefcount problem (noted as a critical problem in Ted's todo list). It also has the makefile modifications for the firestream driver in a separate email. Patrick diff -u -r linux-2.4.0-test11.clean/drivers/atm/Config.in

[NEW DRIVER] firestream

2000-11-22 Thread Patrick van de Lageweg
Hi Linus, This is the driver for the Fujitsu Firestream atm cards (fs50 and fs155). Please consider including this driver in the tree. Thanks Patrick diff -u -r --new-file linux-2.4.0-test11.clean/drivers/atm/firestream.c

Re: filesystems

2000-11-22 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Joe Harrington wrote: Does a typical Linux system or Mandrake boot using the ext2 filesystem? Do all filesystems have or use commands such as stat, read, write and chmod. I am trying to figure out without looking through the code how a VFS filesystem works. I am assuming

[BUG] 2.2.1[78] : RTNETLINK lock not properly locking ?

2000-11-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hello ! while I was searching how to implement an rtnl_lock() in the bonding code, I discovered that the rtnl_shlock() function in 2.2.1[78] could misbehave if CONFIG_RTNETLINK is not set : - it will nearly never allow concurrent accesses (seems to be what was intented when it was

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-22 Thread Benjamin Monate Benjamin Monate
Dans son message du Tue 21 November, Maciej W. Rozycki ecrit : But this message is printed when a workaround for certain early SMP EISA boards gets activated. You shouldn't normally get it for anything newer than P5/66 unless your MP-table is broken. Can you send me a dump of your

Re: Kernel bits

2000-11-22 Thread 64738
uname -m tells me the hardware type of the machine. Is this determined while booting or is this the architecture I choose during 'make config'? Can't I run a i386 kernel on a ia64 machine? I know something like this from HP- UX. You can choose between a 32 and a 64 bit kernel when installing,

Re: filesystems

2000-11-22 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: you do not mount a VFS filesystem. VFS is not a filesystem. VFS is a Virtual Filesystem Switch, i.e. a set of concepts, philosophy, data structures and functions which together make writing new filesystems easy. The name is derived from the SVR4

Re: linux-2.2.18-pre19 asm/delay.h problem?

2000-11-22 Thread Rogier Wolff
Alan Cox wrote: module that is pulling the definition of udelay() from asm/delay.h, it's referencing __bad_udelay(). However, I can't seem to find the __bad_udelay() function actually defined anyplace. (Although it could be somewhere in the kernel source that my grep missed.) Its

Re: Kernel bits

2000-11-22 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:46:35AM +0100, 64738 wrote: uname -m tells me the hardware type of the machine. Is this determined while booting or is this the architecture I choose during 'make config'? Mainly chosen during "make config". Processor info you see at /proc/cpuinfo

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-22 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: The subject says it all. Is there any particular (technical) reason why I must have both the generic pcmcia code and the controller support built-in, or build all of them as modules? /Tobias Wasn't there some strange laptop

test11 spontaneous reboot

2000-11-22 Thread David Ford
Something appears to be broken. One of my servers is going through seemingly random spontaneous reboots with nothing to indicate why. model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse It's a VIA

RE: 53c400 driver

2000-11-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Dunlap, Randy wrote: JE's UHCI driver (drivers/usb/uhci.[hc]) uses nested_lock() and nested_unlock() for this. Maybe it could help. I may should solve the nested spinlock issue.. It however doesn't solve the 100Kb+ pile of spaghetti the code is. I think I'll just start

Re: ECN causing problems

2000-11-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Joseph Gooch wrote: My RaptorNT 6.5 firewall rejects all connections from my linux box when ECN is enabled. The error is attached. Perhaps this feature should be disabled by default? Or is there already an option of the sort that i'm missing? I only got the idea to

Re: modutils 2.3.20 not backward compatible

2000-11-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
-i and -m have never been in the base code. -i in depmod is a Redhat add on, only in their distribution. I have no idea what -m does, apart from -m in insmod which is supported. Blame the distributors. -m == -F in depmod (RH anyways) Igmar - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Fw: Error in 2.2.14 and 2.2.15: kmem_alloc: Bad slab magic (corrupt) (name=buffer_head)

2000-11-22 Thread Anthony Barbachan
Hi all, I've gotten a few emails like the one below since my original post about seeing the bad slab magic corruption on a Linux server which I had been running. From the emails I've gotten this error now spans hardware. Mine was an Athlon. This guy is a K6-2. The only thing I am not

Re: i82365 PCI-PCMCIA bridge still not working in 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-22 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Installed kernel 2.4.0-test11 on my Debian Woody box today. Had no problem apart from getting PCMCIA to work. I have a PCI-PCMCIA adapter on my desktop PC, using the Cirrus Logic CL6729 chipset; Linus got a bit carried away when stripping out all the CardBus support

Re: hardcoded HZ in hub.c

2000-11-22 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Multiple seconds in the worst case. Well, I think the PCMCIA socket drivers would be happy with that. Depends what akpm also added to the list of tasks, and whether Linus actually puts that patch into test12. Probably best to leave it for now and think about it in

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-22 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, David Hinds wrote: On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: The subject says it all. Is there any particular (technical) reason why I must have both the generic pcmcia code and the controller support built-in, or build all of them as modules?

ne2k-pci freezes with APIC error on 2.4.0-testX SMP

2000-11-22 Thread Sergiu Partenie
[1.] ne2k-pci freezes with APIC error on 2.4.0-testX SMP [2.] bug. (as i don't think it is a feature :) found in all 2.4.0 versions i tried: test5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 When doing massive NFS transfers (2.4 machine as the client) on my SMP box (Abit BP6 2x celeronA 533mhz (non-overclocked) 64Mb

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Richard Torkar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Riley wrote: Richard Torkar wrote: Well David, there is such a "manual". http://ftp.sunet.se/LDP/FAQ/faqs/GCC-SIG11-FAQ Yes. And if you ask the average new Linux user if they've read it, I doubt you'll get a "yes". My question

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-22 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is there a technical reason for this? Not that I know of; but then I also cannot think of a good reason for wanting, say, the generic code built in but the controller support as modules. I do see reasonable arguments for all-builtin or all-modules.

Re: hardcoded HZ in hub.c

2000-11-22 Thread Andrew Morton
David Woodhouse wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Multiple seconds in the worst case. Well, I think the PCMCIA socket drivers would be happy with that. Depends what akpm also added to the list of tasks, Nothing which sleeps for very long - mainly serial drivers which queue a call to

Re: hardcoded HZ in hub.c

2000-11-22 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Nothing which sleeps for very long - mainly serial drivers which queue a call to tty_hangup(), which immediately queues _another_ tq_scheduler call to do_tty_hangup (Why? Heaven knows). Not so much worried about that. More about how sensitive they would be to

[patch] O_SYNC patch 2/3, add per-inode dirty buffer lists

2000-11-22 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, This is the second part of my old O_SYNC diffs patched up for 2.4.0-test11. It adds support for per-inode dirty buffer lists. In 2.4, we are now generating dirty buffers on a per-page basis for every write. For large O_SYNC writes (often databases use around 128K per write), we obviously

Re: BUG: 2.2.17 and APM

2000-11-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
When you say "halt", do you mean "shutdown -h now" or do you mean that the computer just powers off? I have a VAIO and suspend works fine (hibernate isn't supported). I'd be interested in seeing your /etc/sysconfig/apm*. Just "off", i.e. as soon as it should start entering standby or

[patch] O_SYNC patch 3/3, add inode dirty buffer list support to ext2

2000-11-22 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, This final part of the O_SYNC patches adds calls to ext2, and to generic_commit_write, to record dirty buffers against the owning inode. It also removes most of fs/ext2/fsync.c, which now simply calls the generic sync code. --Stephen 2.4.0test11.02.ext2-osync.diff : ---

vfree() question.

2000-11-22 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi, In vfree() shouldn't we be dropping vmlist_lock spinlock as soon as we unlinked the item from the vmlist? I.e. before we free the actual pages and the vm_struct itself. Or, perhaps it should be done _after_ vmfree_area_pages() but definitely before kfree(tmp) since tmp is no longer visible

Re: hardcoded HZ in hub.c

2000-11-22 Thread Andrew Morton
David Woodhouse wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Nothing which sleeps for very long - mainly serial drivers which queue a call to tty_hangup(), which immediately queues _another_ tq_scheduler call to do_tty_hangup (Why? Heaven knows). Not so much worried about that. More about how

Re: hardcoded HZ in hub.c

2000-11-22 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ah. No, I don't think it would be polite to cause TTY hangup processing to be deferred for this long. I'd suggest that the policy be "scheduled tasks can't sleep". I guess kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) is acceptable because the system is already running like a dog if this

Re: ECN causing problems

2000-11-22 Thread Alan Cox
My RaptorNT 6.5 firewall rejects all connections from my linux box when ECN is enabled. The error is attached. Perhaps this feature should be disabled by default? Or is there already an option of the sort that i'm missing? I only got the idea to disable it after a search of linux-kernel.

Rik's bad process killer - how to kill _IT_?

2000-11-22 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, I've been having a bit of a problem with Rik's new VM, in particular the bad process-killer. Basically put, I have a reasonably underpowered system (P166) running Helix GNOME Sawfish, and half the time when I load my Eterm (admittedly, transparent, but it looks cool, damnit!), or Netscape

Announce: modutils 2.3.21 is available

2000-11-22 Thread Keith Owens
This is the "never release a security fix in a hurry" release. The security fixes in modutils 2.3.20 had some side effects on some config files. Linus knocked back environment variable MOD_SAFEMODE, instead the kernel propagates the real uid that caused modprobe to be invoked.

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-22 Thread Alan Cox
Wasn't there some strange laptop model which had PCMCIA floppy/CDROM, which are unavailable to bootstrap process, unless PCMCIA is supported at the booting kernel ? I have seen a couple where the floppy/cdrom are supported by the bios but then vanish. Generally they are left mapped which

Re: ECN causing problems

2000-11-22 Thread James A Sutherland
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Joseph Gooch wrote: My RaptorNT 6.5 firewall rejects all connections from my linux box when ECN is enabled. The error is attached. Perhaps this feature should be disabled by default? Or is there already an option of the sort that i'm missing? I only got the idea to

[PATCH] exit_idescsi_module()

2000-11-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
cleanup_module() was renamed to exit_idescsi_module() recently --- linux-2.4.0-test11/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c Mon Oct 30 23:44:29 2000 +++ linux-m68k-2.4.0-test11/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c Wed Nov 22 09:15:52 2000 @@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ failed = 0; while ((drive

Patch(?): pci_device_id tables for drivers/scsi in 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-22 Thread Adam J. Richter
Here is my first pass at adding pci_device_id tables to all PCI scsi drivers in linux-2.4.0-test11. It implements a compromise regarding named initializers for pci_device_id table entries: shorter tables or tables that contain anonymous constants use the named fields, but the few longer

Fw: SMP proc/stat wrong?

2000-11-22 Thread Mike Black
On my dual-SMP system: cpu 15706258 0 4077925 308293017 cpu0 7877393 0 2034458 154126749 cpu1 7828865 0 2043467 154166268 On my other dual-SMP with only one CPU in it: cpu 7364 0 5108 992193 cpu0 7364 0 5108 992193 On my non-SMP system: cpu 16922 0 8096 968425 cpu0 16922 0 8096 968425 All

Re: Patch(?): pci_device_id tables for drivers/scsi in 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Here is my first pass at adding pci_device_id tables to all PCI scsi drivers in linux-2.4.0-test11. It implements a compromise regarding named

Re: Patch(?): pci_device_id tables for drivers/scsi in 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-22 Thread Adam J. Richter
Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neither there are lots of NULL-initilized fields nor is there any reason to add new fields (the pci tables are external API, because of MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE). PCI ID matching relies on the zeros being filled in for an empty value in the case of

[PATCH] isofs/inode.c

2000-11-22 Thread Andries . Brouwer
Here the second patch in the isofs series. inode.c:isofs_read_super() dereferences the variable pri that need not be set in case of a Joliet CD, causing an Oops. Patch below. Andries [While editing the diff, I left a fix for aha1542.c, maybe you got it already. I also left something else that

Cardbus bridge problems

2000-11-22 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
Not that I like it, but I need to boot Win98, and then warm boot into Linux, or the Cardbus is not working. This is using Linux-2.4.0-test11 on a Mitac 7233 laptop. Using lspci, I can see that the secondary and subordinate busses of the Cardbus bridges are unconfigured/incorrect. I have

Re: Locking User memory pages from a driver....

2000-11-22 Thread Eric Lowe
Hello, How do i lock user mode memmory pages from kernel mode driver.. so that i can access it whenever i need to from the driver I am using linux kernel 2.2.14.. can this be done in this kernel version... or is it supported in some other newer versions.. like 2.4.. raw I/O. Stock in

Re: Cardbus bridge problems

2000-11-22 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
Argh! I forgot the attachments. Here they are! /Tobias On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: Not that I like it, but I need to boot Win98, and then warm boot into Linux, or the Cardbus is not working. This is using Linux-2.4.0-test11 on a Mitac 7233 laptop. Using lspci, I can see

silly [ ] and other excess

2000-11-22 Thread Christian Gennerat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I also left something else that always annoyed me: valuable screen space (on a 24x80 vt) is lost by these silly [ ] around addresses in an Oops. They provide no information at all, but on the other hand cause loss of information because these lines no longer

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre22

2000-11-22 Thread John Kennedy
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:11:33AM +, Alan Cox wrote: Anything which isnt a strict bug fix or previously agreed is now 2.2.19 material. I needed to add this to get my kernel to compile. I was trying to get pci_resource_start to be defined. It was only an issue with this one object

Success with 2.4.0-test11(-final) [was: Re: Oops with 2.4.0-test10 during ripping an audio cd with cdda2wav]

2000-11-22 Thread Bernd Nottelmann
On Saturday 11 November 2000 05:18, you wrote: [...] This looks like cdrom.c:mmc_ioctl, CDROMREADAUDIO, kmalloc'ing too much memory, which triggers the BUG() in slab.c. I'm not quite sure how this is happening though, unless cdda2wav sets a negative ra.nframes (a quick browse on a version I

Re: Rik's bad process killer - how to kill _IT_?

2000-11-22 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Daniel Stone wrote: I've been having a bit of a problem with Rik's new VM, in particular the bad process-killer. Basically put, I have a reasonably underpowered system (P166) running Helix GNOME Sawfish, and half the time when I load my Eterm (admittedly, transparent,

[2.4.0-test11 BUG] kernel: _isofs_bmap: block = EOF (559939584, 4096)

2000-11-22 Thread Christophe Broult
With 2.4.0-test11, I am unable to access to the content of CDROMs. For example: root@madison:~# mount /cdrom/ ; df ;ls -la /cdrom ; umount /cdrom/ Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 1014990

Re: That Dirty Son of a Bitch, Bill Gates!!!

2000-11-22 Thread Matthew G. Marsh
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Frank Davis wrote: Hello, Its a parody page from someone in LateSky Omaha, Nebraska, USA . Regards, -Frank Unnn- maybe you had better use the commandline version of whois... This site is in Watauga TX TX = Texasnot Nebraska ;-}

[PATCH] net drivers cleanup

2000-11-22 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi Jeff, attached new network drivers cleanup patchset: shaper.c, ac3200.c, e2100.c, lne390.c, ne3210.c, es3210.c, ioc3-eth.c, ni5010.c, ni52.c, hp.c, hp-plus.c, eth16i.c, 3c503.c, 3c505.c, 3c507.c, cs89x0.c, wd.c. Modifications: request_(irq|region) cleanup, printk()

[PATCH] PCI id list update

2000-11-22 Thread Martin Dalecki
Just a small trivial obviously correct update... diff -ur linux/include/linux/pci_ids.h linux-mega/include/linux/pci_ids.h --- linux/include/linux/pci_ids.h Tue Nov 21 16:31:52 2000 +++ linux-mega/include/linux/pci_ids.h Tue Nov 21 18:54:58 2000 @@ -257,6 +257,11 @@ #define

LKCD from SGI

2000-11-22 Thread 64738
Hi. I tried to find some information on whether the Linux Kernel Crash Dumps patches are going into 2.4 (or 2.5). Has there been any decision? - 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

Re: Success with 2.4.0-test11(-final) [was: Re: Oops with 2.4.0-test10 during ripping an audio cd with cdda2wav]

2000-11-22 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Nov 22 2000, Bernd Nottelmann wrote: On Saturday 11 November 2000 05:18, you wrote: [...] This looks like cdrom.c:mmc_ioctl, CDROMREADAUDIO, kmalloc'ing too much memory, which triggers the BUG() in slab.c. I'm not quite sure how this is happening though, unless cdda2wav sets a

Re: mount /mnt/cdrom ok!but ls segmentation fault...

2000-11-22 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Vincent wrote: Using linux-2.4.0-test11-pre7 right now..., here's what i did, mount /mnt/cdrom cd /mnt/cdrom ls Segmentation fault ls *NOT Responding* can't kill /sbin/ls can't umount /mnt/cdrom ps , shows ; 613 ?D 0:00 /bin/ls --color=auto -F -b

Re: Rik's bad process killer - how to kill _IT_?

2000-11-22 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:07:48PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: judging from your lack of error messages you're running 2.2 [..] Recent 2.2.x: if (error_code 4) { if (tsk-oom_kill_try++ 10 || !((regs-eflags 12) 3)) {

Re: linux-2.2.18-pre19 asm/delay.h problem?

2000-11-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
#define __bad_udelay() panic("Udelay called with too large a constant") Can't we change that to : #error "Udelay..." Igmar - 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

Re: Rik's bad process killer - how to kill _IT_?

2000-11-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Daniel Stone wrote: Hi, I've been having a bit of a problem with Rik's new VM, in particular the bad process-killer. Basically put, I have a reasonably underpowered system (P166) running Helix GNOME Sawfish, and half the time when I load my Eterm (admittedly,

Re: [PATCH] atmrefcount

2000-11-22 Thread Mitchell Blank Jr
Patrick van de Lageweg wrote: This patch contains the fix for the atmrefcount problem (noted as a critical problem in Ted's todo list). It also has the makefile modifications for the firestream driver in a separate email. Could you please split the two patches so that they're actually

Re: Linux 2.4.0test11-ac1

2000-11-22 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: It's not legal -- the MPS is very explicit the MP-table must reflect a real configuration. Intel tell me otherwise. The real world also disagrees which makes the discussion a little pointless. We have to handle the real situation where this occurs

Re: linux-2.2.18-pre19 asm/delay.h problem?

2000-11-22 Thread Andreas Schwab
Igmar Palsenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | #define __bad_udelay() panic("Udelay called with too large a constant") | | Can't we change that to : | #error "Udelay..." No. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab "And now for something SuSE Labs

Re: Linux 2.4.0test11-ac1

2000-11-22 Thread Alan Cox
APICs (probably due to the fact there was no standalone I/O APIC chip available at that time) so CPUs report no APIC flag. And it starts in the PIC mode as opposed to the Virtual Wire. I may send you his bootstrap log if you want to (but not today -- I don't have it handy). Ok. That means

isofs Problems with test11-final

2000-11-22 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi there! Reading of devices with isofs fs is not working, listing of 0 files and the following msgs in the logfile: _isofs_bmap: block 0 _isofs_bmap: block = EOF (1633681408, 10240) _isofs_bmap: block = EOF (1633681408, 4096) Is there any fix? (Please Cc: answers to me, thanks) Best wishes

setrlimit() and 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-22 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
Is probably broken (I didnt't saw any disscusion about this here, I missed it?). when I try to start first user process I get: 4366 fork()= -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) but strace show proper value passed to setrlimit() -- 40 max number of processes:

Re: [NEW DRIVER] firestream

2000-11-22 Thread Mitchell Blank Jr
First, I'd like to make a couple points about driver style that I'm trying to move towards with the ATM drivers. You're free to take them or leave them, but I want to eventually move the tree in this direction. * I don't like header files that define the registers of the chip - since the

Re: [patch] O_SYNC patch 3/3, add inode dirty buffer list support to ext2

2000-11-22 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:26:46AM +, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, This final part of the O_SYNC patches adds calls to ext2, and to generic_commit_write, to record dirty buffers against the owning inode. It also removes most of fs/ext2/fsync.c, which now simply calls the generic sync

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.21 is available

2000-11-22 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:25:17PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: This is the "never release a security fix in a hurry" release. The security fixes in modutils 2.3.20 had some side effects on some config files. Linus knocked back environment variable MOD_SAFEMODE, instead the kernel propagates

Re: Linux 2.4.0test11-ac1

2000-11-22 Thread Alan Cox
if(vendor!=INTEL !has_apic) /* No SMP */ And suddenly certain i486 systems do not work anymore? Well, I haven't i486 is an intel processor if (boot_cpu_id != -1U APIC_INTEGRATED(apic_version[boot_cpu_id]) !has_apic) /* No SMP */ It

Re: Linux 2.4.0test11-ac1

2000-11-22 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alan Cox wrote: if(vendor!=INTEL !has_apic) /* No SMP */ And suddenly certain i486 systems do not work anymore? Well, I haven't i486 is an intel processor ... but doesn't announce itself as such. if (boot_cpu_id != -1U

Re: Linux 2.4.0test11-ac1

2000-11-22 Thread Alan Cox
And suddenly certain i486 systems do not work anymore? Well, I haven't i486 is an intel processor ... but doesn't announce itself as such. Depends which stepping. We can check for and allow 'unknown' vendor too. The socket7 chips all have cpuid or other id schemes. Alan - To

[patch] minor problems when autodetecting an ESS1868 soundcard

2000-11-22 Thread Martin Heiß
Hi, i have found a minor 'problem' in the 2.4.0-testX kernels, that occurs when an ESS1868 soundcard is ISAPnP autodetected. (i.e. when the "sb" driver is compiled directly into the kernel) The "source" of the problem is in /drivers/sound/sb_card.c line. 399: in the sb_isapnp_list[] are two

Re: [BUG] 2.2.1[78] : RTNETLINK lock not properly locking ?

2000-11-22 Thread kuznet
Hello! - it will nearly never allow concurrent accesses (seems to be what was intented when it was written) Never, to be more exact. Concurrent accesses are allowed only with rtnetlink. In 2.4 it is always exclusive, because shared access turned out to be mostly useless. - it

Linux 2.4.0test11-ac2

2000-11-22 Thread Alan Cox
Changes in 2.4.0test11ac2 o Fix pcnet32 printk problems (Vojtech Pavlik) o Fix kd_mksound declaration (Geert Uytterhoeven) o m68k config fixes (Geert Uytterhoeven) o Make uid16 macros safer

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.21 is available

2000-11-22 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: + add RedHat ism's with a --rhc (red hat compatible) -i -m (-F) RedHat kind of is the standard in the commercial world in the US. Regardless of the bogus nature of this statement, boss. GNU/OS packages are to be modified locally and a

AGP patches for 2.2.X kernels

2000-11-22 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan, I noticed that the AGP patches are present in RH6.2 and 7.0, and that the agp support is integrated in 2.4.0. Do you know where the patches are for the 2.2.18 kernels for AGP. Thanks Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Linux 2.4.0test11-ac1

2000-11-22 Thread Bruce_Holzrichter
Hello, I am a relative newcomer to Linux and recently watching the kernel lists. FWIW, I have a quad Pentium 100 HP netserver that will panic kernel 2.2.x and 2.4.x (last checked with 2.4 test9) when bios APIC is turned on. I know this is not related to what your talking about, and that these

Re: silly [ ] and other excess

2000-11-22 Thread Russell King
Christian Gennerat writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a =E9crit : I also left something else that always annoyed me: valuable screen space (on a 24x80 vt) is lost by these silly [ ] around addresses in an Oops. They provide no information at all, but on the other hand cause loss of information

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-22 Thread Anthony Liu
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:33:25PM +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: [...] [root@merrimac linux-2.2.17]# cd scripts [root@merrimac scripts]# gcc -o mkdep.o mkdep.c collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped [root@merrimac scripts]# gcc -c -o mkdep.o

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.21 is available

2000-11-22 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:19:17AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: + add RedHat ism's with a --rhc (red hat compatible) -i -m (-F) RedHat kind of is the standard in the commercial world in the US. Regardless of the bogus nature of this

Removable Drive Bays, What am I using.

2000-11-22 Thread Andre Hedrick
I have finally gone and picked a drive bay that looks to work well in all cases. It does not appear to have any skew errors that are not inside the range of variations. I just picked up a dozen kits for use. I am working on a proposal to to a one week linux special purchase it discounted

Re: beware of dead string constants

2000-11-22 Thread Michael Elizabeth Chastain
Jakub Jelinek claims to have fixed this particular bug in the last week or so, although I have not downloaded and compiled recent CVS to verify this. I have a compiler from gcc.gnu.org's CVS tree that's only a few days old, so I can verify Jakub's claim. It Works For Me (tm). There is a

[PATCH] Reserved root VM + OOM killer

2000-11-22 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
WHY? Permanent memory need by user apps makes Linux uncontrollable in OOM (out of memory) situation when OOM killer can't kill as fast as the memory needed (and your superb 'free memory space' monitor/actor developed in the last 5 years was also killed and init couldn't restart it because of

Re: silly [ ] and other excess

2000-11-22 Thread Andries . Brouwer
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 22 19:20:52 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I also left something else that always annoyed me: valuable screen space (on a 24x80 vt) is lost by these silly [ ] around addresses in an Oops. They provide no information at all, but

Re: AGP patches for 2.2.X kernels

2000-11-22 Thread Alan Cox
the agp support is integrated in 2.4.0. Do you know where the patches are for the 2.2.18 kernels for AGP. In the 2.2.18pre kernel tree 8) - 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

Re: Rik's bad process killer - how to kill _IT_?

2000-11-22 Thread Daniel Stone
Daniel Stone Linux Kernel Developer ^^ If you were, you'd have written something that makes sense. Touche. I didn't claim to be a Linus, but I have got a few things in the kernel (sb16 driver, netfilter). Plus you can't ask much when I've gone 5 days without sleep

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.21 is available

2000-11-22 Thread Thomas Molina
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, David Ford wrote: * Remove compile warnings in xstrcat. * snprintf cleanups. * Set safemode when uid != euid. * Strip quotes from shell responses. + add RedHat ism's with a --rhc (red hat compatible) -i -m (-F) RedHat kind of

Broken link in configure help

2000-11-22 Thread Andrew Stubbs
The link inside configure help for ip tunneling "http://anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/~mobileip/LJ/index.html" appears to be non-existent Andrew - 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

PROBLEM: (U)DMA, hda: dma_intr status=0x51 ... error=0x84

2000-11-22 Thread Christian Roessner
Hello, I tested many hours before I sent you this eMail. I never sent Bug-Reports, so please be friendly if I did something wrong :-) I used the formular to produce a bug-report: 1.) See subject 2.) I have trouble using DMA mode with my Siemens Fujitsu harddisk on a NMC 6vcx Motherboard. I

lmbench-2alpha12 and linux-2.4.0-test11

2000-11-22 Thread Lorenzo Allegrucci
It seems like lastest kernels cannot run lmbench successfully. lmbench stops at "Local networking", between lat_connect and bw_tcp, as far as I can see from 'top'. No errors reported, lat_connect or bw_tcp exit silently. All 2.4.0-test[5-11] seem to have this problem. 2.4.0-test1 and 2.2.x all

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-22 Thread David Riley
Jeff Epler wrote: Well, a copy of that document *is* the first hit for a google search on 'linux signal 11 faq' http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+signal+11+faq In other words, someone who does the slightest bit of research will find the answer. Perhaps, but if a new user starts

Re: [PATCH] Reserved root VM + OOM killer

2000-11-22 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: - OOM killing takes place only in do_page_fault() [no two places in the kernel for process killing] ... disable OOM killing for non-x86 architectures. This doesn't seem like a smart move ;) diff -urw

include conventions /usr/include/linux/sys ?

2000-11-22 Thread LA Walsh
Linus has mentioned a desire to move kernel internal interfaces into a separate kernel include directory. In creating some code, I'm wondering what the name of this should/will be. Does it follow that convention would point toward a linux/sys directory? -l -- L A Walsh|

Re: [PATCH] Reserved root VM + OOM killer

2000-11-22 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: - OOM killing takes place only in do_page_fault() [no two places in the kernel for process killing] ... disable OOM killing for non-x86 architectures. This doesn't seem like a smart move

Re: include conventions /usr/include/linux/sys ?

2000-11-22 Thread Arjan van de Ven
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Linus has mentioned a desire to move kernel internal interfaces into a separate kernel include directory. In creating some code, I'm wondering what the name of this should/will be. Does it follow that convention would point toward a linux/sys

/proc/partitions for LVM

2000-11-22 Thread Brian Kress
Question about /proc/partitions and LVM. LVM devices in /proc/partitions currently show up as lvma, lvmb, etc, depending on their device number. This breaks things like mount by filesystem name. Back when LVM existed as a patch, I believe there was some support in

Re: /proc/partitions for LVM

2000-11-22 Thread Heinz J. Mauelshagen
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:05:39PM -0500, Brian Kress wrote: Question about /proc/partitions and LVM. LVM devices in /proc/partitions currently show up as lvma, lvmb, etc, depending on their device number. This breaks things like mount by filesystem name. Back when LVM existed as a

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