2.4.1-pre11 -- Unresolved symbols in smctr.o and comx.o (fixed in Alan's tree).

2001-01-29 Thread Miles Lane
Hi Linus, Do you plan to take a patch from Alan that fixes this for 2.4.1? depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre11/kernel/drivers/net/tokenring/smctr.o depmod: __bad_udelay depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre11/kernel/drivers/net/wan/comx.o

More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread Dylan Griffiths
The VIA KT133 chipset exhibits the following bugs under Linux 2.2.17 and 2.4.0: 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner of screen and locks for a bit 2) Detects a maximum of 64mb of ram, unless worked around by the "mem=" switch 3) The clock drifts slowly (more so under

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-29 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Actually, what you need to do is change it and then try it on something like 300 different systems. Since noone has direct access to that kind of system, you have to get people to help you out trying it. A better idea might be to find out what port, if any, Windows uses. If Windows does

Re: patch for 2.4.0 disable printk

2001-01-29 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Andrew Morton wrote: Stefani Seibold wrote: Second, i had change the macro so it calls now a inline funciton printk_inline which always return 0. So it should be now compatibel to the standard printk funciton. A #define is better. You see, even if printk is a null inline

Re: eepro100 problems in 2.4.0

2001-01-29 Thread Andrey Savochkin
Hello, On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:20:03PM -0700, Micah Gorrell wrote: I have doing some testing with kernel 2.4 and I have had constant problems with the eepro100 driver. Under 2.2 it works perfectly but under 2.4 I am unable to use more than one card in a server and when I do use one card I

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread Quim K Holland
"DG" == Dylan Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DG The VIA KT133 chipset exhibits the following bugs under Linux DG 2.2.17 and 2.4.0: DG 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner DG of screen and locks for a bit DG 2) Detects a maximum of 64mb of ram, unless worked around

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-29 Thread Helge Hafting
"Randal, Phil" wrote: James Sutherland wrote: Except you can't retry without ECN, because DaveM wants to do a Microsoft and force ECN on everyone, whether they like it or not. If ECN is so wonderful, why doesn't anybody actually WANT to use it anyway? And there's the rub. Whether

Re: flush_scheduled_tasks() question

2001-01-29 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is is intentional that tummy_task is not initialized? It _is_ initialised. To zero :) Ok, it won't crash because the current __run_task_queue() implementation doesn't call tq-routine if it's NULL, but IMHO it's ugly. -static struct tq_struct dummy_task; +static

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-29 Thread Meelis Roos
LT I just uploaded it to kernel.org, and I expect that I'll do the final LT 2.4.1 tomorrow, before leaving for NY and LinuxWorld. Please test that the LT pre-kernel works for you.. [...] LT pre10: [...] LT - Andy Grover: APCI update I tried test11 yesterday. Works fine except when I enable ACPI

Re: flush_scheduled_tasks() question

2001-01-29 Thread Manfred Spraul
David Woodhouse wrote: -static struct tq_struct dummy_task; +static struct tq_struct dummy_task /* = all zero */; That comment is superflous - that's just C. The non-obvious part is +static struct tq_struct dummy_task; /* remains zero, run_task_queue() supports tqs.routine==NULL*/ BUT: The

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread David Raufeisen
On Monday, 29 January 2001, at 01:20:15 (-0800), Quim K Holland wrote: "DG" == Dylan Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DG The VIA KT133 chipset exhibits the following bugs under Linux DG 2.2.17 and 2.4.0: DG 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner DG of screen and

Re: winsock 2

2001-01-29 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Rajiv Majumdar wrote: does winsock support raw sockets?if not, how do we implement an "ip spoof" in winsock? This is a LINUX mailing list, now a windblows one. Please post to a windows list, not this one. rajiv Igmar - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-29 Thread Harold Oga
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:02:33PM +0200, Meelis Roos wrote: LT I just uploaded it to kernel.org, and I expect that I'll do the final LT 2.4.1 tomorrow, before leaving for NY and LinuxWorld. Please test that the LT pre-kernel works for you.. [...] LT pre10: [...] LT - Andy Grover: APCI update I

Can't compile 2.2.18

2001-01-29 Thread Karel Kulhavy
clock@ghost:~$ gcc --version 2.95.2.1 libc5 make -C arch/i386/kernel make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.18/arch/i386/kernel' cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.18/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486

Serial console != baud 9k6

2001-01-29 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, i am just working on a different arch (mips board) and try to initialize the serial console from the arch specific setup with setup_console("ttyS0,57600") which doesnt work it seems as serial_console_setup is itself "__init" and has a default of 9k6. So how do i init the serial console from

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-29 Thread Ondrej Sury
Harold Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm seeing similar problems with my system on 2.4.1-pre10. This is an AMD Thunderbird 900, MSI K7T Pro2-A mobo w/VIA KT133 chipset, UP, ide/scsi mix. 2.4.1-pre10 works fine if I don't configure ACPI. I'll try to narrow down when this problem

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11 / ll_rw_b watermark metric?

2001-01-29 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 29 Jan 01 at 4:43, Dieter Ntzel wrote: I have pre11 running with Andrea's suggested fix. high_queued_sectors = total_ram / 3; low_queued_sectors = high_queued_sectors / 2; if (low_queued_sectors 0) low_queued_sectors = total_ram / 2; I have

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread Adrian Cox
Dylan Griffiths wrote: The VIA KT133 chipset exhibits the following bugs under Linux 2.2.17 and 2.4.0: 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner of screen and locks for a bit This happens to me about once a month on a BX chipset PII machine here, and on a KT133 chipset

Dell RAID/aacraid support in 2.4

2001-01-29 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I'm in need for aacraid support for the 2.4 kernel. Does anyone know when this is supposed to arrive? Are there any patches I can use? etc.. Please CC: to me, as I'm not on the list Regards Roy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread safemode
Adrian Cox wrote: Dylan Griffiths wrote: The VIA KT133 chipset exhibits the following bugs under Linux 2.2.17 and 2.4.0: 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner of screen and locks for a bit This happens to me about once a month on a BX chipset PII machine here,

swapoff problem in 2.4.0ac9

2001-01-29 Thread John Levon
I was doing some tests over the weekend, and after doing a swapoff -a and stressing the system, I hit the bad_device: goto in __swap_free(): printk("swap_free: Trying to free swap from unused swap-device\n"); I was compiling kernels at the time. The swap setup was a 200Mb

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread Adrian Cox
safemode wrote: Adrian Cox wrote: Dylan Griffiths wrote: 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner of screen and locks for a bit This happens to me about once a month on a BX chipset PII machine here, and on a KT133 chipset machine I have. I have to hit

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread Lars Gaarden
Adrian Cox wrote: Dylan Griffiths wrote: The VIA KT133 chipset exhibits the following bugs under Linux 2.2.17 and 2.4.0: 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner of screen and locks for a bit This happens to me about once a month on a BX chipset PII machine

[PATCH] Remove arbitrary md= boot device limit

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cinege
linux-2.4.1p11-1/drivers/md/md.c line 3643 -#define MAX_MD_BOOT_DEVS 8 +#define MAX_MD_BOOT_DEVS MAX_MD_DEVS --- To: Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Dave Cinege wrote: -#define MAX_MD_BOOT_DEVS 8 +#define

Gigabyte 6VXDC7: APIC error on CPU1: 08(08)

2001-01-29 Thread Heikki Levanto
[1.] One line summary of the problem: Gigabyte 6VXDC7: APIC error on CPU1: 08(08) [2.] Full description of the problem/report: Jan 29 12:58:49 pizza kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(08) Jan 29 12:58:52 pizza kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 08(08) Jan 29 12:58:53 pizza kernel: APIC error on

Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

2001-01-29 Thread Johan Kullstam
"paradox3" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is the output from dmesg. How do I tell if it is improperly terminated? you never gave the model of the hard drive (or if you did, i didn't see it), but you did say a 10k rpm ibm. i am going to assume it is u2w/lvd capable. no lvd hard drive has

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[James Sutherland] That depends what you mean by "retry"; I wanted the ability to attempt a non-ECN connection. i.e. if I'm a mailserver, and try connecting to one of Hotmail's MX hosts with ECN, I'll get RST every time. I would like to be able to retry with ECN disabled for that

Re: [PATCH] dynamic IP support for 2.4.0 (SIOCKILLADDR)

2001-01-29 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:46:42AM +0100, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: John Fremlin writes: When the IP address of an interface changes, TCP connections with the old source address are useless. Applications are not notified of this and time out ordinarily, just as if nothing had happened.

[SLUG] RE: Linux Disk Performance/File IO per process

2001-01-29 Thread Chris Evans
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to both Jens and Chris - this provides the information I need to obtain our busy rate It's unfortunate that the kernel needs to be patched to provide this information - hopefully it will become part of the kernel soon. I had a response

RE: Dell RAID/aacraid support in 2.4

2001-01-29 Thread Matt_Domsch
I'm in need for aacraid support for the 2.4 kernel. Does anyone know when this is supposed to arrive? Are there any patches I can use? etc.. The aacraid driver is still being modified to work with the 2.4 kernel, nothing has been released yet. Releasing this driver soon is a very high

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Hahn
I am not a guru, but AOpen AK73PRO which uses VIA KT133 does not show any of these symptoms that you describe (I cannot be sure about #3 since I run ntp). You may want to make your hardware my ga-7zm shows none of them either (I also run ntp, and the board has a perfectly normal drift

Is HP Colorado 8Gb supported by Linux?

2001-01-29 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Can anyone tell me whether there is support for the HP Colorado 8Gb (IDE version) tape drive in the Linux kernel and/or user space? If there is kernel support which of the kernel options do I have to enable / where do I get user space utilities from? Any pointers? Thanks a lot for the help in

Re: Patches

2001-01-29 Thread Thunder from the hill
Marc Mutz wrote: Thunder from the hill wrote: Chris Wedgwood wrote: Kmail works fine. Hmmm. Would be great, but could you get working beyond some proxy? snip Um, mail proxy? Is there such a beast? I always thought that that was called 'mail server'. Where do you find

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-29 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Ok. I've thought about it some more, but I don't care enough about this issue to do the painstaking legwork: I don't have one of those POST-code indicators on port 0x80. I've made the "pause" in outb_p just a few (*) ns slower, because it now loads a variable before outputting

Re: ECN: Clearing the air

2001-01-29 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! suggested blocking ECN. Article at: http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?focus=idscontent=/focus/ids/articles/portscan.html the site is now ATM -- can someone briefly explain the logic in blocking it? It is Queso they quoted not nmap, sorry -- same thing. The idea is

Re: 2.4 Cpu usuage (display oddities more than anything)

2001-01-29 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Some oddities w/kapmd(2.4.0)... If I sit in X and do nothing other than run top or "vmstat 5", I get down to as low as 60% idle and 40% in system -- with kapmd getting 'charged' for the 40%. At least you can see how kapmd mechanism actually works. Then I go and run 'freeamp' and the

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-29 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! It output garbage to the 80h port in order to enforce I/O delays. It's one of the safe ports to issue outs to. Yes, because it is reserved for POST codes. You can get "POST debugging cards" that simply have a BIN - 7segement encoder and two 7 segment displays on them. They

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0

2001-01-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Martin Diehl wrote: I've the documentation for the SiS 5591/95 chipset which provides IRQ-routing using the 85C503 ISA bridge function function. This is the same vendor/device id as the pirq_sis*() rely on. According to this datasheet the pirq_sis*() thing is wrong,

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-29 Thread Thunder from the hill
Chris Meadors wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Daniel Chemko wrote: Microsoft are bad for dropping ICMP because of security.. .I mean try pinging microsoft.com... It's down, ha ha, Microsoft is down! I'm joking of course. But you don't know how many times my techs have told me that.

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-29 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Linus Torvalds wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. Does anybody have a clue about what is different with xmms? Does it use KNI if it can, for example? We used to have a problem

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-29 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Ok. I've thought about it some more, but I don't care enough about this issue to do the painstaking legwork: I don't have one of those POST-code indicators on port 0x80. I've made the "pause" in outb_p just a few (*) ns slower,

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11 / ll_rw_b watermark metric?

2001-01-29 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 29 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: On 29 Jan 01 at 4:43, Dieter Ntzel wrote: I have pre11 running with Andrea's suggested fix. high_queued_sectors = total_ram / 3; low_queued_sectors = high_queued_sectors / 2; if (low_queued_sectors 0)

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-29 Thread Michael Rothwell
Mo McKinlay wrote: I would too, but POSIX won't let us unless we start enforcing side-effect rules for all filesystems. Hence why I came up with openstream() :) So, openstream() is probably the most painless way to get named streams support into Linux in the immediate future. Openstream() will

Incorrect NFS_Config documentation

2001-01-29 Thread Geoffrey Gallaway
In 2.4.0 kernel's config help for CONFIG_NFSD: --- . In either case, you will need support software; the respective locations are given in the file Documentation/Changes in the NFS section. . --- However, I see no NFS

Re: [PROBLEM?] PCI Probe failing? 2.4.x kernels

2001-01-29 Thread Shawn Starr
Bleh, too bad you can't flash onboard chipsets ;/ 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430HX - 82439HX TXC [Triton II] (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]

Re: Is HP Colorado 8Gb supported by Linux?

2001-01-29 Thread Richard Torkar
On 29 Jan 2001 14:33:39 +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Can anyone tell me whether there is support for the HP Colorado 8Gb (IDE version) tape drive in the Linux kernel and/or user space? If there is kernel support which of the kernel options do I have to enable / where do I get user

[PATCH] getting rid of tqueue_lock

2001-01-29 Thread Manfred
I noticed that the tasks queues still rely on the global tqueue_lock spinlock, instead of a per-taskqueue lock. The patch is virtually transparent for task queue users: all users except ieee1394 use DECLARE_TASK_QUEUE. I admit that the tqueue_lock isn't that often used (numbers from sgi's

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-29 Thread Mo McKinlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today, Michael Rothwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So, openstream() is probably the most painless way to get named streams support into Linux in the immediate future. Openstream() will have to fail on filesystems that do not support

Re: Linux Disk Performance/File IO per process

2001-01-29 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Chris Evans wrote: Stephen Tweedie has a rather funky i/o stats enhancement patch which should provide what you need. It comes with RedHat7.0 and gives decent disk statistics in /proc/partitions. Monitoring via /proc [not just IO but close to anything] has the features:

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread Benson Chow
Datapoint I have a chaintech 7AIA KT133-based TB motherboard. I use a USB mouse so I can't verify #1. However it(2.4.0-release) autodetects all my memory and I don't see a big enough clock drift even with 100% cpu utilization (don't know about high disk utilization though) Are you sure you

Re: [PATCH] getting rid of tqueue_lock

2001-01-29 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Manfred wrote: I noticed that the tasks queues still rely on the global tqueue_lock spinlock, instead of a per-taskqueue lock. The patch is virtually transparent for task queue users: all users except ieee1394 use DECLARE_TASK_QUEUE. I admit that the tqueue_lock

Bolck Device problem or Compaq Smart array 2 problem? kernel -2.4.0+

2001-01-29 Thread Nathan Black
Here is my scenario. I have a smart array controller 2. I have 6 logical drives( one on it's own physical drive). I am using the one drive for data aquisition from an atm board. To locate my problem, I removed all of the atm stuff. and I am trying just a read/write. Both show the same symptoms.

eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Romain Kang
Dumb question: I've been following the freebsd-hackers list for a while, and in that domain, the Intel NICs are the preferred interfaces because they perform well and are very stable. One approach to the endless eepro100 headaches would be to port the FreeBSD if_fxp driver to Linux. After all,

RE: CBQ simply doesn't work

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Earle
Hi, /sbin/insmod cls__u32 insmod: cls__u32: no module by that name found I think you meant cls_u32, not cls__u32. Your script output seems to indicate that you've already got the modules loaded somewhere. tc class add dev ppp0 parent 10:1 classid 10:300 cbq bandwidth

RE: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Earle
Throughput: 100Mbps is really nothing. Linux never had a problem with 4-500Mbps file serving. So throughput is an important number. so is end to end latency, but in file serving case, latency might not be a big deal so ignore it. If I try to route more than 40mbps (40% line utilization)

RE: [PATCH] doc update/fixes for sysrq.txt

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Earle
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:35:50 +, David Ford wrote: AFAIK, this hasn't ever been true. I have never had to specifically enable it at run time. I was suspicious of that in the old doc but thought I'd leave it in... Should have asked for feedback on it, but you caught it anyway,

RE: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-29 Thread Antonin Kral
Throughput: 100Mbps is really nothing. Linux never had a problem with 4-500Mbps file serving. So throughput is an important number. so is end to end latency, but in file serving case, latency might not be a big deal so ignore it. If I try to route more than 40mbps (40% line

Re: Bolck Device problem or Compaq Smart array 2 problem? kernel -2.4 .0+

2001-01-29 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 29 2001, Nathan Black wrote: Here are my results. 2.2.18- works fine. 24 MBytes/sec at 100+ gigabytes (16GB looped many times ( lseek64(FD,SEEK_SET,0) )). 2.4.0 release SMP and Uniprocessor with NMI on- Kernel oops. I can reproduce if necessary( oops at about 700 MB)

Re: Bolck Device problem or Compaq Smart array 2 problem? kernel -2.4 .0+

2001-01-29 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Nathan Black wrote: Here is my scenario. I have a smart array controller 2. I have 6 logical drives( one on it's own physical drive). I am using the one drive for data aquisition from an atm board. To locate my problem, I removed all of the atm stuff. and I am trying

RE: Bolck Device problem or Compaq Smart array 2 problem? kernel -2.4 .0+

2001-01-29 Thread Nathan Black
It comes back with a command prompt. trying a "simple command... ps, ls it does not return. The hard disks(hardware raid) light up. But it seems like noone is home. It doesn't oops in the 2.4.1-pre11 or 10. That is a good thing. -Original Message- From: Jens Axboe [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Bolck Device problem or Compaq Smart array 2 problem? kernel -2.4 .0+

2001-01-29 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 29 2001, Nathan Black wrote: It comes back with a command prompt. trying a "simple command... ps, ls it does not return. The hard disks(hardware raid) light up. But it seems like noone is home. It doesn't oops in the 2.4.1-pre11 or 10. That is a good thing. Look where the ls etc

Re: ECN: Clearing the air

2001-01-29 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: Does not that mean that Linux 2.0.10 mistakenly announces it is ECN capable when offered ECN connection? No, the RFC deals with this. Walter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

RE: Bolck Device problem or Compaq Smart array 2 problem? kernel -2.4 .0+

2001-01-29 Thread Nathan Black
I do have all of the raid stuff set up as hardware raid. I am using the latest bios( have it set up for linux). Unfortunately, I do not (yet) have another machine to test this out on to see if it is a block device problem. or strictly limited to the compaq. I should be getting another machine

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

2001-01-29 Thread Timur Tabi
This is driving me crazy! There is absolutely no documentation anywhere that tells you when to use or not use sleep_on or spin_lock_whatever or any of these calls. How is anyone supposed to know how to use these functions?! The post I quoted below just proves that a lot of people think they

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

2001-01-29 Thread John Levon
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Timur Tabi wrote: This is driving me crazy! There is absolutely no documentation anywhere that tells you when to use or not use sleep_on or spin_lock_whatever or any of these calls. huh ? http://www.kernelnewbies.org/books.php3

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list (really sleep_on)

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Anything which uses sleep_on() has a 90% chance of being broken. Fix them all, because we want to remove sleep_on() and friends in 2.5. This reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask... Suppose you were working on the new edition of the device drivers book, which was just in the

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0

2001-01-29 Thread Robert Siemer
From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Robert Siemer wrote: Further I always see '09' in the Configuration Space at Interrupt_Line (0x3c) for the 00:01.2 USB Controller. But 2.4.0 says: Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12 while 2.4.0-test9 states: Interrupt:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

2001-01-29 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:01:31AM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: What makes it more frustrating is that some people on this list talk as if things things are common knowledge. I've been following this mailing list for months, and until today I had no idea sleep_on was bad. All the documentation

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Craig I. Hagan
One approach to the endless eepro100 headaches would be to port the FreeBSD if_fxp driver to Linux. After all, drivers have been ported between these OSs before; e.g., the aic7xxx SCSI adapter. However, I see no evidence that this has been attempted. Can someone tell me what I'm obviously

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0

2001-01-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Martin Diehl wrote: Right, seems the 0x41/0x01 thing. I have the 0x01 case with SiS 85C503 router rev. 01. Hopefully the 0x41 boards have a different revision. My fear however is, this is due to BIOS implementation of the routing table. Using the docs of the 85C503

Re: patch for 2.4.0 disable printk

2001-01-29 Thread James Simmons
You are right... this patch make no sense on a computer system with human interactions. But think on tiny hidden computers, like in a dishwasher or a traffic light. This computer are standalone, if it crash, then it will be rebooted. Nobody will attach a terminal to this kind of

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Craig I. Hagan wrote: One approach to the endless eepro100 headaches would be to port the FreeBSD if_fxp driver to Linux. After all, drivers have been ported between these OSs before; e.g., the aic7xxx SCSI adapter. However, I see no evidence that this has been

esp causing crashes..

2001-01-29 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
[mike -- included you for refs only] recently I started to dive into a problem that causes 2.2.x and 2.4.x to crash at shutdown and when minicom/mgetty is used. e.g. shutdown almost always crashed the system; if a fax is received, 3 out of 4 faxes ok, but also crashes system. I tried to contact

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Sergey Kubushin
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: Two of my Linux machines use the Intel Ethernet controller on the motherboard. These are both SMP machines. I have never, ever, had any problems with the eepro100 driver that handles these chips. I spite of the fact that the driver loops in the

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Micah Gorrell
As stated in a number of previous messages to this list many people have had serious problems with the eepro100 driver in 2.4. These problems where not there in 2.2 and it is not a select few machines showing this so I very much doubt that it is a configuration problem. I assume that the intel

Re: [META] proposal to set up digestifier for linux-kernel

2001-01-29 Thread Linux Admin
Hi Romain yes, i wuld love to help you out, in anyways if you require any help just mail me. regards, parag mehta - Original Message - From: "Romain Kang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 7:57 AM Subject: [META] proposal to set up digestifier for

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (fwd)

2001-01-29 Thread Martin Diehl
Apparantly this didn't get thru since my mailer was blocked due to dialup-blacklists (never observed this bevor on l-k!) so I try to resend it. Martin -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:22:43 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jeff Garzik

RE: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-29 Thread Grover, Andrew
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Dieter Ntzel wrote: I just uploaded it to kernel.org, and I expect that I'll do the final 2.4.1 tomorrow, before leaving for NY and LinuxWorld. Please test that the pre-kernel works for you.. Hello Linus, can we please see Andrew's latest ACPI fixes

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Sergey Kubushin wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: Two of my Linux machines use the Intel Ethernet controller on the motherboard. These are both SMP machines. I have never, ever, had any problems with the eepro100 driver that handles these chips.

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Sergey Kubushin wrote: The older chips (e.g. 82557) work fine. The problem arises when you have the newer 82559's. They do work, however, if the power management for eepro100 is enabled in kernel config. It definitely means that those chips are underinitialized (or overinitialized :)) when

Forcefully eject CD-ROM

2001-01-29 Thread Paul Powell
Hello, I am trying to eject my bootable CD-ROM after the user is finished using it. The problem is that something has locked the CD-ROM and every command I send fails with a "resource busy" error. I use a custom init program to mount and chroot to the CD. I then start X-windows and my

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

2001-01-29 Thread David D.W. Downey
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, John Levon wrote: huh ? http://www.kernelnewbies.org/books.php3 /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/DocBook /usr/src/linux/* try the last one on Windows. Please get your facts at least remotely near the truth before you rant on linux-kernel again john Umm,

Re: [PATCH] dynamic IP support for 2.4.0 (SIOCKILLADDR)

2001-01-29 Thread Jamie Lokier
Andi Kleen wrote: I get the same IP about 2/3 of the time, so it is pretty important to avoid killing connections until after the new IP is known. I prefer it when the IP is killed as soon as possible so that I can see when the connection is lost (ssh sessions get killed etc.) I like it

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread Dylan Griffiths
Mark Hahn wrote: mine (gigabyte ga-7zm) shows NONE of these under 2.4.0 or the last 100 or so pre-2.4 kernels. I have no idea what it does on obsolete kernels. The symptoms have occured on a Gigabyte 7-ZX-1 and a 7-VX-1. I have a bit of a suspicion that the 250W power supplies aren't enough

[ANNOUNCE] New netfilter portscan detection module

2001-01-29 Thread Dennis Koslowski
Hi, I've just posted a new portscan detection module to netfilter mailing list. This module is used inside of linux 2.4 netfilter architecture and will attempt to detect TCP and UDP port scans and log them to the syslog. For download, please see the netfilter mailing list or our product

XFS file system Pre-Release

2001-01-29 Thread Yi Li
SGI has made available the pre-release version 0.9 of its high-end XFS file system ported to Linux. Code and detailed information are at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/prerelease.html. Thanks to the extensive interest and contributions from the community, the XFS file system for Linux has made

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-29 Thread Rick Jones
I'll give this a shot later. Can you try with the sendfiled-ttcp? http://www.cyberus.ca/~hadi/ttcp-sf.tar.gz I guess I need to "leverage" some bits for netperf :) WRT getting data with links that cannot saturate a system, having something akin to the netperf service demand measure can help.

Re: 2.4.0 Networking oddity

2001-01-29 Thread Jordan Mendelson
Daniel Walton wrote: The server in question is running the tulip driver. dmesg reports: Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.13 (January 2, 2001) I have seen this same behavior on a couple of my servers running 3com 3c905c adaptors as well. The last time I was experiencing it I rebooted

Re: dos-partition mount bug

2001-01-29 Thread mirabilos
FAT the driver complains about. AFAIK it only ought to complain if the bootsector (BPB and 55AA magic) is corrupt. (Or did so in 2.0.33) Sorry can't help, seems to be a fs-driver flaw. -mirabilos -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12+(proprietary extensions) # Updated:20010129 nick

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (updated patch)

2001-01-29 Thread Martin Diehl
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: reg = pirq; if (reg 5) reg += 0x40; or adding the 0x41..0x44 cases to the switch statement in my patch? BTW: I was wondering, why we did not update the PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE in I would prefer _not_ to see this. Why?

Re: Possible Bug: drivers/sound/maestro.c

2001-01-29 Thread Zach Brown
have this problem (or a similar one, anyway -- sometimes the sound becomes distorted or comes only through one speaker) under both Linux 2.2 and Win2K. If it was just Linux, I'd assume it was a driver problem, but the This is a long-standing bug with the maestro2 driver. My current

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-01-29 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
"Albert" == Albert D Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /* NOTE. draft-ietf-tcpimpl-pmtud-01.txt requires pmtu black hole detection. :-( It is place to make it. It is not made. I do not want Albert So the Linux code is broken. ("requires") Since when is code broken for failing to abide by

[patch] 2.4.0, 2.4.0-ac12: APIC lock-ups

2001-01-29 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
Hi, After an extensive testing I concluded the infamous APIC lock-up happens when a level-triggered interrupt gets masked in an I/O APIC when it's in the send pending state (bit 12 of the respective interrupt redirection entry is set). Under this condition, the interrupt is still posted to

Re: XFS file system Pre-Release

2001-01-29 Thread Pedro M. Rodrigues
Any information on XFS interoperability with current kernel nfsd? Pedro On 29 Jan 2001, at 10:49, Yi Li wrote: SGI has made available the pre-release version 0.9 of its high-end XFS file system ported to Linux. Code and detailed information are at

Bug: 2.4.0 w/ PCMCIA on ThinkPad: KERNEL: assertion(dev-ip_ptr==NULL)failed at dev.c(2422):netdev_finish_unregister

2001-01-29 Thread Thomas Hood
Dear l-k. I'm still having this problem with kernel 2.4.0: Conditions: Linux 2.4.0 compiled on an IBM ThinkPad 600 51U (Pentium II) laptop with PCMCIA support. Same behavior with integral kernel PCMCIA, modular kernel PCMCIA and modular Hinds PCMCIA. System is Progeny Debian beta II. I have

Re: XFS file system Pre-Release

2001-01-29 Thread Steve Lord
Any information on XFS interoperability with current kernel nfsd? You can NFS export XFS, I would have to say that this is not something we test regularly and you may find problems under high load. Steve Pedro - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

[SLUG] Re: Linux Disk Performance/File IO per process

2001-01-29 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Chris Evans wrote: Stephen Tweedie has a rather funky i/o stats enhancement patch which should provide what you need. It comes with RedHat7.0 and gives decent disk statistics in /proc/partitions. Monitoring via

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Pavel Machek wrote: And you're still overwriting the POST value written by the BIOS. So save value from bios at initial boot ;-). Pavel Write-only register. -hpa -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] at work, [EMAIL PROTECTED] in

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

2001-01-29 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: You can miss wakeups. The standard pattern is: get locks add_wait_queue(waitqueue, wait); for (;;) { if (condition you're waiting for is true) break; unlock any non

Re: patch for 2.4.0 disable printk

2001-01-29 Thread Stefani Seibold
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2001 18:40 schrieb James Simmons: You are right... this patch make no sense on a computer system with human interactions. But think on tiny hidden computers, like in a dishwasher or a traffic light. This computer are standalone, if it crash, then it will be rebooted.

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