[PATCH] devfs v99.19 available

2001-02-03 Thread Richard Gooch
Hi, all. Version 99.19 of my devfs patch is now available from: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html The devfs FAQ is also available here. Patch directly available from: ftp://ftp.??.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rgooch/v2.2/devfs-patch-current.gz AND:

Re: Fix for include/linux/fs.h in 2.4.0 kernels

2001-02-03 Thread Graham Murray
Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically, that symlink should not be a symlink. It's a symlink for historical reasons, none of them very good any more (and haven't been for a long time), and it's a disaster unless you want to be a C library developer. Which not very many

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-03 Thread David Ford
How about a simple patch to the top level makefile that checks the gcc version then prints a distinct message ..'this compiler hasn't been approved for compiling the kernel', sleeping for one second, then continuing on. This solution doesn't stop compiling and makes a visible indicator without

Re: Fix for include/linux/fs.h in 2.4.0 kernels

2001-02-03 Thread Keith Owens
On 03 Feb 2001 08:48:54 +, Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is your advice? Would the "correct" action be to take a snapshot of the appropriate kernel directories against which glibc is built? (ie to copy the directories (or those files needed) to /usr/include/asm and

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-03 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.03 Paul Jakma wrote: didn't barf here with 2.96-70. Does not barf nor 1 nor 0. Check return core (ie, echo $?). -- J.A. Magallon $ cd pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ more beer Linux

Re: Etherworks3 driver now obsolete?

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Darren Tucker wrote: I decided to try a shiny new 2.4.0 kernel but I couldn't configure the driver for my etherworks3 ISA ethernet card (AMD K6III PC hardware). A bit of grepping showed that it only appears if CONFIG_OBSOLETE is defined but nothing in the configuration

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-03 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 04:25:20AM +, Paul Jakma wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Jakub Jelinek wrote: You can do: if [ "$CC" = gcc ]; then echo 'inline void f(unsigned int n){int i,j=-1;for(i=0;i10j0;i++)if((1ULi)==n)j=i;if(j0)exit(0);}main(){f(64);exit(1);}' test.c gcc -O2 -o

Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Miles Lane wrote: I asked David Hinds to write up an outline of the things that will be needed to get PCMCIA support cleanly and completely integrated into the kernel tree. David has expressed that he'll not be able to participate in this work. He has his hands full

Re: Fix for include/linux/fs.h in 2.4.0 kernels

2001-02-03 Thread Graham Murray
Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This has all been thrashed out before. Read the threads http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu/2000-month-07/msg04096.html http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg18256.html I don't think that these address my

Re: Version 2.4.1 has ext2 problems.

2001-02-03 Thread Russell King
Richard B. Johnson writes: Files generated by e2fsck in lost+found cannot be removed. # rm * rm: cannot remove `#1006': Value too large for defined data type Well, I can say that this isn't an isolated incident. I was hitting 2.4.1 hard last night on ARM, and ended up loosing my /usr and

Re: did 2.4 messed up lilo?

2001-02-03 Thread newsreader
Just to let everyone knows that 21.6 also fix the problem on ibm box. I can now mount cdr drive. Thank you. On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 12:14:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've now installed 21.6 downloaded from metlab and all seems to be ok now... well at least the dell box.. compaq

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

2001-02-03 Thread GĂ©rard Roudier
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: Grard Roudier wrote: So, why not using a pure software flag in memory and only tampering the things if the offending interrupt is actually delivered ? If the given interrupt is delivered and the software mask is set we could simply do: -

Re: Fix for include/linux/fs.h in 2.4.0 kernels

2001-02-03 Thread Keith Owens
On 03 Feb 2001 10:09:39 +, Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This has all been thrashed out before. Read the threads http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu/2000-month-07/msg04096.html

2.2.x-2.4.x API Changes (superblock.notify_change()...)

2001-02-03 Thread linkern
Hi - I've been away for a little while, but now that I've upgraded from kernel 2.2 to 2.4, I'm trying to port some modules that I use, without much luck as a fair amount of stuff has changed! Some functions/structure members that I'm currently drawing a blank when looking for equivalents in 2.4

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-03 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:42:30PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: Could you please apply the following patch, wait for a lockup, then hit SysRq+A (you need to have CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ enabled) and send me the resulting output? You need to include debug messages, so I recommend to use

Oops in 2.4.0-ac12

2001-02-03 Thread Anders Karlsson
Hi again, Okay, thanks for telling me how to properly submit an Oops. I apologise for not looking in the ./Documentation directory first. I'll behave better in future. I downloaded the ksymoops program and ran the Oops'es through that, see attached file. I also thought the .config from the

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

2001-02-03 Thread Manfred Spraul
Manfred Spraul wrote: But I think we can change the bug description: If an io apic io redirection entry is unmasked while the irq pin is active, then the io apic sends out the interrupt as edge triggered, but nevertheless sets the IRR bit. I found another workaround: 8390.c currently

Re: Etherworks3 driver now obsolete?

2001-02-03 Thread john slee
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:42:48AM -0600, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Darren Tucker wrote: I decided to try a shiny new 2.4.0 kernel but I couldn't configure the driver for my etherworks3 ISA ethernet card (AMD K6III PC hardware). A bit of grepping showed that it only appears

[PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Robert H. de Vries
Hi Linus, Please accept this patch for inclusion. The impact on the kernel is negligible and it makes the kernel a bit more POSIX feature complete. I have received good feedback from people who have used the patch and I have used it a lot myself without any problems. This patch should not

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Urban Widmark
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VIA VT3065 Rhine-II chip registers at 0xd400 0x000: 0804 0x020: 0400 0x040:

[new driver] Guillemot maxi radio

2001-02-03 Thread apdim
Hi, this is a driver for the Guillemot Maxi Radio FM 2000 PCI radio card. The driver was written for 2.4.0 but hopefully should work on 2.4.1 (unless ReiserFS breaks it :) I was surprised that nobody has written a driver so far. Doesn't anybody listen to radio anymore? Anyway the PCI ids are

[PATCH] /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count

2001-02-03 Thread Werner Almesberger
A few days ago, a colleague asked me for help with some malloc problem. I applied my usual solution, efence, and found the bug. Then she ran a larger simulation, and it promptly failed with ENOMEM. After a bit of searching, I found that MAX_MAP_COUNT was the culprit, and that in order to raise

2.4.1 eats RAM or /proc/meminfo bug

2001-02-03 Thread Ricardo Galli
I noticed in my server that the memory consumption with 2.4.1 it much higher than 2.2.18 and it gets worse over time. Free was reporting up to 140MB of RAM with no user/X session (50-60MB with 2.2.18, same software). I've upgraded to procps 2.0.7, but the problem persists. After few minutes of

IDE PROBLEM 2.4.0 and 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Lourenco
hi! i am getting an error every time i try to copy a big file from my cdrom to one of my harddrives... my hardware: P2 333 128 MB Ram ONLY IDE BOARD BX i had run dmesg. here it goes: (...) pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: queued sectors max/low

Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Christoph Rohland
"H. Peter Anvin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mm, does this mean that mounting /dev/shm is no more needed ? One step more towards easy 2.2 - 2.4 switching... Yes, it is no longer needed. You will need for POSIX shm, but there are not a lot of program out there using it. In some ways it's

Re: bidirectional named pipe?

2001-02-03 Thread Jamie Lokier
Alan Cox wrote: /dev/spx". I experiemented with socket-based pipes under Linux, but I couldn't gain access to them by open()ing the name. Is there help? I AF_UNIX sockets are bidirectional but like all sockets use bind() and connect(). And that's because sockets don't behave like

PROBLEM: RAMDISK larger than 778000 KB halts system

2001-02-03 Thread Ole Tange
[1.] One line summary of the problem: Running badblocks on a ramdisk larger than 778000 KB halts system [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I have setup a ramdisk of 1 GB. When I run badblocks on the RAMdisk, it halts the total system when reaching app. 778000 KB I

Re: [PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Jamie Lokier
Robert H. de Vries wrote: Hi Linus, c. setitimer() can be used only once in a given process, you can have up to 32 (configurable) POSIX timers at the same time in your process. Why is there a limit? With such a small limit, any library that wants to use its own private timers is going to

[test patch] reliable apic lockup with one enable/disable_irq()

2001-02-03 Thread Manfred
I found a sequence that reliably locks up my 82093AA ioapic with just one disable/enable_irq. I've attached a patch for the tulip driver. (tested with a pnic card) * focus cpu must be enabled. * Gerard's mask sequence: disable_irq() only sets IRQ_DISABLED, mask_and_ack masks the ioapic entry if

Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Christoph Rohland
"J . A . Magallon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did not get the chance to deal too much with it, but apart from moving functionality from userspace (ipcs) to kernel (ls), what were/could be the benefits of /dev/shm ?. Can you create a shared memory segment by simply creating a file there, or

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Jonathan Morton
The attached patch for the via-daig program plays with a few registers. Run it as 'via-diag -aaeemm -I' then do a 'ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 up' and see if anything happens. OK, after a little trouble applying the patch, here's what I found: Starting with the card in working condition,

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Urban Widmark
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote: Do you want me to try this again, after first setting the card into non-working condition? Yes, the idea was to start from non-working, test -I and then ifconfig down/up. Getting the working card to work is a much simpler problem :) /Urban - To

Re: digiboard support in linux

2001-02-03 Thread Martin Laberge
Kenneth Yeung wrote: Hello Martin Thanks for the info, I'm having a little trouble getting the ports configured. On my system, it looks like half the ports are on irq 2 and the other half are on irq 5. and looks like they have been configured the right way? But i can't seem to

one of the most useless patches you'll ever see

2001-02-03 Thread thunder7
This copies the sun 12x22 font to a 12x20 font. Readability on a 21" monitor remains very high @ 1600x1200, but you get 60 lines instead of 55. On request, a 2.2.x version is also available. Jurriaan -- For who are we to question her Who stands among the stones Big Country - The Seer

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-02-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:02:17PM +, Alan Cox wrote: No. ECN is essential to the continued stability of the Internet. Without probabilistic queuing (i.e. RED) and ECN the Internet will continue to have retransmit synchronization and once congested stay congested until people get

[patch] Zerocopy 2.4.1 rev3 patch against 2.4.1-ac2

2001-02-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, David S. Miller wrote: Some people have asked me about making a patch against the AC patches. It is doable, but would be quite a bit of work for me. i've done this for TUX anyway, so here is the 2.4.1-rev3 patch against the 2.4.1-ac2 tree:

Re: ATAPI CD burner with cdrecord 1.6.1

2001-02-03 Thread Jocelyn Mayer
Kernel version is 2.4.1. For versions of cdrecord later than 1.6.1 (1.8.1 through the latest 1.10 alpha verified), attempting to burn a CD results in a SCSI error of some kind. Here's some representative output from a "dummy" burn session with cdrecord-1.9: As I recall, things work just

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread T . Stewart
On 3 Feb 2001, at 14:02, Urban Widmark wrote: This is intresting. Your card reports that it is stopped while the other report show normal values on most things. Does this change if you try and send something (like a ping)? Common to both reports is that the transceivers don't respond. The

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: if [ -e /bin/rpm ]; then X=`rpm -q gcc` if [ "$X" = "gcc-2.96-54" ]; then echo "*** GCC 2.96-54 will miscompile Reiserfs. Please update your compiler" echo "See

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-03 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
David Woodhouse writes: -a "$CC" = "gcc" Not worth it; they should upgrade the local gcc too. If anything, they are getting a reminder that they need. - 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

Odd behaviour on / filesystem and SCSI removable media

2001-02-03 Thread John Cavan
Hi, I noticed an odd thing about my / file system: du -hx reports 74mb used df -h . reports 236mb used The same behaviour does not show on other mounted filesystems... I'm not sure which to believe... I've seen this with 2.4.1 and 2.4.1-ac1, the filesystem is ReiserFS and the kernel was

Re: [PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Jamie Lokier wrote: Robert H. de Vries wrote: Hi Linus, c. setitimer() can be used only once in a given process, you can have up to 32 (configurable) POSIX timers at the same time in your process. Why is there a limit? With such a small limit, any library that

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
David Woodhouse writes: -a "$CC" = "gcc" Not worth it; they should upgrade the local gcc too. If anything, they are getting a reminder that they need. The local gcc has no bearing on the compiler. The local compiler might not even be gcc - eg if they are cross building off non Linux

[BUG?] Unix Domain sockets in 2.4 series ?

2001-02-03 Thread Krzysztof Rusocki
I ain't kernel developer .. just poor little user, but i think you might want to look at this stuff below... I only tried that little code remotely so i do NOT know what's system reaction on console ... Anyway socket interface goes bye bye after this... I tried it on 2.4.1-XFS and 2.4.0-XFS

[BUG?] ISA-PnP and 3c509 NIC won't work together

2001-02-03 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi kernel hackers, I have troubles getting both ISA-PnP and the driver for my 3c509 NIC working together. Here are the error messages I get: Kernel 2.4.1 with ISA-PnP and 3c509 support compiled in, on boot time: # /etc/init.d/networking start SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: unknown

low memory

2001-02-03 Thread Javi Roman
Hi: I dont know if this is a suitable forum where I must ask this question, sorry. Im attempting develop a install proccess from a PCMCIA memory card in a 4MB RAM pc. My problem is the RAM memory, it`s very low for this purpose. I have the following: - kernel image (2.2.5-15) : 301 KB (I can`t

Re: [BUG?] Unix Domain sockets in 2.4 series ?

2001-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
I only tried that little code remotely so i do NOT know what's system reaction on console ... Anyway socket interface goes bye bye after this... Fixed in 2.4.1-ac2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: low memory

2001-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
- kernel image (2.2.5-15) : 301 KB (I can`t make it smaller). "install" program executes "mke2fs /dev/hda1" where /dev/hda1 partition has 500MB. So in the step: "Writing inode tables: 6/63" the system hang. Known problem with older 2.2 kernels. There are some VM things involved where it

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Jonathan Morton
You can always try writing all the registers with "good" values. No good - nothing actually changes except 16 bits at 0x6C, and that doesn't change to anything useful. Is there a reset 'thing' for thses chips, that sets them back to factory tests (like switching them off)? [snip] So.How

RE: 2.4.1 eats RAM or /proc/meminfo bug

2001-02-03 Thread Ricardo Galli
you should give up thinking there's any real relation between 2.2 and 2.4. yes, they're both Linux, but their behaviors are essentially unrelated. total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:255340 232444 22896 0 16988

mailing list for application

2001-02-03 Thread news news
Hi Everyone, I am looking for a good mailing list covering discussions/issues about "application development" on Linux/Unix platform. Could you give me some suggestions? Additionally if you know any good Linux/Unix users group in Bay area, it would be great. Many thanks, Mike.

Re: Secure Linux

2001-02-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:47:18PM +, Dale Amon wrote: Has anyone else signed up on the NSA's secure Linux discussion list? The idea of NSA backing the development of a secure GPL'd linux is one I find intriguing. 1) It is not "Secure Linux", it is "Security Enhanced Linux".

Re: vaio doesn't boot with 2.4.1-ac1, stops at PCI: Probing PCI hardware

2001-02-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ookhoi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alan, Here it hangs hard. It used to boot with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1-prex Should I try to determine which patch made the fatal change? Should I send my That would be great. Firstly however does 2.4.1 (Linus) boot ? It does

[patch?] RAMFS

2001-02-03 Thread Mike Galbraith
Hi, With the patch below, ramfs will withstand make -j20 (binutils) even while an iozone is running, and cp /dev/zero zero. These fail as is. The problem seems to be in the way writepage() is called.. ClearPageDirty(); writepage(). That screws up ramfs's beancounting and makes it wipe pages

Re: xirc2ps_cs driver timeouts/errors

2001-02-03 Thread dilinger
A few minutes ago, I got the following: Feb 3 13:09:10 pea kernel: UDP: short packet: 0/58 .. and the driver hung. I had to reinsert the card to get networking back. This is after 10 hours of uptime, using the patch i sent previously against 2.4.1's xirc2ps_cs. So the answer is, yes, it

[ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project hosted on sourceforge. The project page, where you can download the source code tar ball or rpm as well as precompiled RPMs for RedHat Linux 7.0 (i386 architecture only), is:

Re: System unresponsitive when copying HD/HD

2001-02-03 Thread LA Walsh
I've noticed less responsive disk response on 2.4.0 vs. 2.2.17. For example -- I run vmware and suspend it frequently when I'm not using it. One of them requires a 158Mb save file. Before, I could suspend that one, then start another which reads in a smaller 50M save file. The smaller one

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-03 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.03 David Ford wrote: How about a simple patch to the top level makefile that checks the gcc version then prints a distinct message ..'this compiler hasn't been approved for compiling the kernel', sleeping for one second, then continuing on. This solution doesn't stop compiling and

kaweth usb ethernet driver in 2.4?

2001-02-03 Thread Eric Sandeen
I'm wondering about the status of the "kaweth" Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB100 USB to Ethernet Controller driver for 2.4. According to http://www.hiru.aoba.yokohama.jp/%7eura/USB/usbether.html, this chipset is used in the 3Com USB Network Adapter, Linksys USB10T, D-Link DSB-650, SMC 2102USB, Netgear

Re: [PATCH] minor ne2k-pci irq fix

2001-02-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: Probably I've missed this because the last time I hit such a thing was when my ob800 bios mapped the cardbus memory BAR's into bogus legacy 0xe area. Hence there was good reason to read and correct this before trying to enable the device.

Fix dependencies for radio-miropcm20

2001-02-03 Thread Jocelyn Mayer
I made a very little patch to avoid people complaining that the kernel doesn't compile properly when trying to use radio miropcm20 driver. (I've seen some of this in french newsgroups...) This driver always needs the ACI mixer, so this feature should be enabled when we select the miropcm driver.

Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Christoph Rohland wrote: "H. Peter Anvin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mm, does this mean that mounting /dev/shm is no more needed ? One step more towards easy 2.2 - 2.4 switching... Yes, it is no longer needed. You will need for POSIX shm, but there are not a lot of program out

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait/notify + callback chains

2001-02-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:33:27PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: I think you want the whole kio concept only for disk-like IO. No. I want something good for zero-copy IO in general, but a lot of that concerns the problem of

Re: Serious reproducible 2.4.x kernel hang

2001-02-03 Thread kees
Hi, What is related in /proc w.r.t. sysrq? Kees - 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/

Re: [BUG?] ISA-PnP and 3c509 NIC won't work together

2001-02-03 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Jeff Garzik wrote: Victor, Can you respond to your recently-sent linux-kernel e-mail, and provide the output of 'dmesg' after all your experiments? 'dmesg' program displays the kernel logging buffer, and should give us much additional information. Of course, here it comes. BTW,

RE: Need for more ISO8859 codepages?

2001-02-03 Thread Nerijus Baliunas
About 18 months ago I patched fs/nls/ to include support for the Celtic character set, ISO8859-14. I notice that there are still gaps in nls, specifically in ISO8859 codepages 10 to 13. The missing codepages are for Nordic/Icelandic (ISO8859-10), Thai (ISO8859-11), and Baltic Rim

Re: one of the most useless patches you'll ever see

2001-02-03 Thread Guest section DW
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:36:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This copies the sun 12x22 font to a 12x20 font. Readability on a 21" monitor remains very high @ 1600x1200, but you get 60 lines instead of 55. Wouldnt it suffice to do setfont -h20 sun12x22 ? [With a setfont from

Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.03 H. Peter Anvin wrote: Christoph Rohland wrote: "H. Peter Anvin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mm, does this mean that mounting /dev/shm is no more needed ? One step more towards easy 2.2 - 2.4 switching... Yes, it is no longer needed. You will need for POSIX shm,

Re: [BUG?] ISA-PnP and 3c509 NIC won't work together

2001-02-03 Thread Russell King
Viktor Rosenfeld writes: With ISA-PnP compiled in, and 3c509 support compiled as module: # modprobe 3c509 /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o: invalid parameter parm_io /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o failed

Re: [BUG?] ISA-PnP and 3c509 NIC won't work together

2001-02-03 Thread Brian Gerst
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi kernel hackers, I have troubles getting both ISA-PnP and the driver for my 3c509 NIC working together. I can only get my NIC to work when I leave ISA-PnP completely out of the kernel. When I have ISA-PnP activated, the card will not show up in

SMP problem with 2.2.19pre8

2001-02-03 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi, I just built this SMP system and am getting some weird errors from kern.log. The system will run smoothly but after about a half hour running the distributed.net RC5 client, the following errors show up. Feb 3 04:40:18 continuum kernel: stuck on TLB IPI wait (CPU#0) Feb 3 04:40:23

Re: SMP problem with 2.2.19pre8

2001-02-03 Thread Shane Wegner
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 02:07:27PM -0800, Shane Wegner wrote: Hi, I just built this SMP system and am getting some weird errors from kern.log. The system will run smoothly but after about a half hour running the distributed.net RC5 client, the following errors show up. Feb 3 04:40:18

ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work

2001-02-03 Thread patrick . mourlhon
Hi, I've never could make this CDRW ATAPI to work, if someone could provide me any clue about the baby. I just said that people on the kernel mailing list may care of its but. It looks like the baby didn't even noticed. ;-) kernel is 2.4.1, but never worked even before this release. Never

PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
[root@coredump spstarr]# killall -9 gnomeicu ... waiting... spstarr 67 -bashread_chan root68 /sbin/mingetty t read_chan root69 /sbin/mingetty t read_chan root73 inetddo_select root74 xfs do_select spstarr 83 -bash

setting cpu speed on crusoe

2001-02-03 Thread Andrew Tridgell
Junichi Morita and I have worked out how to access the crusoe "longrun" settings on the crusoe based VAIO. This allows you to enable power saving mode and slow the cpu down. It should help battery life a lot. the following will enable power saving and set the cpu to the slowest speed: setpci

system call sched_yield() doesn't work on Linux 2.2

2001-02-03 Thread Mohit Aron
Hi, the system call sched_yield() doesn't seem to work on Linux 2.2. Does anyone know of a kernel patch that fixes this ? Attached below is a small program that uses pthreads and demonstrates that sched_yield() doesn't work. Basically, the program creates two threads that alternatively

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
Here's more info with the SYSQ in kern.log, This is the only info I have that the kernel reports right now. Shawn. Shawn Starr wrote: [root@coredump spstarr]# killall -9 gnomeicu ... waiting... spstarr 67 -bashread_chan root68 /sbin/mingetty t read_chan root

Re: [BUG?] ISA-PnP and 3c509 NIC won't work together

2001-02-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 18:54:44 +0100, Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With ISA-PnP compiled in, and 3c509 support compiled as module: # modprobe 3c509 /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o: invalid parameter parm_io /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o: insmod

PS hanging 2.4.1 - Isolated

2001-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
[root@coredump /proc]# cd 9338 [root@coredump 9338]# ls Feb 3 17:57:08 coredump kernel: gnomeicu S CD17 0 9338 1(NOTLB)9340 9332 Feb 3 17:57:08 coredump kernel: Call Trace: [search_by_key+203/3232] [search_for_position_by_key+170/916] [make_cpu_key+57/64] [$ Feb 3

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-03 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
This fixes units, and makes format tag: value. Please apply. The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very few others -- my memory fails me on this. Power meter applets will be eternally buggy if you force them to deal

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-03 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake J . A . Magallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How about a simple patch to the top level makefile that checks the gcc version then prints a distinct message ..'this compiler hasn't been approved for compiling the kernel', sleeping for one second, then continuing on. This solution

RAID autodetect and 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Jean-Eric Cuendet
Hi, I have a server with RAID1 partitions with linux 2.4.1 (stock, self-compiled) installed. It was easy to create the RAID partitions but when booting, no auto-detection is successful. The kernel says that autodetect is running, then done, but nothing is auto-detected. My devices are IDE

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - More interesting things

2001-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
Ok, I rebooted the system, then syslogd was using 100% cpu? it seems like perhaps reiserfs is causing this problem?? - 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/

RAID autodetect and 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Chris
Hi, I have a server with RAID1 partitions with linux 2.4.1 (stock, self-compiled) installed. It was easy to create the RAID partitions but when booting, no auto-detection is successful. The kernel says that autodetect is running, then done, but nothing is auto-detected. My devices are IDE

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-03 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Alan Cox writes: [Albert Cahalan] David Woodhouse writes: -a "$CC" = "gcc" Not worth it; they should upgrade the local gcc too. If anything, they are getting a reminder that they need. The local gcc has no bearing on the compiler. The local compiler might not even be gcc - eg if they

Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.

2001-02-03 Thread Miles Lane
Jeff Garzik wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Miles Lane wrote: I asked David Hinds to write up an outline of the things that will be needed to get PCMCIA support cleanly and completely integrated into the kernel tree. David has expressed that he'll not be able to participate in this

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-03 Thread Russell King
Albert D. Cahalan writes: The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very few others -- my memory fails me on this. iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres" [flames to /dev/null please] ;) --

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-03 Thread Jonathan Morton
The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very few others -- my memory fails me on this. There are lots of SI units, one for each physical dimension that can be measured. Some of the ones that might apply here are: -

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread lists
Thank goodness, it's about time. :-) On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:08:44PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project hosted on sourceforge. The project page, where you can download the source code tar ball or rpm as well as

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 06:14:33PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank goodness, it's about time. :-) Amen. Jeff On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:08:44PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project hosted on sourceforge.

[SoftwareRAID in 2.4.1] md_import_device() returned -22

2001-02-03 Thread Art Boulatov
Hi, Could anybody please help me to resolve why this error is returned? (md_import_device() returned -22) I'm trying to setup software RAID0 on Asus CUR-DLS (dual channel ULTRA2 SCSI - sym53c896). kernel is pure 2.4.1(SMP), with devfs, sym53c8xx and raid0 support linked in. raidtools are

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 06:14:33PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank goodness, it's about time. :-) To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that trash their NTFS partitions. TRG will discontinue distribution of these tools at this point since Anton has a

accept

2001-02-03 Thread Mathieu Dube
What does it typically mean when accept returns 0 and that the perror outputs "Interupted system call"?? Thanks -Mat -- Mathieu Dube Mondo-Live - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 01:16 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that trash their NTFS partitions. TRG will discontinue distribution of these tools at this point since Anton has a Linux based version. Please do not email me for any more NT based

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-03 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very few others -- my memory fails me on this. There are lots of SI units, one for each physical dimension that can be measured. Some of the ones that might apply here are:

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-03 Thread David Ford
Chris Mason wrote: On Thursday, February 01, 2001 02:16:43 PM -0200 Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About the system hanging completely, I wonder if it goes away by pressing sysrq-S (sync all disks). If it does, maybe Reiserfs was blocking all the pages in the inactive list from

Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work

2001-02-03 Thread Marko Kreen
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 11:05:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've never could make this CDRW ATAPI to work, if someone could provide me any clue about the baby. I just said that people on the kernel mailing list may care of its but. It looks like the baby didn't even noticed. ;-)

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Marko Kreen
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:48:36PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: [root@coredump spstarr]# killall -9 gnomeicu ... waiting... Could you try it on 2.4.2ac2, I guess its this item: o Fix datagram hang on shutdown (Alexey Kuznetsov) -- marko - To unsubscribe from this

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
Wasn't on shutdown though ;-) I was just about to receive a message when things started to lock up slowly. Then everything else followed. Marko Kreen wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:48:36PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: [root@coredump spstarr]# killall -9 gnomeicu ... waiting... Could

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Marko Kreen
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 08:06:08PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: Wasn't on shutdown though ;-) The 'shutdown' as in 'process shutdown' ? _Not_ machine shutdown. I was just about to receive a message when things started to lock up slowly. Then everything else followed. Marko Kreen wrote:

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