Good example of the kind of thing the cross-referencer turns up.

2001-04-19 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Go on. Tell me this isn't an error... CONFIG_ARCH_CLPS7110: arch/arm/kernel/arch.c CONFIG_ARCH_CLPS711X: arch/arm/Makefile arch/arm/config.in arch/arm/kernel/Makefile arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S arch/arm/kernel/debug-armv.S arch/arm/def-configs/ebsa110 arch/arm/def-configs/footbridge

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

2001-04-19 Thread James Simmons
Thank you. It is true all I want to do is help the community. I feel as alot of people do XFree86 can not meet the needs of the community. It is very sad that people feel that no amount of people in the open source community can make code of the same or better quality as XFree86 in a shorter

Re: PNP BIOS and parport_pc - dma found but not used

2001-04-19 Thread Gunther Mayer
Pavel Roskin wrote: Hello! I've compiled 2.4.3-ac9 with support for PNP BIOS. I understand that this is a new feature experimental and the feedback is requested. The setting is BIOS is to use irq 7 and dma 3. I normally use "options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3" in

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: I certainly agree that introducing ioctl() in _any_ API is a shootable offense. However, I wonder whether we really need any kernel changes at all. I'd certainly be interested in seeing the

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: Ehh... Non-lazy variant is just read() and write() as down_failed() and up_wakeup() Lazy... How about Looks good to me. Anybody want to try this out and test some benchmarks? There may be problems with large numbers of semaphores, but hopefully

Re: PNP BIOS and parport_pc - dma found but not used

2001-04-19 Thread Gunther Mayer
Pavel Roskin wrote: ... There is another interesting line in the log that you didn't quote. The driver actually knows about DMA 3: 0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=3 The parport code only uses DMA when told by the user, so insmod parport_pc dma=auto should to the trick. Parport DMA

Re: ext2 inode size (on-disk)

2001-04-19 Thread Andreas Dilger
Al, you write: Erm... Folks, can -s_inode_size be not a power of 2? Both libext2fs and kernel break in that case. Example: dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1024 count=20480 mkfs -I 192 foo I had always assumed that it would be a power-of-two size, but since it is an undocumented option to

Re: Lost O_NONBLOCK (Bug?)

2001-04-19 Thread Philippe Troin
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 12 Apr 2001, Philippe Troin wrote: Apt I guess ? It has a very strange behavior when backgrounded... Not really, just want it tries to run dpkg it hangs. The last read was after the process was forgrounded. The read waits forever, the

[repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Jes Sorensen
Hi For some reason this one didn't make it through in the first try ;-( Jes Hi I would like to announce the creation of the openlvm mailing list for discussion about maintenance and further development of the Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM). The new mailing list is named linux-openlvm

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2001-04-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Linus, The following patch fixes the OOM deadlock condition caused by prune_icache(), and also improves its performance significantly. The OOM deadlock can happen because prune_icache() tries to sync _all_ dirty inodes (under PF_MEMALLOC) on the system before trying to free a portion of

Re: Children first in fork

2001-04-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article 9bn3sr$fer$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you can do is what strace does: insert a loop instruction after the fork or clone call and remove that when the call returns. You're probably even better off just intercepting the fork, turning it into a

Re: ext2 inode size (on-disk)

2001-04-19 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: Al, you write: Erm... Folks, can -s_inode_size be not a power of 2? Both libext2fs and kernel break in that case. Example: dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1024 count=20480 mkfs -I 192 foo I had always assumed that it would be a

Re: Is there a way to turn file caching off ?

2001-04-19 Thread John Lenton
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:21:14AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: A program may know its own access pattern, but it don't usually know future access patterns. Well, backing up the entire fs could benefit from a something like this, you probably won't need the backup again soon. But this is

Re: KERNEL: assertion (tp-lost_out == 0) failed at tcp_input.c(1202):tcp_remove_reno_sacks

2001-04-19 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:42:54PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: While running 2.4.3, I saw the following message a few times: KERNEL: assertion (tp-lost_out == 0) failed at tcp_input.c(1202):tcp_remove_reno_sacks I've been running tcpdump for some time, and get the message 2 times again today.

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: Ehh... Non-lazy variant is just read() and write() as down_failed() and up_wakeup() Lazy... How about Looks good to me. Anybody want to try this out and test some benchmarks? Ugh. It doesn't

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread AJ Lewis
It is unfortunate that this could not have been resolved in a more mature manner. Saying "I don't like the way somebody is doing something. I won't bother to talk to them about it, I'll just flame them and try to undermine their work." is not acceptable. It would have been nice if you'd

Problems with i2c-matroxfb and latest kernel

2001-04-19 Thread German Gomez Garcia
Hello, After downloading latest 2.4.3-ac9 kernel and compiling it I found that when I insert the i2c-matroxfb module, the modprobe utility completely monopolize the system during about a minute everything gets really slow and it seems that it do something on the virtual consoles

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

2001-04-19 Thread Rogier Wolff
Eric S. Raymond wrote: Rogier Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think it should be possible to do: /* to enable the special stuff, change the "undef" to "define", If you really want you can add this to Config.in so that you're presented with this choice when configuring your kernel.

kernel oops

2001-04-19 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi there, when I have given my computer a 'quite heavy load' in X, it will sometimes suddenly, without much reason at that moment itself, stop working... Ie, the 'stop' itself can happen when the computer isn't even being worked on, but five minutes after I've done some video editing (using a

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
AJ Lewis wrote: It is unfortunate that this could not have been resolved in a more mature manner. Saying "I don't like the way somebody is doing something. I won't bother to talk to them about it, I'll just flame them and try to undermine their work." is not acceptable. It would have been

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, AJ Lewis wrote: It is unfortunate that this could not have been resolved in a more mature manner. Saying "I don't like the way somebody is doing something. I won't bother to talk to them about it, I'll just flame them and try to undermine their work." is not

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Apr 19 2001, AJ Lewis wrote: It is unfortunate that this could not have been resolved in a more mature manner. Saying "I don't like the way somebody is doing something. I won't bother to talk to them about it, I'll just flame them and try to undermine their work." is not acceptable.

Re: Next gen PM interface

2001-04-19 Thread John Fremlin
Patrick Mochel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IMHO the pm interface should be split up as following: Nobody has disagreed: therefore this separation must be perfect ;-) I once heard that patience is a virtue. :) (1) Battery status, power status, UPS status polling. It

Re: kernel oops

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
Is blackbox broken? Or is this a kernel bug? Or a bug in the nvidia drivers? I hope you can fix it (if it is a kernel bug)... Only Nvidia can help you. Reproduce the problem from a boot where the nvidia drivers have never been loaded and then its interesting. Is the box stable with 2.2 ? -

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Olaf Titz
problems: just _how_ high woul dyou move it? Would it potentially disturb an application that opens thousands of files, and knows that they get consecutive file descriptors? Which is _legal_ and well-defined in UNIX. Only if you close them before. The process may have been started with

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
It is unfortunate that this could not have been resolved in a more mature manner. Saying "I don't like the way somebody is doing something. I won't bother to talk to them about it, I'll just flame them and try to undermine their work." is not acceptable. It would have been nice if you'd

Re: SCSI tape test results

2001-04-19 Thread Olaf Titz
Still have to test copying from a SCSI disk on the same bus as the tape drive. Done (tar c/tar d), no corruption. Olaf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: kernel oops

2001-04-19 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 2001.04.19 21:04:26 +0200 Alan Cox wrote: Is blackbox broken? Or is this a kernel bug? Or a bug in the nvidia drivers? I hope you can fix it (if it is a kernel bug)... Only Nvidia can help you. Reproduce the problem from a boot where the nvidia drivers have never been loaded and

Re: Next gen PM interface

2001-04-19 Thread John Fremlin
Patrick Mochel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Solution. Have a special procfs or dev node that any number of people can select(2) or read(2). Protocol text. Syntax: event WS subsystem WS description LF Where event is one of the strings

Re: Next gen PM interface

2001-04-19 Thread Patrick Mochel
(1) Battery status, power status, UPS status polling. It should be possible for lots of processes to do this simultaneously. [That does not prohibit a single process querying the kernel and all the others querying it.] Solution. Have a bunch

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Jes Sorensen
"" == AJ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is unfortunate that this could not have been resolved in a more mature manner. Saying "I don't like the way somebody is doing something. I won't bother to talk to them about it, I'll just flame them and try to undermine their work." is not

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Martin K. Petersen
"AJ" == AJ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AJ It is unfortunate that this could not have been resolved in a more AJ mature manner. Personally, I find it exceedingly immature that my postings get moderated to the bitbucket every time I report a bug in your code. This is simply not the way we

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread AJ Lewis
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:02:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Well their approach to patches that fix bugs is to reject emails. They've done that to stuff I've reported any many others. So there is a problem. And its kind of hard to discuss a problem when you are being moderated out of existance.

Re: ext2 inode size (on-disk)

2001-04-19 Thread Andreas Dilger
Al writes: I had always assumed that it would be a power-of-two size, but since it is an undocumented option to mke2fs, I suppose it was never really intended to be used. It appears, however, that the mke2fs code doesn't do ANY checking on the parameter, so you could concievably make

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread AJ Lewis
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:17:29PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: This was tried, trust me. We didn't create this list because someone forgot to respond to a single posting. As we wrote in the announcement there has been too many incidents: At least two people got kicked off the old lvm list for

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks good to me. Anybody want to try this out and test some benchmarks? I fail to see how this works across processes. How can you generate a file descriptor for this pipe in a second process which simply shares some memory with the first one? The

Re: Next gen PM interface

2001-04-19 Thread John Fremlin
Patrick Mochel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I can see at least two types of events - (forgive the lack of colorful terminology) passive and active. Passive events are simply providing status updates, much like the events described above. These are simply so some UI can notify the

Re: Oscillations in disk write compaction, poor interactive performance

2001-04-19 Thread Giuliano Pochini
The problem is that at the low point in the cycle, the machine is unusable. It is utterly unresponsive until the writes complete, which can take a very long time (in the case of the ppc machine, several minutes!) Anything that does disk I/O will block for a long time - having 'ls' take two

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Apr 19 2001, AJ Lewis wrote: Did anyone bother to e-mail the list admins? Perhaps it was too difficult to figure out who to mail about this, but I know for a fact that Rik van Riel and Jens Axboe could post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would have been nice if they had mentioned something

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Jes Sorensen
"" == AJ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm...i guess there is a communication issue here. It sounds like the message that our ML server was sending was misleading. We were not rejecting mail because of content. The ML server was rejecting it because the address was not subscribed. Our

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Jes Sorensen
"AJ" == AJ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AJ On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:17:29PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: This was tried, trust me. We didn't create this list because someone forgot to respond to a single posting. As we wrote in the announcement there has been too many incidents: At least

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread AJ Lewis
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:35:51PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: "" == AJ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm...i guess there is a communication issue here. It sounds like the message that our ML server was sending was misleading. We were not rejecting mail because of content. The ML

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread AJ Lewis
The list is now open. I've talked to our admin and he's opening it up. Send me e-mail if it doesn't work, 'cause something else is broken. All it would have taken was a request and a good reason for doing so, but I guess this is one way to do it. Just don't complain about spam. :) Regards,

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Andreas Dilger
AJ Lewis writes: On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:02:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Well their approach to patches that fix bugs is to reject emails. They've done that to stuff I've reported any many others. So there is a problem. And it's kind of hard to discuss a problem when you are being

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
All it would have taken was a request and a good reason for doing so, but I guess this is one way to do it. Just don't complain about spam. :) I think you'll find several folks who run linux-kernel and other lists like the linux.nl mailhub more than happy to help there Alan - To

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Martin K. Petersen
"Jens" == Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens First one gets a mail saying that the mail sent is queued for Jens moderator approval, since I'm not on the list. Then later a Jens second mail arrives, saying the mail has been rejected by the Jens moderator. Yep. Same here. Latest and

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can libraries use fast semaphores behind the back of the user? They might well want to use the semaphores exactly for things like memory allocator locking etc. But libc certainly cant use fd's behind peoples backs. libc is entitled to, and most

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
Not to be negative, but isn't Alan the pot calling the kettle black? You use ORBS to block email as well, with no hope of reprieve. AFAIK, the I dont stop other people discussing the kernel. Its very very different. linux-lvm list has a moderator which _should_ forward legitimate emails

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
I fail to see how this works across processes. How can you generate a file descriptor for this pipe in a second process which simply shares some memory with the first one? The first process is passive: no file descriptor passing must be necessary. mknod foo p. Or use sockets (although

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread AJ Lewis
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:45:20PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: I don't think that the subscription is necessarily the only issue. I'm subscribed to all of the LVM mailing lists, and still a lot of what I submit (legitimate bug fixes, and not just features/code cleanup) does not get added to

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: I don't think that the subscription is necessarily the only issue. I'm subscribed to all of the LVM mailing lists, and still a lot of what I submit (legitimate bug fixes, and not just features/code cleanup) does not get added to CVS. Yes, the

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:45:20PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: I don't think that the subscription is necessarily the only issue. I'm subscribed to all of the LVM mailing lists, and still a lot of what I submit (legitimate bug fixes, and not just features/code cleanup) does not get added to

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Apr 19 2001, AJ Lewis wrote: As far as getting patches into the stock kernel, we've been sending patches to Linus for over a month now, and none of them have made it in. Maybe someone has some pointers on how we get our code past his filters. The diff between 2.4.4-pre LVM and your

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
As far as getting patches into the stock kernel, we've been sending patches to Linus for over a month now, and none of them have made it in. Maybe someone has some pointers on how we get our code past his filters. Has it occured to you that some of this might be because the code does stuff

Re: Your message to linux-lvm awaits moderator approval

2001-04-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:56:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your mail to 'linux-lvm' with the subject Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held:

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mknod foo p. Or use sockets (although AF_UNIX sockets are higher latency) Thats why I suggested using flock - its name based. Whether you mkstemp() stuff and pass it around isnt something I care about Files give you permissions for free too I don't want

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
AJ Lewis wrote: Ok, the issue here is that we're trying to get a release out and so anything that majorly changes the code is getting shunted aside for the moment. It would be stupid to just add everything that comes in on the ML without review. Linus does the exact same thing. I've said

Re: [Ext2-devel] ext2 inode size (on-disk)

2001-04-19 Thread tytso
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:55:20AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: Erm... Folks, can -s_inode_size be not a power of 2? Both libext2fs and kernel break in that case. This was a project that was never completed. I thought at one point of allowing the inode size to be not a power of 2, but

Linux 2.4.3-ac10

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org You may well need to 'make clean' before building -ac8 as the GDT layout has changed a little. 2.4.3-ac10 o Merge Linus

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
I don't want nor need file permissions. A program would look like this: Your example opens/mmaps so has file permissions. Which is what I was asking The shared mem segment can be retrieved in whatever way. The mutex in this case is anonymous. Everybody who has access to the shared mem

Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2

2001-04-19 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:05:03AM -0500, Victor Zandy wrote: We have found that one of our programs can cause system-wide corruption of the x86 FPU under 2.2.16 and 2.2.17. We see this problem on dual 550MHz Xeons with 1GB RAM. Hm, I started to wonder if this is not somewhat related

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FW: Linux 2.4.3 Compile Errors - Power Mac

2001-04-19 Thread Jeff Galloway
I sent this report to the people indicated below, whose names I got from the MAINTAINERS file in the 2.4.3 distribution, but the email address for Mr. MacKerras is no longer good and Mr. Chastain wrote me back that he is not following 2.4 issues. I have not yet heard from Mr. Owens. Any

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:26:03PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: In any case all kinds of user-level operations are possible as well and all the schemes suggested for dealing with the common case without syscalls can be applied here as well. Are you sure, you can implement SMP-safe, atomic

Re: [Ext2-devel] ext2 inode size (on-disk)

2001-04-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the long run, it probably makes sense to adjust the algorithms to allow for non-power-of-two inode sizes, If you don't mind, does that imply packing inodes across block boundaries? Regards, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "The universe is like a safe to

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't want nor need file permissions. A program would look like this: Your example opens/mmaps so has file permissions. Which is what I was asking There are no permissions on the mutex object. It is the shared memory which counts. If you would

Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Miles Lane
AJ Lewis wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:02:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Well their approach to patches that fix bugs is to reject emails. They've done that to stuff I've reported any many others. So there is a problem. And its kind of hard to discuss a problem when you are being moderated

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.4.3-ac{6,7} LVM hang

2001-04-19 Thread Arjan Filius
Hello, Same here as reported. restoring lvm.c from 2.4.3 into 2.4.4-pre? "fixes" this. (tested not ac's kernel) Greatings, On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: Hi, 2.4.3-ac4 seems to work great on my test box (UP K6-2 with SCSI disk), but 2.4.3-ac6 and 2.4.3-ac7 hang pretty hard when

PROBLEM: Segfault reading SCSI MO - System hang while writing

2001-04-19 Thread Thomas Herberg
[1.] Segfault reading SCSI MO - System hang while writing [2.] Hello * with kernel 2.4.x (actually 2.4.3) i ran into a problem acessing my SCSI MO. As everything works fine with 2.2.x (actually 19) the problem seems to be new in the 2.4.x kernel series and therefore you might want to take a

Re: Your message to linux-lvm awaits moderator approval

2001-04-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:56:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your mail to 'linux-lvm' with the subject Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list Is being held until the list moderator can review it for

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Ingo Oeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you sure, you can implement SMP-safe, atomic operations (which you need for all up()/down() in user space) WITHOUT using privileged instructions on ALL archs Linux supports? Which processors have no such instructions but are SMP-capable? How do we

Re: CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP help

2001-04-19 Thread Edgar Toernig
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. for tp_frame_size, I dont want to truncate any data on ethernet, I need 1514 bytes, is this the best way to do it and not waste space? static const int TURBO_FRAME_SIZE= TPACKET_ALIGN(TPACKET_ALIGN(sizeof(tpacket_hdr)) +

A little problem.

2001-04-19 Thread Hai Xu
Dear all, I have a question about the kernel used by the RedHat. I am using Redhat 7.0 and upgrade the Linux Kerenl from their original 2.2.16 to 2.2.18. But when I compile some modules, it said my kernel is 2.4.0. I check the /usr/include/linux/version.h as follows, found that it shows I am

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:11:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: No, this is NOT what the UNIX dogmas are all about. When UNIX says "everything is a file", it really means that "everything is a stream of bytes". Things like magic operations on file desciptors are _anathema_ to UNIX. ioctl()

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On 19 Apr 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks good to me. Anybody want to try this out and test some benchmarks? I fail to see how this works across processes. It's up to FS_create() to create whatever shared mapping is needed. For threads, you

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread AJ Lewis
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:09:32PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: AJ Lewis wrote: Ok, the issue here is that we're trying to get a release out and so anything that majorly changes the code is getting shunted aside for the moment. It would be stupid to just add everything that comes in on the

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: Are you sure, you can implement SMP-safe, atomic operations (which you need for all up()/down() in user space) WITHOUT using privileged instructions on ALL archs Linux supports? Why do you care? Sure, there are broken architectures out there. They'd

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:11:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: No, this is NOT what the UNIX dogmas are all about. When UNIX says "everything is a file", it really means that "everything is a stream of bytes". Things like magic operations on

RE: A little problem.

2001-04-19 Thread Bingner Sam J. Contractor RSIS
sounds to me like you have the wrong source in /usr/src/linux there is a module you can install, or you can do it as I normally would... obtain kernel source for 2.2.18 from ftp.kernel.org and put it in "/usr/src" (/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.18.tar.bz2) remove the symlink in /usr/src "rm

Re: FW: Linux 2.4.3 Compile Errors - Power Mac

2001-04-19 Thread tom_gall
Jeff Galloway wrote: I sent this report to the people indicated below, whose names I got from the MAINTAINERS file in the 2.4.3 distribution, but the email address for Mr. MacKerras is no longer good and Mr. Chastain wrote me back that he is not following 2.4 issues. Hi Jeff, Hmm

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I fail to see how this works across processes. It's up to FS_create() to create whatever shared mapping is needed. No, the point is that FS_create is *not* the one creating the shared mapping. The user is explicitly doing this her/himself. --

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi AJ, On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:40:15PM -0500, AJ Lewis wrote: The list is now open. I've talked to our admin and he's opening it up. Send me e-mail if it doesn't work, 'cause something else is broken. to me it looks like your reactions are too late. I suggest you Sistina people accept

Re: Problems with Toshiba SD-W2002 DVD-RAM drive (IDE)

2001-04-19 Thread Stefan Jaschke
On Thursday 19 April 2001 15:03, Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, Apr 19 2001, Stefan Jaschke wrote: OK. I'll check again with 2.4.4-pre4+patches: (1) Mounting the SuSE DVD-ROM (-t iso9660) from /dev/hdc on /dvd and reading from /dvd works. Same for CD-ROMs. I don't have a formatted

Re: FW: Linux 2.4.3 Compile Errors - Power Mac

2001-04-19 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have not yet heard from Mr. Owens. This does not surprise me, given the content of your email. The compiler error message along with the menuconfig-generated configuration file are set out in the attached MS Word document. I have to assume that you're just

Re: FW: Linux 2.4.3 Compile Errors - Power Mac

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
I sent this report to the people indicated below, whose names I got from the MAINTAINERS file in the 2.4.3 distribution, but the email address for Mr. MacKerras is no longer good and Mr. Chastain wrote me back that he is not following 2.4 issues. Well Keith is on holiday I believe and Paul

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

2001-04-19 Thread Tomas Jura
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:12:28AM +0200, Giuliano Pochini wrote: My fstab: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdmac hfs noauto,user,ro 0 0 I insert an apple cd (hfs) and mount /mnt/cdmac If I type eject

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
Are you sure, you can implement SMP-safe, atomic operations (which you need for all up()/down() in user space) WITHOUT using privileged instructions on ALL archs Linux supports? You don't need to. For some architectures the semaphore code would always call into the kernel. For those that

Re: A little problem.

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Cox
and upgrade the Linux Kerenl from their original 2.2.16 to 2.2.18. But when I compile some modules, it said my kernel is 2.4.0. I check the /usr/include/linux/version.h as follows, found that it shows I am using Kernel 2.4.0. No. It shows the headers your C compiler libraries are built

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On 19 Apr 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I fail to see how this works across processes. It's up to FS_create() to create whatever shared mapping is needed. No, the point is that FS_create is *not* the one creating the shared mapping. The user

Re: Your message to linux-lvm awaits moderator approval

2001-04-19 Thread Chip Salzenberg
Rik van Riel writes: [...] Andreas' patches got dropped over and over again and comments on the LVM code got refused by the moderators at Sistina ... "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- John Gilmore -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. -

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.4.3-ac{6,7} LVM hang

2001-04-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Apr 19 2001, Arjan Filius wrote: Hello, Same here as reported. restoring lvm.c from 2.4.3 into 2.4.4-pre? "fixes" this. (tested not ac's kernel) Does attached patch fix it? -- Jens Axboe --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.4-pre4/drivers/md/lvm.c Wed Apr 18 14:37:34 2001 +++

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Miles Lane
Alan Cox wrote: As far as getting patches into the stock kernel, we've been sending patches to Linus for over a month now, and none of them have made it in. Maybe someone has some pointers on how we get our code past his filters. Has it occured to you that some of this might be because the

Re: active after unmount?

2001-04-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Brian J. Watson wrote: Unmounting a SCSI disk device succeeded, and yielded: Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) Kernel 2.4.3 on a 2-processor i686 chico login: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... This message

Re: active after unmount?

2001-04-19 Thread Brian J. Watson
Unmounting a SCSI disk device succeeded, and yielded: Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) Kernel 2.4.3 on a 2-processor i686 chico login: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... This message comes out of kill_super(). I would guess that somebody's

aha1542 fails in 2.4.4-pre4

2001-04-19 Thread Jonathan Hudson
Just rebuilt an old box (Celeron 400) with an aha1542 and SCSI CD-ROM. Get the following: (aha1542 as module) Apr 19 21:22:04 kanga kernel: Configuring Adaptec (SCSI-ID 7) at IO:330, IRQ 10, DMA priority 6 Apr 19 21:22:04 kanga kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 1542 Apr 19 21:22:04 kanga

Re: active after unmount?

2001-04-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:56:15PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Brian J. Watson wrote: Unmounting a SCSI disk device succeeded, and yielded: Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) Kernel 2.4.3 on a 2-processor i686 chico login: VFS: Busy inodes after

Re: aha1542 fails in 2.4.4-pre4

2001-04-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Apr 19 2001, Jonathan Hudson wrote: Just rebuilt an old box (Celeron 400) with an aha1542 and SCSI CD-ROM. Get the following: Known bug, on my list, will fix. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: active after unmount?

2001-04-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
'kay, great, thanks.. I'll put it in and see if things show up again - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Current Security Module snapshot

2001-04-19 Thread Greg KH
Hi, Just to keep people informed (hi Miles!) that since the announcement of the linux-security-module mailing list, some actual work has come out of it. Actual working code has been posted, which shows the current state, and the general model of what people are working toward. This post and

Re: light weight user level semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Rogier Wolff
Alan Cox wrote: libc is entitled to, and most definitely does exactly that. Take a look at things like gethostent, getpwent etc etc. Ehh.. I will bet you $10 USD that if libc allocates the next file descriptor on the first "malloc()" in user space (in order to use the semaphores

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