Hi Linus,
There is no reason why bdflush should call page_launder().
Its pretty obvious that bdflush's job is to only write out _buffers_.
Under my tests this patch makes things faster.
Guess why? Because bdflush is writing out buffers when it should instead
blocking inside
Linus Torvalds writes:
You could choose to do partial coherency, ie be coherent only one
way, for example. That would make the coherency overhead much less,
but would also make the caches basically act very unpredictably -
you might have somebody write through the page cache yet on a read
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
However, what about simply invalidating an entry in the buffer cache
when you do a write from the page cache?
And how do you do the invalidate the other way, pray tell?
What happens if you create a buffer cache entry? Does that invalidate the
page
I have a problem in kernel 2.4.4
I use readw to access memory below 1MB , report Segmentation fault
and stall in memory
simple code below (this will get paraller port)
==
int init_module(void){
unsigned int *BIOS_Data=(unsigned int *)0x400;
u32 test;
test =
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
I want to create a new block device - it is a different interface to
the software-raid code that allows the arrays to be partitioned using
normal partition tables.
See the other posts about creating a disk layer. Think of it as just a
simple lvm
Hi,
The following is a patch to the pcmcia code in which a kmalloc failure could
cause the code to crash since the pointer is dereferenced. I've instead
allocated the fixed sized array on the stack. The patch was made against
v2.4.4 of the kernel and result from some errors found during checker
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
How about:
+ if (PageActive(page))
+ SetPageReferenced(page);
+ else
+ activate_page(page);
Fine with me ...
Now, please explain to me why it's not just a simple
Hi,
The following patches to irq.c were made to deal with potential errors in
creating /proc entries for irqs on bootup. The code add checks to ensure
that the entries were created succesfully. In case of error, it attempts to
cleanup after itself. The patch was made against v2.4.4 of the kernel
Linus Torvalds writes:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
However, what about simply invalidating an entry in the buffer cache
when you do a write from the page cache?
And how do you do the invalidate the other way, pray tell?
What happens if you create a buffer cache
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
What happens if you create a buffer cache entry? Does that
invalidate the page cache one? Or do you just allow invalidates one
way, and not the other? And why=
I just figured on one way invalidates, because that seems cheap and
easy and has
I am doing the following:
malloc some memory is user space
pass its pointer to some kernel module
in the kernel module...do a pci_alloc_consistent so that i get a memory
region for PCI DMA operations
now the problem is that i want to remap the address range pointed by the
user space
Hi everyone,
Mark, I got your point about the dma/udma stuffs. My hdparm setting is UDMA w/
MultiSector 16..
I had recompiled my kernel and disabled the FB option but my linux box still hanged
(another completely freeze) yesterday... Oh well..
I have been tracking this thread for a few days
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
What happens if you create a buffer cache entry? Does that
invalidate the page cache one? Or do you just allow invalidates one
way, and not the other? And why=
I just figured on one way invalidates, because that seems cheap and
easy and has
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:58:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Yet another 2.5 project. If Linus wants to go play with name driven devices
and you want to help him great, but if he'd care to put out
linux-2.5.0.tar.gz _before_ starting that would be good for all of us
Well, that's one thing. 2.4
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:49:16PM -0400, God wrote:
Speaking of queues on routers/servers, does such a util exist that would
measure (even a rough estimate), what level of congestion (queueing) is
happening between point A and B ? I'd be
Le 14 May 2001 14:36:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik a écrit :
Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
Attached is a patch against 2.4.4-ac9 which includes the changes found
in tulip-devel 1.1.6... (tulip-devel is sort of a misnomer; right now
it's really just a staging and testing point for fixes which go
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:13:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
We should not create crap code just because we _can_.
How about removing code?
Absolutely. It's not all that often that we can do it, but when we can,
it's the best thing in the
Le 14 May 2001 14:36:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik a écrit :
Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
Attached is a patch against 2.4.4-ac9 which includes the changes found
in tulip-devel 1.1.6... (tulip-devel is sort of a misnomer; right now
it's really just a staging and testing point for fixes which go
Hi
In everyfile system, dget() function is called. But I cannot find
where is the dget() function is written. Where is it
Thanks in advance
by
Blesson
On 15 May 2001, Blesson Paul wrote:
In everyfile system, dget() function is called. But I cannot find
where is the dget() function is written. Where is it
To find this out, you type:
# vi -t dget
and then look at the bottom line which would show
./include/linux/dcache.h
This
On 15 May 2001, Blesson Paul wrote:
Hi
In everyfile system, dget() function is called. But I cannot find
where is the dget() function is written. Where is it
man grep
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't even boot
simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question dont think the sun
shines out of linus backside any more.
For example, the
Hi Alan,
would you mind to apply the accumulated tmpfs fixes to the -ac series?
Here the short descriptions:
2-SHMEM_I:
Encapsulate all accesses to the private info structure with
macro. This was suggested by Al to later get rid of the
union in the inode struct. This
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Looks like there are 19 filesystems that use the buffer cache right now:
grep -l bread fs/*/*.c | cut -d/ -f2 | sort -u | wc
So quite a bit of work involved.
UNIX-like ones (and that includes QNX) are easy. HFS is hopeless - it won't
be
Hi people
We are currently running a 900MHz Athlon at 900MHz with a VIA chipset
mainboard. We have been experiencing strange problems and a number of
kernel panics. The debugged oopes from three of these are included at the
end of this message.
My first question is whether this could be
Hi Martin,
Here is the patch which implements triple indirect blocks in
tmpfs.
For the rest of the word: This is needed since s390x is a 64 Bit
platform with pagesize of 4k :-(
It is on top of my other tmpfs fixes which you can find at
ftp://ftp.sap.com/pub/linuxlab/people/cr
Greetings
How hard is it to generate a new disk driver framework, and let people
register themselves, kind of like the misc drivers do. Except we'd only
allow DISKS. You could add something like
register_disk_driver(compaq-ciss, nr_disks, my_queue);
Why bother. Devfs does that already. Thats
So I would think that this block of new major number allocations holds for
2.5 and not 2.4. Also, if I'm correct, 2.4 won't be needing a lot of new
major numbers anyhow.
I wouldnt bet on that. Going to a 32bit dev_t internally without user space
noticing would keep it seems to be quite doable
On Tue, 15 May 2001 18:04:35 +0930 (CST),
Jonathan Woithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.2.19. Options used
Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol module_list_R__ver_module_list not found in
System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
module_list was added to the export list
The fact that it already exists, and has existed for 5+ years, but that
nobody really uses it?
Nobody really uses it because it would require you to add a line or two to
your init scripts to pick up the major number from /proc/devices, and
that's obviously too hard. Much better to just
Guys,
I'm working on a network device that will forward some packets before
they get to netif_rx and thus net_rx_action. Thus, the forwarded
packets handled by my device/protocol would not be traced by the
existing trace utility (AF_PACKET etc.), correct? Am I correct in
assuming that
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I am doing the following:
malloc some memory is user space
pass its pointer to some kernel module
in the kernel module...do a pci_alloc_consistent so that i get a memory
region for PCI DMA operations
Wrong approach, you can use kiobufs if you
Le 15 May 2001 09:21:47 +0100, Tigran Aivazian a écrit :
On 15 May 2001, Blesson Paul wrote:
In everyfile system, dget() function is called. But I cannot find
where is the dget() function is written. Where is it
To find this out, you type:
# vi -t dget
and then look at
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:54:33AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
So I would think that this block of new major number allocations holds for
2.5 and not 2.4. Also, if I'm correct, 2.4 won't be needing a lot of new
major numbers anyhow.
I wouldnt bet on that. Going to a 32bit dev_t internally
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
Nobody really uses it because it would require you to add a line or two to
your init scripts to pick up the major number from /proc/devices, and
that's obviously too hard. Much better to just hardcode randome numbers,
right?
modprobe ?
I was
On 15 May 2001, Xavier Bestel wrote:
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make tags
No, I never use that one because it skips very useful entries like the
ones from EXPORT_SYMBOL etc. Also, it only shows the current architecture.
So, the tags target in the Makefile would only become useful when it is
But the fact remains that some users want to (a) avoid devfs and (b) have
static maintenance. And I'm ok with that too, but only if the static major
number is in the form of a _generic_ number that has absolutely nothing to
do with any specific drivers (which is why I'd be perfecly ok with
Hello,
This patch does:
- set MS_RDONLY flag in cramfs superblock
- doesnt allow -w remount in do_remount_sb
if the filesystem has MS_RDONLY set.
Without it, it is possible to remount r/o
filesystem with -w and truncate files on it.
I hope that doesnt fall into 'dont do that then'
category.
do with any specific drivers (which is why I'd be perfecly ok with still
adding a disk major number, but which is why I do NOT want to have Peter
give out the random number of today to various stupid device drivers).
For block devices that seems to work well. char devices are harder and I'd
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:07:53PM -0300, John R Lenton wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:28:06PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
For those of you with Via interrupting routing issues (or
interrupt-not-being-delivered issues, etc), please try out this patch
[...]
Just to add a little noise: My
The following is a patch to the pcmcia code in which a kmalloc failure could
cause the code to crash since the pointer is dereferenced. I've instead
allocated the fixed sized array on the stack. The patch was made against
We intentionally keep large objects off the stack
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I use readw to access memory below 1MB , report Segmentation fault
and stall in memory
simple code below (this will get paraller port)
==
int init_module(void){
unsigned int *BIOS_Data=(unsigned int *)0x400;
u32 test;
test = readw(BIOS_Data);
now the problem is that i want to remap the address range pointed by the
user space pointer to the memory region allocated by the
'pci_alloc_consistent' inside the module. I think this is possible..need
some hints
Wrong way around. Ask the device to create its mapping and reply with the
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
to
/* Use scsi if possible [scsi, ide-scsi, usb-scsi, ...] */
if(HAS_FEATURE_SET(fd, scsi-tape))
...
else if(HAS_FEATURE_SET(fd, floppy-tape))
..
Alan, if we are doing that we might as well use saner
Alan, if we are doing that we might as well use saner interface than
ioctl(2). In case you've mentioned we don't want make device SYS$FOO17
do special action OP$LOUD$BARF4269. We want make device rewind the tape.
Or tell us geometry. Or eject the media. Application doesn't
Counter argument;
At 08:13 15/05/01, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
So what happens if I dd from the block device and also from a file on
the mounted FS, where that file overlaps the bnums I dd'ed? Do we get
two copies in the page cache? One for the block device access, and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
There is no reason why bdflush should call page_launder().
Its pretty obvious that bdflush's job is to only write out _buffers_.
Under my tests this patch makes things faster.
Oh good. ISTR last time I looked at implementing CONFIG_BLK_DEV I got as far
as trying
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
Alan, if we are doing that we might as well use saner interface than
ioctl(2). In case you've mentioned we don't want make device SYS$FOO17
do special action OP$LOUD$BARF4269. We want make device rewind the tape.
Or tell us geometry. Or eject the
When I malloc the memory in user space, the memory may be discontinuous for
large chunks of memory say 16k or 32k. Does the 'kiobuf' interface take
care of this or it assumes it to be continuous?
regards,
Daljeet Maini
IBM Global Services Ltd. - Bangalore
Ph. No. - 5267117 Extn 2954
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:27:26AM +0200, Peter Kundrat wrote:
This patch does:
- set MS_RDONLY flag in cramfs superblock
- doesnt allow -w remount in do_remount_sb
if the filesystem has MS_RDONLY set.
Oh, ignore the second part. Seems i'd have to supply remount_fs super
op to prevent
Hello,
I`m still experiencing file tail corruptions
on subj.
And more: after i had restored bblocked patrition
(by relying on drive`s ability to remap bblks on
write by wroting small modification of debugreiserfs
which zeroified all bblks), i had _runtime_ tail
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JFFS - dunno.
Bah. JFFS doesn't use any of those horrible block device thingies.
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On Tuesday 15 May 2001 08:57, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
What happens if you create a buffer cache entry? Does that
invalidate the page cache one? Or do you just allow invalidates
one way, and not the other? And why=
I just figured on one way
Cost of adding IOCTL_REWIND_TAPE - two words in each tape driver. That
alone kills a bunch of crap in userland and makes _both_ sides more
maintainable.
A lot lot more than that. There are some cases where what you are saying is
true and we have duplication. The worst culprit was the cd layer
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
That's because you left out his invalidate:
* create an instance in pagecache
* start reading into buffer cache (doesn't invalidate, right?)
* start writing using pagecache (invalidate buffer copy)
Bzzert. You have a race
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:24:06PM +0200, Peter Kundrat wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:27:26AM +0200, Peter Kundrat wrote:
This patch does:
- set MS_RDONLY flag in cramfs superblock
- doesnt allow -w remount in do_remount_sb
if the filesystem has MS_RDONLY set.
Oh, ignore the
Pathchar, yet another Van Jacobsen toy does this. Unfortunately the old
and rotten pre-version you can find in ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pathchar/ is afaik
the last one. In the past it served me well you find about how ISPs are
lying ... 100mbit backbone = fast ethernet in their computer room ...
clink
Yes, I was wrong. But is it possible in similar situation just call
ip_rcv for the sk_buff?
What does just call mean? The additional setup done by the ipip
receiver is the minimum necessary to get the various parameters in the
sk_buff in a clean state (things like making sure all header
Hans and reiserfs developers,
the same student of my university
(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-18/0654.html) was
carrying up the mongo benchmarks against reiser, xfs, jfs and ext2 for
different base sizes.
For example, for the base size of 10.000 (the average of a
On Monday May 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
I want to create a new block device - it is a different interface to
the software-raid code that allows the arrays to be partitioned using
normal partition tables.
See the other posts about creating a
Hi there again !
I've got brand new kernel, compiled it and all modutils/other stuff,
however, I still have problems with magic buttons. It still crashes,
but in a new exciting fashion - not just plain oops, but tons of
non-stopping hex numbers in square brackets. As far as I could read it
on my
That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts
it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the
part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time
ago.
That's why you have to use append=root=blah for devfs :)
Really it should
Hi,
this moves pci_enable_device() before resource access and cleans
up the return values.
Ciao, Marcus
Index: esssolo1.c
===
RCS file: /build/mm/work/repository/linux-mm/drivers/sound/esssolo1.c,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u
Hi,
I have got that patch with movl %2,%%edx and removing the tmp
and still cannot compile with the same error message I posted yesterday.
The problem seems to be that, with or without inline, it seems to
put a reference into main.o of arch/i386/boot/compressed.
So I cannot test -ac9 :(
If
Hi,
This minor fix from Alan's -ac tree fixes the make menuconfig problem
in linux-2.4.5-pre[12]. The problem was that with the new
Pentium-III/Celeron(Coppermine) choice in arch/i386/config.in
menuconfig broke on the '()' in a choice. Please apply.
Erik
Index: scripts/Menuconfig
Looks ok to me. BTW thanks for doing these PCI sound cleanups... they
definitely need doing.
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Hi,
I have a network driver that get specific informations from device
but I can't envisage the size of the informations. So I do a kmalloc
call when data come.
But my problem seems to come from the kmalloc because when I try to
send data to user space via an ioctl call I get a segmentation
From: Val Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Serial driver version 5.05a (2001-03-20) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI enabled
Hmm. I've been looking at 5.05 (from http://serial.sourceforge.net),
I'm getting 2.4.4 and 2.4.5-pre2 to see what's in there.
Go kablooey means that all serial output
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i have an amd k6-2(?) processor.i compiled the latest 2.4.4 kernel with cpu ak k6-2.i
got the following error
loading linux
uncompressing linux..
ok,booting kernel
and
Does anybody know any nice resource for beginners to try to write
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Anything like url:// or mailing list will be appreciated.
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Does anybody know any nice resource for beginners to try to write
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Anything like url:// or mailing list will be appreciated.
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:57:05PM +0300, Bohdan Vlasyuk wrote:
Does anybody know any nice resource for beginners to try to write
some device drivers/other stuff ?
Anything like url:// or mailing list will be appreciated.
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/ and the #kernelnewbies IRC channel.
Does anybody know any nice resource for beginners to try to write
some device drivers/other interesting stuff ?
self-serving-stuff
Well... if you can wait just a little longer, O'Reilly tells me that the
second edition of Linux Device Drivers should hit the shelves on June 28.
We're still
Yes, try the O'Reilly books, especilly Linux Device Drivers by Rubini, ISBN
1-56592-292-1
Richard
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On Tuesday 15 May 2001 12:44, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
That's because you left out his invalidate:
* create an instance in pagecache
* start reading into buffer cache (doesn't invalidate, right?)
* start writing using pagecache
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
+ if (PageActive(page))
+ SetPageReferenced(page);
+ else
+ activate_page(page);
Now, please explain to me why it's not just a simple
SetPageReferenced(page);
and then just moving it
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
Given a file handle 'X' how do I find out what ioctl groups I should apply to
it. So we can go from
if(MAJOR(st.st_rdev) == ST_MAJOR)
issue_scsi_ioctls
else if(MAJOR(st.st_rdev) == FTAPE_MAJOR)
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
For block devices that seems to work well. char devices are harder and I'd
rather issue the occasional new major than have people registering automatic
cabbage slicers as a tty or a disk because they cant get a device id.
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
For block devices that seems to work well. char devices are harder and I'd
rather issue the occasional new major than have people registering automatic
cabbage slicers as a tty or a disk because they cant get a device id.
What are the valid cases that
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
Counter argument; We dont want the bloat of making a floppy tape have
delusions of grandeur in kernel space when mt-st can do it in userspace.
Counter-counter-argument: we could just export the ioctl's, and make a
user-level-filesystem. Except it's not a
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
What is the horrible app that does something like this?
eject(1), for one thing. And yes, it's ugly beyond belief - don't read
without a barfbag. BTW, LILO is not better, to put it _very_ mildly.
/* Use scsi if possible [scsi, ide-scsi,
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
Now, please explain to me why it's not just a simple
SetPageReferenced(page);
and then just moving it lazily from one queue to another..
...
Just going with the simple version should work.
Can you and Marcelo fight out the changes
Jonathan Corbet wrote:
Does anybody know any nice resource for beginners to try to write
some device drivers/other interesting stuff ?
self-serving-stuff
Well... if you can wait just a little longer, O'Reilly tells me that the
second edition of Linux Device Drivers should hit the
and the Linux source crossreferencing site at
http://lxr.linux.no/
is awesome.
Rick Hohensee
www.clienux.com
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Hi,
The PCI allocation fix in 2.4.5-pre2 breaks yenta_socket because it
depends on pci_mem_start from arch/i386/kernel/setup.c. This patch
fixes that by exporting pci_mem_start. Please apply.
Erik
--- arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c.orig Tue May 15 17:21:37 2001
+++
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
Ofcourse setting the queue function that __blk_get_queue call to do
a lookup of the minor and choose an appropriate queue for the real
device wont work as you need to munge bh-b_rdev too.
What I would do is:
- remove b_rdev completely. No driver is
On Tuesday, May 15, 2001 01:41:01 PM +0200 Ricardo Galli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hans and reiserfs developers,
the same student of my university
(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-18/0654.html) was
carrying up the mongo benchmarks against reiser, xfs, jfs and ext2
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Linus Torvalds wrote:
What are the valid cases that couldn't just register as a misc'ish
driver? The one that stands out is serial devices (you have hundreds of
them), but that's the same argument as a disk anyway.
/dev/fbN, /dev/dspN,
On Tuesday, May 15, 2001 02:24:36 PM +0400 Samium Gromoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I`m still experiencing file tail corruptions
on subj.
And more: after i had restored bblocked patrition
(by relying on drive`s ability to remap bblks on
write by wroting
System is a PIII UP 2.4.5-pre1, NFS client, options from /proc/mounts:
arezzo:/usr/src/dolphin /usr/src/dolphin nfs
rw,nodev,v3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,udp,nolock,addr=arezzo 0 0
Lately my arpwatch running on this 2.4.5-pre1 machine started to log
May 15 15:55:18 espoo
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Can you and Marcelo fight out the changes you've posted and re-do them
against pre2?
OK. Though I don't know when Marcelo and I will be on the same
timezone again (for some reasons his days don't seem to take
24 hours ;)).
I've applied some of the
On Tuesday, May 15, 2001 04:33:57 AM -0400 Alexander Viro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Looks like there are 19 filesystems that use the buffer cache right now:
grep -l bread fs/*/*.c | cut -d/ -f2 | sort -u | wc
So quite a bit of work
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That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts
it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the
part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
The differences:
(File offsets in hex, patterns were found without other matches in
the file)
First test:
64 bytes at D9E0800 (found starting at D9D8800, 32KB before)
Second test:
64 bytes at 2F187C0 (found starting at
Torvalds sez
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't even boot
simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question dont think the sun
shines out of linus backside any more.
Actually, it does. It's just that some people have
This patch modifies drivers/sound/ad1848.c to provide APM suspend/resume
support to the AD1848 driver.
To apply this patch,
cd to the top linux source directory
patch --dry-run -p0 this_file
If the patch program doesn't complain then use the command
patch -p0
No one has a minute to help me with this (compile?) problem? Linus ?
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Subject: Re: write to dvd ram
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 07:57:56 -0600
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Hi folks,
Found this bit of unused code in the i386 and sh architectures. As it's not being
used, let's get rid of it. Also, pgtable.h seems to be an odd place for this.
-Jeff
diff -u -r linux-2.4.4.pure/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
linux-2.4.4/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
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Got the image of 3 interesting packets by letting a modified tcpdump dump
the entire packet buffer in arp_print().
Original tcpdump output:
16:23:17.108993 P 0:60:97:ba:b4:f5 0:0:0:0:0:1 arp 1514: arp-#8192 for proto #1500
(138) hardware #17664 (36)
16:23:17.809024 P 0:60:97:ba:b4:f5
On Tue May 15 2001 , Linus Torvalds wrote :
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
Finally, how do I say that I want the root filesystem to be on a
particular mdp device+partition. I cannot assume that my device
will be the first to register with the disk layer, so I cannot be
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