Re: HowTo: Kernel verbose logging.

2001-06-01 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:51:27PM +0200, Ola Theander wrote: Therefore I would like to know if it's possible to compile the used kernel (2.2.18) in some kind of verbose logging mode? Ultimately every kernel call should be logged, with parameters and everything. I realize that this probably

Re: [RFC] yet another knfsd-reiserfs patch

2001-06-01 Thread Chris Mason
On Monday, April 23, 2001 10:45:14 AM -0400 Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, This patch is not meant to replace Neil Brown's knfsd ops stuff, the goal was to whip up something that had a chance of getting into 2.4.x, and that might be usable by the AFS guys too. Neil's

Re: USB mouse wheel breakage was Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac5

2001-06-01 Thread M.
USB mouse wheel has been broke since 2.4.5-ac4 (when new USB HID, hid-core.c, was integrated). The mouse in general seems jerky, and specifically the input device does not receive events for consecutive wheel movements -- just the first spin, until the mouse is moved again. obviously the bug is

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Re: New USB HID driver in -ac series

2001-06-01 Thread M.
On 01 Jun 2001 14:35:44 -0400, Nathan Walp wrote: I upgraded from 2.4.5-ac2 to 2.4.5-ac5 recently, and all seemed well. However, I noticed that the scrollwheel on my mouse wasn't working very well. snip I have been working on a patch all day, but can not figure it out. The problem is in the

Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-01 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi once more... I'm sorry for the layout of this mail. It is written in a web mail system... The attachements are in ASCII format even if the web-mail make it base-64 Now I have compiled a vanilla 2.2.19 kernel and have SMP working, without Ultra-DMA. I used the functional kernel config from

Re: [NFS] Re: [RFC] yet another knfsd-reiserfs patch

2001-06-01 Thread Trond Myklebust
Hi Chris, Do you really need the parent inode in the filehandle? That screws rename up pretty badly, since the filehandle changes when you rename into a different directory. It means for instance that when I do open(foo) mv foo bar/ write (foo) close(foo) then I have a pretty good chance of

Re: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
If this is a VIA SMP system there are APIC problems that you do not want to even think about addressing. MPS1.1 and passing noapic will fix most of there mess, but you have a semi-crippled system, but it runs. On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi once more... I'm sorry for the

Re: 2.4.5-ac5 locks on ReiserFS umount (ac4 doesn't)

2001-06-01 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hi, Ken! Try -ac6, this issue was discussed in depth on the list yesterday and rehashed twice already today. Check the archives. Too bad that the changelog for -ac6 doesn't mention reiserfs, so I didn't bother trying it. Another problem is that the archive at

Re: PATCH: cs4232 isapnp support

2001-06-01 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
Hi, This adds ISAPnP support to cs4232.c. [...] diff -u -r1.10 cs4232.c --- drivers/sound/cs4232.c2001/05/27 18:06:09 1.10 +++ drivers/sound/cs4232.c2001/06/01 17:26:52 [...] @@ -318,22 +325,92 @@ static int __initdata mpuirq = -1; static int __initdata synthio= -1;

More data on 2.4.5 VM issues

2001-06-01 Thread Michael Merhej
This is 2.4.5 with Andrea Arcangeli's aa1 patch compiled with himem: Why is kswapd using so much CPU? If you reboot the machine and run the same user process kswapd CPU usage is almost 0% and none of the swap is used. This machine was upgraded from 2.2 and we did not have the luxury of

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6

2001-06-01 Thread Tom Vier
o Fix mmap cornercase (Maciej Rozycki) when i try running osf/1 netscape on alpha, mmap of libXmu fails. works fine on -ac5. -- Tom Vier [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSA Key id 0x27371A2C - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Announce: Win2K LDM Docs (Logical Disk Manager)

2001-06-01 Thread Richard Russon
Hi All, I'm pleased to announce the first version of the LDM Documentation. Windows 2000 introduced a new partitioning scheme and with it, the Logical Disk Manager. Like Linux's Logical Volume Manager is allows changes to partitioning, and volumes, to be made without rebooting. To create

Re: APIC problem or 3com 3c590 driver problem in smp kernel 2.4.x

2001-06-01 Thread Feng Xian
It's our own's card. so it could be the card's problem. does the pci device have to do some special thing to support APIC? my card won't work properly on uni-processor with APIC enable kernel or smp kernel when the card is sharing IRQ with some other pci devices. Alex On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Ingo

2.4.5-ac6 and 2.4.4-ac11 boot fails with APIC timer

2001-06-01 Thread G. Hugh Song
The message on the screen calibrating APIC timer . CPU clock speed is 1395.7390MHz ... host bus clock speed is 0. MHz cpu: 0, clocks: 0, slic: 0 Then nothing. I had to push the reset button at this point. ACPI and APM were disabled from the kernel config. This boot failure

Re: Highmem Bigmem question

2001-06-01 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is probably an FAQ, but I read the FAQ and its not in there. Odd. I have a machine with 2G of memory. I compiled the kernel with the 4G memory option. How much address space should each process be able to address? 3 GB for user stuff, or 3.5 GB with a

Re: international patches from kerneli far behind

2001-06-01 Thread Danny ter Haar
L Larssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this moment the latest patches are 2.2.18.3 and 2.4.3.1 while the kernel at now is at 2.2.19 and 2.4.5. I try and keep a crypto up-to-date with the latest ac-tree: www.bzimage.org/kernel-patches/v2.4/alan/v2.4.5/ currently: against 2.4.5-ac6 (268

PATCH: ns558 bugfix / CSC ids

2001-06-01 Thread Marcus Meissner
Hi, I have added two CSC function ids to the ISAPNP joystick probing. CSC cards use a lot of varying ids for the functions, but in my set of data, 0010 and 0110 are always 'CTL'Game Controllers. One bugfix: port-size must be set, or the release_region on rmmod ns558 fails badly. Tested on IBM

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-06-01 Thread Russell Leighton
I have a 2.4.5-ac3 box with 1G RAM and 2.6G Swapfirst time developers hit apache/php/zendcache after reboot and it swapped to a stop. I stop/restarted apache and it seems very happy...can't goto production like this tho :( Alan Cox wrote: My system has 128 Meg of Swap and RAM.

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for

2001-06-01 Thread Bogdan Costescu
[ OK, this time I cc'ed netdev 8-) ] On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Please re-read your comment. Then think about it. Then tell me how rate limiting differs from caching to the application. For caching, the kernel establishes the rate with which the info is updated. There's nothing

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for

2001-06-01 Thread Mark Frazer
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01/06/01 10:32]: No way! If I implement a HA application which depends on link status, I want the info to be accurate, I don't want to know that 30 seconds ago I had good link. IMHO, rate limiting is the only solution. Please re-read your comment. Then

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bogdan Costescu wrote: No way! If I implement a HA application which depends on link status, I want the info to be accurate, I don't want to know that 30 seconds ago I had good link. To tangent a little bit, and add netdev to the CC... The loss and regain of link status should be proactively

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

2001-06-01 Thread David S. Miller
Jeff Garzik writes: For your HA application specifically, right now, I would suggest making sure your net driver calls netif_carrier_xxx correctly, then checking for IFF_RUNNING interface flag. IFF_RUNNING will disappear if the interface is up, but there is no carrier [as according to

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

2001-06-01 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: The loss and regain of link status should be proactively signalled to userspace using netlink or something similar. [ For the general discussion ] I fully agree, but I just wanted to give an example of legit use from user space of _current_ values from

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: Remaining undocumented Configure.help symbols

2001-06-01 Thread Jim Freeman
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:10:55PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Jim Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The verbiage in these entries seems 'make config' / text-interaction -centric. Granted, that's likely the context most kernel builders will use, but it would seem fair to at least consider a

Re: [PATCH] for Linux IRDA initialisation bug 2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 23:32:46 +1000, Matt Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found that if you compile IRDA into the kernel, irda_proto_init gets called twice - once at do_initcalls time, and once explicitly in do_basic_setup - eventually resulting in a hang (as register_netdevice_notifier gets

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

2001-06-01 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, David S. Miller wrote: Don't such HA apps need to run as root anyways? Not necessarily, but eventually you can let root (CAP_NET_ADMIN, anyway) go through without any limitations, root can bring down the system at will in other ways. In addition, the rate limiting solution

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

2001-06-01 Thread jamal
Jeff, Thanks for copying netdev. Wish more people would do that. On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Bogdan Costescu wrote: On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: The loss and regain of link status should be proactively signalled to userspace using netlink or something similar. [ For the general

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

2001-06-01 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: I am sure that to an unpriviledged application reporting back the same result as we saw last time we asked the hardware unless it is over 30 seconds old will work fine. Maybe 10 for link partner ? No way! If I implement a HA application which depends on

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
No way! If I implement a HA application which depends on link status, I want the info to be accurate, I don't want to know that 30 seconds ago I had good link. IMHO, rate limiting is the only solution. Please re-read your comment. Then think about it. Then tell me how rate limiting differs

Re: 2.4.[35] + Dell Poweredge 8450 + Oops on boot

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug Play device found PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f68f0 PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f:a611, dseg at 400 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ff48 printing eip: 3c9c *pde =

Benchmarks for Linux kernel

2001-06-01 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Can please point me some nice benchmarks for linux kernel . Which tells the performance of following , under Linux Kernel :- 1. CPU 2. Bus 3. Cache 4. DMA 5. Interrupts and Exceptions 6. File Systems 7. FPU 8. forking and pthread (Process Management) 9. IDE 10. Ethernet 11. Memory Management

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6

2001-06-01 Thread Keith Owens
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ix86/kdb-v1.8-2.4.5-ac6.gz is available. - 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

RE: Makefile patch for cscope and saner Ctags

2001-06-01 Thread Khachaturov, Vassilii
cscope: Minor stuff: 1) in cscope.files - I'd be replacing cscope.files with $@ within the rule - you don't need a yellow belt to know $@ within a Makefile 2) /bin/rm vs rm tags: Not going deep into it, I possibly should say here that hardwiring depth 5 is not the best thing probably - once

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
+ /* setup osb4 i/o regions */ + if ((reg = get_reg(OSB4_INDEX_PORT, OSB4_DATA_PORT, 0x20))) + request_region(reg, 4, OSB4 (pm1a_evt_blk)); Check request_region worked +static int +i2c_wait_for_smi(void) Obvious question - why duplicate the i2c

Re: [CHECKER] 2.4.5-ac4 security holes

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
[BUG] looks really broken. /u2/engler/mc/oses/linux/2.4.5-ac4/fs/ioctl.c:108:sys_ioctl: ERROR:PARAM:70:108: Deref tainted var 'arg' (tainted from line 70) Been meaning to dump that anyway so that was solved by the delete approach - real bug [BUG] sure seems like it. In general, all 4

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: In both of these situations, calling the ioctls without priveleges is quite useful, so maybe rate-limiting for ioctls and proc files like this would be a good idea in general. Many of them (like the MII and APM ones) the result can be cached Only some of them can be

PATCH: tulip net driver update

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
tulip needs a small delay during rxtx restart. different optimization patterns in newer gccs served to expose this bug which was previously hidden, so random users might hit a lack-of-networking depending on the speed of their machine, their compiler, etc. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief,

Re: [PATCH] almost forgot this one

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
Add a rwproc entry to the ide structure, for recalling what happened last time! Please let me knwo if there are any problems with this patch (some of the patches I sent earlier depend on this). Looks ok to me, but check with Andre - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Doug McNaught
Roland Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks! When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way? If it's a hard nfs mount, yes. Mount soft if you want timeouts. -Doug -- The rain man gave me two cures; he said

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

2001-06-01 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, jamal wrote: Jeff, Thanks for copying netdev. Wish more people would do that. Shame on me, I should have thought of that too... I joined lkml only about 2 weeks ago because netdev related topics are sometimes discussed only there... Not really. One idea i have been

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
I'd argue for rate limiting as the application only gets back new data, never a cached value n times in a row. Which is worse. I cat the proc file a few times and your HA app is unlucky. It now gets *NO* data for five minutes. If we cache the values it gets approximate data - To unsubscribe

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-06-01 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Marcin Kowalski wrote: Relating to Huge Dcache and InodeCache Entries and 2xMem Swap. I have a server with 1.1gig of RAM which I have limited to 1gig (due to stability - BUG at HIGHMEM.c: 155 crashes)... The size of the Swap space is 620mb... my memory usage is

Re: PATCH: tulip net driver update

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: tulip needs a small delay during rxtx restart. different optimization patterns in newer gccs served to expose this bug which was previously hidden, so random users might hit a lack-of-networking depending on the speed of their machine, their compiler,

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
In both of these situations, calling the ioctls without priveleges is quite useful, so maybe rate-limiting for ioctls and proc files like this would be a good idea in general. Many of them (like the MII and APM ones) the result can be cached - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way? Yes. Unless you made the mount with -o soft. The box will wait until the server comes back - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Tim Hockin
> Looks interesting. Seemingly literate use of spinlocks. thanks - I gave it lots of thought. > Off-hand I see old style initialization. Is it right for new driver? the old-style init is because it is an old driver. I want to do a full-on rework, but haven't had the time. > i2c framework is

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-06-01 Thread thunder7
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:20:23AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Looking at the diff of "lspci -vvvxxx" between MPS1.1 and MPS1.4 (on the > same system) may be quite useful... maybe I missed the earlier "lspci > -vvvxxx", but I only see one here... Yep, I didn't want to keep sending long

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
> > Off-hand I see old style initialization. Is it right for new driver? > > the old-style init is because it is an old driver. I want to do a full-on > rework, but haven't had the time. New-style init by itself shouldn't be hard to do, independent of a full re-work... > > 2. Spaces and tabs

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
General comments: * Code looks really clean. Nice work. * Use module_init/exit. I know, I know, you heard it before :) * I dunno if Linus will take it as-is because he has been threatening to stop taking PCI drives that use old-style PCI init for no good reason. (he even made me change a

Re: [CHECKER] 2.4.5-ac4 non-init functions calling init functions

2001-06-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Dawson Engler wrote: > Here are *uninspected* 2.4.5-ac4 results of a checker that warns when a > non-__init function calls an __init function (suggested by > [EMAIL PROTECTED]). There seem to be two cases: > > 1. The best case: the caller should actually be an

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tim Hockin wrote: > +int __init > +cobalt_acpi_init(void) > +{ > + int err, reg; > + u16 addr; > + unsigned long flags; > + > + if (cobt_is_5k()) { > + /* setup osb4 i/o regions */ > + if ((reg = get_reg(OSB4_INDEX_PORT, OSB4_DATA_PORT, 0x20)))

Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tim Hockin wrote: > spinlock_t sym53c8xx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; > +spinlock_t sym53c8xx_host_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; > #defineNCR_LOCK_DRIVER(flags) spin_lock_irqsave(_lock, flags) > #defineNCR_UNLOCK_DRIVER(flags) >spin_unlock_irqrestore(_lock,flags) > +#define

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-01 Thread Andries . Brouwer
On Tue, 29 May 2001, John Chris Wren wrote: > In BSD, select() states that when a time out occurs, > the bits passed to select will not be altered. > In Linux, which claims BSD compliancy for this > in the man page (but does not state either way >

Re: sk_buff question

2001-06-01 Thread Francois Romieu
Emmanuel Varagnat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit : > I need to had a header to the data in the sk_buff. > But what to do if there is no enough space left at the head ? I assume "alloc+copy" isn't the expected answer, is it ? > I saw skb_copy_expand, but it gives me a new sk_buff. Is there > a way to

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-06-01 Thread David Rees
I don't know myself, (it sounds like other bigmem problems), but setting up a 2GB swap file is easy enough to test. :-) -Dave On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:29:39AM +0200, Marcin Kowalski wrote: > > I found this post of interest. I have 1.1 Gig of RAM but only 800mb of > Swap as I expect NOT to

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:57:48 -0700 (PDT) > > i2c framework is not used, I wonder why. Someone thought that > > it was too heavy perhaps? If so, I disagree. > > i2c is only in our stuff because the i2c core is not in the standard kernel > yet. As soon

2.4.4 Kernel Oops and ls+rm segfaults

2001-06-01 Thread Gregor Jasny
Hi! Can anyone tell me, where this oops came from? The machine is a HP NetServer II lc (EISA+PCI architecture). The distribution is a slackware 7.0 with parts of 7.1 and current. gcc: 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease) I hope you can help me. Regards, -Gregor ksymoops 2.4.1 on i586

Re: 2.4.4 Kernel Oops and ls+rm segfaults

2001-06-01 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Gregor Jasny wrote: > Hi! > > Can anyone tell me, where this oops came from? > The machine is a HP NetServer II lc (EISA+PCI architecture). > The distribution is a slackware 7.0 with parts of 7.1 and current. > gcc: 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease) > > I hope you can

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> But, each time a user cats this proc file, the user is banging the > hardware. What happens when a malicious user forks off 100 processes to > continually cat this file? :) Nothing good, probably. Same story as /proc/apm, which only hits BIOS instead (and it's debateable what is better). >

Re: unmount issues with 2.4.5-ac5, 3ware, and ReiserFS (was: kernel-2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread thunder7
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:04:50PM -0500, Jordan wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > I'm staying on 2.4.5-ac5 for whatever it's worth (putting my life on the > > > line for the community? kidding...) and will report anything new. I will > > > be on the lookout for later ac patches, 2.4.6 ... and

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-06-01 Thread thunder7
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:56:44AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Is the BIOS set to "Plug and Play supported OS" somewhere? If not, try > enabling it. > It wasn't set, but with it set there is no difference. Greetings, Jurriaan -- IF MICROSOFT BUILT CARS.. New seats would force everyone to have

Re: 2.4.4 Kernel Oops and ls+rm segfaults

2001-06-01 Thread Gregor Jasny
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2001 10:52 schrieb Alexander Viro: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Gregor Jasny wrote: > > Can anyone tell me, where this oops came from? > > The machine is a HP NetServer II lc (EISA+PCI architecture). > > The distribution is a slackware 7.0 with parts of 7.1 and current. > > gcc:

qlogicfc driver

2001-06-01 Thread christophe barbé
My previous mail about Qlogic Fiber Channel driver didn't get so many attention. The QLogic support is like a wall. You can't use a normal e-mail. Instead of that you should use a http form. And the answer you get is anonymous and IMHO a standart one. "... Please check our site periodically

Re: unmount issues with 2.4.5-ac5, 3ware, and ReiserFS (was: kernel-2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Lech Szychowski
> /dev/hda10/space1 reiserfsdefaults 1 2 /dev/sdb1 /var/log/LOGS reiserfs defaults 0 0 > strace umount /space1: > > open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_TIME", O_RDONLY) = 3 > fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2441, ...}) = 0 > old_mmap(NULL, 2441, PROT_READ,

Re: APIC problem or 3com 3c590 driver problem in smp kernel 2.4.x

2001-06-01 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:27:07PM -0400, Feng Xian wrote: > The driver for my pci device, I have the SA_SHIRQ set. What kind of PCI device do you have? I had this problem once with an PCI-Matchmaker[1] based board (for which we still have the wrong PCI-ID btw, but my patch was rejected

cs46xx bug in 2.4.5-ac5

2001-06-01 Thread Nicholas L. Nigay
Hello. I have Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 1). xmms-1.2.5-pre1 worked fine with 2.4.4-ac11. Sound support is compiled as modules. After last kernel upgrade to 2.4.5-ac5 following problems occured. 1 xmms crashes with kernel message like "Unable

Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-01 Thread Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes
Jeff wrote: > > so, this driver is mixed spinlocks and save/restore_flags? Any > chance this can be converted to all spinlocks? > It's spinlock for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, and save_flags for 2.0. Tim, did you cc Gerard Roudier? He mainains the sym53c8xx driver. All mail archives strip the cc list

USB mouse wheel breakage was Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac5

2001-06-01 Thread Michael
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.5-ac4 > o Update USB hid drivers (Vojtech Pavlik) I think these changes have broken my USB wheel mouse. Events seems to be getting lost (/dev/input/mice) It only scrolls when either the scroll

Linux 2.4.5-ac6

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still need fixing to lock against format changes during a

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6

2001-06-01 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > o Fix the cs46xx right this time (me) > o Further FATfs cleanup (OGAWA Hirofumi) > o ISDN PPP code cleanup, cvs tag update (Kai Germaschewski) > o Large amount of UFS file system cleanup

Q: ip_build_and_send_pkt

2001-06-01 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
Hello. I have a couple of questions about 2.4.5 IP layer and will be very grateful if someone will answer :) In net/ipv4/ip_output.c there is the function ip_build_and_send_pkt(). This function adds an IP header to given skbuff and sends it out. But it seems that the only place where this

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > But, each time a user cats this proc file, the user is banging the > > hardware. What happens when a malicious user forks off 100 processes to > > continually cat this file? :) > > Nothing good, probably. Same story as /proc/apm, which only > hits

Is it possible to read NTFS5 in the future?

2001-06-01 Thread Liu Wen
NTFS5 is really an efficient filesystem under Windows 2000. I have a 12G data partition kept as FAT32 just in order to use it under Linux. But I am thinking of converting it to NTFS,which would be very inconvinient to use Linux. How about the kernel developing project to work on NTFS? Regards

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis time)

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bogdan Costescu wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > > > But, each time a user cats this proc file, the user is banging the > > > hardware. What happens when a malicious user forks off 100 processes to > > > continually cat this file? :) > > > > Nothing good, probably. Same

[Fwd: Re: cs46xx bug in 2.4.5-ac5]

2001-06-01 Thread Nicholas L. Nigay
I've tried with ac6. Immediate cs46xx unloading now works. But problem with xmms still remains. Now instead single 'Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer...' i had flow of 'cs46xx: ERROR DAC count<0 or count > dmasize (-4160)' ( number in parenthesis may vary ). Such messages increases uptime

BUG: kernel-2.4.5: "Flags; bus-master 1, dirty ..."

2001-06-01 Thread Rolf Fokkens
Hi! Sometimes syslog suddenly starts to log a lot of messages, an example is included. So far I get the impression that this is vortex related (I do have a 3c905b). Rolf ... May 28 23:15:25 linux06 kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 15505(1) current 15505(1) May 28 23:15:25 linux06 kernel:

Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP

2001-06-01 Thread Magnus Sandberg
Hi Andre, I just wrote this Email but I had an old address to Suse. I have some problems with Ultra-DMA and SMP and don't know if I did something wrong of their are known problems. - On 1st of June 2001 Magnus Sandberg wrote; - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: USB mouse wheel breakage was Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac5

2001-06-01 Thread M.
On 01 Jun 2001 10:57:17 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > 2.4.5-ac4 > > o Update USB hid drivers (Vojtech Pavlik) > > I think these changes have broken my USB wheel mouse. > > Events seems to be getting lost

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-06-01 Thread Phil Auld
Alexander Viro wrote: ...snip... > > We should start removing the crap from procfs in 2.5. Documenting shit is > a good step, but taking it out would be better. > Not to open a what may be can of worms but ... What's wrong with procfs? It allows a general interface to the kernel that does

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
> Only some of them can be cached... (some of the MIIs in some drivers > are already cached, in fact) you can't cache stuff like what your link > partner is advertising at the moment, or what your battery status is at > the moment. I am sure that to an unpriviledged application reporting back

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-06-01 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:43:58AM -0400, Phil Auld wrote: > Alexander Viro wrote: > > ...snip... > > > > > We should start removing the crap from procfs in 2.5. Documenting shit is > > a good step, but taking it out would be better. > > > > Not to open a what may be can of worms but ... >

[NEW ISDN DRIVER] TurboPAM isdn card

2001-06-01 Thread Stelian Pop
Hi, I've wrote a driver for the ISDN active card TurboPAM made by Auvertech: http://www.auvertech.fr This is a card targeted at ISPs / access providers, supporting up to 30 B-channel connections simultaneously. The patch is available against Linux 2.4.5 and 2.2.19. Since it is rather

2.2.19 SMP - timing problems

2001-06-01 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
After adding second CPU to my server, I get the following strange behavior: earth:/home/czajnik# ping -s 1 213.25.174.24 PING 213.25.174.24 (213.25.174.24): 1 data bytes 10008 bytes from 213.25.174.24: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=10551.5 ms 10008 bytes from 213.25.174.24: icmp_seq=6

Re: Is it possible to read NTFS5 in the future?

2001-06-01 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 13:17 01/06/01, Liu Wen wrote: >NTFS5 is really an efficient filesystem under Windows 2000. I have a 12G >data partition kept as FAT32 just in order to use it under Linux. But I >am thinking of converting it to NTFS,which would be very inconvinient >to use Linux. How about the kernel

[newbie question] addresses of loaded programs/functions

2001-06-01 Thread Collins, Tom
Hello I am writing a profiling tool for a project I am working on, and I need to know how to map addresses of calling functions to the appropriate human-readable name. Is there a data structure in the kernel that I can access to achieve this? Or can I reference a load map (in days gone by, I

Promise Ultra100 TX2 Issue

2001-06-01 Thread ryan
Hi all, I have a system running that uses two Promise Ultra66 cards (PDC20262). However, the hard disks are capible of Ultra100 transfer rates. I needed an Ultra66 card for another machine, so I decided to upgrade this one's cards to Ultra100. I purchased a pair of Promise Ultra100 TX2's

Re: unmount issues with 2.4.5-ac5, 3ware, and ReiserFS (was: kernel-2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Lech Szychowski
Looks like -ac6 has fixed this problem :) -- Leszek. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:480/33.7 -- REAL programmers use INTEGERS -- -- speaking just for myself... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

HDD Errors ?!

2001-06-01 Thread Roberto Fichera
Hi All, today I found this in my /var/log/messages: Jun 1 05:26:47 radius kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Jun 1 05:26:47 radius kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=25358813, sector=25165970 Jun 1 05:26:47

2.4.[35] + Dell Poweredge 8450 + Oops on boot

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Katz
Hello, I'm trying to get 2.4 to run on a Dell Poweredge 8450, with no luck so far .. Below is what I get when I boot a 2.4 kernel (happens in 2.4.3(-ac9) and 2.4.5(-ac5), 2.2.19 works fine).. I've attached a full boot log and my config settings .. The settings, and kernels I'm trying (at

RE: 2.4.[35] + Dell Poweredge 8450 + Oops on boot

2001-06-01 Thread Matt_Domsch
> my config settings .. The settings, and kernels I'm trying (at least > 2.4.3-ac9) work on other Dell boxes here, such as the 2450, and 6350 > (with same internals, ie the raid (dual channel) + nic)... > > Quick spec of the box is: > Dell PowerEdge 8450 > 4x550 Xeon / 2gig >

Strange bug (?) in 2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Ole André Vadla Ravnås
Hi I suspect that I've found a bug in 2.4.5. I use isolinux (1.62) for CD-booting, and its configuration file is like this: default linux display some.msg label linux kernel linux append ramdisk_start=0 ramdisk_size=12288 root=/dev/rd/0 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd The kernel has devfs

HowTo: Kernel verbose logging.

2001-06-01 Thread Ola Theander
Dear subscribers. I'm currently experimenting with a third party application, VMWare's GSX-server. This application allows you to run multiple virtual servers on a single physical computer, providing there are enough resources, such as memory, available. The problem is that this application

RE: 2.4.[35] + Dell Poweredge 8450 + Oops on boot

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Katz
Just before I got your suggestion, I tried just that (disabling the PNP Bios) .. I looked up the trace addresses in the system.map (which I forgot to include) and saw that it was from the pnp bios) .. It did the trick :) I will also see if there's an updated bios available .. Thanks! Terry

Kernel oops

2001-06-01 Thread David Harris
I am running gnome netleds_applet version 0.9.1 and it is sporadically dieing, with a various kernel oops warnings in my syslogs. I caught the last one and ran it through ksymoops - I've attached the output of that. It happens every few days and doesn't seem to be caused by anything specific that

union mounting file systems... retry #1

2001-06-01 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all After reading "Wonderful World of Linux 2.4" (Penguin Wizard) at http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/misc/WWOL2.4.html, I found somthing about union mounting file systems under "Linux internals", (seventh paragraph). I've been trying to find out how to do this, but I just fail. Some places

VIA timer bug

2001-06-01 Thread Jonas Diemer
Hello! I hope this is the right place for my request. I have heard about a VIA sytem timer bug. I have a Via KX-133 (for athlon) board and the following problem: Once the bug is triggered, the system timer goes crazy (i think it is the system timer, i am not sure). following things happen

ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
2.4.5 : when quote some xfers have taken place, the realtek card dies here. Jun 1 14:58:12 grobbebol kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 1 14:58:12 grobbebol kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=1303. Jun 1 14:58:14 grobbebol kernel: NETDEV

Highmem Bigmem question

2001-06-01 Thread jlnance
Hello All, This is probably an FAQ, but I read the FAQ and its not in there. I have a machine with 2G of memory. I compiled the kernel with the 4G memory option. How much address space should each process be able to address? Does this change if I use the 64G option? I'm after 2.4

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-06-01 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:07:21AM +0200, Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if( KT133A || KT133 || KX133 ) { > if( Mainboard=="Epox 8KTA-3(+)" && BIOS>="8kt31417" ) > return 0; /* EPOX already fixed it their way. */ > #ifdef NEW_PATCH > Offset 76: Set bit5=0 and bit4=1 ("every PCI

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