Kernel oops

2001-06-01 Thread David Harris
(many apologies for repost - i'll actually attach the attachment this time) 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

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

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Marc Lehmann wrote: > one thing I found out using triel and error is that setting "PCI Delay > Transaction" to enabled causes data corruption on WRITE to my ide drives > connected to an Promise Ultra 100 PCI controlelr (I didn't get any > corruption on the devices connected to the via ide

[PATCH] devfs v178 available

2001-06-01 Thread Richard Gooch
Hi, all. Version 178 of my devfs patch is now available from: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html The devfs FAQ is also available here. Patch directly available from: ftp://ftp.??.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rgooch/v2.4/devfs-patch-current.gz AND:

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Roeland Th. Jansen" wrote: > when quote some xfers have taken place, the realtek card dies here. Working on the problem. You'll need to downgrade the 8139too driver to the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. -- Jeff Garzik |

PROBLEM: megaraid

2001-06-01 Thread Adam Margulies
I've had to keep an old 1.14b version of the driver around in order to build a functional kernel for a while now. If I use the newer version (1.14g-ac2), then the kernel can't find my root filesystem on boot. Is this a problem other people have seen? I believe I have the very latest firmware

Re: [QUESTION] which routines must be re-entrant?

2001-06-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:01:34PM -0700, Dawson Engler wrote: > Is there an easy way to tell which routines must be re-entrant? > (it doesn't have to be exhaustive, even an incomplete set is useful) > > I was going to write a checker to make sure supposedly re-entrant > routines actually were,

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Danny ter Haar
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Working on the problem. You'll need to downgrade the 8139too driver to >the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on >http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. also on : www.bzimage.org/kernel-patches/v2.4/alan/v2.4.5/ 8139_too_work.c (62kB)

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-06-01 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 2:59 PM +0200 2001-06-01, David Weinehall wrote: > > Not to open a what may be can of worms but ... >> >> What's wrong with procfs? > >Imho, a procfs should be for process-information, nothing else. >The procfs in its current form, while useful, is something horrible >that should be taken

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Danny ter Haar wrote: > > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Working on the problem. You'll need to downgrade the 8139too driver to > >the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on > >http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. > > also on : >

Question regarding pci_alloc_consitent() and __get_free_pages

2001-06-01 Thread Steffen Persvold
Hi, I have a question regarding the pci_alloc_consistent() function. Will this function allocate pages that are physical contiguous ? i.e if I call this function with a size argument of 32KByte will that be 8 consecutive pages in memory on i386 architecture (4 pages on alpha). In general, will

Re: missing sysrq

2001-06-01 Thread D. Stimits
Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > D. Stimits wrote: > > > > > Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > > However, if I go to /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq does not exist. > > > > > > It is a compile time option, so the person who compiled your kernel > > > left it

[newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Roland Kuhn
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? Please help, Roland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

ifconfig freezes in 2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Jan Hudec
Hi, When I compiled and booted 2.4.5, the machine got stuck in ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 (SysRq still worked, ^C did not seem to). I tried to strace it. Last thing strace managed to write was: ioctl(4, 0x8914 (no comma, not including the trird argument). I tried to switch of some compile-time

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-01 Thread lost
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (ii) The Linux man page only says > > RETURN VALUE >On success, select and pselect return the number of >descriptors contained in the descriptor sets, which may be >zero if the timeout expires before anything

MD Auth messages.

2001-06-01 Thread John McGarrigle
Sorry if you got any majordomo auth messages from me. Just mailman messing up :\ John 'Neuron' McGarrigle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18220396 Phone: +44 (0)7944 604 644 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[newbie] NFS client: port-unreachable

2001-06-01 Thread Roland Kuhn
Hi folks! When I lstat64 a directory on an nfs mount the answer to GETATTR is received by the network interface but dropped (not seen by the client) afterwards. Only 50musec after the receive of the answer an icmp-destination-unreachable (port-unreachable) goes out to the server. This is

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

2001-06-01 Thread Hans Reiser
known VFS bug, ask viro for details, 2.4.5 is not stable because of it, use 2.4.4 Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-06-01 Thread Miquel Colom Piza
This is my first email to the list. I'm not subscribed but I've read it for years. I don't agree with those claiming that 2.4.xx is bad or still beta. We the administrators have the responsability to test early kernels and send good bug reports so the developers can solve the bugs. That's the

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

2001-06-01 Thread Manfred Spraul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > :setpci -s 00:07.2 INTERRUPT_LINE=15 > :lspci -vx -s 00:07.2 > 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) > Subsystem: Unknown device 0925:1234 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19 >

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:45:46PM +, Danny ter Haar wrote: > >the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on > >http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. > > also on : > www.bzimage.org/kernel-patches/v2.4/alan/v2.4.5/ > > 8139_too_work.c (62kB) > > And also there: > >

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-01 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> So how does this say the value of the fdsets are undefined > after a timeout? You are right, it doesn't say so. I should have said That is, a wise programmer does not assume any particular value for the bits after an error. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.4.5 still breaks dhcpcd with 8139too

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matthias Andree wrote: > > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > I see that Alan has reverted back to the 2.4.3 driver for his ac-series for > > > other reasons, hopefully either the old driver will going in to 2.4.6 or the > > > new one will get fixed? > > > > I've got one of the two

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

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Manfred Spraul wrote: > Could you compile uhci as a module, set the configuration to MPS1.4 and > find out with which interrupt line setting it works. > I'd try both > > setpci -s 00:07.2 INTERRUPT_LINE=13 > setpci -s 00:07.2 INTERRUPT_LINE=3 > [even if 13 works, please try 03 as well. 13 is

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-06-01 Thread Ken Brownfield
I'd be forced to agree. I have 2.4.x in limited production, and with the exception of the HP/APIC fatal issues that have a "noapic" work-around, I have had no problem at all with any of the 2.4.x kernels I've used. Open software by definition will never reach the kind of monolithic

unresolved symbol irda_cleanup

2001-06-01 Thread David Jez
Hi, I solved this problem. IrDA hasn't worked since 2.4.2 kernel with this error message. Problem was static definition of irda_clenup() in irsyms.c My patch is from kernel 2.4.4, but can be aplied to 2.4.5 too. Dave. PS: I'm not in mailing list. diff -urN

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

2001-06-01 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Hans Reiser wrote: > known VFS bug, ask viro for details, 2.4.5 is not stable because of it, use > 2.4.4 Different issue. Missing lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() in kill_super() appeared in -pre6 and was fixed in -ac2 or so. -ac5 apparently had introduced something new, that

cobalt patches

2001-06-01 Thread Tim Hockin
Thanks for all the comments, so far. I'm going to incorporate all the changes mentioned, and resubmit the questioned patches. Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

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

2001-06-01 Thread Khachaturov, Vassilii
If you do implement such a thing, make sure that you don't mistakenly spot smth that gets exported to a non-kernel-tree driver, or smth that gets called by a non-__init, --- but not in the current kernel config! V. > -Original Message- > From: Dawson Engler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >

Re: PROBLEM: isdn connecting error(auth failed) with 2.4.4-ac9 and2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Thu, 31 May 2001, CZUCZY Gergely wrote: > May 27 15:00:50 kign kernel: ippp0: dialing 1 0651201201... > May 27 15:00:51 kign kernel: isdn_net: ippp0 connected > May 27 15:00:51 kign ipppd[391]: Local number: 2536889, Remote > number: 0651201201, Type: outgoing > May 27 15:00:51 kign

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

2001-06-01 Thread Tim Hockin
Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > i2c is only in our stuff because the i2c core is not in the standard kernel > > yet. As soon as it is, I will make cobalt_i2c* go away. > > I am puzzled by this comment. Did you look into drivers/i2c/? > It certainly is a part of a stock kernel. The main user is > the

Re: [newbie] NFS client: port-unreachable

2001-06-01 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Roland Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks! When I lstat64 a directory on an nfs mount the > answer to GETATTR is received by the network interface but > dropped (not seen by the client) afterwards. Only 50musec after > the receive of the answer an

Re: [PATCH] remove unnecessary zero initializations from aironet4500_proc.c (245ac1)

2001-06-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Hi. > > The following patch removes two superfluous initializations > from aironet4500_proc.c, making the .o ~12K smaller in > size. It applies against 245ac1 and was discovered by Adam > Ritcher some time ago. > > --- linux-245-ac1-clean/drivers/net/aironet4500_proc.cSat May 19

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-06-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I can easily give more examples - just ask. BTW, the fact that this stuff > is so fragmented is not a bug - we want it evenly spread over disk, just > to have the ability to allocate a block/inode not too far from the piece > of bitmap we'll need to modify. BTW is this still true? This

Re: 2.4.5 still breaks dhcpcd with 8139too

2001-06-01 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matthias Andree wrote: > > > > Will that 8139too be able to share its IRQ with a bttv card (Hauppauge > > WinTV in my case)? With 2.2.19, it's currently possible, at least after > > unloading and reloading the 8139too module, but it's a no-go with

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6

2001-06-01 Thread Wayne . Brown
The oops problem with the cs46xx in my ThinkPad 600X under -ac4 and -ac5 has changed now. It no longer gives an oops; instead the program trying to access the sound card hangs (until I kill it). Subsequent attempts to access the sound card get a "Device or resource busy" error. There are no

Re: PROBLEM: isdn connecting error(auth failed) with 2.4.4-ac9 and2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
On Thu, 31 May 2001, CZUCZY Gergely wrote: > May 27 15:00:52 kign ipppd[391]: Remote message: Access Denied > May 27 15:00:52 kign ipppd[391]: PAP authentication failed You passwors in /etc/{ppp,isdn}/pap-secrets is wrong. > Modules Loaded NVdriver hisax isdn slhc au8820

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

2001-06-01 Thread thunder7
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:28:33PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > :setpci -s 00:07.2 INTERRUPT_LINE=15 > > :lspci -vx -s 00:07.2 > > 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16) (prog-if 00 >[UHCI]) > > Subsystem: Unknown device

Re: 2.2.19 locks up on SMP - tcp-hang patch NOT fixed the problem!

2001-06-01 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Tue, 29 May 2001 15:50:22 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Today I tried to install freeswan1.9. After establishing ipsec tunnel with > my peer I got the wait_on_bh message. > (I cannot paste exactly because It is a production machine, and I restarted > it as fast as I could) > > So what to

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

2001-06-01 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! I'm using ReiserFS in the kernel, not as a module. My root filesystem is ReiserFS. I mounted another ReiserFS partition and then tried to unmount it. umount hung. sync hung. shutdown hung. Both umount and sync were shown in the "D" state on Ctrl-ScrollLock. I reverted to 2.4.5-ac4 and

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

2001-06-01 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi again, Earlier today I wrote about my SMP and Ultra-DMA problem. Now have I written down the boot information. I hope that the attachment show the correct information, it was written in W*rd so some lower case chars can have been converted into upper case... I also checked the IDE-patch and

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

2001-06-01 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:28:48AM -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once you get into the area of flushing data (or not flushing, which is > what delayed txn would imply), it is entirely possible that the driver > simply does not support what occurs when the PCI Delay Txn option is

international patches from kerneli far behind

2001-06-01 Thread L Larssen
Hello, Sorry if this subject does not fit in this list. I am a bit worried about the development of the international kernel patches from kerneli.org. These patches are getting far behind on the real kernel distributions. At this moment the latest patches are 2.2.18.3 and 2.4.3.1 while the

Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-01 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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) > > #define

Re: missing sysrq

2001-06-01 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2001 16:51 schrieben Sie: > > Have you tried "echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq"? > > You need both, compiled in and activation. > > no, look at the code. the enable variable defaults to 1. Then there must be a bug? I get "0" with 2.4.5-ac2 and -ac5 without "echo 1". Fresh

[PATCH] Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Does this patch fix things for you, such that MPS 1.1 and MPS 1.4 both work? -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | diff -urN linux-2.4.5/drivers/pci/quirks.c linux.viairq/drivers/pci/quirks.c --- linux-2.4.5/drivers/pci/quirks.cSat May

New USB HID driver in -ac series

2001-06-01 Thread Nathan Walp
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. I have that new Logitech cordless optical mouse, so my first thought was that the batteries were low, but it was late at night, and I didn't have

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 >

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

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

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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. 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

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

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

2001-06-01 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: 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. Andre, I don't suppose these APIC problems are documented

Re: international patches from kerneli far behind

2001-06-01 Thread Jari Ruusu
L Larssen wrote: > Sorry if this subject does not fit in this list. > I am a bit worried about the development of the international kernel patches > from kerneli.org. > > These patches are getting far behind on the real kernel distributions. > At this moment the latest patches are 2.2.18.3 and

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
> Tt's still broken on r/w. R/o should be OK now. > > > o Move UFS file system to use dcache for metadata (Al Viro) > > What??? My error. I was pasting down the notes when you were talking about that bit on #kernel and forgot to take it out - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

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

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

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

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

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

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

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