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

2001-06-02 Thread Hans Reiser
Alexander Viro wrote: 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

Re: [RFC] yet another knfsd-reiserfs patch

2001-06-02 Thread Hans Reiser
Why are people afraid to put Neil Brown's code into 2.4? It works, we have tons of users using it, it is the only nfs solution that has a tested reiserfs user base, don't worry that it isn't tested and shouldn't go into 2.4 because it is better tested than any of these quick fixes that are

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

2001-06-02 Thread thunder7
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:42:40PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Does this patch fix things for you, such that MPS 1.1 and MPS 1.4 both work? No, I'm afraid it doesn't :-( Here are the dmesg (with some info cut out for brevity), the /proc/interrupts and the lspci -vvvxxx from a 2.4.5-ac6 kernel

SCSI-CD-Writer don't show up

2001-06-02 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
#Include hallo.h I have 3 SCSI-CD-Writers. Strange is that the boot-process only finds the first one (1 0 5 0), the other two i have to add with echo scsi add-single-device 2 0 4 0 /proc/scsi/scsi echo scsi add-single-device 2 0 6 0 /proc/scsi/scsi to make them useable. Here is the

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

2001-06-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:42:40PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Does this patch fix things for you, such that MPS 1.1 and MPS 1.4 both work? No, I'm afraid it doesn't :-( Here are the dmesg (with some info cut out for brevity), the /proc/interrupts and the lspci -vvvxxx from a 2.4.5-ac6

about mips linux root file system

2001-06-02 Thread Qingbo Wu
Hi, all, I am new to this mail list. Our university are porting linux to our mips evaluation board. There is no network card and CDROM driver can not work under linux. But we have serail port, I can download our modified kernel to evaluation board, and it can run, stop at mount root file system.

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

2001-06-02 Thread thunder7
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:41:08AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: No, I'm afraid it doesn't :-( Thanks for testing. Ok, how about this one? This is a more simple version of the logic presented, which should give you the value that Manfred asked you plug in manually. No go, I'm afraid. I

CUV4X-D lockup on boot

2001-06-02 Thread lk
I have an ASUS CUV4X-D Dual Processor Mainboard based on a VIA 694XDP chipset. I notice from the archives that someone else has also reported a lockup with the m/b when using two cpus and have some info that may be useful to track it down. Using kernel 2.4.5 the kernel locks up sporadically at

[patch][CFT] Re: via-rhine DFE-530TX rev A1

2001-06-02 Thread Urban Widmark
Are you sure. What's the version of your driver. Please tell me. It's important. I remember we have fixed it already. The driver version (dlkfet.sys) is 2.52 from 08/06/2000. this is the lastest driver from the original dlink site. Perhaps Yiping Chen was talking about a D-Link linux

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

2001-06-02 Thread Bruce Harada
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 18:34:46 -0400 (EDT) Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another problem is that the archive at http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/ updates only once a day. I checked it and decided that my information could still be useful. I'd be grateful if somebody

Makefile/Config flaw

2001-06-02 Thread Andries . Brouwer
Compiling 2.4.5 with CONFIG_USB=y and CONFIG_PCI not set fails with drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: undefined reference to `pci_pool_*'. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

query

2001-06-02 Thread Chanchal Chawla
Hi All, i'm writing a file system code, i've a query regarding that, i want you to help me out if possible, is it possible to get the absolute mount point of a device at run time in that code ? if it is possible then how we can get it ? i'll be thankful. Regards Chanchal -

[2.4.5 and all ac-Patches] massive file corruption with reiser or NFS

2001-06-02 Thread Andreas Hartmann
Hallo all, I got massive file corruptions with the kernels mentioned in the subject. I can reproduce it every time. What did I do? The kernel can't find files or directories which have been created seconds before. If I start configure of some program for example, the conftest-Directory

Re: Kernel Address

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Vojta
Under which directory is the Linus's kernel? ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.[24] .R.V. -- _ |-| __ Robert Vojta vojta-at-ipex.cz -= Oo.oO =- |=| [Ll] IPEX, s.r.o. ^ `o PGP signature

Re: [2.4.5 and all ac-Patches] massive file corruption with reiseror NFS

2001-06-02 Thread Rasmus Bøg Hansen
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Andreas Hartmann wrote: I got massive file corruptions with the kernels mentioned in the subject. I can reproduce it every time. You cannot use NFS on reiserfs unless you apply the knfsd patch. Look at www.namesys.com. Rasmus -- -- [ Rasmus 'Møffe' Bøg Hansen ]

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

2001-06-02 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi Andre, The motherboard has VIA-chipset. What does this mean for me? Will the APIC-problems be solved in the future or do I have to deside upon running noapic semi-crippled or not run Ultra-DMA? _\\|//_ (-0-0-)

Re: Interface type.

2001-06-02 Thread Francois Romieu
Haseeb Budhani [EMAIL PROTECTED] ecrit : [...] I have a fairly quick one: Is there an ioctl flag/call which can be used to find out the type of the interface being used ? See net/core/dev.c:dev_ifsioc + SIOCGIFHWADDR + include/linux/if_arp.h +

rtl8139too in 2.4.5

2001-06-02 Thread Andries . Brouwer
My RTL8139 (Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139A') was fine in 2.4.3 and doesnt work in 2.4.5. Copying the 2.4.3 version of 8139too.c makes things work again. Since lots of people complained about this, I have not tried to debug - maybe a fixed version already exists? One remark: 2.4.5 says

Re: rtl8139too in 2.4.5

2001-06-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My RTL8139 (Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139A') was fine in 2.4.3 and doesnt work in 2.4.5. Copying the 2.4.3 version of 8139too.c makes things work again. Since lots of people complained about this, I have not tried to debug - maybe a fixed version already

Re: CUV4X-D lockup on boot

2001-06-02 Thread lk
Further information: I inserted some printk()s in arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c 320 static void __init synchronize_tsc_ap (void) 321 { 322 int i; 323 324 /* 325* smp_num_cpus is not necessarily known at the time 326* this gets called,

Re: [2.4.5 and all ac-Patches] massive file corruption with reiser or NFS

2001-06-02 Thread Andreas Hartmann
Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 12:52 schrieb Rasmus Bøg Hansen: On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Andreas Hartmann wrote: I got massive file corruptions with the kernels mentioned in the subject. I can reproduce it every time. You cannot use NFS on reiserfs unless you apply the knfsd patch. Look at

usb mouse problem

2001-06-02 Thread Jonas Diemer
Hi! I just installed 2.4.5-ac6 (from 2.4.5). I needed the ac kernel to fix my VIA timer bug. Now, my Intellimouse Explorer (USB) seems to have problems. It doesn't go smooth anymore. when i move the mouse slowly, it does not continually go on the screen. sometimes it stops for some time,

HANG 2.4.5-ac5: Netfinity 3000 IDE cdrom DMA enable

2001-06-02 Thread Elmer Joandi
when dma enabled by default, hangs No time for exact investigation as the computer is here only for installation. There is SMP MB, UP kernel. SCSI HDD IDE CDROM: CRD-8400B,ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdparm utility says on /dev/hdc: getmultcount getnovers getgeo all

VIA timer bugfix, patch for 2.4.5

2001-06-02 Thread Jonas Diemer
Hi! I have compiled a little patch that contains the VIA timer bugfix (from the ac kernel). the patch is against linus' 2.4.5 kernel. I have compiled and ran the patched kernel sucessfully. the only changes made by this patch are done to linux/arch/i386/kernel/timer.c I would like to have

[PATCH] es1371 race fixes

2001-06-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi all, this are the sound locking fixes for es1371. While it is inspired by the trident fixes it contains some changes over it: o es1371_mmap used to use lock_kernel to do some synchronistation, this is superceeded by s-sem. o remap_page_range (used in es1371_mmap) needs the mm

2.4.5 VFS/ramdisk changes

2001-06-02 Thread Ole Andre Vadla Ravnaas
Hi I'm having trouble with 2.4.5, where 2.4.4 worked fine. The problem is the following: I pass an initrd image to the kernel, which is a compressed image of an ext2 filesystem. The ramdisk size is set at 12 MB (12288 KB). The kernel is passed root=/dev/rd/0 (using devfs, mounted automatically

Re: [PATCH] es1371 race fixes

2001-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
o es1371_mmap used to use lock_kernel to do some synchronistation, this is superceeded by s-sem. o remap_page_range (used in es1371_mmap) needs the mm semaphore as stated by a comment and the code. I have found _NO_ driver in the tree so far that does this locking right...

[bug] at slab.c ...

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Vojta
Hi, I download kernel 2.4.5 and -ac6 patches and I see this ... After that I have black rxvt window on my desktop and I can't remove it in any way. kernel BUG at slab.c:1244! invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[c0129884] EFLAGS: 00010082 eax: 001b ebx: c1103768 ecx: 0001

Re: rtl8139too in 2.4.5

2001-06-02 Thread Jaswinder Singh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : My RTL8139 (Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139A') was fine in 2.4.3 and doesnt work in 2.4.5. Copying the 2.4.3 version of 8139too.c makes things work again. but my old RTL8139 is working fine under 2.4.5 , without any changes. Jaswinder. -- These are my

Re: [2.4.5 and all ac-Patches] massive file corruption with reiseror NFS

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Mason
On Saturday, June 02, 2001 02:41:04 PM +0200 Andreas Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 12:52 schrieb Rasmus Bøg Hansen: On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Andreas Hartmann wrote: I got massive file corruptions with the kernels mentioned in the subject. I can reproduce it every

Re: missing sysrq

2001-06-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Dieter =?iso-8859-1?q?N=FCtzel?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel 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.

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

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Mason
On Saturday, June 02, 2001 12:19:59 AM +0200 Trond Myklebust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

test, sorry :-(

2001-06-02 Thread remi
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Re: Athlon fast_copy_page revisited

2001-06-02 Thread Gordon Sadler
[This message has also been posted.] On Wed, 30 May 2001 18:09:35 GMT, Jimmie Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP explanation Arjan's original code is at: http://www.fenrus.demon.nl/athlon.c My modifications are at: http://sackheads.org/~mayfield/jrm_athlon.c Example test runs:

Re: union mounting file systems... retry #1

2001-06-02 Thread Remi Turk
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:11:54PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Q: Is it possible to union mount file systems in linux 2.4 (currently using 2.4.5)? Q: Should I just go home and start doing my homework? Best regards roy AFAIK Al Viro is working on a patch, but it's not in

Warning in ac6

2001-06-02 Thread Sean Jones
I've recieved this warning in the past several ac versions both 2.4.5 and 2.4.4. Here is the out put from the compiler: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -c -o

Re: [2.4.5 and all ac-Patches] massive file corruption with reiser or NFS

2001-06-02 Thread Andreas Hartmann
Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 18:42 schrieben Sie: On Saturday, June 02, 2001 02:41:04 PM +0200 Andreas Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 12:52 schrieb Rasmus Bøg Hansen: On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Andreas Hartmann wrote: I got massive file corruptions with the kernels

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-06-02 Thread Remi Turk
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:45:17AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: It allows a general interface to the kernel that does not require new syscalls/ioctls and can be accessed from user space without specifically compiled programs. You can use shell scripts, java, command line etc. Yes,

Re: [2.4.5 and all ac-Patches] massive file corruption with reiseror NFS

2001-06-02 Thread Chris Mason
On Saturday, June 02, 2001 08:13:44 PM +0200 Andreas Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 18:42 schrieben Sie: On Saturday, June 02, 2001 02:41:04 PM +0200 Andreas Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 12:52 schrieb Rasmus Bøg Hansen: On

[PROBLEM] 2.4.5 tulip receive slowdown, possibly highmem related

2001-06-02 Thread Wayne Whitney
Hello, I'm having a small problem with the tulip driver in 2.4.5 and have gathered some data on the problem, so I thought I should report: Intermittently the tulip ethernet interface in one of my machines becomes very slow, e.g. the ping times to it on the idle local 100BaseT network jump from

[PATCH] natsemi update

2001-06-02 Thread Manfred Spraul
A few bugfixes for the natsemi driver: * multicast hashing used the wrong polynomial * converted to pci_dma mappings * SMP locking updates * added full reset into tx_timeout. If you had problems with multicast support, please try this patch [against 2.4.5-ac6, but it should also apply to 2.4.5]

Re: Warning in ac6

2001-06-02 Thread Wayne . Brown
Sean Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/02/2001 01:17:15 PM To: Linux Kernel Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec) Subject: Warning in ac6 Also the file /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc seems to be missing on my machine. How would I remedy this problem? To

Re: PID of init != 1 when initrd with pivot_root

2001-06-02 Thread Ivan
Well, I upgraded and found pivot_root and the problem is that how do I make init run with PID 1. My linuxrc gets PID 7. 1 ?00:03:05 swapper 2 ?00:00:00 keventd 3 ?00:00:00 kswapd 4 ?00:00:00 kreclaimd 5 ?00:00:00 bdflush

Re: [2.4.5 and all ac-Patches] massive file corruption with reiser or NFS

2001-06-02 Thread Andreas Hartmann
Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 20:33 schrieb Chris Mason: On Saturday, June 02, 2001 08:13:44 PM +0200 Andreas Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 18:42 schrieben Sie: On Saturday, June 02, 2001 02:41:04 PM +0200 Andreas Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am

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

2001-06-02 Thread Michael
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:32:26PM -0400, Robert M. Love wrote: I and another user thought the problem was in hid_input_field, but upon looking I now think not. It is, check against hid.c in 2.4.5, the new code 's the first 2 if statements and so it now checks non-zero HID_MAIN_INPUT_RELATIVE

Re: [newbie] NFS client: port-unreachable

2001-06-02 Thread Roland Kuhn
On 1 Jun 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote: (port-unreachable) goes out to the server. This is annoying since it blocks all access to that directory. The request in question is sent and received at port 772. I'm using kernel 2.4.4. You probably have set ipchains or

BUG: 2.4.x NFS client mmap race

2001-06-02 Thread Marcus Meissner
Hi, While debugging a rather strange WINE problem I came across a 2.4.x NFS race condition. I trimmed down the WINE code to a very small testcase, attached below, which has following test patterns: ext2 local : SUCCESS 2.4.5-ac6 - 2.2.10 (unfsd)

Re: toshiba(freecom) USB cdrom kernel panic

2001-06-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I have strange problems with my Toshiba(actually Freecom) USB cdrom cable. inserting the usb-storage takes some minutes, until it returns. Then mounting the cdrom works, but when i started copying from cd, a kernel panic occured. It happens every time, i try to copy something from cd.

Reading from /dev/fb0 very slow?

2001-06-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I did some benchmarks, and my framebuffer is *way* faster when writing than when reading: root@bug:/home/pavel# time cat /tmp/test /dev/fb0 0.01user 0.08system 0.09 (0m0.097s) elapsed 93.13%CPU root@bug:/home/pavel# time cat /dev/fb0 /dev/null 0.00user 0.62system 0.62 (0m0.620s) elapsed

Re: here comes the summer...

2001-06-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! ...again (I think I asked just the same last summer) and lm_sensors is still out of the kernel (we have got 40ºC in Spain this week, and I would like to know how my PIIs suffer...) Send some summer over here. It is 15C outside... You should try latest ACPI patches, they include thermal

Re: Reading from /dev/fb0 very slow?

2001-06-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I did some benchmarks, and my framebuffer is *way* faster when writing than when reading: root@bug:/home/pavel# time cat /tmp/test /dev/fb0 0.01user 0.08system 0.09 (0m0.097s) elapsed 93.13%CPU root@bug:/home/pavel# time cat /dev/fb0 /dev/null 0.00user

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-02 Thread Jamie Lokier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, not looking at the sets upon a zero return is a fairly obvious optimization as there is little point in doing so. No; a fairly obvious optimisation is to avoid calling FD_ZERO if you can clear the bits individually when you test them. When you examine the

keyboard hook?

2001-06-02 Thread Michael Rothwell
I'm beginning the process of writing a driver for the Qoder keyboard-fob barcode scanner made by InterMec. It communicates with the host computer using the PS/2 port by way of a dock that sits in between the keyboard and the computer. The dock does handshaking with the host computer, which means

Re: PATCH 2.4.5.ac6: more Via irq fixes

2001-06-02 Thread Koos Vriezen
Hi, In case you didn't know, the patch doesn't solve interrup conflicts on VIA Apollo MVP3 chipsets. Box runs fine though. Regards, Koos Vriezen Some outputs: $ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 482219 XT-PIC timer 1: 2771 XT-PIC keyboard 2:

[PATCH] balance inactive_dirty list

2001-06-02 Thread Zlatko Calusic
For a long time I've been thinking that inactive list is too small, while observing lots of different workloads (all I/O bound). Finally, I decided to take a look and try to improve things. In mm/vmscan.c I found this overly complicated piece of heuristics: if (!target) { int inactive =

[PATCH] 2.4.5-ac6: hid-core.c Mouse Wheel Fix

2001-06-02 Thread M.
since the merging of the new USB HID code (hid.c - hid-core.c) in ac4, the mouse wheel has been broken (losing events). this patch, by Micheal [EMAIL PROTECTED], fixes the problem. Alan, please consider applying to the next -ac release. thanks, -- Robert M. Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: missing sysrq

2001-06-02 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:13:02PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Let me guess... you're using a RedHat system? RedHat, for some idiotic reason, defaults to actively turning this off for you (and they turn Stop-A off on SPARC, too.) Umm, its off by default in 2.4.5 kernels, unless altered by a

Re: missing sysrq

2001-06-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Russell King wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:13:02PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Let me guess... you're using a RedHat system? RedHat, for some idiotic reason, defaults to actively turning this off for you (and they turn Stop-A off on SPARC, too.) Umm, its off by default in 2.4.5

Re: [newbie] NFS client: port-unreachable

2001-06-02 Thread Trond Myklebust
== Roland Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, I have no port specific rules in the firewall (iptables), but this machine does SNAT for 32 other linux boxes which also get some directories from the same server (including YP). I had some trouble with the YPSERV-calls

Re: [PATCH] HPT370 misc (for real this time)

2001-06-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
+ p += sprintf(p, \nController: %d\n, i); + p += sprintf(p, Chipset: HPT%s\n, chipset_nums[class_rev]); + p += sprintf(p, Bus speed: %d MHz\n, dev-bus-bus_speed); ^^^ DNE -- Does Not

Re: missing sysrq

2001-06-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Russell King wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:10:55PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: That seems like a very bad idea. What if there is a boot script bug? Also think about kernel panics - the only thing that works after that is the power or (if you have it connected) reset button.

Re: missing sysrq

2001-06-02 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:10:55PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: That seems like a very bad idea. What if there is a boot script bug? Also think about kernel panics - the only thing that works after that is the power or (if you have it connected) reset button. ctrl-alt-del needs keventd to

SCSI errors using USB mass storage device

2001-06-02 Thread Ryan Mack
Hello, I'm running unmodified 2.4.5 on a Red Hat 7.1 system and have an IBM DiskOnKey (a USB not-so-mass storage device). When mounting the device, the SCSI layer responds with the error: SCSI error: host 1 id 0 lun 0 return code = 802 Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0

is a kernel panic supposed to happen if root fs is on a SCSI disk and SCSI support is compiled in as module?

2001-06-02 Thread M.N.
Basically, that's the question. I compiled my kernel with the SCSI AIC7xxx.o driver as a module, and then when it booted up, it paniced. I thought it was some sort of a kernel bug, but it didn't really seem that way when I recompiled the kernel with SCSI support built-in in the kernel itself

Linux 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-02 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: is a kernel panic supposed to happen if root fs is on a SCSIdisk and SCSI support is compiled in as module?

2001-06-02 Thread Jonathan Morton
At 12:17 am +0100 3/6/2001, M.N. wrote: Basically, that's the question. I compiled my kernel with the SCSI AIC7xxx.o driver as a module, and then when it booted up, it paniced. I thought it was some sort of a kernel bug, but it didn't really seem that way when I recompiled the kernel with SCSI

symlink_prefix

2001-06-02 Thread Andries . Brouwer
This evening I needed to work on a filesystem of a non-Linux OS, full of absolute symlinks. After mounting the fs on /mnt, each symlink pointing to /foo/bar in that filesystem should be regarded as pointing to /mnt/foo/bar. Since doing ls -ld on every component of every pathname was far too

Re: [Ext2-devel] [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2

2001-06-02 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 31 May 2001 21:44, Andreas Dilger wrote: I noticed something interesting when running mongo with debugging on. It is adding filenames which are only sequential numbers, and the hash code is basically adding to only two blocks until those blocks are full, at which point (I guess)

bug in load_elf_binary [PATCH]

2001-06-02 Thread John Reiser
In kernel 2.4.3 and 2.2.18, there is a bug in fs/binfmt_elf.c function load_elf_binary(). An ET_DYN file that asks for a PT_INTERP, and whose first PT_LOAD is not at 0, gets AT_PHDR that is (load_bias + 2 * p_vaddr), instead of the correct (load_bias + p_vaddr). The patch for 2.4.3 is ---

Re: symlink_prefix

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Love
On 03 Jun 2001 01:54:43 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This evening I needed to work on a filesystem of a non-Linux OS, full of absolute symlinks. After mounting the fs on /mnt, each symlink pointing to /foo/bar in that filesystem should be regarded as pointing to /mnt/foo/bar. Since

Intellimouse in 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-02 Thread mythos
Using kernel 2.4.5-ac7 my intelli is not working at all. The kernel doesn't report that it has found it.My config is the same with the previous kernel I used 2.4.5-ac2. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: symlink_prefix

2001-06-02 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This evening I needed to work on a filesystem of a non-Linux OS, full of absolute symlinks. After mounting the fs on /mnt, each symlink pointing to /foo/bar in that filesystem should be regarded as pointing to /mnt/foo/bar. Since doing ls -ld

Re: Intellimouse in 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Love
On 03 Jun 2001 03:34:14 +0300, mythos wrote: Using kernel 2.4.5-ac7 my intelli is not working at all. The kernel doesn't report that it has found it.My config is the same with the previous kernel I used 2.4.5-ac2. can you test it with ac6? ac7 incorpates an incredibly simple patch to fix poor

Re: symlink_prefix

2001-06-02 Thread Mitchell Blank Jr
Alexander Viro wrote: I can see how to implement per-mountpoint variant. However, I'm less than enthusiastic about the API side of that and about the ugliness it will lead to. It smells like a wrong approach. And no, I don't see a good one right now. Aren't we one day going to have stackable

Re: Intellimouse in 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-02 Thread Fabian Arias
I'm using yhe Intellimouse as USB over ac7 and the problems that I had with the previous HID seems to be solved. No problems reported for now. On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, mythos wrote: Using kernel 2.4.5-ac7 my intelli is not working at all. The kernel doesn't report that it has found it.My

USB mouse problem

2001-06-02 Thread Hayden A. James
I have a clean redhat 7.1 installation using the standard redhat kernel (2.4.2-2) and I seem to have jerkiness with my mouse in X. When I move the mouse around in X, the mouse sometimes randomly changes the mouse pointer position. My mouse is a Logitech Mouseman optical usb. Hayden A. James

Re: USB mouse problem

2001-06-02 Thread Hayden A. James
This is a followup to my last e-mail, here is some information about my mouse/usb setup from dmesg. usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.251 $ time 20:53:29 Apr 8 2001 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 4 for device

Re: USB mouse problem

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Love
On 02 Jun 2001 21:22:46 -0400, Hayden A. James wrote: This is a followup to my last e-mail, here is some information about my mouse/usb setup from dmesg.snip is the mouse jerky on the console (using the mouse via GPM)? i ask because i wager the bug is not a kernel bug but perhaps something

LVM status in ac7?

2001-06-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, What is the status of LVM in ac7? Is it safe to use the ac7 LVM code on a system currently using beta7? Is the beta7 patched needed with ac7? What is not in the ac7 patches? Is it apt to cause problems? TIA, Ed Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-02 Thread lost
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Jamie Lokier wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, not looking at the sets upon a zero return is a fairly obvious optimization as there is little point in doing so. No; a fairly obvious optimisation is to avoid calling FD_ZERO if you can clear the bits

Re: Intellimouse in 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-02 Thread mythos
I don't know what is the problem but the kernel doesn't report the IRQ of the UHCI.So no mouse.Maybe something wrong with the config?Please help. I have included dmesg. Linux version 2.4.5-ac7 (root@Santorini) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #1 Êõñ Éïýí 3 02:59:47 EEST 2001

Re: Re: USB mouse problem

2001-06-02 Thread Hayden A. James
Yes I do have the same problem in console using gpm, and there is not yet a kernel update from redhat yet. I thought it was a kernel problem originally because I saw all these messages to this list about usb mouse problems. On 02 Jun 2001 21:22:46 -0400, Hayden A. James wrote: This is a

RE: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-02 Thread John Chris Wren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, not looking at the sets upon a zero return is a fairly obvious optimization as there is little point in doing so. No; a fairly obvious optimisation is to avoid calling FD_ZERO if you can clear the bits individually when you test them. When you

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-02 Thread Mike Castle
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:47:49PM -0400, John Chris Wren wrote: I would have said just the opposite. That if it you have a large number of handles you're waiting on, and you have to go back through and set the bits everytime you timeout that you would incur a larger overhead. From the Use

Re: keyboard hook?

2001-06-02 Thread James Simmons
Hi! Your best bet for a kernel driver is to use the linux input api like the usb keyboard do. The drivers are pretty simple to write and since all the keyboard drivers will be port over to this api it will save a lot of work done the road. If you need help let me know. I will be glad to

Re: Intellimouse in 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-02 Thread Danny ter Haar
Robert Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am running ac7 right now (and was running ac6 with the patch) and my IntelliMouse works fine. SOmetimes my laptop doesn't see my intellithingy as well (ac5) Reconnecting the mouse helpes to force recognising it. Mayby the same with ac6 ? Danny --

PATCH 2.4.5.ac6: more Via irq fixes

2001-06-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Attached is a patch against 2.4.5-ac6 which should fix issues with on-board Via devices and interrupts, particularly on Via SMP machines, or Via machines that requires 'noapic' or PNP-OS:No to be functional. This has been tested by a user with a Via SMP board under both MPS 1.1 and MPS 1.4, and

Re: CUV4X-D lockup on boot

2001-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
I have an ASUS CUV4X-D Dual Processor Mainboard based on a VIA 694XDP chipset. I notice from the archives that someone else has also reported a lockup with the m/b when using two cpus and have some info that may be useful to track it down. Using kernel 2.4.5 the kernel locks up

MII access (was [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only)systems)

2001-06-02 Thread Bogdan Costescu
[ As this is becoming more and more MII specific, I changed the subject ] On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: This only answered the first part of the question: when. How do you pass the how long info ? Does the same applies for the MII ioctl case ? The mtime tells you exactly that.

*BAD* impact of usb on PCI performance

2001-06-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I did some testing how does usb hurt rest of system; and it can be pretty bad. With Acher's uhci, even ifconfig up of usb-to-usb networking device [plusb handled by generic usb-to-usb driver; see -ac series]. does 50% slowdown. When fsbr is being used, systems slows down by 350% (running

[PATCH] 2.4.5-ac7 fix for rivers/net/wireless/Config.in problem

2001-06-02 Thread Steven Cole
I got the following error from make xconfig: drivers/net/wireless/Config.in: 5: can't handle dep_bool/dep_mbool/dep_tristate condition make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1 Here is a little micro patch to change the dep_tristate into a plain vanilla tristate. Steven ---

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

2001-06-02 Thread jamal
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Bogdan Costescu wrote: On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, jamal wrote: One idea i have been toying with is to maintain hysteris or threshold of some form in dev_watchdog; AFAIK, dev_watchdog is right now used only for Tx (if I'm wrong, please correct me!). So how do you sense

Re: SMC-IRCC broken? 2.4.5-pre4 / -ac5+

2001-06-02 Thread Pawel Worach
From: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] The kernel stops while booting at: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. SMC IrDA Controller found; IrCC version 2.0, port 0x118, dma=3, irq=3 IRDA compiled in ? If so is it ok

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

2001-06-02 Thread Feng Xian
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: 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 Nope. APIC is invisible to a correctly built piece of hardware. It just changes how INTA-INTD are handled at

Re: [2.4.5 and all ac-Patches] massive file corruption with reiser or NFS

2001-06-02 Thread Andreas Hartmann
Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2001 18:19 schrieben Sie: I got massive file corruptions with the kernels mentioned in the subject. I can reproduce it every time. Which other 2.4 trees have you tried ? I had the following situations: NFS server: linux 2.2.19 NFS Client: linux 2.4.[32]ac[...], linux

Re: [bug] at slab.c ...

2001-06-02 Thread Robert Vojta
What X server ? and also run the trace through ksymoops It's fresh installation of RH 7.1 (XFree86-4.0.3-5) ... EIP; c0129884 try_to_swap_out+174/1d0 = Trace; c01b08db skb_checksum+3b/220 Trace; c01affd7 pskb_copy+167/170 Trace; c01e4e79 netlink_create+59/d0 Trace; c0129ddc

Re: [2.4.5 and all ac-Patches] massive file corruption with reiser or NFS

2001-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
I got massive file corruptions with the kernels mentioned in the subject. I can reproduce it every time. Which other 2.4 trees have you tried ? Does booting with ide=nodma help ? [only in -ac] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: MII access (was [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only)

2001-06-02 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: One application needs to poll link status with 1 second resolution. On a Then it needs to be privileged Fine. Can you think of a default value for expiring cache ? And if the approach is to block until the time for the next read occurs is done then the

Re: Date goes four times faster!

2001-06-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I'm using Redhat linux 7.0 on an HP vectra vei8-Piii450 computer. My desktop environment is Gnome 1.2.1. This noon I found that the date went four times faster! It was going well before about 11 PM Wen May 30. But after that the date :-) On my system, date likes to go 3 times slower

Re: MII access (was [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only)

2001-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
One application needs to poll link status with 1 second resolution. On a Then it needs to be privileged for how long this situation lasts. If you have a proc/ioctl interface for setting cache expiring time, this same interface can then be used for reading back this info. This application

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