Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Stuart Lynne
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hans, > >We talked at LWE '99 about this issue. >As you can see that this is getting to be a bigger mess as I predicted >more than a year ago. As you explained to me that IGEL had verbal terms >of agreement that the code

Re: GPL violations: make it harder

2000-09-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > I have been following it in this list for longer - you cut the thing you are > > sitting on when telling people who say "I saw GNU licence violation" > > to not to bother or

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > This it will have to wait for 2.5, but everyone needs to get off the issue > that it is a filter and understand that it is a command completion > pre-handler. I hope that you

[OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Ricky Beam wrote: [snip] > As an aside, they also have/had agressive transparent web proxying in > the network... everything on port 80 coming and going is/was cached. > EVERYTHING. Ugh. If bandwidth is a problem, charge them by the Gb and let them save money by reducing

[Danger] Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

2000-09-04 Thread Simon Kirby
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 09:09:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > > > > Is this file corruption 'thing' specific to innd or is it the same > > problem reported with corrupt mailboxes with pre2 and high disk > > activity? > > The mailbox corruption

Re: insmod help

2000-09-04 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:00:19 +0530, "Mahadev K Cholachagudda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Where can i get the insmod program source ?. ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/modutils - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Re: www.crucial.com won't talk to 2.4.0-test7 system

2000-09-04 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Sun, 3 Sep 2000 20:23:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Gregory McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [gregm@tweetie gregm]$ uname -a Linux tweetie.comstar.net 2.4.0-test7 #20 Sat Sep 2 16:17:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown [gregm@tweetie gregm]$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn 1 Works

RE: thread rant

2000-09-04 Thread David Schwartz
> I've heard comments from Alan, and others in the past bashing > threads, and I can understand the "threads are for people who > can't write state machines" comments I've heard, but what other > ways are there of accomplishing the goals that threads solve in > an acceptable manner that gives

Re: GPL violations: make it harder

2000-09-04 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > There was no "GNU licence violation", because there is no GNU licence in a > patch. You automatically own an implicit copyright on anything you create. Regardless of whether you specify a license for code you write, anyone who steals it is breaking

Re: A useful DNS setup....

2000-09-04 Thread J. Dow
Sorry - I punched the wrong key on that message. Mea Culpa - mea maxima culpa. {o.o} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

insmod help

2000-09-04 Thread Mahadev K Cholachagudda
hi to all,   Where can i get the insmod program source ?.   please help   Thanks in advance Mahadev

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >First of all, the "250,000" is wrong: I was just making up a number. I can go scan ARIN for all their netblocks and give you the exact number of address that would have to be scanned. (I won't. It's alot.) >Second, dialup users don't have enough

Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

2000-09-04 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Alexander, On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Pine problem ? Has anybody reported which version of pine ? > > The only version of pine I am aware of with a overrun problem > > was V4.10 . Is anyone else

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> Then they need more competant admins. It isnt _hard_ to transproxy outgoing >> smtp traffic via a spamtrapper that checks for valid src/destination and >> headers. > >I can't believe that you are suggesting this. Mindspring did this (maybe still

Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

2000-09-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > > Is this file corruption 'thing' specific to innd or is it the same > problem reported with corrupt mailboxes with pre2 and high disk > activity? The mailbox corruption thread is at least partly due to a pine bug that is triggered by a bugtraq

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Alan Cox writes: > [somebody] >> Excuse me? How the hell do you expect them to "clean up their act" when >> their "dialup" users are the problem? Are you gonna scan 250,000 machines >> to make sure they aren't running SMTP servers? Trap all port 25 traffic? > > FreeServe in the UK have over 3

Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

2000-09-04 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Alexander , On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > > Is this file corruption 'thing' specific to innd or is it the same > > problem reported with corrupt mailboxes with pre2 and high disk > > activity? > Hell knows. Let me put it

Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed?

2000-09-04 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Is this file corruption 'thing' specific to innd or is it the same > problem reported with corrupt mailboxes with pre2 and high disk > activity? Hell knows. Let me put it that way: one long-standing bug definitely had kicked the bucket. The

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-04 Thread Marty Fouts
FWIW, although this is an interesting theory, in my experience, having a good kernel debugger allows me *more* time to think clearly, rather than less. YMMV. IMHO, the division of labor between man and computer should be that each does what they are best at. In the case of debugging, this means

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >FreeServe in the UK have over 3 million dialup users and no spam problem. Well, the economics of the UK is very different than the US. Besides, aren't their laws against that sorta stuff over there? >> It's the same problem EVERY ISP has. RR is just higher

Re: eepro100 trouble

2000-09-04 Thread Andrey Savochkin
Hello, On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:57:54PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > I'm having endless problem with an eepro100 here. After some trying found out > that doing a soft reset (ctrl+alt+del) fixed the problem, and that a power > cycle made it happen again. > > Kernel version is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-04 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 01:13:51 +0100 (BST) From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is why Linus does not allow a debugging facility like this into > the kernel, so people spend time _thinking_ when they go hunting down > bugs. I spend my time thinking. But I prefer to spend

A useful DNS setup....

2000-09-04 Thread J. Dow
OK, I decided to do it, since it gave me a chance to tweak two people in the nose, one who really earned it and one who probably should know better. It is up on my web page and may be used and copied freely by anyone whose email service does not have Earthlink.net black holed. (Somebody who

Re: thread group comments

2000-09-04 Thread yodaiken
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:12:40AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 06:11:05PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > "Andi Kleen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Do you think the SA_NOCLDWAIT/queued exit signal approach makes sense ? > > > > I'm not sure whether it's worth

Re: Sparc 32 plans?

2000-09-04 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, > Are there any advances in getting sparc 32 working again with > 2.4.0-testX? I tried test7 today and it reports something about > free_bootmem then reboots. You mentioned it was a sun4c on the sparclinux list. sun4c is badly out of date and I don't have the time to fix it at the moment.

Re: Long uptime (~1 yr) => broken load averages (2.2.12)

2000-09-04 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Jorge Nerin writes: > Neal H Walfield wrote: >> Starting twelve days ago the load average has increased by one every >> twenty-four hours. Normally, it remains close to 0. At the moment, they >> are at twelve; I imagine that tomorrow, they will be at thirteen: > You may have stuck processes

Re: Should O_NONBLOCK be copied from listening socket to accepting socket?

2000-09-04 Thread David S. Miller
From: Michael Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:04 Sep 2000 20:27:53 + Is it required that the O_NONBLOCK flag be copied from a listening socket to an accepted socket? Dan Bernstein believes this is a bug. If we "fixed" this every inetd on every Linux system would

Re: [bug] test8-preX crashes X on APM resume >>>Re: [Fwd: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

2000-09-04 Thread J. Dow
From: "David Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > My server is in the tested/good list w/ orbs. Aren't you following your own advice > > > about properly setting up your MTA to allow good guys and stop bad guys in accord > > > with ORBS DNS? > > > > I get too much junk to care

test8-pre4: innd fixed?

2000-09-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
Could people who have seen the innd active list file corruption thing please try out linux-2.4.0-test8-pre4? Despite some reports, it was _not_ fixed in pre2, and pre3 was a internal-only test to fix the remaining issue with Al Viro. pre4 finally passes all my truncate() tests, and the code

Re: NFS client option to force 16-bit ugid.

2000-09-04 Thread Michael Eisler
> My home directory lives on a SunOS 4.1.4 server, which helpfully expands > 16-bit UIDs to 32 bits as signed quantities, not unsigned. So any uid above > 32768 gets 0x added to it. Doesn't http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?type=0=fpatches/102394 fix this on the 4.1.4

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0-test7 to Enable Variable Block Chaining

2000-09-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday September 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Linus, > > The attached patch is submitted to enable variable sector size block > chaining via ll_rw_block() in the I/O subsystem layer. > > Jeff904a905,907 > > / > > // This code is being commented out to allow support for variable

Re: Large File support and blocks.

2000-09-04 Thread Alan Cox
> Ugh... yes, but not with an 80386, i486, Pentium, Pentium-MMX, > 5x86, Crusoe, WinChip, K6, K6-2, or 6x86. Also not with XT disks > or anything off the EISA, VLB, and MCA busses. Lots of people are building terabyte sized arrays on K6 type boxes. A PII or Athlon is just overkill for the job

Re: [unpatch] ide cd-audio broken in 2.2.17preN (N >= 2)

2000-09-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Sep 04 2000, Nathan Myers wrote: > The IDE CD audio driver is broken in the 2.2.17pre series, since 2.2.17pre2. > I have attached below the patch fragment that causes the problem, and the > console error messages that appear. Backing out the one change fixes CD > audio playback in

Re: Large File support and blocks.

2000-09-04 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Rik van Riel writes: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:16:23AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >>> With all the talk about bugs and slowness on a 386/486/586 >>> -- does anyone think those platforms will have multi-T disks >>> hooked up to them? Note: no

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-04 Thread Alan Cox
> This is why Linus does not allow a debugging facility like this into > the kernel, so people spend time _thinking_ when they go hunting down > bugs. I spend my time thinking. But I prefer to spend it thinking about the bug not about finding it and how long fsck takes. There are only a few

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-04 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Sat, 02 Sep 2000 15:58:50 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I can only assume the reason for this is one of control, and that there are no valid technical reasons for it. I have spent more nights with printk() than I care to. And I bet the lessons

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-04 Thread Dan Kegel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Few month ago, I gathered precice data and posted it on lk-ml. In our > experiment, I used four 100Base cards, the Web-Bench gained nearly 5% > performance by the patch. The CPU load reached over 95%. > > I want to show the reference to experiments results, But

[unpatch] ide cd-audio broken in 2.2.17preN (N >= 2)

2000-09-04 Thread Nathan Myers
The IDE CD audio driver is broken in the 2.2.17pre series, since 2.2.17pre2. I have attached below the patch fragment that causes the problem, and the console error messages that appear. Backing out the one change fixes CD audio playback in 2.2.17pre20, on this machine. This is on an

Re: [patch] All the fs patches resulting from updating mark_buffer_dirty

2000-09-04 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:29:56PM +0200, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > > I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran > Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts a lot of places in the kernel > (trivially), noticeably the file systems. The URL below points a > big patch for all

test8-pre4: Ooops at boot time

2000-09-04 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, as written earlier, I have several problems at boot time. This is the output of 'dmesg | ksymoops': ksymoops 2.3.4 on i586 2.4.0-test8. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test8/ (default) -m

Re: [bug] test8-preX crashes X on APM resume >>>Re: [Fwd: Returnedmail: see transcript for details]

2000-09-04 Thread Mo McKinlay
> On a side note, is there anyone/anyplace willing to allow relaying for my server? One > by one all the networks around here are falling under the ORBS netblock blacklist and > I'm not going to go through any more expense for myself, company, or LUG when we are > perfectly

Re: why am i seeing a ~60-second network connection delay with 2.4.0test*?

2000-09-04 Thread John Kennedy
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:00:41PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, John Kennedy wrote: > > Ping seems to be spending its time in a sendto()/poll() loop: > > > > sendto(3, "U\3Z\241\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\206\240\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\3\0"..., 56, 0, >{sin_family=AF_INET,

Re: Should O_NONBLOCK be copied from listening socket to acceptingsocket?

2000-09-04 Thread Chris Evans
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Is it required that the O_NONBLOCK flag be copied from a listening > > socket to an accepted socket? Dan Bernstein believes this is a bug. > > My posix 1003.1g draft leaves it undefined. It is possible that > SuS clarifies this. Unless he can cite a SuS

Re: [patch] Updated bfs to use new mark_buffers_dirty interface

2000-09-04 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Rasmus, I think it is worth it to clarify this even if you already understood it yourself - other readers of linux-kernel may find it useful (and those who find it too obvious will forgive me). The concept of Linux subsystem maintainer doesn't mean that _any_ changes to his subsystem should go

Re: Linux 2.2 - BSD/OS 4.1 ARP incompatibility

2000-09-04 Thread Julian Anastasov
Hello, On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, David Luyer wrote: > > > just try "traceroute -s 111.111.111.111 d.e.f.2" > > > What shows this simple test? > > > > arp who-has d.e.f.2 tell a.b.c.1 > > > > or > > > > arp who-has d.e.f.2 tell d.e.f.1 > > When I tried traceroute -s d.e.f.1 d.e.f.2,

Re: [patch] Updated ext2 to use new mark_buffers_dirty interface

2000-09-04 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > Hi. > > (I think I have seen you name mentioned as (co-)maintainer of ext2. > Hence this mail.) > > I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran > Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts ext2 as per the following > patch. Lest

Re: GPL violations: make it harder

2000-09-04 Thread Elmer Joandi
Andre Hedrick wrote: > > There is overproduction of generic-purpose software in world and > > of course lots of companies are going to bancrupt soon, but if you > > continue this way, GPL is going the same way... > > Do not follow the thought, sorry. The Novell stuff. Sorry to say, but who

Re: [patch] Updated bfs to use new mark_buffers_dirty interface

2000-09-04 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > Hi. > > I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per your > suggestion to Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo). This impacts bfs as per > the following patch. > Rasmus, thanks of course, but this idea _only_ makes sense if you produce a big

[patch] All the fs patches resulting from updating mark_buffer_dirty

2000-09-04 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts a lot of places in the kernel (trivially), noticeably the file systems. The URL below points a big patch for all these changes. (I have been advised against the fine granularity of the

Re: [patch] Updated ext2 to use new mark_buffers_dirty interface

2000-09-04 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > Hi. > > (I think I have seen you name mentioned as (co-)maintainer of ext2. > Hence this mail.) > > I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran > Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts ext2 as per the following > patch. Umm...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote: > I was under the understanding a "patch" to something GPL, means > the "patch" is also GPL. If the patch was not GPL, and it > patches GPL code, then it itself is in violation of the GPL. > The fact that the patch is a "derivative work" of the

Re: Problems with Athlon

2000-09-04 Thread Alan Cox
> I would have liked to install RH 6.2 on the Athlon (700MHz) computer. > The installation from local CD was very easy, however, after reboot > I received some error messages. My questions are: > > 1. What exctly does a "Disabling CPUID Serial Number ... general protection >fault: 000"

[OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > Then they need more competant admins. It isnt _hard_ to transproxy outgoing > smtp traffic via a spamtrapper that checks for valid src/destination and > headers. I can't believe that you are suggesting this. The moment you being to start encouraging

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Ricky" == Ricky Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ricky> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: >> Much more of a reason to get them to clean up their act! Ricky> Excuse me? How the hell do you expect them to "clean up their Ricky> act" when their "dialup" users are the problem?

Re: Hangup: Promise ATA100 (PDC20267) and Quantum disk

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
"QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 30" Just add this ti the pdc_quirks_list and see if it fixes the problem. It is an nIEN problem. Cheers, On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Lars Knudsen wrote: > Hi, > > I have have serious problems using a specific Quantum disk connected to a Promise >ATA/100 controller. The disk

Re: Should O_NONBLOCK be copied from listening socket to accepting socket?

2000-09-04 Thread Alan Cox
> Is it required that the O_NONBLOCK flag be copied from a listening > socket to an accepted socket? Dan Bernstein believes this is a bug. My posix 1003.1g draft leaves it undefined. It is possible that SuS clarifies this. Unless he can cite a SuS version that has clarified this I believe its

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Alan Cox
> Excuse me? How the hell do you expect them to "clean up their act" when > their "dialup" users are the problem? Are you gonna scan 250,000 machines > to make sure they aren't running SMTP servers? Trap all port 25 traffic? FreeServe in the UK have over 3 million dialup users and no spam

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre2: AGP and the i810

2000-09-04 Thread Alan Cox
> > You need it for some new video cards (for example those cheap intel i810 boards > > that are becoming extremely common). > > I got my i810 to work on Debian (kernel 2.0.34) without agpgart by setting > a switch in the driver code. That limits you to 1Mb of video ram I believe - To

Re: GPL violations: make it harder

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Elmer Joandi wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > My and co-worker's code for doing full taskfile access under linux was > > rejected here but is being used in MicroSoft Whistler 2001. They are > > quick to grab the very best of Linux and adopt it for their own. > > ? You

[patch] Updated hpfs to use new mark_buffers_dirty interface

2000-09-04 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts hpfs as per the following patch. diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/hpfs/anode.c linux/fs/hpfs/anode.c --- linux-240test8-pre2/fs/hpfs/anode.c Tue Oct 19 22:52:52

[patch] Updated hfs to use new mark_buffers_dirty interface

2000-09-04 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts hfs as per the following patch. diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/hfs/file.c linux/fs/hfs/file.c --- linux-240test8-pre2/fs/hfs/file.c Sun Feb 27 05:33:42 2000

[patch] Updated ext2 to use new mark_buffers_dirty interface

2000-09-04 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. (I think I have seen you name mentioned as (co-)maintainer of ext2. Hence this mail.) I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts ext2 as per the following patch. diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff

[patch] Updated bfs to use new mark_buffers_dirty interface

2000-09-04 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per your suggestion to Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo). This impacts bfs as per the following patch. diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/bfs/dir.c linux/fs/bfs/dir.c --- linux-240test8-pre2/fs/bfs/dir.cThu Aug 24

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
Hans, We talked at LWE '99 about this issue. As you can see that this is getting to be a bigger mess as I predicted more than a year ago. As you explained to me that IGEL had verbal terms of agreement that the code returned to M-Systems was returned with a GPL license in it placed by IGEL.

[patch] Updated affs to use new mark_buffers_dirty interface

2000-09-04 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. (I hope you are the code maintainer for affs. Your name is in the affs files.) I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts affs as per the following patch. diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/affs/amigaffs.c

[patch] Updated adfs to use new mark_buffers_dirty interface

2000-09-04 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. (I hope you are the code maintainer for adfs. Your name is in the files.) I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts adfs as per the following patch. diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/adfs/dir_f.c

Problems with Athlon

2000-09-04 Thread Imrich Vrabel
Hi, I would have liked to install RH 6.2 on the Athlon (700MHz) computer. The installation from local CD was very easy, however, after reboot I received some error messages. My questions are: 1. What exctly does a "Disabling CPUID Serial Number ... general protection fault: 000" mean?

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre2: AGP and the i810

2000-09-04 Thread rolv
> > - In the absence of any applications which actually do 3D rendering, is > > there any performance advantage to loading the agpgart module? > > You need it for some new video cards (for example those cheap intel i810 boards > that are becoming extremely common). I got my i810 to work on

Should O_NONBLOCK be copied from listening socket to accepting socket?

2000-09-04 Thread Michael Shields
Is it required that the O_NONBLOCK flag be copied from a listening socket to an accepted socket? Dan Bernstein believes this is a bug. Pavel Kankovsky writes: > What happens when x->tcpstate == 1 (i.e. waiting for the first byte of TCP > request length), x->io->revents == 0 (i.e. not ready

Re: [PATCH] 2.2: /proc/config.gz

2000-09-04 Thread Philipp Rumpf
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:24:02PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Philipp Rumpf wrote: > > Most architectures can boot ELF images -- defining section names for > > .config.gz and the version string in the ELF file can be done in an > > architecture-independent fashion. > > Yep, then add some

Re: why am i seeing a ~60-second network connection delay with2.4.0test*?

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, John Kennedy wrote: > Ping seems to be spending its time in a sendto()/poll() loop: > > sendto(3, "U\3Z\241\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\206\240\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\3\0"..., 56, 0, >{sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}}, 16) = 56 >

Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: >"Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> The rr.com service is expanding across the US. It is a cable >> service recently bought by AT It serves areas without ISDN >> or DSL, so the only alternative is a POTS modem. The rr.com >> service is much

UPDATE: [Re: eepro driver broke in 2.2.16... (at least for me!)]

2000-09-04 Thread hayward
I just downloaded the 2.2.17 kernel. This problem seems to be resolved in that version of the eepro driver. Thanks for the new kernel, Alan, Brian Hayward On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hello, > >I just upgraded to the 2.2.16 kernel (from 2.2.14) and compiled a new >kernel. I

Multiple test_if_zero

2000-09-04 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello! Just a note: The patch to test8-pre3 contains 2 definitions of a function to test is a memory-block is zero: fs/buffer.c: int mem_is_zero(char *p, unsigned len) fs/ext2/inode.c: static inline int all_zeroes(u32 *p, u32 *q) driver/usb/hid.c: static __inline__ int search(__s32 *array,

Re: Linux 2.2 - BSD/OS 4.1 ARP incompatibility

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
(OK, I've read enough of this crap.) On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, David Luyer wrote: >I'm seeing a problem between Linux 2.2 and BSD/OS 4.1 in the situation on one >of our backbones. Why is it the people placed in charge of networks usually have no clue how they work? (don't answer that.) [broken

[RFC] [Patch] Sony APM battery status fix

2000-09-04 Thread Dave Zarzycki
The following change to the apm_get_power_status function makes my Sony Vaio SR7K report sane battery life expectations. From surfing the web, I believe this problem happens on other recent Sony laptops (outside of the SR series). I'm thinking about making this fix run-time selectable via a

[SEMI-OT] ReiserFS devel mailing list?

2000-09-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
Anyone out there know how to get on the reiserFS devel mailing list? I was on the namesys pages, but they have wonderful microsoft code on them or java or something so that you can't actually _use_ their mailing list subscription thing if you don't run java or whatever. Certainly doesn't work

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Al wrote: >>it is in the kernel. Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter) can't >>take your code and use it without consent. The GPL is one way of giving >>consent, with certain strings attached. > >But they can take the ideas and methods demonstrated by the code in the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
On 4 Sep 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: >>> >I am sorry to here of this, but I know what you mean about microsoft. >>> >My and co-worker's code for doing full taskfile access under linux was >>> >rejected here but is being used in MicroSoft Whistler 2001. They are >>> >quick to grab the

Re: 2.4.0-test7 stallion.c is in the wrong directory.

2000-09-04 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
From: Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Mon, 4 Sep 2000 15:42:57 +0200 In test7 the stallion.c serial driver is in the drivers/media/video directory. This means that it won't compile and that compilation will break if the Stallion driver is enabled. Could this

Linux 2.2.17

2000-09-04 Thread Alan Cox
Ok Linux 2.2.17 official is now out. This is the same as 2.2.17pre20 without the -pre20 id string This is the version waiting Linus. Its in the queue for holy penguin pee so either it will get peed on or I will get abuse from Linus depending whether he likes it or not 8) In the mean time I'm

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VMnow?

2000-09-04 Thread Chris Mason
On 9/3/00, 3:20:01 AM, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Not at all. In fact, I'd prefer it that way, because this same thing is > > obviously going to be

eepro driver broke in 2.2.16... (at least for me!)

2000-09-04 Thread hayward
Hello, I just upgraded to the 2.2.16 kernel (from 2.2.14) and compiled a new kernel. I immediately started having problems with my eepro/10 card. It would run for a short period of time, then die on me. If I reloaded the module, it would run for a short period of time then die again. My

Re: stallion.c patch for devfs - fixed version checking

2000-09-04 Thread Richard Gooch
Russell Coker writes: > > --Boundary-=_nWlrBbmQBhCDarzOwKkYHIDdqSCD > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Yuk! MIME! > On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: > That sounds logical, I have attached a patch that does that change and > changes serial.c (the code I copied

Re: stallion.c patch for devfs - fixed version checking

2000-09-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: >Russell Coker writes: >> I made the following patch for the stallion non-intelligent driver based on >> cut/paste from serial.c. I have tested it and it works, the directories >> /dev/tte and /dev/cue are correctly created when the module is inserted.

Re: [RFC] my current kernel todo list

2000-09-04 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > Erm... You do realize that "by hands" is "by editor commands", don't you? > Notice that it is not a global search and replace - you see the instance, > you decide whether to change it with the long sequence of editor commands > or with the short one.

spin_lock forgets to clobber memory and other smp fixes [was Re:[patch] waitqueue optimization, 2.4.0-test7]

2000-09-04 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >I'd prefer to have things like UnlockPage implemented as the architecture >prefers (with a safe SMP common code default) instead of exporting zillons I changed idea. I'd preferred to implement a mechanism that allows to implement common code taking

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Michael H. Warfield
Andre, On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:30:13PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: [...] > WOOHOO, you remember Way to go Alan > You and several others know that I stink at describing a complex point > regardless that I understand it completely. I am just glad that you hung > in there

Re: [RFC] my current kernel todo list

2000-09-04 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Alexander, I did think of automating it but seeing fat (I am sure you saw > it as well) made me think that it is safer to do it by hand. Umm? What part of grep -nw is going to catch the fat_... stuff? It should be done separately. You _will_ catch

Re: [RFC] my current kernel todo list

2000-09-04 Thread John Levon
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > Are you kidding? In nvi: > > [snip vi stuff] another is "cg/vg" (can't remember who wrote it) which is very useful for this sort of thing, if a little slower than vi automagic john -- "This page contains information of a type (text/html) that can

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > This it will have to wait for 2.5, but everyone needs to get off the issue > > that it is a filter and understand that it is a command completion > > pre-handler. I hope that you finally understand the point and we do not > > have to fight again, next

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Linux rejected the code because it does not understand nor does anyone > > have the desire to learn what it does. Since it is not in the kernel > > there is no GPL issue. Upon Microsoft's adpotion of the model they will > > If its your code there isnt

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: > > You and several others know that I stink at describing a complex point > > regardless that I understand it completely. I am just glad that you hung > > in there long enough for me to get the point across. > > Andre, as far as I can tell, this "complex

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Andre wrote: > > > Linux rejected the code because it does not understand nor does anyone > > have the desire to learn what it does. Since it is not in the kernel > > there is no GPL issue. Upon Microsoft's adpotion of the model they will > >

Re: [RFC] my current kernel todo list

2000-09-04 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Hi Arnaldo, > > That is a very decent list you have got there. How about to add to > it: > > - go through all filesystems and convert them from using > mark_buffer_dirty(bh, [0,1]) to just mark_buffer_dirty(bh) since the flag > is now ignored and

Re: [RFC] my current kernel todo list

2000-09-04 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Alexander, I did think of automating it but seeing fat (I am sure you saw it as well) made me think that it is safer to do it by hand. for fat, it is not the second argument but the first from the end (it has three), so your macro approach is somewhat broken. Actually, kernel is such a critical

Re: [RAPIDLY MOVING OFF-TOPIC] GPL and binary only drivers [onceagain] [was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FSforLinux]

2000-09-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Henning P . Schmiedehausen wrote: [snip] > If I give you a binary-only module which can either be loaded as a > driver or, maybe with some glue code, linked into the kernel and some > instructions how to do this, I am _not_at_all_ in violation of any > GPL. Because I

Re: test8-pre2 fs corruption?

2000-09-04 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Thanks! I really should read every single letter on BUGTRAQ, not on linux-kernel ;) On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Thomas Molina wrote: > > Readers of BUGTRAQ probably have already seen the message indicating > some of us have been seeing library problems, not fs corruption. At > least those of us with

Re: Linux 2.2 - BSD/OS 4.1 ARP incompatibility

2000-09-04 Thread David Luyer
> just try "traceroute -s 111.111.111.111 d.e.f.2" > What shows this simple test? > > arp who-has d.e.f.2 tell a.b.c.1 > > or > > arp who-has d.e.f.2 tell d.e.f.1 When I tried traceroute -s d.e.f.1 d.e.f.2, it worked, the first time the Linux box in question talked to the

Re: stallion.c patch for devfs

2000-09-04 Thread Richard Gooch
Russell Coker writes: > I made the following patch for the stallion non-intelligent driver based on > cut/paste from serial.c. I have tested it and it works, the directories > /dev/tte and /dev/cue are correctly created when the module is inserted. > > Could this please be put in to

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