[PATCH] move xchg/cmpxchg to atomic.h

2001-01-01 Thread Grant Grundler
On parisc-linux mailing list, Grant Grundler wrote: > After surveying all the arches that define __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG: > > ./include/asm-alpha/system.h:#define __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG 1 > ./include/asm-i386/system.h:#define __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG 1 > ./include/asm-ia64/system.h:#define

Re: start___kallsyms missing from i386 vmlinux.lds ?

2001-01-01 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 01:56:08 -0500, Paul Gortmaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--- linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds~ Fri Jul 7 03:47:07 2000 >+++ linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.ldsMon Jan 1 07:55:50 2001 >+ __start___kallsyms = .; /* All kernel symbols */ >+ __kallsyms : {

Re: Sparc64 compile error for 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Tue, 02 Jan 2001 11:57:13 +0800 From: Tommy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch still has problem for define 'HZ' in 'asm-sparc64/delay.h'. It defined in linux/param.h. I've been doing only SMP builds lately which is why I didn't catch this, thanks a lot. Later,

start___kallsyms missing from i386 vmlinux.lds ?

2001-01-01 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Hi, I wasn't sure if this was overlooked or left out intentionally. Paul. --- linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds~Fri Jul 7 03:47:07 2000 +++ linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds Mon Jan 1 07:55:50 2001 @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ __ksymtab : { *(__ksymtab) } __stop___ksymtab = .; +

Re: PC-speaker control

2001-01-01 Thread Robert Read
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:40:43AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > Robert Read wrote: > > > Try this on the console: > > > > > > setterm -blength 0 > > > > > > no assembly required. :) > > > > Yes, and my xterm still beeps - if I make that go away then something

Re: Additional info. for PCI VIA IDE crazyness. Please read.

2001-01-01 Thread Ray Strode
Is this problem possibly related to my issues on alpha? (when compiling for PC164 optimizations instead of generic alphaI get a lost interrupt message as well ) --Ray - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

[OOPS] kacpid dies on boot 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread Andreas Bombe
Attached is a ksymoops processed oops which kacpid creates as part of its initialization (i.e. at boot time). It was connected to AC power with a full battery, if that is significant. Kernel is 2.4.0-prerelease. The machine is a IBM Thinkpad i1200 series (to be more specific model 1161-267),

[PATCH] Makefile fix for ieee1394

2001-01-01 Thread Andreas Bombe
Now that I've had the time to understand the new kernel makefile structure the patch Kai Germaschewski posted is indeed the correct fix (move include line up). Furthermore it builds an .o object in the static compiled case now. I don't see any reason to choose the .a format and most other

Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file writing

2001-01-01 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Roman Zippel wrote: > Block allocation is not my problem right now (and even directory handling > is not that difficult), but I will post somethings about this on fsdevel > later. > But one question is still open, I'd really like an answer for: > Is it possible to use a

Re: Additional info. for PCI VIA IDE crazyness. Please read.

2001-01-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Evan Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-- THE PROBLEM -- > >I know that any kernel version in the 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.99pre series and >2.4.0-test kernels =<2.4.0-test11, I need to append >'ide1=0x170,0x376,15' to get my (so called) PCI VIA IDE controller to >put

Re: [PATCH] set_bit takes a long.

2001-01-01 Thread David S. Miller
From: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Tue, 02 Jan 2001 13:58:05 +1100 Alan has this, obviously hasn't made it to you. Yes it has, see testing/prerelease-diff :-) Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Sparc64 compile error for 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread David S. Miller
See testing/prerelease-diff Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/

Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file writing

2001-01-01 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > But... But with AFFS you _have_ exclusion between block-allocation and > truncate(). It has no sparse files, so pageout will never allocate > anything. I.e. all allocations come from write(2). And both write(2) and > truncate(2) hold i_sem. > >

[PATCH] set_bit takes a long.

2001-01-01 Thread Rusty Russell
Alan has this, obviously hasn't made it to you. This is the only part of the `set_bit takes a long' audit results I personally care about. Thanks, Rusty. -- Hacking time. diff -urN -I \$.*\$ -X /tmp/kerndiff.oiH8zd --minimal linux-2.4.0-test11-5/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_conntrack.h

Re: Sparc64 compile error for 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread Tom Vier
same on alpha On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:36:09AM +0800, Tommy Wu wrote: > panic.c: In function `panic': > panic.c:80: `loops_per_sec' undeclared (first use in this function) > panic.c:80: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > panic.c:80: for each function it appears in.) -- Tom

Additional info. for PCI VIA IDE crazyness. Please read.

2001-01-01 Thread Evan Thompson
IN ADVANCE: I'm sorry for this being so long, but I'm just trying to make sure people understand what my problem is. If you need more info, I'll be happy to give as much as I can, just give me a reply. Okay. Many of you already know the problems I'm having with my PCI VIA IDE controller.

[PATCH] Re: FAIL: 2.2.18 + AA-VM-global-7 + serial 5.05

2001-01-01 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Matthias Andree: > I have a vanilla 2.2.18 that I patch Andrea Arcangeli's VM-global-7 > patch (for 2.2.18pre25) on top, as well as I²C 2.5.4, the current > --12-09 IDE.2.2.18 patch and ReiserFS 3.5.28. So far, so good. If I now > patch serial 5.05 on top of that, the kernel itself

Re: ne2000 (ISA) & test11+

2001-01-01 Thread Les Schaffer
> Second: I'm having problems loading my ne2000 (ISA) card as a module ditto for myself since i started using new SMP machine sometime around 2.4.0-test8 or so. the modprobe works the second time (and subsequently) when i run it by hand after boot scripts finish. i've tried all kinds of

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Gerold Jury
The ISDN changes for the HISAX drivers that came in since test12 have introduced a bug that causes a AIEE-something and a complete kernel hang when i hangup the isdn line. I have reversed the patch for all occurences of INIT_LIST_HEAD in the isdn patch part and it works for me now. The

[PATCH] fat_cache is not SMP safe (2.4.0-prerelease)

2001-01-01 Thread Manmower
When copying large files to/from my vfat filesystem, I frequently get NULL pointer dereference oopsen. I believe this to be a possible solution. (I have been unable to cause an oops since I did this.) (against 2.4.0-prerelease) --- fs/fat/cache.c.orig Mon Jan 1 14:33:43 2001 +++

Sparc64 compile error for 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread Tommy Wu
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.0-prerelease/kernel' sparc64-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototype s -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -m64 -pipe -mno-fpu -mcpu=ultras parc -mcmodel=medlow -ffixed-g4 -fcall-used-g5

Re: sync() broken for raw devices in 2.4.x??

2001-01-01 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 07:50:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a sync()/fdatasync() intensive application that is designed to work > on both raw files and raw partitions. Today I upgraded my kernel to the > new pre-release and found that my benchmark program would no longer

2.4.0-testX fails to compile on my Athlon

2001-01-01 Thread dmeyer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > well.. silly me :)... I did have SMP enabled (it appears that's the > default option? but anyways...now I get a whole slew of other > errors which I'm not going to go into right now, cos that would > involve spamming everyone with about 4 pages of

ne2000 (ISA) & test11+

2001-01-01 Thread Taco IJsselmuiden
Hi All, First off: I wish everyone a very happy and coded 2001. Second: I'm having problems loading my ne2000 (ISA) card as a module since test11 (test10 + 2.2.17 works perfectly. Haven't tried 2.2.18...): When loading the module with 'modprobe ne io=0x360 irq=4' it says:

VM thrashing in test13-pre4 with Netscape

2001-01-01 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I don't know if this is a Netscape problem, or an XFree86 4.0.1 problem, or a kernel problem. I hadn't noticed it with previous kernels so I thought I should mention it. I'll download the latest kernel source tonight and try it out. I'm using 2.4.0-test13-pre4 with XFree86 4.0.1 and Netscape

sync() broken for raw devices in 2.4.x??

2001-01-01 Thread stewart
I have a sync()/fdatasync() intensive application that is designed to work on both raw files and raw partitions. Today I upgraded my kernel to the new pre-release and found that my benchmark program would no longer finish when handed a raw partition. I've written a small Java program (my app

Re: PC-speaker control

2001-01-01 Thread Daniel Phillips
Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Robert Read wrote: > > Try this on the console: > > > > setterm -blength 0 > > > > no assembly required. :) > > Yes, and my xterm still beeps - if I make that go away then something > else will beep. > > Somebody posted a patch to do a global disable of the speaker

Re: PC-speaker control

2001-01-01 Thread Daniel Phillips
Robert Read wrote: > Try this on the console: > > setterm -blength 0 > > no assembly required. :) Yes, and my xterm still beeps - if I make that go away then something else will beep. Somebody posted a patch to do a global disable of the speaker some time back, and I wish that the patch were

Re: 2.4.0-prerelease & 2048-byte FAT sectors

2001-01-01 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Just installed 2.4.0-prerelease, and it looks like FAT > > filesystems on hardware 2048-byte sectors are still not > > working. > > Are there any plans to fix this, or should I consider > > Jens was fixing it for CD-ROM devices. I dont know if anyone was

Re: NIC recommendations (was Re: Repeatable 2.4.0-test13-pre4...)

2001-01-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"Barry K. Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > In any case, tulips have been more problematic for me than 8139, pcnet32, > or 3c905c (whose reliability are all comparable IME). I've never tried > eepro100, though. (Also,

Re: devices.txt inconsistency

2001-01-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Robert Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > devices.txt does need some updating. It still lists char-major-13 as > the PC Speaker, but 13 appears to be the major for new input driver, > and the joystick driver is now a minor

Re: netfilter enum conflict?

2001-01-01 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Hi: > > include/linux/netfilter_ipv4.h and include/linux/netfilter_ipv6.h > both define enum nf_ip_hook_priorities. This trips the compiler > if both are included. Should one change to nf_ipv6_hook_priorities? Yes. Only noone has ever included both

Re: devices.txt inconsistency

2001-01-01 Thread Robert Read
How's this? Should char-major-15 be obsoleted, deleted or just left in for now? robert --- linux/Documentation/devices.txt.bak Mon Jan 1 15:29:24 2001 +++ linux/Documentation/devices.txt Mon Jan 1 15:33:38 2001 @@ -430,14 +430,14 @@ 1 = /dev/dos_cd1 Second MSCDEX

Re: devices.txt inconsistency

2001-01-01 Thread Robert Read
devices.txt does need some updating. It still lists char-major-13 as the PC Speaker, but 13 appears to be the major for new input driver, and the joystick driver is now a minor off the that. Are there now two Joystick drivers, or can char-major-15 be obsoleted/deleted? robert On Mon, Jan 01,

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2001-01-01 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Linus. On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Tim Wright wrote: >>> Which is all fine, but maybe the kernel really ought to detect >>> that problem and complain at boot time? >>> >>> Or does that happen already? >> There was a similar thread to this recently.

Re: PC-speaker control

2001-01-01 Thread Robert Read
Try this on the console: setterm -blength 0 no assembly required. :) robert On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 06:30:37PM -0200, Rafael Diniz wrote: > Hey, Is there a way to control the PC-speaker with the Linux kernel 2.2? > I want to disable it. > I guy told me that with this assembly code I can

Re: 2.4.0-pre compile err (pcxx)

2001-01-01 Thread A. P. Garcia
this is a patch against the pcxx.c in the prerelease distribution [clear thinkos. brain ok now.] anyhow, before it was awful close ;-) thanks again --- pcxx.c~ Fri Dec 29 22:35:47 2000 +++ pcxx.c Mon Jan 1 22:30:00 2001 @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ DECLARE_TASK_QUEUE(tq_pcxx); static

Re: 2.4.0-prerelease, AX25 problems

2001-01-01 Thread Hans Grobler
Hi Jean-Luc, On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, f5ibh wrote: > You wrote : > > Is the "previous test version" you talk about 2.4.0-test13-pre7? There > > weren't any changes since then that could explain this, except maybe: > Yes, I mean test13-pre[12134567] and other older versions too. > I've already had

Re: 2.4.0-testX fails to compile on my Athlon

2001-01-01 Thread Matt Wright
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you trying to compile for SMP as well? I've seen similar > errors when selecting Athlon with SMP by mistake. well.. silly me :)... I did have SMP enabled (it appears that's the default option? but anyways...now I get a whole slew of other

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Alan Cox
> @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ > opts.isvfat = sbi->options.isvfat; > if (!parse_options((char *) data, , , , , > cvf_format, cvf_options) > - || (blksize != 512 && blksize != 1024 && blksize != 2048)) > + || (blksize != 512 && blksize != 1024)) >

usb broken in 2.4.0 prerelease versus 2.2.18

2001-01-01 Thread Heitzso
Johannes, I apologize for not getting back to you earlier. Holidays, a changing kernel, and work, kept me away from the test. DATA: s10sh 0.1.9 is a program used to access the USB bus to get to digital cameras and download pictures, etc. I used it for quite awhile with 2.4.0 test up until test

Re: 2.4.0-prerelease, AX25 problems

2001-01-01 Thread f5ibh
Hi Hans, You wrote : > Is the "previous test version" you talk about 2.4.0-test13-pre7? There > weren't any changes since then that could explain this, except maybe: Yes, I mean test13-pre[12134567] and other older versions too. I've already had the problem some time ago with an older

Re: [revisited] Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and GCC snapshots

2001-01-01 Thread Rich Baum
On 1 Jan 2001, at 19:00, Andreas Franck wrote: > Hello together, > > after all the new year's celebrations, I have today taken the time to create > a small patch, based on Linus' idea, that will fix this problem in the > kernel, _without_ pessimizing any code or breaking with earlier

missing symbols in prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread Pau Aliagas
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-prerelease/kernel/drivers/net/irda/toshoboe.o depmod: __bad_udelay depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-prerelease/kernel/drivers/video/atyfb.o depmod: __bad_udelay Pau - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Stefan Traby
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 05:34:01PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > for FAT etc when reading. Writing is a bit more difficult, as that > > then turns out to generate a read before we can commit a dirty > > block. IMO, this type of thing does not belong in the drivers -- > > we should _never_ receive

[RFC, PATCH] TLB flush changes for S/390

2001-01-01 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Hello, on the S/390 architecture we have problems implementing the flush_tlb_page() macro efficiently. The only semantically correct implementation on S/390 is to completely flush the TLB, which is somewhat suboptimal ... With only minor interface changes, however, it becomes possible for us

devices.txt inconsistency

2001-01-01 Thread Ari Pollak
This has not been fixed for at least a year that i can remember - in Documentation/devices.txt, it says /dev/js* should be char-major-15*, but in Documentation/joystick.txt it says it should be char-major-13. I'm assuming joystick.txt is the correct one, and devices.txt should be updated to

Promise PDC20267 irq timeout

2001-01-01 Thread Andy Galasso
I'm attempting to use a Promise FastTrak100 in native Ultra100 mode. Anyone have any idea how to get this working? Linux-2.4.0-prerelease SMP Promise FastTrak100 - no array defined in adapter BIOS 4 IBM DTLA-307030 drives boot params: ide2=0xac00 ide3=0xb400 VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00

Re: linux 2.2.19pre and thttpd (VM-global problem?)

2001-01-01 Thread Jure Pecar
Hi again, After more-than-expected amount of hours spent on this, i managed to localize the problem and found a partial solution. I ran a series of test with thttpd compiled on rh6 and rh7 serving a couple of files on different kernels. In the first run i used 6 average sized mp3s and could not

Ignore that part of the patch.....

2001-01-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
Sorry about that, it was an undo that happened back at pre10 when the correct changes were applied; however, we may rip it out if I can finish the execute_diagnostics call to clear the PDIAG line and get the drive to report the impedence decay to correctly address the bit13 of word 93. For now

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 09:39:38 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 1 Jan 2001, Adam Sampson wrote: >> >> It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious >> Makefile tweak), but the drm modules have unresolved symbols: > >Does this fix it for you (do a "make

Re: 2.4.0-testX fails to compile on my Athlon

2001-01-01 Thread wish-kernel
> I've looked for answers to this question before, but all I could find was > someone asking a similar question and no replies... > > I'm having great trouble getting 2.4.0-testX to compile on my system when > I select Athlon/K7 as the Processor Family [snip] >

user-mode port 0.36-2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread Jeff Dike
The user-mode port of 2.4.0-prerelease is available. hostfs is more improved. Writing files really works now. Executing binaries also works. There is still some memory corruption, though. I fixed the swapoff crash. The input to consoles and serial lines is now much more general. You can

Sparc32: Error linking 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread James Moody
I get the following errors during the final linking of 2.4.0-prerelease on a Sparc IPX (sun4c). .config available upon request. ld -m elf32_sparc -r /mnt/ipx04/src/linux-2.4.0-prerelease/arch/sparc/kernel/head.o /mnt/ipx04/src/linux-2.4.0-prerelease/arch/sparc/kernel/init_task.o

PC-speaker control

2001-01-01 Thread Rafael Diniz
Hey, Is there a way to control the PC-speaker with the Linux kernel 2.2? I want to disable it. I guy told me that with this assembly code I can disable it: in al , 97 and al,253 out 97,al Linux 2.4 will have any syscall to do this? Thanks Rafael Diniz Brazil

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
I screwed up on the patch for that one and have to find the correct one that does the correct walk around on the mis matched standard problems. This is my bad, sorry...back in 20 minutes... Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To

bug report in kernel-2.2.18: kernel cannot start

2001-01-01 Thread François Dupoux
Hi, I compiled a 2.2.18 kernel, and copied the bzImage to a floppy, made some rdev commands, and when I boot on the floppy, it printfs "Loading." and stopped with the following message: 0200 AX:0212 BX: CX:5201 Dx: 0400 AX:0212 And the floppy continue to works, while this text

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > as it apparently makes CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB a complete no-op? > > > > > > Exactly what it is designed to do, Ignore Validity Bits, because the whole > > > damn messedup the rules between ATA-4 and ATA-6 > >

Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file writing

2001-01-01 Thread Daniel Phillips
Alexander Viro wrote: > GFP_BUFFER _may_ become an issue if we move bitmaps into pagecache. > Then we'll need a per-address_space gfp_mask. Again, patches exist > and had been tested (not right now - I didn't port them to current > tree yet). Bugger if I remember whether they were posted or not -

Re: test13-pre5

2001-01-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > What about defining new types for this? Like e.g. `x8', being `u8' on platforms > were that's OK, and `u32' on platforms where that's more efficient? > You may just want to

Re: PS2ESDI

2001-01-01 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 01:35:18PM -0600, Hal Duston wrote: > In moving from 2.2.x to 2.4.x I have found that PS/2 Esdi will no > longer boot. The problem was introduced by what appears to have been > a small architectural change that shouldn't have had an impact. I am > looking into it, if

[PATCH] i810_audio.c in 2.4.0-prerelease (fixes RealPlayer for one)

2001-01-01 Thread Anwar
The patch from Tjeerd Mulder that is already in 2.4.0-prerelease fixes a lot of issues with i810_audio, but it still does not seem to enable variable rates (non 48K rates). I am not sure if VRA works for everybody else with the current code, but I needed the patch below for VRA to work on my

Re: 2.4.0-pre compile err (pcxx)

2001-01-01 Thread A. P. Garcia
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > when i make bzimage with the pc/xx driver configured as a module, it > > compiles ok. configuring it as built-in gives the following error: > > Im amazed it built as a module - thats why I missed the error well, the kernel compiled, but i kind of

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > as it apparently makes CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB a complete no-op? > > > > Exactly what it is designed to do, Ignore Validity Bits, because the whole > > damn messedup the rules between ATA-4 and ATA-6 > > I think the question is more - so why not lose the

PS2ESDI

2001-01-01 Thread Hal Duston
In moving from 2.2.x to 2.4.x I have found that PS/2 Esdi will no longer boot. The problem was introduced by what appears to have been a small architectural change that shouldn't have had an impact. I am looking into it, if anyone has an idea of what could be causing this, please mail me. The

Re: 2.4.0-prerelease shmget woes.

2001-01-01 Thread Gregory McLean
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Gregory McLean wrote: > > Hi, I just compiled and booted up 2.4.0-prerelease, dropped into X-Windows > and now gtk/gnome apps are giving the following warning: > > Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed! > > Any ideas on what changed in the shm space to cause this? > > This is a PII

Re: [PATCH] cs46xx deadlocks in non-blocking read

2001-01-01 Thread Alan Cox
> I've already sent this to Nils/Thomas but since it hasn't materialized > in prerelease or ac1, and since it's quite small and needed for a > number of things to function correctly, I'm sending it again in the > hopes that it will get applied before 2.4 final. Thanks - To unsubscribe from this

[temp t13] Set Features CPRM Lock, Proposal (was Re: CPRM) (fwd)

2001-01-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
Anyone want to comment on the proposal to create a global setfeatures lockout of CPRM? The language used is in terms of the SPEC. Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000

[PATCH] cs46xx deadlocks in non-blocking read

2001-01-01 Thread David Huggins-Daines
Without this patch, the cs46xx driver in 2.4-prelease (well, in -test12, at least) will hang the machine as soon as someone tries to read from it in non-blocking mode. The cs_read() function already removes the wait queue on exit, so it's basically a correctness fix. I've already sent this to

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Frank Jacobberger
Linus Torvalds wrote: > On 1 Jan 2001, Adam Sampson wrote: > > > > It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious > > Makefile tweak), but the drm modules have unresolved symbols: > > Does this fix it for you (do a "make clean" before re-building your tree)? > >

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Daniel Phillips
Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some > last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists etc), and > the best I can do is make a prerelease. It's even better this way. Now we kick off the new millenium with a new kernel. :-) --

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Alan Cox
> > as it apparently makes CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB a complete no-op? > > Exactly what it is designed to do, Ignore Validity Bits, because the whole > damn messedup the rules between ATA-4 and ATA-6 I think the question is more - so why not lose the ifdef - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

2.4.0 test13-pre7 still causes CDROM ioctl errors

2001-01-01 Thread Raphael Manfredi
[Saw your reply on the web archive: I'm not subscribed to linux-kernel. Cc-ing the list for archive -- I've faked an In-Reply-To for correct threading]. A "cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info" says (I have 2 CD-ROMs, but the one with ioctl() errors is the SCSI one) CD-ROM information, Id:

2.4.0-prerelease shmget woes.

2001-01-01 Thread Gregory McLean
Hi, I just compiled and booted up 2.4.0-prerelease, dropped into X-Windows and now gtk/gnome apps are giving the following warning: Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed! Any ideas on what changed in the shm space to cause this? This is a PII 333 RH 7.0 system 2.4.0-test10 worked just fine on this

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Andre Hedrick
Because the people writing the SPEC screwed up. The was a discussion to remove drive side detection and make it only host, but since many chipset makers can not connect GPIO's for the 80 conductor ribbonlet me walk you through the mess. Bit 13 of word 93 is a capacitance decay test if the

Re: NFS-Root on AIX

2001-01-01 Thread Alan Cox
> > NFS doesnt handle this elegantly for NFSv2 - are you using v2 or v3 ? > That's the question! What does the RedHat 7 support? ;-) 2.2.16-* will be NFSv2 This means the dev_t is passed uninterpreted between server and client. You may find you need to NFS mount the directory on a Linux box,

Re: NFS-Root on AIX

2001-01-01 Thread Oliver Paukstadt
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Last we had to use an AIX-Server as NFS-Server for NFSRoot-Boot. > > > > It did not work, because the all Major-Device-Numbers in /dev/ are all > > set to 0. The minor numbers are transported correctly. > > NFS doesnt handle this elegantly for NFSv2 -

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
Andre, what's the idea behind the following change: --- linux-2.4.0-prerelease-pristine/drivers/ide/ide-features.c Mon Oct 16 12:21:40 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-prerelease/drivers/ide/ide-features.c Sun Dec 31 21:53:17 2000 @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ #ifndef CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB if

Re: NFS-Root on AIX

2001-01-01 Thread Alan Cox
> Last we had to use an AIX-Server as NFS-Server for NFSRoot-Boot. > > It did not work, because the all Major-Device-Numbers in /dev/ are all > set to 0. The minor numbers are transported correctly. NFS doesnt handle this elegantly for NFSv2 - are you using v2 or v3 ? - To unsubscribe from

Re: 2.4.0-pre compile err (pcxx)

2001-01-01 Thread Alan Cox
> when i make bzimage with the pc/xx driver configured as a module, it > compiles ok. configuring it as built-in gives the following error: Im amazed it built as a module - thats why I missed the error > pcxx.c:1826: `mseconds' undeclared (first use in this function) > pcxx.c:1826: (Each

2.4 kernel halting...

2001-01-01 Thread Scott Conway
Hi, I'm having problems getting anything from 2.4.0-test12 onward to get past the IDE detectin phase of bootup, and not even 2.4.0-prerelease will work, either. At the bottom of this is the output of dmesg, on my current kernel (2.4.0-test11), with the spot where test12+ freezes indicated.

[revisited] Oops on boot with 2.4.0testX and GCC snapshots

2001-01-01 Thread Andreas Franck
Hello together, after all the new year's celebrations, I have today taken the time to create a small patch, based on Linus' idea, that will fix this problem in the kernel, _without_ pessimizing any code or breaking with earlier compilers. 2.4.0-prerelease is now running here for an hour

NFS-Root on AIX

2001-01-01 Thread Oliver Paukstadt
HY HY Last we had to use an AIX-Server as NFS-Server for NFSRoot-Boot. It did not work, because the all Major-Device-Numbers in /dev/ are all set to 0. The minor numbers are transported correctly. A mount between two AIXes showed no Problems. I tried this with various OS-Levels of AIX

[PATCH] Remove compile warnings from 2.4.0-prerelease1-ac1

2001-01-01 Thread Rich Baum
Here is a patch that removes warnings about depecrated use of labels at the end of compound statements and warnings about extra tokens at the end of #undef directives when using the 20001225 gcc snapshot. Could you please look this over for possible inclusion in 2.4.0 or

netfilter enum conflict?

2001-01-01 Thread Mark James
Hi: include/linux/netfilter_ipv4.h and include/linux/netfilter_ipv6.h both define enum nf_ip_hook_priorities. This trips the compiler if both are included. Should one change to nf_ipv6_hook_priorities? Mark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: kNFSd maintenance in 2.2.19pre

2001-01-01 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:05:41PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > So, I have started putting some patches together and they can be > found at > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/knfsd-2.2/ I included the interesting ones in my tree. Here two fixes against the vfs backport: ---

2.4.0-pre compile err (pcxx)

2001-01-01 Thread A. P. Garcia
when i make bzimage with the pc/xx driver configured as a module, it compiles ok. configuring it as built-in gives the following error: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-prerelease/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe

Re: [usb-storage] Re: [patchlet] enable HP 8200e USB CDRW

2001-01-01 Thread Robert Baruch
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > >> Um, I'm not sure that this driver is even ready for the EXPERIMENTAL label. >> What does the driver's author say? I'd say it's ready for prime-time. So far the problems that have been described to me have to do with not being able to burn

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
On 1 Jan 2001, Adam Sampson wrote: > > It appears to work (even with the reiserfs patch with the obvious > Makefile tweak), but the drm modules have unresolved symbols: Does this fix it for you (do a "make clean" before re-building your tree)? Linus ---

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Alan Cox
> for FAT etc when reading. Writing is a bit more difficult, as that > then turns out to generate a read before we can commit a dirty > block. IMO, this type of thing does not belong in the drivers -- > we should _never_ receive request for < hard block size. Unfortunately someone ripped the

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 01 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/hdc > > You must format to 2048 size blocks. > > FAT style FS doesnt support 2K blocks 8) Then don't use FAT on DVD-RAM :-). ide-cd will already appropriately cache a single block and dish out 512b sectors from that as needed

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Alan Cox
> ./drivers/ide/ide-cd.c > ./drivers/ide/ide-cd.h > > Adds ATAPI DVD-RAM native read/write mode for any FS. Interesting to say the least. But.. > mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/hdc > You must format to 2048 size blocks. FAT style FS doesnt support 2K blocks 8) - To

Re: PATCH: __bad_udelay fixes(?) for linux-2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread Alan Cox
> (that is, 20 milliseconds). I guess the purpose of this change is > to tell driver maintainers to either take a harder look at whether they > really need to do a busy sleep for that long (you can still do it with It is primarily there because udelay() that long will fail. An mdelay is an

Re: 2.4.0-prerelease, AX25 problems

2001-01-01 Thread Hans Grobler
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, f5ibh wrote: > I've just compiled and tested 2.4.0-prerelease. My AX25 (hamradio) system does > not work with this new release. There is a timing problem. When a fram is sent > on the air, the frame is VERY long (switched off by the watchdog of my drsi > card) and contains no

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-01 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 01 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > ide.2.4.0-prerelease.cd.1231.patch : > > ./drivers/ide/ide-cd.c > ./drivers/ide/ide-cd.h > > Adds ATAPI DVD-RAM native read/write mode for any FS. > mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/hdc > You must format to 2048 size blocks. Any >=

Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file writing

2001-01-01 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Roman Zippel wrote: > The other reason for the question is that I'm currently overwork the block > handling in affs, especially the extended block handling, where I'm > implementing a new extended block cache, where I would pretty much prefer > to use a semaphore to protect

2.4.0-prerelease, AX25 problems

2001-01-01 Thread f5ibh
Hi and Happy New Year, I've just compiled and tested 2.4.0-prerelease. My AX25 (hamradio) system does not work with this new release. There is a timing problem. When a fram is sent on the air, the frame is VERY long (switched off by the watchdog of my drsi card) and contains no data. On this

Re: path MTU bug still there?

2001-01-01 Thread Jonathan Morton
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > How is this solved? Personally, I am behind a CIPE tunnel with an MTU of > > 1442 or something like that. I experienced problems to some places and > > You have to get the other end to fix it. > > > Could it be some kind of incompability at the tunnel

IRNET depending on PPP

2001-01-01 Thread Oliver Neukum
Hi, IRNET depends on PPP, but that is not reflected in the configuration files. A patch is attached. Regards Oliver --- linux-vanilla/net/irda/irnet/Config.in Mon Jan 1 14:34:02 2001 +++ linux/net/irda/irnet/Config.in Mon Jan 1 15:35:15 2001 @@ -1 +1,3 @@

2.4.0-prerel-ac1: Looking good on Alpha

2001-01-01 Thread Dave Gilbert
Hi, 2.4.0-prerelease with the Alan Cox new-year-special ac1 patches is looking good for me on Alpha (LX164). My standard build went just fine; so I decided to push it; I've built in IPv6, a load of USB stuff, SCSI stuff, and a load of other stuff; loaded them all as modules, all loaded OK

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