has anyone patched NVIDIA_kernel to work with 2.4.0?

2001-01-10 Thread dmeyer
Between 2.4.0-test10 and 2.4.0 enough stuff changed that I can't get the OpenGL NVIDIA_kernel module compiled and linked properly. Has anyone else taken a shot at this? I realize this is a little bit OT, since it's something that nvidia ought to be handling, but thus far they've failed to

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-10 Thread David Hinds
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:21:58PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > There are at least two things that need to happen. ... I think you're not clear on what PCMCIA support is in the 2.4 kernel tree. The pcnet_cs driver has been in the kernel tree as long as anything else. Most PCMCIA drivers are

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-10 Thread Miles Lane
Miles Lane wrote: > Huh. Well, I have a 3CCFE575BT "3c575" card and I have > had success using the 3c59x driver to enable the card. I just realised that I was not explicit before: I do not think this port of 3c575_cb should go into the kernel, since the device is already supported by 3c59x,

Kernel HTTP server: Patch for name based virtual domains

2001-01-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
This is a patch against 2.4.0 which enables the use of virtual domains. I ma running multiple domains on my server and was not able to use the kernel webserver. The machine is only a Cyrix 166 and since it also serves lots of files using the kernel server is a tremendous boost. Settings for

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-10 Thread Miles Lane
David Hinds wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:56:22PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > >> There's one other annoyance: >> >> The config files for pcmcia-cs expect the 3c575_cb driver, >> so I either have to hack the configuration files or load >> the 3c59x driver by hand. > > > Yes, I'm not sure

Re: 2.4.0 umount problem

2001-01-10 Thread Frédéric L . W . Meunier
Just FYI, when 2.2.0 was released (yes, 2.2), I moved from 2.0.36 to it on a RedHat 5.1 with all the updates and the rest built from scratch. And shutting down the system gave me the same results: / -> device or resource busy. No need to say that fsck was used. The other partitions were cleanly

Re: PPP: VJ decompression error

2001-01-10 Thread Miles Lane
Joseph Anthony wrote: > Ok, I just upgraded to 2.4.0 from 2.2.17 and I get a slew of these "PPP: > VJ decompression error" messages in my kern.log. I have searched all over > the place for a patch or an answer, but find nothing. These messages show > up mostly when I use Netscape, if that helps.

Kernel 2.6/3.0 feature -- CPU sets/virtual machine partition??

2001-01-10 Thread Anonymous Anonymous
Hi all, Is anyone doing CPU sets/virtual partition for Linux?? Solaris and IRIX support CPU sets, and many sites find them useful, espectially when the machine has more than 8 CPUs. And HP-UX 11i added virtual machine partitions, and this is even more useful for the ASP environments. rayson

Message from new kernel

2001-01-10 Thread Nguyen Truong Sinh
I am using Redhat 7.0 for my system. After install new kernel (2.4.0). My system always inform NET: 3 messages suppressed   What does it mean ? and how to fix it, I don't want it appears on the console at all.   Thanks.

[PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/Locking update

2001-01-10 Thread Alexander Viro
Patch updates filesystems/Locking - corrects ->writepage() prototype, removes dead vma methods and corrects ->writepage() and ->readpage() description wrt page lock. Please, apply. diff -urN S1-pre1/Documentation/filesystems/Locking

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct->unmap in 2.4.0 go?

2001-01-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:38:50 +1100, Antony Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Allen Unueco wrote: >> I ran into this while hacking the Nvidia kernel driver to work with >> 2.4.0. I got the driver working but it's not 100% >> >> Also where did get_module_symbol() and put_module_symbol() go? >

Re: Porting network driver to 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jonathan Earle wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > Still working with kernel 2.4.0-test9 (other things we use require it for > > now), and I was looking at a driver for a Znyx zx346q network card that I > > grabbed from the

Re: Where did vm_operations_struct->unmap in 2.4.0 go?

2001-01-10 Thread Antony Suter
Allen Unueco wrote: > > Sometime around test10 or test11 unmap left vm_operations_struct. The > comment implies its there but it's gone. Where did it go? > > How do I get a call back for a page unmap? > > I ran into this while hacking the Nvidia kernel driver to work with > 2.4.0. I got the

2.4.0-ac6: mm/vmalloc.c compile error

2001-01-10 Thread Frank Davis
Hello,   The following error occurred while compiling 2.4.0-ac6..The strange thing is that I checked mm/vmalloc.c (line 188, and the entire file) and didn't see PKMAP_BASE mentioned. My guess is that there is a problem with one of the header files.   Regards, Frank   vmalloc.c: In function

cs46xx only works as a module still (post 2.4.0)

2001-01-10 Thread David Ford
Just a friendly reminder, the cs46xx driver only works if it's compiled as a module. If it's static, it never gets activated on boot. -d begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.blue-labs.org adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Blue Labs Developer

IDE troubles (power cycle on mount, write problems)

2001-01-10 Thread Michael Hicks
I realize this may not be the place to send IDE questions. Hopefully I'm not intruding too much. Anyway, I have two problems. I know the first is IDE related, but the second might not be. First, I have had problems with relatively recent kernels in that my first drive (Maxtor 90845D4, 8GB),

Floating point broken between 2.4.0-ac4 and -ac5?

2001-01-10 Thread junio
A Duron box running 2.4.0-ac5 (and -ac6) shows NaN in many places (such as df output showing usage "nan%"). Right now I reverted back to 2.4.0-ac4 which does not show the problem. The kernel was compiled with CONFIG_MK7 and without MATH_EMULATION, if that makes any difference. - To unsubscribe

Re: [linux-lvm] Oops in 2.4.0 (@ LVM)

2001-01-10 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > I've heard "soon" on the LVM list, but I'm just one of the chickens. If > it were up to me, the fixes would go to Linus as soon as they are found. indeed. it looks bad when code is updated irregularly, and it's a pain for users. > Cheers, Andreas

Re: [PATCH] one-liner fix for bforget() honoring BH_Protected; was:Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, David L. Parsley wrote: > > Yup, I backed out Adam's one-liner in favor of the attached one-liner. > Tested on 2.4.0, but should patch cleanly to just about anything. ;-) > > BTW Linus - you were of course right on the cramfs wanting 4096 > blocksize... but without this

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-10 Thread David Hinds
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:56:22PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > There's one other annoyance: > > The config files for pcmcia-cs expect the 3c575_cb driver, > so I either have to hack the configuration files or load > the 3c59x driver by hand. Yes, I'm not sure how to best communicate the fact

Re: your mail

2001-01-10 Thread David Hinds
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:24:21PM -0200, Thiago Rondon wrote: > > Check kmalloc(). > > -Thiago Rondon > > --- linux-2.4.0-ac5/drivers/pcmcia/ds.c Sat Sep 2 04:13:49 2000 > +++ linux-2.4.0-ac5.maluco/drivers/pcmcia/ds.cWed Jan 10 16:20:53 2001 > @@ -414,6 +414,8 @@ > /* Add

Re: [PATCH] drivers/pcmcia/cs.c

2001-01-10 Thread David Hinds
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:23:14PM -0200, Thiago Rondon wrote: > > Check kmalloc(). > > -Thiago Rondon > > --- linux-2.4.0-ac5/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c Fri Dec 29 20:35:47 2000 > +++ linux-2.4.0-ac5.maluco/drivers/pcmcia/cs.cWed Jan 10 16:18:11 2001 > @@ -1458,6 +1458,8 @@ >

Re: [linux-lvm] Oops in 2.4.0 (@ LVM)

2001-01-10 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > You should also get the LVM user tools from CVS (with TAG LVM_0-9-patches) > to solve this problem. There will hopefully be a new LVM release soon. any word on when the kernel fixes are going to linus? -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [linux-lvm] Oops in 2.4.0 (@ LVM)

2001-01-10 Thread Andreas Dilger
Gustavo Zacarias writes: > I was just trying LVM's vgextend, maybe i'm missing something?? > LVM works as long as i don't try to extend the VG. > I can do testing/patching without trouble here... There is a patch to the LVM kernel code which should help:

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Cort Dougan
} > - If you care about latency, be *very* cautious about upgrading to } > XFree86 4.x. I'll cover this issue in a separate email, copied } > to the XFree team. } } Did that email pass by me unnoticed? What's the prob with XF86 4.0? The darn thing disables intrs on its own for quite some

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Jay Ts
> A patch against kernel 2.4.0 final which provides low-latency > scheduling is at > > http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/schedlat.html#downloads > > Some notes: > > - Worst-case scheduling latency with *very* intense workloads is now > 0.8 milliseconds on a 500MHz uniprocessor.

Re: [PATCH] one-liner fix for bforget() honoring BH_Protected; was: Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-10 Thread Adam J. Richter
>From: "David L. Parsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote: >> > >> > This sounds like a bug that I posted a fix for a long time ago. >> > cramfs calls bforget on the superblock area, destroying that block of >> > the ramdisk, even

Display bug at configuration of 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Michael Zieger
There is a minor display order bug in 2.4.0 when using make menuconfig, under "SCSI": --- Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs [ ] Enable extra checks in new queueing code [ ] Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device

Re: 2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-10 Thread Miles Lane
Huh. Well, I have a 3CCFE575BT "3c575" card and I have had success using the 3c59x driver to enable the card. I only have one bug I am tracking: If I have two cardbus cards active in my cardbus slots, the 3c59x driver locks up. I doubt this problem would vanish if I were using your 3c575

[2.4.0 pre-PATCH] 830MB barrier (was: Subtle MM bug)

2001-01-10 Thread Wayne Whitney
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > 3) ask kernel developers to get rid of this "brk hits the fixed start > address of mmapped areas" or the other way around complaints "mmapped > area should start at lower address" limitation. E.g. Solaris does > growing up heap, growing down mmap

Oops in 2.4.0 (@ LVM)

2001-01-10 Thread Gustavo Zacarias
Motherboard is ASUS P2B (BX/PIIX4) w/Intel P3-550 Katmai. No OCing, RAM is perfectly OK (been using it for a year). hda = Quantum Fireball ST3.2A hdb = IBM-DTLA-307045 I know i should have them in separate IDE channels, but for now i was setting up LVM to move another fast/big disk in. Kernel

Re: Poll and Select not scaling

2001-01-10 Thread Bill Wendling
Also sprach Micah Gorrell: } If I am asking this in the wrong place I apoligize in advace. Please let me } know where the correct forum would be. } } } I have been trying to increase the scalabilty of an email server that has } been ported to Linux. It was originally written for Netware, and

Re: The latest instance in the A20 farce

2001-01-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
"Dunlap, Randy" wrote: > > I'm not sure about this, but I'm wondering if the > Fixed (as in Static) ACPI Description Table (FADT) > can indicate that the platform is a legacy-free system. > Parsing ACPI is a nightmare on steroids. That is just Not An Option[TM] in a < 10K bootstrap routine.

Linux 2.4.0-ac6

2001-01-10 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.0-ac6 o Sunrpc locking fix () o Made agpgart smarter about i815 (Charles McLachlan) o Speed up truncate for shmem and clean up(Christoph Rohland) o Fix

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Wrong method. > > > > APMD has to have the ablity to remember the state. > > Spindown is basically a power reset to the drive. > > Wrong answer, apmd if its swapped out doesnt get back in on some drives Okay then are you wanting me to create a struct

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Grant Grundler
Andre, Alan, My grand total experience with IDE drivers is now around 4 hours. I have no clue what's right or wrong and am quite clueless what the role of apmd is wrt ide-disk driver. I'm open to testing other fixes for this problem. AFAIK, this could be a BIOS bug since no one else seems to

Re: 2.4.0 vm BUG (ksymoopsed)

2001-01-10 Thread David Ford
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > kernel BUG at vmscan.c:452! > > invalid operand: > > Does reiserfs patch changes vmscan.c ? > > If so, whats in line 452 of mm/vmscan.c of 2.4.0 reiserfs tree? reiserfs doesn't touch mm/vmscan.c. the line is: del_page_from_inactive_clean_list(page); -d > --

RE: The latest instance in the A20 farce

2001-01-10 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 4:10 PM > > "Dunlap, Randy" wrote: > > > > a. The BIOS isn't required to have int. 0x15, AH=0x2401 [Appx. A], > >but that is handled by your patch. > > Idiots. This should be required and be a null

2.4.0 Patch for 3c575

2001-01-10 Thread Aaron Eppert
Attached is a patch against 2.4.0 to add the 3c575 driver into the kernel. Simple reasoning for the addition involves the rather broad use of this card and the need to have it in a standard kernel. Aaron Eppert -- Aaron Eppert -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology "To escape criticism, do

Re: [PATCH] Invalid Netfilter URL in Documentation/Changes in 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:38:53 -0800 >From: David Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >The link to http://www.samba.org/netfilter/iptables-1.1.1.tar.bz2 is >invalid in 2.4.0, this patch simply removes the link. > > Thanks, I've applied

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Alan Cox
> Okay then are you wanting me to create a struct or bit mask to carry the > the device settings/mode that is set before an APM/ACPI event happens. > > Regardless that the answer is wrong, somebody/thing has to keep a copy of > the device settings, and the case of swapout they get nuked. Thus a

Re: 2.4.0 vm BUG (ksymoopsed)

2001-01-10 Thread Ulrich Schwarz
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:21:57PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >> kernel BUG at vmscan.c:452! >> invalid operand: > Does reiserfs patch changes vmscan.c ? No, it doesn't. It's strange that the console reported vmscan.c:452 whilst kern.log reports page_alloc.c:74 So long. Ulrich - To

Re: 2.4.0 vm BUG (ksymoopsed)

2001-01-10 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Ulrich Schwarz wrote: > 2.4.0 (final i586) patched with reiserfs 3.6.25 produced the following BUG: > > > the console report (ksymoopsed): > > kernel BUG at vmscan.c:452! > invalid operand: Does reiserfs patch changes vmscan.c ? If so, whats in line 452 of

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Alan Cox
> Wrong method. > > APMD has to have the ablity to remember the state. > Spindown is basically a power reset to the drive. Wrong answer, apmd if its swapped out doesnt get back in on some drives - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: Problem with module versioning in 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam, all you're doing is contributing to it. I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time. However fortunately, the

[PATCH] USB Config fix for 2.2.19-pre7

2001-01-10 Thread Greg KH
Hi, Here's a fix for the USB Config for 2.2.19-pre7. I messed up and took out the HID devices in the patch I sent you for 2.2.19-pre6. thanks, greg k-h -- greg@(kroah|wirex).com diff -Naur -X dontdiff linux-2.2.19-pre7/drivers/usb/Config.in linux-2.2.19-pre7-greg/drivers/usb/Config.in

Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSELinux)

2001-01-10 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > Ah thanks, that makes more sense. But, copy_to_user is only working on > namelen bytes, and reclen is bigger than that. So, who is checking the > value for the buf->current_dir pointer? Look at the thing again. Especially at the place where reclen

Re: Problem with module versioning in 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:17:41 + (GMT), Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >jeremyhu wrote >> See below for my origional problem. It seems the problem lies in the >> module versioning option. > >Not quite Probably is. >> When the system boots, I am spammed with the following line: >>

Re: * 4 converted to << 2 for networking code

2001-01-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jakob_=D8stergaard?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On most processors <<2 is slower than *4. > That's a funny statement. Which processors do you include in "most"? That has not been my experience. > It's

Re: [Announcement] linux-kernel v2.0.39

2001-01-10 Thread Gerhard Mack
GCC 2.95 will NOT compile a 2.0 series kernel... Gerhard > # gcc --version > 2.95.2 > > # uname -a > Linux eyal 2.4.0-ac3 #1 Sun Jan 7 12:15:50 EST 2001 i686 unknown > > # ls -l /lib/libc-*.so > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1057576 Oct 14 05:45 > /lib/libc-2.1.95.so > > -- >

Re: Problem with module versioning in 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Alan Cox
Ummm .sigs shouldnt be that long - 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: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-10 Thread Alan Cox
> > The MMU on these systems is a CAM, and the mmu table is thus backwards to > > convention. (It also means you can notionally map two physical addresses to > > one virtual but thats undefined in the implementation ;)) > > Are there any other (not yet supported) platforms with similar (or other

Re: Problem with module versioning in 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Jeremy Huddleston
Well in any case, the problem was solved by my turning off module versioning. Regardless of how and why. All other things being equal (as in the .config I provided) CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y produces the errors reported (PCMCIA not working, and unix.o not loading) and when it is not defined,

[PATCH]: Keep sound-module usage correct, even if audio_open fails

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I noticed that if you try to (e.g.) play two WAV file simultaneously, then not only does the second one fail ("Device or resource busy", of course) but the sound-card module's usage count breaks. Here is a patch. And Alan, since you seem to be the person collecting these sound patches, I

Re: Problem with module versioning in 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Alan Cox
> See below for my origional problem. It seems the problem lies in the > module versioning option. Not quite > When the system boots, I am spammed with the following line: > insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/net/unix/unix.o: insmod net-pf-1 > failed What happens is this kernel needs unix

Re: 2.4.0 vm BUG (ksymoopsed)

2001-01-10 Thread Ulrich Schwarz
2.4.0 (final i586) patched with reiserfs 3.6.25 produced the following BUG: the console report (ksymoopsed): kernel BUG at vmscan.c:452! invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010282 eax: 001c ebx: c101322c ecx:

Re: The latest instance in the A20 farce

2001-01-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
"Dunlap, Randy" wrote: > > a. The BIOS isn't required to have int. 0x15, AH=0x2401 [Appx. A], >but that is handled by your patch. Idiots. This should be required and be a null function; likewise AH=0x2400. The only thing that the current spec means is that > b. The BIOS isn't required

Re: Poll and Select not scaling

2001-01-10 Thread Dan Kegel
Micah wrote: > I have been trying to increase the scalabilty of > an email server that has been ported to Linux. It > was originally written for Netware, and there we > are able to provide over 30,000 connections at any > given time. On Linux however select stops working > after the first 1024

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-10 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:09:22PM +, Russell King wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli writes: > > Furthmore > > the cast of data to a struct should work on all architectures as far as C is > > concerned (if you then run

Re: Subtle MM bug (really 830MB barrier question)

2001-01-10 Thread Wayne Whitney
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > 3) ask kernel developers to get rid of this "brk hits the fixed start > address of mmapped areas" or the other way around complaints "mmapped > area should start at lower address" limitation. E.g. Solaris does > growing up heap, growing down mmap

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
Wrong method. APMD has to have the ablity to remember the state. Spindown is basically a power reset to the drive. On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Grant Grundler wrote: > hi folks, > I've been playing with hdparms on the OB800 (running debian 2.2 - > that 2.2.18pre21 based) as shown on: > >

RE: The latest instance in the A20 farce

2001-01-10 Thread Dunlap, Randy
hpa- I tested this patch on a Pentium dual-proc system (440GX) and on a Celeron system[1] (810) that lacks floppy, keyboard controller, maybe some other things. Linux 2.4.0 boots fine on each of these systems with this patch applied. I couldn't tell which method of enabling A20 was actually

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-10 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 07:36:43PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > I looked at it a year or two ago myself, and came to the conclusion that I > > don't want to blow up our page table size by a factor of three or more, so > > I'm not personally interested any more. Maybe somebody else comes up with > >

Re: Which driver took effect?

2001-01-10 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:33:22AM +0330, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I looked at some outputs and > /proc/interrupts > /proc/ioports > /proc/iomem It's all messy and inconsistent;( > And scanning dmesg is indeed just the road to ugly hacks, although > it does seem common practice

Re: netfilter ipv6 as module unresolved symbols

2001-01-10 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wri te: > Hello, > > test13-acXX and final-acXX have unresolved symbols, namely > ipt_register_target and ipt_unregister_target in the module > ip6t_MARK.o Yes, IPv6 netfilter is broken. MARK and mangle should be removed, or the following patch (by Harald

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> De gustibus non disputandum. > >http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/07/57/ > > "ingestion of the afterbirth during delivery" > >eh? > > >http://www.degustibus.co.uk/ > >

2.4.0 vm BUG

2001-01-10 Thread Ulrich Schwarz
Hi, 2.4.0 (final i386) patched with reiserfs 3.6.25 produced the following BUG: the console reported: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:452! invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010282 eax: 001c ebx: c101322c ecx: c0274608 edx: esi: c23acc24 edi: c1013210 ebp:

Re: [Announcement] linux-kernel v2.0.39

2001-01-10 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
Keith Owens wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:27:44 +1100, > Eyal Lebedinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My 'make dep' fails in the following way. This is on Debian 2.2, I > >commented > >if [ -n "amigamouse.c atarimouse.c atixlmouse.c baycom.c busmouse.c > >cd1865.h conmakehash.c console.c

Re: unexplained high load

2001-01-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > 91 processes, only 1 running (think top) 1 Running Process -> Load 1.0... no? Gruss Bernd - 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

[PATCH] one-liner fix for bforget() honoring BH_Protected; was: Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-10 Thread David L. Parsley
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote: > > > > This sounds like a bug that I posted a fix for a long time ago. > > cramfs calls bforget on the superblock area, destroying that block of > > the ramdisk, even when the ramdisk does not contain a cramfs file

Poll and Select not scaling

2001-01-10 Thread Micah Gorrell
If I am asking this in the wrong place I apoligize in advace. Please let me know where the correct forum would be. I have been trying to increase the scalabilty of an email server that has been ported to Linux. It was originally written for Netware, and there we are able to provide over

Problem with module versioning in 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Jeremy Huddleston
See below for my origional problem. It seems the problem lies in the module versioning option. After I reported the following, I tried compileing Unix Sockets into the kernel. The system loaded fine, but I was unable to get PCMCIA to work properly. Someone then recomended that I turn module

[PATCH] 2.2.18pre21 ide-disk.c for OB800

2001-01-10 Thread Grant Grundler
hi folks, I've been playing with hdparms on the OB800 (running debian 2.2 - that 2.2.18pre21 based) as shown on: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/hp800ct.html The appended patch attemps to fix the following errors seen when the IDE drive spins up after a sleep mode: hda:

Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7

2001-01-10 Thread Russell King
Andrea Arcangeli writes: > (spotted by Andi) util-linux-2.10o/mount/nfs_mount4.h: > > struct nfs3_fh { > unsigned short size; > unsigned char data[64]; > }; > > (see also nfs_mount_data structure in both kernel and mount) Well, let me put it this way: 1. NFS

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-10 Thread Frank de Lange
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > which should work, they are > > NON-busmastering cards after all...), > third line in w840_probe1(): > > pci_set_master(). > > And the documentation begins with > W89C840F > PCI Bus Master Fast Ethernet LAN

Re: Oops in 2.4.0-ac5

2001-01-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > it. I could never persuade Ingo to use wrmsr_eio() and check the > > return code, maybe this will change his mind. Extract from kdb v1.7. > > I have a patch from Ingo to fix this one properly. Its just getting tested i prefer clear oopses and bug

Re: Oops in 2.4.0-ac5

2001-01-10 Thread Alan Cox
> This is why my original NMI for UP code in kdb uses wrmsr_eio() instead > of wrmsr. wrmsr_eio() catches errors where the APIC does not support > the msr and returns EIO instead of oopsing and taking the kernel with > it. I could never persuade Ingo to use wrmsr_eio() and check the > return

Re: Oops in 2.4.0-ac5

2001-01-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:23:14 -0500, Nathan Walp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here it is... I opted to cut out the 1200-odd warnings, which from the >look of them were all because i'm running it under 2.4.0-ac4 (which >boots fine). ksymoops defaults to using /proc entries from the current system.

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-10 Thread Frank de Lange
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Which driver do you use? The driver in 2.4.0 contains several bugfixes. > If that driver still hangs then I'll double check the documentation. The NE2K PCI one... I'll try to fiddle around with the driver, who knows... > And the

PIII vs FXSR

2001-01-10 Thread J . A . Magallon
arch/i386/Makefile: --- linux-2.4.0-ac5/arch/i386/Makefile.org Wed Jan 10 23:22:54 2001 +++ linux-2.4.0-ac5/arch/i386/Makefile Wed Jan 10 23:23:10 2001 @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ CFLAGS += -march=i686 endif -ifdef CONFIG_M686FXSR +ifdef CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII CFLAGS += -march=i686 endif -- J.A.

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-10 Thread Manfred Spraul
Frank de Lange wrote: > > Hi'all, > > Ever since I put two ethernet-cards (cheap Winbond W89C940 based PCI NE2K > clones) in my BP-6 system, I've been experiencing intermittent network hangs. > Which driver do you use? The driver in 2.4.0 contains several bugfixes. If that driver still hangs

Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4

2001-01-10 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:56:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hardlinks have nothing to do with `rmdir .`. See rmdir . as the equivalent > pointed out by Alexander: "rmdir `pwd`". `pwd` returns the same thing You can't delete immutable

Re: * 4 converted to << 2 for networking code

2001-01-10 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, antirez wrote: > Hi all, > > The attached patch converts many occurences of '* 4' in the networking code > (often used to convert in bytes the TCP data offset and the IP header len) > to the faster '<< 2'. Since this was a quite repetitive work it's better > if someone

Re: 2.4.0 and "LSR safety check engaged!\n"

2001-01-10 Thread Mike Lieman
Richard, I think we're experiencing the same issue. Could you fire up minicom (under 2.4) , connect to another box, and do a directory listing to see if you have the same lost characters/"flow control" looking issue I'm experiencing... It's rock solid on 2.2.18. peace Mike At 04:23 PM

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-10 Thread Hans Grobler
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:37:06PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > > > > Aren't you supposed to design the spec BEFORE you implement it? > > Try http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/softnet (minor details outdated) The softnet changes are most likely the primary

Oops in 2.4.0 with hdX=cdrom

2001-01-10 Thread Matthias Rosenkranz
Hi, I got the following Oops with a stock 2.4.0 kernel when specifying 'hdd=cdrom' as lilos commandline. hdd is a Pioneer DR-A24X and ATA probing confuses it without 'hdd=noprobe hdd=cdrom'. I've also tested with 'hdc=cdrom' (which is a LG CRD-8482B) and it oopsed, too. Without the option the

Re: Porting network driver to 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Manfred Spraul
Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:40:50PM -0500, Jonathan Earle wrote: > > Where do I go from here? Is there info somewhere to help with this? Is > > this a bigger job than it looks on the surface? > > Try http://www.firstfloor.org/~andi/softnet > I would ask someone from

Re: unexplained high load

2001-01-10 Thread Bob Lorenzini
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Hacksaw wrote: > Ahh, a D state. > > D means disk wait, which the only thing that can postpone a -9. Basic, the > process is stuck in a loop inside a routine that needs to be atomic. > > You'll have to reboot to clear it. I believe this is a kernel bug. Try going > back

Re: unexplained high load

2001-01-10 Thread kernel
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Hacksaw wrote: > > .nfs00ca40250006 > > > > so i think there is some lock from the nfs server or client > > > > will try to restart nfs client > > and see if this fixes it. > > > > Most likely you will have to restart the nfs server on the other side as well, >

Re: Anybody got 2.4.0 running on a 386 ?

2001-01-10 Thread mo6
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:18:41PM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: > > move up to 2.4.0-testX kernels I just tested 2.4.0-test1, it doesn't boot on the 386 with the same symptoms as 2.4.0. 2.3.99-pre9 same. 2.3.99-pre8 is the last one that boots correctly. There is one weird thing I notice, the

Re: unexplained high load

2001-01-10 Thread kernel
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > so i think there is some lock from the nfs server or client > > will try to restart nfs client > and see if this fixes it. didn't fix it (file is gone now) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: unexplained high load

2001-01-10 Thread Hacksaw
> .nfs00ca40250006 > > so i think there is some lock from the nfs server or client > > will try to restart nfs client > and see if this fixes it. > Most likely you will have to restart the nfs server on the other side as well, but it's worth a try. Tripwire watches the checksum

X performance on 2.4.0 v.s. 2.4.0-test12

2001-01-10 Thread Alan Olsen
I have seen a number of reports claiming something broken in 2.4.0 for DRI. I have tested under 2.4.0 and 2.4.0 test 12 with the exact same setup. I see a slight variation in frame rates under the release version, but so small as to be within statistical varience. Everything else seems to work

Re: unexplained high load

2001-01-10 Thread kernel
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:36:14 -0500 >From: Hacksaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >You'll have to reboot to clear it. I believe this is a kernel >bug. Try going back to 2.2.14, or maybe up to 2.2.19pre2. > > He needs to go up if

Re: unexplained high load

2001-01-10 Thread kernel
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Hacksaw wrote: > Ahh, a D state. > > D means disk wait, which the only thing that can postpone a -9. Basic, the > process is stuck in a loop inside a routine that needs to be atomic. looked at the dir created with the last ftp login and found :

Re: bugreporting script - second try

2001-01-10 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Matthias , When I run your script under a -very- old release of slackare (See after .sig) I get the below . my ldd is ancient . root@filesrv1:~# ~/bin/bugreport.sh asdfasdfasdf

Re: Related VIA PCI crazyness?

2001-01-10 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 03:52:41PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Philip Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In supplement to Evan Thompson's emails with the subject "Additional > >info. for PCI VIA IDE crazyness. Please read." I've noticed the > >following

Re: unexplained high load

2001-01-10 Thread kernel
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Hacksaw wrote: > >don't think > >w,uptime,top give the same value > > The fact that they all give the same value does not indicate that you have not > been cracked. Obviously, part of the hacking is to cover trails; it'd be a > pretty poor job if they reported different

Possible deadlock with ->writepaged version of flush_dirty_buffers()and 2.4.0

2001-01-10 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Chris, It seems there is a possible deadlock condition with your patch which changes flush_dirty_buffers() to use ->writepage (something which we _definately_ want for 2.5). Take a look: mark_buffer_dirty->balance_dirty->wakeup_bdflush->flush_dirty_buffers->

Re: 2.4.0 tcp over firewall - no connection

2001-01-10 Thread Eugene Crosser
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I noticed rather strange behavior: stock 2.4.0 with old ISA 3Com >> on UP compiled as UP cannot open TCP connection to hosts behind a >> firewall. E.g. it is impossible to go to http://www.etrade.com/ - >>

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