Re: dropcopyright script

2001-02-13 Thread Matthew Dharm
Same here. While it's a nice script and all, I personally want the copyright and associated contact information in a clear and easy-to-find place. In other words, if you get Linus to patch the kernel to do this, then I'm just going to try to get him to patch it back. Matt On Wed, Feb 14, 2001

2.4.2-pre2 -- Hard hang on warm reboot when the yenta driver attempts to detect the cardbus bridges.

2001-02-13 Thread Miles Lane
Any debugging tips would be greatly appreciated. When I cold boot my machine with a 3c575 and a Belkin BusPort Mobile inserted in the Cardbus slots, I get the following in my kernel log: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Yenta IRQ list 0698, PCI irq11 Socket

Re: [patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: > Here's a patch that fixes a bug that can cause PCI driver list > corruption. If parport_pc's init_module fails after it calls > pci_register_driver, cleanup_module isn't called and so it's still > registered when it gets unloaded. > ---

Re: dropcopyright script

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Russell King wrote: > Rick Hohensee writes: > > ... > > ## drop copyright notices to the bottoms of C files in current dir and > > # subs. > > Please don't run this on any files maintained by myself.

Re: dropcopyright script

2001-02-13 Thread Russell King
Rick Hohensee writes: > ... > ## drop copyright notices to the bottoms of C files in current dir and > # subs. Please don't run this on any files maintained by myself. I want the copyright notices to be prominently

Re: piix.c and tuning question

2001-02-13 Thread Shawn Starr
hmmm this is my chipset: Which motherboard do you have? 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430HX - 82439HX TXC [Triton II] (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton

piix.c and tuning question

2001-02-13 Thread dilinger
I have a box w/ the following controllers: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430HX - 82439HX TXC [Triton II] (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] I

swap errors

2001-02-13 Thread Billy Harvey
Under 2.4.1-ac11 I'm getting errors like: Feb 14 02:10:09 rhino kernel: Unused swap offset entry in swap_count 004dda00 Feb 14 02:10:09 rhino kernel: VM: Bad swap entry 004dda00 over and over. The system has 512M real and 1G swap allocated. This is occuring at: Mem:512492K total,

The Next Yahoo

2001-02-13 Thread launchmarch16
* Hi, linux-kernel What if Yahoo Paid You ? Now a reality !!! World's first completely commissionable Portal just released. Get paid as thousands search, email, or use any of our services. 14 months and 1.5 million dollars invested in the

Re: Problem: Floppy drive[?] hang

2001-02-13 Thread C . D . Thompson-Walsh
On February 14, 2001 06:15 am, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, C. D. Thompson-Walsh wrote: > > [This sortof follows the format of the report form in REPORTING-BUGS] > > 1. I've found a consistent set of circumstances which will hang 2.4.x > > kernels on my system. > > > > 2. If the

Re: incremental patches for 2.4*-ac* kernels

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Willy Tarreau wrote: > I think that most of us using modems begin to experience a little pain in > downloading latest Alan's patches since they're becoming to be really big (and > interesting). > > Since I have an occasionnal access to a system equipped with a good line, I >

incremental patches for 2.4*-ac* kernels

2001-02-13 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi all, I think that most of us using modems begin to experience a little pain in downloading latest Alan's patches since they're becoming to be really big (and interesting). Since I have an occasionnal access to a system equipped with a good line, I began to make incremental patches for these

dropcopyright script

2001-02-13 Thread Rick Hohensee
... ## drop copyright notices to the bottoms of C files in current dir and # subs. # /* # CopYriGHt Guess Who 2001All reserves righted. # */ grep -ilr "copyright" . > tempdropcopyrights for f in

Re: [UPDATE] zerocopy patch against 2.4.2-pre2

2001-02-13 Thread David Rees
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 12:27:10AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It's getting very lonely testing this stuff. It would be useful if > someone else could help out - at least running the bw_tcp tests. It's > pretty simple: > > bw_tcp -s ; bw_tcp 0 OK, here's my bw_tcp results on a K6-2

RE: PCI bridge handling 2.4.0-test10 -> 2.4.2-pre3

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Zink, Dan wrote: > Does it make sense to try and keep up with the latest and greatest in > chipsets > when there is a hardware independent way of doing things? You may be able > to > get information on current chipsets, but every time something changes, the > kernel may be

Re: Problem: Floppy drive[?] hang

2001-02-13 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, C. D. Thompson-Walsh wrote: > [This sortof follows the format of the report form in REPORTING-BUGS] > 1. I've found a consistent set of circumstances which will hang 2.4.x kernels > on my system. > > 2. If the system is put under load to the point where it swaps heavily >

Re: Video drivers and the kernel

2001-02-13 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
> I was wondering why video drivers are not part of the kernel like every > other piece of hardware. I would think if video drivers were part of the > kernel and had a nice API for X or any other windowing system, would not > only improve performance but would allow competing windowing systems

Re: Video drivers and the kernel

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Louis Garcia wrote: > I was wondering why video drivers are not part of the kernel like every > other piece of hardware. See linux/drivers/video and linux/drivers/char/drm in kernel 2.4. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Destination Loose UDP in 2.4 (net/ipv4/netfilter)

2001-02-13 Thread TeknoDragon
What is the status of "dloose udp" in 2.4.x? From my reading in a few list archives it seems to have been some sort of a hack, yet it is needed for games such as Asheron's Call to be played behind a firewall. In 2.2.18 the code implementing this seems to be in net/ipv4/ip_masq.c and was

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-13 Thread Michael E Brown
Martin, It looks like the numbers we picked for our respective IOCTLs conflict. I think I can change mine to the next higher since your patch seems to have been around longer. What is the general way to deal with these conflicts? -- Michael On 13 Feb 2001, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > >

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-13 Thread Michael E Brown
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > I have one additional user space only idea: > have you tried raw-io? bind a raw device to the partition, IIRC raw-io > is always in 512 byte units. That has been tried. No, it does not work. :-) Using Scsi-Generic is the only way so far found, but

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-13 Thread Donald Becker
On 12 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > "Donald" == Donald Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Donald> On 9 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >> The ia64 kernel has gotten mis aligned load support, but it's slow > >> as a dog so we really want to copy the packet every time anyway > >> when

Re: Problem with Ramdisk in linux-2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > > > Can you point me to a cramfs generation procedure? (never used > > cramfs.. know where the docs are, but could use a small time warp) > > > > make ramdisk as you normally do and then compress it by gzip . Ok, it's not a cramfs. If you

Bug in 2.4.x??

2001-02-13 Thread Ashwin D
Hi Well, it may not be a bug, but it sure is bugging me - i have been on this for more than a week. Well, here goes; Why is it that my DMA performance under the kernel 2.4.x is worse than the one under 2.2? I have attached the stats below the mail- information and test results under both

Re: [Xpert]Video drivers and the kernel

2001-02-13 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Louis Garcia wrote: > I was wondering why video drivers are not part of the kernel like every > other piece of hardware. I would think if video drivers were part of the > kernel and had a nice API for X or any other windowing system, would not > only improve performance

[PATCH] 2.4.1ac12 mkdep -I support - take 2

2001-02-13 Thread Keith Owens
Get rid of the special case in drivers/acpi/Makefile. mkdep now uses the same -I options in the same order as the compiler. Against 2.4.1ac12. Change from take 1 - make is too dumb to realise that /path/name/file.h is the same as file.h when current directory is /path/name, so do not use the

[PATCH] 2.4.2-pre3 mkdep -I support - take 2

2001-02-13 Thread Keith Owens
Get rid of the special case in drivers/acpi/Makefile. mkdep now uses the same -I options in the same order as the compiler. Against 2.4.2-pre3. Please jump up and down on this patch before I send it to Linus. Change from take 1 - make is too dumb to realise that /path/name/file.h is the same

Video drivers and the kernel

2001-02-13 Thread Louis Garcia
I was wondering why video drivers are not part of the kernel like every other piece of hardware. I would think if video drivers were part of the kernel and had a nice API for X or any other windowing system, would not only improve performance but would allow competing windowing systems

Re: 2.2.19pre10 doesn't compile on alphas (sunrpc)

2001-02-13 Thread Richard Henderson
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:33:17PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > You have to add a few bits to arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c > I could be wrong though... Only to make the oops look pretty. Something like die_if_kernel((type == 1 ? "Kernel Bug" : "Instruction fault"),

Re: [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug

2001-02-13 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
Alan Cox wrote: > Ok we need to handle that case a bit more intelligently so those flushes dont > get into other ports code paths. Possibly at fs/buffer.c:end_buffer_io_async? We need to flush the cache when I/O was READ or READA. Is there any way for end_buffer_io_async to distinguish

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-13 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:29:16 -0800, Ion Badulescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:06:44 -0600 (CST), Jeff Garzik ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 12 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: >>> In fact one has to look out for this and disable the feature in some >>> cases. On the

Driver for Casio Cassiopia Fiva touchscreen, help with conversionto 2.4

2001-02-13 Thread Elliot Lee
Available at http://people.redhat.com/~sopwith/fidmour-linux.c is a driver for the touch screen used on the Cassiopia Fiva MPC-501 pen computer. It is a rather Bad Hack (seeing as it was built rather blindly to mimic the behaviour of the Windows driver, and has IRQ/port hardcoded in), but it

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-13 Thread Ion Badulescu
On 12 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Ion> Yes, but I'd rather let people turn off the always-copy behavior > Ion> by simply changing rx_copybreak. The unused code is not really > Ion> that much of a deal, it's only a few lines. > > However, it is in the hot path code where it hurts the most.

RE: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-13 Thread Matt_Domsch
> > While we can read and write to this sector in the kernel > > partition code, we have > > no way for userspace to update this partition block. > > Are you sure? I'm not sure, but when I asked about this in January, I suggested having an IOCTL that get/set

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-13 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Andries" == Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andries> Anyway, an ioctl just to read the last sector is too silly. Andries> An ioctl to change the blocksize is more reasonable. I actually sent you a patch implementing this some time ago, remember? We need it for XFS... Patch

Re: strange bug, alloca suspected

2001-02-13 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:10:27 +0100, Yann Droneaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Modprobe don't use alloca() correctly, then glibc failed. (stack corruption ?) >This mail is sent to glibc, gcc and modutils maintainers. Thanks, modutils bug, not a glibc problem. Against modutils 2.4.2. Index:

Re: 2.2.19pre10 locks up hard on unloading the isdn module 'hisax.o'

2001-02-13 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > SMP machine, 2x P3/700 on an Abit VP6. > Never any trouble with the earlier 2.2.19pre's. > > a strace shows the hang to be in the delete_module("hisax") call. I got another report of the same problem already. I'll try to sort it out tomorrow.

Crash in request_region while handling kernel parameters

2001-02-13 Thread Michael Karcher
Hello kernel-hackers, I found a problem with kernel 2.4, that makes the kernel crash at bootup, for example when using the UMC8672 VLB IDE controller driver. The problem is in kernel/resource.c. In line 229 some memory for handling new io-regions is kmalloc()ed. This crashes the computer before

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-13 Thread Manfred Spraul
Michael E Brown wrote: > > > > > Anyway, an ioctl just to read the last sector is too silly. > > An ioctl to change the blocksize is more reasonable. > > That may be better, I don't know. That's why this is an RFC. Are there any > possible races with that method? It seems to me that you might

test, please ignore

2001-02-13 Thread Greg Louis
ok, for those who didn't ignore :) trying to correct a misconfigured MTA that made vger barf. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the

2.4.1-ac12 -- SMP build for Athlon still broken -- hw_irq.h:198: `current' undeclared

2001-02-13 Thread Miles Lane
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=i686 -malign-functions=4-c -o init/main.o init/main.c /usr/src/linux/include/asm/hw_irq.h: In function `x86_do_profile': In file included from

[OPPS] 2.2.18

2001-02-13 Thread James Stevenson
On Linux version 2.2.18 (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) i got Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 74723e0a current->tss.cr3 = 0353d000, %cr3 = 0353d000 *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010816 eax:

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Ulf Carlsson
Hi Tigran, > PS. This only happens on this Dell latitude CPx (notice lost shift in > Latitude?) H450GT. I have a Dell Latitude CPx as well and I keep losing caps lock keypresses. I'm running a 2.2.18 kernel. It's very annoying since I have control mapped to caps lock. I suspected that my

Re: Stale NFS handles on 2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == stergaard writes: > What happens is that one machine will finish compiling, and > another machine will immediately thereafter do a "touch > some_output.o". This "touch" sometimes fails with a stale > handle message. Does the appended patch change anything?

Re: [PATCH] swapin flush cache bug

2001-02-13 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
Russell King wrote: > Unless someone else (Rik/DaveM) says otherwise, it is my understanding > that any IO for page P will only ever be a write to disk. Therefore, > when you get a copy of the page from the swap cache, the physical memory > for that page is the same as it was when the

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-13 Thread Andries . Brouwer
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Feb 14 00:37:25 2001 > Look at the addpart utility in the util-linux package. > It will allow you to add a partition disjoint from > previously existing partitions. > And since a partition can start on an odd sector, > this should allow you to

[patch] 2.4.2-pre3: parport_pc init_module bug

2001-02-13 Thread Tim Waugh
Linus, Here's a patch that fixes a bug that can cause PCI driver list corruption. If parport_pc's init_module fails after it calls pci_register_driver, cleanup_module isn't called and so it's still registered when it gets unloaded. Tim. */ 2001-01-13 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *

Re: 2.4.2-pre2 ext2fs corruption

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> sorry. intel piii, with an adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 scsi adapter. the > disk in question is a 9gb IBM disk Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30. is > this what you need? do you need more? Thanks. Added to my collection of data, doesnt tally with other corruption reports (other aic7xxx reports with the

Re: Stale NFS handles on 2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:31:50PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > The NFS clients are getting > > "Stale NFS handle" > > messages every once in a while which will make a "touch somefile.o" > > fail. > > If they have the previous .o handle cached and it was removed on another > client thats quite

Linux 2.4.1ac12

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.1-ac12 o Make tmpfs use link counts of 2 on directories (Christoph Rohland) o Update Documentation/sound/Introductions(Wade Hampton) o Fix bug in new tlb shootdown code (Ben LaHaise) o

Re: 2.4.2-pre2 ext2fs corruption

2001-02-13 Thread Alex Romosan
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i came in today to find the computer completely locked up. after > > rebooting and waiting for about an hour for fsck to finish i found the > > following errors in the system log: > > What hardware. I can see its some kind of scsi setup but what

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-13 Thread Michael E Brown
Hi Andries! On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The block device uses 1K blocksize, and will prevent userspace from > > seeing the odd-block at the end of the disk, if the disk is odd-size. > > > > IA-64 architecture defines a new partitioning scheme where there is a > > backup

2.4.1-ac11, VM: Bad swap entry

2001-02-13 Thread Fabian Januszewski
2.4.1-ac11 creates repeatedly the following error messages on my box: kernel: VM: killing process crond (or any other process) kernel: VM: Bad swap entry e200(variable addresses) for example in intervals of about 5 to 10 seconds. This is on a notebook, AMD K6-433, 64megs RAM, VIA

Re: 2.4.2-pre2 ext2fs corruption

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> i came in today to find the computer completely locked up. after > rebooting and waiting for about an hour for fsck to finish i found the > following errors in the system log: What hardware. I can see its some kind of scsi setup but what interfaces ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: 2.4.1 loopback FS partial fix

2001-02-13 Thread John Langford
Excellent - this solved my problems. I stress tested the loopback device with a big copy and it seemed to work. I also made losetup use open64: [root@crush mount]# diff lomount.c lomount.c~ 230c230 < if ((ffd = open64 (file, mode)) < 0) { --- > if ((ffd = open (file, mode)) < 0) {

2.4.2-pre2 ext2fs corruption

2001-02-13 Thread Alex Romosan
i came in today to find the computer completely locked up. after rebooting and waiting for about an hour for fsck to finish i found the following errors in the system log: Feb 13 06:25:18 caliban kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,3)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #11: rec_len %% 4 != 0

Re: Stale NFS handles on 2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> The NFS clients are getting > "Stale NFS handle" > messages every once in a while which will make a "touch somefile.o" > fail. If they have the previous .o handle cached and it was removed on another client thats quite reasonable behaviour. NFS isnt coherent > It's quite annoying and I

Stale NFS handles on 2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Jakob Østergaard
Hi ! I'm running a compilation cluster with various machines now on 2.4.1 all mounting the same home filesystem over NFS from the central NFS server. All machines are 2.4.1 using NFSv3, some SMP some UP. NFS server is a dual running an SMP kernel The NFS clients are getting "Stale NFS

Re: [patch] 2.4.1, 2.4.2-pre3: APIC lockups

2001-02-13 Thread Frank de Lange
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:13:10PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > There is also an additional debugging/statistics counter provided in > /proc/cpuinfo that counts interrupts which got delivered with its trigger > mode mismatched. Check it out to find if you get any misdelivered > interrupts

Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-13 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jeremy Jackson wrote: > Next, gcc doesn't generate any code which would be placed in the > stack, nor does it generate any calls/jumps to the stack area. Unfortunately, you can't count on this. Objective C, for one, requires an executable stack. While there have been

Re: To Linus: kdb in 2.4?

2001-02-13 Thread Hacksaw
S! Do not nudge sleeping penguin. Here is blow-by-blow of last incident: http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/kt20001002_87.epl#1 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Multicast on loopback?

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> locally over the loopback interface. This does not work without adding a > bogus route statement to get the kernel to hand up the packets from > loopback to my waiting application. The multicast ABI includes the ability to toggle loopback of multicast datagrams. Use the socket options instead

Re: 2.4.1-ac11 swap problems

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> 2.4.1-ac10 works fine (I had it up 24 hours before, and am again running > it). > > Shortly after boot on 2.4.1-ac11, I get a ration of these: > kernel: Unused swap offset entry in swap_count 0015fb04 Yep there is a small bug in the tlb shootdown fixes. Ben has fixed that. I'll put up an

Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-13 Thread Bruce Harada
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:22:26 + (GMT) James Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jeremy Jackson wrote: > > (Long description of how to create a non-executable stack on x86) > > ISTR there is a patch which does this for Linux, though?? See:

Multicast on loopback?

2001-02-13 Thread Erik G. Burrows
In developing multicast applications, I would like to be able to test locally over the loopback interface. This does not work without adding a bogus route statement to get the kernel to hand up the packets from loopback to my waiting application. This route statement is not necessary with

Re: To Linus: kdb in 2.4?

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm wondering about the possibility of re-examining the idea of a > kernel debugger option distributed with 2.4. First off, I'd like to say that I'm highly sympathetic to this, assuming that a kernel debugger doesn't change the kernel's behavior. However, > I'm

Re: IRQ conflicts

2001-02-13 Thread Brian Gerst
Andrey Panin wrote: > > Hi Brian. > > I'm sorry, patch itself was not attached in previous post :( > Yes, this does fix that part of the problem. There is still the matter of the class code being wrong but I have ideas on how to fix that. --

Re: Stale super_blocks in 2.2

2001-02-13 Thread Andreas Dilger
Philip R. Auld writes: > Since deja was gobbled by google it's hard to do a good search of > this list. Can anyone take the time to help me understand the reason > for this choice? This seems to me to be backwards. When a device is > unmounted there should be no cached information. Try the

Re: block ioctl to read/write last sector

2001-02-13 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> The block device uses 1K blocksize, and will prevent userspace from > seeing the odd-block at the end of the disk, if the disk is odd-size. > > IA-64 architecture defines a new partitioning scheme where there is a > backup of the partition table header in the last sector of the disk. While

Re: Stale super_blocks in 2.2

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> That can be a problem for fiber channel devices. I saw some issues with > invalidate_buffers and page caching discussed in 2.4 space. Any reasons > come to mind why I shouldn't call invalidate on the the way down instead > (or in addition)? The I/O completed a few seconds later anyway when

Re: Stale super_blocks in 2.2

2001-02-13 Thread Phil Auld
Alan Cox wrote: > > > does not do anything to invalidate the buffers associated with the > > unmounted device. We then rely on disk change detection on a > > subsequent mount to prevent us from seeing the old super_block. > > 2.2 yes, 2.4 no That can be a problem for fiber channel devices. I

Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kernel tree?

2001-02-13 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 13 Feb 2001 14:18:43 -0800 > The reason I asked about inclusion is that printing is one of the areas > that Linux seems to struggle in terms of usability and I thought perhaps > it would make sense to modular print drivers in the kernel

Re: Stale super_blocks in 2.2

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> does not do anything to invalidate the buffers associated with the > unmounted device. We then rely on disk change detection on a > subsequent mount to prevent us from seeing the old super_block. 2.2 yes, 2.4 no - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Stale super_blocks in 2.2

2001-02-13 Thread Phil Auld
Hello, It appears that the umount path in the 2.2 series kernels does not do anything to invalidate the buffers associated with the unmounted device. We then rely on disk change detection on a subsequent mount to prevent us from seeing the old super_block. Since deja was gobbled by

[Announce] Version 1.9 of x86 performance counters driver

2001-02-13 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Version 1.9 of my x86 performance-monitoring counters driver is now available at http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/. Summary: Version 1.9, 2001-02-13 - Fixed compilation problems for 2.2 and SMP kernels. [Caused by the kernel not passing "-nostdinc" to gcc, and RedHat 7.0 including

Re: [patch] 2.4.1, 2.4.2-pre3: APIC lockups

2001-02-13 Thread Manfred Spraul
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > > Hi, > > After performing various tests I came to the following workaround for > APIC lockups which people observe under IRQ load, mostly for networking > stuff. I believe the test should work in all cases as it basically > implements a manual replacement for EOI

Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into thekernel tree?

2001-02-13 Thread Miles Lane
Whoops. The reason I asked about inclusion is that printing is one of the areas that Linux seems to struggle in terms of usability and I thought perhaps it would make sense to modular print drivers in the kernel tree. Since the OMNI driver is ghostscript-based, including it in the kernel is

To Linus: kdb in 2.4?

2001-02-13 Thread LA Walsh
I'm wondering about the possibility of re-examining the idea of a kernel debugger option distributed with 2.4. I'm thinking that it could be a great teaching tool to break and examine structures, variables, process states, as well as an aid to people who may not have a grasp of the entire

test

2001-02-13 Thread Roger Larsson
test - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

2001-02-13 Thread Anton Blanchard
> Yes, actually it is... So I'm wrong then, it's not the same problem. A rebuild of the binaries in question should fix it. Anton - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kernel tree?

2001-02-13 Thread Tim Wright
Maybe I'm missing your point, but why would it go into the kernel tree ? This is all stuff that gets done in userland under Linux. The Omni drivers plugin with Ghostscript and generate output appropriate to the printer. There's no kernel relevance here. Tim On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:42:27PM

Re: 2.2.19ac-pre9 lo interface Broke

2001-02-13 Thread Gordon Sadler
Sorry for all the fuss, I've been reliably informed, I put my foot in my own mouth... It was my net-tools package from Debian -(. I missed the fact I upgraded some packages same day I upgraded my kernel. I'll drop off the list again now. Sorry for the bother. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kernel tree?

2001-02-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Miles Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/omni/ Considering it's a ghostscript driver, I severely doubt it. :) Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: gzipped executables

2001-02-13 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:09:39PM -0600, Matt Stegman wrote: > Is there any kernel patch that would allow Linux to properly recognize, > and execute gzipped executables? What's wrong with using gzexe? mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL

Will the IBM OMNI printer driver be making its way into the kerneltree?

2001-02-13 Thread Miles Lane
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Updates for the PCI devices Database.

2001-02-13 Thread Jocelyn Mayer
I'm starting to work on an Intel i815 board. I take this occasion to make a few updates to the PCI device database, so it will be easier to identify the whole hardware... I changed the base, according what Intel says in the datasheets for 82815 Chipset and 82801BA Chip. Here's the patch: ---

2.4.1 loopback FS partial fix

2001-02-13 Thread Colonel
For the other list readers with problems: I used patch 2.4.2-pre2 (not pre3) plus axboe's loop-4 patch (in the people directory). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.2-pre1 It solves most problems here. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

strange bug, alloca suspected

2001-02-13 Thread Yann Droneaud
Hi, I found a strange bug with modprobe/glibc I supposed this is a bad interaction between gcc alloca(), glibc and modprobe. Modprobe don't use alloca() correctly, then glibc failed. (stack corruption ?) This need more investigation. This mail is sent to glibc, gcc and modutils maintainers.

Re: 2.2.19pre10 locks up hard on unloading the isdn module 'hisax.o' - 2.2.19pre11 does too!

2001-02-13 Thread thunder7
>SMP machine, 2x P3/700 on an Abit VP6. >Never any trouble with the earlier 2.2.19pre's. > >a strace shows the hang to be in the delete_module("hisax") call. > >I'm having trouble with the sysrq-key, but I hope this is enough since >there were some changes w.r.t. modules/locking etc. in pre10. >

Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-13 Thread James Sutherland
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jeremy Jackson wrote: (Long description of how to create a non-executable stack on x86) I'm afraid you just reinvented the wheel. The idea has been around for a long time, and it was OK as a quick hack to stop existing exploits working, but it's possible to modify a buffer

Re: 2.2.19pre10 locks up hard on unloading the isdn module 'hisax.o' - 2.2.19pre11 does too!

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> It's Linux, after all, so 2 minutes after creating this email > 2.2.19pre11's announcement was here. I just tested it, and it has the > same problem. Yep. Right now Im still working through the merges with Kai and I suspect the merge when completed may not fix your bug, but that it'll get

Re: 2.2.19ac-pre9 lo interface Broke

2001-02-13 Thread Scott Ashcroft
Gordon Sadler wrote: > > I have some further info here. > I performed strace on ifup -a and ifdown -a. > > They aren't more than 4Kb each, but I'll cut and paste what appear to be > most relevant: > > ifup.strace: > fork() = 17974 > wait4(17974, [WIFEXITED(s)

Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> which are marked > supervisor-only (is this right?), and definitely don't contain user > code. x86 its a fair description. However someone has taken the same theory, including handling the exceptions and the x86 segment tricks needed to make it kind of fly. Its not a perfect cure but it

Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-13 Thread Jeremy Jackson
Greetings. This is my first post on linux-kernel, I hope this is appropriate. The recent CERT IN-2001-01 's massive repercussions and CA-2001-02's re-releasing old material in an attempt to coerce admins to update their OS, has led me to think about buffer overrun exploits. I have gained a

Re: DNS goofups galore...

2001-02-13 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henning P. Schmiedehausen) wrote on 12.02.01 in ><968mjv$l9t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Gyselinck) writes: >> >> >There's not really something wrong with MX's pointing to CNAME's. It's >> >just that some

2.2.19pre10 locks up hard on unloading the isdn module 'hisax.o'

2001-02-13 Thread thunder7
SMP machine, 2x P3/700 on an Abit VP6. Never any trouble with the earlier 2.2.19pre's. a strace shows the hang to be in the delete_module("hisax") call. I'm having trouble with the sysrq-key, but I hope this is enough since there were some changes w.r.t. modules/locking etc. in pre10. Good

Re: Problem with Ramdisk in linux-2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Mike , - Original Message - From: "Mike Galbraith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jaswinder Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:56 AM Subject: Re: Problem with Ramdisk in linux-2.4.1 > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > >

Re: [LK] Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Wayne . Brown
"Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What is right: > >1) not putting the thing in the subject from the list side >2) If an end user wants it in the subject, they can set up a mail >filter to PUT it in the subject. > >:0 fwh >* ^Sender:.*owner-linux-kernel >| sed -e 's/^Subject:

Re: PCI GART (?)

2001-02-13 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:09:32 + (GMT), Michèl Alexandre Salim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently running the XFree 4.0.2 from RH 7.0.90 (7.1 > beta, Fisher) on top of my RH 7 + Ximian system and > when using aviplay it doesn't use any acceleration > features at all, consequently choppy

Re: 2.2.19ac-pre9 lo interface Broke

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> I have some further info here. > I performed strace on ifup -a and ifdown -a. Unfortunately you traced the script execution and nothing more useful so I cant tell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

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