Re: [patch][rfc][rft] vm throughput 2.4.2-ac4

2001-02-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
> > Have you tried to use SWAP_SHIFT as 4 instead of 5 on a stock 2.4.2-ac5 to > > see if the system still swaps out too much? > > Not yet, but will do. Didn't help. (It actually reduced throughput a little) -Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

making menuconfig on a 2.4.2-ac6 kernel :-)

2001-02-27 Thread Lombardo, Federico
Please report alan :-) Menuconfig has encountered a possible error in one of the kernel's configuration files and is unable to continue. Here is the error report: Q> scripts/Menuconfig: MCmenu0: command not found Please report this to the maintainer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. You may also send

Re: [PATCH][CFT] per-process namespaces for Linux

2001-02-27 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Alexander Viro writes: > > > * CLONE_NEWNS is made root-only (CAP_SYS_ADMIN, actually) > > Would an unprivileged version that killed setuid be OK to have? > > Evil idea of the day: non-directory (even non-existant) mount points and >

Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?

2001-02-27 Thread idalton
Hello all.. I'm interested in making a 16x32 console font, so I can run my 21" display at 100x37 text. I've asked on the framebuffer list already, but have heard no reply, and the list seems to be defunct. Since it's a fixed-frequency display, I want to have the framebuffer and basic font

Report bug in kernel 2.4.x:

2001-02-27 Thread Thomas Lau
Well, someone using ne2000 chipset have same problem-drop connection some people already post in mail list, but the sound like no one interested about our problem it will auto drop connection when used a long time ( over 24 hours ) I can not use ifconfig to restart the interface, so I must

Re: [PATCH][CFT] per-process namespaces for Linux

2001-02-27 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Alexander Viro writes: > > > * CLONE_NEWNS is made root-only (CAP_SYS_ADMIN, actually) > > Would an unprivileged version that killed setuid be OK to have? Not until we get decent resource accounting here. > Evil idea of the day:

Re: [PATCH][CFT] per-process namespaces for Linux

2001-02-27 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Alexander Viro writes: > * CLONE_NEWNS is made root-only (CAP_SYS_ADMIN, actually) Would an unprivileged version that killed setuid be OK to have? Evil idea of the day: non-directory (even non-existant) mount points and non-directory mounts. So then "mount --bind /etc/foo /dev/bar"

Reserved memory for highmem bouncing

2001-02-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Ingo, I have a question about the highmem page IO deadlock fix which is in 2.4.2-ac. (the emergency memory thing) The old create_bounce code used to set PF_MEMALLOC on the task flags and call wakeup_bdflush(1) in case GFP_BUFFER page allocation failed. That was broken because

-ac6 mis-reports cpu clock

2001-02-27 Thread bradley mclain
here is an extract from dmesg from 2.4.2 and -ac6, showing a disparity in cpu clock speed.. -ac6 has inserted a line claiming my clock is 400Mhz (it is actually 533 -- and i believe my fsb is 133). i don't think i compiled these two radically differently. what could i have done wrong to cause

Re: [patch] patch-2.4.2-irda1 (irda-usb)

2001-02-27 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 06:41:09PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > First thanks for Dag for bringing me into the conversation. I > may add my little bit of spice, especially that I was the one pushing > for having the driver in .../drivers/net/irda. > By the way, Greg, sorry if I

Re: [2.4.2-ac5] X (4.0.1) crashes

2001-02-27 Thread Erik DeBill
I'm having no problems with 2.4.2-ac6, using XFree86 4.0.2 and the included nv (nvidia) driver. Works great with my geForce2 GTS, without any binary only drivers. 4.0.2 seemed to have improved support for nvidia chips. If it's any help, I'm also using the rivafb for console (although not for

Alternative driver for Lucent 802.11 cards

2001-02-27 Thread David Gibson
I've written a driver for the Lucent and Cabletron 802.11 cards, to replace the wvlan_cs driver. I'm looking for people to test this driver with as many card/firmware variations as possible. The new driver doesn't use the Lucent HCF-Light code, and as a consequence the code should be easier to

Re: [patch][rfc][rft] vm throughput 2.4.2-ac4

2001-02-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > What the patch does is simply to push I/O as fast as we can.. we're > > by definition I/O bound and _can't_ defer it under any circumstance, > > for in this direction lies constipation. The only thing

scripts/Menuconfig error

2001-02-27 Thread Mark Pinto
Using kernel 2.4.2 with ac6 patch attempting to run make menuconfig Menuconfig has encountered a possible error in one of the kernel's configuration files and is unable to continue. Here is the error report: Q> scripts/Menuconfig: MCmenu0: command not found - To unsubscribe from this list:

RE: [patch] patch-2.4.2-irda1 (irda-usb)

2001-02-27 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> From: Jean Tourrilhes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > First thanks for Dag for bringing me into the conversation. I > may add my little bit of spice, especially that I was the one pushing > for having the driver in .../drivers/net/irda. > By the way, Greg, sorry if I hurt your

Re: [patch] set kiobuf io_count once, instead of increment

2001-02-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Robert Read wrote: > Currently in brw_kiovec, iobuf->io_count is being incremented as each > bh is submitted, and decremented in the bh->b_end_io(). This means > io_count can go to zero before all the bhs have been submitted, > especially during a large request. This

2.4.2-ac6 hangs on boot w/AMD Elan SC520 dev board

2001-02-27 Thread Brian Moyle
Kernel 2.4.2-ac6 hangs while booting an AMD Elan SC520 development board. Long-story-short If I define "STANDARD_MEMORY_BIOS_CALL" in setup.S and misc.c, it boots fine. Here are the results: memory map that hangs (added debugging to setup.S to determine E820 map):

Re: rx_copybreak value for non-i386 architectures

2001-02-27 Thread David S. Miller
Jun Sun writes: > I notice that many net drivers set rx_copybreak to 1518 (the max packet size) > for non-i386 architectures. Once I thought I understood it and it seems > related to cache line alignment. However, I am not sure exactly about the > reason now. Can someone enlighten me a

2.4.2 & eepro100

2001-02-27 Thread Gashaw Teshome
I recently compiled a fresh download of a 2.4.2 kernel to test a server at work. The machine is a dual P-III, 512 MB RAM on an Intel L440GX+ motherboard with a built in eepro100 network interface. Almost immediately after boot up, the kernel started reporting: Feb 23 19:40:23 www136 kernel:

Re: [patch] patch-2.4.2-irda1 (irda-usb)

2001-02-27 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:58:11PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:32:28PM +, Dag Brattli wrote: > > > I'd recommend that this file be in the /drivers/usb directory, much like > > > almost all other USB drivers are. > > > > Yes, but do we want to spread the IrDA code

rx_copybreak value for non-i386 architectures

2001-02-27 Thread Jun Sun
I notice that many net drivers set rx_copybreak to 1518 (the max packet size) for non-i386 architectures. Once I thought I understood it and it seems related to cache line alignment. However, I am not sure exactly about the reason now. Can someone enlighten me a little bit? Basically I try

Re: mke2fs hangs while running on /dev/loop0 - kernel version 2.4

2001-02-27 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 06:25:08PM -0800, Amit D Chaudhary escreveu: > I am hoping someone knows more about this case. I have a intel pc > running linux 2.4 and the last command below hangs and the statements as > they are printed. Even kill -9 does not get it to terminate. > > #touch img.test

mke2fs hangs while running on /dev/loop0 - kernel version 2.4

2001-02-27 Thread Amit D Chaudhary
Hi, I am hoping someone knows more about this case. I have a intel pc running linux 2.4 and the last command below hangs and the statements as they are printed. Even kill -9 does not get it to terminate. #touch img.test #dd if=/dev/zero of=img.test bs=1k count=2000 2000+0 records in 2000+0

Error running menuconfig

2001-02-27 Thread Nick Pasich
I received this error running "make menuconfig" after applying patch-2.4.2-ac6.bz2 to linux-2.4.2 ... ( Nick Pasich )

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac6

2001-02-27 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:54:28 -0800 (PST), "Sergey Kubushin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Menuconfig doesn't work. Worked fine in 2.4.2-ac5. Against 2.4.2-ac6. Index: 2.9/arch/i386/config.in --- 2.9/arch/i386/config.in Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:44:01 +1100 kaos (linux-2.4/T/c/36_config.in 1.1.2.1.1.2

Re: Dynamically altering code segments

2001-02-27 Thread Karim Yaghmour
"Collins, Tom" wrote: [snip] > I have one more question: My trace code is currently > implemented as a kernel loadable module. Would I need > to change that so that it is built as part of the kernel, > or can I keep it as a loadable module? If I can keep it > as a module, I would ensure that

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac6

2001-02-27 Thread Sergey Kubushin
Menuconfig doesn't work. Worked fine in 2.4.2-ac5. Error message: === Cut === Menuconfig has encountered a possible error in one of the kernel's configuration files and is unable to continue. Here is the error report: Q> scripts/Menuconfig: MCmenu0: command not found Please report this to

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac6

2001-02-27 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.28 Alan Cox wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > 2.4.2-ac6 Warning: EXTRAVERSION is still -ac5. -- J.A. Magallon $> cd pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] $>

Re: another Linux-2.4.2 splat: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.

2001-02-27 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:25:45 -0600, "David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[david@nicol1 linux]$ make dep > >make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb2/src/linux-2.4.2/drivers' >make -C acpi fastdep >make[4]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb2/src/linux-2.4.2/drivers/acpi' >Makefile:29: *** target

Re: [2.4.2-ac5] X (4.0.1) crashes

2001-02-27 Thread Alan Cox
> I use XFree86 4.0.1 with nvidia-drivers 0.96. Take it up with nvidia. Obfuscated effectively binary only code isnt anyone elses problem - 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: [2.4.2-ac5] X (4.0.1) crashes

2001-02-27 Thread J Sloan
"Manfred H. Winter" wrote: > I'm going back to vanilla 2.4.2 for now. Is there another way to get > loop to work? Working fine here: 2.4.2 + Axboe's loop patch + Morton's low latency patch jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Patchlet for drivers/usb/hub.c

2001-02-27 Thread Peter Zaitcev
--- linux-2.4.2-ac5/drivers/usb/hub.c Tue Feb 27 15:52:05 2001 +++ linux-2.4.2-ac5-p3/drivers/usb/hub.cTue Feb 27 16:21:32 2001 @@ -150,14 +150,14 @@ unsigned int pipe; int i, maxp, ret; - hub->descriptor = kmalloc(sizeof(hub->descriptor), GFP_KERNEL); +

[patch] set kiobuf io_count once, instead of increment

2001-02-27 Thread Robert Read
Currently in brw_kiovec, iobuf->io_count is being incremented as each bh is submitted, and decremented in the bh->b_end_io(). This means io_count can go to zero before all the bhs have been submitted, especially during a large request. This causes the end_kio_request() to be called before all of

[2.4.2-ac5] X (4.0.1) crashes

2001-02-27 Thread Manfred H. Winter
Hi! Yesterday I've upgraded my 2.4.2 kernel to ac5, because loop-device seems not to work in plain 2.4.2. But now my X-server crashes. When I start with startx, X comes up, gnome starts, sawfish starts. Then the system freezes. Even SysRQ-keys don't work. I use XFree86 4.0.1 with

Linux 2.4.2ac6

2001-02-27 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.2-ac6 o Remove incorrect modules doc changes(Keith Owens) o Fix elf.h defines (Keith Owens) o Add 0x2B mtrr decode for intel/cyrix III(me) o Make bigmem

Linux 2.2.19pre16

2001-02-27 Thread Alan Cox
2.2.19pre16 o Add Epson 1240 usb scanner id (Joel Becker) o Starfire driver updates (Ion Badulescu) o Make xconfig fix(Craig Rogers) o Update credits for Richard Guenther (Richard

Re: Stale NFS handles on 2.4.2

2001-02-27 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday February 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 08:25:10PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > On Saturday February 24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Verrry odd. I can see why you were suspecting a cache. > > I'm probably going to have to palm this off to Trond, the NFS client

Building autofs

2001-02-27 Thread Rainer Mager
Hi all, I'm trying to use autofs for the first time and am running into some problems. First, the documentation seems quite weak, that is, I'm not sure if what I have is what I should have. I managed to find an autofs version 4 pre 9 tarball on the kernel mirrors. This seem the latest

Via-rhine is not finding its interrupts under 2.2.19pre14

2001-02-27 Thread Michal Jaegermann
After I booted 2.2.19pre14 on a system with two via-rhine cards I see the following: via-rhine.c:v1.08b-LK1.0.0 12/14/2000 Written by Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html eth0: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0x9400, 00:50:ba:c1:64:d9, IRQ 0. eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status

Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?

2001-02-27 Thread Andries . Brouwer
>> kbd-1.05 comes with sun12x22.psfu, which essentially is the kernel font >> together with a unimap. > Note, that I also have a SuSE12x22 font, which is based on the Sun font, > some charcaters slightly changed and added lots of 8859-1 symbols. > Isn't it included in kbd-1.04 and later,

Re: 2.4 kernels - "attempt to access beyond end of device"

2001-02-27 Thread Michal Jaegermann
To add to my report about troubles with disk activity on a system with PDC20265 IDE controller (this is on Asus AV7 mobo, BTW) I tried the same experiments with 2.2.19pre14 patched with ide patches to get a support for Promise. I got similar results - i.e. problems after some 130-150 megabytes

Re: timing out on a semaphore

2001-02-27 Thread Davide Libenzi
On 27-Feb-2001 Tim Waugh wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:40:35PM +, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> 1: Your code is leaving the semaphore in a down'ed state >>somehow. > > This was probably it. I don't know why it works for me but not some > other people though. :-/ UP vs. MP ? -

Re: timing out on a semaphore

2001-02-27 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:40:35PM +, Andrew Morton wrote: > 1: Your code is leaving the semaphore in a down'ed state >somehow. This was probably it. I don't know why it works for me but not some other people though. :-/ > (As you can tell, I'm desparately avoiding having > to

Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi

2001-02-27 Thread Khalid Aziz
Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Hi Khalid, > > So, is HP going to allow linux to publsih "Tape Alert" as a means to > assist with error checking and testing in general? Also why did HP > take the 14GB/20GB models and move off the standard QIC or TR-4 > IO-Firmware? > > Cheers, > > Andre Hedrick >

Re: [NFS] Updated patch for the [2.4.x] NFS 'missing directory entry a.k.a. IRIX server' problem...

2001-02-27 Thread H . J . Lu
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 03:04:32PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote: > > entry->prev_cookie = entry->cookie; > > - p = xdr_decode_hyper(p, >cookie); > > + p = xdr_decode_hyper(p, cookie); > > + entry->cookie = nfs_transform_cookie64(cookie); > > I don't understand this. As far as I can tell,

Re: binfmt_script and ^M

2001-02-27 Thread David
Alistair Riddell wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Heusden, Folkert van wrote: > >> But; it's not that much of hassle to run it trough some awk/sed/whatsoever >> script, would it? Imho there should be as less as possible code in the > > > man fromdos (on most linux systems anyway) > tr -d '\r'

Re: 3c59x new version, help me please with the new kernels

2001-02-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Mario Vanoni wrote: > > PCI 3COM 3C905B COMBO Etherlink XL 10/100Mbit BNC+RJ-45 > running a LAN with 3 machines 10MB with BNC/RG-58U cable. > Which interface do you actually want to use? BNC? Try `options=3'. If that doesn't work, please send me (off-list) the log output from the driver

Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?

2001-02-27 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:58:37PM +0100, Guest section DW wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:37:55AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > You're much better off designing a larger ISO-8859-1 font and load in in > > user space. You can use the 12x22 font in the kernel as a base. > > kbd-1.05

Re: [OT] Re: binfmt_script and ^M

2001-02-27 Thread Jamie Lokier
Tim Waugh wrote: > > Isn't `perl' overkill? Why not just: > > > > tr -d '\r' > > while read line; do echo ${line%?}; done And those can be convert a set of files as "fromdos *.c" can they? :-) -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Promise Ultra100 IDE PDC20265 chip problem

2001-02-27 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > (I am not subscribed to this list, if it is in fact a list. Please CC any > replies to me directly - Thanks) > If you are, in fact, I suggest you contact RedHat. > hde: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=32885055, sector=0

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.3 is available

2001-02-27 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:41:26AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:08:59 +0100, > Stefan Smietanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Keith Owens wrote > >> modutils-2.4.3.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file > > > >IIRC 2.4.2 was 2.4 only, and was released

Re: rsync over ssh on 2.4.2 to 2.2.18

2001-02-27 Thread Eugene Crosser
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm seeing odd behaviour with rsync over ssh between two x86 machines - I've seen hanging rsync over ssh more than once, while sending much data from an x86 running Linux (late 2.3.x) to Sparc/Solaris2.5.1 over

Re: [NFS] Updated patch for the [2.4.x] NFS 'missing directory entry a.k.a. IRIX server' problem...

2001-02-27 Thread H . J . Lu
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:48:50PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > The above fixes should ensure that all cookies taking values between 0 > and (2^32-1) on the NFS server are preserved through the 32-bit VFS > interface, and are accepted by glibc as valid entries. It should also > work fine

Re: Wine + kernel ?? How to do that?

2001-02-27 Thread Dan Kegel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: > hey, I hear that wine ( windows emulator ) can port into kernel and make > it running faster, How can I do it? > or anyone can make a patch to add wine code into kernel? > waiting for answer, Thanks It's not ready for prime time yet. There is some discussion of

Re: [patch][rfc][rft] vm throughput 2.4.2-ac4

2001-02-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > Attempting to avoid doing I/O has been harmful to throughput here > > > ever since the queueing/elevator woes were fixed. Ever since then, > > >

Re: CLOCAL and TIOCMIWAIT

2001-02-27 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date:Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:19:20 -0500 From: Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I had written a simple program 10-20 lines C to count pulses at rate of 1 per second give or take. It turned out that the driver disabled the UART's generation of interrupts completely for

Re: rsync over ssh on 2.4.2 to 2.2.18

2001-02-27 Thread Russell King
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Moreover, even not _one_ wakeup is missing. At least two, because > wakeups in read and write are separate and you have stuck in both directions. > 8)8) I'll see if I can strace it from the start until it hangs tomorrow. > Well, if it was one I would start to dig

Promise Ultra100 IDE PDC20265 chip problem

2001-02-27 Thread Peter . Havens
(I am not subscribed to this list, if it is in fact a list. Please CC any replies to me directly - Thanks) I am attempting to install the new beta release of Red Hat (fisher) on my home computer. It has an Asus A7V motherboard and a Promise Ultra100 IDE controller (PDC20265 chip), with two

Re: Will Mosix go into the standard kernel?

2001-02-27 Thread zbrown
argh. OK On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:56:25PM -0800, Zack Brown wrote: > Do the Mosix folks have anything to add about possible integration into the > kernel? (should have cced them earlier, but it slipped my mind) > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, David L. Nicol wrote: > > > Zack Brown wrote: > > > >

Re: timing out on a semaphore

2001-02-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:10:39PM +, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > I think there might be a bogon in __down_interruptible's > > handling of the semaphore state in this case. I remember > > spotting something a few months back but I can't immediately > > remember what it

Re: Will Mosix go into the standard kernel?

2001-02-27 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.27 Zack Brown wrote: > Do the Mosix folks have anything to add about possible integration into the > kernel? (should have cced them earlier, but it slipped my mind) > And also beowulf people, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- J.A. Magallon $> cd

Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi

2001-02-27 Thread Alan Cox
> Wish i knew, I'm praying that 2.2.19 hasn't/doesn't implement the ide patches like >2.4.x did. If so, and a major problem is found in > 2.2.18, then I have to maintain another machine running 2.2.18 to restore tapes. >Also means i'd have to stop using taper or dump, > and stick to tar only,

Re: Will Mosix go into the standard kernel?

2001-02-27 Thread Zack Brown
Do the Mosix folks have anything to add about possible integration into the kernel? (should have cced them earlier, but it slipped my mind) On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, David L. Nicol wrote: > Zack Brown wrote: > > > > Just curious, are there any plans to put Mosix into the standard kernel, > > maybe

[patch] 2.4.2: irq-driven lp stalls

2001-02-27 Thread Tim Waugh
Hi Linus, This patch seems to cure some printing stalls that some people have been seeing. The down_trylock call isn't really needed there anyway. Please apply. Tim. */ 2001-02-27 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * drivers/parport/ieee1284_ops.c: Remove down_trylock call,

Re: [patch] patch-2.4.2-irda1 (irda-usb)

2001-02-27 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:32:28PM +, Dag Brattli wrote: > > I'd recommend that this file be in the /drivers/usb directory, much like > > almost all other USB drivers are. > > Yes, but do we want to spread the IrDA code around? The same argument > applies to IrDA device drivers!? I agree,

Re: [ANOMALIES]: 2.4.2 - __alloc_pages: failed - Causes more thenjust msgs

2001-02-27 Thread Shawn Starr
When added with BUG(); it will hang /dev/dsp. I'm not sure if it did without it. I'll be restarting with the removed BUG(); soon. On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Shawn Starr wrote: > > > It may not be an important message but what does happen is /dev/dsp

Re: Will Mosix go into the standard kernel?

2001-02-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, David L. Nicol wrote: > I've thought that it would be good to break up the different > clustering frills -- node identification, process migration, > process hosting, distributed memory, yadda yadda blah, into > separate bite-sized portions. It would also be good to share

Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?

2001-02-27 Thread Mack Stevenson
Thank you for your help; I'll try to use a psf editor on the Sun 12x22 font in the new kbd package. Cheers, Mack _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. - To unsubscribe from this list:

[OT] Re: binfmt_script and ^M

2001-02-27 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:59:48PM -0700, Don Dugger wrote: > Isn't `perl' overkill? Why not just: > > tr -d '\r' while read line; do echo ${line%?}; done - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Will Mosix go into the standard kernel?

2001-02-27 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, David L. Nicol wrote: > /proc/cluster/this would be standard root point for clustering stuff > > /proc/mosix would go away, become proc/cluster/mosix > > and the same with whatever bproc puts into /proc; that stuff would move to > /proc/cluster/bproc #include

Re: binfmt_script and ^M

2001-02-27 Thread Rogier Wolff
Ivo Timmermans wrote: > Heusden, Folkert van wrote: > > > When running a script (perl in this case) that has DOS-style newlines > > > (\r\n), Linux 2.4.2 can't find an interpreter because it doesn't > > > recognize the \r. The following patch should fix this (untested). > > > > _should_ it work

[patch] patch-2.4.2-irda4 (misc fixes 2nd part)

2001-02-27 Thread Dag Brattli
Linus, These are various irda patches (2nd part) to fix various bit of the stack. Please apply to your latest Linux-2.4.2 code. Changes: o Fix socket stuck in CONN_PEND o NSC wakeup fix o Fix for IrDA stack static init diff -u -p linux/net/irda/irlmp_event.d7.c linux/net/irda/irlmp_event.c ---

Re: [patch][rfc][rft] vm throughput 2.4.2-ac4

2001-02-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > Attempting to avoid doing I/O has been harmful to throughput here > > ever since the queueing/elevator woes were fixed. Ever since then, > > tossing attempts at avoidance has improved throughput markedly.

another Linux-2.4.2 splat: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.

2001-02-27 Thread David L. Nicol
[david@nicol1 linux]$ make dep make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb2/src/linux-2.4.2/drivers' make -C acpi fastdep make[4]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb2/src/linux-2.4.2/drivers/acpi' Makefile:29: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory

3c59x new version, help me please with the new kernels

2001-02-27 Thread Mario Vanoni
PCI 3COM 3C905B COMBO Etherlink XL 10/100Mbit BNC+RJ-45 running a LAN with 3 machines 10MB with BNC/RG-58U cable. 2.2.12 ... 2.2.19pre7aa1 no problems, kernel with modules, /etc/modules.conf: alias eth0 3c59x options 3x59x options=0 kernel _without_ modules, my usual and preferred mode, with

Re: Will Mosix go into the standard kernel?

2001-02-27 Thread David L. Nicol
Zack Brown wrote: > > Just curious, are there any plans to put Mosix into the standard kernel, > maybe in 2.5, so folks could just configure it and go? it seems that the > number of people with more than one computer might make this a feature many > would at least want to try, especially if it

Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?

2001-02-27 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Thorsten Glaser Geuer wrote: > > I always do it by a BASIC programme under DOS (yep I know > this isn't pure but I have a font editor from S-DOS aka > PTS-DOS (the free version)). The SFE.COM allows me to design > 8x8 8x12 8x14 8x16 fonts; the unicode table I write in the > MC or VC (NC clone

Re: [PATCH] quick reboot on i386

2001-02-27 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > remember quarterdeck's quickreboot from "good" (*cough*) old D{o|O}S > > days? here it is for linux! it's only of limited use, especially > > in it's current state, but some people might find it useful. > > Hmm, I'm probably going to apply this one, as I hate behaviour of my > bios: if you

Linux Socket Filter sudden CPU use increase

2001-02-27 Thread Eduardo Magaña Lizarrondo
I have been testing Linux Socket Filters (LSF) these weeks (kernels 2.2.12, 2.2.14, 2.2.18, 2.4.1) with libpcap (0.4 - 0.6.2) and I have observed something curious. I make a program that increase number of simultaneous LSF filters (5, 10, 15..) and when this number is between 15 and 50,

Re: Compilation problems

2001-02-27 Thread Brian Gerst
Rob wrote: > > gcc --version gives me pgcc-2.91.66 > > I have a bootable 2.2.4 kernel I just can no longer recompile it for some > reason. IIRC, pgcc is known to be broken. Use standard gcc 2.91.66 or later. -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: nfs_refresh_inode ?

2001-02-27 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Zdravko Spoljar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi i'm running 2.2.19pre14+RAID+ide and get this message from > kernel: > nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch expected > (0x0/0x0), got (0x0002b0001/0x5605) >

Re: rsync over ssh on 2.4.2 to 2.2.18

2001-02-27 Thread Russell King
David S. Miller writes: > How do you know this? There are so many deadly TCP bugs fixed > since 2.2.15pre13 I don't know how you can assert this. Through the evidence I gave. Firstly, if the receiving side is saying that it has a window of 0, then it is not going to accept any more data.

Re: rsync over ssh on 2.4.2 to 2.2.18

2001-02-27 Thread kuznet
Hello! > netstat on isdn-gw shows the following: > > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State > tcp72868 0 isdn-gw.piltdown.a:1023 pilt-gw.piltdown.at:ssh ESTABLISHED plus > select(4, [3], [3], NULL, NULL) = 2 (in [3], out [3]) >

Re: [PATCH] quick reboot on i386

2001-02-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > remember quarterdeck's quickreboot from "good" (*cough*) old D{o|O}S > days? here it is for linux! it's only of limited use, especially > in it's current state, but some people might find it useful. Hmm, I'm probably going to apply this one, as I hate behaviour of my bios: if you power

Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi

2001-02-27 Thread Andre Hedrick
Hi Khalid, So, is HP going to allow linux to publsih "Tape Alert" as a means to assist with error checking and testing in general? Also why did HP take the 14GB/20GB models and move off the standard QIC or TR-4 IO-Firmware? Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development

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Re: Compilation problems

2001-02-27 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Rob wrote: > Hi, I've encountered a problem compiling the 2.4.2 kernel. > > I downloaded the source, did a make menuconfig, make dep, make bzImage; > everything went ok, but I didn't have the NIC working correctly. I > recompiled, it seemed to go ok but still the NIC didn't

Re: Compilation problems

2001-02-27 Thread Brian Gerst
Rob wrote: > > Hi, I've encountered a problem compiling the 2.4.2 kernel. > > I downloaded the source, did a make menuconfig, make dep, make bzImage; > everything went ok, but I didn't have the NIC working correctly. I > recompiled, it seemed to go ok but still the NIC didn't work. Then I >

Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi

2001-02-27 Thread Khalid Aziz
Camm Maguire wrote: > > Greetings! OK, with st debugging, here are the most common errors > with the Conner: > > Feb 27 14:46:39 intech9 kernel: st0: Error: 2800, cmd: 8 1 0 0 40 0 Len: 16 > Feb 27 14:46:39 intech9 kernel: Info fld=0x24, Current st09:00: sns = f0 8 > Feb 27 14:46:39

Re: [patch] patch-2.4.2-irda1 (irda-usb)

2001-02-27 Thread Dag Brattli
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:33:29 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:29:03AM +, Dag Brattli wrote: > > Linus, > > > > Please apply this patch to your latest Linux-2.4.2 source. Changes: > > > > o IrDA-USB dongle support [new feature] > > I'd recommend that this file be in the

Re: binfmt_script and ^M

2001-02-27 Thread Don Dugger
Isn't `perl' overkill? Why not just: tr -d '\r' On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:20:59PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Ivo Timmermans wrote: > > > _should_ it work with the \r in it? > > > > IMHO, yes. This set of files were created on Windows, then zipped and > > uploaded to a Linux

Re: [PATCH][CFT] per-process namespaces for Linux

2001-02-27 Thread Alexander Viro
New version uploaded on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/namespaces-d-S2.gz Changes: * fixed an idiotic bug in get_filesystem_info() that din't unfortunately) show up on UP. * nosuid/nodev/noexec work in any combinations (had been b0rken in previous version). * fixed

Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?

2001-02-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser Geuer
- Original Message - From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:49 PM Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts? > Followup to: <01c0a0ed$1ea188d0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:"Thorsten Glaser Geuer"

Compilation problems

2001-02-27 Thread Rob
Hi, I've encountered a problem compiling the 2.4.2 kernel. I downloaded the source, did a make menuconfig, make dep, make bzImage; everything went ok, but I didn't have the NIC working correctly. I recompiled, it seemed to go ok but still the NIC didn't work. Then I tried make clean, make

Disk change messages

2001-02-27 Thread Petr Konecny
Hi, I've been trying to use vold to automount CDs. The daemon tries to open /dev/cdrom and if it succeeds it examines the media and mounts it under /cdrom/volume_name. The problem is that when there is no disk in the drive the following message: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)

Re: New net features for added performance

2001-02-27 Thread kuznet
Hello! > > 3) Enforce correct usage of it in all the networking :-) > > ,) -- the tricky part. No tricks, IP[v6] is already enforced to be clever; all the rest are free to do this, if they desire. And btw, driver need not to parse anything, but its internal stuff and even aligning eth II

Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?

2001-02-27 Thread Guest section DW
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:37:55AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > You're much better off designing a larger ISO-8859-1 font and load in in > user space. You can use the 12x22 font in the kernel as a base. kbd-1.05 comes with sun12x22.psfu, which essentially is the kernel font together with a

Re: Posible bug in gcc

2001-02-27 Thread Ville Herva
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:02:45PM -0500, you [Richard B. Johnson] claimed: > > Script started on Mon Feb 26 12:54:20 2001 > # gcc -o xxx bug.c > # ./xxx > Correct output: 5 2 > GCC output: 5 2 > # gcc --version > egcs-2.91.66 > # gcc -O2 -o xxx bug.c > # ./xxx > Correct output: 5 2 > GCC

Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi

2001-02-27 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! OK, with st debugging, here are the most common errors with the Conner: Feb 27 14:46:39 intech9 kernel: st0: Error: 2800, cmd: 8 1 0 0 40 0 Len: 16 Feb 27 14:46:39 intech9 kernel: Info fld=0x24, Current st09:00: sns = f0 8 Feb 27 14:46:39 intech9 kernel: ASC=14 ASCQ= 3 Feb 27

Re: "io mapaddr 0xXXXXX not valid" in smc-mca in 2.4.x

2001-02-27 Thread Stephen Mollett
On Monday 26 February 2001 8:15 pm, Alan Cox wrote: > ... I had a look and a guess at a fix is in ac5 (out RSN) You'll be glad to hear that the driver is now working perfectly. Thanks! Regards, Stephen Mollett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

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