PNP BIOS and parport_pc - dma found but not used

Hello! I've compiled 2.4.3-ac9 with support for PNP BIOS. I understand that this is a new feature experimental and the feedback is requested. The setting is BIOS is to use irq 7 and dma 3. I normally use "options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3" in /etc/modules.conf, but this time I commented

Re: ATA 100

I have the same motherboard, and it works fine for me. Note the 80w cable detection. Perhaps you've got a bad cable? -Nick --VIA BusMastering IDE Configuration Driver Version: 3.23 South Bridge: VIA vt82c686b Revision:

Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

Richard Gooch wrote: > Exactly. A ChangeLog should pre preserved for all time. It is an > incredibly useful tool. Many times I've gone back and checked when > something was done, and in relation to other changes before, after or > around the same time. agreed > Except the

Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

Richard Gooch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Look at the filename. ;-) They're not being kept around, they just > > happen to be mentioned in the devfs ChangeLog, and esr's overzealous > > crossref tool caught them. *grin* I've already fixed that. > A cleaner solution is to parse the source code,

Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

Edward S. Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Look at the filename. ;-) They're not being kept around, they just happen > to be mentioned in the devfs ChangeLog, and esr's overzealous crossref > tool caught them. *grin* > > Perhaps the tool should be modified to exempt comments in code and files >

Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

Edward S. Marshall writes: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:11:07AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > esr wrote: > > > > CONFIG_DEVFS: Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog > > > > > > These are options that used to be used, > > > > > These

Re: Next gen PM interface

> > IMHO the pm interface should be split up as following: > > Nobody has disagreed: therefore this separation must be perfect ;-) I once heard that patience is a virtue. :) > > (1) Battery status, power status, UPS status polling. It > > should be possible for lots of

Re: FPE's

ISO C demands that at process startup all FPU traps are masked. You can set specific traps with the functions in from the C library, for details read the manual: info libc Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED] private [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.suse.de/~aj - To

Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

Eric writes: > So. I've written a cross-reference analyzer for the configuration symbol > namespace. It's included with CML 1.2.0, which I just released. The > main reason I wrote it was to detect broken symbols. > > A symbol is non-broken when: > * It is used in either code or a

Re: An improved natsemi driver for 2.2

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:48:40PM -0700, Torrey Hoffman wrote: > > This version of the natsemi driver is being successfully used by us (Myrio > Corporation) on hardware that has the 83815 chip on the motherboard, with > the 2.2.17 kernel. It appears to work well with both multicast and

Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:11:07AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > esr wrote: > > > CONFIG_DEVFS: Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog > > > > These are options that used to be used, > > > These should not be removed > > This makes no

Real Time Traffic Flow Measurement - anybody working on it?

Through the stimulating discussion we had under ``IP Acounting Idea for 2.5'', it appears that a separate Traffic Flow Measure- ment and Accounting sub-system would be useful. See: If anybody is working on Real Time Traffic Flow Measurement (RTFM)

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

* Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) uttered: > the ideas behind it. Some of them have been at it since Linus was a small > child. The TinyX server framework also lets you hack arbitarily interesting > card drivers into a nice easy framework. you will NOT see my complaining about any of that. :) btw

Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE: arch/i386/kernel/apm.c > > CONFIG_DEVFS_TTY_COMPAT: Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog > > CONFIG_DEVFS_BOOT_OPTIONS: Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog > > CONFIG_DEVFS_DISABLE_OLD_NAMES:

Re: Next gen PM interface

> This is flexible and simple. It means a reasonable default behaviour > can be suggested by the kernel (OFF,SLEEP,etc.) for events that > userspace doesn't know about and yet userspace can choose fine grained > policy and provide helpful error messages based on the exact event by The entire PM

Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

Eric S. Raymond writes: > So. I've written a cross-reference analyzer for the configuration symbol > namespace. It's included with CML 1.2.0, which I just released. The > main reason I wrote it was to detect broken symbols. > > A symbol is non-broken when: > * It is used in either code

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

Larry McVoy writes: > In other words, what the world does not need is another project. > What the world does need is people who roll up their sleeves and do > real work. You may well be one of them, that would be cool. But > what would be even cooler is if we join together on real, existing >

Next gen PM interface

John Fremlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > IMHO the pm interface should be split up as following: Nobody has disagreed: therefore this separation must be perfect ;-) > (1) Battery status, power status, UPS status polling. It > should be possible for lots of processes to

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

> different, new, from scratch, to go in another direction. I think Linus > himself did this back in 1991, obviously not with X, but you get the > idea I think. If not, then don't bother answering cuz it'll just be a Yeah and we spent most of those 10 years reinventing wheels in order to make

Re: Ext2 Directory Index - Delete Performance

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > Sorry, but that's just plain wrong. We shouldn't keep inode table in > buffer-cache at all. Then tell me, how exactly DO you plan to do write clustering of inodes when you want to flush them to disk ? If you don't keep them in the buffer cache for a

Cross-referencing frenzy

So. I've written a cross-reference analyzer for the configuration symbol namespace. It's included with CML 1.2.0, which I just released. The main reason I wrote it was to detect broken symbols. A symbol is non-broken when: * It is used in either code or a Makefile * It is set

Re: Ext2 Directory Index - Delete Performance

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > OK, now I know what's happening, the next question is, what should be > > dones about it. If anything. > > [ discovered by alexey on #kernelnewbies ] > > One thing we should do is make sure the

Re: Ext2 Directory Index - Delete Performance

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > Hmmm, considering this, it may be wise to limit the amount of > inodes in the inode cache to, say, 10% of RAM ... because we > can cache MORE inodes if we store them in the buffer cache > instead! Rik, I'd rather check the effect of prune_icache()

Re: Ext2 Directory Index - Delete Performance

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Jan Harkes wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:27:48AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > more memory. If you have enough memory, the inode cache won't thrash, > > > and even when it does, it does so gracefully - performance falls off > > > nice

CML2 1.2.0 is available

The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Release 1.2.0: Wed Apr 18 22:09:57 EDT 2001 * Synchronized with 2.4.4-pre4. * First release of kxref.py. That second little item is more important than it sounds -- kxref.py is a cross-referencing tool

Re: Ext2 Directory Index - Delete Performance

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > OK, now I know what's happening, the next question is, what should be > dones about it. If anything. [ discovered by alexey on #kernelnewbies ] One thing we should do is make sure the buffer cache code sets the referenced bit on pages, so we don't

Re: Proposal for a new PCI function call

> "Alan" == Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Introducing a new function that takes bit flags as arguments might >> be better? Alan> pci_set_dma_mask_bits() ? So you could do Alan> pci_set_dma_mask_bits(pdev, 64); Alan> We want everything to go through pci_set_dma_mask... type Alan>

Re: APIC errors ...

Another problem area is ECC monitoring. I'm still waiting for info from ServerWorks, and so is Dan Hollis. Alexander Stohr has even submitted code to Jim Foster for approval, without evident effect. I have 18GB of RAM divided among five ServerWorks boxes, so the matter is not academic. - To

Re: Proposal for a new PCI function call

> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> Jes Sorensen wrote: >> Hmmm, I was wondering if could come up with a pretty way to do this >> on 32 bit boxes that wants to enable highmem DMA. Right now >> pci_set_dma_mask() wants a dma_addr_t which means you have to do >> #ifdef

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:56:03PM -0400, Scott Prader wrote: > [much stuff about X] Scott, I think in part what people are reacting to is the "Hi, I'm going to start a new project, it will be cool, you should come work on it". Forgive me if I got it wrong, I'm paraphrasing, but wasn't it

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

"Grover, Andrew" wrote: > ACPI has by far the richest set of capabilities. It is a superset of APM. > Therefore a combined APM/ACPI interface is going to look a lot like an ACPI > interface. > > IMHO an abstracted interface at this point is overengineering. Maybe later > it will make sense,

Re: APIC errors ...

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:21:17PM -0700, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote: > Um... Looks like when you clock the BX-chipset out of spec (>100MHz FSB) > you get the error. Since BX wasn't ever designed to be run at >100MHz > these errors are *expected*. No, the APIC errors also occur at exactly 100MHz.

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

* Miles Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) uttered: > Take a chill pill, dude. i am quite calm. :) > Dave's questions are perfectly valid. Obviously, if a bunch of > kick-butt programmers want to go off a create a "from-scratch" > X11 implementation, please go right ahead! If it turns out to > be

Re: Ext2 Directory Index - Delete Performance

Jan Harkes wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:27:48AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > more memory. If you have enough memory, the inode cache won't thrash, > > and even when it does, it does so gracefully - performance falls off > > nice and slowly. For example, 250 Meg of inode cache will

Re: APIC errors ...

> Er... I believe there was some discussion on l-k some while ago regarding a > certain lack of forthcomingness by Serverworks and the resultant general > flakiness of Linux support for their chipsets... Serverworks stuff is pretty well supported now - they've been working to make some stuff

Re: Ext2 Directory Index - Delete Performance

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:27:48AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > more memory. If you have enough memory, the inode cache won't thrash, > and even when it does, it does so gracefully - performance falls off > nice and slowly. For example, 250 Meg of inode cache will handle 2 > million inodes

Re: [PATCH][CFT] ext2 directories in pagecache

Al Viro wrote: > Folks, IMO ext2-dir-patch got to the stable stage. Currently > it's against 2.4.4-pre2, but it should apply to anything starting with > 2.4.2 or so. > > Ted, could you review it for potential inclusion into 2.4 once > it gets enough testing? It's ext2-only (the only change

Re: ATA 100 & VIA and linux-2.4.3ac8

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 02:16:48PM -0500, Moses Mcknight wrote: > I don't know about other possible problems with the kernel, but you must > use an 80 wire IDE cable for UDMA66/100 to work. > > > ---Primary IDE---Secondary IDE-- > > Cable Type: 40w

ARP handling in case of having multiple interfaces on same segment

Sometime, we have setting like following (say, in the migration process of changing IP networks, or perhaps wrong way of load balancing): +--+ |eth0 eth1 | +--+ | | ---+---+ Current implementation of Linux doesn't handle

TCP benchmarks

Hey, I am looking for some TCP benchmarks for the 2.4.x sersies of kernels. I am interested in # of new connections per second and impact of backlogged connections. Memory constraints are also of interest. An URL or just word-of-mouth stats will do. Regards, Bart. -- WebSig:

Ext2 Directory Index - Delete Performance

A few weeks ago, testing my indexed directory code with a 1,000,000 file directory, I noticed that deletion was taking longer than creation - about 4 times longer. Andreas Dilger confirmed this earlier this week, and I decided I'd better find out what's going on. Not having any nice tracing

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

Scott Prader wrote: > > * David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) uttered: > > > > James Simmons writes: > > > The Linux GFX project grew out the need for a higher performance X > > > > And this specific functionality is? > > > > I think this is not a worthwhile project at all. The X tree,

CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP help

Hi, I upgrading an application to the CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP interface, and was trying to figure out how the api works. I 'RTFS' But had a few questions: 1. for tp_frame_size, I dont want to truncate any data on ethernet, I need 1514 bytes, is this the best way to do it and not waste space?

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

"David S. Miller" wrote: > > James Simmons writes: > > The Linux GFX project grew out the need for a higher performance X > > server that has a much faster developement cycle. In the last few years > > the graphics card and multimedia environments have grow at such a rate > > the current

Re: Socket hack question.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:31:55PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > > post. :-) But I thought sendfile() could only be used for sending data > > from a "regular" file descriptor to another file- or socket descriptor..? > > he said the syscall (ie, interface) already existed, > not that it was

How to tune TCP for heavily loaded sendmail box

Greetings, I am running a relaying sendmail box and I would like it to be able to handle up to 600 or so concurrent (incoming or outgoing) connections. I tried that and discovered that TONS of incoming connections are stuck at SYNC_RECV state. It is like the sendmail box received these port 25

Why does do_signal() repost deadly signals?

If a signal's default behavior is to kill a process, do_signal() reposts that signal before calling do_exit(). Why does it do that? Our guess is that it prevents the exiting process from blocking for an extremely long period of time. One example might be a process with an open NFS file. The

Re: APIC errors ...

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:21:17 -0700 (PDT) "Dr. Kelsey Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *snip* > You have a couple solutions: Upgrade the motherboard to one of the VIA > 133MHz chipsets (I dont care for the VIA chipset so this really doesn't > strike my fancy) or upgrade to that other Intel

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

* David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) uttered: > > James Simmons writes: > > The Linux GFX project grew out the need for a higher performance X > > And this specific functionality is? > > I think this is not a worthwhile project at all. The X tree, it's > assosciated protocols and APIs,

FPE's

Dear Kernel Experts, A question recently arose on the beowulf list about determining the largest possible float or double (or the smallest) that would not overflow (or underflow) on a general system, which on the beowulf list is not unreasonably a general linux/gnu system. I suggested that one

Re: SMP in 2.4

At 02:05 PM 04/18/2001, Matti Aarnio wrote: >On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:08:22AM -0400, Dennis wrote: > > Does 2.4 have something similar to spl levels or does it still require the > > ridiculous MS-DOSish spin-locks to protect every bit of code? > > Lets see -- (besides of MSDOS not having any

Re: Broken ARP (was Re: ARP responses broken!)

Hello, On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Sampsa Ranta wrote: > So I wonder if this hidden feature or alike should be brought to 2.4 tree > also? The three flags that can control the ARP behavior in 2.2 (arp_filter, hidden and rp_filter) cover almost everything without breaking any RFC826

[PATCH] ac only, allow reiserfs files > 4GB

This patch should set s_maxbytes correctly for reiserfs in the ac kernels, and adds a reiserfs_setattr call to catch expanding truncates past the MAX_NON_LFS limit for old format files. reiserfs_get_block already catches file writes and such for this case. It also adds a generic_inode_setattr

Re: Socket hack question.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:31:00PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:28:52AM +0200, Joel Eriksson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am a kernel hacking newbie and am struggling to understand the > > networking subsystem. I would like to be able to add a systemcall, > > preferably

Re: ARP responses broken!

Hello, On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Sampsa Ranta wrote: > Yes, I wan't that other routers only see the MAC address of the interface > I assigned the IP address for if someone asks it by ARP. I also control > outgoing traffic with routing. But how am I supposed to do this in 2.4 > enviroment?

Re: [PATCH] proc_lookup not exported

Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jeff Golds wrote: > > > I don't see why not. I created my own mkdir and rmdir handlers in my > > module. I'd like to use the lookup function that proc supplies instead > > of supplying my own, why shouldn't I be allowed to do that? It's not as >

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

"Grover, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > ACPI != PM. I don't see why ACPI details should be exposed to PM > > interface at all. > > ACPI has by far the richest set of capabilities. It is a superset of > APM. Therefore a combined APM/ACPI interface is going to look a lot > like

Re: Broken ARP (was Re: ARP responses broken!)

I have a rathar strange way to first ask and then try to find the answer on my own. But what I found was: from http://www.appwatch.com/lists/linux-kernel/Week-of-Mon-20010122/018588.html > > am most curious about is how it ending up being removed from the kernel > > in the first place. It must

Re: /dev/pts question

Followup to: <01041822354404.00617@ElkOS> By author:elko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > as I understand, /dev/pts was created > to make an end to the overload in /dev/ > and let the kernel put the entries in /dev/pts > when they are used/needed/installed. > You

Re: gcc-2.95.3

cx863877-d% gcc --version 2.95.3 cx863877-d% uptime 3:26pm up 14 days, 15:15, 15 users, load average: 2.01, 2.01, 2.00 cx863877-d% uname -a Linux cx863877-d.cv1.sdca.home.com 2.4.3 #3 SMP Wed Apr 4 00:06:17 PDT 2001 i686 unknown No problems at all :) On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Jeff Chua wrote:

Re: Broken ARP (was Re: ARP responses broken!)

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Julian Anastasov wrote: > > Hello, > > Sampsa Ranta wrote: > > > The code I used to do the trick at my network was as simple as this, > > in function arp_rcv, the problem is ip_dev_find that does know if there > > are other devices with same IP address. > > I

Re: APIC errors ...

Um... Looks like when you clock the BX-chipset out of spec (>100MHz FSB) you get the error. Since BX wasn't ever designed to be run at >100MHz these errors are *expected*. You have a couple solutions: Upgrade the motherboard to one of the VIA 133MHz chipsets (I dont care for the VIA chipset so

Re: Broken ARP (was Re: ARP responses broken!)

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Julian Anastasov wrote: > > Hello, > > Sampsa Ranta wrote: > > > The code I used to do the trick at my network was as simple as this, > > in function arp_rcv, the problem is ip_dev_find that does know if there > > are other devices with same IP address. > > I

Re: ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

James Simmons writes: > The Linux GFX project grew out the need for a higher performance X > server that has a much faster developement cycle. In the last few years > the graphics card and multimedia environments have grow at such a rate > the current X solutions can no longer keep pace

Re: Problems with Toshiba SD-W2002 DVD-RAM drive (IDE)

On Wednesday 18 April 2001 14:39, Jens Axboe wrote: > Please send me strace info when reading/writing to the drive (or at > least attempting to), this looks very queer indeed. > > Attached patch for 2.4.4-pre4 which fixes all known DVD-RAM ATAPI bugs. > Both pio and dma mode work fine here,

RE: Let init know user wants to shutdown

Grover, Andrew writes: > IMHO an abstracted interface at this point is overengineering. ACPI is the epitome of overengineering. An abstracted interface would allow simpler systems to avoid all of the bloated garbage ACPI brings with it. Sorry, Alan hit it right on the head, ACPI is not much

[PATCH] SCSI command bytes are copied twice

SCSI subsystem needs to copy the SCSI command bytes into a Scsi_Request structure for a SCSI command being issued by one of the higher level drivers before it queues the command up. It does this copy twice. Even though this will cause no more than 12 bytes to be copied twice, this code is still

Re: ARP responses broken!

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Julian Anastasov wrote: > > Hello, > > Sampsa Ranta wrote: > > > 23:38:25.278848 > arp who-has 194.29.192.38 tell 194.29.192.10 (0:50:da:82:ae:9f) > > 23:38:25.278988 < arp reply 194.29.192.38 is-at 0:1:2:dc:d2:64 (0:50:da:82:ae:9f) > > 23:38:25.279009 < arp reply

ANNOUNCE New Open Source X server

The Linux GFX project grew out the need for a higher performance X server that has a much faster developement cycle. In the last few years the graphics card and multimedia environments have grow at such a rate the current X solutions can no longer keep pace nor do they focus on

[PATCH] Incorrect command size for group 4 SCSI commands

SCSI subsystem defines the size of group 4 SCSI commands as 12. This is incorrect. SCSI-3 specs define group 4 command size as 16. Following patch fixes this. Thanks, Khalid Khalid Aziz Linux

Re: i386 cleanups

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 02:46:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > These are tiny cleanups you might like. sizes are "logically" > > long. > > No. Sizes are not "logical". They are whatever you decide they are, ie > it's purely a complier

Re: [PATCH] proc_mknod() should check the mode parameter

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:51:08PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Erik Mouw wrote: > > While documenting the procfs interface (more of that later), I came > > across proc_mknod() which is supposed to be used to create devices in > > the procfs. IMHO it should therefore check

Re: [PATCH] proc_mknod() should check the mode parameter

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Erik Mouw wrote: > Hi all, > > While documenting the procfs interface (more of that later), I came > across proc_mknod() which is supposed to be used to create devices in > the procfs. IMHO it should therefore check if the mode parameter > contains S_IFBLK or S_IFCHR.

Re: [PATCH] proc_lookup not exported

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jeff Golds wrote: > I don't see why not. I created my own mkdir and rmdir handlers in my > module. I'd like to use the lookup function that proc supplies instead > of supplying my own, why shouldn't I be allowed to do that? It's not as > if I am doing something other

RE: Let init know user wants to shutdown

> From: John Fremlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > [...] > > > Fair enough. I don't think I would be out of line to say that our > > resources are focused on enabling full ACPI functionality for Linux, > > including a full-featured PM policy daemon. That said, I don't think > > there's anything

Re: kernel panic when using loop device on kernel 2.4.3

On Wed, Apr 18 2001, Mike Panetta wrote: > I have been getting kernel panics on kernel 2.4.3 > when using the loop device on a rather regular basis. > I get a kernel panic but no oops message. The kernel > panic message says Kernel panic: invalid blocksize passed > to set_blocksize. I saw that

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

On Wed, Apr 18 2001, Guest section DW wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:06:22PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 18 2001, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > > > > vmware and one or two other apps I've also seen do this. WHen > > > > you unlock the cdrom door as root you can unlock it even if

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:10:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > willing to exercise this power. We would not break compatibility with > > > any std kernel by instead having a apmd send a "reject all" ioctl > > > instead, and so deal with events

kernel panic when using loop device on kernel 2.4.3

I have been getting kernel panics on kernel 2.4.3 when using the loop device on a rather regular basis. I get a kernel panic but no oops message. The kernel panic message says Kernel panic: invalid blocksize passed to set_blocksize. I saw that someone else on the list has had these problems as

Re: Socket hack question.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:28:52AM +0200, Joel Eriksson wrote: > Hello, > > I am a kernel hacking newbie and am struggling to understand the > networking subsystem. I would like to be able to add a systemcall, > preferably asynchronous, that connects a socket with a filedescriptor >

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:10:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > willing to exercise this power. We would not break compatibility with > > any std kernel by instead having a apmd send a "reject all" ioctl > > instead, and so deal with events without having the pressure of having > > to reject or

System hangs reading CDROM/IDE in 2.4.x with VIA MVP3 chipset.

Hi! Since I intalled 2.4.x kernel my system hangs randomly when reading my IDE-ATAPI 40x Pioner CDROM drive. (I tryed with 2.4.1 and 2.4.3 kernels) Just making a cat /dev/hdc > /dev/null or making a ls -lR will hang totally my computer in a random time

Re: I can eject a mounted CD

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:06:22PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18 2001, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > > vmware and one or two other apps I've also seen do this. WHen you unlock the > > > cdrom door as root you can unlock it even if a file system is mounted > > > > Right, so I'll check

[PATCH] reiserfs transaction overflow

Hi guys, Under certain loads, the reiserfs journal can overflow the max transaction size, leading to a crash (but not corruption). When the transaction is too full for another writer to join, the writer triggers a commit, and waits for the next transaction. But, it doesn't properly check to

An improved natsemi driver for 2.2

This version of the natsemi driver is being successfully used by us (Myrio Corporation) on hardware that has the 83815 chip on the motherboard, with the 2.2.17 kernel. It appears to work well with both multicast and unicast, with decent throughput. It requires the "pci-scan" module by Donald

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

> > I was wondering whether the swsusp work might form a useful basis for > > the eventual ACPI implementation of the to-disk hibernation stuff: > > I (and others) have looked at it. It's a pretty cool patch, but it really > isn't the right way to do things. swsusp is most definitely the right

Re: Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, IonBadulescu wrote: > True, I plead guilty to the "replying at 3:30am" sin. :-) I meant to reply > to Roberto's mail, and accidentally replied to yours.. :) I know the feeling... -- - Steve Hill System Administrator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Navaho Technologies

Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:54:41AM +0100, D . W . Howells wrote: > > It is 36bytes. and on 64bit archs the difference is going to be less. > > You're right - I can't add up (must be too late at night), and I was looking > at wait_queue not wait_queue_head. I suppose that means my

/dev/pts question

hello, as I understand, /dev/pts was created to make an end to the overload in /dev/ and let the kernel put the entries in /dev/pts when they are used/needed/installed. but still, when I enable /dev/pts, I have to keep the /dev/ for backward compatibility with already installed applications

Re: Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Steve Hill wrote: > Anyway, it wasn't me who wanted to use the starfire driver :) True, I plead guilty to the "replying at 3:30am" sin. :-) I meant to reply to Roberto's mail, and accidentally replied to yours.. Anyway, Roberto, if you could give the starfire driver in

[PATCH] proc_mknod() should check the mode parameter

Hi all, While documenting the procfs interface (more of that later), I came across proc_mknod() which is supposed to be used to create devices in the procfs. IMHO it should therefore check if the mode parameter contains S_IFBLK or S_IFCHR. Here is a patch (against linux-2.4.4-pre3) to do that:

Re: ATA 100 & VIA and linux-2.4.3ac8

El Mié 18 Abr 2001 15:16, escribiste: > I don't know about other possible problems with the kernel, but you must > use an 80 wire IDE cable for UDMA66/100 to work. > > > ---Primary IDE---Secondary IDE-- > > Cable Type: 40w 40w

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > willing to exercise this power. We would not break compatibility > > with any std kernel by instead having a apmd send a "reject all" > > ioctl instead, and so deal with events without having the pressure > > of having to reject or accept them, and let us

Socket hack question.

Hello, I am a kernel hacking newbie and am struggling to understand the networking subsystem. I would like to be able to add a systemcall, preferably asynchronous, that connects a socket with a filedescriptor (proxy(srcsd, dstfd)) so that everything received on srcsd is directly written to

Re: Won't Power down (Was: More about 2.4.3 timer problems)

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: :viking wrote: :> :> Incidentally, Andrew, thanks for that patch. : :My brain is fading. Which patch was that? Gee! 8-) and you suggested it to me! It was the patch against 2.4.3-pre6 which corrected the system clock slowing down, due to the

Dell PowerVault 100T DDS4 tape on RedHat

I was able to use this tape drive on RedHat 6.2 after updating the drive firmware, using an update package from Dell: http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=R25138 I considered updating to a later Adaptec driver (aic7xxx 5.1.33), later kernel (2.2.16 or later), or

Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

> willing to exercise this power. We would not break compatibility with > any std kernel by instead having a apmd send a "reject all" ioctl > instead, and so deal with events without having the pressure of having > to reject or accept them, and let us remove all the veto code from the > kernel

Re: uname ?

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:56:25PM +0200, Dragan Milenkovic wrote: > > Few days ago, I found an incredibly usable option in latest gcc versions. > gcc -march=k6 -mcpu=k6 That -mcpu flag is not necessary. From the gcc info files: `-march=CPU TYPE' Generate instructions for the machine type

Re: 2.4.3 - Problems with poweroff

> I'm booting Win98SE and run loadlin 1.6a to booting the linux kenel 2.4.3. > Everything goes ok, but my machine will not turn off if I use the command > poweroff. Win98SE will have deleted the ACPI tables that can be removed > I don't understand, whats the difference to load the kernel from

hang in ioremap called from detect() entry point of scsi hba driver

Hi List, I am trying to call ioremap() from the detect() routine of the scsi hba driver to map the memory mapped and i/o mapped registers on the card. I have two HBAs supported by the driver. For the first card, everything works fine (including ioremap). Whereas for the second card, the

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