Re: linux and high volume web sites

2001-04-30 Thread Sean Hunter
Also make sure you aren't suffering database lock contention from Mysql. This causes very fast context switching on the database server, and is typically unable to do useful work even though its load avg is not high. "vmstat" is useful here. Sean On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 01:55:01PM -0700, Tim M

meept (was:Re: CML2 1.3.3 is available)

2001-04-30 Thread jdnfk kjhds
Yes, way too much! The logo has changed to a microsoft certified tux now. --- > > If only VA Linux had a gonkulator! :-O > > Someone is watching WAY too much Hogan's Heroes > > > They've issued their third earnings warning. I > found > > the link on http://www.theGloriousMEEPT.com . > > Th

Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch

2001-04-30 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Linus Torvalds writes: > Btw, please use "static inline" instead of "extern inline", as gcc may > decide not to inline the latter at all, leading to confusing link-time > errors. (Gcc may also decide not to inline "static inline", but then gcc > will output the actual body of the function out-of-

Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch

2001-04-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > The attached patch fixes both. It is against 2.4.4, but from the looks > > of it it should patch against -ac as well. > > Btw, please use "static inline" instead of "extern inline", as gcc may > decide not to inline th

Alpha reboot

2001-04-30 Thread Magnus Naeslund\(f\)
I saw the USB/Reboot thread. I was wondering if you on alpha could specify any such parameter that makes the kernel not go back to milo, but do a "hard" reboot instead. I have a mylex raid card that can't handle to many soft reboots, it hangs. cheers Magnus -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch

2001-04-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > The attached patch fixes both. It is against 2.4.4, but from the looks > of it it should patch against -ac as well. Btw, please use "static inline" instead of "extern inline", as gcc may decide not to inline the latter at all, leading to confusing

Re: Question about /proc/kmsg semantics..

2001-04-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I've seen a couple of patches in the archives to make open()/close() > on /proc/kmsg do more than NOP. As of 2.4.4, klogd still needs to > run as root since access is checked o

iso9660 endianness cleanup patch

2001-04-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Hi guys, I was looking over the iso9660 code, and noticed that it was doing endianness conversion via ad hoc *functions*, not even inlines; nor did it take any advantage of the fact that iso9660 is bi-endian (has "all" data in both bigendian and littleendian format.) The attached patch fixes bot

Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load

2001-04-30 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:38:23PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:26:57AM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > > - p->counter = current->counter; > > > - current->counter = 0; > > > + p->counter = (current->counter + 1) >> 1

More!! Kernel NULL pointer, over my head...

2001-04-30 Thread Jamie Harris
OK... a 'tar xvfz myFile.tar.gz' results in the following in /var/log/syslog May 1 05:58:11 mnemosyne kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address May 1 05:58:11 mnemosyne kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 01e55000, %cr3 = 01e55000 May 1 05:58:11 mnemosyne ker

Re: 2.2.19 locks up on SMP

2001-04-30 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > Ok, so onto the binary search through the 2.2.19pre series... I think it started in 2.2.19pre10. I can reproduce the hang on pre10, quite easily, but I couldn't reproduce it on pre5, pre7 and pre9. I'll try a few other pre versions, just to make sure

Question about /proc/kmsg semantics..

2001-04-30 Thread Michael Bacarella
Two pronged: I've seen a couple of patches in the archives to make open()/close() on /proc/kmsg do more than NOP. As of 2.4.4, klogd still needs to run as root since access is checked on read() rather than once at open(). I can't find the rationale as to why they're rejected. Also, why is readin

Kernel NULL pointer, over my head...

2001-04-30 Thread Jamie Harris
Morning all, Sorry for the big cross post but I don't have the first clue about where to send this one. I get this from my stock 2.2.18 kernel in /var/log/syslog: May 1 05:27:36 mnemosyne kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address May 1 05:27:36 mnemo

Re: Aironet doesn't work

2001-04-30 Thread Francois Gouget
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:10:56 -0400, > "Michael H. Warfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:22:59PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: > >> Apr 30 13:19:34 oleron cardmgr[148]: initializing socket 0 > >> Apr 30 13:19:34 oleron cardmgr[

Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load

2001-04-30 Thread Adam J. Richter
>The fact that 2.4.4 gives the whole timeslice to the child >is just bogus to begin with. I only did that because I could not find another way to make the child run first that worked in practice. I tried other things before that. Since Peter Osterlund's SCHED_YIELD thing works, we no lo

Oops during fsck.ext2, Linux 2.4.3

2001-04-30 Thread HÃ¥vard Lygre
I had my computer go down hard the other day, while it was sitting idle (some time during the night). This was while in X, so no messages was visible on the screen, and nothing was recorded in the logs. When rebooting, Linux oopsed several times while running ext2.fsck, requiring reboots every

CDROM? oops in 2.2.19

2001-04-30 Thread Jonathan Woithe
Hi all We are currently running 2.2.19 on an 900MHz athlon (not overclocked). Late last night one of our users tried to umount a CDROM. The process hung in the "D" state, as did subsequent runs of the umount program. According to /etc/mtab the drive is still mounted and indeed you can't eject

Re: Cardbus conflicts...

2001-04-30 Thread David Hinds
> exclude port 0x2f8-0x2ff This exclusion is to block out the port range used by the IBM MWave DSP chip; this is your modem, not your sound card. Whatever your sound problem is, I don't think it is related to this specific item. I would recommend going to the linux-laptops site and checking out

Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load

2001-04-30 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:26:57AM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > - p->counter = current->counter; > > - current->counter = 0; > > + p->counter = (current->counter + 1) >> 1; > > + current->counter >>= 1; > > + current->policy |= SCHED_Y

2.4.4: USB HC TakeOver failed!

2001-04-30 Thread Narang
Does anyone has any suggestions on fixing 'USB HC TakeOver failed!' problem. thanks. syslog -- usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:04.0 to 64 usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc8914000, IRQ 8 usb-ohci.c: usb-01:04.0,

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac1

2001-04-30 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > This release is mostly meant for further eyes to check for merge > errors. It boots but thats about all I'd guarantee. I plan to do just > the fixups for 2.4.4 bugs and then back out some of the existing > changes that don't help much - notably some of the VM

Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..."

2001-04-30 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro) wrote on 30.04.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > I don't think I've heard anyone invoke the 4-line rule since about > > 1992, though. I didn't start generating short random quotes into my sig > > until about 1996,

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-30 Thread Richard Gooch
Jonathan Lundell writes: > On the subject of the Subject, Jeff Garzik recently (21 March) > suggested adding geographic information to the ethtool interface, > pci_dev->slot_name in the case of a PCI-based interface. There's > something to be said for having a uniform method of identifying the

Re: [RFC] yet another knfsd-reiserfs patch

2001-04-30 Thread Chris Mason
On Monday, April 23, 2001 10:45:14 AM -0400 Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > This patch is not meant to replace Neil Brown's knfsd ops stuff, the > goal was to whip up something that had a chance of getting into 2.4.x, > and that might be usable by the AFS guys too. N

DPT I2O RAID and Linux I2O

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
A few people have asked about the dpt_i2o driver recently. If you have a DPT I2O card please try a late 2.4.3-ac kernel. It should now work when you do 'modprobe i2o_scsi' After a lot of reviewing of the dpt driver I figured out what command was upsetting the beast and added a workaround for it.

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:17:22 -0500, Paul J Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Where can I find an analysis of the relative strengths and weaknesses of KDB >and KGDB for kernel debug? Has the linux community come to any consensus >regarding the utility one or the other? kdb is a really low leve

Re: 2.2.19 locks up on SMP

2001-04-30 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Just to give another data point... > > 2.2.19 + LVM patches - dual P3 550 > 1 GB RAM > eepro100 > ncr53c8xx scsi > mylex accelRAID 1100 RAID controller > > We've transferred around 1 GB of stuff over the network and about 200 GB > between two raid

Re: reiserfs+lndir problem [was: 2.4.4 SMP: spurious EOVERFLOW"Value too large for defined data type"]

2001-04-30 Thread Chris Mason
On Monday, April 30, 2001 10:55:57 PM +0200 Daniel Elstner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > unfortunately I have to correct me again. > The problem seems unrelated to the kernel version or SMP/UP > (though only 2.4.[34] tried yet). > > Apparently it's a reiserfs/symlink problem. > I t

Re: Aironet doesn't work

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:10:56 -0400, "Michael H. Warfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:22:59PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: >> Apr 30 13:19:34 oleron cardmgr[148]: initializing socket 0 >> Apr 30 13:19:34 oleron cardmgr[148]: socket 0: Aironet PC4800 >> Apr 30 13:19:34

Linux 2.4.4-ac1

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org This release is mostly meant for further eyes to check for merge errors. It boots but thats about all I'd guarantee. I plan to do

Re: Can eject mounted zip disk after suspend/resume (2.4.4)

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> If I hit an eject button on internal IDE IOMEGA zip drive after > resume/suspend to memory on my Dell Inspiron 7500 notebook, then the > disk will be ejected even if it is mounted. This behavior happens ONLY > if I suspend my system with the mounted zip. Could I fix this somehow? Its an Insp

Can eject mounted zip disk after suspend/resume (2.4.4)

2001-04-30 Thread Igor Bukanov
If I hit an eject button on internal IDE IOMEGA zip drive after resume/suspend to memory on my Dell Inspiron 7500 notebook, then the disk will be ejected even if it is mounted. This behavior happens ONLY if I suspend my system with the mounted zip. Could I fix this somehow? I tried to use bot

CML2 doesn't like my .config

2001-04-30 Thread Brett
Hey, Just gave CLM2 (1.3.3) a go with linux-2.4.3-ac14 Results: ISA=y (deduced from X86) This configuration violates the following constraints: '((NET_PCMCIA <= PCMCIA) and (NET_PCMCIA <= NET_ETHERNET))' erm... OK. Relevant bits of .config # egrep CONFIG_PCMCIA\|NET_PCMCIA\|NET_ETHERNET .con

Re: iso9660 maintainer?

2001-04-30 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> Is there someone who considers himself maintainer of the iso9660 > filesystem these days? Not me. But recently and not so recently I fixed some stuff in that area. If you have problems I am certainly willing to look at them. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: Oopses under 2.4.4pre8 with Tbird 1.2GHz/Epox 8kta3

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> > This problem is only seen on VIA chipsets so far. Never on AMD ones. > > This leads me to the current tentative diagnosis of 'VIA chipset bug' > > Thanks, at least that clears up some of the mystery. Do you foresee any > problems with running on this setup using a kernel compiled for Athlon

Re: Aironet doesn't work

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> Elmer Joandi wrote: > > the whole pcmcia does not work in 2.4. > > Prove it. > It works for people with correct 2.4 kernel configurations. Except on a few boxes where it doesnt. The Palmax is one of them but that seems to be irq routing - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 1 May 2001 01:31:20 +0200, "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 05.01 Keith Owens wrote: >> The patch appears to work but is it worth applying now? The existing >> 2.4 rules work fine and the entire kbuild system will be rewritten for >> 2.5 > >We will have to live with 2.4

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 05.01 Keith Owens wrote: > > The patch appears to work but is it worth applying now? The existing > 2.4 rules work fine and the entire kbuild system will be rewritten for > 2.5, including the case you identified here. It struck me as a decent > change but for no benefit and, given that the

Re: 2.4.x APM interferes with FA311TX/natsemi.o

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> When the call > apm_bios_call_simple(APM_FUNC_SET_STATE, 0x100, APM_STATE_READY, &eax) > is made, the PMEEN (PME enable) bit in the CCSR register on my FA311 > mysteriously changes from 0 to 1, causing the card to stop processing The Linux driver set the power management of the card off. The

Re: [patch] linux likes to kill bad inodes

2001-04-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Any reason a bad inode can't have its i_sb changed to a bad_inode_fs ? That would be my personal preference too, this was just the quick hack version. Changing superblocks might have other consequences (like getting the superblock inode lists right etc)

Re: 2.4.4 breaks dhcpcd with Realtek 8139

2001-04-30 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Garett Spencley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Michael F Gordon wrote: > > > dhcpcd stops working if I install 2.4.4. Replacing the 2.4.4 version of > > 8139too.c with the 2.4.3 version and leaving everything else exactly > > the same gets things working again. Configuring

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-04-30 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Where can I find an analysis of the relative strengths and weaknesses > of KDB and KGDB for kernel debug? Has the linux community come to any > consensus regarding the utility one or the other? You ought to add UML to the list, since it is useful for debugging any part

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 1 May 2001 00:43:42 +0200 (CEST), Kai Germaschewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I sent this to the kbuild list about a week ago, and I received exactly >zero replies, so I'm posting to l-k now. This may mean that the idea is >totally stupid (but I'd like to know) or unquestionably good (t

[PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread Kai Germaschewski
I sent this to the kbuild list about a week ago, and I received exactly zero replies, so I'm posting to l-k now. This may mean that the idea is totally stupid (but I'd like to know) or unquestionably good (that's what I'd prefer :), well, maybe I'll get some feedback this time. SHORT VERSION: T

Re: SCSI-Multipath driver for 2.4?

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> I wondered whether thera are already effrots to por the Multipath-driver > for FibreChannel (http://t3.linuxcare.org) to the 2.4 kernel? This patch > allows a transparent failover to another path to FC-attached > disk in case the primary path fails. Please dont put the multipathing in the scsi

Re: BUG: USB/Reboot

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> I'm not familiar with that option, where would I be setting it? Or even > better, where is it documented? Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and arch/i386/kernel/boot.c switch (*str) { case 'w': /* "warm" reboot (no memory testing etc) */

[PATCH] compilation warning fixes

2001-04-30 Thread Kai Germaschewski
Newer gcc's (particularly the RH 7.0/7.1 2.96 versions) complain about implicit declaration of the function abs, and AFAICS they're right. What do people think about the appended patch to fix this? (There's more users than just isdn_audio.c, that's why I added a common header file). --Kai Inde

Re: [patch] linux likes to kill bad inodes

2001-04-30 Thread David S. Miller
Alan Cox writes: > Any reason a bad inode can't have its i_sb changed to a bad_inode_fs ? I believe this is what Linus suggested. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

Re: [patch] linux likes to kill bad inodes

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> { > - if (inode->i_sb && inode->i_sb->s_op && inode->i_sb->s_op->write_inode) > + if (inode->i_sb && inode->i_sb->s_op && inode->i_sb->s_op->write_inode && >!is_bad_inode(inode)) > inode->i_sb->s_op->write_inode(inode, sync); > } Any reason a bad inode can't have its i_

Re: Fw: where can I find the IP address ?

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> pa_addr in the struct device. but it doesn't exist on my computer. > > so I don't understand why ? Is anybody could tell me where finding the > IP address in the kernel ? A driver may not even have an IP address and it may change dynamically. One side effect of this (and support for multiple a

Re: buz.c of 2.4.4

2001-04-30 Thread Gerd Knorr
> > Come to think of it .. then we'd start getting "buz drivers missing" > > reports. > > So what? > Refer them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll explain them how > to use the new zoran driver until it's in the official kernel... #warning "outdated, see http://whatever for current devel versions"

Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-04-30 Thread Paul J Albrecht
Where can I find an analysis of the relative strengths and weaknesses of KDB and KGDB for kernel debug? Has the linux community come to any consensus regarding the utility one or the other? -- Paul J Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

Re: Aironet doesn't work

2001-04-30 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: [...] > >But now I get the same missing symbols I initially had in 2.4.3: > > > Apr 30 13:19:34 oleron cardmgr[148]: initializing socket 0 > > Apr 30 13:19:34 oleron cardmgr[148]: socket 0: Aironet PC4800 > > Apr 30 13:19:34 oleron cardmgr[148]:

Re: Aironet doesn't work

2001-04-30 Thread Michael H. Warfield
Hello, I'm tunning into this discussion a little late, but... On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:22:59PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Francois Gouget wrote: > > > CONFIG_PCMCIA=y > > > CONFIG_CARDBUS=y > > > CONFIG_I82365=y > > > > Not correct --

Re: Patch(?): bash-2.05/jobs.c loses interrupts

2001-04-30 Thread Adam J. Richter
>> Linux-2.4.4 has a change, for which I must accept blame, >> where fork() runs the child first, reducing unnecessary copy-on-write >> page duplications, because the child will usually promptly do an >> exec(). I understand this is pretty standard in most unixes. >> >> Peter Osterlund

Re: 2.4.4 sluggish under fork load

2001-04-30 Thread Peter Osterlund
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > please try to reproduce the bad behaviour with 2.4.4aa2. There's a bug > in the parent-timeslice patch in 2.4 that I fixed while backporting it > to 2.2aa and that I now forward ported the fix to 2.4aa. The fact > 2.4.4 gives the whole timeslice to t

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space

2001-04-30 Thread David S. Miller
dean gaudet writes: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > > If you do the TCP_CORK thing, what you end up with is a scatter gather > > entry in the SKB for the header bits, then the page cache segments. > > so then the NIC would be sent a 3 entry gather list -- 1 entry for TCP

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space

2001-04-30 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote: > Ok I fixed it, the header date timestamp is updated with every request. > > Performance doesn't seem to have suffered significantly (less than 1%). rad! > BTW: Don't call me slime, I wasn't trying to cheat, I just didn't know that > the date stamp wa

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-30 Thread Andreas Ferber
Hi, On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:14:25PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > mv /wherever/exeimage /usr/bin/exeimage [...] > > This is also basically how things like libc get installed. > > A single mv is not only preserves currently referenced contents, > > it is atomic. One restriction: /where

Re: buz.c of 2.4.4

2001-04-30 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 2001.04.30 20:37:39 +0200 Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Buz.c doesnt work build or anything. Once the zoran merge is done it > will > > go away, until then I simply dont care. At least its obviously broken > right > > now > > Can't we just remove it t

AC97/es1371 detection problem

2001-04-30 Thread Will Newton
Linux won't detect my AC97 (Cirrus Logic, er something I forget exactly) soundcard from a cold start. Reset the machine and it loads up fine. Ideas? VIA KX133 motherboard BTW. mtrr: 0xe000,0x200 overlaps existing 0xe000,0x100 es1371: version v0.30 time 14:11:05 Apr 28 2001 es13

reproducable hangup with 2.4.3-ac14, when swap is on a fs

2001-04-30 Thread BERECZ Szabolcs
Hi! if the kernel writes swaps out something to a swapfile, which is on a filesystem the kernel hangs up. (the Oops is below) I tried it with kernel 2.4.3-ac14 and 2.4.3-ac10, and it works perfectly with 2.4.3-ac10. the filesystem type does not matter, at least it hangs with ext2, and reiserfs.

[patch] Acenic tigon 1 support fix

2001-04-30 Thread Olivier Galibert
A typo prevents the tigon 1 firmware to be included when tigon 1 support is active. Null pointer dereference in ace_load_firmware->ace_copy as a result. Patch trivial and even tested (aka, the module loads without oopsing with a tigon 1 inside). OG. --- linux/drivers/net/acenic_firmware.h Tu

reiserfs+lndir problem [was: 2.4.4 SMP: spurious EOVERFLOW "Value too large for defined data type"]

2001-04-30 Thread Daniel Elstner
Hi all, unfortunately I have to correct me again. The problem seems unrelated to the kernel version or SMP/UP (though only 2.4.[34] tried yet). Apparently it's a reiserfs/symlink problem. I tried doing the lndir on an ext2 partition, sources still on reiserfs. And it worked just fine! Sorry for

CANBus driver.

2001-04-30 Thread Anders Peter Fugmann
Hi. Some of my fellow students and I, have started a project in which we have to implement a linux driver for a CANbus ISA card ( AROS: A-858D PCCAN -x ver. 1.12). Does there exist any work on a CANBus driver for linux already? Also, is there any interrest for this kind of driver, or would so

Re: PATCH 2.4.4: Via audio fixes

2001-04-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Would it be possible for you to make a code change and send me the dmesg output? Update linux/arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h and change -#undef DEBUG +#define DEBUG 1 Recompile, and privately e-mail me "dmesg -s 16384" output... -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building

RE: PATCH 2.4.4: Via audio fixes

2001-04-30 Thread Greg Hosler
On 30-Apr-01 Jeff Garzik wrote: > The attached patch includes fixes to the Via audio driver for which I'm > interested finding testers. Testing and a private "it works" (hopefully >:)) or "it doesn't work, is what breaks for me" would be > appreciated. > -- > Jeff Garzik | Game called on

2.4.4 + gcc 3 compile error

2001-04-30 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
Hi, I tried compiling the 2.4.4 release with a gcc 3 snapshot and it failed with following error: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c sys.c sys.c:

Re: 2.2.19 locks up on SMP

2001-04-30 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > Except that the only driver I'm using is eepro100, and the only change to > that driver was the patch I submitted myself and which is also in 2.4. > > Also, another data point: those two SMP boxes have been running 2.2.18 + > Andrea's VM-global patch si

Re: Aironet doesn't work

2001-04-30 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Francois Gouget wrote: > > CONFIG_PCMCIA=y > > CONFIG_CARDBUS=y > > CONFIG_I82365=y > > Not correct -- you do not need I82365 if you have CardBus. However, if > you are running 2.4.4 you should be ok. Ok. I upgraded to 2.4.4 and modified my config f

Re: 2.4.4 SMP: spurious EOVERFLOW "Value too large for defined data type"

2001-04-30 Thread Daniel Elstner
Hi again, the problem occurs only after setting up a parallel build tree with lndir, removing the whole symlink tree, and running lndir again. Maybe an reiserfs bug? -- Daniel > With kernel 2.4.4 SMP, I get some spurios errors from several > user-space programs. Unfortunately it's hard to repro

Re: DMA support in cs5530 IDE driver? (repost)

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> Can anyone report success or failure with enabling DMA for > the CS5530 IDE driver? I can get my system to crash or at > least hang pretty reliably by using hdparm to turn on DMA > while reading an MPEG-2 movie from my hard disk drive. My palmtop is a CS5530/MediaGX233 and seems stable with 2.4

Re: Common GUI Config for All Users

2001-04-30 Thread Michael Rothwell
To whom are you referring? -M On 30 Apr 2001 10:11:04 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you for the =constructive= answer Mohammad. I have thusfar only received >criticism for my question, with no further information, which I think is destructive >to the spirit of the list, and to the c

Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) beta 3 release 0.3.0 available

2001-04-30 Thread Steve Best
The beta 3 release 0.3.0 of JFS was made available today. The file system has fixes included. Both the file system and the utilities have been changed to use the system endian macros,so that JFS will now store the meta-data as little endian when running on all architectures. For more details ab

Re: iso9660 maintainer?

2001-04-30 Thread Alexander Viro
On 30 Apr 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Is there someone who considers himself maintainer of the iso9660 > filesystem these days? -ENOENT, last time I checked. Do you volunteer? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: iso9660 maintainer?

2001-04-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On 30 Apr 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Is there someone who considers himself maintainer of the iso9660 > > filesystem these days? > > -ENOENT, last time I checked. Do you volunteer? > I was hoping to avoid it. I don't really have the cycles. However, I might

Re: 2.2.19 locks up on SMP

2001-04-30 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I also have reports but related to the network driver updates. So I > > suggest to try again with 2.2.19 but with the drivers/net/* of 2.2.18. > > Thats probably a better starting point. Its easier to back out than the VM > changes and it would also expla

Re: 2.2.19 locks up on SMP

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 06:55:54PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > A couple. It looks lik the VM changes may have upset something (based on > > reports saying it began at that point). Can you see if 2.2.19pre stuff is > > stable ? > > I also have reports but related to the network driver updates. So

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..."

2001-04-30 Thread nick
I'm fairly sure if he attached the BZ2'd sigs (exact same sigs, just bz2'd and tacked on like they are currently) would offend at least three camps, and have the benifit of showing up many broken mailers, filters, and various other mail related items. Nick On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Gerhard Mac

iso9660 maintainer?

2001-04-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Is there someone who considers himself maintainer of the iso9660 filesystem these days? -hpa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at work, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..."

2001-04-30 Thread Gerhard Mack
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think ppl are recommending you BZ2 all your sigs.. > > Yes, I got that. Except for the people saying they like them as-is. > > In the absence of a clear consensus on the matter, I'm going to do > as

Re: make bzlilo seems to ignore non-standard kernel path in lilo.conf (/boot)

2001-04-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:16:24 +0200, > Olaf Stetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >when I tried to get rid of the problem I wrote about two days ago in > >this list I compiled the ker

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space

2001-04-30 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Ok I fixed it, the header date timestamp is updated with every request. Performance doesn't seem to have suffered significantly (less than 1%). You can find the new release at: http://www.chromium.com/X15-Alpha-2.tgz BTW: Don't call me slime, I wasn't trying to cheat, I just didn't know that t

Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..."

2001-04-30 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [esr] > > Besides, right now the configurator has a simple invariant. It will > > only accept consistent configurations > > So you are saying that the old 'vi .config; make oldconfig' trick is > officially unsupported? That's too bad, it was quite handy.

Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..."

2001-04-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[esr] > Besides, right now the configurator has a simple invariant. It will > only accept consistent configurations So you are saying that the old 'vi .config; make oldconfig' trick is officially unsupported? That's too bad, it was quite handy. Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

PROBLEM: Athlon/VIA/2.4.4 kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:73!

2001-04-30 Thread Bobby D. Bryant
Apr 30 12:51:00 pollux kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:73! Apr 30 12:51:00 pollux kernel: invalid operand: This begins a cascade of similar messages, after which almost anything I try to do results in a segfault. The system is an Athlon on an Epox 8KTA3, with BIOS flashed up to 17-Apr-20

RE: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-30 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > Richard B. Johnson writes: > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Torrey Hoffman wrote: > > > In general, is there a safe way to replace executable files for > > > programs that might be running while their on-disk images are > > > replaced? > > > > Yes.

RE: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-30 Thread David S. Miller
Richard B. Johnson writes: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Torrey Hoffman wrote: > > In general, is there a safe way to replace executable files for > > programs that might be running while their on-disk images are > > replaced? > > Yes. Perfectly safe: > > mv /usr/bin/exeimage /usr/bin/exeimage

RE: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-30 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Torrey Hoffman wrote: > > In general, is there a safe way to replace executable files for > programs that might be running while their on-disk images are > replaced? > Yes. Perfectly safe: mv /usr/bin/exeimage /usr/bin/exeimage.sav cp /wherever/exeimage /usr/bin/exeimage

2.4.4 SMP: spurious EOVERFLOW "Value too large for defined data type"

2001-04-30 Thread Daniel Elstner
Hi, With kernel 2.4.4 SMP, I get some spurios errors from several user-space programs. Unfortunately it's hard to reproduce, I had most luck with the XFree86-4.0.3 build. When doing `make World', soon cpp0 (called by imake) dies with the following error message: cpp0: : Value too large for defin

RE: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-30 Thread Torrey Hoffman
Kenneth Johansson wrote: > Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > > > (Does Linux swap out text, by the way, he asks ignorantly?) > > .text is just droped and read back from the actuall file it's > not put into the swap Is this always true, even for init? Can init be swapped out? In general, is ther

Re: Aironet doesn't work

2001-04-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Francois Gouget wrote: > CONFIG_PCMCIA=y > CONFIG_CARDBUS=y > CONFIG_I82365=y Not correct -- you do not need I82365 if you have CardBus. However, if you are running 2.4.4 you should be ok. Linux 2.4.4 includes a patch from me that fixes such configurations so that they don't conflict anymore, b

Re: buz.c of 2.4.4

2001-04-30 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > Buz.c doesnt work build or anything. Once the zoran merge is done it will > go away, until then I simply dont care. At least its obviously broken right > now Can't we just remove it then? Come to think of it .. then we'd start getting "buz drivers missing

Re: Can the kernel access /?

2001-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
> Can the driver pull the file from the filesystem if I were to pass the > path of the file as an argument on loading the module? Yes but its a bad idea. You dont want to force pathnames into the kernel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: Aironet doesn't work

2001-04-30 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Elmer Joandi wrote: > > the whole pcmcia does not work in 2.4. > > Prove it. > > It works for people with correct 2.4 kernel configurations. What is a 'correct 2.4 kernel configuration'? Or more importantly how do I tell if mine is correct? Here's

Re: continued ext2fs corruption

2001-04-30 Thread Ian Wehrman
Rob Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using RH 7.1 with the stock 2.4.2-2 kernel (although the same behavior > shows up in 2.4.4 also compiled using gcc 2.96). Not quite sure about > hardware we share... it is a 1GHz P3 ServerWorks LE board (with the OSB4 > chipset) connecting to a Seagate S

Re: Via VT82C686 data sheet

2001-04-30 Thread John Silva
Via Product Datasheet Page http://www.via.com.tw/support/datasheets.htm Via Apollo Pro 82C686A http://www.via.com.tw/pdf/productinfo/686a.pdf VIA Document Request Form http://www.via.com.tw/contact/datasheets.htm -J. Greg Hosler wrote: > > Does anyone have, or know where I can get a copy of

Re: 2.2.19 locks up on SMP

2001-04-30 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:15:47PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > suggest to try again with 2.2.19 but with the drivers/net/* of 2.2.18. even better try vanilla 2.2.19aa2 and if it crashes too, try 2.2.19aa2 plus the drivers/net/* of 2.2.18. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: Common GUI Config for All Users

2001-04-30 Thread James Stevenson
Hi yeah but i did not see those posts anyway you can either run X as a nice window system adn run gtk or kde on it i prefere gtk for my needs because i find kde a bit heavy On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This was my point... Mohammad WAS the only one to help and not criticize.

Re: Common GUI Config for All Users

2001-04-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This was my point... Mohammad WAS the only one to help and not criticize. > > I did not pass along the crap I got from the 'bad attitudes', like Jasper Jans, Mark >Hahn, & Paul Dunne. All grief, no guidance nor respect. Tough to be a newbie. g

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