Re: Cleanup kbuild for aic7xxx

2001-06-22 Thread D. Stimits
"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > >> >Users don't have to manually select "rebuild firmware". They can > >> >rely on the generated files already in the aic7xxx directory. This > >> >is why the option defaults to off. > > > >For the SGI patched kernels based on either 2.4.5 or 2.4.6-pre1, I have >

Re: [RFC] Early flush (was: spindown)

2001-06-22 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 23 June 2001 01:25, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:12:38AM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Daniel Phillips writes: > > > I'd like that too, but what about sync writes? As things stand now, > > > there is no option but to spin the disk back up. To get around this >

Re: Cleanup kbuild for aic7xxx

2001-06-22 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>> >Users don't have to manually select "rebuild firmware". They can >> >rely on the generated files already in the aic7xxx directory. This >> >is why the option defaults to off. > >For the SGI patched kernels based on either 2.4.5 or 2.4.6-pre1, I have >had to manually select this for a 7892

Re: High system CPU% in dual CPU System

2001-06-22 Thread Ingo Ciechowski
At 23:25 Uhr -0400 22.06.2001, Dan Maas wrote: > > CPU0 states: 19.2% user, 32.0% system, 0.0% nice, 48.2% idle >> CPU1 states: 20.4% user, 40.1% system, 0.0% nice, 38.3% idle > >> What can I do to find out what the CPUs are doing during "system" time? > >Try 'ps -ax' and see if any process

[RFC] Early flush: new, improved

2001-06-22 Thread Daniel Phillips
The early-flush patch I posted a couple of days ago had the virtue of being simple and functional, but not optimal for all loads, particularly sporadic loads that are neither continously heavy or light. Today's patch is not a lot more complex, but works quite a lot better. The new kflush

Re: Is this part of newer filesystem hierarchy?

2001-06-22 Thread D. Stimits
Luigi Genoni wrote: > > Again i am confused. > > /usr/bin/ld is linker at compilation time, at it works how i told in > second part > of my mail, (just try to compile it, it comes with binutils, > ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils). > > /lib/d-2.2.X.so is what you are talking about. >

GPIB support

2001-06-22 Thread Wan Hing Wah
I'm doing a project which port a component testing program in DOS which use GPIB to linux Does the Linux kernel support GPIB? I find a linux gpib driver in the linux lab project http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de/ but the newest version is release at 1999 and i wonder if it still under development..

Re: Cleanup kbuild for aic7xxx

2001-06-22 Thread D. Stimits
"J . A . Magallon" wrote: > > On 20010623 Keith Owens wrote: > > > >>What again are you trying to fix? It looks to me like you are simply > >>trying to make it harder for people actually working on the aic7xxx > >>driver to have proper dependencies. > > > >The patch still works for anybody

Re: Cleanup kbuild for aic7xxx

2001-06-22 Thread D. Stimits
Keith Owens wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:39:45 -0600, > "Justin T. Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The existing build process for aic7xxx on Linux has several problems. > >> > >>* Users have to manually select "rebuild firmware". Relying on users > >> to perform any action other

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Tom Vier wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating > > swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One > > if it's pre-allocation, why does it

[OT]Re: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux and OpenSource.

2001-06-22 Thread Gerhard Mack
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Ben Ford wrote: > Miles Lane wrote: > > >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2777283,00.html > > > [ . . . ] > > > > >BillG -- We keep making it easier and easier, and anything people want source > >code for, we'll figure out a way to get it to them. It's kind of

Re: What are the VM motivations??

2001-06-22 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Jason McMullan wrote: > > > I've been reading the VM thread off-and-on for, oh, the last > 8 _years_ on linux-kernel. It doesn't seem that much progress gets > made in any one direction. For every throughput optimination for servers, > the desktop people yell

Re: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux and Open Source.

2001-06-22 Thread Ben Ford
Miles Lane wrote: >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2777283,00.html > [ . . . ] > >BillG -- We keep making it easier and easier, and anything people want source >code for, we'll figure out a way to get it to them. It's kind of a strange >thing in a way because most commercial

Annoying kernel behaviour

2001-06-22 Thread Dylan Griffiths
I upgraded a fileserver to 2.4.5 because of the RAID support (the 0.90 patch I grabbed did not apply cleanly to 2.2.19, despite it being a fresh copy). Besides a nice speed increase (the EEPro now pumps 10 megs a second, instead of 2 or 3), there is a problem with the video4linux in it.

Compaq launches Open SSI Cluster Projects

2001-06-22 Thread bruce
Compaq has launched two open source technology projects under the GPL license. They are briefly described below and can be found through www.opensource.compaq.com. We are actively looking for technology partners, contributors, consultants and general kibitzers to participate via the email

Re: problem with select() - 2.4.5

2001-06-22 Thread Edgar Toernig
Thomas Speck wrote: > > tio.c_cflag = baud | CLOCAL; How about adding CREAD? Ciao, ET. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: bugreport: poll() timeout always takes 10ms too long

2001-06-22 Thread raf
Tachino Nobuhiro wrote: > > Hello, > > At Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:52:12 +1000, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > > > poll() timeout always takes 10ms too long > > > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: > > > > Select() timeouts work

RE: ACPI + Promise IDE = disk corruption :-(((

2001-06-22 Thread Grover, Andrew
> From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I've seen several people report ACPI eats disks. ACPI is > incredibly complex > badly designed crud. My advice is never use ACPI. This > incidentally appears > to be the advice Microsoft give people too - they tell people > to disable > ACPI as one

[PATCH] fix RLIMIT_NPROC accounting

2001-06-22 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi, due to something which I consider to be a kernel bug it's impossible for pam to do its job and set the per-user RLIMIT_NPROC (number of processes limit) to something which is lower than the amount of processes root is running at that moment. At least, it fails with all programs which set

[2.4.5]Patch - fix page leak in nfs_prepare_write()

2001-06-22 Thread Trond Myklebust
Hi, The following patch fixes a leak in high memory in case a process is signalled while in nfs_prepare_write(). Cheers, Trond diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.6-mmap/fs/nfs/file.c linux-2.4.6-file/fs/nfs/file.c --- linux-2.4.6-mmap/fs/nfs/file.c Tue May 22 18:26:06 2001 +++

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Tom Vier wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating > > swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One > > if it's pre-allocation, why does it

Re: [RFC] Early flush (was: spindown)

2001-06-22 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:12:38AM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > Daniel Phillips writes: > > I'd like that too, but what about sync writes? As things stand now, > > there is no option but to spin the disk back up. To get around this > > we'd have to change the basic behavior of the block device

Re: spindown

2001-06-22 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:07:01PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Isn't this why noflushd exists or is this an evil thing that shouldn't > > > ever be used and will eventually eat my disks for breakfast? > > > > It would eat your flash for breakfast. You know, flash

Re: 2.4.2 yenta_socket problems on ThinkPad 240

2001-06-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
You should try 2.4.6-pre5, it already includes a patch for you :) pci=assign-busses on the command line. -- Jeff Garzik | Andre the Giant has a posse. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: 2.4.2 yenta_socket problems on ThinkPad 240

2001-06-22 Thread Eric Smith
I wrote: > Does it make sense to turn pcibios_assign_all_busses into a variable > with a default value of zero, and implement a kernel argument to set it? After some discussion of various alternatives, including always turning it on (bad for some systems), or writing a function to try to

Re: Still some problems with UHCI driver in 2.4.5 on VIA chipsets

2001-06-22 Thread Dylan Griffiths
Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > > I think this may be a problem in the dc2xx.o then, since uhci didn't reveal > > any new messages. > > It's possible. Many cameras are touchy wrt to the commands it receives. > If one is slightly wrong, some of them will just stop talking. Yeah, looks like I get to

2.4.5-ac17 oops on Sony Vaio pCG-FX140

2001-06-22 Thread Petr Konecny
Hi Alan, ac17 oopsed on boot, ac16 runs fine. Here is the output of lspci -v and ksymoops. I hope I did not make too many typos when I copied the oops. Regards, Petr lspci -v output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1130 (rev

signals and user mode interaction...

2001-06-22 Thread Raj, Ashok
Hello Is there a method to stack signals? i.e when multiple signals are delivered to the process, instead of being 1 shot, that signals get delivered as many times? and from kernel mode, can we pass arguments in the signal handler? for eg: if i have SIGUSR1 for each signal delivered by the

RE: EEPRO100/S support

2001-06-22 Thread Mroczek, Joseph T
>The e100 driver from intel claims to support these cards (the 100 S >desktop adaptor, that is), but in fact the drivers lock up under heavy >UDP load (at least they do for me in 2.2.19). It seems to only be a >problem with these newer cards, the e100 is solid with older cards >(and things

Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-22 Thread Alan Chandler
I am not subscribed to the list, but I scan the archives and saw the following. Please cc e-mail me in followups. >Rob Landley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote ... >In late '79 early '80, they heard the rumors that IBM was pondering a PC, > and Paul Allen went "any real computer will run Unix", so

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-22 Thread Tom Vier
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so). It's allocating > swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One if it's pre-allocation, why does it show up as "used"? "reserved" would be a better

High system CPU% in dual CPU System

2001-06-22 Thread Ingo Ciechowski
I'm experiencing very high system CPU% indications on my new dual Pentium III machine (SuSE Linux 7.1, Kernel 2.4.4-SMP): 12:26am up 1 day, 8:34, 9 users, load average: 1.44, 2.74, 3.26 116 processes: 113 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 19.2% user, 32.0% system,

Re: ACPI + Promise IDE = disk corruption :-(((

2001-06-22 Thread Alan Cox
> I enabled ACPI in 2.4.5-ac17 (2.4.5-ac16 works fine with the same config > except ACPI). When I booted I saw a message > I hit reset hoping to boot the system with "acpi=no-idle", but GRUB > couldn't load stage2, which resides on the root partition (reiserfs). I've seen several people report

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Alan Cox
> lilo > grub > syslinux > XFree86 (using virtual-8088 to run a video BIOS for a second card?) Also for monitor identification > dosemu? > loadlin? loadlin does. Dosemu can. It depends how it is configured The Red Hat installer uses LRMI to do monitor identification by BIOS calls too. I've

Re: /dev/nvram driver

2001-06-22 Thread Alan Cox
> Currently it tracks O_EXCL on open() and sets a flag, whereby no other > open() calls can succeed. Is this functionality really needed? Perhaps it > should just be a reader/writer model : n readers or 1 writer. In that > case, should open() block on a writer, or return -EBUSY? Several tools

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Alan Cox
> It's in arch/i386/boot/setup.S, after label bootsect_second. It's only > used with bzImage kernels and the floppy bootsector. I stand corrected. I will add this to the documentation Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

[PATCH] CREDITS update

2001-06-22 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi, seems that I've forgotten to update my CREDITS entry for quite a long time now. Patch attached ;) Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Alan Cox
> Then how does 1.44 megabytes of data from a floppy disk (that won't > fit below 1 megabyte), that is accessed in real-mode, ever get to > above 1 megabyte where it can be decompressed? The limit is about 508K of compressed image with the floppy boot. > I think LILO copies each buffer read

How does ramfs actually fills the page cache with data?

2001-06-22 Thread Ho Chak Hung
In fs/ramfs/inode.c, how does ramfs actually fills the page cache with data? In the readpage operation, it only zero-fill the page if it didn't already exist in the page cache. However, how do I actually fill the page with data? Thanks a lot.

Re: Is this part of newer filesystem hierarchy?

2001-06-22 Thread Luigi Genoni
Again i am confused. /usr/bin/ld is linker at compilation time, at it works how i told in second part of my mail, (just try to compile it, it comes with binutils, ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils). /lib/d-2.2.X.so is what you are talking about. So should i think os an hack to

Re: Maintainers master list?

2001-06-22 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:09:45 -0400 > What happens now when somebody takes over responsibility for a file > or subsystem and the MAINTAINERS file doesn't get patched, either because > that person forgets to send a MAINTAINERS update

RE: ACPI + Promise IDE = disk corruption :-(((

2001-06-22 Thread Grover, Andrew
Just a note, in 2.4.6-pre5, the acpi=no-idle option goes away, but you should no longer experience any corruption issues, either. Regards -- Andy PS sorry you experienced problems - glad you could recover. > From: Pavel Roskin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Hello! > > It's just a word of

ACPI + Promise IDE = disk corruption :-(((

2001-06-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! It's just a word of warning for those who are trying ACPI with the latest kernels. I enabled ACPI in 2.4.5-ac17 (2.4.5-ac16 works fine with the same config except ACPI). When I booted I saw a message ACPI: If experiencing system slowness, try adding "acpi=no-idle" to cmdline and after

Re: [PATCH] cleanup in drivers/mtd/ftl.c (245-ac16)

2001-06-22 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:21:06PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Hi Rasmus, > > I've fixed this ones and its already in 2.4.6-pre5, please take a > look and see if something is missing. These patches are very close so I'll of course retract mine[1]. The only thing I'll

[ANNOUNCE] Secondary mips tree.

2001-06-22 Thread James Simmons
Hi all, We have started a secondary tree for linux mips. This tree will be to SGI mips tree as Alan Cox's tree is to linus branch. We will test and play with "experimental patches" and then in time hand them off to the main branch Ralf Baechle maintains. Also one of the main reasons for

RE: Maintainers master list?

2001-06-22 Thread Holzrichter, Bruce
>I have proposed that the MAINTAINERS file should be replaced by >metadata markup in the kernel sources themselves, distributed so that >it will naturally be kept up to date by the people named in it and >mechanically gathered into a generated MAINTAINERS at make dep time. >I still think this is

Re: [PATCH] cleanup in drivers/mtd/ftl.c (245-ac16)

2001-06-22 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Hi Rasmus, I've fixed this ones and its already in 2.4.6-pre5, please take a look and see if something is missing. - Arnaldo Em Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:29:31PM +0200, Rasmus Andersen escreveu: > Hi. > > The patch below adds one instance of vmalloc return code checking > and a number

[PATCH] cleanup in drivers/mtd/ftl.c (245-ac16)

2001-06-22 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. The patch below adds one instance of vmalloc return code checking and a number of error path resource release cleanups in build_maps. It is against 245-ac16. (The vmalloc non-check was reported by the Stanford team a while back.) --- linux-245-ac16-clean/drivers/mtd/ftl.c Sun May 27

Re: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout

2001-06-22 Thread Dionysius Wilson Almeida
Hi Andrey, I'm attaching the log file.. please let me know if u need other details. -Wilson * Andrey Savochkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:36:03PM -0700, Dionysius Wilson Almeida wrote: > > I tried inserting a udelay(1) and increasing the count ..but > > the same

[PATCH] cleanup of drivers/char/ip2main.c (245ac16)

2001-06-22 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. The following patch #ifdefs a function to be in its preprocessor scope and eliminates the use of check_region, adds '\n' to printk's, adds checks for kmalloc and does error path resource releasing in ip2_init_board. All in drivers/char/ip2main.c and against 245ac16. (The kmalloc part of

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Alan Cox writes: > [somebody] >> I could not find any reference to BIOS int 0x15, function 0x87, >> block-move, used to copy the kernel to above the 1 megabyte >> real-mode boundary. I think this is still used. > > I dont think the kernel has ever used it. The path has always been to > enter

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > I could not find any reference to BIOS int 0x15, function 0x87, block- > > > move, used to copy the kernel to above the 1

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-22 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Landley) wrote on 22.06.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 21 June 2001 18:49, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Except that Apple keeps the old code open. Probably because > > > they'll gain nothing from it, and at best, they can appeal to > > > the techies. > > > > A

Re: /dev/nvram driver

2001-06-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tim Hockin wrote: > Who is maintaining the /dev/nvram driver? I have a couple things I want to > suggest/ask. I haven't seen any patches for ages to nvram, so I presume nobody. > What I really want to know is: should I bother making nvram_open_cnt SMP > safe, or should it just go away all

Re: Still some problems with UHCI driver in 2.4.5 on VIA chipsets

2001-06-22 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001, Dylan Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > > Could you load uhci with the debug=1 option? > > I did an 'insmod uhci.o debug=1' but the dmesg output did not alter. > > My easy steps to reproduce it is to 'delete selected images' in gphoto such >

/dev/nvram driver

2001-06-22 Thread Tim Hockin
Who is maintaining the /dev/nvram driver? I have a couple things I want to suggest/ask. Currently it tracks O_EXCL on open() and sets a flag, whereby no other open() calls can succeed. Is this functionality really needed? Perhaps it should just be a reader/writer model : n readers or 1

Re: AMD756 PCI IRQ Routing Patch 0.2.0

2001-06-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Jhon H. Caicedo O." wrote: > This is an updated version of the patch for AMD756 PCI IRQ Routing, > the changes are to use the read/write_config_nybble functions, > this makes the code shorter. Looks much better, thanks! > + printk(KERN_INFO "AMD756: dev %04x:%04x, router pirq : %d get

RE: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Comfort, Dan W
Typo? > If the E820 call fails then the INT 15 AX=0xE801 service is called and the > results are sanity checked. In particular the code zeroes the CX/DX return > > values in order to detect BIOS implementations that do not set them > usable memory data. It also handles older BIOSes that return

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Brian Gerst
Alan Cox wrote: > > > I could not find any reference to BIOS int 0x15, function 0x87, block- > > move, used to copy the kernel to above the 1 megabyte real-mode > > boundary. I think this is still used. > > I dont think the kernel has ever used it. The path has always been to enter > 32bit mode

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I could not find any reference to BIOS int 0x15, function 0x87, block- > > move, used to copy the kernel to above the 1 megabyte real-mode > > boundary. I think this is still used. > > I dont think the kernel has ever used it. The path has always been to

Cleanup kbuild for aic7xxx

2001-06-22 Thread Keith Owens
The existing build process for aic7xxx on Linux has several problems. * Users have to manually select "rebuild firmware". Relying on users to perform any action other than make *config is unacceptable. It is far too error prone. * Rebuilding the firmware requires lex, yacc and libdb. Not

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Alan Cox
> Didn't you disable DMI scan recently, in favor of userspace > DMI tools? No. We still scan it but we dont print the stuff out > > should probably provide the $PIR table, even if it does not > > provide non ACPI versions of other services. > > Sorry, legacy-free => ACPI, certainly not a $PIR

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Alan Cox
> You've described a relatively complicated procedure well in this document. > My only suggestion would be to reference the applicable source code files > throughout the text, so that it's easy to find the associated code. Thats a good idea . I'll fix that one up Thanks to all the folks who

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Alan Cox
> I could not find any reference to BIOS int 0x15, function 0x87, block- > move, used to copy the kernel to above the 1 megabyte real-mode > boundary. I think this is still used. I dont think the kernel has ever used it. The path has always been to enter 32bit mode then relocate/uncompress the

RE: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Dunlap, Randy
Looks somewhat familiar. 8;) (compare http://rddunlap.home.att.net/linit/lin240_init_x86.html) (blatant plug) Some comments below. > -Original Message- > From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Linux 2.4 BIOS usage reference > > > Boot Sequence > - > ... > > int

RE: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Schilling, Richard wrote: > > You've described a relatively complicated procedure well in this document. > My only suggestion would be to reference the applicable source code files > throughout the text, so that it's easy to find the associated code. > I could not find

Fair Use (Was Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic)

2001-06-22 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 21 June 2001 16:34, Craig Milo Rogers wrote: > The in-core kernel image, including a dynamically-loaded > driver, is clearly a derived work per copyright law. As above, the > portion consisting only of the dynamically-loaded driver's binary code > may or may not be a derived

Re: problem with select() - 2.4.5

2001-06-22 Thread Thomas Speck
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Thomas Speck wrote: > > Hi ! > I have a problem with reading from a serial port using select() under > 2.4.5. What I am doing is basically the following: > > fd_set readfds; > struct timeval timeout; > int s; > > serialfd = open("/dev/ttyS0", O_RDWR ); > >

Re: aic7xxx oops with 2.4.5-ac13

2001-06-22 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:08:24PM +0900, Tachino Nobuhiro wrote: Thanks, I'll try this patch. Jeff > > Hello, > > At Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:15:10, > Trevor Hemsley wrote: > > > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 03:05:02, "Jeff V. Merkey" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Ditto. I am also

RE: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Schilling, Richard
You've described a relatively complicated procedure well in this document. My only suggestion would be to reference the applicable source code files throughout the text, so that it's easy to find the associated code. Richard Schilling Webmaster / Web Integration Programmer Affiliated Health

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15 / 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
Mike Galbraith schrieb am Freitag, den 22. Juni 2001: > > 6 5 1 77232 2692 2136 47004 560 892 2048 1524 10428 285529 2 98 0 >^ > Was disk running? (I bet not.. bet it stopped just after stall began) There was no

ANN: FOLK kernel patch collection

2001-06-22 Thread Jonathan Day
Hi, Thought I'd drop a line to say that I've started a project, over on Sourceforge, entitled FOLK (Functionally Overloaded Linux Kernel), which basically aims to stuff as many patches as humanly possible into the Linux kernel, just to see what happens. :) This is NOT intended as a

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Brad Pepers
> 1.3 Type 'apm -s' > The machine should standby > > 1.4 Wake it and type 'apm -S' > The machine should suspend According to the man pages, "apm -s" does a suspend and "apm -S" does a standby. -- Brad Pepers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.4.5-ac16 -- "proc_get_inode" still unresolved in /net/wan/comx.o

2001-06-22 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Miles Lane wrote: > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in >/lib/modules/2.4.5-ac16/kernel/drivers/net/wan/comx.o > depmod: proc_get_inode And it won't be exported. Moreover, it has a very good chance to become static. If you have the hardware in question and are

Re: What happened to lookup_dentry?

2001-06-22 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Timur Tabi wrote: > Well, I didn't write the driver that I'm trying to port, so it's a little > difficult. The code in question is: > > struct dentry * de = lookup_dentry(zfcdb[i].fullname, NULL, LOOKUP_FOLLOW); > if (IS_ERR(de)) > continue; > if (de !=

Re: Is this part of newer filesystem hierarchy?

2001-06-22 Thread D. Stimits
Luigi Genoni wrote: > > I do not know if this is a new filesystem hierarchy, it should not be, > at less untill lsb finishes all discussion (anyway it is similar to lsb > standard). Your mail is a little confusing for me. Let's see if i can > clarify my ideas. > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, D.

Re: mktime in include/linux

2001-06-22 Thread Rick Hohensee
> > At 1:43 PM +0200 2001-06-22, Erik Mouw wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:30:40PM -0400, Rick Hohensee wrote: > >> Why does Linux have a mktime routine fully coded in linux/time.h that > >> conflicts directly with the ANSI C standard library routine of the same > >> name? It breaks a

Re: Reg:use of file_system_type structure

2001-06-22 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:51:39PM +0530, SATHISH.J wrote: > > Every file system has file_system_type structure defined. Where else this > structure is referred. Does register_filesystem() refer this structure. Does > sys_mount refer to this structure by any means? For this and all your other

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-22 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 21 June 2001 14:46, Timur Tabi wrote: > 1. License the Linux kernel under a different license that is effectively > the GPL but with additional text that clarifies the binary module issue. > Unfortunately, this license cannot be called the GPL. Politically, this > would probably be

Re: For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:20:33 +0100 (BST) > Firstly a call is made to BIOS INT 15 AX=0xE820 in order to read the > E820 map. A maximum of 32 blocks are supported by current kernels. The > 'SMAP' signature is required and tested. In addition

Re: [PATCH] fbgen & multiple RGBA

2001-06-22 Thread James Simmons
> the attached patch fix a problem with fbgen when changing the > RGBA components but not the depth ; fbgen would not change > the colormap in this case, where it should. It would be much easier to use a memcmp. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: Should __FD_SETSIZE still be set to 1024 ?

2001-06-22 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 04:59:36PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > > Is there a reason for __FD_SETSIZE to be 1024 in > linux/posix_types.h and gnu/types.h ? > Why can't we increase this number by default ? > > It might break stuff, like things

For comment: draft BIOS use document for the kernel

2001-06-22 Thread Alan Cox
Linux 2.4 BIOS usage reference Boot Sequence - Linux is normally loaded either directly as a bootable floppy image or from hard disk via a boot loader called lilo. The kernel image is transferred into low memory and a parameter block above it. When booting from floppy disk the

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-22 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 21 June 2001 18:49, Alan Cox wrote: > > Except that Apple keeps the old code open. Probably because > > they'll gain nothing from it, and at best, they can appeal to > > the techies. > > A company that seems to write 'you shall not work on open source projects > in your spare time'

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15 / 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: > Ok, I managed to press SysRq-T this time ond got a trace for my hang. > Symbols are resolved by klog. If you prefer ksymopps please tell me, I > used klog because ksymopps seems to drop all lines without symbols. Someone else might want that and/or a

Re: Q serial.c

2001-06-22 Thread Stuart MacDonald
From: "Jonathan Lundell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The other CPU servicing the interrupt, was the question. cli() > doesn't affect that. This could presumably happen if shutdown() gets > run on a non-interrupt-servicing CPU, or if interrupts are > dynamically routed (eg round-robin). Ah. Missed

Re: Q serial.c

2001-06-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 9:51 AM -0400 2001-06-22, Stuart MacDonald wrote: >From: "kees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> What may happen on a SMP machine if a serial port has been closed and the >> closing stage is at shutdown() in serial.c in the call to free_IRQ and >> BEFORE the IRQ is really shutdown, a new character

Re: mktime in include/linux

2001-06-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 1:43 PM +0200 2001-06-22, Erik Mouw wrote: >On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:30:40PM -0400, Rick Hohensee wrote: >> Why does Linux have a mktime routine fully coded in linux/time.h that >> conflicts directly with the ANSI C standard library routine of the same >> name? It breaks a couple things

2.4.5 kernel oops in inode.c:486

2001-06-22 Thread Christian Mudra
Hello, the following kernel-oops message I've found in my syslogs. As it's a production system, I'd very happy for a feedback/help. If you need further information, please let me know. As I'm not on the list, please cc: me. Christian.

Re: Loop encryption module locking bug (linux-2.4.5).

2001-06-22 Thread Ingo Rohloff
> > Locking twice? But what happens if some program calls loop_set_status more > > than once? Losetup doesn't, but if such program exists, locking is still > > screwed. > > No, it calls loop_release_xfer always before init_xfer, which will release > the "permanent" use count. Calling lock twice

Should __FD_SETSIZE still be set to 1024 ?

2001-06-22 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, Is there a reason for __FD_SETSIZE to be 1024 in linux/posix_types.h and gnu/types.h ? Why can't we increase this number by default ? Shouldn't it be set to the real limit of the kernel ? (And let applications define their own limit if there is a need for one ?) PS The LKML faq remarks

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-22 Thread Richard Gooch
Alexander Viro writes: > BTW, proc_net_create() is also not a good idea if you block the > interrupts. Ditto for netlink_kernel_create(), AFAICS (due to > netlink_kernel_creat() -> sock_alloc() -> get_empty_inode() -> > kmem_cache_alloc() with SLAB_KERNEL). > > That, BTW, is a nice illustration

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-22 Thread Mikulas Patocka
> > A lot of OS/2 software is written with this feature in mind. I know of one > > programmer who absolutely hates Linux because it's just too difficult > > porting software to it, and the lack of decent thread support is part of > > the problem. > > Yup. OS/2 is the largest nest of trained,

2.4.5 - Kernel Panic

2001-06-22 Thread Andrews, Jeremy
Hello, I've been trying to update my home (originally RedHat 7.0) linux server from the 2.4.4 kernel to the 2.4.5 kernel. On other servers I've had no problems at all, but for some reason my Gateway GP7-550 P-III at home is being stubborn. I've reconfigured and rebuilt numerous times hoping

[PATCH] fbgen & multiple RGBA

2001-06-22 Thread Romain Dolbeau
Hello, the attached patch fix a problem with fbgen when changing the RGBA components but not the depth ; fbgen would not change the colormap in this case, where it should. -- romain fbgen.patch.gz

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15 / 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
Mike Galbraith schrieb am Donnerstag, den 21. Juni 2001: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 >^ > > Ok, I suspect that

Re: loop device broken in 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Jari Ruusu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Jari Ruusu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > File backed loop device on 4k block size ext2 filesystem: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1024 count=10 > 10+0 records in > 10+0 records out > # losetup /dev/loop0 file1 > # dd if=/dev/zero

Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You're a bit irritated. That's good. I *want* people who don't write >help entries for their configuration symbols to be a bit irritated. >That way, they might get around to actually doing what they ought to. You mean

ac17 "kernel BUG at slab.c:1244!"

2001-06-22 Thread Gav
The first occurrence of this I didn't even notice until i checked my logs. kernel BUG at slab.c:1244! invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010082 eax: 001b ebx: c187f788 ecx: 0001 edx: 2765 esi: d9a5f000 edi: d9a5f9aa ebp: 00012800 esp: d9fcbda4 ds:

Re: Q serial.c

2001-06-22 Thread Stuart MacDonald
From: "kees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What may happen on a SMP machine if a serial port has been closed and the > closing stage is at shutdown() in serial.c in the call to free_IRQ and > BEFORE the IRQ is really shutdown, a new character arrives which causes an > IRQ? Is it possible that the OTHER

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