2.4.0-ac10 crashed

2001-01-26 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
hi. this morning i found my home server crashed. a full screen of [%8lx], no idea what was above that. Aieee, killing in interrupt handler! In Interrupt handler - not syncing. Code 80 78 0E 00 75 04 C6 40 0e 30 31 c0 88 d8 50 56 e8 5f 1D 00 dmesg after reboot: Linux version 2.4.0-ac10

2.2.18 ipc problem

2000-10-13 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
lotus domino server dies with deleting all semaphores, shared memory ... with ipcrm/ipcs does not help, only a reboot does. any idea what could be wrong ? i have no idea if this is a bug in linux or domino, but under linux usualy you don't need a to reboot a server. are there known issues with

partition table: chs question

2001-02-25 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
hi. for partitions not in the first 8gb of a harddisk, what should the c/h/s start and end value be ? most fdisks seem to set start and end to 255/63/1023. but partition magic creates partitions with start set to 0/1/1023 and end set to 255/63/1023, and detects a problem if start is set to

[2.4.0-rerelease] driver/net/Makefile bug (pcmcia)

2001-01-02 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
modules for pcmcia network cards are not build by the kernel. subdir-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA) += pcmcia should be ifeq ($(CONFIG_PCMCIA),y) subdir-y += pcmcia subdir-m += pcmcia endif because CONFIG_PCMCIA=y but CONFIG_PCMCIA_SOMENETWORKDRIVER=m maybe even bett is useing CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA instead

rsdl 30 on 2.6.20.2 breaks user space usb

2007-03-15 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
with plain 2.6.20.2 I get events / called from udev for /proc/bus/usb devices. with rsdl 0.30 added to the kernel I no longer get called for those devices (but I do get called for the new /dev/usbdev devices - except that I can't use them). any idea why and what to do? might be related to a race

Re: rsdl 30 on 2.6.20.2 breaks user space usb

2007-03-15 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Serge Belyshev wrote: Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: with plain 2.6.20.2 I get events / called from udev for /proc/bus/usb devices. with rsdl 0.30 added to the kernel I no longer get called for those devices (but I do get called for the new /dev/usbdev devices - except

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-06 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Great, with this patch I can setup an encrypted swap partition, and resume from it (after the initramfs asked for the password and set up the dm-crypt table). But wait, I'm using swapfiles. swap is fine with files. what about swsuspend? and if it works with files, too, what about this resume

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-06 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:35:12 +, Andrew Morton wrote: I don't understand how this can be affected by the modularness of the kernel. Can you explain a little more? Would it not be simpler to just add resume=03:02 to the boot command line? initramfs can also be used to ask for a

Re: INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

2005-03-26 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:51:07 +, Bernhard Schauer wrote: other question: Is there any size-limit on initramfs image? I found out that after reducing the image size it is loaded /init executed as expected... compressed size plus uncompressed size have be less than the total ram

Re: [ANNOUNCE] yaird, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts

2005-02-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
it looks like yaird does use pivot_root. however pivot_root and initramfs cause a kernel crash (once you unmount /initrd in the real system). use run-init from klibc instead and you are fine. Andreas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

2005-01-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:11:18 +, Jari Ruusu wrote: Mainline folks are just too much in love with their backdoored device crypto implementations [1]. If you want strong device crypto in mainline kernel, maybe you should take a look at FreeBSD gbde. what about dm-crypt? I lost track, whether

Re: [ANN] Acrypto asynchronous crypto layer 2.6.19 release.

2006-12-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Does acrypto still have the same size restrictions I ran into with the last release? Thanks, Andreas - 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

Re: [ANN] Acrypto asynchronous crypto layer 2.6.19 release.

2006-12-18 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Actually I do not recall what is 'size retrictions' - if you talk about possibility to use software crypto provider, which supports one cipher in a time, then yes, but it is intended to be used with hardware though. Otherwise I do not recall any problems pointed to me.

Re: [ANN] Acrypto asynchronous crypto layer 2.6.19 release.

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: You can change it in async_provider in compilation time or I can create module version. There is an item in related todo list to use crypto contexts, they were created exactly for such kind of things (actually for hardware devices which do not support realtime key

Re: O2micro smartcard reader driver.

2006-11-28 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
maybe post once more, and make clear whether you are looking for: - smart card reader support. (smart card as in digital signature card.) o2micro creates such readers, they are usualy usb devices, conform to the ccid standard and work fine (e.g. pcsc-lite plus ccid driver or openct). -

linux 2.6.19 still crashing

2006-12-02 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
my msi s270 laptop. but all vanilla kernel I ever tried do that, also the debian and ubuntu kernel are instable too. But: xen 3.0.2 plus xen'ified linux 2.6.16.31 are rock solid. any idea what the issue could be? I'm running 64bit kernel, 64bit userland (plus some 32bit apps), and the cpu is a

Re: linux 2.6.19 still crashing

2006-12-03 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: Hi, 1st you should put this information on http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ ok, thanks. your bug kept me the attention because on bad interrupts you have : 21: 10 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci1394 Exactly oops on 10 interrupts, I had seen this before . I

2.4.0-ac10 crashed

2001-01-26 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
hi. this morning i found my home server crashed. a full screen of [<%8lx>], no idea what was above that. Aieee, killing in interrupt handler! In Interrupt handler - not syncing. Code 80 78 0E 00 75 04 C6 40 0e 30 31 c0 88 d8 50 56 e8 5f 1D 00 dmesg after reboot: Linux version 2.4.0-ac10

partition table: chs question

2001-02-25 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
hi. for partitions not in the first 8gb of a harddisk, what should the c/h/s start and end value be ? most fdisks seem to set start and end to 255/63/1023. but partition magic creates partitions with start set to 0/1/1023 and end set to 255/63/1023, and detects a problem if start is set to

2.2.18 ipc problem

2000-10-13 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
lotus domino server dies with deleting all semaphores, shared memory ... with ipcrm/ipcs does not help, only a reboot does. any idea what could be wrong ? i have no idea if this is a bug in linux or domino, but under linux usualy you don't need a to reboot a server. are there known issues with

[2.4.0-rerelease] driver/net/Makefile bug (pcmcia)

2001-01-02 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
modules for pcmcia network cards are not build by the kernel. subdir-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA) += pcmcia should be ifeq ($(CONFIG_PCMCIA),y) subdir-y += pcmcia subdir-m += pcmcia endif because CONFIG_PCMCIA=y but CONFIG_PCMCIA_SOMENETWORKDRIVER=m maybe even bett is useing CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA instead

Re: INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

2005-03-26 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:51:07 +, Bernhard Schauer wrote: > other question: > > Is there any size-limit on initramfs image? I found out that after > reducing the image size it is loaded & /init executed as expected... compressed size plus uncompressed size have be less than the total ram

Re: [ANNOUNCE] yaird, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts

2005-02-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
it looks like yaird does use pivot_root. however pivot_root and initramfs cause a kernel crash (once you unmount /initrd in the real system). use run-init from klibc instead and you are fine. Andreas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-06 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Great, with this patch I can setup an encrypted swap partition, and resume from it (after the initramfs asked for the password and set up the dm-crypt table). But wait, I'm using swapfiles. swap is fine with files. what about swsuspend? and if it works with files, too, what about this resume

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-06 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:35:12 +, Andrew Morton wrote: > I don't understand how this can be affected by the modularness of the > kernel. Can you explain a little more? > > Would it not be simpler to just add "resume=03:02" to the boot command line? initramfs can also be used to ask for a

Re: [ANN] Acrypto asynchronous crypto layer 2.6.19 release.

2006-12-18 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Actually I do not recall what is 'size retrictions' - if you talk about possibility to use software crypto provider, which supports one cipher in a time, then yes, but it is intended to be used with hardware though. Otherwise I do not recall any problems pointed to me.

Re: [ANN] Acrypto asynchronous crypto layer 2.6.19 release.

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: You can change it in async_provider in compilation time or I can create module version. There is an item in related todo list to use crypto contexts, they were created exactly for such kind of things (actually for hardware devices which do not support realtime key

linux 2.6.19 still crashing

2006-12-02 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
my msi s270 laptop. but all vanilla kernel I ever tried do that, also the debian and ubuntu kernel are instable too. But: xen 3.0.2 plus xen'ified linux 2.6.16.31 are rock solid. any idea what the issue could be? I'm running 64bit kernel, 64bit userland (plus some 32bit apps), and the cpu is a

Re: linux 2.6.19 still crashing

2006-12-03 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: Hi, 1st you should put this information on http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ ok, thanks. your bug kept me the attention because on bad interrupts you have : 21: 10 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci1394 Exactly oops on 10 interrupts, I had seen this before . I

Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0b file/swap crypto package

2005-01-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:11:18 +, Jari Ruusu wrote: > Mainline folks are just too much in love with their backdoored device > crypto implementations [1]. If you want strong device crypto in mainline > kernel, maybe you should take a look at FreeBSD gbde. what about dm-crypt? I lost track,

Re: [ANN] Acrypto asynchronous crypto layer 2.6.19 release.

2006-12-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Does acrypto still have the same size restrictions I ran into with the last release? Thanks, Andreas - 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

Re: O2micro smartcard reader driver.

2006-11-28 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
maybe post once more, and make clear whether you are looking for: - smart card reader support. (smart card as in "digital signature card".) o2micro creates such readers, they are usualy usb devices, conform to the ccid standard and work fine (e.g. pcsc-lite plus ccid driver or openct).

rsdl 30 on 2.6.20.2 breaks user space usb

2007-03-15 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
with plain 2.6.20.2 I get events / called from udev for /proc/bus/usb devices. with rsdl 0.30 added to the kernel I no longer get called for those devices (but I do get called for the new /dev/usbdev devices - except that I can't use them). any idea why and what to do? might be related to a race

Re: rsdl 30 on 2.6.20.2 breaks user space usb

2007-03-15 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Serge Belyshev wrote: > Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> with plain 2.6.20.2 I get events / called from udev for /proc/bus/usb >> devices. with rsdl 0.30 added to the kernel I no longer get called for >> those devices (but I do get called f

why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9f8b17e643fe6aa505629658445849397bda4e4f removes MODALIAS from one of the events, this breaks user space applications like openct - everything that depends on getting an event that has both the DEVICE= path to the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Freitag, 17. August 2007 schrieb Alan Stern: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Andreas Jellinghaus [c] wrote: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit diff;h=9f8b17e643fe6aa505629658445849397bda4e4f removes MODALIAS from one of the events, this breaks user space

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-18 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Freitag, 17. August 2007 schrieben Sie: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Andreas Jellinghaus [c] wrote: I need some kernel event that has both DEVICE and MODALIAS set. up to including kernel 2.6.21 this seems to come from drivers/usb/core/driver.c if I read the code correctly

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-21 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Montag, 20. August 2007 schrieb Alan Stern: I could, but I don't know whether any of this would be accepted for 2.6.22.stable. It might not be too late to get into 2.6.23... even without it is a first step. I hope it gets accepted into both, as 2.6.22 broke kernel-user space interfaces and

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-21 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Dienstag, 21. August 2007 schrieb Greg KH: On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:22:04PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus [c] wrote: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit diff;h=9f8b17e643fe6aa505629658445849397bda4e4f removes MODALIAS from one of the events, Which

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-21 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Dienstag, 21. August 2007 schrieb Kay Sievers: The subject says MODALIAS was removed, but I don't think that it ever was there for a usb-device event. And sure, it's still there for a usb-interface event. Andreas, do I read this right, you miss: DEVICE, PRODUCT, TYPE in the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-21 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
thanks, the patch works great! would be nice if it could be send to the stable team as well (I think a number of distributions want to use 2.6.22 as base for there next release, and I would be happy if users had the patch in it). sorry for creating confusion: initially I thought MODALIAS had been

Re: initramfs [u]

2005-07-13 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Jacek Jab?o?ski wrote: Do You know any tool to create initramfs (not initrd)? that is very easy: create a directory tree with everything you want in it (for example ld.so, a libc, some applications and config files and scripts and device files and whatever) and then use cpio to pack the files

Re: initramfs [u]

2005-07-13 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Jacek Jab?o?ski wrote: > Do You know any tool to create initramfs (not initrd)? that is very easy: create a directory tree with everything you want in it (for example ld.so, a libc, some applications and config files and scripts and device files and whatever) and then use cpio to pack the files

why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9f8b17e643fe6aa505629658445849397bda4e4f removes MODALIAS from one of the events, this breaks user space applications like openct - everything that depends on getting an event that has both the DEVICE= path to the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Freitag, 17. August 2007 schrieb Alan Stern: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Andreas Jellinghaus [c] wrote: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit > >diff;h=9f8b17e643fe6aa505629658445849397bda4e4f > > > > removes MODALIAS from one of t

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-18 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Freitag, 17. August 2007 schrieben Sie: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Andreas Jellinghaus [c] wrote: > > I need some kernel event that has both DEVICE and MODALIAS set. > > up to including kernel 2.6.21 this seems to come from > > drivers/usb/core/driver.c if I re

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-21 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Montag, 20. August 2007 schrieb Alan Stern: > I could, but I don't know whether any of this would be accepted for > 2.6.22.stable. It might not be too late to get into 2.6.23... even without it is a first step. I hope it gets accepted into both, as 2.6.22 broke kernel<->user space interfaces

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-21 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Dienstag, 21. August 2007 schrieb Greg KH: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:22:04PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus [c] wrote: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit > >diff;h=9f8b17e643fe6aa505629658445849397bda4e4f > > > > removes MODA

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-21 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
Am Dienstag, 21. August 2007 schrieb Kay Sievers: > The subject says MODALIAS was removed, but I don't think that it ever > was there for a usb-device event. And sure, it's still there for a > usb-interface event. > > Andreas, do I read this right, you miss: > DEVICE, PRODUCT, TYPE > in the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] why was MODALIAS removed from usb kernel events? [u]

2007-08-21 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
thanks, the patch works great! would be nice if it could be send to the stable team as well (I think a number of distributions want to use 2.6.22 as base for there next release, and I would be happy if users had the patch in it). sorry for creating confusion: initially I thought MODALIAS had been