Re: [PATCH] Userspace tuner

to reduce choice for the user. There's a reason why binary modules make the kernel tainted, I have to feel that this is more and worse of same. Linus will have an opinion, no doubt. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module

needs to be even larger or something. I have some legacy machines talking 10Mbit/half on 10base2 cable, I may be seeing more of this than the average site. That's legacy as in attached to something expensive to replace. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.22.6 NETWORKING [IPV4]: Always use source addr in skb to reply packet

complex topic, and here we are definitely purposefully using the source address selected by the routing lookup for the reply. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from

Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images

as a module or built in? I've seen that behavior many time over the years, but it usually not deliberate. ;-) -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix

. chroot /var/myjail /bin/su - guest or similar. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: sockets affected by IPsec always block (2.6.23)

would hardly call this sentence detailed in terms of being a cookbook solution to the problem. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Does vger.kernel.org automatically drop spams?

) can approve your messages for posting, but it will take a few hours that I get off work, and have time to do it. (I need to do some additional setups, all those lists are not in my existing majordomo password database..) Should I wait for your approval? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We

Re: programs vanish with 2.6.22+

. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- 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

Re: Iomega ZIP-100 drive unsupported with jmicron JMB361 chip?

on the old machines. Since you have a solution I won't suggest you try that with an old kernel ;-) -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 2/6] random: use xor for mixing

concerns. That doesn't actually sound too hard, and the sounds of passing traffic are not likely to be replicable in any case. Lots of sensor data might be used as well, fan rpm, etc. That sounds so obvious I can't believe there isn't a reason it's not being done. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 00/29] Swap over NFS -v15

of this code over the two existing network swap approaches, swapping to NFS mounted file and swap to NBD device? I've used the NFS file when a program was running out of memory and that seemed to work, people in UNYUUG have reported that the nbd swap works, so what's better here? -- Bill

Re: /dev/urandom uses uninit bytes, leaks user data

speed, CPU temperature, etc. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: /dev/urandom uses uninit bytes, leaks user data

supposedly use radioactive decay, I'm unsure if that's better but I don't want to carry the dongle in my pants pocket. The hotbits network site uses radioactive decay to generate it's numbers. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

on floppy. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Fedora's latest gcc produces unbootable kernels

. If you are referring to the compat RPMs, be aware that they use the current headers, which is a good or bad thing depending on what you want to do. If you want to build old software, you get to keep a down-rev virtual machine to do it right :-( -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

and after doing this, that's a good idea as well. S.M.A.R.T is your friend. And when writing /dev/zero to a drive, if it craps out you have less emotional attachment to the data. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

); Alan (who learned B before C, and is still waiting for P) I had the BCPL book still on the reference shelf in the office, along with goodies like the four candidates to be Ada, and a TRAC manual. I too expected the next language to be P. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more

Re: Kernel Development Objective-C

CPUs with those instructions, and we used them in the Terminet(r) printers. Those were the days ;-) -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: PROBLEM: loadlin incompatible with 2.6.23 kernels

compatible with the kernel.org releases, although that's rarely a problem. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

userspace interface like /dev/urandom either. Sounds like a local DoS attack point to me... -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

such that the total stays below the available entropy. I had forgotten that that was a lower bound, although it's kind of an on-off toggle rather than proportional. Clearly if you care about this a *lot* you will use a hardware RNG. Thanks for the reminder on read_wakeup. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ICH9 Core2 Duo - kernel crash

a thought, but I see people running Linux on that chipset, if not that particular board. A cheap test even if it shows nothing. Of course it could be a CPU cache issue in that one CPU, although that's unlikely. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: [PATCH] bw-qcam: adds parameter aggressive to skip passive detection and directly attempt initialization

Brett Warden wrote: On Dec 5, 2007 9:37 AM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I would suggest that aggressive may not be the best term - I'm not such of a good one however - skip_passive ? How about force_init? Much more descriptive. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] A clean approach to writeout throttling

for that particular transaction. Clearly every level in the stack would have to know how to do that. It would seem that once excess memory use was detected the transaction could be failed without deadlock. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: 2.6.23.9: x86_64: floppy not working: p35 chipset

Justin Piszcz wrote: On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Trying to format a floppy (2-3 of them) on a GA-P35-DS4 2.0 with a regular Sony floppy on Debian x86_64 with kernel 2.6.23.9: # fdformat /dev/fd0 Could not determine current format type: No such device

Re: ICH9 Core2 Duo - kernel crash

Pavol Cvengros wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 21:15:53 Bill Davidsen wrote: Pavol Cvengros wrote: Hello, I am trying LKML to get some help on one linux kernel related problem. Lately we got a machine with new HW from Intel. CPU is Intel Core2 Duo E6850 3GHz with 2GB of RAM

Re: 2.6.23.9: x86_64: floppy not working: p35 chipset

help determine that. It certainly was seen at boot time. Didn't get hooked to some SCSI device name by udev, did it? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from

Re: ICH9 Core2 Duo - kernel crash

Pavol Cvengros wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Pavol Cvengros wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 21:15:53 Bill Davidsen wrote: Pavol Cvengros wrote: Hello, I am trying LKML to get some help on one linux kernel related problem. Lately we got a machine with new HW from Intel. CPU is Intel

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:32:05PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... Sounds like a local DoS attack point to me... As long as /dev/random is readable for all users there's no reason to use /dev/urandom for a local DoS... The original point was that urandom draws

Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

Tejun Heo wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 1 2007 06:26, Justin Piszcz wrote: I ran the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde (as it is always a very good idea to do this with any new disk

Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels

for this persons application so that he could use sse and mmx etc. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels

of user programs is not something I ever do... -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: More verizon problems

cause is that you forwarded mail from google to verizon, which is probably a bad thing on many levels. Not Verizon's fault. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from

Re: RAID timeout parameter accessibility request

on the drive kicking option, more control is good. However, the timeout should be in the driver, not in the raid code, that's where it belongs. The kernel copes with errors better than having a drive go practice self-gratification for minutes at a time. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We

Re: semi-regular plea for stable device mapping

got dynamic numbers everywhere. Did they? I haven't tried using tar in the appropriate ways on BSD to see if it behaves in the same way. Of course on a system which doesn't change between backups I guess the dynamic number would be the same in any case. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We

Re: Freezing filesystems (Was Re: What's in store for 2008 for TuxOnIce?)

? Judging from the fact that TuxOnIce is still excluded, I would say the answer is obvious. :-( Posession is nine points of the law... -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot

Re: [2.6.25 patch] the planned eepro100 removal

Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the planned removal of the eepro100 driver. Are the e100 people satisfied that e100 now handles all known cases? I remember that there were corner cases e100 didn't handle, have they all been fixed? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more

Re: Possible 2.6.23 regression - Disappearing disk space

be lurking. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: RAID 10 w AHCI w NCQ = Spurius I/O error

of the raid0+1 setup, like md1? If not, look at your partition tables to see if you have any strange values there. Are all drives at the same firmware level? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

doing fdatasync() is best, since other i/o caused by sync() can skew the results. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: howto boost write(2) performance?

() calls first, assuming your hardware is adequate. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

actions would take a major rethink at least. Perhaps you could avoid breaking all of the setups which currently work, rather than force everyone to do things differently because you feel that your way is better. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

Bill Davidsen wrote: If not, then shouldn't the filter table be obsoleted to avoid confusion? That would probably confuse people. Just don't use it if you don't need to. That is a most practical suggestion. The problem is that people think they are safe with the filter table, when in fact

Re: What still uses the block layer?

... -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Flynn's Original Paper about Computer Organization

precedents is better, just more predictable. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Killing a network connection

already has. I did something similar a few years ago, but the requestor owns the code. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: spurious completions during NCQ with 2.6.23.1 and DVD Multi-Recorder on Thinkpad T61

MX5000 BT keyboard desirable for extended use. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

away, sometimes things change after PREROUTING, like NAT, and additional rules must be used. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Scheduler(?) regression from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24 for short-lived threads

than multi-socket, by avoiding using the system memory bus, but it still can get ugly. I have an IPC test around which showed that, it ran like hell on HT, and progressively worse as cache because less shared. I wonder why the latest git works so much better? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL

Driver removals

, and requiring changes to kernel, module and/or rc.local config is just that. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines

, but they should get cleaned up. /me is tempted to provide a version which can send messages in Morse Code ;) Thought someone did that a while ago. Alan Cox, maybe. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: Feature Removals for 2.6.25

the driver thinks it's sending packets and the sniffer doesn't. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [BUG] Problem with recording on hda-intel (sata_sil or hda-intel bug) - HP nx6325

thought. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: reading user. extended attributes from symlinks in 2.6 kernels

appreciate it very much if somebody could point me towards a solution. If you want to do it at user code level, you could note the symlink, follow it to the real name, and read the EA there. I don't see any easy way to force the kernel to follow the symlink. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have

Re: ide=reverse do we still need this?

, and upgrading the hardware isn't cost effective, but keeping old systems out of the landfill is ecologically and financially sound. The option is a holdover from the past, but so arm some of my clients and their hardware. ;-) And *my* hardware, I might add, I am as cheap as anyone. -- Bill

Re: Feature Removals for 2.6.25

sk98lin on a new system, so it would be less contentious to let the hardware (or users) die of natural causes if you can. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over... Otto von Bismark

Re: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix

mounts. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - 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

Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

of kernel liposuction. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc7 1/3] async_tx: usage documentation and developer notes

management +3.3 When does the operation execute? +3.4 When does the operation complete? +3.5 Constraints +3.6 Example + This is very readable, and appears extensible to any new forthcoming technology I'm aware of. Great job! -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting

Re: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix

to offer room for additional controls on getting out of the chroot which do not violate any of the obvious standards, and which therefore might be valid candidates for discussion on the basis of benefit rather than portability. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing

Re: fpu IO port reservation (arch/i386)

, I'm pretty sure there will be systems needing it for 386 and 486, and maybe the old Pentium systems as well. A lot of system vendors wanted it so software for the old systems would still work. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: USB autosuspend and turning of usb pendrive leds

already discussed in this thread. But if there's another way, it would be useful. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] Patches for tiny 386 kernels, again. Linux kernel 2.6.22.7

to teach many people to jump through hoops to avoid whitespace issues? Not criticizing, just seems easier for everybody for you to avoid teaching people things they don't find useful elsewhere, or getting discouraged and not bothering. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

, such as a four way dual core Xeon with HT or some such. With hotplug CPUs, and setups on various machines, perhaps some resource limit independent of the available resource would be useful. Just throwing out the idea, in case it lands on fertile ground. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more

Re: PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module, kernel version 2.6.23-rc7

I'll be able to do better testing. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [patch 0/2] suspend/resume regression fixes

which does it. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

2.6.23-rc8 - Hangcheck on resume from x2mem

, the resume and suspend work without suspend2 patching, although since it's a server and has mains power it's only of interest for testing. USB backup devices were *not* connected. -- Bill Davidsen He was a full-time professional cat, not some moonlighting ferret or weasel. He knew about

[FYI] 2.6.23-rc8-git3 misc observations

Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number De-LE-TE-D -- Bill Davidsen He was a full-time professional cat, not some moonlighting ferret or weasel. He knew about these things. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: regression in 2.6.23-rc8 - power off failed

what happens if you set affinity to a CPU you don't have... -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [patch/backport] CFS scheduler, -v22, for v2.6.23-rc8, v2.6.22.8, v2.6.21.7, v2.6.20.20

.sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity : 2.00 .sysctl_sched_batch_wakeup_granularity : 25.00 .sysctl_sched_child_runs_first : 0.01 .sysctl_sched_features : 3 Try setting features to 14. That helps my similar issues. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more

Re: [PATCH] Patches for tiny 386 kernels, again. Linux kernel 2.6.22.7

Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:24:20PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: I'll offer this suggestion, knowing it may piss you off, given the difficulty of preserving whitespace on *many* mailers without using attachments, and given that attachments can be saved easily without

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

. The numbers are hard science but the choice of which numbers are important is still people wanking around with their opinions. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

easily see building a new kernel with stats off and forgetting to change the boot options. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

testing until I find a bug or have to boot for some other reason. Running really well, even with a lot of kvm stuff going on, kernel builds for other machines, etc. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: shutdown -h now, 2.6.23-rc8 9

. After the reboot to rc9, I ran a make xconfig again to check that the option was enabled, but it seems to have disappeared from the menus in xconfig. Why was this removed? Or if moved, where to? What? Was what removed? -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: One process with multiple user ids.

if some IPC could be used. Certainly that's more likely to be portable. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: And yet you can make the exact same case for schedulers as security, you can quantify the behavior, but if your only choice is A it doesn't help to know that B is better. You snipped a key part of the argument. Namely

Re: shutdown -h now, 2.6.23-rc8 9

Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Indeed it went to the system halted message and just sat there. I hadn't yet booted to rc9 as amanda was running, so I did just a few minutes ago. After the reboot to rc9, I ran a make xconfig

Re: [PATCH] sky2: jumbo frame regression fix

moments when I saw all the tiny packets. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [RFC/PATCH -v2] Add sysfs control to modify a user's cpu share

agree with Ingo, once it's done it should be persistent. And as another administrative convenience I can look at that set of values and see what shares are being used, even when the user is not currently active. Final question, how do setuid processes map into this implementation? -- Bill

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES

face doing a 2.6.23 release and take the risk of some really stupid brown-paper-bag thing. [...] -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack

. As memory sizes increase someone will bump the page size again. Better to Let people make it as large as they feel they need and warn at build time performance may suck. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

high-risk environments you need something even stronger that cannot be changed by the owner of the file, if we don't entirely trust them, Other than ACLs, of course, which do allow blacklisting individual users. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling

Re: [code] Unlimited partitions, a try

than 15 partitions are properly described as trivial. Which is not to disagree with your point about required user tools, but most systems needing such tools will be large and complex enough that a userspace solution will be acceptable. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more

Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output

xterm in white on blue for identification, so color coding sounds like a great idea to me. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output

Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 6 2007 15:53, Bill Davidsen wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: Colored kernel message output Let's work more on Linux's cuteness! [http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/4/431] The following patch makes it possible to give kernel messages a selectable color which helps

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Colored kernel output (run3)

by faint praise of course. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

may mount one or both, with the upload directory as part of base or elsewhere. What will happen here? Trond -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from

Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you*

testing after boot is not a great idea. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you*

Mike Frysinger wrote: On 9/1/07, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to test that stuff and run it on the current code in the kernel, how about a kernel module? You could modprobe sanitytest or something and report to syslog at module load time. And maybe have a parameter

Re: bogomips discrepancy on Intel Core2 Quad CPU

cores. bjd [... copy of output snipped, see the O.P. ...] -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: ramdisk

- not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) Who can give me some hints ? or point me some direction to handle this. I appreciate this very much. regards, Yang -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from

Re: ramdisk

without a leading / and while I assumed it was a typo, I thought it was worth mentioning since you were looking for suggestions. I would expect /dev/ram0 to be correct. I would try the decompressed image next, and I have no other ideas at the moment. regards, 2007/9/3, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

David Howells wrote: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mount /base on point1 - rw [ hopefully really r/w ] mount /base on point2 - ro [ hopefully r/o ] I think Al Viro probably has the right idea as to how to fix this: Move the R/O R/W flag into vfsmount and count

Re: 2.6.22.6 pata_via cable detect

LL07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 5 Let me know what other info you need. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

for a week or so now. Haven't tried later kernels, don't intend to, while no network is really secure, it not really useful. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot - To unsubscribe

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:44:20PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... That was with 2.6.22.5 (or so), dropped back to an old kernel with sk98lin, previously had uptimes in three digit days. Up for a week or so now. There is a real long-term advantage of removing

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

it in, but until other drivers are drop-in, I probably won't change. Separate but related: why keep skge and sky2? Are we going through this again in a year? Is the benefit worth the effort? Hope some of this is helpful. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing

2.6.22-git13 crash

built from 2.6.22-git9 config, used oldconfig. Crashes so early it doesn't seem to get to the network card. config: www.tmr.com/~davidsen/config-2.6.22-git13.gz screen dump: www.tmr.com/~davidsen/dump-2.6.22-git13.jpg Not much info, and probably seen elsewhere. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL

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