Memory Stick Changes in 2.6.11?

2005-03-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
more complex. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: 2.6.12-rc1 report

2005-03-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
I want to eliminate distro errors of the type you describe. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Distinguish real vs. virtual CPUs?

2005-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
package. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Distinguish real vs. virtual CPUs?

2005-03-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Vier wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:26:47PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: It's not clear if that's bizarre practice on AMD system boards or if it's mis-reported. Of course Tom may be running a NUMA setup, in which case I won't guess what's expected to be displayed. I've added him to the CC

Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

2005-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Sense in alsamixer? Is there some option to alsamixer to get those to show up? There's no such entry in the default display (FC3 w/ kernel.org 2.6.1[01]). -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

2005-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
time you switch from headphones to speaker. Assuming I follow the o.p. issue... alsamixer shows no sense settings for my ASUS laptop, and I have to boot 2.4 to get sound. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
than they are at being happy ;) I think this is just what's needed, and it addresses both the delay in getting new features in as well as delay in getting fixes in a stable kernel. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jeff Garzik wrote: Unless it's crashing for people, stack usage is IMO a wanted-fix not needed-fix. nfsd--svcrpc-add-a-per-flavor-set_client-method.patch is this critical? Wasn't part of the Linus proposal that it had to fix an oops or non-functional feature? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk

2005-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
this and the double-free patch will be included in 2.6.11.n+1? They seem to fit the real bug criteria. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk

2005-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
-free patch, don't know what it is all about. -- Jean Delvare -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk

2005-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:18:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Greg KH wrote: ChangeSet 1.1998.11.27, 2005/02/25 15:48:28-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk One more Asus laptop requiring the SMBus quirk (W1N model

Re: PATCH: 2.6.11-ac2

2005-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
was a great patch in its day, but hasn't been current for a while. In fairness, the -mm is out of date, too. Perhaps a bit of automation would be appropriate here, so that no one would have to update this manually. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
the -stable will just need the most recent, but doing x.y.z-1=x.y.z.N gets really ugly for higher values of N. It can be automated, it's just two (presumably tiny) patchsets per release. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible

Re: Random number generator in Linux kernel

2005-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
this. You can add the code to your module. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
problem. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
the option if the build includes BROKEN features. That should put the decision where it belongs and clarify the possible failures. Caould you live with that, Alan? -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979

Re: [PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:06:15AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:18:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Greg KH wrote: ChangeSet 1.1998.11.27, 2005/02/25 15:48:28-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
just reverting the fix I proposed the last, I won't cry if no one else likes it, it just seemed realistic for people who don't use certain features of tar. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
versions for P-II, P-III, P4-HT and Athlon depending on what I'm testing. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
wrong and someone might do something destructive reading the mainline docs and using the fixed code. Drivers come to mind. I am NOT saying this is such a case, I'm just against zero tolerance rules when I can see a reasonable case where they don't do what you want. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
means ;-) -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - 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: Average power consumption in S3?

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
+ turning off the backlight started working with the screen saver. I guess it's better than my Dell and Toshiba laptops, which suspecnd but don't resume :-( -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me

Re: 2.6.Stable and EXTRAVERSION

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
well enough alone! -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Problem with PPPD on dialup with 2.6.11-bk1 and later; 2.6.11 is OK

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
it to -stable? Serial not working is a non-trivial issue given the number of people who use dialup either full time or as a fallback connection. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
subsequently. I don't know if this approach does also work with *such* large chunks like yours. Wasn't there a problem with a process having mlocked memory in the wrong place and the application hanging? Or the kernel hanging? Or something. Can't remember. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 3/9] UML - Hardware random number generator

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
a caution to the help warning of this problem if you lack real hardware RNG capability. The really paranoid could insist that at least one hardware driver be configured, but how much do you need to protect people from themselves? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret

Re: 2.6.Stable and EXTRAVERSION

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Chris Friesen wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: [...snip...] I think it will confuse scripts which expect something local in the 4th field. I confess that I have such, and that field is turned into a directory name during builds, so test results are saved

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
. I'm not sure you would get people to agree what should be done if a hardware RNG fails, other than make the failure information available to user space. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer

Re: [patch] new fifo I/O elevator that really does nothing at all

2005-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - 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: [RFD] 'nice' attribute for executable files

2005-03-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
setuid bit. Given that setuid is possibly the most misused (no I didn't say overused) features around, that's hardly a recommendation. That said, have you looked at capabilities? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jeff Garzik wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Herbert Xu wrote: You missed the point. This has nothing to do with the crypto API. Jeff is saying that if this is disabled by default, then only a few users will enable it and therefore use this API. Since we can't afford to enable it by default

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:23:44 EST, Bill Davidsen said: I'll try to build a truth table for this, I'm now working with some non-iso data sets, so I'm a bit more interested. I would expect read() to only try to read one sector, so I'll just do a quick and dirty to get

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdXas device

2005-02-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
filesystem images onto DVDs directly, and that works as well. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
ZIP drive media exchange both use the ide-scsi interface and 2.4 kernel to talk to the devices. They are unlikely to get or need an update, but I did try ide-floppy at one time and had some poorly-remembered learning experience doing so. Thanks for your work on this! -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
requires one of those, it's easier to start from a known base. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: intel8x0: no sound in 2.6.11 rc3 4 (fine with 2.6.10)

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
R51 - Type 2887 -AVG ASUS 1681 - same symptoms. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
that the base problem is fixed. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
a lot of the mailing lists to a news (usenet) server, since it allows a single copy of a message to be indexed in multiple groups, and some clients will skip what you have seen better than others. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until

Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
(curiousity only)? Of course after you detect motion you probably want to up the framerate, so you can see what's really happening. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
, no one seems to care, even though there clearly is a problem in the disable logic. I found a way to fix my hardware thanks to some pointers I got, so I'm running, but I haven't heard that the base problem is fixed. Aight. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, TMR Associates, Inc

Re: Slightly OT: We should move linux related channels off of FreeNode

2005-02-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
for everyone without regard for their content. Terms like no longer supports freedom are not helpful. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.6.11-rc5

2005-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
list. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - 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: 2.6.11-rc5

2005-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:47 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: - sound: hasn't worked since FC1... The ALSA lists have been deluged with reports like sound worked in FC1, upgraded to FC3, no sound. AFAICT it's just sloppiness on the part of the Fedora userspace tools. For example

Re: kernel 2.6 hyperthreading

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
have no way to quantify that. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4] oom_kill.c: Kill obvious processes first

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
frequently seems bit... non-deterministic. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[2.6.11-rc4-bk9] Bad behaviour using RAID

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
the new hardware was added, but occurs on the old. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
event? It seems like a very odd failure mode, but since I'm about to drop in a bttv card and digitize about a hundred old tapes, I'd like to know. Did you try the card= suggestion? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible

Re: Multichannel audio ?

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
is that? I have asked the same question on linux-sound several times and gotten no answer. If that list is dead it should go away! -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
for the cards separately you can test two configurations at a time. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] fix bad locking in drivers/base/driver.c

2005-01-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
* have to guarantee that it won't complete, letting the driver -- 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

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
, and that's not always the case. You don't leap vast chasms in small cautious steps. -- 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

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Bill Davidsen wrote: Unfortunately if A depends on B to work at all, you have to put A and B in as a package. No. That's totally bogus. You can put in B on its own. You do not have to make A+B be one patch. No,perhaps it isn't clear. If A changes

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
security flaw, we must make a non-circumventable protection. To the extent that this means if you see a bug, fix the bug, even if it's unrelated I agree completely. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
people use secure computers after they have seen the Internet, a good setup has no indirect paths. The problem exists. The only to protect is to apply layers of protection. And covering the possible unknown errors is a good way to add protection. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, TMR

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
problem here. Only one of them can be loaded in a time. So what does exactly bother you? That I don't know how to select loading between modules with the same name. What's the trick? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: fuse patch needs new libs

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
announcements the following one or two weeks or so, so that people can remove this patch if they don't want to update their libs. By any chance would this also break perl programs which readdir? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] modules: add version and srcversion to sysfs

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
info for what's running presently - a question I get often. That's something you can do entirely in userspace by looking at the *.ko files. How do you find which *.ko file was used to load the module in memory? I think you are talking about two things here. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] SHA1 clarify kerneldoc

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
) { -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - 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: [PATCH 2/3] buffer writes to sysfs

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
); count = fill_write_buffer(buffer,buf,count); if (count 0) -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Zan Lynx wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 10:37 -0600, Jesse Pollard wrote: On Wednesday 26 January 2005 13:56, Bill Davidsen wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Jesse Pollard wrote: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 15:05, linux-os wrote: This isn't relevant at all. The Navy

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:19:51 -0500 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:54:49 +0100 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems noone who reviewed the SuperIO patches noticed

Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: RLIMIT_RT_CPU_RATIO feature

2005-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
could hold off interrupts for up to 16ms, just to make it worse. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Memory Stick read-only in 2.6.10

2005-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
in the camera - it doesn't happen with four other sticks bought at the same time and used in the same camera Out of the box FC2 + 2.6.10 built from kernel.org source. Before I start playing with the drivers and all, is there a known oddity in this area which I missed searching? -- -bill

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
as a tradeoff, even if it is more than is generally needed. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Why does the kernel need a gig of VM?

2005-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
flushing on every kernel entry. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [2.6 patch] mark the mcd cdrom driver as BROKEN

2005-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
not affected, and I suspect most others who have this old stuff are running 2.0 or 2.2 kernels, also. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: My System doesn't use swap!

2005-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
17510067932 -/+ buffers/cache: 553680 481548 Swap: 2048248 112922036956 pixels:davidsen uname -rn pixels.tmr.com 2.6.10-ac2 Not that this is a bad thing, but I'm surprised at no swap used at all. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination

Re: [RFC] biological parent pid

2005-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
option would be unintrusive, but I doubt many people would feel the need for a kernel log feature. On the other hand it doesn't happen often, I looked at a system up 172 days and it had nothing but the daemons reparented (at the moment). -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret

Re: [2.6 patch] mark the mcd cdrom driver as BROKEN

2005-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:24:56AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 06:22:55PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Adrian, The mcd driver drives only very old hardware (some single and double speed CD

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

2005-01-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
it, but if I'm going to have to maintain my own crypto kernels indefinitely this probably isn't the one for me. -- 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

Re: SATA disk dead? ATA: abnormal status 0x59 on port 0xE407

2005-01-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
, in which case you run it until you back it up, then waranty it. -- 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

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
see a lot of stuff you don't need. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Unable to burn DVDs

2005-01-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michal Schmidt wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Nick Sanders wrote: For me when running growisofs with user permissions on 2.6.10 (ide-cd) it works perfectly 1st time but 2nd time fails with the error below. It works fine when run as root. :-( unable to PREVENT MEDIA REMOVAL: Operation

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

2005-01-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
. This doesn't seem unusably slow, even on my mighty P-II/350 and eight year old 4GB drives. The hdb is so old it has to run in pio mode, to give you an idea, and the original data was not in memory. Undoubtedly your idea of unusably slow is far more demanding than mine... -- bill davidsen [EMAIL

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Alban Browaeys wrote: Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com writes: With no disrespect, I don't believe you have ever been a full-time employee system administrator for any commercial or government organization, and I don't believe you have any experience trying to do security when change must

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
but to go to another O/S or app. Which makes it far more practical to explain a point than to storm off and do it yourself and have to maintain it forever. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer

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

2005-01-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 12:03 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Dan Hollis wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Venkat Manakkal wrote: As for cryptoloop, I'm sorry, I cannot say the same. The password hashing system being

Re: 2.6.13-rt1

2005-08-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
, but one can do without it). Funny, suspend works on all my laptops and most of my desktops, I was hoping that someone might get resume working next. :-( -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me

Re: Is cdrecord dependent on some kind of bus type?

2005-08-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
jeff shia wrote: Hello, Is cdrecord dependent on some kind of bus type,such as pci or usb? And the older version such as cdrecord-1.2? can cdrecord-1.2 run on kernel-2.4.18? Why not ask the cdrecord M/L? Subscribe at other.debian.org. Any 2.4 kernel should work using ide-scsi. -- -bill

Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

2005-08-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
a new release to be used in production. There are lots of things you could add, but get it working first. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: odd socket behavior

2005-08-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
or is this something that is normal? What do you see with lsof? Is there a process associated? I'm seeing something related with 2.6.13... -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me

Re: USB Storage speed regression since 2.6.12

2005-09-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
DervishD wrote: Hi all :) I don't know if this is a known issue, but usb-storage speed for 'Full speed' devices dropped from 2.6.11.12 (more than 800Kb/s) to 2.6.12 (less than 250Kb/s). The problem still exists in 2.6.13. The lack of speed seems to affect only the OHCI driver. My

Re: 2.6.13 git snapshot patches still empty

2005-09-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
reports a problem and there's no ggod way to tell exactly what patches are present. At least with git patches, anyone can **easily** replicate the source tree for debugging. Is it really that hard to fix the process? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jim Crilly wrote: On 07/31/05 11:10:20PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: I really like having 250HZ as an _option_, but what I don't see is why it should be the _default_. I believe this is Lee's position as Last I checked, ACPI and CPU speed scaling were not enabled by default; Kernel defaults

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 01:29 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I'm pretty sure at least one distro will go with HZ300 real soon now ;-). Any idea what their official recommendation for people running apps that require the 1ms sleep resolution is? Something along the lines

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I was finally able to get C3 state working. It seems that my BIOS is leaving USB controllers in an active state(?). Without any USB drivers loaded, C3 is not possible. With drivers loaded, but no device plugged in C3 works fine. Kernel is 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 + acpi-sbs.

Re: How come that in kernel 2.6.11 a dvd is readable, but not in kernel 2.6.12?

2005-08-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
it. It behaves as if the read fails depending on the data read, hard as that is to understand with DMA devices and no bounce buffers. I wouldn't mention this until I had more info, but it seems possibly related. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off

Re: [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc 3.2

2005-08-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
project, at least WRT x86, has lost its way a bit. The compiler is getting slower, and the generated code is not getting correspondingly faster. Or smaller. I'm not sure about more correct... Keeping 2.95 might not be a bad idea. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3

2005-08-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
latency. At least as I can measure... Bravo to all concerned to get this to the testing stage! -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench 0.27

2005-08-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
and found a way to get numbers useful to me. So you might find the percentile values pull additional information out of your data points, particularly for noisy results. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5

2005-08-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
SPARC hardware works, I don't remember enough to be useful. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer -me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: remove support for gcc 3.2

2005-08-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
with every release. The tools used to find overlong paths in the kernel would work well for gcc. Recent versions are painful, even with a decent SMP machine. The people compiling on laptops could spend a day building with new versions. -- bill davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO TMR Associates, Inc

Re: libata PATA todo list

2005-08-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
script to do something else. However, it really should work. I will test this if you like, but I'm on 7x24 coverage this week and 7x24 vacation after that, so not soon. 10) ATAPI DMA alignment (discussed elsewhere) Needed even for PATA, AFAICT. Thanks for keeping the list! -- -bill

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
that, with more or less valid reasons. -- 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: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
be slower than O_DIRECT. Other than the copy to buffer taking CPU and memory resources. -- 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: Strange LKML home page!!!

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
that that site has nothing to do with kernel.org. why do you care? Some people find the site useful for browsing this list. It's a resource. Not all useful Linux sites are controlled by kernel.org. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
will actually time the write with the time command. -- 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: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 19:23, Bill Davidsen wrote: Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 21:45, Michael Tokarev wrote: Phillip Susi wrote: [...] But even single-threaded I/O but in large quantities benefits from O_DIRECT significantly, and I

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2007 15:01, Bodo Eggert wrote: Denis Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 19:23, Bill Davidsen wrote: Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 21:45, Michael Tokarev wrote: But even single-threaded I/O but in large

Re: Raid 10 question/problem [ot]

2007-01-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
may assist in understanding this. Either use RAID-10 or add md2 to the mdadm.conf to get it started at boot. I suggest using RAID-10. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >