Re: parallel port problems with 2.6.21_rc5 and 2.6.21_rc6_git3-20070410174235

2007-05-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
-critical in the sense that I'm sure I can run old kernels for a decade if needed, but hopefully something to be fixed. Since there's no regressions list any more, I guess we will all have to complain about problems individually. :-( -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

2007-05-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
that and the fact that there is another idea which can be tested from Tong Li, I think that decision can be postponed, Linus willing. There appear to be enough testers to be driving evolution now, authors may disagree, of course. Several folks added to cc list... -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v9

2007-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
done by Nick Piggin in nicksched. There are a lot of mutually incompatible approaches being evaluated, and that's good for the future. -- 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: swap-prefetch: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
as if this is a fix for a problem we shouldn'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: swap-prefetch: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
responsiveness with 2.4.19-ck7, you know I always test your stuff ;-) Guess it might need a bit of polish for current hardware, I was testing on *small* machines, deliberately. -- Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations

Re: BUG: early intel microcode update violating alignment rules

2014-08-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
the microcode which you could put on the stack (15 bytes) slide the image up into alignment, load it, and put everything back. Haven't looked at the code or data, just tossing out an idea I used for something else back when. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from

Re: iSCSI target stops sending responses to login requests

2014-08-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
have a console open on the machine and can verify the odd behavior. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com 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

2.4.3 fails to boot with initrd - solved

2001-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
newer modutils is needed. Even for people who build their own initrd files, this is NOT obvious! -- 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-k

Documentation glitch in 2.4

2001-04-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
with all the other "get it here info." -- 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 PROT

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

2005-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
er numbers. 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

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

2005-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
have both. -- -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: [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 pos

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: 2.6.11-rc2 TCP ignores PMTU ICMP (Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc2)

2005-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
iphdr *)((*pskb)->data + iphdroff); - hdr = (struct tcphdr *)((*pskb)->data + iph->ihl*4); + hdr = (struct tcphdr *)((*pskb)->data + hdroff); if (maniptype == IP_NAT_MANIP_SRC) { /* Get rid of src ip and src pt */ -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "The secret to procrast

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
always that dependable. -- 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 majordo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29

2005-02-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
seems to be a valud operation to me. New crypto feels more like adding a whole new device. Opinion offered for clarification only, I don't feel strongly on this or crypto, but I do identify because I have hardware with a 2.4 driver and I can't use it unless I give up 2.6. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL

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

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
read MORE than that. I don't consider this correct behaviour, but at least I know how to get by it for iso-9660 CDs. For other formats which don't allow determination of data set size except by the contents of the data, this works poorly. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) &

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

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
the image. As noted elsewhere this doesn't work if the image isn't iso-9660. -- -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 "unsubscri

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

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
are greatly exaggerated. -- -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 [E

Re: possible leak in kernel 2.6.10-ac12

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
to network activity. You might find more information there, subject contains "NOT BIO" if it helps. -- -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

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

2005-02-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare) wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:58:05PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:42:21 +0100, "Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare)" said: Have you tested the ISO on some *OTHER* hardware? The impression I got was t

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
the "type + length" > of object part. IOW, the object validity checks are actually even stricter > than just "sha1 matches". > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMA

Re: Mercurial v0.1 - a minimal scalable distributed SCM

2005-04-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
something better. I admit that some of my own toys have never seen the light of day because I am unable to invest the time to handle those points. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but

Re: enforcing DB immutability

2005-04-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
is exactly as much information as is in the original link. And they are lots safer, since you can't wind up with them pointing to a non-existent file, get them in circular loops, etc. Okay, YOU probably wouldn't, but believe me semi-competent users regularly these things. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: speedstep-centrino on dothan

2005-07-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, the speedstep-centrino support has built-in frequency/voltage pairs only for Banias CPUs. For Dothan CPUs, these tables are read from BIOS ACPI. But ACPI encoding may not be available or not reliable, so why shouldn't we provide built-in tables for Dothan

Re: ide-cd and bad sectors

2005-07-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
matthieu castet wrote: Hi Alan, Alan Cox wrote: On Sad, 2005-07-02 at 15:14, matthieu castet wrote: Also I was wondering if all the sector that ide-cd failed to read are bad sector, or if ide-cd failed to put the drive in a consistent state for reading the next sector after corrupted one.

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ondrej Zary wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: André Tomt wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { On 7/4/05, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31 Cat /dev/hda > /dev/null gives 2% user 33% sys 65% idle

Re: [Paranoia] program cdparanoia not setting count and/or reply_len properly

2005-07-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
or reporting is fixed (and that may not be the fix Alan has devised) by someone then paranoia can get rid of the egregious hack. I've expanded the recipients list, perhaps we'll get a status on (a) if the fix Alan has will cause correct error reporting, and (b) when it can be put in mainlin

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-07 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 maj

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-45

2005-07-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
t much used anymore, the kermit program is still a capable terminal interface, and includes logging. For those who don't like telnet or minicom, here's another program to dislike. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computer

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
exy high interest area, like real time premption, it might get done sooner ;-) -- -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 "unsubs

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
the planning for the future even before 2.5 started. At the time I didn't expect to have to use the system call. -- -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 t

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
d disk active protection system that IBM offers under windows for its laptops, that will park the disk when it detects that e.g. the laptop is falling off a table. Does that imply that we have software to detect falling off a table? -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "The secret to proc

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
units) then the effect of faster CPU would be shown. And the total power of all attached CPUs should be taken into account, using HT or SMP does have an effect of feel. Disk tests should be at a fixed rate, not all you can do. That's NOT realistic. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
David Lang wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Bill Davidsen wrote: How serious is the 1/HZ = sane problem, and more to the point how many programs get the HZ value with a system call as opposed to including a header or building it in? I know some of my older programs use header files

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
actually have something against tickless, or just don't think it can be done in reasonable time? I can see this needing very careful thought on SMP. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe fr

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
pier? (I wrote "happy" rather than "happier" at first, but let's face it, people are better at whining 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 k

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
t; Hopefully 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 unsubscri

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

2005-03-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
feature in existing code rather than support for a new chip. > > Can't speak for the "double-free patch", don't know what it is all > about. > > -- > Jean Delvare > -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting thin

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 > > >

Re: PATCH: 2.6.11-ac2

2005-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
something current instead of 2.6.10-ac12, which 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 P

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
lowing 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 u

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

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

2005-03-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
's not fix it. The stable kernel should have a stable process, which should not be changed unless there's a demonstrated problem. -- -bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - To unsu

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
this should be a config option, like UNSAFE_TAPE_POSITIONING or some such. And show 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,

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: > > > > &g

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
e admin a way to build a kernel with the hole other than 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

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 "unsubscri

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
any 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 PROTEC

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 l

Re: 2.6.Stable and EXTRAVERSION

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
eave 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 t

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 u

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
loaded 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 PRO

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

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
o all that. I would add 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 PRO

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 t

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
didn't like the initial decision to go incremental, and I even less like changing now, but it's the right thing to do. It's not like we have a big investment in scripts or anything, and you're doing the work. -- bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting thi

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
mitigate any 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 w

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-01-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
ely, there will ALWAYS be a path, either direct, or indirect between > the secure net and the internet. Other than letting 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 protectio

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: SuperIO scx200 breakage

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
so I do not see any 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 thing

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

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
ng to your 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

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
t char *in, __u32 *W) { -- -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: [PATCH 2/3] buffer writes to sysfs

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
turn -EIO; down(>sem); 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 l

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:

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: &g

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

2005-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
o cook the books the scheduler used. And the user 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

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
option of more security 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 "unsubsc

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

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

2005-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
so I am 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 l

Re: My System doesn't use swap!

2005-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
0 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 proc

Re: [RFC] "biological parent" pid

2005-02-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
The init 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]) &

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, > > >> > > >> &

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: intel8x0 alsa outputs no sound

2005-02-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
the rate locks at 48000 instead 44100 as requested. -- 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: 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
encrypted 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

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

2005-02-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
nes which do 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! -

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
place to try the scheduler of the week, but unless some feature 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 u

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

2005-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
. Please let me know if you need further info or you want a tester All this is on a IBM Thinkpad 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"

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 [E

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

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 u

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
s an issue, since on my hardware that meant the system did nothing but write wrror messages to the log. > > > as you note, because the hardware is generating the condition, no one > > seems to care, even though there clearly is a problem in the disable > > logic. I found a way

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

2005-02-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
themselves and freedom 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 un

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]

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. F

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 [E

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

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
t. The current code 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&q

[2.6.11-rc4-bk9] Bad behaviour using RAID

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
arted when 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&

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

Re: Multichannel audio ?

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
list" 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"

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
At least now that you know how to set the type 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 &q

Re: intel 8x0 went silent in 2.6.11

2005-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
; and "Line Jack 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

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

2005-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
ery 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

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
it is desirable to have both. -- -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 [E

Memory Stick Changes in 2.6.11?

2005-03-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
quot; behaviour make scripts 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 mes

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-kern

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