Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This really isn't a regression. It's been always like that with libata.
libata doesn't make devices go into standby mode and shutdown(8) does
it for libata. The problem here is that libata does issue
SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE on shutdown. So, the sequence of
Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 04/19/2007 04:18 PM, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
I need to preserve some state from the bios before entering protected
mode. For now I want to copy it into some ram accessible by real-mode,
say the last megabyte visible in real-mode.
What's the easiest
OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
So the last free sector count is also stored. When mounting this
filesystem you don't need to walk through the whole FAT to calculate
the available space, you can use this cached value instead. And this
OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Probably it's stupid to update the free clusters count at mount time
(sorry if so...) but it looks like a good idea to me. And of course, I
don't mean to update the value _on disk_, but the kernel's idea of free
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Windows _does_ care*, it will pretend the disk to be full.
Did you test on 2000 or XP? (e.g. write 0 to free_clusters, then
create new file.)
That was back when I still used W98.
- usefree is a bad name
Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:34:41PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Mar 10 2007 22:27, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:23:41PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Whether the 'working config file path' should change when you do
'Save as
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/8/07, Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Absolutely not. We dont want to slow down kernel 'just in case a fool might
want to do crazy things'
Actually, I think it would make the kernel (negligibly) faster to bump
f_pos before the
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Michael K. Edwards wrote:
On 3/12/07, Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I think it would make the kernel (negligibly) faster to bump
f_pos before the vfs_write() call.
This is a security risk.
snip
I
Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For source lines I've seen both:
source arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/Kconfig
and
source arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig
Is there a preferred style? Quotes or not?
$ find . -name Kconfig -exec grep ^source '{}' \;|grep \|wc -l
732
$ find .
v j [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote:
This is in reference to the following thread:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63
I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now if it's better to set up a empty node or use a nearby node
for a memory less cpu can be further discussed. I still think
I lean towards the later.
Worst case: Only slot 0 is used. Plug your memoryless CPU card into the last
slot before your plug the
Sergei Organov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Exactly because char *by*definition* is indeterminate sign as far as
something like strlen() is concerned.
Thanks, I now understand that you either don't see the difference
between indeterminate and
v j [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So far I have heard nothing but, if you don't contribute, screw you.
That's exactly what you tell to the linux community: If they don't contribute
to your project *FOR*NOTHING*IN*RETURN*, you'll punish them by - stamping
your feet, crying out loud and *paying* for
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:
Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sergei Organov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Using signed chars for strings is wrong in most countries on earth. It was
wrong when the first IBM PC came out in 1981
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:
Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sergei Organov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you don't code for a specific compiler with specific settings, there is
no implementation defining the signedness of char
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, David Howells wrote:
This is really the weak point - it offers no advantage over an equivalent
implementation in user space (e.g. in the module tools). So why has to be
done in the kernel?
Because the init_module() system call
vjn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in my project i want to code the kernel such that when i plugged my usb it
should ask for password and check it in the kernel space . can anyone help
me
No, since the kernel has no way to ask for input. Imagine a two-seated
machine with two keyboards, mice and
Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+++ linux-2.6.20.noarch/mm/swap.c2007-02-20 06:44:17.0 -0500
@@ -420,6 +420,26 @@ void pagevec_strip(struct pagevec *pvec)
+if (printk_ratelimit())
+printk(kswapd freed a swap
David Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For I/O and memory that ACPI accesses and has not reserved, the AML
interpreter could allocate at run-time.
I'm not sure how to implement exactly. For example, it would be bad to
have a /proc/ioports that had a lot of single ports allocated, for
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:56:44 +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
2) make ACPI take this lock whenever it touches ports not allocated by
itself
and release it on function return.
This is costly.
TANSTAAFL. You'll need to take some lock, and if you want
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 21:40:19 +0100 (CET), Bodo Eggert wrote:
1) I asume port allocations or ACPI foreign port acces to be rare, so
there would be little impact on (un)registering hardware. Off cause
there are some long ACPI calls (like reading
Ethan Solomita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suggest a variant on what Andrew says: don't change reclaim.
Instead, when referencing a page, don't mark the page as referenced if
the current task is not permitted to allocate from the page's node. I'm
thinking in terms of cpusets, with each
into
a dash).
ACK, but that's your part.
snip
Introduce config CONFIG_SOFTPANIC
Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a
soft panic, which does not stop the system completely.
You can still scroll the screen and read the messages.
Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED
Christer Weinigel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you find out the speed of the ISA bus? AFAIK there is no
standardized way to do that. On the Geode SC2200 the ISA bus speed is
usually the PCI clock divided by 4 giving 33MHz/4=8.3MHz or
30/4=7.5MHz, but with no external ISA devices it's
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Bodo Eggert wrote:
Christer Weinigel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you find out the speed of the ISA bus? AFAIK there is no
standardized way to do that. On the Geode SC2200 the ISA bus speed is
usually the PCI clock divided by 4 giving
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Bodo Eggert wrote:
But overclocking is not the problem for udelay, it would err to the safe
side. The problem would be a BUS having 8 MHz, and since the days of
80286, they are hard to find. IMO having an option to set the bus speed
for those
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Rene Herman wrote:
On 08-01-08 00:24, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Rene Herman wrote:
Is this only about the ones then left for things like legacy PIC and PIT?
Does anyone care about just sticking in a udelay(2) (or 1) there as a
replacement and call it a day?
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
But overclocking is not the problem for udelay, it would err to the safe
side. The problem would be a BUS having 8 MHz, and since the days of
80286, they are hard to find. IMO having an option to set the bus speed
for those systems should be enough.
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
Introduce config CONFIG_SOFTPANIC
Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a
soft panic, which does not stop the system completely.
You can still scroll the screen and read the messages.
Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Ondrej Zary wrote:
On Tuesday 08 January 2008 18:24:02 David P. Reed wrote:
Windows these days does delays with timing loops or the scheduler. It
doesn't use a port. Also, Windows XP only supports machines that tend
not to have timing problems that use delays.
Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2008-01-08, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Power users may still
use the index= option of sound card modules and wire it up in
/etc/modprobe.d if they prefer.
Another very cryptic directory whose contents say nothing to me.
Configuration
Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even after a black-out shutdown, the corruption is pretty minimal, using
ext3fs at least. So let's take advantage of this fact and do an optimistic
fsck, to assure integrity per-dir, and assume no external corruption. Then
we release this checked dir to the
Abhishek Rai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Putting metacluster at the end of the block group gives slightly
inferior sequential read throughput compared to putting it in the
beginning or the middle, but the difference is very tiny and exists
only for large files that span multiple block groups.
Matthias Schniedermeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't use udev then. Good old static dev works fine if you have a fixed
set of devices.
It doesn't, with the unpredictable SCSI mapping insanity.
That what LABEL und UUID-Support in mount is for.
You label the filesystems (e2label for
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:22:45PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
What can happen if someone does tune2fs -Lroot /dev/usbstick
and puts that stick into this system?
Don't know. I use UUIDs rather than LABELs. Having duplicated labels
just means
Brent Casavant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I could mmap a temporary tmpfs file (tmpfs so that if there is a
machine crash no sensitive data persists) which is created with
permissions of 0, immediately unlink it, and pass the file
descriptor through an AF_UNIX socket. This does open up a
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Jan Kara wrote:
However, it occurs to me that this problem goes away if there were
a method create a file in an unlinked state to begin with. However
there does not appear to be any such mechanism in Linux's open()
interface.
Having no window for creating
Brent Casavant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Hmm. This will work as long as the peer process is running setuid
to it's own unique user. Excellent idea! Since I need to make the
program setuid to avoid non-priveleged ptrace attacks, this is a
terrific solution.
Tried that:
~ cd tmp
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
~/tmp cp /bin/sleep .
~/tmp chmod u+s sleep
~/tmp ./sleep 2147483647
[1] 2823
~/tmp strace -p 2823
Process 2823 attached - interrupt to quit
setup(
You didn't change the owner, so
Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:38:45PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
| It's not about lazyness of BSD developers, many people who consider the
| BSD licence more free than the GPL argue that the advantage of the BSD
| licence is that it does not require you to
David Newall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Normal users cannot use chroot() themselves so they can't use chroot to
get back out
I think Bill is right, that this is to fix a method that non-root
processes can use to escape their chroot. The exploit, which is
documented in chroot(2)*, is to
Chris Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Madore wrote:
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:11:52AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Boot memtest86 for a little while before booting the kernel? And if you
haven't already run it for a while, then that would be your first step
anyway.
Indeed,
Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:35:01PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
In fact, we should be able to get rid of ARCH entirely; CONFIG_ options
have the huge advantage that they're saved in a file, and you don't have to
type them on every make run. The only
Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
Allowing a user to tweak (under constraints) their settings might allow
them to do something like create two mozilla profiles which are isolated
from each other, so that the profile they use for general web surfing
Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Second try; this time with a doc-update, and the ability to remount normally.
Tested against 2.6.23.
---
This patch introduces a rootdir kernel boot parameter, which specifies the
path to the kernel sys_chroot boot dir.
This is useful for systems
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Bodo Eggert wrote:
1) This is useful for booting a rescue or test system, too. In those cases,
you might want to have the old root moved somewhere.
(Always $rootdir/oldroot? Additional parameter? I'm not sure ...)
Again, this is a good
Maxim Shchetynin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+config AZ_FS
+tristate AZFS filesystem support
+default m
^
STRONG NACK, I hate digging in the menu tree and hunting for things I
don't need.
+help
+ Non-buffered filesystem
Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:00:16PM +, Al Viro wrote:
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
Why does link(2) not support hard-linking across bind mount points
of the same underlying filesystem ?
Because it gives you a security
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Al Viro wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:43:26PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
Since nobody knows about this security boundary and everybody knows about
the annoying can't link across bind-mountpoints bug,
... how about teaching people to RTFM? Starting, perhaps
linux-os (Dick Johnson) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
It never gets to the printk(). You were right about the
compilation. Somebody changed the kernel to compile with
parameter passing in REGISTERS! This means that EVERYTHING
needs to be compiled the same
Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:11 -0800, Ray Lee wrote:
On Nov 29, 2007 10:56 AM, Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:40 -0800, Ray Lee wrote:
On Nov 29, 2007 9:36 AM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
closed. But more
Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some versions of Xen 3.x set their magic number to xen-3.[12], so
relax the test to match them.
- BUG_ON(memcmp(xen_start_info-magic, xen-3.0, 7) != 0);
+ BUG_ON(memcmp(xen_start_info-magic, xen-3, 5) != 0);
Not
, the NUMLOCK status on Linus' famous laptop should be usable.
---
I'd like some information about how this patch works non non-IBM-compatible
x86 PCs. For now, I've documented the wordt possible outcome I can imagine.
Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -pruN -X dontdiff linux
Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
do you have any memories about the outb_p() use of misc_32.c:
pos = (x + cols * y) * 2; /* Update cursor position */
outb_p(14, vidport);
outb_p(0xff (pos 9), vidport+1);
outb_p(15, vidport);
outb_p(0xff
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW: The error function in linux-2.6.23/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c
uses while(1) without cpu_relax() in order to halt the machine
Theewara Vorakosit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get MAC address from ioctl. However, ifconfig can change this MAC
address. Can I get a real physical MAC address of the NIC?
First, get a network card having a physical MAC. Most cards have only a
(currently configured) default MAC address, maybe
As suggested by Adrian Bunk, UNIX domain sockets should always be built in
on normal systems. This is especially true since udev needs these sockets
and fails to run if UNIX=m.
Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Last minute change: I decided against making it a bool because
In some of the Kconfig files, the options are not adequately decribed. I
collected a few of the bad descriptions I found:
---
Lowlevel video output switch controls (VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL) [M/n/y/?] (NEW) ?
This framework adds support for low-level control of the video
output switch.
---
- What
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:09:43PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
As suggested by Adrian Bunk, UNIX domain sockets should always be built in
on normal systems. This is especially true since udev needs these sockets
and fails to run if UNIX=m.
Signed
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, David Miller wrote:
From: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As suggested by Adrian Bunk, UNIX domain sockets should always be built in
on normal systems. This is especially true since udev needs these sockets
and fails to run if UNIX=m.
Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:53:02 -0800
H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bodo Eggert wrote:
I've never seen code which would do that, and it was not suggested by any
tutorial I ever saw. I'd expect any machine to break on all kinds of
software
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:26:42PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:09:43PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
As suggested by Adrian Bunk, UNIX domain sockets should always be built
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:16:43AM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
Bodo Eggert wrote:
(Kicking netdev from CC)
---
SCSI target support (SCSI_TGT) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) ?
If you want to use SCSI target mode drivers enable
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Al Viro wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:03:20PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, David Miller wrote:
From: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As suggested by Adrian Bunk, UNIX domain sockets should always be built
in
on normal systems
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, David Miller wrote:
From: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The big question is: Is there any non-embedded system where you have
to aim for a small kernel image?
One some platforms, due to bootloader restrictions or whatever,
there are hard limits on how large the main
Abdel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In file include/asm-i386/system.h, _set_base and _set_limit use an
useless do ... while(0)
Why is this needed ?
http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/DoWhile0
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Herbert Xu wrote:
Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The question is whether the size of the Unix domain sockets support is
worth the complexity of yet another config option that we expose to
the user. For the embedded world, OK, maybe they want to save 14k of
Thanasis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 12/31/2007 11:54 AM Jose de la Mancha wrote the following:
-- All RAID edition drives are more expensive that their equivalent
desktop edition drives (same model on desktop edition). Just take a look
at newegg for instance.
Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the last remaining bit to cleanup is the symlink from
arch/x86/boot/bzImage.
BTW: Is it useful to have (b)zimage under $ARCH while vmlinux is in the root
dir? (Besides being compatible to external scripts)
--
I always tell customers/clients the
Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:20:41 +0100
Richard Purdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Advice on solving this welcome preferably in mainline but I'll happily
hack my kernels with a workaround if need be.
I can't see any easy hacks or workarounds to fix the issue
Miguel Botón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch fixes the warnings passing argument 1 of '__memcpy' discards
qualifiers from pointer target type and passing argument 2 of '__memcpy'
discards qualifiers from pointer target type when compiling some files.
I don't really know if this is the
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:17:33 -0700 Jonathan Corbet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Avoid buffer overflows in get_user_pages()
So I spent a while pounding my head against my monitor trying to figure
out the vmsplice() vulnerability - how could a failure to
rzryyvzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/dev/null is often very useful, specially if programs force to save data in
some file. But some programs like to creates different temporary file names,
so /dev/null could no more work.
What is with a /dev/null-directory?
I mean a blackhole pseudo
Hans-Jürgen Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
schrieb Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There is a much more interesting 'problem' with a /dev/null
directory.
Q: Why would you need such a directory?
A: To temporarily fool a program into believing it wrote something.
Q: Should all files
Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
['cat /dev/hideaw0 | hexdump -v']
Or some way to ship the
$00's to /dev/null so hexdump ignores them?
.. | perl -pe 's/\00//g/' | ...
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Maciej W. Rozycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Move the hadover message to after the boot console has been released to
avoid bad interactions between it and the real console.
This message is usefull if the handover fails, therefore it should be printed
on the boot console, while successfull
Micha? Kazior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've discovered a strange thing lately. My memory is being sucked out
when doing (I suppose) _a lot_ of stat() on the file system. I got left
once with ~30MB of ram (of 512 in total) which made my system trash
like hell. You might try doing the following
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can cause a recursion in kbuild/make with the following:
make O=$PWD kernel/time.o
make mrproper
Of course no one would use O=$PWD (that's just the testcase),
but this happened too often:
/ws/linux/linux-2.6.23$ make O=/ws/linux/linux-2.6.23
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, David Newall wrote:
Miloslav Semler pointed out that a root process can chdir(..) out of
its chroot. Although this is documented in the man page, it conflicts
with the essential function, which is to change the root directory of
the process.
The root directory, '/'
linux-os (Dick Johnson) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, [iso-8859-1] Daniel Spång wrote:
On 9/28/07, linux-os (Dick Johnson) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, [iso-8859-1] Daniel Spång wrote:
On 9/28/07, linux-os (Dick Johnson) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But an
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[PATCH]: Fill the size of FIFOs
Instead of reporting 0 in size when stating() a
FIFO
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Igor Sobrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When code is multi-licensed it must be distributed under *all* these
licensing terms concurrently.
No. E.g.:
If I don't agree to the GPL (or if I had violated it and therefore have lost
it's privileges), I MUST NOT redistribute it under the GPL because I
Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there anyway to get/see what parameters were passed to a kernel module?
Running modinfo -p module will show the defaults, but for example, st,
the scsi tape driver, is there a way to see what it is currently using?
/sys/modules/$NAME/parameters (if
Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
I once sent a patch to make libata a submenu of scsi.
Which is wrong
Nakked-by: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The general comments about moving this stuff around and making it clearer
what sd/sr etc are nowdays are good but hiding libata
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:21:39PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
I'm not trying to document /sys/devices. I'm trying to document hotplug,
populating /dev, and things like firmware loading that fall out of that.
This requires use of sysfs, and I'm only trying to
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 20 2007 13:52, Bodo Eggert wrote:
But. The above regex does not seem to handle
if ((a = b));
oops;
I have tried to come up with a superduper regex that handles multiple
(), but my regex fu seems to stop above two pairs
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my berry_charge code that adds support for charging the iphone when it
is plugged into a Linux machine.
This should be a runtime option, because you may want to build a non-module
kernel and not charge the phone while running your laptop on battery.
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Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:59:16PM +0200, Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
3) On modern systems the incoming packets are processed very fast. Especially
on SMP systems when we use multiple queues we process only a few packets
per napi poll cycle. So NAPI does
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:51:19PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my berry_charge code that adds support for charging the iphone when it
is plugged into a Linux machine.
This should be a runtime option, because you may
Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 15/08/07, Zoltan Boszormenyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I noticed that a bad CD of mine makes DMA disabled:
[...]
hda: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: DMA disabled
hda: ide_intr: huh?
Mike Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(intentionally not snipping much)
Per the post here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/18/228
it appears that the group ownership patch has made it into .23. I am
using these patches, amongst which the kernel component appears to be
identical:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
On 08/19/2007 06:05 PM, Bodo Eggert wrote:
IMHO the check is broken:
+ if (((tun-owner != -1
+ current-euid != tun-owner) ||
+(tun-group != -1
+ current-egid != tun
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
On 08/19/2007 11:42 PM, Bodo Eggert wrote:
The intended [my me] semantics is If the user is not
* the allowed user
or
* member of the allowed group
or
* cabable of CAP_NET_ADMIN
then error out. I'm asuming
There is a short description
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 16 2007 10:21, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
+ if ($line =~ /\bif\s*\([^\)]*\)\s*\;/) {
Heh, you are the second person to suggest this check today, do I detect
some ripped out hair due to one of these!
I've taken this idea and expanded it to
Folkert van Heusden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/softecc:ddopson-meng
softecc_ddopson-meng.pdf
SoftECC : A System for Software Memory Integrity Checking
Personally, I'd recommend just shelling out the bucks for hardware ECC if
the reliability matters.
a
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
couldn't this be fixed by bumping idle tasks to middle while they hold a
Usually to high.
Then use the lowest non-idle priority. The result will not be more b0rken
than nice -n 19.
But it's all complicated and hasn't been done consistently
(there are
Jerry Jiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 21:18:25 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Chris Snook wrote:
Some architectures currently do not declare the contents of an atomic_t to
be
volatile. This causes confusion since atomic_read() might not actually
read anything if an
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 9 2007 11:31, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Since the network device documentation needs a rewrite, I was thinking
of using basic html format instead of just plain text. But since this would
be starting an new precedent for kernel documentation, some it
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 9 2007 14:34, Bodo Eggert wrote:
I don't think b and i should be used, instead you should use styles
(span class=code etc).
b does the same as span style=font-weight: bold;, and the latter is much
more verbose for the same thing.
You shoud
Eric Sandeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This attempts to address CVE-2006-6058
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6058
first reported at http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-17-11-2006.html
Essentially a corrupted minix dir inode reporting a very large
i_size will
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