Hi,
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:03:55 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
find net | xargs grep -n SIOCINQ
I suspect you will find unix_ioctl() in net/unix/af_unix.c ?
BTW, my patch only worked for pipes, not fifos. Ie pipe(), not
open(/some/fifo.p, ...)
Thanks for your patch. There is a question however;
On Apr 18 2007 09:39, Stephen Clark wrote:
So this is the pop I hear on my new laptop that is using
libata=combined_mode when I shut my system down. I didn't get the
pop with the same disk drive in an older laptop that was only ide.
It sounds like a relay closing or opening, but is really my
On Apr 18 2007 10:45, david rankin wrote:
Mates,
First post and I am having heck building the vanilla 2.6.20.7 kernel on
Suse 10.0. Basically I put 2.6.20.7 in /usr/src, then I did
[...]
All current minimal requierments are met *except* udev which is version
068. Everything compiled
On Apr 20 2007 21:57, Fabio Comolli wrote:
hda: TOSHIBA MK8025GAS, ATA DISK drive
MK...? These sort of disks do that stupid pop. Mine -- a MK2003GAH --
does it even while running Linux, if the disk is _idle_.
See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/15/413 - hope it provides some pointers.
Regards,
On Apr 21 2007 08:10, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Define a new fs flag FS_SAFE, which denotes, that unprivileged
mounting of this filesystem may not constitute a security problem.
Since most filesystems haven't been designed with unprivileged
mounting in mind, a thorough audit is needed
On Apr 21 2007 10:57, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
tmpfs!
tmpfs is a possible problem because it can consume lots of ram/swap.
Which is why it has limits on the amount of space it can consume.
Users can gobble up all RAM and swap already today. (Unless they are
confined into an rlimit, which,
On Apr 21 2007 18:00, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Feels even better, mouse movements are very smooth even under high
load. I noticed that X gets reniced to -19 with this scheduler.
I've not looked at the code yet but this looked suspicious to me.
On Apr 23 2007 12:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 09:12:55PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
This patch implements the kthread helper functions kthread_start
and kthread_end which make it simple to support a kernel thread
that may decided to exit on it's own before we
On Apr 24 2007 14:58, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
Hello all,
can anyone give me a short hint how walking through the tasklist in a device
driver can be achieved nowadays. In ancient pre-20 times you could simply:
read_lock(tasklist_lock);
p=current;
do {
if (p-pid==pid)
On Apr 23 2007 17:21, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Neil Brown wrote:
Our you could think outside the circle:
Store all your small files as symlinks, then use symlink to create
them and readlink to read them. (You would probably end up use
symlinkat and readlinkat).
Only one system call instead
Hello,
I noticed that on x86_64, the VSZ indicator (`ps u $$`) is quite high,
compared to i386 or sparc64.
10:32 ichi:~ ps u $$ # i686
USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
jengelh 4950 0.2 0.2 4776 2112 pts/4Ss 10:32 0:00 -bash
10:36 sun:~
On Apr 25 2007 11:30, Eric Dumazet wrote:
Jakub Jelinek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:42:20AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
I actually took a look at `pmap $$`, which reveals that a lot of shared
libraries map 2044K or 2048K unreadable-unwritable-private
mappings
(I suspect a mailserver issue on my side, since I did not receive the
replies from Alan or Patrick. But lkml.org has them, so I will be
replying to both them there.)
On Mar 8 2007 09:55, James Morris wrote:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
Any chance of tweaking the name - it's just
On Mar 8 2007 18:15, Patrick McHardy wrote:
Take xt_portscan as an example, which would require a minimum of 23
filtering rules (which cannot reproduce the module's action in its
fullest). 23 rules means we will be looping a bit in ipt_do_table() for
a single packet, repeatedly checking
On Mar 8 2007 08:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:45:11PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Mar 7 2007 09:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
#include sys/time.h
#include sys/ioctl.h
#include sys/types.h
+#ifndef __sun__
#include asm/types.h
#endif
+#endif
On Mar 8 2007 22:25, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix building kernel under Solaris
Since Solaris seems to be on the run, I did myself try compile it.
However, unlike the original poster who said he did so on SunOS 4.8, I
did it on 5.11_snv39, yielding a bigger changeset. I thought
Hello,
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:15:12 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc3/net/netfilter/xt_CHAOS.c
+ /* Equivalent to:
+* -A chaos -m statistic --mode random --probability \
+* $reject_percentage -j REJECT --reject-with host-unreach;
+* -A chaos -m statistic
Hello,
On Mar 9 2007 09:35, Amin Azez wrote:
* Jan Engelhardt wrote, On 08/03/07 20:26:
xt_portscan needs to keep track of what packets the machine has already
seen. So on the first SYN, the connection is marked with 1. (Then we
send our SYN-ACK... and the connection turns ESTABLISHED
Hello,
On Mar 9 2007 11:54, Amin Azez wrote:
Adding a member to the ip_conntrack/nf_conntrack and sk_buff struct
would increase the struct sizes, and that would penalize users who do
not intend to use xt_portscan.
I understand what you say but it sounds a bit like saying: but we didn't
make
On Mar 9 2007 20:00, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:01:57PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Since Solaris seems to be on the run, I did myself try compile it.
However, unlike the original poster who said he did so on SunOS 4.8, I
did it on 5.11_snv39, yielding a bigger
Hello,
On Mar 9 2007 20:24, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
yes - but we already support the raw hardware ABI, in the native
kernel.
Why do you continue to call paravirt an ABI?
We got over that. It's not. It's an API.
On Mar 9 2007 23:23, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:23:32 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Paulo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Andrew
On Mar 9 2007 15:39, Davide Libenzi wrote:
This patch add an anonymous inode source, to be used for files that need
and inode only in order to create a file*. We do not care of having an
inode for each file, and we do not even care of having different names in
the associated dentries (dentry
On Mar 10 2007 09:57, Rusty Russell wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 16:56 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
__builtin_types_compatible_p() has been around since gcc 2.95, and we
don't use it anywhere. This patch quietly fixes that.
OK, many people complained that it needed a comment. Good point!
==
On Mar 10 2007 21:52, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:52:23 +0900
From: Tetsuo Handa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where is Linux 2.6.20.2?
Cong WANG wrote:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.20.2.tar.bz2
On Mar 10 2007 16:19, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 23:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:57:32 +1100, Rusty Russell said:
+/* GCC is awesome. */
#define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0])
\
+
On Mar 10 2007 19:06, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
[Vladimir - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:05:42PM +0300]
| Here's the problem:
| 1. Unpack the kernel sources, run make menuconfig.
| 2. Mark the necessary options.
| 3. Pick Save an alternate configuration file, enter a filename (e.g.
On Mar 10 2007 19:35, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
[Jan Engelhardt - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:26:03PM +0100]
| On Mar 10 2007 19:06, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| [Vladimir - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:05:42PM +0300]
| | Here's the problem:
| | 1. Unpack the kernel sources, run make menuconfig.
| | 2. Mark
On Mar 10 2007 19:46, Vladimir wrote:
On Mar 10 2007 19:06, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
[Vladimir - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:05:42PM +0300]
| Here's the problem:
| 1. Unpack the kernel sources, run make menuconfig.
| 2. Mark the necessary options.
| 3. Pick Save an alternate configuration
On Mar 10 2007 16:18, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So in case they _ARE_ compatible, we get the compile error, as far as I
can see it. There's a ! too much in the !!_builtin line.
The error case is when the types are compatible. That means
On Mar 10 2007 20:50, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
lets see to the following scenario:
1) I've taken a pure Linux kernel (no .config at all)
2) I started menuconfig, made a few changes and saved the file
to .config1 as alternate
3) Then I made some additional changes
On Mar 10 2007 21:50, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
Actually, I always work with only .config file too... and the reason I
wrote you is Vladimir's mail... so either menuconfig does not work as
expected or users does not expect a such behaviour of menuconfig.
The latter. Though this behavior has been
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 Alternate' or not, is a menuconfig axiom. Ask Sam Ravnborg
if you want it changed :-)
Current behaviour
On Mar 10 2007 23:45, 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 Alternate' or not, is a menuconfig axiom. Ask Sam Ravnborg
if you want it changed :-)
Current behaviour
On Mar 8 2007 11:45, Kanhu Rauta wrote:
1in case of fragmention i am getting only one packet at the
hook,While analyzing the ip header it says this is the assembled
packet(skb-len=1528,offset=0,MF=0).
conntrack assembles defragmented packets.
While dumping the data(for 0 to 1528 print
On Mar 11 2007 13:50, Rusty Russell wrote:
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 02:04 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Getting back at the macro, how would you like to have it merged?
Well, this is what I sent to Linus and Andrew (many thanks to those who
made appropriately whimsical *or* useful comments):
diff
On Mar 11 2007 22:15, Cong WANG wrote:
I have a question about coding style in linux kernel. In
Documention/CodingStyle, it is said that Linux style for comments is
the C89 /* ... */ style. Don't use C99-style // ... comments.
_But_ I see a lot of '//' style comments in current kernel code.
On Mar 11 2007 18:01, Kyle Moffett wrote:
On Mar 11, 2007, at 16:41:51, Daniel Hazelton wrote:
On Sunday 11 March 2007 16:35:50 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Mar 11 2007 22:15, Cong WANG wrote:
So can I say using NULL is better than 0 in kernel?
On what basis? Do you even know what NULL
On Mar 11 2007 21:27, Kyle Moffett wrote:
On Mar 11, 2007, at 19:16:59, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Mar 11 2007 18:01, Kyle Moffett wrote:
On the other hand when __cplusplus is defined they define it to the
__null builtin, which GCC uses to give type conversion errors for
int foo = NULL
On Mar 12 2007 13:37, Cong WANG wrote:
The following code is picked from drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c:
static struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu_load(struct kvm *kvm, int vcpu_slot)
{
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = kvm-vcpus[vcpu_slot];
mutex_lock(vcpu-mutex);
if (unlikely(!vcpu-vmcs)) {
On Mar 12 2007 08:23, Jan Beulich wrote:
I have to admit that I don't see the point here - I can't seem to make any
sense of the OR... Jan
BUILD_BUG_OR_ZERO will either (a) result in a build bug or (b) the number
zero, suitable for arithmetic.
Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12.03.07 00:28
On Mar 14 2007 01:08, Steven Rostedt wrote:
So I spent last night hacking up something to try to make a common ground
for all code that is shared between x86_64 and i386. I called this
arch/x86
Seems appropriate, but I really don't care what it's called. One thing about
this name, is that
On Mar 14 2007 10:46, Steven Rostedt wrote:
symbolic links perhaps? In that case i'd also introduce a common naming
scheme: x86_early_printk.c - to make sure we know it right away that
those files are bi-arch.
Does the Linux code tree already support sym links? IOW, are there
already sym
On Mar 14 2007 21:21, Andi Kleen wrote:
also, having the x32_ and x64_ prefix is a painful daily reminder for
all of us changing the architecture that 'this stuff needs to be
unified!'.
We would probably stuck with that forever and it just looks ugly.
Non paravirt xen uses such a setup and
On Mar 15 2007 08:59, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Martin Bligh wrote:
Can't we move the shared files into a new shared arch/ subdirectory
(ia32_64 or whatever), and have them included from both places?
That's *exactly* what the patches do (except it's called arch/x86, which
On Mar 16 2007 16:24, Richard Knutsson wrote:
char yesno_chr(const bool value)
{
return ny[value];
}
char *yesno_str(const bool value)
{
return no\0yes[3 * value];
}
static/extern const char *const yesno[] = {no, yes};
static inline const char *yesno_str(bool
On Mar 16 2007 19:55, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
I've got *bad* news. Bug described here
http: //www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0703.0/index.html#0889
http: //www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0703.0/index.html#1165
probably leaked into mainline.
Fsck!
fsck indeed. I
On Mar 16 2007 17:13, Chris Friesen wrote:
This would seem to be a bug in the build system then. Or are you
supposed to make clean after every config change?
No. When .config is changed, include/linux/config/ is updated, which
causes things that depends on it one or the other way to rebuild.
On Mar 15 2007 20:03, Zachary Amsden wrote:
Well testing that is not so fun. I installed SUSE Pro 9.0, and strings on
ld.so contains the magic at_sysinfo assert! But it doesn't install TLS
libraries, so I'll have to install them by hand.
9.0 is kinda old. And if you want some TLS libs,
Hi,
On Feb 12 2007 10:40, Dave Jones wrote:
Whilst on the subject of RELATIME, is there any good reason why
not to make this a default mount option ?
Ubuntu has been shipping with noatime as the default for some time
now, with no obvious problems (I'm running Ubuntu). I see relatime
Hi,
On Feb 12 2007 12:50, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
Index: linux/fs/filesystems.c
===
--- linux.orig/fs/filesystems.c2007-02-12 12:42:55.0 +0100
+++ linux/fs/filesystems.c 2007-02-12 12:43:00.0 +0100
@@ -42,11
On Feb 13 2007 09:52, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
If there is currently no way to provide this functionality using
arp_ignore/arp_annonce/arp_filter or their friends, why is this still a
patch
And is not integrated into the mainline kernel?
eh? if you keep reading the doc it'll explain that
On Feb 14 2007 16:10, sfaibish wrote:
1. DualFS has only one copy of every meta-data block. This copy is
in the meta-data device,
Where does this differ from typical filesystems like xfs?
At least ext3 and xfs have an option to store the log/journal
on another device too.
The DualFS code,
Hi,
On Feb 14 2007 14:34, Dax Kelson wrote:
I checked, and looking at offset 0x497 seems to work fine on a couple of
systems with USB keyboards.
Probably just because legacy mode was enabled. Plus I wonder what 0x497 will
return when there is actually more than one USB keyboard connected at
On Feb 15 2007 18:43, Neil Brown wrote:
We seem to have different definitions of open and closed.
Open = 3rd party Linux drivers can be loaded. Closed = No third party
Linux drivers can be loaded.
Loading a driver is not at issue. Anyone may load a driver.
And, after all, because
Hi,
On Feb 15 2007 21:35, Trent Waddington wrote:
I, personally, don't know why anyone who owned copyright on any GPL
software and had no desire to enforce that copyright, would not offer
to assign their copyright to the FSF so they can defend it.. but I
imagine people have their reasons.
On Feb 15 2007 21:38, Andi Kleen wrote:
Also I would expect your design to be slow for metadata read intensive
workloads. E.g. have you tried to boot a root partition with dual fs?
That's a very important IO benchmark for desktop Linux systems.
Did someone say metadata intensive? Try kernel
Hi,
On Feb 14 2007 14:57, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
[2]
pipe: pipe:[439336] (or pipe/[439336])
[3] Always make disconnected paths double-slashed:
--
pipe: //pipe/[439336]
lazily
On Feb 16 2007 10:44, Jon K Hellan wrote:
Xavier Bestel wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 21:48 -0800, v j wrote:
We only get crap because no one here yet knows how to interpret
proprietary modules loaded into the kernel.
The proprietary modules where only a tiny wrapper is linux-specific and
Hello list,
in security/inode.c, the comment for securityfs_create_dir() reads:
If securityfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value -ENODEV
will be returned. It is not wise to check for this value, but
rather, check for NULL or !NULL instead as to eliminate the need
On Mar 18 2007 14:13, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
Equally, if one has one's ogg collection stored on said NFS server, the
ogg player will be in uninterruptible sleep while holding the sound device
open, preventing other applications from making sounds.
Only if you have
- a card with no hardware
On Mar 20 2007 09:17, Oliver Falk wrote:
But on i386 it reports:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -mpi
i686 i686 i386
Reports this for me:
$ uname -mpi
i686 athlon i386
And I remember that it used to report alphaev67 or alphaev56...
Jan
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On Mar 20 2007 10:15, Matt Mackall wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 04:44:01PM +0200, Tasos Parisinos wrote:
+/* Pre-allocate some auxilliary mpis */
+rsa_echo(Preallocating %lu bytes for auxilliary operands\n,
+ RSA_AUX_SIZE * RSA_AUX_COUNT * sizeof(_u32));
And printk.
i
On Mar 20 2007 09:31, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
can anyone suggest me a proper way how to schedule UDP packets to
transmit at
some given rate?
E.g., I have two boxes both having 10 GE interfaces. One box is able to
transmit at 9.9Gbps, the other one is able to receive only at
about
On Mar 20 2007 22:06, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Maybe not bool vs mbool, but it might be nice to have
bool FB_PS3
depends strictly on FB
ie a depends strictly refuses to upgrade a bool dependency from m to
y, while a regular depends allows it.
Or something.. The
On Mar 21 2007 23:58, Eric Dumazet wrote:
Hi all
On i386 , 2.6.20 / 2.6.21-rc4 :
# gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore
error
# file /proc/kcore
error
00:11 ichi:/hld # file /proc/kcore
/proc/kcore: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
SVR4-style, from 'vmlinux'
00:11 ichi:/hld #
On Mar 22 2007 08:28, Greg KH wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/maxim# cat
/sys/devices/system/clockevents/clockevents0/registered
lapicF:0007 M:3(periodic) C: 1
hpet F:0003 M:1(shutdown) C: 0
lapicF:0007 M:3(periodic) C: 0
[EMAIL
On Mar 22 2007 14:42, Eric Dumazet wrote:
Instead of using :
static struct loop_device *loop_dev;
loop_dev = kmalloc(max_loop * sizeof(struct loop_device));
Switch to :
static struct loop_device **loop_dev;
loop_dev = kmalloc(max_loop * sizeof(void *));
if (!loop_dev) rollback...
for (i = 0 ;
On Mar 22 2007 16:18, Stephane Eranian wrote:
Hello,
I ran into an issue with perfmon where I ended up calling
kmalloc() with a size of zero. To my surprise, this did
not return NULL but a valid data address.
I am wondering if this is a property of kmalloc() or simply
a bug. It is the case
On Mar 22 2007 21:48, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:24:46AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Mar 22 2007 08:28, Greg KH wrote:
Question regarding sysfs files: How would you do something like
/proc/net/nf_conntrack with sysfs? Have directories named like ,
0001, 0002, ..?
I
Hello world,
in at least 2.6.21-rc4, one or more of the mptscsi scsi modules is
broken with respect to not detecting any harddisk (VMware provides that
virtual LSI MPT controller), which means no working system.
No problems in 2.6.20.2.
I will be trying 2.6.21-rc1 shortly.
2.6.20.2:
6PIIX4:
regression elsewhere is
hindering me in finding out faster.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc4/drivers/block/loop.c
===
--- linux-2.6.21-rc4.orig/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc4/drivers
On Mar 23 2007 15:53, Ken Chen wrote:
diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 8c718a3..981886f 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ static int can_do_hugetlb_shm(void)
can_do_mlock());
}
-struct
On Mar 23 2007 19:06, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Hello world,
in at least 2.6.21-rc4, one or more of the mptscsi scsi modules is
broken with respect to not detecting any harddisk (VMware provides that
virtual LSI MPT controller), which means no working system
Hello,
for some reason, pwm (fan control) is not writable
11:30 linux-si2r:../i2c-1/1-002e # l pwm*_enable
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Mar 24 11:19 pwm1_enable
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Mar 24 11:19 pwm2_enable
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Mar 24 11:19 pwm3_enable
11:30
On Mar 26 2007 00:16, Lee Revell wrote:
I guess he's referring to the well known Master volume only controls
front output problem. This really does need to be resolved, as many
other ALSA drivers are effected.
I don't see that as a bug. Mine is a TerraTec DMX XFire 1024 (snd-cs46xx).
On Apr 5 2007 11:19, David Brownell wrote:
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 9:18 pm, Randy Dunlap wrote:
I don't think it's a MUA thing. I think David is talking about the
spaces after the ^\t that are used for indenting immediately under
the if.
Exactly.
1 if (There was a young lady named
Hello Stephen,
On Apr 5 2007 12:23, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
If the radeon and/or the Ethernet driver support MSI, that would split
out the IRQ's as well.
Would Linux do that automatically? How to find out whether a given
device -- or device driver? -- supports MSI?
Thanks,
Jan
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On Apr 6 2007 11:46, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking at a two stage boot where linux is loaded to do some system
initialization before booting to Windows, which needs BIOS.
I am interested in bypassing the BIOS on the second boot.
I wanted to know if anyone has attempted to
On Apr 6 2007 07:05, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
I like |= for adding flags, it seems less ambiguous. But I guess that's
a matter of opinion. Hugh seems to like +=,
Do I? You probably have a shaming example in mind (PAGE_MAPPING_ANON?
that's a hybrid case
On Apr 6 2007 10:29, David Brownell wrote:
Using
/^\t+\x20{2,8}/ on continuation line(s) is perfect because it does
not cause either the continuation line(s) or the inner block code to
move too much to the right.
No, that's a clear violation of CodingStyle on two separate points:
(a) the
On Apr 6 2007 11:47, Randy Dunlap wrote:
Unfortunately, kernel-doc has problems with a struct field like this:
uint8_t databuf[NAND_MAX_PAGESIZE + NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE];
simply due to the spaces around the + sign, so drop all spaces inside
[...] so that parsing is done correctly (in some
On Apr 6 2007 14:05, David Brownell wrote:
Please change your coding style to conform to Documentation/CodingStyle.
*** Only indent with tabs!! ***
Every one of those examples violates that simple rule.
Why does *anyone* have even the slightest difficulty understanding such
Hello David,
On Apr 6 2007 13:57, David Brownell wrote:
though I do not speak for
them, seem to do it much the way I described, judging from the code they
wrote/write.
Your eyes are broken then ...
Sorry? I could have simply told you to look into kernel/signal.c LINE
220 (that's in the
On Apr 6 2007 15:05, David Brownell wrote:
but... egads! Linus
put spaces before the s to line them up nicely!
more in the breach and all that I guess...
Yeah, nobody likes style nazis. On the other hand, it's rather
unusual to be the target of style nazism for actually following
the
On Apr 6 2007 16:03, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:24:48 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Apr 6 2007 11:47, Randy Dunlap wrote:
Unfortunately, kernel-doc has problems with a struct field like this:
uint8_t databuf[NAND_MAX_PAGESIZE + NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE];
simply due
On Apr 6 2007 15:40, David Brownell wrote:
if (...) {
THAT WAS ONE MORE TAB
}
Come on, stop wasting everyone's time with utter nonsense.
I was never debating these two things.
Actually, you did.
If it was perceived I did, then I owe you an apology.
Go back and see
On Apr 6 2007 16:16, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
- users can use bind mounts without having to pre-configure them in
/etc/fstab
This is by far the biggest concern I see. I think the security implication of
allowing anyone to do bind mounts are poorly understood.
$ whoami
miklos
$ mount
Hi,
I just wanted to give my opinion on things...
(and enable utf8 to read this properly)
On Apr 7 2007 11:24, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
I strongly disagree. First of all, you're changing the semantics of a
13-year-old API. The semantics of the Linux console is that by
specifying U+FFFD
On Apr 7 2007 06:58, JanuGerman wrote:
Hi Every one,
I have got two questions regarding opening files within the Linux
kernel. If some body can help me, in sorting out this problem, i will
be very thankful.
1) I have just a file path with me, an absolute path, but no dentry,
no
On Apr 7 2007 16:57, JanuGerman wrote:
Thanks Jan for the response.
struct dentry *fbar = lookup_one_len(/foo/bar, current-fs-root);
But that gives me a dentry, where as file object is still not reachable.
So use filp_open.
Question: I am currently using a function called
On Apr 7 2007 16:36, Theodore Tso wrote:
So how do we solve this problem? I can think of two solutions:
1) Deprecate telldir/seekdir() altogether. Relatively few progams use
this functionality, and it is highly questionable how useful it is,
anyway. If you use telldir/seekdir and keep the
On Apr 8 2007 22:24, Eric Sandeen wrote:
Samuel Thibault wrote:
Can you elaborate? Under what circumstances is log replay going to harm data?
Do you mean that the installer mounts partitions, looking for what OS is
installed? How is that harmful?
Hm, so the root cause there seems that
On Apr 9 2007 12:55, Ronni Nielsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip arguments FUBAR]
oscar
And the award as Troll Of The Year goes to: johnrobertbanks.
/oscar
The year is not even over and you already picked your favorite -
who bribed you? :-)
Jan
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On Apr 9 2007 10:03, Trond Myklebust wrote:
In practice, though, this sort of behaviour has to be managed carefully
by the server. Forcing a client to re-read the entire contents of the
directory doesn't really scale too well...
What does the spec (readdir, and NFS READDIR) say about duplicate
On Apr 9 2007 11:37, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 09 April 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
No; device mapper is the kernel portion of LVM2.
Jeff, who actively avoids LVM on home computers
Ya shoulda warned me. :-)
It should have lots bigger warning labels, in bright red
On Apr 9 2007 10:53, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
The following patches introduce new branch-management code into Unionfs as
well as fix a number of stability issues and resource leaks. For detailed
announcement, see end of this email.
I have to seriously ask: why don't we consider aufs? Without
On Apr 9 2007 15:38, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 09 April 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
dm is on 254 for me.. in opensuse with a 2.6.20 that is. I wonder why
it even moves around. However, even then, those who use udev and
device names rather than (major,minor) tuples
Hi,
On Apr 9 2007 14:28, Peter P Waskiewicz Jr wrote:
@@ -3345,6 +3358,7 @@ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
/* Compatibility with error handling in drivers */
+ kfree((char *)dev-egress_subqueue);
if (dev-reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED) {
On Apr 8 2007 20:57, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
Anyway, re-parenting to swapper breaks pstree, it doesn't show kernel
threads. And if -parent == /sbin/init, we can't remove us from -children
(unless we forbid sub-thread-of-init exec). So the only safe change is
set -exit_state = -1.
Then we have to
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