Re: [RFC PATCH 3/8] [NET]: uninline dev_alloc_skb, de-bloats a lot

2008-02-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 20 2008 15:47, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: > >-23668 392 funcs, 104 +, 23772 -, diff: -23668 --- dev_alloc_skb > >-static inline struct sk_buff *dev_alloc_skb(unsigned int length) >-{ >- return __dev_alloc_skb(length, GFP_ATOMIC); >-} >+extern struct sk_buff *dev_alloc_skb(unsigned int lengt

Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

2008-02-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 20 2008 09:44, David Rees wrote: >On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But GNU tar does not handle acls and xattrs. So back to rsync/cp/mv. > >Huh? The version of tar on my Fedora 8 desktop (tar-1.17-7) does. Just >add th

Re: [PATCH] Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig

2008-02-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 20 2008 18:19, Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> For ordinary desktop people, memory controller is what developers >> know as MMU or sometimes even some other mysterious piece of silicon >> inside the heavy box. > >Actually I'd guess 'memory controller' == 'DRAM controller' == part of >northbridge

[announce] Xtables, Xtables-addons 1.5.1 and Writing Xtables Modules

2008-02-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hello everyone, I have released “Xtables” 1.5.1, which is a package of my ongoing iptables development¹ that I did lately. Patrick McHardy was not available last week to merge patches due to higher powers, so I branched off the iptables subversion trunk into git since quilting on top of svn was n

Re: Xtables, Xtables-addons 1.5.1

2008-02-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 21 2008 20:49, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> I have released “Xtables” 1.5.1, which is a package of my ongoing >> iptables development¹ that I did lately. Patrick McHardy was not >> available last week to merge patches due to higher powers, so

Re: [PATCH] add blockconsole version 1.1

2012-08-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2012-07-18 20:53, Jörn Engel wrote: > >> With the include added, it builds fine. Then I took an usb stick and I >> did: >> >> $ ./mkblockconsole /dev/sdc >> >> > >You can also run hdparm -z instead. We have too many ways of doing some things. util-linux conveniently has `blockdev

Re: [PATCH] scripts/package/builddeb: upgrade to current practices

2012-08-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Tuesday 2012-07-17 21:46, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >>> @@ -188,17 +188,17 @@ This is a packacked upstream version of the Linux >>> kernel. >>> The sources may be found at most Linux ftp sites, including: >>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel >>> >>> -Copyright: 1991 - 2009 Linus Torvald

Re: [PATCH v5 8/8] Added /proc/net/sco via bt_procfs_init()

2012-08-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2012-07-26 06:24, Gustavo Padovan wrote: >Hi Masatake, > >* Masatake YAMATO [2012-07-26 01:30:12 +0900]: > >> Added /proc/net/sco via bt_procfs_init(). >> >> Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO >> --- >> net/bluetooth/sco.c |9 + >> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) > >All 8 p

Re: [vmw_vmci 11/11] Apply the header code to make VMCI build

2012-08-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2012-08-02 22:22, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> On Friday 2012-07-27 12:34, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> >> +#ifndef _VMCI_COMMONINT_H_ >> >> +#define _VMCI_COMMONINT_H_ >> >> + >> >> +#include >> >> +#include >> > >> >Use inverse chrismas tree here. >> >Longer include lines first, and soret alph

Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support to TCP SYN cookies

2008-02-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 5 2008 16:55, Andi Kleen wrote: >On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:01:01PM -0800, Glenn Griffin wrote: >> Add IPv6 support to TCP SYN cookies. This is written and tested against >> 2.6.24, and applies cleanly to linus' current HEAD (d2fc0b). Unfortunately >> linus' HEAD breaks my sky2 card at th

Re: where is the capset kernel module?

2008-02-06 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 6 2008 18:43, Jeff Chua wrote: >On Feb 6, 2008 4:13 PM, Jeff Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Latest linux git complained about this ... >> >> named: capset failed: Operation not permitted: please ensure that the >> capset kernel module is loaded. see insmod(8) > >How this started was th

RE: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-06 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 1 2008 15:45, Gilles Espinasse wrote: >.. >> There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this >> patch should cause no problems. > >There is the unicorn usb adsl modem driver (STM unicorn chip). >http://www.bewan.com/bewan/drivers/A1012-A1006-A904-A888-A983-0.9.3.tgz >There

Oops figures

2008-02-06 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 6 2008 15:26, David Miller wrote: >Subject: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT > > >I get the following OOPS from udevd during bootup on >sparc64: > >[0.982046] \|/ \|/ >[0.982054] "@'/ .. \`@" >[0.982058] /_| \__/ |_\ >[0.9820

Re: remount-ro & umount & quota interaction

2008-02-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 7 2008 15:04, Jan Kara wrote: >On Thu 07-02-08 13:49:52, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Jan Kara wrote: >> [deadlock after remount-ro followed with umount when >> quota is enabled] >> >> Hmm. While that will prevent the lockup, maybe it's better to >> perform an equivalent of quotaoff on moun

Re: out-of-bounds array index

2008-02-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 7 2008 19:56, Jens Axboe wrote: > >Just saw this from gcc: > >drivers/char/drm/i915_drv.c: In function ?i915_suspend?: >drivers/char/drm/i915_drv.c:173: warning: array subscript is above array >bounds > CC [M] drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.o >drivers/char/drm/i915_drv.c: In function ?i915_res

Re: where is the capset kernel module?

2008-02-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 6 2008 19:56, Jeff Chua wrote: >> >warning: `named' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) >> Yes it is a really interesting case I have seen before, >> but did not bother to investigate. >> CONFIG_SECURITY=y >> CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=m or y > >Tried, but didn't help. > >Men

Re: [LINUX-KERNEL] C++ in linux kernel

2008-02-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 9 2008 00:14, Joonwoo Park wrote: >2008/2/8, rohit h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi, >> I am a kernel newbie. >> I tried to insmod a C++ module containing classes, inheritance. >> I am getting 'unresolved symbol' error when I use the 'new' keyword. >> What could the problem be? >> >> What

Re: git tree urls

2008-02-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 8 2008 11:37, ael wrote: > >I have trouble locating some of the git urls (the mm repository, for >example). I have browsed around >http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/, >consulted the kernel FAQ, and read the obvious links on www.kernel.org. > >git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel

Re: git tree urls

2008-02-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 8 2008 22:34, ael wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Feb 8 2008 11:37, ael wrote: >>> I have trouble locating some of the git urls (the mm repository, for >>> example). I have browsed around >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/, >&g

Re: how to tell i386 from x86-64 kernel

2008-02-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 1 2008 12:53, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote: >> >> # uname -m >> I won't tell you. >> # linux32 uname -m >> i686 > > Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit userland 2.6.24 > >$ uname -m >x86_64 >$ linux32 uname -m >i686 What I am saying is that uname(2) does not reliably tell you whether you have a 64-b

Re: wrong cylinders of kingston usb pendrive [intel 82801DB]

2008-02-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 4 2008 00:15, Matthew Dharm wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:50:37AM +0100, Patrick Ringl wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I am suffering from the following (usb-related?) problem: >> > >> > I have several different mashines - all x86 architecture - just lets call >> > them mashineA, mashi

Re: [RFC] Sectionized printk data

2008-02-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 4 2008 19:07, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> The attached patch allows something along the lines: >> >> int __init some_function(void) >> { >> [...] >> pr_init(KERN_WARNING "failure %s in %s\n", ...); >> [...] >> } >> >> Another idea I had was to make printk a macro that f

Re: [patch 0/4] make pr_debug() dynamic

2008-02-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 8 2008 10:52, Jason Baron wrote: >On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:42:14PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 16:03 -0500, Jason Baron wrote: >> > make the pr_debug() function dependent upon the new immediate >> > infrastruture. >> >> What's wrong with klogd -c 8 or equivalent?

Re: One minute delay when booting 2.6.24.1

2008-02-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 9 2008 13:29, Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote: >Hi all, > >As the subject says I get ~1 minute delay when booting 2.6.24.1 >pretty reliably. It is possible it is not new to 2.6.24.1 but I >can't tell due recent hardware changes. > >dmesg excerpt where it happens looks like this (full one attached):

Re: [RFC] Sectionized printk data

2008-02-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 9 2008 21:54, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: >> To drop strings that are only shown once anyway, such as: >> >> static int __init ebtables_init(void) >> { >> int ret; >> >> mutex_lock(&ebt_mutex); >> list_add(&ebt_standard_target.list, &ebt_targets); >> mu

Re: [10/19] ftrace: add basic support for gcc profiler instrumentation

2008-02-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 10 2008 08:20, Ingo Molnar wrote: >--- linux.orig/Makefile >+++ linux/Makefile >@@ -509,6 +509,9 @@ endif > > include $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile > >+ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE >+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pg >+endif > ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER > KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-opt

Faster way to run through building single modules

2008-02-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, I was wondering whether there is a shortcut in kbuild I can take if I just want to rebuild one module. Currently, I have: make net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.ko the modpost stage ("MODPOST 2018 modules") does quite a lot of disk I/O, most of which I probably do not need anyway. Can this ta

Re: Faster way to run through building single modules

2008-02-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 10 2008 20:28, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 07:51:29PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> I was wondering whether there is a shortcut in kbuild I can take if I >> just want to rebuild one module. Currently, I have: >> >> make net/bri

Netfilter fixes to 2.6.24-git

2008-02-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi to everyone, I have been unable to reach the netfilter and net maintainers the past week regarding inclusion of patches, but most importantly a group of fixes at [0]-[3]. I am kind of at a loss here but to turn up the volume and write to more people on how to proceed. thanks, Jan [0] http

Re: [PATCH] make /dev/kmem a config option

2008-02-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 10 2008 15:55, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >+#ifdef CONFIG_DEVKMEM > /* > * This function reads the *virtual* memory as seen by the kernel. > */ >@@ -585,6 +588,11 @@ static ssize_t write_kmem(struct file * file, const char >__user * buf, > *ppos = p; > return virtr + wrote; > }

Re: [PATCH] scripts/patch-kernel fix

2012-08-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2012-07-26 12:10, Michal Marek wrote: >On 19.7.2012 23:49, Daniel Wisehart wrote: >> diff --git a/scripts/patch-kernel b/scripts/patch-kernel >> index d000ea3..a7672eb 100755 >> --- a/scripts/patch-kernel >> +++ b/scripts/patch-kernel >> @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ fi >> >> # This all assum

Re: RAID extremely slow

2012-08-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2012-07-26 03:00, Phil Turmel wrote: >> I used atop to show the transfer speeds to each drive. Here's a >> screenshot: >> http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6484/screenshotfrom201207251.png > >[ The output of "lsdrv" [1] might be useful here, along with >"mdadm -D /dev/md0" and "mdadm

Re: [PATCH] fs: Preserve error code in get_empty_filp()

2012-08-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2012-08-01 20:19, anatol.pomo...@gmail.com wrote: >Allocating a file structure in function get_empty_filp() might fail because >of several reasons: > - not enough memory for file structures > - operation is not allowed > - user is over its limit > >Currently the function returns NULL

Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

2012-07-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2012-07-08 12:18, Catalin Marinas wrote: > >On the good side, alphabetically it's before arch/alpha, so easier to >grep. And during `ls -l`, it'll happily scroll off the screen into oblivion :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

percpu section failure with Gold linker

2012-11-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, when compiling a kernel with the gold linker (3.7.0-rc6 26d29d06ea0204, gcc-4.7 and binutils-2.23 in my case), certain pcpu symbols are seemingly errneously copied over from .o files to .ko files, leading to a hard warning during depmod: gold$ make -j8 LD=gold HOSTLD=gold

Re: kconfig-frontends-3.6.0-0 released

2013-01-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2012-10-06 17:55, Yann E. MORIN wrote: >Hello All! > >I'm pleased to announce the release of kconfig-frontends 3.6.0-0! >Go download it there: > > http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/download/kconfig-frontends/kconfig-frontends-3.6.0-0.tar.xz Please stick to a single separator, i.e. "3.6

Re: kconfig-frontends-3.6.0-0 released

2013-01-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2013-01-13 19:59, Yann E. MORIN wrote: >> >printf "Running libtoolize...\n" >> >libtoolize --copy --force >> >printf "Running aclocal...\n" >> >aclocal -Wall --force >> >> Not again. autoreconf has existed for so long, why are people still >> hand-coding the boilerplate? > >(Note: this

Re: [PATCH] make CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL invisible and default

2012-12-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2012-10-03 18:17, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> >> OK, I will bite... How should I flag an option that is initially only >> intended for those willing to take some level of risk? > >In the text say "You really don't want to enable this option, use at >your own risk!" Or something li

Re: Redefinition of struct in6_addr in and

2013-01-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2013-01-17 03:05, David Miller wrote: >From: Carlos O'Donell >Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:58:47 -0500 > >> So I just went down the rabbit hole, and the further I get the >> closer I get to having two exact copies of the same definitions >> in both glibc and the kernel and using whicheve

Re: Question about your git habits

2008-02-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 22 2008 18:37, Chase Venters wrote: > >I've been making myself more familiar with git lately and I'm curious what >habits others have adopted. (I know there are a few documents in circulation >that deal with using git to work on the kernel but I don't think this has >been specifically co

Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

2008-02-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 21 2008 22:37, Ray Lee wrote: >On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Linus Torvalds ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So I'd be happier with warnings about deep indentation (but how do you >> count it? Will people then try to fake things out by using 4-space indents >> and then "deep" indentation

lockdep warnings in ipv6

2008-02-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, when doing IPv6 (ping6, ssh otherhost, etc.), lockdep spews a warning in 2.6.25-rc2 on the target. CONFIG_..._FRAME_POINTER is off, CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER=y # CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is not set so I am not sure if the stack trace is worth something, is it? [ 449.168320] =

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

2008-02-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 25 2008 23:13, Richard Knutsson wrote: > Miles Bader wrote: >> Why do people even respond to these trolls...? >> > Obviously, this must to have been discussed before, with a clear conclusion. It has been discussed before, at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/12/19 . What is really frustrati

Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

2012-07-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2012-07-07 05:53, Olof Johansson wrote: > >> ARM introduced AArch64 as part of the ARMv8 architecture > >With the risk of bikeshedding here, but I find the name awkward. How >about just naming the arch port arm64 instead? It's considerably more >descriptive in the context of the kernel

Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

2012-07-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2012-07-07 21:27, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >On Saturday 07 July 2012, Olof Johansson wrote: > >> > ARM introduced AArch64 as part of the ARMv8 architecture >> >> With the risk of bikeshedding here, but I find the name awkward. How >> about just naming the arch port arm64 instead? > >I agr

Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

2012-07-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2012-07-08 07:05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >>> >>>I agree the name sucks, and I'd much prefer to just call it arm64 as >>>well. The main advantage of the aarch64 name is that it's the same >>>as the identifier in the elf triplet, [...] to identify the >>>architecture, [...] the

Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

2012-07-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2012-07-08 09:54, Jon Masters wrote: > >FWIW I actually really like the aarch64 name (but you know that already >:) ). I think it clearly spells out that this is not just a 64-bit >extension to the existing 32-bit ARM Architecture, it is a new (inspired >by ARM) architecture. IA64 also

Re: init process freezed after run_init_process

2005-04-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
cd), initrd=initrd.sqfs root=/dev/ram0 init=/bin/bash Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: init process freezed after run_init_process

2005-04-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
d.sqfs` (see above) continues to work, though. > After the kernel start, I add breakpoints at cpu_idle and do_schedule. > cpu_idle never reached, only do_schedule did. Is that strange? Until pid 1 is started, the cpu should never be idle. Jan Engelhardt -- No TOFU for me, please. - To un

Re: i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
), some say 1193181, and you say 1193182 Hz. Which one is correct? (Ignoring temperature for now..) IMO 1193181 could be, because it matches the almost-magical number 0x1234DD. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
he 0.0 case, and 18Hz is not bad either. IIRC, DOS used 18HZ ;) http://jengelh.hopto.org/tick/ Jan Engelhardt -- | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Kernel BUG at objrmap:325 in 2.6.5-7.151-smp (SuSE, x86_64)

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
schon in kurzer Zeit den Sprung von 2.6.5 auf 2.6.8 auf 2.6.11 gemacht - zumindest im KOTD. > Interestingly > after this bug the /proc/4751 dir (i.e., the one of the instance > not cited in the bug) is inaccessible. Thanks for any help > with this issue! Welche Fehlernummer? Mal mit

Re: Kernel BUG at objrmap:325 in 2.6.5-7.151-smp (SuSE, x86_64)

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> not cited in the bug) is inaccessible. Thanks for any help >> with this issue! >Welche Fehlernummer? Mal mit root probiert, reinzukommen? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.

Re: SSH/RSH Support for 2.6.12-2

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>However, I keep getting "Permission Denied", and >from the /var/log/message it seems that the kernel has some security >enabled that prevents outside communications. Any help in regard to >this issue would be appreciated? Check the OUTPUT chain of your firewall, maybe.

Re: Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
g at shutdown, I suggest using hdparm -y. This puts the drive to sleep, which includes spindle spindown and, included, appropriate head parking. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: system.map

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
"works" equally well to yours.) Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: fdisk: What do plus signs after "Blocks" mean?

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> Guys, thanks a lot for the explanations! > > Actually, it seems like one can backup information on ALL partitions >by using the command "sfdisk -dx /dev/hdX". Supposedly, it reads not >only primary but also extended partitions. "sfdisk -x /dev/hdX" should >be then able to write whatever is known

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

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
10KHz. Maybe the highest possible value is 8192 Hz, not sure. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Runtime fix for intermodule.c

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
ace inter_module_get? I'm maintaining an "ancient-sufficient" nvidia driver for myself that uses it in one or two places. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

Re: Swap partition vs swap file

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
t work. I can't remember where exactly I read it but: when swapon is called, a fixed-size(determined at swapon) bitmap of the swap blocks is generated (to cope with fragementation of swapfiles). Can somebody confirm this? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: system.map

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
<5>255MB LOWMEM available. <7>On node 0 totalpages: 65520 <7> DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 ... klogd. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] M

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

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
fter the poweroff happens. >So there is no gain, except that just >parking the head without spinning down the spindle can be performed much >faster. What's the gain in parking the head manually if it's done anyway when the disk spins down (for whatever reason)? Jan Engelh

Re: [PATCH 0/19] Kconfig I18N completion

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
eed to be with the kernel. It's just "bad timing" that the recently submitted patches do so. >package, maintained separately. Now I'm seeing patches that seem to make >that a lie. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

[PATCH] Fuse chardevice number

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
space works under 64bit kernels */ EOF Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: lxdialog: Enable UTF8

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
rnels in the 2.6.x series, including the "recent" 2.6.13-rc1-git3-someBigNumber I use. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Pdpru S0706/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile AS17/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile --- S0706/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile 2005-07-07 20:53:51.000

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

2005-07-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
EU. # The priority determines the minimum number of milliseconds WinDEU # will work before giving control back to Windows. # For example, if you set it to 20, it means WinDEU will gives # back control to Windows approximately (at most) 50 times a second. # A value of 0 means WinDE

Re: console remains blanked

2005-07-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
out/stderr/etc. >[1] >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111052009232499&w=2 Which kernel versions have this patch? I'm on 2.6.13-rc1 and have no problems with unblanking. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: [PATCH] Fuse chardevice number

2005-07-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
really do not have/run udev? [Please don't send too many responses] A module option could be added to specify an explicit minor. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [PATCH 0/19] Kconfig I18N completion

2005-07-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
in sync with the mainline Kconfig help texts/etc. is also not an easy task unless you got a lot of time to spare. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at htt

Re: console remains blanked

2005-07-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
i -vo cvidix After the blanking time, all chars turn black[1] but are still "visible" thanks the movie in the background - a vga palette manipulation to the entries 0-15 as it seems. This is quite different to writing 80x25 the space character. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe fr

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

2005-07-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
itask scheduling I suppose, which is since 95 or NT I suppose. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: fdisk: What do plus signs after "Blocks" mean?

2005-07-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>I always thought; > >First 446 bytes are boot code and all Right, of course. Otherwise it won't sum up to 512 bytes. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

[PATCH] Add security_task_post_setgid

2005-07-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, the following patch adds a post_setgid() security hook, and necessary dummy funcs. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -dpru linux-2.6.13-rc1-git3-20050706140055/include/linux/security.h AS17/include/linux/security.h --- linux-2.6.13-rc1-git3-20050706140055/i

Re: [PATCH] Add security_task_post_setgid

2005-07-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> the following patch adds a post_setgid() security hook, and necessary dummy >> funcs. > >... and why exactly would we want these? I am working on a sec module which, among other things, raises certain capabilities when the UID/GID has been successfully changed. Jan E

Re: [PATCH] RealTimeSync Patch

2005-07-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
less, so it should not matter. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] generic_file_sendpage

2005-07-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
, only FTPGETs can use sendfile because the target had to be a socket. (With FTP PUT, the src is a sock, dst is a filedescriptor.) Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Add security_task_post_setgid

2005-07-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>So keep the patch part of your module, it has no business in mainline >so far. And when is this becoming business? What made post_setUid go into the kernel? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: [PATCH] generic_file_sendpage

2005-07-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
->file interfaces. How will userspace access these pipe buffers? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: reiserfs+acl makes processes hang?

2005-07-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
blah (That's ok, the other 32MB are for the journal) 10:27 shanghai:/mnt/loop/dir > echo "1" >blah 10:28 shanghai:/mnt/loop/dir > l blah -rw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 2 Jul 16 10:28 blah Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Module option for compiled-in parts

2005-07-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, I have added a module_param() to a component that is compiled in (drivers/char/vt.c). Since it's not a module, will it still show a /sys/module/WhatGoesHere/parameters/myvariablename file? What will be put as "WhatGoesHere" as vt.c does not become vt.ko? Jan Enge

Re: reiserfs+acl makes processes hang?

2005-07-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
90 : [] link_path_walk+0xab/0x1a0 : [] __user_walk+0x3d/0x60 : [] sys_getxattr+0x4b/0x70 : [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.or

Re: Module option for compiled-in parts

2005-07-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
/sys/module/* will be, but it seems that the module name will become the one that is listed in obj-y or obj-m, respectively. In your usb case, this would be: obj-y := usbcore usbcore-objs := blinkenlights usbfs_snoop otherfiles uhci-hcd Seems fine for me. And vt.c is one that applies to obj-y Jan Engel

Re: [PATCH] add NULL short circuit to fb_dealloc_cmap()

2005-07-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
o have things aligned <-- if that matters. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git

2005-07-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
d just become the maintainer of ndevfs. :) Something's wondering me, though: FreeBSD "just" (5.0) introduced devfs, so either they are behind The Facts (see udev FAQ), or devfs (anylinux/anybsd) is not so bad after all. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Suddenly getting APIC errors on SMP system using 2.4.20-8smp, mobo dying?

2005-07-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
console -l8`, which means this message is printed with KERN_DEBUG. I do live on UP, though. Everytime I get this message, the ERR counter increases. lspci: :00:0a.0 Network controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISDN interface Need more info? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe

Re: assignment of major number to serial driver -2.6.x kernels

2005-07-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>Hi All, > > I would like to know whether the usage of 253 as major (device) number >in serial port drivers is restricted in 2.6.x kernels. I am asking this >question, though the documentation tells the driver developers that 253 >is a reserved major number, 2.6.x Linux kernels can accommodate mo

Re: files_lock deadlock?

2005-07-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
7;ve seen ipt_owner of netfilter to talk about spin_lock_bh() wrt. files->file_lock. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-inf

Re: Noob question. Why is the for-pentium4 kernel built with -march=i686 ?

2005-07-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
r example is not present in k6, and k8 is something completely different at all. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-i

Re: Noob question. Why is the for-pentium4 kernel built with -march=i686 ?

2005-07-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>AFAIK it's not possible to use SSE and MME in kernel mode, since these >registers aren't preserved (it would be expensive). Floating point is anyway a no-no in the kernel. Jan Engelhardt -- | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/ - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: [announce] 'patchview' script

2005-07-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
"delta directory" contains only modified files and you can use diff -Pdpru 2.6.13-rc1 deltadir to get a PGP - a pretty good patchfile. :) Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
'print if/.{80}/' | \ wc -l 208420 If the indent was just 4 spc wide, the number of extending lines is just 131925. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Noob question. Why is the for-pentium4 kernel built with -march=i686 ?

2005-07-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>Also, I believe that the -march=pentium4 option /was/ actually used up >until kernel 2.6.10 where it was dropped because of a risk that some >versions of gcc would cause the kernel to use SSE registers for data >movement (which is a no-no). In that case, -mno-sse should have been

Re: Noob question. Why is the for-pentium4 kernel built with -march=i686 ?

2005-07-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-January/msg00742.html > >Interesting. This may seem reasonable for a Linux distribution, but less for those who compile kernelballs just for themselves. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>I want to know if this is possible before spending 10,000 euros on a machine >that has 16 GB of memory. I can get a Dual Opteron 242 with 16G for less than 10K euro. :) Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
HostAdapterResetsRequested, > TargetStatistics[TargetID].HostAdapterResetsAttempted, > TargetStatistics[TargetID].HostAdapterResetsCompleted); Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] [1/5+1] menu -> menuconfig part 1

2005-07-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>When using xconfig (not menuconfig), the drivers/MTD menu >needs some help IMO, but it's not clear where/why. xconfig broken, can't handle "menuconfig"/menubool tags? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: Whats in this vaddr segment 0xffffe000-0xfffff000 ---p ?

2005-07-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
ng the glibc >details) If in doubt, start gdb and read the memory out using gdb (which will use ptrace). It should also give an error, if the permissions are enforced correctly. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: fastboot, diskstat

2005-07-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
swapping in and out because everyone wants a piece of mapped physram. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: DriveStatusError BadCRC

2005-07-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
s leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- c8 00 38 2f 8f 07 e4 08 43d+13:12:02.304 READ DMA Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Multimount block devices

2005-07-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
what to change to disable bdev exclusive locking for a given condition? Thanks. Jan Engelhardt -- | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

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