Re: [PATCH] winbond-840 update

2001-05-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
X_UNITS && full_duplex[find_cnt] > 0) > np->full_duplex = 1; I'm not sure this part is something we want in the mainstream kernel... -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from th

PATCH 2.4.4.ac8: Tulip net driver fixes

2001-05-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tulip/), and go to Linus when he returns. (Actually, Alan already has part of this patch) -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | diff -ur /spare/tmp/linux_2_4/drivers/net/tulip/ChangeLog linux_2_4

PATCH 2.4.5.1: Fix Via interrupt routing issues

2001-05-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
For those of you with Via interrupting routing issues (or interrupt-not-being-delivered issues, etc), please try out this patch and let me know if it fixes things. It originates from a tip from Adrian Cox... thanks Adrian! -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building

Re: PATCH 2.4.5.1: Fix Via interrupt routing issues

2001-05-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Disagree with which part? The fix, or likely needing a better ifdef? >From the point of view of the Via southbridge chip, IO-APIC is external... The comment above the ifdef was more along the lines of, "Via on PPC (OpenPIC?) might need this too, not just io-apic" -- Jeff Garzik | Ga

Re: PATCH 2.4.5.1: Fix Via interrupt routing issues

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:28:06PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > For those of you with Via interrupting routing issues (or > > interrupt-not-being-delivered issues, etc), please try out this patch > > and let me know if it fixes things. It or

PATCH 2.4.4.ac9: Tulip net driver fixes

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote: > > * H . J . Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [May 14. 2001 11:22]: > > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:25:34PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Attached is a patch against 2.4.4-ac8 which includes several fixes to > > > the Tulip driver. This s

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
_mknod() until viro talked me out of it] (b) does not require centrally assigned majors and minors. (c) does not require devfs. most distros ship without it afaik, and switching to it is not an overnight process, and requires devfsd to be useful in the real world. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Register block device using existing API, and obtain a dynamically > > assigned major number. Export a tiny ramfs which lists all device > > nodes. Mounted on /dev/snap, /dev/snap/0 would be the first blkdev for

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Richard Gooch wrote: > So we add yet another series of hacks to avoid doing what's > necessary?!? We cannot change the world in a day. :) "Doing what's necessary" is way beyond the scope of 2.4, IMHO. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Note also that persistence of permissions and hardcoded in-kernel naming is a problem throughout proc... It's not unique to in-driver filesystems. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
t; manages a range of dynamically allocated majors. > Is there such a beast already, or does someone need to write it? > What range(s) should be used for block devices? register_blkdev will assign a dynamic major to your block device, if a static one is not provided. This has been true since 2.2, m

Re: Intel(R) PRO/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter in 2.4.4

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mihai Moldovanu wrote: > > In 2.4.2 the driver for this was e100.o > Can someOne tell me wich one is in 2.4.4 ? You need to download that from Intel, it's not in the official kernel and never has been. "eepro100" is the in-kernel driver for those series of cards. -- Jeff

Re: NETDEV_CHANGE events when __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER is modified

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
ou say a fatal bug remains in 2.4.5-pre1? If so please elaborate... > > Probably, I am looking into different code, but I found only 15 references > to new interface. Please let me know what bugs you find in the vanilla kernel... Regards, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Game cal

Re: PATCH: esssolo pci_enable_device / retcodes

2001-05-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Looks ok to me. BTW thanks for doing these PCI sound cleanups... they definitely need doing. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
because they cant get a device id. > > What are the valid cases that couldn't just register as a misc'ish > driver? The one that stands out is serial devices (you have hundreds of > them), but that's the same argument as a disk anyway. /dev/fbN, /dev/dspN, /dev/videoN, ... --

Re: NETDEV_CHANGE events when __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER is modified

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
ng probe. Notice I did not remove init_etherdev and fix it properly -- IMHO that is 2.5 material. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in th

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
e ACPI-free PM easy and achieveable. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: > It should be a case of "Just plug in a new kernel, and suddenly your > existing filesystem just allows you to do more! 20% more for the same > price! AND we'll throw in this useful ginzu knife for just 4.95 for > shipping and handling. Absolutely free!" ...Linus

Re: [PATCH] rootfs (part 1)

2001-05-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
garzik@rum linux_2_4]$ ls -l fs/ramfs/ramfs.o > -rw-r--r--1 jgarzik jgarzik 5830 May 15 09:29 fs/ramfs/ramfs.o > [jgarzik@rum linux_2_4]$ ls -l mm/shmem.o (includes tmpfs) > -rw-r--r--1 jgarzik jgarzik 17496 May 15 09:28 mm/shmem.o -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on ac

Re: ((struct pci_dev*)dev)->resource[...].start

2001-05-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
e are perfectly free to change or modify that assumption. For example ioremap might [have to] care about whether or not a pci mem region is prefetchable. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: ((struct pci_dev*)dev)->resource[...].start

2001-05-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > At 5:37 PM -0400 2001-05-16, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >This is not a safe assumption, because the OS may reprogram the PCI BARs > >at certain times. The rule is: ALWAYS read from dev->resource[] unless > >you are a bus driver (PCI bridges,

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
if its a block device and a dynamic major is requested. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

2001-05-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
for fixing gcc bugs in the kernel source :) Also, add a comment "fixes gcc warning" next to the code, so people know why it's there. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.5pre3 warning fixes

2001-05-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
ead? The compiled code is not bigger, and while the source gets a bit bigger, I think the extra "break;" helps maintenance in the long term. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this

PATCH 2.4.5.3: quota initcall

2001-05-18 Thread Jeff Garzik
IMHO this is an obvious change, but it is untested... dquot_hash and dqstats are correctly declared static and in BSS, and thus are automatically cleared at kernel startup. Since quota init now just printk's a startup message, we can safely make it an initcall. -- Jeff Garzik | "D

PATCH 2.4.5.3 (try 2): quota initcall

2001-05-18 Thread Jeff Garzik
Doh! I should really turn on that quota compile options... Much better patch attached. -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you have to make light of everything?!" Building 1024| "I'm extremely serious about nailing your MandrakeSoft | step-daughter, but other than tha

Re: Linux Quality Database on Newsforge

2001-05-18 Thread Jeff Garzik
ink the project is "vt-ctcs" but not sure), and also RedHat's stress-kernel rpms. The stress-kernel rpms are Cerberus++, ie. with extra goodies that haven't made it to cerberus yet. -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you have to make light of everything?!" Building 1024| "I'm

Re: Potential help for VIA problems and ASUS motherboards

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
ymore. > > Anyways, if you have one of these boards, you may want to flash your > BIOS and see if the problems are fixed. YMMV, but it worked for me. I'm curious if 2.4.5-pre3 works for you... when using MPS 1.4, or, without the BIOS update. Regards, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "D

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
printk(KERN_INFO "%s\n", version); -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you have to make light of everything?!" Building 1024| "I'm extremely serious about nailing your MandrakeSoft | step-daughter, but other than that, yes." - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 aironet fixes

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
hotplug part of the code? I just want to make sure you didn't mark them __init due to an assumption based on function name. -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you have to make light of everything?!" Building 1024| "I'm extremely serious about nailing your MandrakeSoft | step-daug

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
and shrink * giving filesystems the ability to grow and shrink On-line optimization (defrag, etc) shouldn't be hard once you have the ability to move blocks and files around, which would come with the ability to grow and shrink blkdevs and fs's. -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you have to make

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Keith Owens wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400, > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete > >and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such > >that it

ethtool and pre4

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
pre4 is out, and a couple ethernet drivers have gained support for ethtool. In order to take advantage of the new support, you can download ethtool 1.2 from http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ or check it out of CVS (instruction at the above URL). -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
> address 0, who says? A value of zero for the mapping is certainly an acceptable value, and it should be handled by drivers. In fact its an open bug in a couple net drivers that they check the mapping to see if it is non-zero... -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you have to make light of every

Re: const __init

2001-05-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
error, at least on x86. > FWIW, many sources still use __init for data, while it should be __initdata. *blink* wow -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you have to make light of everything?!" Building 1024| "I'm extremely serious about nailing your MandrakeSoft | step-daughter, bu

Re: const __init

2001-05-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Sun, 20 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > Since a while include/linux/init.h contains the line > > > > > > * Also note, that this data cannot be "const". > > > > &

PATCH: ali noautodma, and Alpha AXP

2001-05-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
drive accesses fail with "hda: lost interrupt" and "hdc: lost interrupt". With the attached patch, it no longer appears to tune the drives for UDMA, but I still get lost interrupt messages and no usable drives. -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you have to make light of everyt

Re: [PATCH] struct char_device

2001-05-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
lan recently straightened me out with "EVMS/LVM is partitions done right" so... why not implement partitions as simply doing block remaps to the lower level device? That's what EVMS/LVM/md are doing already. -- Jeff Garzik | "Are you the police?" Building 1024| "No, m

Re: [PATCH] struct char_device

2001-05-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > Alan recently straightened me out with "EVMS/LVM is partitions done > > right" > > > > so... why not implement partitions as simply doing block remaps to the > > lo

Re: [PATCH] struct char_device

2001-05-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik wrote: > /dev/sda <-> partition_blkdev <-> /dev/disk{0,1,2,3,4} > /dev/hda <-> partition_blkdev <-> /dev/disk{5,6,7} I also point out that handling disk partitions as a -tiny- remapping blkdev also has the advantage of making it easy to have a sing

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-05-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
ople to find real life cases where we want > to allow sector writes). Due to limitations in low-level drivers, Andrea was forced to hardcode 4096 for the block size, instead of using PAGE_SIZE or PAGE_CACHE_SIZE. -- Jeff Garzik | "Are you the police?" Building 1024| &qu

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/others

2001-05-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
These two patches look generally ok. However, I'm going to hold them in my mailbox for a little while, until two 8139 bug fixes and a tulip bug fix are sent to Linus/Alan. -- Jeff Garzik | "Are you the police?" Building 1024| "No, ma'am. We're musicians

Re: PATCH: more esssolo1 cleanups

2001-05-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Looks ok. General comment: the code to search through the list of PCI devices and drivers to find the one associated with our minor should be in a separate function, if that code appears more than once. esssolo_find_minor or somesuch... -- Jeff Garzik | "Are you the police?"

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
pace can safely run dump or tar or whatever on the virtual snapshot device. -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you have to make light of everything?!" Building 1024| "I'm extremely serious about nailing your MandrakeSoft | step-daughter, but other than that, yes." Index: linux_2_4

Re: Patch for PM in ymfpci (against 2.4.5-pre3)

2001-05-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Looks ok, only a small nit: an include and 'pmdev' are left over from the older PM implementation, and can be removed. -- Jeff Garzik | "Are you the police?" Building 1024| "No, ma'am. We're musicians." MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
Can you map it into the page cache, as Al Viro has done in recent patches? Can you break your allocation into an array of pages, obtained via get_free_page? If runlists are on-disk structures, can you look at bh->b_data instead of keeping them in memory? -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail

Re: 2.4.5 does not link on Ruffian (alpha)

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
> #include > #include > > +#define __EXTERN_INLINE inline > +#include > +#include > +#undef __EXTERN_INLINE > + Why is "__EXTERN_INLINE" defined as "inline" not "extern inline"? I simply added "extern" and things started working (as note

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
P not sure, but I think so > * IP Multipath Routing yes > The questions I have about the features above are: > * Are any of the above features implemented in the > kernel? If yes, where can I read (url-link to the > article, paper... please) about it? http://google.com/ -- Jeff

Re: new aic7xxx oopses with AHA2940

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
scsi_bus+3e/1d0> > Trace; e0a78855 <[aic7xxx]ahc_set_name+15/30> I'm curious what happens with the attached patch? It adds some debugging checks which will halt your kernel with "BUG! at :line"... -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| Mand

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
as > modules, you can unload modules, build new versions, and reload them. So, > you could say that partial support for "live upgrades" is included. I stand corrected, though I clearly know better: Modules are unloaded/reloaded all the time during my driver development :) -- Jeff Ga

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Notice also a "metadata miscdev" solves the problem of passing options > on open -- just pass those options to the miscdev before you open it... to be more clear, "it" == the data device, not the metadata miscdev -- Jeff Garzik |

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
metadata miscdevs are a clean solution to what procfs hacks and ioctls are trying to accomplish. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you have to make light of everything?!" Building 1024| "I'm extremely serious about nailing your MandrakeSoft | step-daughter,

Re: ac15 and 2.4.5-pre6, pwc format conversion

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
ohannes does. > until the software > YUV/RGB conversion has been removed from ALL other video devices (preferably > all at the same time). Send a patch for this instead! Format conversion should not be in the kernel... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "Are you

Re: Problems with ac12 kernels and up

2001-05-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
ttings are... Things are fine with no initrd. I looked at the root_mountflags usage and it looks ok, so I put it in the "figure out later" pile. Haven't yet verified if this 'ac' only problem -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSo

Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.5 does not link on Ruffian (alpha)

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
patchkit, I realized that my build needed CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC to work. Tested that theory... sure enough, I can boot 2.4.5-vanilla no problems now. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

[PATCH] Re: 2.4.5 does not link on Ruffian (alpha)

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
I used the attached patch to fix the problem. (note the tty.h changes are unrelated... they are preparing for when sched.h no longer includes tty.h, fixing a nasty include loop) -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | Index: arch/alpha/kernel/process.c

Plain 2.4.5 VM...

2001-05-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
215744K cached Vanilla 2.4.5 VM. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Re: Plain 2.4.5 VM...

2001-05-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
uoted is top output, taken during the several minutes where cc1plus process was ~300M in size. Similar numbers existed before and after my cut-n-paste, so this was not transient behavior. I can assure you, these are bugs not features :) -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Buil

Re: 2.4.5-ac3: qlogic corruption on alpha

2001-05-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
is patch (which simply adds "mb()") causes problems. However, it is more likely that the patch is harmless but also useless, not fixing the real problem. Other questions - is your machine SMP? How much RAM? -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Buildi

Re: 2.4.5-ac3: qlogic corruption on alpha

2001-05-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
gcc-2.96-RH -> gcc-2.95.3 gcc-2.95.2 -> gcc-2.95.3 gcc-2.95.3 -> egcs-1.1.2 Regards, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&quo

Re: 2.4.5 still breaks dhcpcd with 8139too

2001-05-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
orted out, and a driver for you guys to test. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - 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://v

Re: [PATCH] net #9

2001-05-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ugh. Sure about that one? the variables have been pointers to zero, > now they're zero... No, the variables were and always have been arrays, not pointers. The previous incarnation, {"","","",""}, was actually doubly lame, because not only was it an unnecessary zeroing

Re: [PATCH] net #3

2001-05-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
driver, similar to drivers/sound/{sb_card,sb_common}.c. But in this particular case, that would be overkill. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: via-rhine DFE-530TX rev A1

2001-05-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
Yiping Chen wrote: > > Yes, please download the newest driver from D-Link, becuase the > Win98 will change to D3 mode after it boot. > So the Mac address can't be fetch in Linux. Most drivers read the EEPROM in their probe phase to present this sort of problem. -- Jeff Garzik

Re: [lkml]Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
Via IRQs to external APIC. See quirk_via_ioapic in drivers/pci/quirks.c. I have received reports that MPS1.1 works on SMP Via boards, while MPS1.4 kills it. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-05-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
Looking at the diff of "lspci -vvvxxx" between MPS1.1 and MPS1.4 (on the same system) may be quite useful... maybe I missed the earlier "lspci -vvvxxx", but I only see one here... -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | -

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
ally the programmer didn't want them to be wrapped) -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - 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://v

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
onfused, but trying to continue\n"); > printk("You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips\n"); > +#endif > > - /* Clear and disable the memory parity error line. */ > - reason = (reason & 0xf) | 4; > - outb(reason, 0x61); > + /* Cle

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
X_COBT_NETDEVS) { > + return; > + } > + > + spin_lock_irqsave(_lock, flags); > + > + /* find a free slot */ > + for (i = 0; i < n_netdevs; i++) { > + if (!netdevs[i]) { > + netdevs[i] =

Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
0) > @@ -695,7 +702,7 @@ so, this driver is mixed spinlocks and save/restore_flags? Any chance this can be converted to all spinlocks? > #ifdef SCSI_NCR_DYNAMIC_DMA_MAPPING > - if (pci_set_dma_mask(pdev, (dma_addr_t) (0xUL))) { > + if (!pci_dma_supported(pdev, (dma_addr

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis time)

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
user is allowed to > ask for this info (but not able to modify it). And a malicious user calling those at a high rate is bound to get ugly. In both of these situations, calling the ioctls without priveleges is quite useful, so maybe rate-limiting for ioctls and proc files like this would be a good idea in gen

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
oes not support what occurs when the PCI Delay Txn option is set. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More m

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Roeland Th. Jansen" wrote: > when quote some xfers have taken place, the realtek card dies here. Working on the problem. You'll need to downgrade the 8139too driver to the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. --

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Danny ter Haar wrote: > > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Working on the problem. You'll need to downgrade the 8139too driver to > >the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on > >http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. > > also on : &

Re: 2.4.5 still breaks dhcpcd with 8139too

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matthias Andree wrote: > > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > I see that Alan has reverted back to the 2.4.3 driver for his ac-series for > > > other reasons, hopefully either the old driver will going in to 2.4.6 or the > > > new one will get fi

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
e other internal irqs (like ACPI) listed for register 0x58 apply as well. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

[PATCH] Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Does this patch fix things for you, such that MPS 1.1 and MPS 1.4 both work? -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | diff -urN linux-2.4.5/drivers/pci/quirks.c linux.viairq/drivers/pci/quirks.c --- linux-2.4.5/drivers/pci/quirks.cSat May

Re: [PATCH] net #9

2001-05-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:13:34PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > This is standard kernel cleanup that makes the resulting image smaller. > > These patches have been going into all areas of the kernel for quite > > some time. > >

[PATCH] interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-06-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:42:40PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Does this patch fix things for you, such that MPS 1.1 and MPS 1.4 both > > work? > > No, I'm afraid it doesn't :-( > > Here are the dmesg (with some info cut out for brevity), the > /proc/interru

Re: rtl8139too in 2.4.5

2001-06-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
all, mii_reg5 will be zero. But, if we are forcing media type, mii_reg5 might be zero and we don't care, so people get a misinformative message. Not the core problem (working on it) but a bug nonetheless. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Echelon words of the day, from The Register: Build

Re: Reading from /dev/fb0 very slow?

2001-06-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
s *way* faster *with* transparent background option. > > Any idea why such assymetry? [This is toshiba 4030cdt with vesafb and > 2.4.5] Do you have write combining enabled? -- Jeff Garzik | Echelon words of the day, from The Register: Building 1024| FRU Lebed HALO Spetznaz Al

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
d suggest making sure your net driver calls netif_carrier_xxx correctly, then checking for IFF_RUNNING interface flag. IFF_RUNNING will disappear if the interface is up, but there is no carrier [as according to netif_carrier_ok]. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Buil

PATCH 2.4.5.ac6: more Via irq fixes

2001-06-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
de working around this lack of infrastructure, sometimes in really ugly ways. -- Jeff Garzik | Echelon words of the day, from The Register: Building 1024| FRU Lebed HALO Spetznaz Al Amn al-Askari Glock 26 MandrakeSoft | Steak Knife Kill the President anarchy echelon

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Only some of them can be cached... (some of the MIIs in some drivers are already cached, in fact) you can't cache stuff like what your link partner is advertising at the moment, or what your battery status is at the moment. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1

Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.5 does not link on Ruffian (alpha)

2001-05-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
Richard Henderson wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 06:48:30PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > When built with CONFIG_ALPHA_NAUTILUS, my UP1000's IDE totally fails. > > Mine doesn't. > > > I am booting w/ aboot 0.7a from SRM, -without- the > > srm-as-b

Re: [PATCH] md.c - null ptr fixes for 2.4.4

2001-05-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
do_md_stop(mddev, 0); > + } > + > + printk("md: starting md%d failed\n", minor); coding style of changes totally different from surrounding code, and Documentation/CodingStyle ditto for other patches... i didn't check all, onl

Re: Missing cache flush.

2001-06-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Woodhouse wrote: > I was pointed at Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt but that doesn't seem very > helpful - it's very PCI-specific, and a quick perusal of pci_dma_sync() on > i386 shows that it doesn't do what's required anyway. What should it do on i386? mb()? -- Je

Re: Xircom RealPort versus 3COM 3C3FEM656C

2001-05-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I currently have three Xircom RealPort Carbus modem/fast ethernet cards. > > The current driver blows major chunks (it has very poor performance, and > > stops working under load). I'm told the driver issues are because of > > hardware issues. The really

PATCH: tulip net driver update

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
tulip needs a small delay during rxtx restart. different optimization patterns in newer gccs served to expose this bug which was previously hidden, so random users might hit a lack-of-networking depending on the speed of their machine, their compiler, etc. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief

Re: 2.4.6-pre1 unresolved symbols

2001-06-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
, and add the lines EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_softirq); EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklet_schedule); EXPORT_SYMBOL(tasklet_hi_schedule); -- Jeff Garzik | An expert is one who knows more and more about Building 1024| less and less until he knows absolutely everything MandrakeSoft

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac9

2001-06-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
pted to me... are you sure that System.map for the crashed kernel matches -exactly- with the one ksymoops used to decode this? It uses /proc/ksyms by default, which is incorrect for most postmortem ksymoops runs... rtl8139_interrupt doesn't call tx_timeout, which doesn't call read_eeprom, which d

Requirement: swap = RAM x 2.5 ??

2001-06-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
I'm sorry but this is a regression, plain and simple. Previous versons of Linux have worked great on diskless workstations with NO swap. Swap is "extra space to be used if we have it" and nothing else. -- Jeff Garzik | Andre the Giant has a posse. Building 1024| Ma

Re: Requirement: swap = RAM x 2.5 ??

2001-06-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Richard Gooch wrote: > > Jeff Garzik writes: > > > > I'm sorry but this is a regression, plain and simple. > > > > Previous versons of Linux have worked great on diskless workstations > > with NO swap. > > > > Swap is "extra space to be used

Re: [driver] New life for Serial mice

2001-06-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
hmmm. I just looked over this, and drivers/char/joystick/ser*.[ch]. Bad trend. Serial needs to be treated just like parport: the basic hardware code, then on top of that, a selection of drivers, all peers: dumb serial port, serial mouse, joystick, etc. -- Jeff Garzik | Andre the Giant

Re: patches sound driver locking issue

2001-06-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
se patches have the same problems that your es1371 patch did? Let's make sure that is fixed first, and is solid. -- Jeff Garzik | Andre the Giant has a posse. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
00 0300 > 03b4ef22 002a 0300 03f9a882 007e 0300 > 03f9a982 007e 0300 03f9aa82 007e 0300 > eth0: pcnet32_start_xmit() called, csr0 05f3. > eth0: pcnet32_start_xmit() called, csr0 07f3. > > etc... Does this patch help at all? Jeff

Re: ACPI lockup on boot in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
t a more verbose failure scenario, grab the ACPI debug version from http://developer.intel.com/technology/IAPC/acpi/downloads.htm Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft

Re: [PATCH] 8139too.c patch to allow setting of MAC address to actually work.

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
is broken too, but I think Donald is going to send > the fixes for it. I have updated 8139too to include this and other changes. The new version can be downloaded from the SourceForge project page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/), and hopefully it should show up in a release kernel eve

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
cable suddenly, or if your hardware isn't delivering interrupts, or many other things... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Bl

Re: Updated zerocopy patch up on kernel.org

2001-01-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
it is > working perfectly fine and adds no new bugs, testers are thus in > nirvana and thus have nothing to report. :-) Is there any value to supporting fragments in a driver which doesn't do hardware checksumming? IIRC Alexey had a patch to do such for Tulip, but I don't see it in the abo

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