On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:01:33PM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
When one has several machines it is nice to keep each
machine's .config under revision control. Then, on
each machine,
ln [-s] .config-$(hostname -s) .config
Problem is, `make menuconfig/oldconfig/config' goes and
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:39:35AM -0500, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Marko Kreen wrote:
IMHO the CHR/BLK is not needed. Think of /proc. In the future,
the backup tools will be told to ignore /dev, that's all.
The /dev dir should not be special. At least not to the kernel
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:45:17PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
On Sunday 27 May 2001 15:32, Edgar Toernig wrote:
Daniel Phillips wrote:
I'm not claiming there isn't breakage somewhere,
you break UNIX fundamentals. But I'm quite relieved now because I'm
pretty sure that something
Tried running pre4, here notes:
1) scsi devfs: /dev/scsi/host0 is now /dev/host0, /dev/scsi exist
but is empty.
2) lots of messages: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers
No oops yet.
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:32:09AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Tried burning a cd with pre4 and devfs. There is no /dev/sg0 and /dev/scsi
is empty.
It 'moved'. Do a 'cd /dev/scsi; ln ../host0' for temporary workaround.
Well, I 'tried to boot' from scsi, its even more fun...
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:48:14PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Marko Kreen wrote:
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:32:09AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Tried burning a cd with pre4 and devfs. There is no /dev/sg0 and /dev/scsi
is empty.
It 'moved'. Do a 'cd /dev
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:11:33PM +0200, Marko van Dooren wrote:
Hello, my /proc/partitions says I have 25 partitions while there are
only 21. Fdisk shows the right information, so there's nothing wrong
with my disk or so.
...
/dev/hda2 * 4 386 3076447+ a5 BSD/386
You
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 10:39:27AM -0500, Erik McKee wrote:
It seems as if linux 2.2.17 is calculating a strange value for my bogomips
value. I thought is was supposed to be somewhere near the processor
speed. Perhaps I am missing something?
In 2.3.x they changed the BogoMIPS algorithm.
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:29:27PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
Folks, give it a try - just keep decent backups. Similar code will
It started to give me following errors:
EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,6)): ext2_add_entry: bad entry in directory
#28699: rec_len is smaller than minimal -
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 06:31:04PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Marko Kreen wrote:
There is something fishy in ext2_empty_dir:
Why?
+ } else if (de-name[2])
Sorry, I had a hard day and I should have gone to sleep already...
I did
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:29:27PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
Comments and help in testing are more than welcome.
There is something fishy in ext2_empty_dir:
+ /* check for . and .. */
+ if (de-name[0] != '.')
+
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Marko Kreen wrote:
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:29:27PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,6)): ext2_add_entry: bad entry in directory
#28699: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:32:18AM -0500, Dalton Calford wrote:
I have searched the archives, hunted through the adaptec site, tried
multiple patches, compilers, revisions.
Me too...
I have a DPT/Adaptec DPT RAID V century card. This has been a topic of
much discussion in the past on
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:27:47PM -0800, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote:
I've got a SmartCACHE IV...This driver seems not to recognize it.
It is not supposed to. For DPT .* I - IV use CONFIG_SCSI_EATA
'EATA ISA/EISA/PCI (DPT and generic EATA/DMA-compliant boards)'
option.
--
marko
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To
I hope these are right fixes...
--
marko
diff -urNX /home/marko/misc/diff-exclude linux-2.4.0-prerelease/drivers/video/atyfb.c
linux/drivers/video/atyfb.c
--- linux-2.4.0-prerelease/drivers/video/atyfb.cWed Jan 3 19:55:56 2001
+++ linux/drivers/video/atyfb.c Wed Jan 3 22:42:32
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:32:52PM +0200, Marko Kreen wrote:
-udelay(15000); /* delay for 50 (15) ms */
+mdelay(15); /* delay for 50 (15) ms */
Per Mark Hahn suggestion here is a patch that fixes the weird
comments too. This is cumulative to the previous patch.
--
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:45:48PM +0100, Mirko Klemm wrote:
Could anyone please send me a comment on how actually usable the devfs
support in the 2.4.0 test series is at the moment?
Fine. I was forced to use it from 2.3.99-something and
have not had any problems with it. (I lifted whole
Reading ext2 code I found some inconsistencies
in endianess handling, could anyone comment
on this?
Also there is a unnecessary RDONLY check.
I understand that it happens to work anyway
but they confuse understanding.
Or am I missing something?
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:48:26PM +0200, Bjorn Wesen wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Padraig Brady wrote:
3. If I've no backing store (harddisk?) is there any advantage
of using tmpfs instead of ramfs? Also does tmpfs need a
backing store?
I don't know what tmpfs does actually, but
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:07:53PM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
Hello, I saw that there was something changed on how fork() works, and
wonder if this could be the cause my problem.
When i do a su - user it just hangs.
When i run strace on it i see that it forks and wait()s on the child.
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:20:50AM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
From: Marko Kreen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:07:53PM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
When i do a su - user it just hangs.
When i run strace on it i see that it forks and wait()s on the child.
No i
I must say that I dont know what the standards say, but...
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:28:28PM +, David Howells wrote:
(1) Linux can't rename directories that are marked as read-only. This is
strange because the directories actually being modified _do_ have write
permission.
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 11:05:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've never could make this CDRW ATAPI to work, if someone could
provide me any clue about the baby. I just said that people on the
kernel mailing list may care of its but. It looks like the baby didn't
even noticed. ;-)
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:48:36PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote:
[root@coredump spstarr]# killall -9 gnomeicu
... waiting...
Could you try it on 2.4.2ac2, I guess its this item:
o Fix datagram hang on shutdown (Alexey
Kuznetsov)
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On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 08:06:08PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote:
Wasn't on shutdown though ;-)
The 'shutdown' as in 'process shutdown' ? _Not_ machine
shutdown.
I was just about to receive a message when things started to lock up slowly.
Then everything else followed.
Marko Kreen wrote
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:09:30PM -0700, Earle Nietzel wrote:
Umm. This isn't an aic7xxx driver problem at all. The SCSI layer
determines the order of bus attachment *amongst* the various
SCSI HBA (or SCSI HBA like) drivers in the system. In this case,
it has decided to probe your IDE
Using CML2 1.1.0 'menuconfig' on clean 2.4.3 (mach is PPro 180)
Suggestions:
* the 'N' should be shown as ' ' as in menuconfig - it is
visually much better to get overview of whole screenful.
'Y'/'M' and 'N' are basically of 'same size' so you must look
directly on letter to understand
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:03:35AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:09:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser Geuer wrote:
Dear Sirs,
I still cannot compile with gcc-3.0 from 08.04.
Yes ? Who said gcc-3.0 is suitable compiler ?
No doubt it some day will be the
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:33:02PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been unable to set up a module for my DPT fibrechannel host adapter, partly
through unavailability, and partly through inexperience.
There is a nice suppary of current DPT driver status on Kernel
Traffic #113:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:42:23PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Release 1.1.3:
First I must say that versions 1.1.2, 1.1.3 are much faster
than previous, I really cannot say that CML2 is in some way
unusable for me. Good work!
* Freeze color changed from cyan to blue.
Erm. Yes, in
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:01:33PM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> When one has several machines it is nice to keep each
> machine's .config under revision control. Then, on
> each machine,
>
> ln [-s] .config-$(hostname -s) .config
>
> Problem is, `make menuconfig/oldconfig/config' goes
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:39:35AM -0500, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2001, Marko Kreen wrote:
> > IMHO the CHR/BLK is not needed. Think of /proc. In the future,
> > the backup tools will be told to ignore /dev, that's all.
>
> The /dev dir should not
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:45:17PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Sunday 27 May 2001 15:32, Edgar Toernig wrote:
> > Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > I'm not claiming there isn't breakage somewhere,
> >
> > you break UNIX fundamentals. But I'm quite relieved now because I'm
> > pretty sure that
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:03:25AM +0200, J . A . Magallon wrote:
>
> On 04.25 Doug McNaught wrote:
> > "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Question: it is possible to redirect the same fs call (say read) to
> > different
> > > implementations, based on the open mode of the
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:48:26PM +0200, Bjorn Wesen wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Padraig Brady wrote:
> > 3. If I've no backing store (harddisk?) is there any advantage
> >of using tmpfs instead of ramfs? Also does tmpfs need a
> >backing store?
>
> I don't know what tmpfs does
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:07:53PM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
> Hello, I saw that there was something changed on how fork() works, and
> wonder if this could be the cause my problem.
> When i do a "su - " it just hangs.
> When i run strace on it i see that it forks and wait()s on the child.
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:20:50AM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
> From: "Marko Kreen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:07:53PM +0200, Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
> > > When i do a "su - " it just hangs.
> > > When i run stra
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:32:18AM -0500, Dalton Calford wrote:
> I have searched the archives, hunted through the adaptec site, tried
> multiple patches, compilers, revisions.
Me too...
>
> I have a DPT/Adaptec DPT RAID V century card. This has been a topic of
> much discussion in the
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:27:47PM -0800, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote:
> I've got a SmartCACHE IV...This driver seems not to recognize it.
It is not supposed to. For DPT .* I - IV use CONFIG_SCSI_EATA
'EATA ISA/EISA/PCI (DPT and generic EATA/DMA-compliant boards)'
option.
--
marko
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Reproducible oops: 'gmix -i --sm-disable' on test9-pre2.
Loaded sound modules: sb, gus (in this order)
Oops itself:
ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.0-test9. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/ (default)
Tried running pre4, here notes:
1) scsi devfs: /dev/scsi/host0 is now /dev/host0, /dev/scsi exist
but is empty.
2) lots of messages: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers
No oops yet.
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:32:09AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Tried burning a cd with pre4 and devfs. There is no /dev/sg0 and /dev/scsi
> is empty.
It 'moved'. Do a 'cd /dev/scsi; ln ../host0' for temporary workaround.
Well, I 'tried to boot' from scsi, its even more fun...
--
marko
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:48:14PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Marko Kreen wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:32:09AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > Tried burning a cd with pre4 and devfs. There is no /dev/sg0 and /dev/scsi
> > > is
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:11:33PM +0200, Marko van Dooren wrote:
> Hello, my /proc/partitions says I have 25 partitions while there are
> only 21. Fdisk shows the right information, so there's nothing wrong
> with my disk or so.
...
> /dev/hda2 * 4 386 3076447+ a5 BSD/386
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 10:39:27AM -0500, Erik McKee wrote:
> It seems as if linux 2.2.17 is calculating a strange value for my bogomips
> value. I thought is was supposed to be somewhere near the processor
> speed. Perhaps I am missing something?
In 2.3.x they changed the BogoMIPS algorithm.
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:59:18PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > BTW, could we finally lose mpx(2)?
> >
> > Maybe we lost it - I find sys_mpx only in a comment in arch/arm/kernel/calls.S
>
> Sure, but man2/mpx.2 is alive and well...
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:29:27PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Folks, give it a try - just keep decent backups. Similar code will
It started to give me following errors:
EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,6)): ext2_add_entry: bad entry in directory
#28699: rec_len is smaller than minimal -
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 06:31:04PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Marko Kreen wrote:
> > There is something fishy in ext2_empty_dir:
>
> Why?
>
> > + } else if (de->name[2])
>
Sorry, I had a hard day and I sho
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:29:27PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Comments and help in testing are more than welcome.
There is something fishy in ext2_empty_dir:
+ /* check for . and .. */
+ if (de->name[0] != '.')
+
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Marko Kreen wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:29:27PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,6)): ext2_add_entry: bad entry in directory
> > #28699: rec_
I hope these are right fixes...
--
marko
diff -urNX /home/marko/misc/diff-exclude linux-2.4.0-prerelease/drivers/video/atyfb.c
linux/drivers/video/atyfb.c
--- linux-2.4.0-prerelease/drivers/video/atyfb.cWed Jan 3 19:55:56 2001
+++ linux/drivers/video/atyfb.c Wed Jan 3 22:42:32
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:32:52PM +0200, Marko Kreen wrote:
> -udelay(15000); /* delay for 50 (15) ms */
> +mdelay(15); /* delay for 50 (15) ms */
Per Mark Hahn suggestion here is a patch that fixes the weird
comments too. This is cumulative to the previous patch.
--
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:45:48PM +0100, Mirko Klemm wrote:
> Could anyone please send me a comment on how actually usable the devfs
> support in the 2.4.0 test series is at the moment?
Fine. I was forced to use it from 2.3.99-something and
have not had any problems with it. (I lifted whole
Reading ext2 code I found some inconsistencies
in endianess handling, could anyone comment
on this?
Also there is a unnecessary RDONLY check.
I understand that it happens to work anyway
but they confuse understanding.
Or am I missing something?
--
marko
diff -urNX
I must say that I dont know what the standards say, but...
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:28:28PM +, David Howells wrote:
> (1) Linux can't rename directories that are marked as read-only. This is
> strange because the directories actually being modified _do_ have write
> permission.
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 11:05:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've never could make this CDRW ATAPI to work, if someone could
> provide me any clue about the baby. I just said that people on the
> kernel mailing list may care of its but. It looks like the baby didn't
> even
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:48:36PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote:
> [root@coredump spstarr]# killall -9 gnomeicu
>
> ... waiting...
Could you try it on 2.4.2ac2, I guess its this item:
o Fix datagram hang on shutdown (Alexey
Kuznetsov)
--
marko
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To unsubscribe from this
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 08:06:08PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote:
> Wasn't on shutdown though ;-)
The 'shutdown' as in 'process shutdown' ? _Not_ machine
shutdown.
>
> I was just about to receive a message when things started to lock up slowly.
> Then everything else followed.
>
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 11:16:16AM +0100, Joachim 'roh' Steiger wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Marko Kreen wrote:
> > Compile in options 'SCSI generic', 'SCSI cdrom and 'SCSI
> > emulation support' then add 'hdb=scsi' to kernel parameters.
> is there someone working on direct supp
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:09:30PM -0700, Earle Nietzel wrote:
> > Umm. This isn't an aic7xxx driver problem at all. The SCSI layer
> > determines the order of bus attachment *amongst* the various
> > SCSI HBA (or SCSI HBA like) drivers in the system. In this case,
> > it has decided to probe
Using CML2 1.1.0 'menuconfig' on clean 2.4.3 (mach is PPro 180)
Suggestions:
* the 'N' should be shown as ' ' as in menuconfig - it is
visually much better to get overview of whole screenful.
'Y'/'M' and 'N' are basically of 'same size' so you must look
directly on letter to understand
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:03:35AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:09:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser Geuer wrote:
> > Dear Sirs,
> > I still cannot compile with gcc-3.0 from 08.04.
>
> Yes ? Who said gcc-3.0 is suitable compiler ?
>
> No doubt it some day will
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:33:02PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been unable to set up a module for my DPT fibrechannel host adapter, partly
>through unavailability, and partly through inexperience.
There is a nice suppary of current DPT driver status on Kernel
Traffic #113:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:42:23PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Release 1.1.3:
First I must say that versions 1.1.2, 1.1.3 are much faster
than previous, I really cannot say that CML2 is in some way
unusable for me. Good work!
> * Freeze color changed from cyan to blue.
Erm. Yes,
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