Re: * 4 converted to 2 for networking code

2001-01-10 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, antirez wrote: Hi all, The attached patch converts many occurences of '* 4' in the networking code (often used to convert in bytes the TCP data offset and the IP header len) to the faster ' 2'. Since this was a quite repetitive work it's better if someone double-check

Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4

2001-01-10 Thread Matthias Andree
s you know anyhow. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-15 Thread Matthias Andree
. Yuck. What UDMA mode does your kernel put the drive in at boot WITHOUT the -X option? -X66 means UDMA 2 (33). -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: *Very* weird behavior from 2.2.14

2001-01-15 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, paradox3 wrote: My machine is/has: Linux 2.2.14 Go update. 2.2.14 and 2.2.15 (and some older 2.2.x possibly as well) have severe security problems. 2.2.18 is current. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-16 Thread Matthias Andree
Disk Block? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Coding Style

2001-01-20 Thread Matthias Andree
[Don't take this too seriously, the author had asked for flames without meaning them, so this is the disclaimer ;-)] On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Mark I Manning IV wrote: found in teh kernel sources bz2. It is done in parody of teh original doc and is meant to be laughed at as much as taken

Resolved: FAIL: 2.2.18 + AA-VM-global-7 + serial 5.05

2001-01-21 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 01 Jan 2001, Chip Salzenberg wrote: If I now patch serial 5.05 on top of that, the kernel itself detects devices, but does nothing if it's to boot /sbin/init. ctrl-alt-del and Magic SysRq are both functional and can reboot the machine. VA's current kernel includes VM-global and

Linux 2.2.18 nfs v3 server bug (was: Incompatible: FreeBSD 4.2 client, Linux 2.2.18 nfsv3 server, read-only export)

2001-01-23 Thread Matthias Andree
drwxrwxrwt 23 root root 706 Jan 2 11:53 /space/ $ grep /space /etc/exports /space 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro) (Linux 2.2.18, nfs-utils 0.2.1) -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [NFS] Linux 2.2.18 nfs v3 server bug (was: Incompatible: FreeBSD 4.2 client, Linux 2.2.18 nfsv3 server, read-only export)

2001-01-24 Thread Matthias Andree
permissions which I find strange, since the client lists this: drwxrwxrwt 23 root wheel 706 Jan 2 11:53 /mnt Evidently, the directory has execution permissions for everyone. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [NFS] Linux 2.2.18 nfs v3 server bug (was: Incompatible: FreeBSD 4.2 client, Linux 2.2.18 nfsv3 server, read-only export)

2001-01-24 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Matthias Andree wrote: This looks better and it makes FreeBSD able to ls the directory, and on touch /mnt/try, I get EROFS on the client, so this is okay; however, the access reply does not include EXECUTE permissions which I find strange, since the client lists

Re: Linux 2.2.16 through 2.2.18preX TCP hang bug triggered by rsync

2001-01-25 Thread Matthias Andree
, you're making your own DoS if your machines can't chat to each other. If you insist on breaking the RFC, make a sysctl for this behaviour that defaults to "off". -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-25 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: Working to clean all the modular natures of ATA/IDE now On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Sergey Kubushin wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Modules don't load. I do usually compile heavily modular kernels, with ide and ext2fs being also

Re: Linux 2.2.16 through 2.2.18preX TCP hang bug triggered by rsync

2001-01-25 Thread Matthias Andree
for the interoperability. Is there a problem with this when the recommendation is not followed? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

2.2.18 + VM-global + reiserfs + ext3 0.0.5e safe?

2001-01-25 Thread Matthias Andree
can't see at the moment? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-10 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Tony Hoyle wrote: Hmm... Reiserfs is incompatible with knfsd? That might explain the massive data loss I was getting with reiserfs (basically I'd have to reformat and reinstall every couple of weeks). The machine this was happening with also exports my apt cache for

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-10 Thread Matthias Andree
reported increased problems after applying the patch? -- Matthias Andree - 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

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-11 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Tony Hoyle wrote: Matthias Andree wrote: You're not getting data loss, but access denied, when hitting incompatibilities, and it looks like it hits 2.2 hard while 2.4 is less of a problem. Please search the reiserfs list archives for details. vs-13048 is a good

Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

2001-05-11 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Tony Hoyle wrote: ls can't access the files either, so I don't see how that could rectify anything. The entire directory becomes inaccessible. This happened to /lib once. Nasty. No-one can access the files once the caches are hosed. Purge the inode/dentry caches

[2.4.4pre6] build failure

2001-04-26 Thread Matthias Andree
2.4.4pre6 breaks build on gcc 2.95.2/gnu ld 2.9.5 for x86 with undefined __builtin_expect reference when linking for bzImage. Details have been discussed dome days ago for some 2.4.3-ac version. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

[2.4.3-ac14] build failure

2001-04-26 Thread Matthias Andree
pcnet32.o pcnet32.c pcnet32.c:1385: warning: #warning PCI posting bug pcnet32.c:327: pcnet32_pci_tbl causes a section type conflict make[3]: *** [pcnet32.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-ac14/drivers/net' -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

2.2.19 NFSv3 client breaks fdopen(3)

2001-04-26 Thread Matthias Andree
) at fileops.c:652 #3 0x17cbc3 in _IO_new_file_attach (fp=0x8049618, fd=5) at fileops.c:268 #4 0x178f7c in _IO_new_fdopen (fd=5, mode=0x80484dc r) at iofdopen.c:126 #5 0x804845e in main () at test.c:10 -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: RTL8139 difficulties in 2.2, not in 2.4

2001-05-20 Thread Matthias Andree
get it right, then, even without special boot options? -- Matthias Andree - 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

Re: RTL8139 difficulties in 2.2, not in 2.4

2001-05-20 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Matthias Andree wrote: eth1: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0005 media 18. It looks like I found a workaround which may help you debugging, if new questions arise, please ask. Willing to help so this issue can be resolved for Linux 2.2.20. 1. I'm compiling my eth drivers

also in 2.4: RTL8139 difficulties in 2.2, not in 2.4

2001-05-21 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sat, 19 May 2001, I wrote: I'm having difficulties with a RTL8139 with Linux 2.2.19 (both drivers), but not with Linux 2.4.4's 8139too driver. The card is an Allied Telesyn AT-2500TX, the chip is reported as 8139C/rev. 0x10. The card shares its IRQ 9 with an nVidia Riva TNT 128 [NV04],

Re: ECN is on!

2001-05-22 Thread Matthias Andree
with MIME-enhanced mail. Plus, people which use any characters beyond ASCII have no real choice but to use MIME; if they have MTAs in between that don't talk ESMTP/8BITMIME, then quoted-printable is what happens. Use emil, metamail or such if you want to keep your mailer. -- Matthias Andree

RTL8139 difficulties in 2.2, not in 2.4

2001-05-19 Thread Matthias Andree
0x10ec, Device 0x8139, Subsystem 0x1259. PCI timer settings -- minimum grant 32, maximum latency 64. Can someone help? -- Matthias Andree - 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

Re: 2.4.5 still breaks dhcpcd with 8139too

2001-05-31 Thread Matthias Andree
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 fixed? I've got one of the two problems fixed here at the test lab, and am

Re: 2.4.5 still breaks dhcpcd with 8139too

2001-06-01 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: Matthias Andree wrote: Will that 8139too be able to share its IRQ with a bttv card (Hauppauge WinTV in my case)? With 2.2.19, it's currently possible, at least after unloading and reloading the 8139too module, but it's a no-go with 2.4.5. Can

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre1

2000-08-31 Thread Matthias Andree
appreciate if you did. -- Matthias Andree Where do you think you're going today? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre1

2000-09-01 Thread Matthias Andree
Linus rejected a while back. Does including knfsd v3 break v2? Is not NFS v3 a compile-time option? I would not object if it was tagged "EXPERIMENTAL". -- Matthias Andree Where do you think you're going today? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: No Bug: accept discards socket options/O_NONBLOCK

2000-09-16 Thread Matthias Andree
one else misbehaving. *) unspecified as per SUS v2, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, HP-UX manual pages. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: No Bug: accept discards socket options/O_NONBLOCK

2000-09-16 Thread Matthias Andree
a thing such as a non-blocking listening socket (name the line if there is). Where does inetd set its listening sockets to O_NONBLOCK? Why should an application that originates on BSD misbehave if it got BSD semantics? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre9

2000-09-16 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: Resynchronize the USB stuff and starting bringing the ARM into line 2.2.18pre9 o NFSv3 support and NFS updates (Trond Myklebust and co) Great. Will test. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Oops with K6-2 350, but not with other CPUs.

2000-09-19 Thread Matthias Andree
e entirely inserted into their slots without rotation, bending and so on. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Question: Using floating point in the kernel

2000-09-20 Thread Matthias Andree
with the wider range/higher precision. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[2.2.17] poll(2) bug/race condition?

2000-09-22 Thread Matthias Andree
LIST answer)) = 18 write(2, ": ", 2: ) = 2 write(2, "timed out", 9timed out)= 9 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 _exit(1)= ? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: serial driver problems?

2000-10-02 Thread Matthias Andree
of a kernel.org linux 2.2.17. Do you need any files? I am unclear on which files to send you guys. Who is the maintainer of the serial code? Try the updated serial driver from sourceforge.net first. Patching old drivers into new kernels is usually not a good idea. -- Matthias Andree

Re: No Bug: accept discards socket options/O_NONBLOCK

2000-09-15 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote: Every Linux inetd in the world would instantly stop working. Why should it? inetd.c does not touch fd flags. No F_SETFL, no O_NONBLOCK, no fcntl. Why should inetd fail with a changed accept(2) semantics? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from

[2.4][2.2] Bug: accept discards socket options/O_NONBLOCK

2000-09-15 Thread Matthias Andree
is at http://home.pages.de/~mandree/2904102753.2572.0%40argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz Dan's mail is at http://home.pages.de/~mandree/2904193940.20671.qmail%40cr.yp.to -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: No Bug: accept discards socket options/O_NONBLOCK

2000-09-15 Thread Matthias Andree
gs. However, this makes Linux incompatible with *BSD and Solaris, so I'm wondering what this "break existing programs" would be, portable programs would most likely not break by the API change. Break portability, that's what it actually does, regardless of who is correct. *sigh* -- Matthias Andr

Re: tmscsim update for Linux 2.2.18pre15?

2000-10-10 Thread Matthias Andree
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: Actually, 2.0e3 did include one rather important fix which solved the Uh. Fix? This sounds like working around very broken devices to me, or are devices allowed to wreak havoc if sync negotiation is tried in spite of not being advertised in inquiry

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre15

2000-10-10 Thread Matthias Andree
for Linux NFS v3 client support, the server patches are the interesting part. They get Linux rid of the long-awaited SysV-NFS-client incompatibilities. Did you merge Dave Higgens' NFS v3 Server patches completely? Did you reject parts of the patches? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: BIG problem with BusLogic SCSI and/or something else

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Andree
hoto at 1/1000th sec to figure out what they said. Do you have a different machine with null-modem or something? You could copy your syslog/klog output there, or you could send it to a different host in your LAN. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre16

2000-10-16 Thread Matthias Andree
) This is also good. 2.2.18 looks most promising of all 2.2 series kernels so far. No problems with 2.2.18pre15 at home currently; just reiserfs needs manual patching in headers since it interferes with additional patches. Not a 2.2.18pre problem, though. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: AMD CPU misdetection?

2000-10-19 Thread Matthias Andree
directly off the CPU (at least, last time I looked, in some older 2.2.x, it was like that). The hint it's actually a K6-2 is the "model: 8" line. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.2.16 killing innocent processes

2000-10-19 Thread Matthias Andree
threads (that cfengine spawns)? Is there anything related to RLIMIT_NPROC (though I don't see why that would send SIGSEGV rather than SIGKILL)? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] P

Re: Via UDMA5 3/4/5 is not functional!

2001-02-23 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote: Wasn't dma disabled on all VIA ide chipsets because of sporadic corruption? That's not the point, the quoted message shows up when you try -X67.. -X69 in hdparm; cable detection seems to not work out properly. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from

Re: TESTERS PLEASE - improvements to knfsd for 2.4.2

2001-02-23 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Brown) writes: I am looking forward to seeing lots of downloads and absolutely no problem reports but is seems unlikely. Alan Cox has suggested that these changes may not be appropriate for 2.4, so we

2.2.18: difficulties with Ensoniq 5880 (es1371) rev 0x03?

2001-02-26 Thread Matthias Andree
I already asked this on the linux-sound mailing list almost 10 days ago, but got no response. So here it is again, header cut down to essentials: - Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:04:32 +0100 From: Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2.2.18: difficulties with Ensoniq

Re: ide.2.2.18.02122001.patch

2001-03-19 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: Has arrived... What's new with that? -- Matthias Andree - 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.h

[2.2.17] oops in /proc/scsi/scsi

2000-11-21 Thread Matthias Andree
not be reliable. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [2.2.17] yes: oops again in /proc/scsi/scsi

2000-11-27 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: While 2.0e3 contains a bug that can cause an OOps inside the driver (just use the echo "INQUIRY 0" /proc/scsi/tmscsim/?), the normal bus rescanning should not be able to trigger it. The above looks like the bug is occuring somewhere else. Having said

Re: [2.2.17] oops in /proc/scsi/scsi

2000-11-27 Thread Matthias Andree
Kurt Garloff schrieb am Donnerstag, den 23. November 2000: On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 02:06:18AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: I ran that script several times since it did not collect all devices, Strange. While 2.0e3 contains a bug that can cause an OOps inside the driver (just use

Re: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 0 to 59

2000-12-18 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Matthew Dharm wrote: I was trying to figure out why I periodically get the message set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 0 to 59 on my console. It appears that the kernel is attempting to update my CMOS clock for me, based on the more accurate data being provided by my

[2.2.18] VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed

2000-12-20 Thread Matthias Andree
try the most recent 2.2.19-pre? The machine is a pentium-MMX with 64 MB RAM with a kernel 2.2.18 that has these patches/updated drivers (none VM related AFAICS): IDE 2.2.18.1209 I²C 2.5.4 LM_Sensors 2.5.4 DC390 2.0e7 ReiserFS 3.5.28 -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [2.2.18] VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed

2000-12-20 Thread Matthias Andree
? 2.2.19pre2 should resolve that problem I'll give that a try. Thanks to you and Ville Herva for replying. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [Patch] performance enhancement for simple_strtoul

2000-12-21 Thread Matthias Andree
or sparc series. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

FAIL: 2.2.18 + AA-VM-global-7 + serial 5.05

2000-12-22 Thread Matthias Andree
or provide more information as requested. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: FAIL: 2.2.18 + AA-VM-global-7 + serial 5.05

2000-12-22 Thread Matthias Andree
Andrea Arcangeli schrieb am Freitag, den 22. Dezember 2000: On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:47:57PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: I suspect that these patches are mutually incompatible. did you checked that there are no rejects after patching :) Yes, I did, there were none. I had one patch

Re: FAIL: 2.2.18 + AA-VM-global-7 + serial 5.05

2000-12-22 Thread Matthias Andree
fixed, sorry for the inconvenience. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre3

2000-12-27 Thread Matthias Andree
roughly -1 s/min, though my CMOS clock is fine unless tampered with. What can I do? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre3

2000-12-28 Thread Matthias Andree
adjtimex. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Linux 2.2.18: /proc/apm slows system time (was: Linux 2.2.19pre3)

2000-12-28 Thread Matthias Andree
what to test. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.2.18: /proc/apm slows system time (was: Linux 2.2.19pre3)

2000-12-28 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Matthias Andree wrote: Relevant dmesg: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13) Board: Gigabyte 7ZXR, BIOS rev. F4 (VIA KT133 chip set, AMIBIOS). That's not a notebook, with a Duron CPU. For what it's worth, here's a current /proc/apm output: 1.13 1.2

Re: Linux 2.2.18: /proc/apm slows system time (was: Linux 2.2.19pre3)

2000-12-30 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Erik Mouw wrote: On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:53:37PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: However, reading from /proc/apm also triggers other weird problems: - Received characters dropped on serial line. I thought my serial port was broken, because a 16550 is supposed

Re: How to write patches

2000-12-30 Thread Matthias Andree
, that's OLD NEW (or FROM TO), nothing really difficult since it's the same way as in mv or cp. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: VIA IDE controller strangeness (2.4.0-test12/test13-pre5)

2000-12-30 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Evan Thompson wrote: ---(CC answer please)--- To: should be fine as well, I assume. I'm having a strange problem with my IDE controller. I believe (and that's what Windows and the m/b manufaturer -- PC Chips -- say) that I have a VIA PCI BusMaster IDE controller, and

Re: SYN_SENT block

2000-12-30 Thread Matthias Andree
ing you can do about that. Talk to non-firewalled, working machines to prevent that. Possibly try to connect() to several sockets at once (use fork or threads). -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.2.18: /proc/apm slows system time (was: Linux 2.2.19pre3)

2000-12-30 Thread Matthias Andree
in [EMAIL PROTECTED]. That mail is also in my lk folder and has kernel.org Received: headers, so you should have got that mail as well; plus you got it as copy. Is there something wrong with mail routing? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: Linux 2.2.18: /proc/apm slows system time (was: Linux 2.2.19pre3)

2000-12-31 Thread Matthias Andree
the proper system time after these stalls? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.2.18: /proc/apm slows system time (was: Linux 2.2.19pre3)

2001-01-02 Thread Matthias Andree
This had been a report for a non-portable computer which should (Duron) indeed have a TSC, that is, /proc/cpuinfo lists one ;-) Do 486s generally have APM so it might be worth fixing/working around for them? If so, would re-reading from CMOS for boxes without TSC be a "valid" solution? --

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

2001-01-02 Thread Matthias Andree
/conf.modules to /etc/modules.conf. The use of /etc/conf.modules is deprecated, please remove /etc/conf.modules as soon as possible. Command rm /etc/conf.modules depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.18-ma2/modules.dep for writing -- Matthias Andree PGP signature

Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel..

2001-01-02 Thread Matthias Andree
to be booted from GRUB 0.5.95 (some CVS version). I then made USB into modules, the kernel was 887 kB and booted. Is Linux 2.4 supposed to suffer from the 1 M limit still? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

2001-01-03 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving its version when --version is used, should it? Historical accident. I want to clean that up but it breaks existing behaviour; somewhere

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

2001-01-03 Thread Matthias Andree
for modutils 2.x for x = 3. (/sbin/depmod -V -n | head -1) 2/dev/null I was just thinking to write -V "output version in addition to normal operation" in --help, nothing bigger than like 5 minutes. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: Linux 2.2.18: /proc/apm slows system time (was: Linux 2.2.19pre3)

2001-01-03 Thread Matthias Andree
elaborately, I think, CMOS is limited to 1 s, so the granularity will make the whole thing pretty vain. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

ext3fs 0.0.5d and reiserfs 3.5.2x mutually exclusive

2001-01-04 Thread Matthias Andree
quite some time ago. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: And oh, btw..

2001-01-06 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Jordan Mendelson wrote: Everyone who has ever been the press spotlight knows that most of it is inaccurate, rushed and written to bring in readers rather than to report well thought out stories. Money rules the world, not truth. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from

Re: And oh, btw..

2001-01-06 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: - Amiga Y2K fixes (a bit late, wouldn't you say?) Might relabeling them 3rd Millennium fixes do any good? :-) Anyhow, thanks. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: 2.2.18 and Maxtor 96147H6 (61 GB)

2001-01-06 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: Sven, how did you kill the clipping ?? Or in generic, how do I kill the clipping ? Go set the jumpers right. (anyhow, IBM drives are delivered unclipped, not sure why Maxtors seem to be) -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: ext3fs 0.0.5d and reiserfs 3.5.2x mutually exclusive

2001-01-06 Thread Matthias Andree
or tomorrow, and look if Andrea's VM-global has anything to do with that since if buffer.c changes and fss change that as well, we have three patches to merge. :-/ -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: 2.2.18 and Maxtor 96147H6 (61 GB)

2001-01-06 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: Ah.. This is a i386 machine, UDMA33 capable, and the bloody thing won't boot with the clipping removed, and with clipping I can use only 32 GB :(( BIOS update or manual configuration in Standard BIOS configuration required? -- Matthias Andree

Re: Tekram's TRM-1040S USCSI proc driver?

2000-10-28 Thread Matthias Andree
Garloff, says it's ready for inclusion. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-16 Thread Matthias Andree
back to the original open file (that is now outside the chroot) and calls upon chdir(".."). Note that it's NOT related to the current working directory, but to an open file outside the chroot. Please comment. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-16 Thread Matthias Andree
is a privileged call. And DO USE setuid, not seteuid or something (otherwise the saved set-uid will bite you). -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Which compiler to use?

2000-11-17 Thread Matthias Andree
be called 2.95.2.1 or 2.95.3. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21

2000-11-17 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: BUG: you *MUST* chdir() into the chroot jail before it does you any good at all! I usually recommend: #include sysexits.h /* for EX_NOUSER */ mkdir("foo"); chdir("foo"); chroot("."); add this: /* DO REPLACE 500 BY AN EXISTING USER ID

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac14

2001-04-25 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.3-ac10 o Fix reboot notifier unregister in aic7xxx (Arjan van de Ven) 2.4.3-ac6 o Merge aic7xxx driver 6.11 (Justin Gibbs) I tried vanilla 2.4.3 yesterday, on a box which has one DPTA (IDE) drive and two Seagate

2.4.4-pre7 build failure w/ IP NAT and ipchains

2001-04-26 Thread Matthias Andree
`$@D.57)=F4/+I(`EB@DU_29J5?T?B.!52MOAE5@ MBVB1B2$,V3M^[VM1.P@AF,2;]XGXB(F6)7L\TH)00N68.A`MK2$-\N =S;JJ8;KIF!O/D!F.']P0#,'^+N2**$@0*1X%@` ` end -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: 2.2.19 NFSv3 client breaks fdopen(3)

2001-04-27 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote: --- /mnt/3/linux-2.2.19/fs/nfs/dir.c Sun Mar 25 08:37:38 2001 +++ linux-2.2.19/fs/nfs/dir.c Thu Apr 5 14:37:59 2001 @@ -454,6 +454,9 @@ */ static loff_t nfs_dir_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin) { + /* Glibc 2.0

2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-28 Thread Matthias Andree
if someone could mention the canonical aic7xxx LILO append parameters for a full debug trace in that case. Bottom line: I'm not buying Adaptec SCSI host adaptors ever again. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: 2.4.4-pre7 build failure w/ IP NAT and ipchains

2001-04-28 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, David S. Miller wrote: Kai, can you try this patch out? I think it does the right thing. What I'm mostly interested in is if your ipchains setup works for the resulting kernel, I've already checked that it links properly. :-) I'm not Kai, but I also reported similar

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Royans Tharakan wrote: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 aacraid raid driver version, Apr 28 2001 percraid device detected Device mapped to virtual address 0xf8806000 percraid:0 device initialization successful percraid:0 AacHba_ClassDriverInit complete scsi0 :

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, poptix wrote: Howdy, I've got an Adaptec AHA-2940UW Pro Ultra SCSI host adapter using the aic7xxx driver (the new one, not the old one), and have had no problems, I have a zip drive on ID5, and a 12X Smart Friendly CD-RW on ID6, haven't had any problems on

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steve 'Denali' McKnelly wrote: Let me ask a possibly stupid question... How do you tell what version of the Gibbs Adaptec driver you're using? Did I misunderstand you when you said the 2.4.4 kernel is using 6.1.5? Also, did I understand you to say the 6.1.12

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: Command found on device queue aic7xxx_abort returns 8194 I have seen blaming for this error to aic7xxx new driver prior to version 6.1.11. It was included in the 2.4.3-ac series, but its has not got into main 2.4.4 (there is

Success, aic7xxx 6.1.13 fixes boot problems in 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8 2.4.4 (was: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda)

2001-05-03 Thread Matthias Andree
(that was a problem formerly). Thanks a lot. (Might it be a good idea to ask Linus and Alan to update the driver they ship in 2.4.5-pre or 2.4.4-ac, respectively?) -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-05-03 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Todd M. Roy wrote: I tried 2.4.4 with the old aic7 driver and it worked fine. That may be true, and it may help the deployment of 2.4.4 on that particular machine, but the kernel needs the bugfix anyways, and reporting the bug is the least I can do. If I'm after old

Re: CML2 1.4.0, aka brutality and heuristics

2001-05-06 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 04 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Sigh...now, I hope, we can get back to solving problems that I don't expect to be so rare they're lost in the statistical noise. It's not good to get so obsessed about finding clever solutions to corner cases that one loses sight of the larger

RTL8139, IRQ sharing, etc.

2001-06-06 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Matthias Andree wrote: Not sure if it's related to IRQ sharing or another initialization issue. Looks like IRQ sharing is still in the play. Yesterday, I purchased a pair of used 3C905TXs, replaced the RTL 8139 by the 3C905, and got complaints by the 3C905 about eth0

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