On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jonathan Earle wrote:
Hey all,
Still working with kernel 2.4.0-test9 (other things we use require it for
now), and I was looking at a driver for a Znyx zx346q network card that I
grabbed from the znyx.com website. The driver is for a 2.2.x kernel, but
figuring I'd
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Paul Powell wrote:
Our driver is trying to allocate a DMA buffer to flash
an adapter's firmware. This can require as much as
512K ( of contiguous DMA memory ). We are using the
function __get_free_pages( GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA, order
) . The call is failing if 'order'
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Mark Longair wrote:
I'm having a problem where twice a day or so, any new tcp connection
it gets stuck in SYN_SENT. Eventually this situation rights itself,
but obviously in the meantime many services (e.g. squid, X) are
broken. The machine does IP masquerdading with
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Mark Longair wrote:
On Thursday 11 January, Richard B. Johnson wrote ("Re: [2.2.18] outgoing connections
getting stuck in SYN_SENT"):
[...]
You probably compiled your kernel with "CONFIG_INET_ECN" set.
If so, you need to turn it OFF in /proc/sys/
Hello,
When the 'console' is mapped to a serial device, i.e., /dev/ttyS0,
if a terminal, without modem control is connected, no text is displayed.
If a terminal is connected, it is often just 3-wires, i.e, RX/TX/GND.
I need to disable modem control, i.e., hardware slow-control.
It used to be
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Jack Hammer wrote:
My adapter configuration utility needs to instruct the user which physical
adapter needs attention ( when there may be multiple adapters in the system
).My question is : How do I determine the ( machine ) slot number of a
PCI adapter ?
In BIOS
I previously reported a problem trying to disable hardware flow-control
of serial ports in the Linux kernel 2.4.0. This problem did not
exist in Linux version 2.2.18.
This problem occurs when the initial console has been redirected out
to a serial port as is the case with one of our embedded
I lost my root file-system last night to massive corruption
occurring while doing a automatic `tar` backup to tape.
Some corruption probably occurred while the ATIME was being
updated because most of the tape was good. Basically, e2fsck
could not recognize a valid file system. `od /dev/sdc1`
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:04:50AM -0500, Jonathan Earle wrote:
-Original Message-
From: profmakx.fmp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
So, every good programmer
should know where to put comments. And it is unnecessary to
put comments
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Trever L. Adams wrote:
Patrizio Bruno wrote:
I think that your linux's partition has not been overwritten, but only the MBR
of your disk, so you probably just need to reinstall lilo. Insert your
installation bootdisk into your pc, then skip all the setup stuff, but
-EOPNOTSUPP;
}
--- linux-2.4.0/drivers/net/pcnet32.h.orig Tue Jan 23 13:37:24 2001
+++ linux-2.4.0/drivers/net/pcnet32.h Mon Jan 22 11:05:16 2001
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*
+ * File: pcnet32.h Created 12-12-2000 Richard. B. Johnson
+ *
+ * Contains elements that need to be
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Isabelle, Francois wrote:
There is something I try to do using Linux and I think you may have a clue:
I want to use the external loopback of my ethernet interface to test it. I
want the data to actually go through the cable and I don't want internal
logic to bypass
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
Sorry for the nitpicking, bust since 2.4 is now "stable"...
-- Pete
[SNIPPED...]
From what I tested, copy_to/from_user, now seg-faults the caller directly.
If the function returns, it worked. Therefore you will never get a
chance to return -EFAULT.
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
[SNIPPED...]
From what I tested, copy_to/from_user, now seg-faults the caller directly.
If the function returns, it worked. Therefore you will never get a
chance to return -EFAULT.
Huh?? copy_to
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Matthew Dharm wrote:
It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to pick a different port for
these things. I know a lot of people who want to use port 80h for
debugging data, especially in embedded x86 systems.
Find a safe port, make
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Rob Kaper wrote:
If this is ext2 specific, just say so and I'll find a better list to discuss
this: (any good ext2 lists available for example?)
Is there a way to rename lost+found ?? It bothers me to see it in ls all the
time because 99.9% of my time it's just useless
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Matthew Dharm wrote:
It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to pick a different port for
these things. I know a lot of people who want to us
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
On 26 Jan 01 at 8:58, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
You could use the DMA scratch register at 0x19. I'm sure Linux doesn't
"save" stuff there when setting up the DMA controller.
I w
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Mark Hahn wrote:
#ifdef SLOW_IO_BY_JUMPING
#define __SLOW_DOWN_IO "\njmp 1f\n1:\tjmp 1f\n1:"
#else
-#define __SLOW_DOWN_IO "\noutb %%al,$0x80"
+#define __SLOW_DOWN_IO "\noutb %%al,$0x19"
this is nutty: why can't udelay be used
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote:
+ *
+ * Changed the slow-down I/O port from 0x80 to 0x19. 0x19 is a
+ * DMA controller scratch register. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*/
What about making that a config option?
default: delay with 'outb 0x80', other options could be
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
Ok. I've thought about it some more, but I don't care enough about
this issue to do the painstaking legwork: I don't have one of those
POST-code indicators on port 0x80.
I've made the "pause" in outb_p just a few (*) ns slower,
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Craig I. Hagan wrote:
One approach to the endless eepro100 headaches would be to port
the FreeBSD if_fxp driver to Linux. After all, drivers have been
ported between these OSs before; e.g., the aic7xxx SCSI adapter.
However, I see no evidence that this has been
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Sergey Kubushin wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
Two of my Linux machines use the Intel Ethernet controller on the
motherboard. These are both SMP machines. I have never, ever, had
any problems with the eepro100 driver that handles these chips
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Mark H. Wood wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote:
[snip]
I may have missed too much of the discussion, but I thought that the
idea was that some people noted that their POST-code-cards don't
really work all that well when Linux is running because Linux
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, mirabilos wrote:
[...]
Now, we've found that small delays are reasonably well generated with
an "outb" to 0x80. So, indeed changing that to something else is going
to be tricky.
So how bad would it be to give these people a place to leave the value
that
The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken.
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.1/arch/i386/boot'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `dep'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.1/arch/i386/boot'
scripts/mkdep init/*.c .depend
scripts/mkdep `find
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, I Lee Hetherington wrote:
If Mandrake used LILO to install, there very well might be a backup in
/boot/boot.0800 or something like that. You might want to consult the
LILO documentation and/or a net search to see if they say how to restore
this (probably using dd).
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:45:16 -0500 (EST),
"Richard B. Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken.
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.1/drivers/acpi'
Makefile:29: *** target patter
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:45:16 -0500 (EST),
"Richard B. Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken.
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:57:44 -0500 (EST),
"Richard B. Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:45:16 -0500 (EST),
"Richard B. Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken.
It worked fine here, with 2.4.1 unpacked from the tarball.
Rik
--
I cannot find the source for GNU Make 3.77+ Does anybody know were
it is now
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken.
It worked fine here, with 2.4.1 unpacked from
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
I cannot find the source for GNU Make 3.77+ Does anybody know were
it is now? Also, for a long time, I have been trying to find
the source for bison "yacc".
I'd wonder if yo
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
I cannot find the source for GNU Make 3.77+
I have a hard time believing that you don't have
I noticed that my favorite errno has now gotten trashed by
the newer 'C' runtime libraries.
ENOTTY has been for ages, Not a typewriter.
It's now been changed to Inappropriate ioctl for device.
Methinks that this means that ../linux/include/asm/errno.h now needs
to be updated:
-#define
On Thu, 10 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 05/10/2001 at 05:38:32 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin) wrote:
Sounds like someone has just clarified what the heck it means. tty
and typewriter aren't exactly the same thing (even though tty
stands for
I lifted the following kernel-thread code from
../linux/drivers/net/8139too.c, just added a procedure to call.
static int gpib_thread(void *unused)
{
unsigned long timeout;
daemonize();
spin_lock_irq(current-sigmask_lock);
sigemptyset(current-blocked);
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
Hi,
I have recently upgraded the kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.4.4 and discovered
that it assigns the /dev/sd... devices in the wrong order with respect both
to the behavior of kernel 2.2.19 and to the `scsihosts' boot option which I
specified at
Hello;
I downloaded linux-2.4.4. The basic kernel compiles but the aic7xxx
SCSI module that I require on some machines, doesn't.
[SNIPPED `make modules`]
make -C scsi modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/drivers/scsi'
ld -m elf_i386 -r -o scsi_mod.o scsi.o hosts.o
On 17 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By author:Tim Hockin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
The aic7xxx assembler requiring libdb1 is a bungle. Getting the headers
for that right on various distros is not easy. Add to that it
On Fri, 18 May 2001, sebastien person wrote:
Le Fri, 18 May 2001 08:32:33 -0400 (EDT)
Bart Trojanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ecrit :
On Fri, 18 May 2001, sebastien person wrote:
I have a network module that need to regularly get data from network
adaptater.
But I don't know if it
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Petko Manolov wrote:
Hi to all,
I made this patch as some people request using
486 optimized string routines for older
(486 and 586) machines.
With intel processors, the 'rep' before an instruction will not
execute that instruction if ecx is already zero. You
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote:
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:15:27PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
( Not 'unsigned long long' )
The shift on pbm_offset operates on long long.
Uh, somehow I thought the reference was about bh-b_blocknr;
Ok, never mind.
The
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Petko Manolov wrote:
[Snipped...]
Good. You understand. Keep up the good work.
I realy would like to see this code in use ;-)
After you test it **THOUROUGHLY**, send a patch to Linus. I
There is a race condition somewhere in linux-2.2.15 and 2.2.16 that is
demonstrated here.
Cut and save the included 'Makefile'.
Execute:
mkdir zam
mv Makefile zam
cd zam
Make sure you are in the empty directory with only "Makefile"
Execute:
while true ; do make clean ; done
The file,
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 15:09:02 -0400 (EDT),
Andrew Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just installed linux-2.4.0-test7, but I noticed that the modules get
installed
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/...
which is different from previous kernels.
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Adam wrote:
Does anybody know off the top of their head if there is an easy
way to have ^C work with /bin/bash as a shell, without having
to set up ptys?? Just setting terminal parameters to allow signals
doesn't do anything.
not exactly the answer, but what I do
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
According to Richard B. Johnson:
Without patching the kernel, I think I can show that there is something
basically wrong. The patch may just hide the problem.
No.
Try it.
Something seems to be wrong, even with using the first
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Joseph Carter wrote:
I've been fighting with this for a couple of days now. I've been trying
under lilo, syslinux, and grub to get the kernel to follow the documented
behavior of executing /linuxrc if you tell it to load an initrd as it did
back in 2.0.35 (which was the
On 13 Sep 2000, Ralf Gerbig wrote:
* Chip Salzenberg writes:
Hi Chip,
According to Ralf Gerbig:
but SuSe and I believe RedHat etc. etc. _do_ ship patched kernels.
You've just made L-K's understatement of the day.
[...]
so I rest my case vs shrink wrap.
Yep. I installed
suceed if the current process does not already have a
controlling terminal.
Both will fail for pid=1, which does not already have a controlling
terminal.
Therefore...
Richard B. Johnson writes:
setsid()= 6
open("/dev/tty1", O_RDWR|
a
controlling terminal.
(Note that TIOCSCTTY takes an argument which means "steal the controlling
tty from another session leader, if any" which only works if the calling
process is UID0).
There was an argument, but strace didn't show it.
Therefore...
Richard B. John
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
The PCI Specification states, in part, that either the BIOS or the
driver has to enable the device. So, many drivers find that the device
has not been enabled. This is normal and necessary because many/most
PCI hardware had better not be enabled until
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Gérard Roudier wrote:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Gérard Roudier wrote:
[Snipped a lot...]
Call "pci_enable_device()".
What's so hard about that?
This function delegates too much as a whole to the PCI
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Michael Vines wrote:
I was just wondering if you can use floating point while servicing a
syscall in the kernel? Doing a
find -name \*.c -exec grep float {} \; -print
turned up a couple drivers that seem to be using fp. Are there any
known issues that I should to be
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Daniel Lange wrote:
Hi all,
I don't know how relevant to this list my question is, as I'm a quite
new subscriber, but I was perusing the linux kernel (2.2.16) Makefiles and
ran into this in /usr/src/linux/net/ethernet/Makefile:
tar -cvf /dev/f1 .
I think you
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
It is sufficient when you do tsk-flags |= PF_USEDFPU first.
Unless you sleep
Unless I'm missing something the lazy FPU state save in the 2.4 switch_to will
do the right thing at least on x86. Your kernel FPU state will overwrite the
user
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Timur Tabi wrote:
** Reply to message from MOHAMMED AZAD [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 22 Sep
2000 21:26:56 +0530
How does ioremap work???... does it allocate memory after a remap
operation.. can someone throw some light on this... any help appreciated...
Well, as
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Mahadev K Cholachagudda wrote:
Hello to all,
I have one doubt and is as below.
Suppose say the two drivers driver1 and driver2 will install the ISR for a
particular interrupt, say UART0.
After some time the interrupt is generated. At this moment, which driver's
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Michael J. Dikkema wrote:
I get these errors whenever I try to read data off of a new tape drive
that we got. (Onstream ADR-50)
st0: Error 2603 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x26, host bt 0x3).
st0: Error on write filemark.
You should not get a write error when
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, boria wrote:
Hi,
First of all, i am new to kernel, so please correct me if i am wrong or
explain if i don't get something.
Why does free_dma get declared with different return types in dma.c ?
So runtime checks don't have to be made. If you don't have DMA,
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, [iso-8859-1] Abel Muñoz Alcaraz wrote:
Hi everybody,
I want to develop a linux kernel module in C++ but I don't find
makefiles and/or sorce files examples to do this.
Use the correct tool for the job. The Linux kernel uses 'C' and assembly.
Cheers,
Dick
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Paul Powell wrote:
We are using Linux as a bootable CD for system
configuration. We would like to keep all the
information displayed at bootup hidden. The main
reason for this is because our users see words such as
"error" and "failed" and it bothers them (though
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, David M. Rector wrote:
Has anyone tried Redhat 7.0 yet? What a mess.
1) It would not compile stock kernels out of the box. (ends at
compress.S) with a fatal error.
2) Trying to compile the kernel source for 2.2.16 that comes with the
redhat disk (which is very
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:25:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I haven't a clue why a UID/GID=0 process can't acquire a
controlling TTY.
It probably is some bogosity to do with proc
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Brett Frankenberger wrote:
S/390 folks run 70,000 sessions active within the same 60 second period off
one big box. Not on Linux (yet ;)) but its worth bearing in mind.
Linux 2.2.17 only allows 255 processes at any one time. Is this a
'feature'. If so, there is no
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Michael van den broek wrote:
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Brett Frankenberger wrote:
S/390 folks run 70,000 sessions active within the same 60 second period off
one big box. Not on Linux (yet ;)) but its worth
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote:
Linux 2.2.17 only allows 255 processes at any one time. Is this a
...
Can't fork any more after 255 processes
ulimit -u
getting back OT, current entry-level PCs (duron/600) can easily
do 7000 fork/wait pairs per second.
Maybe I have a broken
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Stanislav Rost wrote:
Fellow Linux afficionados,
I am working on a research project involving the Linux kernel and Apache.
Recently, I became puzzled by the overload behavior of Apache under
cetrain conditions. The processing in web servers is inherently
kernel-heavy,
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Mario Lorenz wrote:
Hi folks,
Linux 2.2.17 (only tested version, I assume all other 2.2 series suffer from
the same problem and possibly 2.4 as well - but I havent even looked at that).
Assuming a configuration with linuxbox1 eth0 has adresses 192.168.129.1 and
Hello!
Has anybody written a driver for the Western Digital (or similar)
PCI / Firewire adapter?
If not, I'm going to have to write one. If it doesn't exist yet, should
the device be a block device or a character device? There are some new
very-fast disks that now use Firewire so this would
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Daniel Lange wrote:
Periodically, I get the following error with the 2.4.0test9 kernel:
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
[SNIPPED...]
This will sometimes happen with the 8259A and really should not even
be logged. There is a default handler for all interrupts. If this
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
Seriously, am I missing something obvious or is it far simpler just to
keel over and die if the system goes OOM? I mean, seriously, if the
administrator lets it get to that state then he/she/it deserves a dead
system. It's akin to having your
I tried to add a new Hard disk. It's s Seagate ST39102LW 8.1 Gb.
In the BIOS setup of the BusLogic adapter, I was able to format
and verify the disk with no problems whatsoever.
fdisk seemed to work okay. I made partitions.
mke2fs would fail (hang the system) while writing inodes.
The BusLogic
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Guest section DW wrote:
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:11:39PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
Linux version 2.2.17
I tried to add a new Hard disk. It's s Seagate ST39102LW 8.1 Gb.
Hmm. Your C/H/S multiplies out to 9.1 GB.
On the other hand, Seagate ST39102LW has
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Matthias Andree wrote:
Note that the sync-rate of target 6, the device I added, has been
turned down to try to eliminate any hardware problems. Also note
that the entire drive has been read/written with the BusLogic BIOS
diagnostic setup utility.
That BIOS setup
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
--- linux-2.2.17/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.h.orig Thu Oct 12 11:22:44 2000
+++ linux-2.2.17/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.hThu Oct 12 11:47:07 2000
@@ -1509,6 +1509,7 @@
void BusLogic_AcquireHostA
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Kiril Vidimce wrote:
My primary concern is whether a process can allocate more than 4 GB of
memory, rather than just be able to use more than 4 GB of physical
memory in the system.
Define allocate. There are tricks you
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Timur Tabi wrote:
** Reply to message from Jeff Epler [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 12 Oct 2000
13:08:19 -0500
What the support for 4G of memory on x86 is about, is the "PAE", Page Address
Extension, supported on P6 generation of machines, as well as on Athlons
(I
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
spin_lock_irqsave(local_lock, flags);
Muck_With_The_RTC_Chip();
spin_unlock_irqrestore(local_lock, flags);
This protects only the local procedure. In the meantime, somebody
else, using another CPU is mucking with the same RTC Chip.
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I can't control somebody else's use of `hwclock` or even some future
kernel module.
What you actually need to do is use the same spinlock as other users of the
RTC hardware do.
extern spinlock_t rtc_lock;
It
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
There is no such exported variable in the 'stable' kernel tree:
Then there should be, and the RTC accesses in 2.2 are probably racy.
In which case, feel free to provide Alan with a patch for 2.2.18.
--
dwmw2
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
2.2.17 should be able to do.
Cool. drivers/char/rtc.c needs to use it too. Then you need to pester Alan
till he puts it in 2.2.18-pre-de-jour :)
You want to patch /drivers/char/rtc.c ?? If you have a later
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
You want to patch /drivers/char/rtc.c ?? If you have a later kernel
than me, it would be helpful. Just apply my patch than do the rtc.c.
/me looks at his TODO list.
Not really.
Okay. I'll do it tonight. There are
This puts CMOS Chip access under a spin-lock and exports the
rtc_lock symbol. It is for 2.2.17, should patch to 2.2.18.
--- linux-2.2.17/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c.orig Wed Oct 18 12:53:42 2000
+++ linux-2.2.17/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c Wed Oct 18 12:55:55 2000
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Andrew C. Dingman wrote:
I'm working on a project for my senior seminar for which I (and my
profs) think I need to modify the process descriptor
struct. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be good enough with 'grep' to
figure out where the type is declared. Could someone give
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
[Snipped...]
The machine's physical location is in Cary, NC. Anyone live near there
willing to make a personal visit to the location to identify the
individual responsible?
-Dan
"You get more respect with a kind word and a gun than a kind word".
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Mark Haney wrote:
Richard Johnson wrote:
Cary, NC. can't be very large. There are, probably, three persons in
the whole county than have computers. Two haven't been booted since
the day the were received by the kids because they've been busy
studying for the M-CAP test.
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
Linux's loadable modules design is insufficient. I have several reasons for
making this claim:
1. Many things are inaccessible to the modules: There are relatively few
kernel modifications that can be compiled without patching the
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Marco wrote:
Hi,
can someone briefly explain me how the kernel code prevent the
preemption of process executing a system call ? I read several technical
papers but I haven't found (or perhaps don't understood) a response
there.
Many thanks in advance
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote:
o What used to take a month to get working in SunOS, will
take a few hours on Linux. Linux has continually improved the
resources available to the modules. In the beginning there was
a kernel memory allocator. Now we have common resource allocation
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote:
This is typical of the "linux mentality". Why do other OSs have solutions
that work, yet linux's method requires special coding? If it "has to be
done that way", why do other OS's have solutions that dont do it that way?
the size of the buffer is an
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Frank Hansen wrote:
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Any suggestions whatsoever would be greatly appreciated. FWIW NT 4.0
running on the same hardware performs this task flawless, and I will
have a diffucult time to convice my boss that we should use Linux as
long as it is outperformed
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
Before I spend too many additional brain cells diagnosing
this, can somebody remind me if this happens to be a
well known problem? Several of my other brain cells
think they've seen mention of this problem here, but a
scan of the archives
Hello,
The problem with awful socket performance on 2.4.1 has been discovered
and fixed by Manfred Spraul. Here is some info, and his patch:
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote:
Could you post your results to linux-kernel?
My mail from this morning wasn't accurate enough, you patched
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Sean Hunter wrote:
I have already written a 2.2 implementation which does not suffer from these
problems. It was rejected because Alan Cox (and others) felt it only provided
security through obscurity.
Sean
The following is a simple random generator that will never
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
Well gcc-bugs would be the better place to send it but this is a known problem
fixed in CVS gcc 2.95.3, CVS gcc 3.0 branch and gcc 2.96 (unofficial, Red Hat)
I'm not sure if it is known, at least not known to me, but definitely not
fixed in any
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Per Erik Stendahl wrote:
Hi.
In linux-2.4.2/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c:cdrom_ioctl() branches
CDROM_SET_OPTIONS and CDROM_CLEAR_OPTIONS both return like this:
return cdi-options;
If cdi-options is non-zero, the ioctl() calls returns non-zero.
My ioctl(2) manpage
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Per Erik Stendahl wrote:
In linux-2.4.2/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c:cdrom_ioctl() branches
CDROM_SET_OPTIONS and CDROM_CLEAR_OPTIONS both return like this:
return cdi-options;
If cdi-options is non-zero, the ioctl() calls returns non-zero.
My ioctl(2)
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Rob wrote:
Hi, I've encountered a problem compiling the 2.4.2 kernel.
I downloaded the source, did a make menuconfig, make dep, make bzImage;
everything went ok, but I didn't have the NIC working correctly. I
recompiled, it seemed to go ok but still the NIC didn't
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