RE: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-01 Thread matthew
can expect it to stop? The load average is at 441 (down from 700 last night), and the stress program was killed at 1:00AM CST last night. This (obviously) isn't an important machine so if you want me to ride it out I will. Matthew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-01 Thread matthew
at once, would it take this long? That's not rhetorical, as the answer may well be "yes". I thought oracle had an internal connection limit (on our servers it is set to 440 connections), anyways. This is set in the init.ora. I jacked it up to allow 2000 connections

Re: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-02 Thread matthew
fter about 5 minutes it killed all of the oracle processes and the machine appeared to have returned to normal. I've since installed Oracle 81610 and everything looks good. Matthew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-08 Thread Matthew
thanks a ton. ia32_setup_frame+0xe2/0x1e0 crashes with a NULL pointer it appears. Could you send me your kernel's .config ? sure: (I renamed the kernel in Makefile for being able to distinguish it from the other git-kernels - bisect-crash) # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit #

Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-08 Thread Matthew
Hi everyone, sorry for the long delay - I first had to get home set up my rig to reproduce this hardlock (repeatedly hardlocking / shutting down the laptop doesn't do too good to the new hdd ;) ) and fortunately I was successful :) sorry for the bad quality of the pics (they were taken with

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
I have been unable to reproduce your problem here, and I notice you have the proprietary, highly invasive and closed-source Nvidia driver installed in your kernel. Can you try using the nv or vesa (unaccelerated) Xorg drivers and reproduce the problem that way? If you *do* reproduce the

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
this also happens with rc7-based kernels, btw hm, exactly what rc7 based kernel? Vanilla 2.6.24-rc7, built by you? Or any patches ontop of it? (x86.git perhaps?) see first post / mail (there are a few additional patches / trees included: badram, wireless, alsa, tuxonice, madwifi, reiser4,

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
My kernel is _not_ tainted. [...] this time my kernel isn't tainted either (comm: thunderbird-bin Not tainted; http://kerneloftruth.neucode.org/other/crash_ia32_64/not_tainted/moto_0041.jpg) but still hardlocks: http://kerneloftruth.neucode.org/other/crash_ia32_64/not_tainted/ ok, good. A

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
If you *do* reproduce the problem that way, it would be extremely helpful if you could enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO and provide the vmlinux (not vmlinuz/bzImage) file that goes with the crash dump screenshot. I *did* reproduce it that way and enabled the above mentioned option and the

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
Do you have the error dump output to go along with this, too? no, unfortunately no kernel crash dump on disk ;( (I hope I understood it right, I'm pretty noobish concerning collection of error data ;) ) I only have the console-output of the hardlock in:

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
That's fine, but that was collected with the vmlinux image you sent me, right? no, but now it is: http://kerneloftruth.neucode.org/other/crash_ia32_64/not_tainted/latest/ (the other one was taken before I added/selected the demanded features) what puzzles me is that it doesn't say tainted

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
I just managed to reproduce the bug in simulation. I believe we should be able to resolve this. That's great news! Keep up the good work :) I hope that you guys'll be able to do so since it (indirectly) more or less leads to data corruption (at least with thunderbird-bin firefox-bin - both

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-14 Thread Matthew
FYI, latest x86.git should have this fix included. So if your box still hangs there must be some other bug lurking as well. the fix from Roland ?: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/11/108 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4719206.html#4719206 (+ following posts) works like a charm :)

git changelog / shortlog function on www.eu.kernel.org still refers to www.kernel.org server

2007-11-13 Thread Matthew
Hi everybody on the linux-kernel mailing list, I discovered that the changelog-function of www.eu.kernel.org still links / refers to www.kernel.org e.g. if I click on: The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.23.1 2007-10-12 16:47 UTCF V C

Re: [patch/backport] CFS scheduler, -v24, for v2.6.24-rc3, v2.6.23.8, v2.6.22.13, v2.6.21.7

2007-11-20 Thread Matthew
are you sure? The last -ck patch i can find is for .22: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/2.6/ or have they been forward ported? (if yes, do you have an URL for that) (my guess is you used the 2.6.23.1 scheduler (CFS), so the improvement you felt on the laptop is

CFS scheduler, -v24, for v2.6.24-rc3-git3 / current git state

2007-11-28 Thread Matthew
Hi Ingo the other contributors of CFS, I just wanted to say thank you for your excellent job on this scheduler :) I didn't want to tell anything about v24 too fast since testing takes its time ;) so here my experience so far: - no sound stuttering anymore during internet sound streaming even

Re: CFS scheduler, -v24, for v2.6.24-rc3-git3 / current git state

2007-11-28 Thread Matthew
cool. Which scheduler are you comparing this to - v2.6.23-ish? Or CFS-v22? compared to v22 that of 2.6.23 cfs of v2.6.23 was quite nice with some great stuttering - dunno why the best besides current was v19.1 or v19.2 (sound stuttering was a little stronger I think but desktop feeling was

laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2007-12-29 Thread Matthew
Hi everybody, since yesterday my laptop kept on hard-locking when launching 32bit binaries / apps I didn't know what to do but miguel botón was the one pointing me in the right direction, namely bisect :) kudos to him the others involved in his zen-sources project:

Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2007-12-29 Thread Matthew
so I was wrong XD sorry, the error was found in the meantime: see: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4667858.html#4667858 Don't need to do more testing. The culprit is the unification of the x86 i387 code. The culprit is 57c3da2f5bb3fafedc31284117ae43bc593b65ab or

Re: [patch/backport] CFS scheduler, -v22, for v2.6.23-rc8, v2.6.22.8, v2.6.21.7, v2.6.20.20

2007-09-29 Thread Matthew
Hi Ingo everbody on the list, first of all: many thanks for developing this great scheduler (also: kudos to Con Kolivas for having developed SD CK-patchset) (this is my second mail to this list and I hope I'm doing everything right) I'm doing some backup during work right now: rsyncing my

Fwd: [patch/backport] CFS scheduler, -v22, for v2.6.23-rc8, v2.6.22.8, v2.6.21.7, v2.6.20.20

2007-09-30 Thread Matthew
Thanks for your answer (sorry, I didn't know your email had changed) well, this will take some time since I don't work every day it's turned off most of the time, hope that is OK before I proceed with that data-collection: do you think it is possible that it might be related to Fair group CPU

Re: [patch/backport] CFS scheduler, -v22, for v2.6.23-rc8, v2.6.22.8, v2.6.21.7, v2.6.20.20

2007-10-02 Thread Matthew
Try setting features to 14. That helps my similar issues. Hi Bill, thanks, but unfortunately that didn't help, with 2.6.23-rc8 it's already set to 29, it happens with 2.6.23-rc8 with the new scheduler what I found out so far: it definitely is using 3D acceleration: glxgears -info

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

2008-02-04 Thread Matthew
Hi everybody, Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the GPL. This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that decision. There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this patch should

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-15 Thread Matthew
Ingo, This is _not_ a regression. This has been occuring for ages here. A backport of this fix to 2.6.23 would be a very good thing - IMHO its something that should go into stable asap. Thanks, Ed Tomlinson ++ Ingo, this probably has to do something with the random unmotivated

checkpatch run on net/ethernet

2012-10-02 Thread matthew
This is my first patch, it's just a checkpatch run. I figured I would also clean up the code as there appears to be long-since-obsoleted comments and code in there. A fairly trivial change, but worthy of inclusion IMO all the same! Matthew Walster -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

[PATCH 1/2] net: ethernet: clean out braces / old code (found via checkpatch)

2012-10-02 Thread matthew
From: Matthew Walster matt...@walster.org Remove an old commented out piece of code. Remove an if(true) statement. Remove a set of braces that weren't strictly necessary. All found by running checkpatch.pl against the code. Signed-off-by: Matthew Walster matt...@walster.org --- net/ethernet

[PATCH 2/2] net: ethernet: Remove obsolete comment

2012-10-02 Thread matthew
From: Matthew Walster matt...@walster.org The deleted comment was related to code I've just removed in the previous patch. --- net/ethernet/eth.c |8 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c index a9f8531..7d72108 100644 --- a/net/ethernet

/dev/loop* devices not appearing in /dev (at least since 2.6.22-rc3*)

2007-06-14 Thread Matthew
Hi everybody, this is my first post on this list I hope I'm doing everything right first off all: many thanks to everyone who makes GNU/Linux such a great system :) now back to topic: /dev/loop* seems to be broken since (at least) 2.6.22-rc3, since that was the first kernel I tried of the

Re: /dev/loop* devices not appearing in /dev (at least since 2.6.22-rc3*)

2007-06-14 Thread Matthew
Thanks, Paolo, Markus, I just tried out modprobe loop max_loop=32 output of dmesg is: [ 457.607575] loop: the max_loop option is obsolete and will be removed in March 2008 [ 457.607578] loop: module loaded but there are NO loop devices in /dev: ls -l /dev/ | grep loop still shows nothing,

[PATCH] INPUT: wacom: Added definition for Wacom CTH680 The Wacom Creative Pen Touch Tablet M (CTH680, 056A:0303) is a newer revision of the Bamboo series. This patch adds product 0303 to wacom.ko.

2013-11-02 Thread matthew
From: Matthew Geddes matt...@incomplete.io Signed-off-by: Matthew Geddes matt...@incomplete.io --- drivers/input/tablet/wacom_wac.c | 4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/input/tablet/wacom_wac.c b/drivers/input/tablet/wacom_wac.c index c59b797..5015269 100644

2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-01 Thread matthew
: 795096 kB SwapFree: 282812 kB I'm not on the list, so direct your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew - 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: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-01 Thread matthew
ake it in to a later 2.4 release. The "thrashing" has been going on for roughly 10 hours now. Is there a point at which I can expect it to stop? The load average is at 441 (down from > 700 last night), and the stress program was killed at 1:00AM CST last night. This (obviously) isn

Re: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-01 Thread matthew
d to clean up 1800 connections at once, would it take this long? That's not rhetorical, as the answer may well be "yes". > I thought oracle had an internal connection limit (on our servers it is set to > 440 connections), anyways. This is set in the init.ora. I jacked it up to

Re: 2.4.0-test10 Sluggish After Load

2000-11-02 Thread matthew
end of each line, ran it as the database user. It worked pretty well. After about 5 minutes it killed all of the oracle processes and the machine appeared to have returned to normal. I've since installed Oracle 81610 and everything looks good. Matthew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

/dev/loop* devices not appearing in /dev (at least since 2.6.22-rc3*)

2007-06-14 Thread Matthew
Hi everybody, this is my first post on this list & I hope I'm doing everything right first off all: many thanks to everyone who makes GNU/Linux such a great system :) now back to topic: /dev/loop* seems to be broken since (at least) 2.6.22-rc3, since that was the first kernel I tried of the

Re: /dev/loop* devices not appearing in /dev (at least since 2.6.22-rc3*)

2007-06-14 Thread Matthew
Thanks, Paolo, Markus, I just tried out modprobe loop max_loop=32 output of dmesg is: [ 457.607575] loop: the max_loop option is obsolete and will be removed in March 2008 [ 457.607578] loop: module loaded but there are NO loop devices in /dev: ls -l /dev/ | grep loop still shows nothing,

Re: [patch/backport] CFS scheduler, -v22, for v2.6.23-rc8, v2.6.22.8, v2.6.21.7, v2.6.20.20

2007-09-29 Thread Matthew
Hi Ingo & everbody on the list, first of all: many thanks for developing this great scheduler (also: kudos to Con Kolivas for having developed SD & CK-patchset) (this is my second mail to this list and I hope I'm doing everything right) I'm doing some backup during work right now: rsyncing my

Fwd: [patch/backport] CFS scheduler, -v22, for v2.6.23-rc8, v2.6.22.8, v2.6.21.7, v2.6.20.20

2007-09-30 Thread Matthew
Thanks for your answer (sorry, I didn't know your email had changed) well, this will take some time since I don't work every day & it's turned off most of the time, hope that is OK before I proceed with that data-collection: do you think it is possible that it might be related to "Fair group

Re: [patch/backport] CFS scheduler, -v22, for v2.6.23-rc8, v2.6.22.8, v2.6.21.7, v2.6.20.20

2007-10-02 Thread Matthew
> Try setting features to 14. That helps my similar issues. Hi Bill, thanks, but unfortunately that didn't help, with 2.6.23-rc8 it's already set to 29, it happens with 2.6.23-rc8 & with the new scheduler what I found out so far: it definitely is using 3D acceleration: glxgears -info

Re: [patch/backport] CFS scheduler, -v24, for v2.6.24-rc3, v2.6.23.8, v2.6.22.13, v2.6.21.7

2007-11-20 Thread Matthew
> are you sure? The last -ck patch i can find is for .22: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/2.6/ > or have they been forward ported? (if yes, do you have an URL for that) > (my guess is you used the 2.6.23.1 scheduler (CFS), so the improvement > you felt on the laptop

git changelog / shortlog function on www.eu.kernel.org still refers to www.kernel.org server

2007-11-13 Thread Matthew
Hi everybody on the linux-kernel mailing list, I discovered that the changelog-function of www.eu.kernel.org still links / refers to www.kernel.org e.g. if I click on: The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.23.1 2007-10-12 16:47 UTCF V C

[PATCH] INPUT: wacom: Added definition for Wacom CTH680 The Wacom Creative Pen & Touch Tablet M (CTH680, 056A:0303) is a newer revision of the Bamboo series. This patch adds product 0303 to wacom.ko.

2013-11-02 Thread matthew
From: Matthew Geddes Signed-off-by: Matthew Geddes --- drivers/input/tablet/wacom_wac.c | 4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/input/tablet/wacom_wac.c b/drivers/input/tablet/wacom_wac.c index c59b797..5015269 100644 --- a/drivers/input/tablet/wacom_wac.c +++ b/drivers

Re: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-08 Thread Matthew
> thanks a ton. ia32_setup_frame+0xe2/0x1e0 crashes with a NULL pointer it > appears. Could you send me your kernel's .config ? > sure: (I renamed the kernel in Makefile for being able to distinguish it from the other git-kernels -> bisect-crash) # # Automatically generated make config: don't

Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-08 Thread Matthew
Hi everyone, sorry for the long delay - I first had to get home & set up my rig to reproduce this hardlock (repeatedly hardlocking / shutting down the laptop doesn't do too good to the new hdd ;) ) and fortunately I was successful :) sorry for the bad quality of the pics (they were taken with

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
> I have been unable to reproduce your problem here, and I notice you have > the proprietary, highly invasive and closed-source Nvidia driver > installed in your kernel. > > Can you try using the "nv" or "vesa" (unaccelerated) Xorg drivers and > reproduce the problem that way? > > If you *do*

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
> really, that module does all sorts of nasty stuff when inserted (and > then removed), so just to make sure (because you are about to crash your > box again to take a picture), could you try to boot up without never > even once loading the nvidia module? and it still happens ;( I un-emerged

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
> > > this also happens with rc7-based kernels, btw > > hm, exactly what rc7 based kernel? Vanilla 2.6.24-rc7, built by you? Or > any patches ontop of it? (x86.git perhaps?) see first post / mail (there are a few additional patches / trees included: badram, wireless, alsa, tuxonice, madwifi,

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
> > My kernel is _not_ tainted. [...] > this time my kernel isn't tainted either (comm: thunderbird-bin Not tainted; http://kerneloftruth.neucode.org/other/crash_ia32_64/not_tainted/moto_0041.jpg) but still hardlocks: http://kerneloftruth.neucode.org/other/crash_ia32_64/not_tainted/ > ok,

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
> If you *do* reproduce the problem that way, it would be extremely > helpful if you could enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO and provide the vmlinux > (not vmlinuz/bzImage) file that goes with the crash dump screenshot. I *did* reproduce it that way and enabled the above mentioned option and the

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
> Do you have the error dump output to go along with this, too? > no, unfortunately no kernel crash dump on disk ;( (I hope I understood it right, I'm pretty noobish concerning collection of error data ;) ) I only have the console-output of the hardlock in:

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
> > That's fine, but that was collected with the vmlinux image you sent me, > right? > no, but now it is: http://kerneloftruth.neucode.org/other/crash_ia32_64/not_tainted/latest/ (the other one was taken before I added/selected the demanded features) what puzzles me is that it doesn't say

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew
> I just managed to reproduce the bug in simulation. I believe we should > be able to resolve this. That's great news! Keep up the good work :) I hope that you guys'll be able to do so since it (indirectly) more or less leads to data corruption (at least with thunderbird-bin & firefox-bin ->

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-14 Thread Matthew
> > FYI, latest x86.git should have this fix included. So if your box still > hangs there must be some other bug lurking as well. the fix from Roland ?: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/11/108 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4719206.html#4719206 (+ following posts) works like a charm :)

Re: Fwd: Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2008-01-15 Thread Matthew
> Ingo, > > This is _not_ a regression. This has been occuring for ages here. A > backport of this fix to 2.6.23 would be a > very good thing - IMHO its something that should go into stable asap. > > Thanks, > Ed Tomlinson > > > ++ Ingo, this probably has to do something with the random

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

2008-02-04 Thread Matthew
Hi everybody, >Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed >there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the >GPL. This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that decision. >There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this patch

laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2007-12-29 Thread Matthew
Hi everybody, since yesterday my laptop kept on hard-locking when launching 32bit binaries / apps I didn't know what to do but miguel botón was the one pointing me in the right direction, namely bisect :) kudos to him & the others involved in his zen-sources project:

Fwd: laptop / computer hardlocks during execution of 32bit applications(binaries) on 64bit system (Gentoo)

2007-12-29 Thread Matthew
so I was wrong XD sorry, the error was found in the meantime: see: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4667858.html#4667858 Don't need to do more testing. The culprit is the unification of the x86 i387 code. The culprit is 57c3da2f5bb3fafedc31284117ae43bc593b65ab or

CFS scheduler, -v24, for v2.6.24-rc3-git3 / current git state

2007-11-28 Thread Matthew
Hi Ingo & the other contributors of CFS, I just wanted to say thank you for your excellent job on this scheduler :) I didn't want to tell anything about v24 too fast since testing takes its time ;) so here my experience so far: - no sound stuttering anymore during internet sound streaming even

Re: CFS scheduler, -v24, for v2.6.24-rc3-git3 / current git state

2007-11-28 Thread Matthew
> cool. Which scheduler are you comparing this to - v2.6.23-ish? Or > CFS-v22? > compared to v22 & that of 2.6.23 cfs of v2.6.23 was quite "nice" with some great stuttering - dunno why the best besides current was v19.1 or v19.2 (sound stuttering was a little stronger I think but desktop

checkpatch run on net/ethernet

2012-10-02 Thread matthew
This is my first patch, it's just a checkpatch run. I figured I would also clean up the code as there appears to be long-since-obsoleted comments and code in there. A fairly trivial change, but worthy of inclusion IMO all the same! Matthew Walster -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

[PATCH 1/2] net: ethernet: clean out braces / old code (found via checkpatch)

2012-10-02 Thread matthew
From: Matthew Walster Remove an old commented out piece of code. Remove an if(true) statement. Remove a set of braces that weren't strictly necessary. All found by running checkpatch.pl against the code. Signed-off-by: Matthew Walster --- net/ethernet/eth.c |7 ++- 1 file changed, 2

[PATCH 2/2] net: ethernet: Remove obsolete comment

2012-10-02 Thread matthew
From: Matthew Walster The deleted comment was related to code I've just removed in the previous patch. --- net/ethernet/eth.c |8 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c index a9f8531..7d72108 100644 --- a/net/ethernet/eth.c +++ b/net

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.0

2001-01-12 Thread Matthew Dharm
: 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/ -- Matthew Dharm Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver Oh great modem, why hast thou f

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.0

2001-01-12 Thread Matthew Dharm
at 03:19:36PM -0800, Robert J. Bell wrote: Matthew here is the info you requested, thanks for your help. -- Matthew Dharm Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver What the hell are you? -- Pitr

Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.0

2001-01-12 Thread Matthew Dharm
am just confused why it thinks this is a scanner. IS there any way to force it to detect it as a scsi disk? I must have recompiled this kernel 50 times trying to recreate the the scenario where this worked. I can send you my .config if you think that will help. Robert Matthew

PROBLEM: PS/2 Mouse Asus A7V Mobo X 4.0.x (and 3.3.x)

2001-01-14 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
). I wasn't quite sure to what extent I should go into detail about what is happening, so if more info is needed, I can give more. btw, gpm works just fine with no problems, just X has problems. Thanks. -- Matthew Fredrickson AIM MatthewFredricks ICQ 13923212 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

super_operations in -pre7

2001-01-16 Thread Matthew Wilcox
several new operations have been added to super_operations, presumably as part of the reiserfs merge. write_super_lockfs and unlockfs are never called. can we remove them? -- Revolutions do not require corporate support. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: VIA chipset discussion

2001-01-18 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
device and see if I still have trouble. Anyway, just wondering if you're seeing the same problem. Matthew Fredrickson - 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 chipset discussion

2001-01-19 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:42:01AM -0500, John O'Donnell wrote: Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:42:25PM +, Howard Johnson wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 06:32:39PM -0500, John O'Donnell wrote: Matthew Fredrickson wrote: I have the ASUS CUV4X. VIA

RESEND: [ PATCH ] externalize (new) scsi timer function

2001-01-22 Thread Matthew Jacob
I sent this about a month ago. I think it's important. For what it's worth, Doug Gilbert (and Eric Youngdale) thought it was a good idea too. Can you please drop it in? - Late in the game, and possibly questionable, but it would be helpful to have the (new) scsi timer functions

RE: No SCSI Ultra 160 with Adaptec Controller

2001-01-23 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tom. Thanks for writing. Since this machine has Quantum drives I guess this is my problem. Does anyone know if this code is still actually necessary? It seems it's been there a while. It's disappointing to not get full

RE: No SCSI Ultra 160 with Adaptec Controller

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Jacob
Well, this is all what comes from not spending money on this stuff myself- I guess I just have too many 3 year old drives... - 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/

PPP/Modem connection problems starting somewhere between 2.2.14(maybe 15) and 2.2.18

2001-01-24 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
. I would appreciate any help I can get. I'm about to go look at historical kernel changelogs. Thanks. -- Matthew Fredrickson AIM MatthewFredricks ICQ 13923212 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fredricknet.net/~matt/ "Everything is relative" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &q

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-25 Thread Matthew Dharm
rself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - 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/ -- Matthew Dharm Home: [EMAI

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-25 Thread Matthew Dharm
Isn't that always the way in the Open Source world? :) Seriously, tho... does anyone have some list of who is using what ports? At least, in general? Matt On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:32:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Matthew Dharm wrote: It occurs to me that it might be a good idea

Re: Knowing what options a kernel was compiled with

2001-01-27 Thread Matthew Pitts
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Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
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Re: RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait/notify + callback chains

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Jacob
Why don't you look at Kqueues (from FreeBSD)? - 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: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-30 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
; deserves to be shot.' - Linus Torvalds Matthew. - 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: Kernel PPP/Modem connection problems starting somewhere between 2.2.14(maybe 15) and 2.2.18

2001-01-31 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:48:29PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 17:30:38 -0600 (+), Matthew Fredrickson wrote: I'm not positive if this is a bug, I'm only able to confirm this from one other source. Somewhere between (I can't remember exactly which kernel my

Re: test -please disregard

2001-05-11 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote: *) systems include vger itself (it has died this week alone 4-5 times), Yikes! That's not a very good advertisement. Anything that the Linux-using public should know about? Matthew. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

2001-05-09 Thread Matthew Geier
This is to solicit volunteers who will help removing the remaining cruft. Some vendors (special positive mention goes to CISCO) have released patches which are unfortunately not being propagated by some of the site owners. Help is needed to contact these site owners and politely using a

Re: mount /dev/hdb2 /usr; swapon /dev/hdb2 keeps flooding

2001-05-12 Thread Matthew Dharm
read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Matthew Dharm Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver C: Like the Furby? DP: He gives me the creeps. Think the SPCA will take him? -- Cobb and Dust Puppy

Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-13 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Eric S. Raymond wrote: Reasoned objections can change my behavior. Grunting territorial challenges at me will not. You have two options: (1) persuade Linus that the whole CML2 thing is a bad idea and should be dropped, or (2) work with me to correct any errors I have made and improve the

Re: /dev/sch0 interface

2001-05-15 Thread Matthew Jacob
I think pretty much everyone uses mtx via the sg interface. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

2001-05-19 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:22:55PM -0400, Richard Gooch wrote: The transaction(2) syscall can be just as easily abused as ioctl(2) in this respect. But read() and write() cannot. -- Revolutions do not require corporate support. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

2001-05-22 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:49:04AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: For _devices_, though? I don't expect my mouse to work if gpm and xfree both try to consume device events from the same filp. Heck, it doesn't even work when they try to consume events from the same inode :-) I think this is a

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

2001-05-22 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:31:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: `the class of devices in question' was cryptographic devices, and possibly other transactional DSPs. I don't consider audio to be transactional. in any case, you can do transactional things with two threads, as long as they each

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

2001-05-21 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:13:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Nope. You can (and people do, quite often) share filps. So you can't associate state with it. For _devices_, though? I don't expect my mouse to work if gpm and xfree both try to consume device events from the same filp. Heck, it

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

2001-05-21 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:22:34AM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: ioctl has actually 4 semantics: command only command + read command + write command + rw-transaction Separating these would be a first step. And yes, I consider each of them useful. command only: reset drive echo 'reset'

Copyright for drivers- two SCSI HBA drivers

2001-05-24 Thread Matthew Jacob
As a user of hardware which requires firmware like this, I have mixed feelings, but feel strongly that requirements of the GPL clearly override any measure of convenience. Are there any plans to remove the binary-only firmware from the kernel, and/or eventually from the Linux source

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
Sure- that's not BSD. You were speaking about all kinds of firmware, at least I thought you were. Must be too short on sleep. On Thu, 24 May 2001, Aaron Lehmann wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:00:15PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: It is my opinion, such as it is, that a BSD copyright

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

2001-05-19 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 05:25:22PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Only to an English speaker. I suspect Quebec City canadians would prefer a different command set. Should we support `pas387' as well as `no387' as a kernel boot parameter then? Face it, a sysadmin has to know the limited subset of

Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 03:11:53PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: Pheeew... Could you spell about megabyte of stuff in ioctl.c? No. $ ls -l arch/*/kernel/ioctl32*.c -rw-r--r--1 willywilly 22479 Jan 24 16:59 arch/mips64/kernel/ioctl32.c -rw-r--r--1 willywilly 109475 May

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

2001-05-19 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:51:07PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: clone(), walk(), clunk(), stat() and open() ;-) Basically, we can add unopened descriptors. I.e. no IO until you open it (turning the thing into opened one), but we can do lookups (move to child), we can clone and kill them and

Re: USB-storage and 2.4.2

2001-06-04 Thread Matthew Dharm
/lkml/ -- Matthew Dharm Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Software Designer, Momentum Computer C: Why are you upgrading to NT? AJ: It must be the sick, sadistic streak that runs through me. -- Chief and A.J. User Friendly, 5/12/1998

Re: [PATCH] mtrr: s/suser/capable/

2000-08-31 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
devices, device setup ioctl()s, etc) but nobody seemed interested in it. Really, I think that set of available capabilities needs refactoring. Matthew. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the F

Re: Large File support and blocks.

2000-09-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:15:27PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: So what do you propose to use when a long long division is needed (after much thought and considering all alternatives etc.etc.) ? Link against libgcc, what else? As also does anyone who does solaris drivers (x86 or sparc)

Re: Large File support and blocks.

2000-09-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
Tsk. Showing my age and ignorance, I guess. I was using the gcc -v trick back at Auspex in '93. ...Guess the compiler driver has gotten smarter since. You know how it goes- you do a trick once- you don't change it for years... According to the ChangeLog of the 2.7.2.3 compiler, Doug

Re: Linux 2.2 - BSD/OS 4.1 ARP incompatibility

2000-09-02 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
on the same subnet to act independantly? Matthew. - 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/

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