Re: Linux & FAT32 label

2017-10-15 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:49:31PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Thursday 12 October 2017 12:13:11 Karel Zak wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:21:13AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > The best for me is to keep blkid output backwardly compatible as much > > > > as possible :-) > > > > > >

Re: Linux & FAT32 label

2017-10-15 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:49:31PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Thursday 12 October 2017 12:13:11 Karel Zak wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:21:13AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > The best for me is to keep blkid output backwardly compatible as much > > > > as possible :-) > > > > > >

Re: Linux & FAT32 label

2017-10-15 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:04:50AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Sunday 15 October 2017 08:59:01 Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > Based on results I would propose following unification: > > > > > ... > > > 4. Prefer label from the root directory. If there is none entry (means > > >there

Re: Linux & FAT32 label

2017-10-15 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:04:50AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Sunday 15 October 2017 08:59:01 Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > Based on results I would propose following unification: > > > > > ... > > > 4. Prefer label from the root directory. If there is none entry (means > > >there

Re: [REGRESSION] Boot hang with 939f04bec printk: enable interrupts before calling console_trylock_for_printk()

2014-07-18 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:31:37AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Wed 16-07-14 23:34:08, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:35:27AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > On Sun 29-06-14 00:50:50, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > > None of the post 3.15 kernel boot for

Re: [REGRESSION] Boot hang with 939f04bec printk: enable interrupts before calling console_trylock_for_printk()

2014-07-18 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:31:37AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: On Wed 16-07-14 23:34:08, Andreas Bombe wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:35:27AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: On Sun 29-06-14 00:50:50, Andreas Bombe wrote: None of the post 3.15 kernel boot for me. They all hang at the GRUB screen

Re: [REGRESSION] Boot hang with 939f04bec printk: enable interrupts before calling console_trylock_for_printk()

2014-07-16 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:35:27AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Sun 29-06-14 00:50:50, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > None of the post 3.15 kernel boot for me. They all hang at the GRUB > > screen telling me it loaded and started the kernel, but the kernel > > itself stops befo

Re: [REGRESSION] Boot hang with 939f04bec printk: enable interrupts before calling console_trylock_for_printk()

2014-07-16 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:35:27AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: On Sun 29-06-14 00:50:50, Andreas Bombe wrote: None of the post 3.15 kernel boot for me. They all hang at the GRUB screen telling me it loaded and started the kernel, but the kernel itself stops before it prints anything (or even

Re: [REGRESSION] Boot hang with 939f04bec printk: enable interrupts before calling console_trylock_for_printk()

2014-07-02 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 01:20:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 00:50:50 +0200 Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > None of the post 3.15 kernel boot for me. They all hang at the GRUB > > screen telling me it loaded and started the kernel, but the kernel >

Re: [REGRESSION] Boot hang with 939f04bec printk: enable interrupts before calling console_trylock_for_printk()

2014-07-02 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 01:20:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 00:50:50 +0200 Andreas Bombe a...@debian.org wrote: None of the post 3.15 kernel boot for me. They all hang at the GRUB screen telling me it loaded and started the kernel, but the kernel itself stops before

[Regression] process hangs due to "USB: EHCI: work around silicon bug in Intels EHCI controllers"

2013-03-19 Thread Andreas Bombe
The named commit (6402c796d3) causes a process to hang indefinitely in usb_kill_urb(). Reverting it fixes the problem. The bug also prevents suspend/shutdown/reboot from completing, presumably due to the hanging process. (Cc'ing Stephen Warren because I only found his report after I bisected it

[Regression] process hangs due to USB: EHCI: work around silicon bug in Intels EHCI controllers

2013-03-19 Thread Andreas Bombe
The named commit (6402c796d3) causes a process to hang indefinitely in usb_kill_urb(). Reverting it fixes the problem. The bug also prevents suspend/shutdown/reboot from completing, presumably due to the hanging process. (Cc'ing Stephen Warren because I only found his report after I bisected it

Re: radeon causing sleeping function called from invalid context

2013-02-07 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 02:38:20PM +0300, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > On (01/12/13 20:27), Dave Jones wrote: > > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:925 > > in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 566, name: Xorg > > INFO: lockdep is turned off. > > Pid: 566, comm:

Re: radeon causing sleeping function called from invalid context

2013-02-07 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 02:38:20PM +0300, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: On (01/12/13 20:27), Dave Jones wrote: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:925 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 566, name: Xorg INFO: lockdep is turned off. Pid: 566, comm: Xorg Not

[RFC PATCH] [SCSI] sd: When no media present ignore WCE in suspend/shutdown

2012-12-25 Thread Andreas Bombe
sd_suspend() to return an error. Signed-off-by: Andreas Bombe --- Ok, this patch makes the problem go away, but I'm not sure whether this is right solution. I also don't know whether SATA RDX docks are sort of a special case in this regard. I can think of two other solutions: 1. Also skip

[RFC PATCH] [SCSI] sd: When no media present ignore WCE in suspend/shutdown

2012-12-25 Thread Andreas Bombe
sd_suspend() to return an error. Signed-off-by: Andreas Bombe a...@debian.org --- Ok, this patch makes the problem go away, but I'm not sure whether this is right solution. I also don't know whether SATA RDX docks are sort of a special case in this regard. I can think of two other solutions: 1

Re: [REGRESSION] Xorg doesn't like 4e8b14526 "time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs"

2012-08-31 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:43:42AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > On 08/30/2012 09:05 PM, Andreas Bombe wrote: > >With that somewhat easy test I bisected it down to 4e8b14526 "time: > >Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs". The latest Linus git > >(155e36d40

Re: [REGRESSION] Xorg doesn't like 4e8b14526 "time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs"

2012-08-31 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:25:52PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > > With that somewhat easy test I bisected it down to 4e8b14526 "time: > > Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs". The

Re: [REGRESSION] Xorg doesn't like 4e8b14526 time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs

2012-08-31 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:25:52PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Andreas Bombe a...@debian.org wrote: With that somewhat easy test I bisected it down to 4e8b14526 time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs. The latest Linus git (155e36d40

Re: [REGRESSION] Xorg doesn't like 4e8b14526 time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs

2012-08-31 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:43:42AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: On 08/30/2012 09:05 PM, Andreas Bombe wrote: With that somewhat easy test I bisected it down to 4e8b14526 time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs. The latest Linus git (155e36d40) with a revert of the bisected commit does

[REGRESSION] Xorg doesn't like 4e8b14526 "time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs"

2012-08-30 Thread Andreas Bombe
ore: 2:1.12.3.902-1, xserver-xorg-video-radeon: 1:6.14.4-5, libdrm: 2.4.33-3). -- Andreas Bombe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[REGRESSION] Xorg doesn't like 4e8b14526 time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs

2012-08-30 Thread Andreas Bombe
-xorg-video-radeon: 1:6.14.4-5, libdrm: 2.4.33-3). -- Andreas Bombe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http

Re: 2.4.5 and gcc v3 final

2001-06-25 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:33:51PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > What gcc objects to is stuff like: > >"This is a nice long string > that just goes on > and on\n" > > which is illegal in C AFAIU. It does not object to: > >"This long string" >"spans several lines, " >

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-25 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:21:18PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > Name one thing Microsoft actually invented. Other than Microsoft Bob. I remember there being a web page where all of Microsoft's "innovations" were listed and where they bought or stole it from. The only things that were really

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-25 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:21:18PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: Name one thing Microsoft actually invented. Other than Microsoft Bob. I remember there being a web page where all of Microsoft's innovations were listed and where they bought or stole it from. The only things that were really

Re: 2.4.5 and gcc v3 final

2001-06-25 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:33:51PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: What gcc objects to is stuff like: This is a nice long string that just goes on and on\n which is illegal in C AFAIU. It does not object to: This long string spans several lines, but legally.\n

Re: a memory-related problem?

2001-06-17 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:37:03PM +0200, Ronald Bultje wrote: > system = p-II 400 MHz, 128 MB swap, 440BX (abit p6b) mainboard > memory is (133 MHz) SDRAM memory (running at 100 MHz) The question is, does it configure your SDRAMs correctly? I assume it's on auto config, then the BIOS has to

Re: a memory-related problem?

2001-06-17 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:37:03PM +0200, Ronald Bultje wrote: system = p-II 400 MHz, 128 MB swap, 440BX (abit p6b) mainboard memory is (133 MHz) SDRAM memory (running at 100 MHz) The question is, does it configure your SDRAMs correctly? I assume it's on auto config, then the BIOS has to

O2 Micro CB bridge problems (was: PCMCIA troubles with an Acer TravelMate 513TE)

2001-06-13 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:08:39AM +0100, Paulo E. Abreu wrote: > Greetings, > > I have this laptop and I am having trouble with pcmcia in every 2.4.x > kernel. > Someone suggested that this could be a BIOS bug ... > Below there is the information, that I think is relevant to this problem. If >

O2 Micro CB bridge problems (was: PCMCIA troubles with an Acer TravelMate 513TE)

2001-06-13 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:08:39AM +0100, Paulo E. Abreu wrote: Greetings, I have this laptop and I am having trouble with pcmcia in every 2.4.x kernel. Someone suggested that this could be a BIOS bug ... Below there is the information, that I think is relevant to this problem. If more

Re: how mmap() works?

2001-04-01 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 03:28:05PM -0500, Tim Hockin wrote: > > Without syncing, Linux writes whenever it thinks it's appropriate, e.g. > > when pages have to be freed (I think also when the bdflush writes back > > data, i.e. every 30 seconds by default). > > what about mmap() on non-filesystem

Re: how mmap() works?

2001-04-01 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:14:51PM -0800, Jerry Hong wrote: > Hi, > mmap() creates a mmaped memory associated with a > physical file. If a process updates the mmaped memory, > Linux will updates the file "automatically". If this > is the case, why do we need msync()? For the same reason you

Re: how mmap() works?

2001-04-01 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:14:51PM -0800, Jerry Hong wrote: Hi, mmap() creates a mmaped memory associated with a physical file. If a process updates the mmaped memory, Linux will updates the file "automatically". If this is the case, why do we need msync()? For the same reason you might

Re: how mmap() works?

2001-04-01 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 03:28:05PM -0500, Tim Hockin wrote: Without syncing, Linux writes whenever it thinks it's appropriate, e.g. when pages have to be freed (I think also when the bdflush writes back data, i.e. every 30 seconds by default). what about mmap() on non-filesystem files

IRQ routing conflict & ressource assignment on Thinkpad

2001-03-29 Thread Andreas Bombe
Something that was itching me for a while (and I had a bad conscience for not reporting a bug for so long): I have an IBM Thinkpad i1200 (1161-267, Celeron 550, see lspci below). The PCI code in 2.4 always complains about an IRQ routing conflict wrt the CardBus controller. That used to make it

IRQ routing conflict ressource assignment on Thinkpad

2001-03-29 Thread Andreas Bombe
Something that was itching me for a while (and I had a bad conscience for not reporting a bug for so long): I have an IBM Thinkpad i1200 (1161-267, Celeron 550, see lspci below). The PCI code in 2.4 always complains about an IRQ routing conflict wrt the CardBus controller. That used to make it

[PATCH] ieee1394 pcilynx.c SMP fix

2001-03-20 Thread Andreas Bombe
Due to a brain malfunction spinlocks were used in pcilynx.c before they were initialized, causing SMP systems to deadlock. The patch fixes this and removes one second/redundant initialization of another lock. diff -ruN linux-2.4.linus/drivers/ieee1394/pcilynx.c

[PATCH] ieee1394 pcilynx.c SMP fix

2001-03-20 Thread Andreas Bombe
Due to a brain malfunction spinlocks were used in pcilynx.c before they were initialized, causing SMP systems to deadlock. The patch fixes this and removes one second/redundant initialization of another lock. diff -ruN linux-2.4.linus/drivers/ieee1394/pcilynx.c

Re: hotplug and interrupt context

2001-03-12 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:18:18PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > > I couldn't trace that down to be 100% sure and it's better to conform to > > design than implementation, so I'll ask: > > > > Do the probe and remove functions of a pci_d

Re: hotplug and interrupt context

2001-03-12 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:18:18PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Andreas Bombe wrote: I couldn't trace that down to be 100% sure and it's better to conform to design than implementation, so I'll ask: Do the probe and remove functions of a pci_driver have to be able to work in interrupt

hotplug and interrupt context

2001-03-11 Thread Andreas Bombe
I couldn't trace that down to be 100% sure and it's better to conform to design than implementation, so I'll ask: Do the probe and remove functions of a pci_driver have to be able to work in interrupt context? (i.e. GFP_ATOMIC and stuff) I expect so, since CardBus handling doesn't start a

hotplug and interrupt context

2001-03-11 Thread Andreas Bombe
I couldn't trace that down to be 100% sure and it's better to conform to design than implementation, so I'll ask: Do the probe and remove functions of a pci_driver have to be able to work in interrupt context? (i.e. GFP_ATOMIC and stuff) I expect so, since CardBus handling doesn't start a

Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-20 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:09:55AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le 20 Feb 2001 02:10:12 +0100, Andreas Bombe a écrit : > > On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:53:48PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > It also soun

Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-20 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:09:55AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: Le 20 Feb 2001 02:10:12 +0100, Andreas Bombe a crit : On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:53:48PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It also sounds like you will be breaking the extremely

Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-19 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:53:48PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It also sounds like you will be > > breaking the extremely useful C postulate that, at the ABI level at > > least, arrays and pointers are equivalent. I can't see *how* you plan >

Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

2001-02-19 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:53:48PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It also sounds like you will be breaking the extremely useful C postulate that, at the ABI level at least, arrays and pointers are equivalent. I can't see *how* you plan to work

[PATCH] [BUGFIX] [RESEND, goddammit!] important fixes for ieee1394 subsystem

2001-02-04 Thread Andreas Bombe
I have sent the following patch three times to you during 2.4.1 prepatch time and you seem to have missed all of them (Jan 15, 19 and 25). I hope we can manage that for 2.4.2 and get the known bugs with fixes out of the ieee1394 subsystem. Finally. Please, either show some sign of life by

[PATCH] [BUGFIX] [RESEND, goddammit!] important fixes for ieee1394 subsystem

2001-02-04 Thread Andreas Bombe
I have sent the following patch three times to you during 2.4.1 prepatch time and you seem to have missed all of them (Jan 15, 19 and 25). I hope we can manage that for 2.4.2 and get the known bugs with fixes out of the ieee1394 subsystem. Finally. Please, either show some sign of life by

[PATCH] important fixes for ieee1394 subsystem

2001-01-14 Thread Andreas Bombe
This patch does the missing conversions for the new task queue code, one of which fixes an oops (the others are there for cleanliness). I use some internal macros for easy compatibility to Linux 2.2. The other change incorporated fixes some issues in the PCILynx driver with bus resets being

[PATCH] important fixes for ieee1394 subsystem

2001-01-14 Thread Andreas Bombe
This patch does the missing conversions for the new task queue code, one of which fixes an oops (the others are there for cleanliness). I use some internal macros for easy compatibility to Linux 2.2. The other change incorporated fixes some issues in the PCILynx driver with bus resets being

Re: 2.4.0: ieee1394: got invalid ack 3 from node 65473 (tcode 4)

2001-01-12 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:48:42AM +0100, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: > Incompatibility with "Sarotech FHD-352F/U Rev 1.0" > > Using an external IDE drive in the Sarotech FireWire enclosure fails, even > though the Sarotech unit works with Win2K and other SBP2 drives work for me > (with Linux). > >

Re: 2.4.0: ieee1394: got invalid ack 3 from node 65473 (tcode 4)

2001-01-12 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:48:42AM +0100, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: Incompatibility with "Sarotech FHD-352F/U Rev 1.0" Using an external IDE drive in the Sarotech FireWire enclosure fails, even though the Sarotech unit works with Win2K and other SBP2 drives work for me (with Linux). I'm

Re: prerelease total nonmodular compile, compiler warnings, linking errors

2001-01-02 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:56:54PM +0200, Elmer Joandi wrote: > > compiling everything builtin, (exept RCPCI, which does not compile) > > linking errors: > drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394.a is not made, quick hack to use .o to see other > errors. You're then using the ieee1394.o module object which

[PATCH] fixed Makefile fix for ieee1394

2001-01-02 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:43:57AM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote: > Now that I've had the time to understand the new kernel makefile > structure the patch Kai Germaschewski posted is indeed the correct fix > (move include line up). Furthermore it builds an .o object in the > static c

Re: prerelease total nonmodular compile, compiler warnings, linking errors

2001-01-02 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:56:54PM +0200, Elmer Joandi wrote: compiling everything builtin, (exept RCPCI, which does not compile) linking errors: drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394.a is not made, quick hack to use .o to see other errors. You're then using the ieee1394.o module object which

[OOPS] kacpid dies on boot 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread Andreas Bombe
Attached is a ksymoops processed oops which kacpid creates as part of its initialization (i.e. at boot time). It was connected to AC power with a full battery, if that is significant. Kernel is 2.4.0-prerelease. The machine is a IBM Thinkpad i1200 series (to be more specific model 1161-267),

[PATCH] Makefile fix for ieee1394

2001-01-01 Thread Andreas Bombe
Now that I've had the time to understand the new kernel makefile structure the patch Kai Germaschewski posted is indeed the correct fix (move include line up). Furthermore it builds an .o object in the static compiled case now. I don't see any reason to choose the .a format and most other

[OOPS] kacpid dies on boot 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-01 Thread Andreas Bombe
Attached is a ksymoops processed oops which kacpid creates as part of its initialization (i.e. at boot time). It was connected to AC power with a full battery, if that is significant. Kernel is 2.4.0-prerelease. The machine is a IBM Thinkpad i1200 series (to be more specific model 1161-267),

[PATCH] Makefile fix for ieee1394

2001-01-01 Thread Andreas Bombe
Now that I've had the time to understand the new kernel makefile structure the patch Kai Germaschewski posted is indeed the correct fix (move include line up). Furthermore it builds an .o object in the static compiled case now. I don't see any reason to choose the .a format and most other

Re: 2.4.0-test12: PCMCIA IRQ assignments?

2000-12-28 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 07:24:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a Sager NP9820 laptop with an ALI chipset and a TI PCI1251BGFN > PCMCIA chipset. For some reason, when I use the yenta module under 2.4.0, > it gets an incorrect IRQ assignment. It uses IRQ11, which is

Re: 2.4.0-test12: PCMCIA IRQ assignments?

2000-12-28 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 07:24:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a Sager NP9820 laptop with an ALI chipset and a TI PCI1251BGFN PCMCIA chipset. For some reason, when I use the yenta module under 2.4.0, it gets an incorrect IRQ assignment. It uses IRQ11, which is also

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using > /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? The driver itself has to provide support for serial

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? The driver itself has to provide support for serial

Re: test12-pre3 (FireWire issue)

2000-12-03 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:00:07PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: > Linus Torvalds said once upon a time (Tue, 28 Nov 2000): > > > - pre3: > > - Andreas Bombe: ieee1394 cleanups and fixes > > Linus, Andreas, > > I've been using this same config since FireWire was m

Re: test12-pre3 (FireWire issue)

2000-12-03 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:00:07PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: Linus Torvalds said once upon a time (Tue, 28 Nov 2000): - pre3: - Andreas Bombe: ieee1394 cleanups and fixes Linus, Andreas, I've been using this same config since FireWire was merged, just tried out test12-pre3

Re: Address translation

2000-11-24 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:04:18PM +0100, Bjorn Wesen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > I may be wrong on this, but I thought that copy_{to,from}_user are > > > only necessary if the address range you are accessing might cause a > > > fault

Re: Address translation

2000-11-24 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:04:18PM +0100, Bjorn Wesen wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Andreas Bombe wrote: I may be wrong on this, but I thought that copy_{to,from}_user are only necessary if the address range you are accessing might cause a fault which Linux cannot handle (ie. one which

Re: Address translation

2000-11-23 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:39:51PM +, Keir Fraser wrote: > > The reason that everyone else uses copy_{to,from}_user is that there > > is no way to guarantee that the userspace pointer is valid. That > > memory may have been swapped out. The copy macros are prepared to > > fault the memory in.

Re: Address translation

2000-11-23 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:39:51PM +, Keir Fraser wrote: The reason that everyone else uses copy_{to,from}_user is that there is no way to guarantee that the userspace pointer is valid. That memory may have been swapped out. The copy macros are prepared to fault the memory in. The

Re: can kernel memory allocated by kmalloc be swapped out??

2000-09-17 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:42:38PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi everyone, > > suppose i allocate some kernel memory in a module by calling kmalloc, > can that memory be swapped out, for example in AIX even the kernel memory > which is allocated by rmalloc is swappable!! No, it isn't

Re: can kernel memory allocated by kmalloc be swapped out??

2000-09-17 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:42:38PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, suppose i allocate some kernel memory in a module by calling kmalloc, can that memory be swapped out, for example in AIX even the kernel memory which is allocated by rmalloc is swappable!! No, it isn't

Re: Distro kernel patches (was Re: Linux 2.2.18pre4)

2000-09-15 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 05:31:17PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > 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

Re: Distro kernel patches (was Re: Linux 2.2.18pre4)

2000-09-15 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 05:31:17PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: 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

Re: Question about Bind Souce Code

2000-09-14 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:33:02AM +0800, Pan Renzi wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. No, it isn't. It just pretends to be. This is your second post to this list, which is about the Linux kernel and not about Bind. We can't answer your question, ask the appropriate people

Re: Question about Bind Souce Code

2000-09-14 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:33:02AM +0800, Pan Renzi wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. No, it isn't. It just pretends to be. This is your second post to this list, which is about the Linux kernel and not about Bind. We can't answer your question, ask the appropriate people