Re: 2.6.12-rc3 fails compile -- aic7xxx_osm.c

2005-04-20 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:08:27PM -0400, Pete Clements wrote: > FYI: [snip] In case anyone hits this problem but misses my post to the main "Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3" thread, the fix is here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=111391769011616&w=2 -Barry K. Nathan <

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-20 Thread Barry K. Nathan
69011616&w=2 [linux-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix microtek.c compile failure http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=111391865311903&w=2 Another LKML poster (who I added to CC on this message) already hit the aic7xxx compile failure with 2.6.12-rc3... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL P

[PATCH] fix aic7xxx_osm.c compile failure (gcc 2.95.x only)

2005-04-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
es the compile error. I've compile-tested this but I haven't actually run it. Signed-off-by: Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-9d469ee9f21c680c41dbffe5b0f36ab5010ca8b1-bkn2/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c 2005-04-19 00:46:11.6

[PATCH] fix ultrastor.c compile error

2005-04-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
I don't believe I can execute this code. Signed-off-by: Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-9d469ee9f21c680c41dbffe5b0f36ab5010ca8b1-bkn1/drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c 2005-04-19 00:46:13.689904927 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc2-9d469ee9f21c680c41dbffe5b0f36ab5

[PATCH] fix microtek.c compile failure

2005-04-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
rivers/usb] Error 2 make: *** [drivers] Error 2 This patch fixes the compile error. I don't have this hardware so I don't think I can actually run this code, however. Signed-off-by: Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-9d469ee9f21c680c41dbffe5b0f36ab5010ca8b1/dr

Re: [xfs-masters] swsusp vs. xfs [was Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Thanks, this patch helped. I can confirm, the 2nd patch worked and the 1st one didn't. (This is against 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 with sched-x86-patch-name-is-way-too-long.patch backed out. ;) ) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)

2005-04-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
rror does not make sense to me. I didn't understand it either, at first, but then I read this: http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/henson/henson_html/node9.html Whether this is serious enough to actually worry about is another question... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
e the dual-checkin scheme would be needed as a safety net in case root forgets to do the checkin. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at ht

Re: [rfc] git: combo-blobs

2005-04-11 Thread Barry K. Nathan
I think you forgot about reiserfs/reiser4 tails. (At least, I *think* reiser4 has tails. I know reiserfs 3.x does.) BTW, I happen to agree completely with Linus on this issue, but I still figured I'd mention this for the sake of completeness. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsu

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
& useful with a serial console... Failing that, I'll try a camcorder or digital camera and transcribe from that. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
t later today, but it's possible that I won't be able to get to it until next Friday or Saturday. > I do not why it interferes, but I've seen that before on suse > kernels... Have you seen it without the resume-from-initrd patch too, or only with that patch? -Barry K

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
(Sorry I took so long to respond. I was busy with tons of stuff offline...) On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:33:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Do you have XFS compiled in, by chance? Yes. > You are not actually resuming from initrd, right? That is correct. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:06:14PM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > > > BTW, there's another strange thing that's introduced by 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: > > > With that kernel, suspend is also ridiculously slow (speed is comparable > > > to the slow resume with the afore

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:27:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Barry K. Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, I've narrowed the problem down to one patch. In 2.6.11-mm3, the > > problem goes away if I remove this patch: > > swsusp-enable

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
e that problem. Also, with 2.6.12-rc2-mm1, this computer happens to hit the bug where all the printk timestamps are 000.000 (don't take the # of digits too literally). Probably unrelated, but I may as well mention it. (System is an Athlon XP 2200+ with SiS chipset. I can't rem

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
> -bk10 diff, but after one or two more iterations of (psuedo-)binary search, it should be much smaller. I'm planning to go as far as I can before going to bed tonight. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:14:45AM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > 2.6.11-bk9 works (actually it takes under 2 seconds, not 5-10). > 2.6.11-bk10 has the weird slowdown. > > I'll see if I can isolate it any further. 2.6.11-mm2 works, but 2.6.11-mm3 has the ridiculously slow resu

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 06:44:08AM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > swsusp: reading slkf;jalksfsadflkjas;dlfasdfkl (12345 pages): 34% > [sorry, I just got up so my short-term memory isn't working that well > yet] > > takes 10-30 minutes (depending on whether it's closer

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Barry K. Nathan
obe snd_cmipci). But these are long-standing issues, and under 2.6.12-rc1-mm4, ieee1394/sbp2 can at least stay up indefinitely as long as I don't suspend -- that's a tremendous improvement over 2.6.11. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x in kernel 2.6.12-rc1-bk6

2005-04-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
runs without any problems. [snip] I was having the same problem on a system of mine too, but it went away after I disabled CONFIG_DEVFS_FS. You didn't include enough of your .config for me to be able to tell if that is at all relevant in your case however. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Aligning file system data

2005-03-29 Thread Barry K. Nathan
track with a single ATA command unless it supports LBA48.) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: BK snapshots removed from kernel.org?

2005-03-27 Thread Barry K. Nathan
ed at least once before; this time I think it happened when the fixes from 2.6.11.6 were merged into Linus's BK tree. You can still get to the snapshots using this URL, but as I said, the scripts are confused right now: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/ -Barry K. Nathan <

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm3

2005-03-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:21:54AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > More fixlets derived from the Coverity tool (does this thing have a name?) AFAICT the name of the tool is "Coverity Prevent". (But I'm not absolutely 100% sure.) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: 2.6.11-mm4

2005-03-17 Thread Barry K. Nathan
ompiled in, and that the parallel port support is compiled in (as opposed to being a module). And if you do the above, make sure to have lots of paper handy. Also, this trick probably won't work with all printers, but it stands a good chance of working. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: huge filesystems

2005-03-15 Thread Barry K. Nathan
ystem expansion and file system sizes up to 8TB are now supported." http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/features/ -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: 2.6.11-mm3

2005-03-13 Thread Barry K. Nathan
-SysRq-O, on hardware that previously didn't work. Now it works. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/majord

Re: spin_lock error in arch/i386/kernel/time.c on APM resume

2005-03-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
ssed on LKML though. (I haven't been reading LKML closely enough to say that with 100% certainty, however.) Summary: kernel-2.6.9-1.724_FC3 breaks APM suspend on Thinkpad https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=144415 -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubsc

Re: [Bug 4298] swsusp fails to suspend if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is also enabled

2005-03-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
pting Pavel's patch. It's a definite improvement over the existing code, and it could be a long while until I have a boot-time message patch that is both functional and clean enough to be incorporated into mainline. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [Bug 4298] swsusp fails to suspend if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is also enabled

2005-03-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
addition to?) his patch. Maybe we should be disabling swsusp altogether at boot in that case, if that's not unreasonably hard to implement. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

[PATCH] kconfig: DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and SOFTWARE_SUSPEND are incompatible on i386

2005-03-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is missing in that case. I have tested this patch against oldconfig and menuconfig on 2.6.11-bk2. Signed-off-by: Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-bk2/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug2004-12-24 13:34:45.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.11-bk2-bkn2/arch/i386/Kconfig

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
overflow.) I guess the best thing would be for the script to revert to the current ("-bk") naming scheme once -rc1 is out. Otherwise it would need to do, say, 2.6.12-rc2-pre1 instead of 2.6.12-rc1-bk1, and while that seems natural to me, I don't know how the rest of the planet's

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
;s the default for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as well. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Barry K. Nathan
6.22 | ES | S| S ... e.g. if odd/even causes too many long releases or other problems like that, then something like the middle column (every Nth release is extra-stable, for N >= 3) could be tried. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Barry K. Nathan
IMO the bits are also magical, insofar as they get treated differently (e.g. RHEL kernels always get backports whereas Fedora ones often get updated altogether). If the bits weren't magical then I think people would simply run Fedora Core instead of creating RHEL rebuild projects. -Barr

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Barry K. Nathan
l release, but it's really the same concept. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Barry K. Nathan
oximation of the so-called "2.4 approach", let A=0 and s/beta/pre/g. Perhaps the alpha/beta distinction won't *really* mean anything, but it might have a subliminal effect on everyone. :) Anyway, if the alpha/beta distinction is overengineering, it's easily removed (see the begi

Re: swsusp logic error?

2005-02-27 Thread Barry K. Nathan
would never succeed in suspending the machine. Since the problem is gone now, I think I have better uses for my time than figuring out when the problem started and when it was fixed, but I just wanted to mention that in fact there are problems in earlier 2.6.11-rc releases that seem to be f

Re: Xterm Hangs - Possible scheduler defect?

2005-02-24 Thread Barry K. Nathan
tasks are supposed to be able to take SMP systems down, if the # of SCHED_FIFO tasks is less than the # of CPU's. I imagine someone has thought about this in the past and answered the question one way or another, but I don't happen to know the answer. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

2005-02-22 Thread Barry K. Nathan
rhaps you could try an OHCI controller (e.g. some USB PCI cards) and see if that makes any difference. (I remember reading something about OHCI being more efficient than UHCI in some cases, although I don't remember the details now.) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubs

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-09 Thread Barry K. Nathan
the people there can absorb this and fix it up for real, please? I forgot to mention, this patch is known to break Alt-SysRq-O on at least some systems. See here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0501.3/0869.html -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-09 Thread Barry K. Nathan
#x27;s own words, the patch "needs some work before it goes into a mainline kernel". AFAICT it's more of a proof-of-concept, just to see if Eric's on the right track... This is the motivation behind the patch: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110665405402747

Re: Post install 2.4.29 causes many apps to seg fault.

2005-02-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
sure about that). Then recompile any applications that still segfault or freeze with a vanilla kernel (note that, for all I know, rpm itself could be one of these!) I hope this helps... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-26 Thread Barry K. Nathan
But, that's just a guess. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 07:12:55PM +, Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote: > This acpi_power_off issue ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/11/88 ) still > happens. http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4041 Look at that bug report (especially toward the bottom) for the latest information. -B

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
ly > the proper position in the call chain instead of use a proper > hook. But I can't quickly find an existing hook in the proper > location. I had to fix a couple of typos ("apci" and "offf") to get it to compile. Once I did that, the patch made shutdown work a

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
e 100% correlation over 20-30 test runs or so (unfortunately it didn't occur to me to keep an exact count). > Well if you can help me track this down I would appreciate it. > > Do you think you would have time to try some test patches? Yes, I should have time to test patches. -Barr

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:14:06AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Barry K. Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:35:00AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > So I will ask again, as I did when Andrew first pointed this in m

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
ystem. This may be a foolish question, but, are there possibly any code paths in the *BIOS* that could care? -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:06:10PM +, Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > > >This isn't new to 2.6.11-rc1-mm1, but it has the infamous (to Fedora > >users) "

Re: processes stuck in D state

2001-04-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
n was 2.4.3-pre4, and it did not have this problem. In my case, it's usually mozilla (I'm seeing this with the daily snapshots, but not with mozilla-0.8.1, at least not yet), but at least once I saw it with freeamp (2.1rc5) too. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscri

Re: loop-6 patch and 2.4.2

2001-02-23 Thread Barry K. Nathan
DW<0:57 [loop0] 116 ?DW<0:58 [loop2] 2816 pts/4S 0:00 fgrep loop Since I have 3 image files mounted, that means my Inspiron 5000e has a load of 3 when it's idle... ;) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &q

Re: PCI oddities on Dell Inspiron 5000e w/ 2.4.x

2001-02-22 Thread Barry K. Nathan
of disclaimer. Since I was having those APM oopses under Linux, I decided to try upgrading. It didn't fix the oopses, though.) Anyway, maybe the BIOS version is relevant to this problem as well. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

[PATCH] 2.4.2pre4 make loopback root work again

2001-02-21 Thread Barry K. Nathan
structions, probably around 400K total, if anyone wants me to do that.) This patch is a merge of a bug fix from 2.2.10-ac11. This fix was merged into 2.2.11pre2, but it doesn't seem to have been merged into 2.3 or 2.4 at all... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruN linux-2.4.2-pr

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Barry K. Nathan
AMD 750 or an Intel BX, though.) IIRC, Andre Hedrick has said in the past that a marginal PSU or motherboard can also cause CRC errors. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mes

Re: Possible Bug: drivers/sound/maestro.c

2001-01-26 Thread Barry K. Nathan
only through one speaker) under both Linux 2.2 and Win2K. If it was just Linux, I'd assume it was a driver problem, but the fact that I'm getting very similar misbehavior from both Linux and Win2K (I don't have Win98 or ME on the machine, so I can't test that) makes me really wo

Re: 2.4 disk speed 66% slowdown...

2001-01-24 Thread Barry K. Nathan
7;t remember any of them. I wasn't planning on reporting this until I got a chance to put together a self-contained package & instructions for reproducing the problem, but since I'm writing an email to the list, here it is... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubsc

Re: 2.4 cpu usage...

2001-01-23 Thread Barry K. Nathan
ing /dev/hda straight into nc, or piping cat into nc). In my case, the slowdown was clearly visible - the disk light was at full brightness under 2.2.16, but not 2.4.0testwhatever. I wanted to try again without any APM stuff in the kernel (or at least, not APM CPU idling) before reporting it, but

Re: Is this kernel related (signal 11)?

2001-01-22 Thread Barry K. Nathan
rclocking the machine too much... I have no idea if that helps, but I thought I'd go ahead and throw in my two cents, just in case it does. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

2.4.x: CONFIG_IDEDMA_NEW_DRIVE_LISTINGS paradox/doc. bug

2001-01-21 Thread Barry K. Nathan
kernel, to say the least... (I meant to report this during 2.4test, but I'm only getting a chance now.) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: lance.c @ 100Mbit

2001-01-16 Thread Barry K. Nathan
n my case, Am79C971. Works great for me, under both 2.2 and 2.4. (I don't have any SMP systems, FWIW.) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/

[PATCH] 2.4.0 Changes - add compiler source code URL, minor cleanup

2001-01-08 Thread Barry K. Nathan
The following patch: (a) Adds a URL for the egcs 1.1.2 source code. This change is both low-risk and important IMO. (b) Fixes two sloppy underlines. Please apply. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.4.0/Documentation/Changes Mon Jan 1 10:00:04 2001 +++ linux-2.4

Re: [PATCH] new bug report script

2001-01-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
al and running at least 2.2.x kernels. Perhaps that accounts for the missing version dependencies... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: posix_types.h error

2001-01-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
egcs 1.1.2 source code). Now that I know where it is, I'll soon post a patch for Documentation/Changes... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: patch does not apply

2001-01-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
rmer should be applied to 2.4.0-prerelease (i.e. after you've used the latter) to get a snapshot of Linus' current tree (or something like that, anyway). -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

NIC recommendations (was Re: Repeatable 2.4.0-test13-pre4...)

2000-12-30 Thread Barry K. Nathan
nux experiences are similar to the experiences I've had overall.) Anyway, those are my experiences and recommendations. YMMV. :) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-26 Thread Barry K. Nathan
uadruple it. (Perhaps I've overlooked a detail or oversimplified something, in which case I'd appreciate being corrected.) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL P

Re: Proposal: devfs names ending in %d or %u

2000-12-24 Thread Barry K. Nathan
mount. (I'm probably going to do other stuff instead of implementing this, but I haven't decided for sure yet.) In any case, I think the solution would be completely orthogonal to devfs... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: recommended gcc compiler version

2000-12-21 Thread Barry K. Nathan
, so 2.4 has a preprocessor check that stops any attempts to compile it with 2.7.2.3. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: Extreme IDE slowdown with 2.2.18

2000-12-21 Thread Barry K. Nathan
southbridge. 596B & 686A do, others don't. http://www.via.com.tw/news/98mvp3nr.htm http://www.via.com.tw/products/prodmvp3.htm http://www.via.com.tw/support/faq.htm#ide -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

[PATCH] 2.4.0test13-pre3 apm.o unresolved symbols

2000-12-17 Thread Barry K. Nathan
(Linus Torvalds added to the cc list because there's now a patch to fix the problem.) Alan Cox wrote: > pm.o should be listed as a symbol exporting object in kernel/Makefile Ok, here's a patch that does this. Tested for both the in-kernel and module cases. -Barry K. Nathan <

[BUG] 2.4.0test13-pre3 apm.o unresolved symbols

2000-12-17 Thread Barry K. Nathan
don't know when the error was first introduced... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: test13pre2 - netfilter modiles compile failure

2000-12-16 Thread Barry K. Nathan
sq_init': net/network.o(.text.init+0xf22): undefined reference to `ip_conntrack_init' net/network.o(.text.init+0xf2d): undefined reference to `ip_nat_init' net/network.o(.text.init+0xf61): undefined reference to `ip_conntrack_cleanup' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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: test13pre2 - netfilter modiles compile failure

2000-12-16 Thread Barry K. Nathan
Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I got the same error with the ipchains-compatible netfilter compiled as > >modules. Compiling into the kernel instead, I also get an error. I've > &g

Re: test13pre2 - netfilter modiles compile failure

2000-12-15 Thread Barry K. Nathan
I got the same error with the ipchains-compatible netfilter compiled as modules. Compiling into the kernel instead, I also get an error. I've included the error and my .config below. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ld -m elf_i386 -r -o netfilter.o ipchains.o ip_nf_compat.o ip_

Re: Traffic storm interaction with MacOS 8.6

2000-12-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
) it introduces some weird glitches, and I *really* would not recommend it -- also, I forget how I hacked it into working on an older machine; I *think* the hacking procedure involved using an OS 9 CD at some point in the process.] -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this

2.4's internal PCMCIA works for me (was Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread)

2000-11-17 Thread Barry K. Nathan
mention that, for some people anyway, the in-kernel code works just as well as the external code. I do understand that the in-kernel support isn't as mature as the external support yet. However, it isn't universally broken and useless either. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: APM oops with Dell 5000e laptop

2000-11-16 Thread Barry K. Nathan
, not APM. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/

[BUG?] AMD 5x86 and 2.4 (was Re: [BUG?] AMD K5 and 2.4)

2000-11-15 Thread Barry K. Nathan
IBM made 5x86's as well - are those more like fast 486's or slow Pentiums? I don't remember. If they're like Pentiums, perhaps "486/AMD 5x86" and "586/non-AMD 5x86/6x86/6x86MX"...?) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list:

[BUG?] AMD K5 and 2.4 (was Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List)

2000-11-14 Thread Barry K. Nathan
le for 586/K5/etc. with 2.2.17, it boots. (This is all with egcs 1.1.2.) Is this a real bug or just a documentation bug? -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/

[PATCH] document ECN in 2.4 Configure.help

2000-11-05 Thread Barry K. Nathan
t it. This patch is against test10pre7 but applies cleanly to test10 final as well. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruN linux-2.4.0test10pre7/Documentation/Configure.help linux-2.4.0test10pre7-bkn/Documentation/Configure.help --- linux-2.4.0test10pre7/Documentation/Configure.help

IA-32 (was Re: [PATCH] cpu detection fixes for test10-pre4)

2000-10-27 Thread Barry K. Nathan
umentation/Changes in Linux 2.4.0-test10-pre6: Linux on IA-32 has recently switched from using as86 to using gas for Should we change that to x86 or something? -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

[PATCH] Revised 2.4 Changes update

2000-10-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
After looking at the various other patches that people posted, I've come up with this revised version of my original... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruN linux-2.4.0test10pre5/Documentation/Changes linux-2.4.0test10pre5-bkn/Documentation/Changes --- linux-2.4.

[PATCH] 2.4 Changes update (was Re: [patch] kernel/module.c)

2000-10-24 Thread Barry K. Nathan
quot;IA/32" should be "IA-32") and clarifies that the Documentation/Changes comments about gcc versions apply mainly to x86. If I made any mistakes, please correct me... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.4.0test10pre5/Documentation/Changes Mon Oct 23 2

[PATCH] 2.2/2.4 ESS Maestro 2E frequency fix(?)

2000-10-24 Thread Barry K. Nathan
with Maestro 2E's could try my patch and see if it makes the sound play properly or if it breaks things and makes sound play too fast. (For the sake of completeness, the sound files that I tested with were 44100Hz.) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/sound/maestro-old.c T

[OT] Re: K6-2+ name (was Re: AMD CPU misdetection?)

2000-10-22 Thread Barry K. Nathan
to arrive at the K6-2+ name. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/

K6-2+ name (was Re: AMD CPU misdetection?)

2000-10-22 Thread Barry K. Nathan
hey wanted to build on that... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2 (version numbering)

2000-09-20 Thread Barry K. Nathan
> "Barry K. Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > In other words, if I understand things correctly, once we have Linux > > 2.4.0-test4294967296 ;) and 2.4 is stable enough for the last phase of > > testing before release, 2.4.0-pre1 will be next...

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test9-pre2 (version numbering)

2000-09-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
o be having now. In other words, if I understand things correctly, once we have Linux 2.4.0-test4294967296 ;) and 2.4 is stable enough for the last phase of testing before release, 2.4.0-pre1 will be next... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the