Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

2007-12-22 Thread Benny Amorsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:55:16PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> o_O I better continue believing it is the subject. Because with >> one extra word at the front, you can make this a "complete sentence": >> >> Please initialize [the] current of

Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0

2007-11-16 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "DM" == David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Reply: >> Opcode: reply (0x0002) >> Sender HW: 00:AA.00:AA:00:AA >> Sender IP: 192.168.0.1 >> Target HW: 00:AA:00:AA:00:AA >> Target IP:192.168.0.1 DM> And this is exactly a sensible response in my opinion. Why send the reply at al

Re: [PATCH 2/2] [e1000 VLAN] Disable vlan hw accel when promiscuous mode

2007-11-14 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "AK" == Kok, Auke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AK> actually the impact can be quite negative, imagine doing a tcpdump AK> on a 10gig interface with vlan's enabled - all of a sudden you AK> might accidentally flood the system with a 100-fold increase in AK> traffic and force the stack to dump

Re: IRQ off latency of printk is very high

2007-10-26 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "MM" == Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> Well there are things we can do, yes, but I'd be worried that MM> they've give up the deterministic behavior we rely on quite MM> heavily for debugging. If event A happens before event B, we must MM> see the message from A before the one f

Re: Linux Router

2007-09-22 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "CN" == Carlos Narváez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CN> - IP Forwarding has been enabled on the router via "echo 1 > CN> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" Try cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/forwarding. If any of them are 0, then echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/forwarding. /Benny - To un

Re: [OT] Re: The vi editor causes brain damage

2007-08-19 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "WT" == Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WT> Under unix, the shell resolves "*" and passes the 1 file names WT> to the "rm" command. Now, execve() may fail because 1 names in WT> arguments can require too much memory. That's why find and xargs WT> were invented! It would be

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-06 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "ON" == Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ON> Because we will be unable to escape that job. Let's assume that we ON> remove the freezer from the STR path. The next complaint would be ON> that we cannot do STD with fuse. "Then don't do that" would not be ON> taken kindly as answer. A

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "AC" == Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AC> A few innovations that afaik first appeared the Linux kernel The clone() call and the efficient 1:1 threading it brought was definitely innovative. None of the other Unices had anything similar. splice() is innovative as well, even though it

Re: 2.6.21.1 - 97% wait time on IDE operations

2007-05-28 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "AC" == Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AC> Provided they don't get within about 5-10% of full a lot of the AC> time Unix file systems generally don't That's a big if right there. For servers it isn't a problem, few people can get capacity right to withing 10%, so you never let a serve

Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

2007-04-12 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "BD" == Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BD> In practice Linux has had lots of practice mounting garbage, and BD> isn't likely to suffer terminal damage. These days, with exposed USB ports and automount, it is rather important that the kernel doesn't suffer terminal damage when mou

Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.

2007-04-11 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "GM" == Gerhard Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GM> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Alan Cox wrote: >> You don't get machines with 64 ethernet ports on add-in cards. >> There are good reasons for the naming schemes in use. GM> If they made them I'd build one. Indeed, port density is disappointingly p

Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI?

2007-03-05 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "PM" == Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PM> ACPI AML is probably turing-complete: I'm afraid you are trying to PM> solve the halting problem (-> impossible). If you can restrict the virtual machine which AML runs in to a limited amount of memory/storage, you can solve halting for i

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DualFS: File System with Meta-data and Data Separation

2007-02-16 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "JE" == Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JE> Being good where log-structured filesystems usually are horrible JE> is a challenge. And I'm sure many people are more interested in JE> those performance number than in the ones you shine at. :) Anything that helps performance when untarri

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "JDL" == Jan De Luyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JDL> I think a nice example of that might be the Linksys WRT54G JDL> routers. They don't ship with Linux anymore, except the WRT54GL. Apparently switching was worth it to save 2MB flash. /Benny - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: The mbox format archives of linux-kernel are gone.

2007-01-28 Thread Benny Amorsen
>>>>> "DK" == Dave Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DK> On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 10:17 +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote: >> Perhaps nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel can help, even if >> it isn't exactly what you asked for. DK> I like to

Re: The mbox format archives of linux-kernel are gone.

2007-01-28 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "DB" == Dirk Behme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DB> Any chance to have anything like an auto-update mbox archive of DB> LKML? Would be nice for people not permanently subscribed to LKML. Perhaps nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel can help, even if it isn't exactly what you asked for.

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "DS" == David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> If you are right, a "512MB" RAM stick is mislabelled and is more DS> correctly labelled as "536.8MB". (With 512MiB being equally DS> correct.) DS> Isn't that obviously not just wrong but borderline crazy? No. It is not obvious to me wh

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-21 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "BE" == Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BE> 1) This change isn't nescensary - any sane person will know that BE> it's not a SI unit. You wouldn't talk about megabananas == 100 BE> bananas and expect to be taken seriously. What about megaparsec? I have also seen graphs delimited

Re: Network drivers that don't suspend on interface down

2006-12-20 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "AvdV" == Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AvdV> even if you have NO power savings you still don't meet your AvdV> criteria. That's basic ethernet for you AvdV> That's what I was trying to say; your criteria is unrealistic AvdV> regardless of what the kernel does, ethernet a

Re: Window scaling problem?

2006-12-11 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "CP" == Cal Peake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CP> I saw this with kernels v2.6.16, v2.6.17, and v2.6.18. Windows XP CP> however didn't seem to have any problems. So unless Windows CP> doesn't have window scaling on by default (or uses a workaround) CP> it could be a broken kernel. XP doesn'