re: bug? mac 00:00:00:00:00:00 with natsemi DP83815 after driver load

2014-11-15 Thread devzero
forwarding to lkml, as no response on netdev list so far. maybe someone has a clue how to properly fix this timing issue. the remaining question is about how to correctly replace readl() with inl() to make it compile cleanly or how eeprom_delay() is being done correctly. inl() seems to be

re: bug? mac 00:00:00:00:00:00 with natsemi DP83815 after driver load

2014-11-15 Thread devzero
forwarding to lkml, as no response on netdev list so far. maybe someone has a clue how to properly fix this timing issue. the remaining question is about how to correctly replace readl() with inl() to make it compile cleanly or how eeprom_delay() is being done correctly. inl() seems to be

Re: dmesg spam: "PnPBIOS: pnp_dock_thread: unexpected status 0x5 flooding"

2014-11-12 Thread devzero
> Change the default to > > default: > pnpbios_print_status("pnp_dock. etc) > printk(KERN_ERR "PnPBIOS: Disabling dock monitoring\n"); > complete_and_exit(_sem, 0); > > that should produce you one error message, a warning that

Re: dmesg spam: PnPBIOS: pnp_dock_thread: unexpected status 0x5 flooding

2014-11-12 Thread devzero
Change the default to default: pnpbios_print_status(pnp_dock. etc) printk(KERN_ERR PnPBIOS: Disabling dock monitoring\n); complete_and_exit(unload_sem, 0); that should produce you one error message, a warning that dock

dmesg spam: "PnPBIOS: pnp_dock_thread: unexpected status 0x5 flooding"

2014-11-06 Thread devzero
Hi, on an ancient GX1 Geode embedded board (Evo T20/Wyse wt3235le Thin Client, which are cheap (<$10) and low power x86 embeded platform) , dmesg is getting constantly spammed with "PnPBIOS: pnp_dock_thread: unexpected status 0x5" during and after boot. Any ideas what this means and how to

dmesg spam: PnPBIOS: pnp_dock_thread: unexpected status 0x5 flooding

2014-11-06 Thread devzero
Hi, on an ancient GX1 Geode embedded board (Evo T20/Wyse wt3235le Thin Client, which are cheap ($10) and low power x86 embeded platform) , dmesg is getting constantly spammed with PnPBIOS: pnp_dock_thread: unexpected status 0x5 during and after boot. Any ideas what this means and how to

Live-CD with recent kernel from kernel.org ?

2013-12-18 Thread devzero
hi, does anybody know if there is a linux live-cd which contains recent kernels from kernel.org and which is updated on a regular basis to incolude most recent kernel releases? I mean some live cd which is updated/remastered via an (semi-)automated process with focus on running the latest

Live-CD with recent kernel from kernel.org ?

2013-12-18 Thread devzero
hi, does anybody know if there is a linux live-cd which contains recent kernels from kernel.org and which is updated on a regular basis to incolude most recent kernel releases? I mean some live cd which is updated/remastered via an (semi-)automated process with focus on running the latest

Grub2 skips standard linux initialization code ?

2013-11-24 Thread devzero
Hi, regarding https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslinux/+bug/930447 Grub2 "accidentally" heals a problem for systems which cannot boot PAE enabled kernels. This happens because grub2 apparently jumps into the kernel at a different entry point, so CPUID checking (check for PAE for

Grub2 skips standard linux initialization code ?

2013-11-24 Thread devzero
Hi, regarding https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslinux/+bug/930447 Grub2 accidentally heals a problem for systems which cannot boot PAE enabled kernels. This happens because grub2 apparently jumps into the kernel at a different entry point, so CPUID checking (check for PAE for

Re: [PATCH] Allow NBD to be used locally

2008-02-02 Thread devzero
> How will that work? Fuse makes up a filesystem - not helpful > if you have a raw disk without a known fs to mount. take zfs-fuse or ntfs-3g for example. you have a blockdevice or backing-file containing data structures and fuse makes those show up as a filesystem. i think vmware-mount is not

Re: [PATCH] Allow NBD to be used locally

2008-02-02 Thread devzero
>In fact, VMware uses local nbd today for its vmware-loop helper >utility, most likely because of the above-mentioned reasons. (Though >it quite often hung last time I tried.) seems this will go away. recent vmware versions (e.g. server 2.0 beta) have a fuse based replacement for that. ldd

Re: Linux VM completely lost it`s timesource !?

2008-02-02 Thread devzero
cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource acpi_pm cannot switch to any other clocksource, "echo tsc|jiffies|pit >current_clocksource" doesn`t have any effect. current_clocksource stays at acpi_pm maybe somebody has a clue what to check besides this? thanks roland

Re: [clocksource] jiffies as clocksource kills box

2008-02-02 Thread devzero
>I have a patch pending for the PIT issue. Will add jiffies to this as >well. yes, please. while trying to analyze a timer issue and learning about that timer stuff, i "killed" my box twice because i didn`t know that "echo jiffies|pit > current_clocksource" is a no-no with dynticks. this

Re: [clocksource] jiffies as clocksource kills box

2008-02-02 Thread devzero
I have a patch pending for the PIT issue. Will add jiffies to this as well. yes, please. while trying to analyze a timer issue and learning about that timer stuff, i killed my box twice because i didn`t know that echo jiffies|pit current_clocksource is a no-no with dynticks. this happened

Re: Linux VM completely lost it`s timesource !?

2008-02-02 Thread devzero
cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource acpi_pm cannot switch to any other clocksource, echo tsc|jiffies|pit current_clocksource doesn`t have any effect. current_clocksource stays at acpi_pm maybe somebody has a clue what to check besides this? thanks roland I`m

Re: [PATCH] Allow NBD to be used locally

2008-02-02 Thread devzero
In fact, VMware uses local nbd today for its vmware-loop helper utility, most likely because of the above-mentioned reasons. (Though it quite often hung last time I tried.) seems this will go away. recent vmware versions (e.g. server 2.0 beta) have a fuse based replacement for that. ldd

Re: [PATCH] Allow NBD to be used locally

2008-02-02 Thread devzero
How will that work? Fuse makes up a filesystem - not helpful if you have a raw disk without a known fs to mount. take zfs-fuse or ntfs-3g for example. you have a blockdevice or backing-file containing data structures and fuse makes those show up as a filesystem. i think vmware-mount is not

Linux VM completely lost it`s timesource !?

2008-02-01 Thread devzero
Hi ! I`m running 2.6.24 kernel in a recent version of vmware workstation and i`m unsure if i hit a linux issue or a vmware issue here. after suspend/resume (hibernate) of my physical system (win xp), the linux guest seems to have lost itŽs timesource. don`t know much about timers in linux, so

Linux VM completely lost it`s timesource !?

2008-02-01 Thread devzero
Hi ! I`m running 2.6.24 kernel in a recent version of vmware workstation and i`m unsure if i hit a linux issue or a vmware issue here. after suspend/resume (hibernate) of my physical system (win xp), the linux guest seems to have lost itŽs timesource. don`t know much about timers in linux, so

Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce /dev/mem restrictions with a config option

2008-01-31 Thread devzero
nice ! did you think about some boot-time param , e.g. "insecure-devmem" or something like that? recompiling kernel is time consuming. From: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PATCH] x86: introduce /dev/mem restrictions with a config option This patch introduces a

Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce /dev/mem restrictions with a config option

2008-01-31 Thread devzero
nice ! did you think about some boot-time param , e.g. insecure-devmem or something like that? recompiling kernel is time consuming. From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH] x86: introduce /dev/mem restrictions with a config option This patch introduces a restriction

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc9 kernel panic - simple_map_write+0x4e/0x75

2008-01-18 Thread devzero
looks very similar to http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel=119759817332220=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel=119902059626408=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel=119259674826979=2 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/14/59 so you should try without CONFIG_MTD_PNC2000 that driver having problems for some

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc9 kernel panic - simple_map_write+0x4e/0x75

2008-01-18 Thread devzero
looks very similar to http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=119759817332220w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=119902059626408w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=119259674826979w=2 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/14/59 so you should try without CONFIG_MTD_PNC2000 that driver having problems for

Re: [PATCH][RFC] fast file mapping for loop

2008-01-09 Thread devzero
oh, nice to see that this is still alive. i tried this around half a year ago because i needed more than 256 loop devices and iirc, this was working quite fine. at least i got no crashes and was able to mount and acess more than 300 iso-images with that. shortly after, loop device was extended

Re: [PATCH][RFC] fast file mapping for loop

2008-01-09 Thread devzero
oh, nice to see that this is still alive. i tried this around half a year ago because i needed more than 256 loop devices and iirc, this was working quite fine. at least i got no crashes and was able to mount and acess more than 300 iso-images with that. shortly after, loop device was extended

Re: Size of kernel halts startup

2008-01-07 Thread devzero
Hi! >4) Yesterday, I have done a menuconfig and turned on some drivers (USB HID and >I2C). \ >This resulted in a kernel size of about 1.4MB. if you saved your old .config you could add those features one after the other to see if it`s size related >5) Booting up this 1.4MB kernel over

Re: [patch 1/2] show being-loaded/being-unloaded indic ator for modules

2008-01-07 Thread devzero
this looks very useful! >Unfortunatly, it's not always easy to see directly >which module is being loaded/unloaded from the oops itself. no wonder, as most modules seem to be very quiet on on load/unload. some days ago i was curious how "consistent" modules would leave messages in syslog

Re: [patch 1/2] show being-loaded/being-unloaded indic ator for modules

2008-01-07 Thread devzero
this looks very useful! Unfortunatly, it's not always easy to see directly which module is being loaded/unloaded from the oops itself. no wonder, as most modules seem to be very quiet on on load/unload. some days ago i was curious how consistent modules would leave messages in syslog

Re: Size of kernel halts startup

2008-01-07 Thread devzero
Hi! 4) Yesterday, I have done a menuconfig and turned on some drivers (USB HID and I2C). \ This resulted in a kernel size of about 1.4MB. if you saved your old .config you could add those features one after the other to see if it`s size related 5) Booting up this 1.4MB kernel over NFS

Re: PIT clocksource makes invalid assumptions

2008-01-05 Thread devzero
>I also didn't do a whole lot of digging to see what the problems this >bug can cause in practice, but after the PIT clocksource was installed, >I tried 'sleep 1' and this did not wake up. i`m using clock=pit on many of our virtual servers for accurate time syncronization. (as recommended by

Re: PIT clocksource makes invalid assumptions

2008-01-05 Thread devzero
I also didn't do a whole lot of digging to see what the problems this bug can cause in practice, but after the PIT clocksource was installed, I tried 'sleep 1' and this did not wake up. i`m using clock=pit on many of our virtual servers for accurate time syncronization. (as recommended by

[RFC] Remove clutter from what modules print to dmesg

2008-01-04 Thread devzero
Hi ! while insanely looping trough a driver load/unload, i had taken a look at dmesg afterwards (i.e. after each modular driver had been loaded/unloaded once) besides some other things that probably could be point of discussion, i saw noticeable clutter. (this is an admin`s point of view)

[RFC] Remove clutter from what modules print to dmesg

2008-01-04 Thread devzero
Hi ! while insanely looping trough a driver load/unload, i had taken a look at dmesg afterwards (i.e. after each modular driver had been loaded/unloaded once) besides some other things that probably could be point of discussion, i saw noticeable clutter. (this is an admin`s point of view)

Re: serial console _after_ boot ? - was: Redirect kernel console

2008-01-03 Thread devzero
>>>i was wondering how to make kernel messages appear on /dev/ttyS0 >>without a reboot, i.e. kernelparam "console=ttyS0" >> >>The solution is simple... the following piece of code is inside >>opensuse-10.3/src/sysvinit-2.86-115.src.rpm#showconsole-1.08.tar.bz2#showconsole-1.08/blogd.c >> >>

Re: serial console _after_ boot ? - was: Redirect kernel console

2008-01-03 Thread devzero
> This errno is so out of place. yes, that was stupid. anyway: # strace ./mytiocons --snipp-- open("/dev/ttyS0", O_RDWR) = 3 ioctl(0, TIOCCONS) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy) ioctl(3, TIOCCONS) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy)

Re: serial console _after_ boot ? - was: Redirect kernel console

2008-01-03 Thread devzero
fantastic, thanks! unfortunately.. opensuse103:/home/roland/serialcons # ./mytioccons ioctl: Device or resource busy but, it`s not userspace: opensuse103:/home/roland # lsof |egrep "console|ttyS0" opensuse103:/home/roland # in tty_io.c -> ticoccons() there is if (redirect) {

Re: serial console _after_ boot ? - was: Redirect kernel console

2008-01-03 Thread devzero
hi ! i was wondering how to make kernel messages appear on /dev/ttyS0 without a reboot, i.e. kernelparam "console=ttyS0" after playing for a while with setconsole, setterm and klogconsole i didn`t find a way to make that happen. i can do "setconsole /dev/tty1 /dev/console" and see "test" on

Re: serial console _after_ boot ? - was: Redirect kernel console

2008-01-03 Thread devzero
hi ! i was wondering how to make kernel messages appear on /dev/ttyS0 without a reboot, i.e. kernelparam console=ttyS0 after playing for a while with setconsole, setterm and klogconsole i didn`t find a way to make that happen. i can do setconsole /dev/tty1 /dev/console and then echo test

Re: serial console _after_ boot ? - was: Redirect kernel console

2008-01-03 Thread devzero
fantastic, thanks! unfortunately.. opensuse103:/home/roland/serialcons # ./mytioccons ioctl: Device or resource busy but, it`s not userspace: opensuse103:/home/roland # lsof |egrep console|ttyS0 opensuse103:/home/roland # in tty_io.c - ticoccons() there is if (redirect) {

Re: serial console _after_ boot ? - was: Redirect kernel console

2008-01-03 Thread devzero
This errno is so out of place. yes, that was stupid. anyway: # strace ./mytiocons --snipp-- open(/dev/ttyS0, O_RDWR) = 3 ioctl(0, TIOCCONS) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy) ioctl(3, TIOCCONS) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy)

Re: serial console _after_ boot ? - was: Redirect kernel console

2008-01-03 Thread devzero
i was wondering how to make kernel messages appear on /dev/ttyS0 without a reboot, i.e. kernelparam console=ttyS0 The solution is simple... the following piece of code is inside opensuse-10.3/src/sysvinit-2.86-115.src.rpm#showconsole-1.08.tar.bz2#showconsole-1.08/blogd.c (void)ioctl(0,

Re: [BUG] crash - module radio-sf16fmr2 and esp interfere

2008-01-02 Thread devzero
> > same with radio-sf16fmr2 and esp > > > > after repeatedly modrpobe/modprobe -r radio-sf16fmr2, i can hang my > > system when loading esp afterwards > > > > before loading esp, doing a "cat /proc/ioport" segfaults > > > > this is with 2.6.24rc6 and also with 2.6.22 > > > > i have found

Re: [BUG] crash - module radio-sf16fmr2 and esp interfere

2008-01-02 Thread devzero
same with radio-sf16fmr2 and esp after repeatedly modrpobe/modprobe -r radio-sf16fmr2, i can hang my system when loading esp afterwards before loading esp, doing a cat /proc/ioport segfaults this is with 2.6.24rc6 and also with 2.6.22 i have found these issues by running

[BUG] crash - module radio-sf16fmr2 and esp interfere

2008-01-01 Thread devzero
same with radio-sf16fmr2 and esp after repeatedly modrpobe/modprobe -r radio-sf16fmr2, i can hang my system when loading esp afterwards before loading esp, doing a "cat /proc/ioport" segfaults this is with 2.6.24rc6 and also with 2.6.22 i have found these issues by running some (probably

Re: [BUG] crash - module l440gx buggy ? interfere

2008-01-01 Thread devzero
same/similar behaviour with l440gx and container l440gx and acpiphp after load of l440gx, container and acpiphp modules do also hang my system on load/unload. maybe l440gx leaving the system in some weird state after probe ? > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

[BUG] crash - modules l440gx and parport_pc interfere

2008-01-01 Thread devzero
there seems some weird interference between l440gx and parport_pc modules i can reproduceable crash my box by either: modprobe parport_pc;modprobe l440gx;rmmod parport_pc or modprobe l440gx; modprobe parport_pc;rmmod parport_pc this happens on 2.6.24rc6 and also older kernel (2.6.22) nothing

[BUG] crash - modules l440gx and parport_pc interfere

2008-01-01 Thread devzero
there seems some weird interference between l440gx and parport_pc modules i can reproduceable crash my box by either: modprobe parport_pc;modprobe l440gx;rmmod parport_pc or modprobe l440gx; modprobe parport_pc;rmmod parport_pc this happens on 2.6.24rc6 and also older kernel (2.6.22) nothing

Re: [BUG] crash - module l440gx buggy ? interfere

2008-01-01 Thread devzero
same/similar behaviour with l440gx and container l440gx and acpiphp after load of l440gx, container and acpiphp modules do also hang my system on load/unload. maybe l440gx leaving the system in some weird state after probe ? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[BUG] crash - module radio-sf16fmr2 and esp interfere

2008-01-01 Thread devzero
same with radio-sf16fmr2 and esp after repeatedly modrpobe/modprobe -r radio-sf16fmr2, i can hang my system when loading esp afterwards before loading esp, doing a cat /proc/ioport segfaults this is with 2.6.24rc6 and also with 2.6.22 i have found these issues by running some (probably sick

Re: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in

2007-12-31 Thread devzero
when i had that module modular and added to the initrd, udev didn`t work, though. same error message: udevd[1226]: init_udev_socket: error getting socket: Address family not supported by protocol not sure if i did a mistake here anyway, this message is not obvious to the end user. i

Re: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in

2007-12-31 Thread devzero
when i had that module modular and added to the initrd, udev didn`t work, though. same error message: udevd[1226]: init_udev_socket: error getting socket: Address family not supported by protocol not sure if i did a mistake here anyway, this message is not obvious to the end user. i

[BUG] 2.6.24rc6 allmodconfig - unload capidrv fails

2007-12-30 Thread devzero
rmmod capidrv never returns this is 2.6.24-rc6 with allmodconfig gcc version 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux) also see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350850 [ 1807.666763] capidrv: Rev 1.1.2.2: loaded [ 1810.803450] capidrv: Rev 1.1.2.2 : unloaded [ 1810.808417] BUG: unable to handle kernel

allmodconfig: udev won`t start due to CONFIG_UNIX=m

2007-12-30 Thread devzero
Hi ! i build a kernel with allmodconfig and didn`t get my system to boot with that. after some investigation i found that it was due to udev: udevd[1226]: init_udev_socket: error getting socket: Address family not supported by protocol this was missing support UNIX DOMAIN SOCKETS at boot

Re: [PATCH]: 2.6.24-rc5: mtd: PNC-2000 oops

2007-12-30 Thread devzero
while doing some systematical driver load/unload testing i have also come across this one. searched lkml and found/tried this patch - seems to work fine, at least driver now behaves as expected: insmod: error inserting 'pnc2000.ko': -1 No such device or address if it really _works_ is another

Re: [PATCH]: 2.6.24-rc5: mtd: PNC-2000 oops

2007-12-30 Thread devzero
while doing some systematical driver load/unload testing i have also come across this one. searched lkml and found/tried this patch - seems to work fine, at least driver now behaves as expected: insmod: error inserting 'pnc2000.ko': -1 No such device or address if it really _works_ is another

allmodconfig: udev won`t start due to CONFIG_UNIX=m

2007-12-30 Thread devzero
Hi ! i build a kernel with allmodconfig and didn`t get my system to boot with that. after some investigation i found that it was due to udev: udevd[1226]: init_udev_socket: error getting socket: Address family not supported by protocol this was missing support UNIX DOMAIN SOCKETS at boot

[BUG] 2.6.24rc6 allmodconfig - unload capidrv fails

2007-12-30 Thread devzero
rmmod capidrv never returns this is 2.6.24-rc6 with allmodconfig gcc version 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux) also see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350850 [ 1807.666763] capidrv: Rev 1.1.2.2: loaded [ 1810.803450] capidrv: Rev 1.1.2.2 : unloaded [ 1810.808417] BUG: unable to handle kernel

Re: kbuild: modules_install regression ? - depmod

2007-12-29 Thread devzero
> Erm... same system here - > > $ gzip -cd /proc/config.gz | grep DEBUG_INFO > # CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set > > I think you managed to snafu something during building. mhh - i have kernel-default-2.6.22.13-0.3 kernel (didn`t touch that since online update) and this has CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y

Re: kbuild: modules_install regression ? - depmod

2007-12-29 Thread devzero
> [Adding jcm to Cc] > > On Dec 28 2007 16:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >i have the same issue, but with 2.6.24-rc6 on a box with 512MB RAM > > > >System is openSUSE 10.3 > > > >on "make modules_install" , depmod reproduceably dies with out of memory > >error when it is ~800MB VSZ and

Re: kbuild: modules_install regression ? - depmod

2007-12-29 Thread devzero
[Adding jcm to Cc] On Dec 28 2007 16:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have the same issue, but with 2.6.24-rc6 on a box with 512MB RAM System is openSUSE 10.3 on make modules_install , depmod reproduceably dies with out of memory error when it is ~800MB VSZ and ~350MB RSS this

Re: kbuild: modules_install regression ? - depmod

2007-12-29 Thread devzero
Erm... same system here - $ gzip -cd /proc/config.gz | grep DEBUG_INFO # CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set I think you managed to snafu something during building. mhh - i have kernel-default-2.6.22.13-0.3 kernel (didn`t touch that since online update) and this has CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y

Re: kbuild: modules_install regression ? - depmod

2007-12-28 Thread devzero
i have the same issue, but with 2.6.24-rc6 on a box with 512MB RAM System is openSUSE 10.3 on "make modules_install" , depmod reproduceably dies with out of memory error when it is ~800MB VSZ and ~350MB RSS this happens on different hardware. any clue what`s going wrong? how much memory should

Re: kbuild: modules_install regression ? - depmod

2007-12-28 Thread devzero
i have the same issue, but with 2.6.24-rc6 on a box with 512MB RAM System is openSUSE 10.3 on make modules_install , depmod reproduceably dies with out of memory error when it is ~800MB VSZ and ~350MB RSS this happens on different hardware. any clue what`s going wrong? how much memory should i

broken modules - hgafb and physmap !?

2007-12-27 Thread devzero
i did some module tests with 2.6.24-rc kernel (suse) and think i found some issues with modules. for some of those i found i`m not yet sure if they are mainline issues, but the following should exist in mainline too (see below) i searched this list and also bugzilla and found no reference

broken modules - hgafb and physmap !?

2007-12-27 Thread devzero
i did some module tests with 2.6.24-rc kernel (suse) and think i found some issues with modules. for some of those i found i`m not yet sure if they are mainline issues, but the following should exist in mainline too (see below) i searched this list and also bugzilla and found no reference

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD

2007-12-16 Thread devzero
> > not sure if really all of them are the edd problem i have, but i`m quite > > sure for some of those. > > can provide more links if somebody likes. > > None of them seemed like they were determined as EDD problems - so - see how difficult it is to determine, what`s the problem is ? ;)

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD

2007-12-16 Thread devzero
> This is awfully verbose. yes, this was meant as an example also mind, that the last printf with "\rOK" is meant to overwrite the hint message, so nobody should ever notice that message. i`m just unsure if this is a good approach. i have found two occurences in linux kernel, where drivers

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD

2007-12-16 Thread devzero
> It does not look like this issue is common - googling for "Linux EDD Boot > hang" does not bring up relevant and recent results - in fact this post of > yours comes on top. i don`t wonder here - how should one know that it`s an edd problem if all he sees is a blank screen with a blinking

[PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD

2007-12-16 Thread devzero
Hello! i`m sysadmin for quite some time and while being that, i have come across the one or another system, which refused to boot a linux kernel. typical symptom i have seen is a blinking cursor in the upper left just after kernel/initrd were loaded. i never spent much time on that and either

[PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD

2007-12-16 Thread devzero
Hello! i`m sysadmin for quite some time and while being that, i have come across the one or another system, which refused to boot a linux kernel. typical symptom i have seen is a blinking cursor in the upper left just after kernel/initrd were loaded. i never spent much time on that and either

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD

2007-12-16 Thread devzero
It does not look like this issue is common - googling for Linux EDD Boot hang does not bring up relevant and recent results - in fact this post of yours comes on top. i don`t wonder here - how should one know that it`s an edd problem if all he sees is a blank screen with a blinking cursor

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD

2007-12-16 Thread devzero
This is awfully verbose. yes, this was meant as an example also mind, that the last printf with \rOK is meant to overwrite the hint message, so nobody should ever notice that message. i`m just unsure if this is a good approach. i have found two occurences in linux kernel, where drivers do

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD

2007-12-16 Thread devzero
not sure if really all of them are the edd problem i have, but i`m quite sure for some of those. can provide more links if somebody likes. None of them seemed like they were determined as EDD problems - so - see how difficult it is to determine, what`s the problem is ? ;) some even

ata_piix init/performance regression ?

2007-12-07 Thread devzero
Hello ! on my old fujitsu-siemens lifebook, booting is at least 20 seconds slower as before. on ata_piix init i can see 2 longer delays of ~10 seconds each, which didn`t happen before. i`m using SuSE kernel of the day from http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/ problem exists with

ata_piix init/performance regression ?

2007-12-07 Thread devzero
Hello ! on my old fujitsu-siemens lifebook, booting is at least 20 seconds slower as before. on ata_piix init i can see 2 longer delays of ~10 seconds each, which didn`t happen before. i`m using SuSE kernel of the day from http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/ problem exists with

Re: OT: Re: System reboot triggered by just reading a device file....!?

2007-11-23 Thread devzero
Hi Clemens, > > Hi, Roland! > > Please don't top-post. sorry! > > > [was: it would be easy to disable the kernel watchdog] > > thanks, but i know i could do this. > > Good. I was also curious and just checked again. The watchdog subsystem > is by default _disabled_ in the kernel

Re: OT: Re: System reboot triggered by just reading a device file....!?

2007-11-23 Thread devzero
Hi Clemens, Hi, Roland! Please don't top-post. sorry! [was: it would be easy to disable the kernel watchdog] thanks, but i know i could do this. Good. I was also curious and just checked again. The watchdog subsystem is by default _disabled_ in the kernel configuration. If you

Re: System reboot triggered by just reading a device file....!?

2007-11-22 Thread devzero
Hi Clemens, thanks, but i know i could do this. this thread is not meant to protect myself from this curiousity but it is meant to protect others. it`s a trap. i stepped into that. now i know that trap, so i can easily sidestep. but most people using linux don`t know about the watchdog, so i

Re: System reboot triggered by just reading a device file....!?

2007-11-22 Thread devzero
since i have gotten more or less similar answers from here, i have talked to some more people privately. the result is interesting: if the person i talked to was some sysadmin or related to that (i.e. some person running servers), his opinion was very similar to mine. if the person was a

Re: System reboot triggered by just reading a device file....!?

2007-11-22 Thread devzero
since i have gotten more or less similar answers from here, i have talked to some more people privately. the result is interesting: if the person i talked to was some sysadmin or related to that (i.e. some person running servers), his opinion was very similar to mine. if the person was a

Re: System reboot triggered by just reading a device file....!?

2007-11-22 Thread devzero
Hi Clemens, thanks, but i know i could do this. this thread is not meant to protect myself from this curiousity but it is meant to protect others. it`s a trap. i stepped into that. now i know that trap, so i can easily sidestep. but most people using linux don`t know about the watchdog, so i

Re: System reboot triggered by just reading a device file....!?

2007-11-20 Thread devzero
>There is.. it's called "root privileges". yes, true. but - regardless of being a windows app or not - what if you want to take a look on your system as a whole, especially when using some tool which graphically shows how and where your diskspace is being used? if i let this run from ordinary

System reboot triggered by just reading a device file....!?

2007-11-20 Thread devzero
good evening, i stumbled over some funny issue when trying windirstat (like KDirStat) with wine. after running that tool for a while my system rebooted. i could reproduce this with every run. after some deep investigation (i thought i had stability issues with my system and spent more than

System reboot triggered by just reading a device file....!?

2007-11-20 Thread devzero
good evening, i stumbled over some funny issue when trying windirstat (like KDirStat) with wine. after running that tool for a while my system rebooted. i could reproduce this with every run. after some deep investigation (i thought i had stability issues with my system and spent more than

Re: System reboot triggered by just reading a device file....!?

2007-11-20 Thread devzero
There is.. it's called root privileges. yes, true. but - regardless of being a windows app or not - what if you want to take a look on your system as a whole, especially when using some tool which graphically shows how and where your diskspace is being used? if i let this run from ordinary

Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to compare among each other

2007-11-17 Thread devzero
besides a web-browseable directory structure with all the single broken-out patches (which are typically part of src.rpm or similar) , i assume it would be good to put those patched and unpatched kernel sources online via lxr ? ( http://lxr.linux.no/ ) > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >

Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to compare

2007-11-17 Thread devzero
>I would also like to see something like this nice to get positive feedback, thanks :) >as some work I'm doing on >working some funny networking (unfortunately IT department don't have >common sense) across multiple distros. so if _you_ have common sense, it`s up to you alone to make your own

Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to compare

2007-11-17 Thread devzero
I would also like to see something like this nice to get positive feedback, thanks :) as some work I'm doing on working some funny networking (unfortunately IT department don't have common sense) across multiple distros. so if _you_ have common sense, it`s up to you alone to make your own life

Re: distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to compare among each other

2007-11-17 Thread devzero
besides a web-browseable directory structure with all the single broken-out patches (which are typically part of src.rpm or similar) , i assume it would be good to put those patched and unpatched kernel sources online via lxr ? ( http://lxr.linux.no/ ) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-

distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to c ompare among each other

2007-11-16 Thread devzero
Hi ! does somebody know if there is a website or a project for giving comfortable and deeper insight into what`s specific to distro`s kernels and what`s their difference to vanilla kernel ? i mean some way to have some transparancy to what different distro vendors add to vanilla kernel

distro specific kernels vs vanilla kernel and how to c ompare among each other

2007-11-16 Thread devzero
Hi ! does somebody know if there is a website or a project for giving comfortable and deeper insight into what`s specific to distro`s kernels and what`s their difference to vanilla kernel ? i mean some way to have some transparancy to what different distro vendors add to vanilla kernel

Re: build failure, missing libvdeplug.h?

2007-11-02 Thread devzero
Hello! I tried 2.6.24-rc1-git11 with "allmodconfig ARCH=um" today. this gave at least two errors - i needed to set CONFIG_SMP=n and CONFIG_UML_NET_VDE=n to make it compile. not sure if options should be set to "n" automatically or being fixed differently, but if there is something broken or

Re: build failure, missing libvdeplug.h?

2007-11-02 Thread devzero
Hello! I tried 2.6.24-rc1-git11 with allmodconfig ARCH=um today. this gave at least two errors - i needed to set CONFIG_SMP=n and CONFIG_UML_NET_VDE=n to make it compile. not sure if options should be set to n automatically or being fixed differently, but if there is something broken or some

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

2007-08-16 Thread devzero
>Having a framework for giving people the choice between different >solutions usually sounds good in theory, but in practice there's the >often underestimated high price of people using a different solution >instead of reporting a problem with one solution or people adding >features to only

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.22

2007-08-16 Thread devzero
Having a framework for giving people the choice between different solutions usually sounds good in theory, but in practice there's the often underestimated high price of people using a different solution instead of reporting a problem with one solution or people adding features to only one of

Re: Reiser @ wired.com

2007-07-06 Thread devzero
> GAFL. "Gossip fans" are over there at splashsnot; now bugger off and do not > crosspost. that was just meant ironic. now i feel like a troll. i`m not a tabloid reporter and also not related to wired.com, i just thought there is more than one person on this list who is very interested in

Reiser @ wired.com

2007-07-06 Thread devzero
Hi ! it seems that it hasn`t brought up here yet, so I`d like to let you know that there is some long Reiser-Story at WIRED MAGAZINE: ISSUE 15.07. For all you gossip fans ;) or for those who want to have some more "in depth" information obout the incident or the person Hans Reiser himself -

Reiser @ wired.com

2007-07-06 Thread devzero
Hi ! it seems that it hasn`t brought up here yet, so I`d like to let you know that there is some long Reiser-Story at WIRED MAGAZINE: ISSUE 15.07. For all you gossip fans ;) or for those who want to have some more in depth information obout the incident or the person Hans Reiser himself - it`s

Re: Reiser @ wired.com

2007-07-06 Thread devzero
GAFL. Gossip fans are over there at splashsnot; now bugger off and do not crosspost. that was just meant ironic. now i feel like a troll. i`m not a tabloid reporter and also not related to wired.com, i just thought there is more than one person on this list who is very interested in what`s

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