Re: NFS: set_bit on an 'int' variable OK for 64-bit?

2000-12-17 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > since test11, the NFS code uses the set_bit and related routines > > to manipulate the wb_flags member of the nfs_page struct (nfs_page.h). > > Unfortunately, wb_flags has still data type 'int'. > > NFS is wrong. Rusty did a complete audit of the code

Re: ip_defrag is broken (was: Re: test12 lockups -- need feedback)

2000-12-17 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:35:48 -0500 (EST) >From: "Mohammad A. Haque" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I'll be trying in a few hours. > > Meanwhile for people wanting the crashes to be fixed, please > apply this patch. > > This was _always_ broken,

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre2, unresolved symbols

2000-12-17 Thread Norbert Breun
Keith, having applied your patch below + modutils2.3.23-1 + kernel2.4.0-test13pre2 all seems to run perfect. But when starting kwintv /dev/video is not found. /dev/video is a symling on /dev/video0 and with kernel kernel2.4.0-test12 there is no problem at all. >can't open /dev/video: Kein p

Re: link failure (drivers/char/riscom8.c) (240test13p2)

2000-12-17 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:37:59PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > Remove the call from tty_init. riscom8 now uses the new style initialisers I guess this would do it then. --- linux-240-t13-pre2-clean/drivers/char/tty_io.c Thu Dec 14 20:13:29 2000 +++ linux/drivers/char/tty_io.c Sun Dec 17 09:27

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre2, unresolved symbols

2000-12-17 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:22:04 +0100, Norbert Breun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >having applied your patch below + modutils2.3.23-1 + kernel2.4.0-test13pre2 >all seems to run perfect. >But when starting kwintv /dev/video is not found. /dev/video is a symling on >/dev/video0 and with kernel kerne

Re: 17 month late patch for Linux v2.2.x

2000-12-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[John Fort] > It is only needed if you build your v2.2.x kernel for the Initio > 1060p LVD SCSI controller using a later compiler than 2.7.2.3 and > then are stupid enough to ignore any compiler warnings about > 'ambiguous else, suggest using braces'. You mean gcc 2.7.2.3 actually gives you the

[PATCH] i850 support

2000-12-17 Thread Drew Hess
Hi all, This small patch to linux-2.4.0-test12 adds the Intel i850 chipset MCH and AGP IDs to pci.ids so that they can be properly identified by the kernel. It also contains an experimental patch to drivers/pci/quirks.c that forces standby mode for pool C RDRAM devices. I've seen some benchmar

Re: [PATCH] i850 support

2000-12-17 Thread Philipp Rumpf
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:52:59AM -0800, Drew Hess wrote: > It also contains an experimental patch to drivers/pci/quirks.c that forces > standby mode for pool C RDRAM devices. I've seen some benchmarks > comparing the Intel D850GB motherboard to the ASUS P4T and attributing the > better performa

Re: aic7xxx

2000-12-17 Thread Mathias Wiklander
That's not the case for me. When I build it in to the kernel, the kernel comes tho the init of thje board then these lines repeats forever. SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder

klogd -f logname "append to logname" patch

2000-12-17 Thread Clayton Weaver
(For anyone else who shares the opinion that klogd -f /var/log/kmsg -x should append to its kmsg log file instead of overwriting it.) -f insulates klogd messages from syslogd bugs (although you can't split them up into multiple files the way that /etc/syslog.conf enables). You can always solv

Re: recursive exports && linux nfs

2000-12-17 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:54:46PM +0100, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) using: I can do cd /nfs/fs, but the directoy is always empty, and when I > >try to step into a subdirectory I always get "No such file or directory". > > > > Thanks a lot for any insights, even if this me

Re: [PATCH] link time error in drivers/mtd (240t13p2)

2000-12-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > Somebody changed include/linux/mtd/map.h between 2.4.0-test11 and > test12. That change is wrong, it adds conditional complexity where it > is not required - inter_module_xxx works even without CONFIG_MODULES. > cfi_probe should still be static. No. Thi

Re: [patch] 2.2.18 PCI_DEVICE_ID_OXSEMI_16PCI954

2000-12-17 Thread tytso
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 01:51:15 +0100 (CET) From: Lukasz Trabinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OK, You have right, I'm not a driver programmer, but it probably should look like this: +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_OXSEMI_16PCI954 0x9501 That's correct, yes. The reason why the original poster

Re: [PATCH] link time error in drivers/mtd (240t13p2)

2000-12-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > Various files in drivers/mtd references cfi_probe (by way of do_cfi_probe). > This function is static and thus not shared. The following patch removes > the static declaration but if it is What Was Intended I do not know. It > makes the kernel link, h

Re: aic7xxx

2000-12-17 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Helps if we could get a kernel version. Mathias Wiklander wrote: > > Hi! > > I have problem using my scsi card. It is an Adaptec 2940 (SCSI2). When > ever I try to load it as a module or if I compile it in the kernel I get > the folowing error messages. The last 4 messages repeats for ever. The

Re: [PATCH] link time error in drivers/mtd (240t13p2)

2000-12-17 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 10:01:07 + (GMT), David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > >> Somebody changed include/linux/mtd/map.h between 2.4.0-test11 and >> test12. That change is wrong, it adds conditional complexity where it >> is not required - inter

Re: SysRq behavior

2000-12-17 Thread Tuomas Heino
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, James Simmons wrote: > > > When built into the Kernel, by only pressing the > > > PrintScreen/SysRq the current application is terminated (tested > > > on a console and GNU screen). Is this just me or I should > > > expect it? Well this should happen even when sysrq is NOT c

Re: loop device length

2000-12-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Tim Riker] > losetup allows for setting a starting offset within a file for the > loop block device. There however is no length parameter to permit > setting the length. Adding a length parameter would allow for > multiple fs images in a single file (or device) and would correctly > handle progr

Re: [PATCH] link time error in drivers/mtd (240t13p2)

2000-12-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > Messing about with conditional compilation because the link order is > incorrect is the wrong fix. The mtd/Makefile must link the objects in > the correct order. The conditional compilation is far more obvious to people than subtle issues with link orde

tasknames

2000-12-17 Thread WHarms
hi list, lately i wrote a programm to find a PID(-list) for a given name. I found it confusing that the tasks are not having a propper form of name registration. The field int task_struct the field comm is restricted to 16 chars. Longer names can only be identified with the 'cmdline' entry fro

Re: Anyone having trouble compiling test13-pre1?

2000-12-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Matthew Dharm] > I'm having some problems with unresolved symbols in my modules with > test13-pre1. This worked just fine before, and the symbols are all > stuff that I'm sure it there. > > It looks like the modules were compiled for non-versioned symbols, > while my kernel uses versioned symb

Re: aic7xxx

2000-12-17 Thread Mathias Wiklander
Sorry I've forgot that. It is 2.4.0-test12 /Eastbay "Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > > Helps if we could get a kernel version. > > Mathias Wiklander wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I have problem using my scsi card. It is an Adaptec 2940 (SCSI2). When > > ever I try to load it as a module or if I compil

Re: [PATCH] link time error in drivers/mtd (240t13p2)

2000-12-17 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 10:44:09 + (GMT), David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The conditional compilation is far more obvious to people than subtle >issues with link order. So I prefer to avoid the latter at all costs. The rest of the kernel already depends totally on these "subtle" issu

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-17 Thread Petri Kaukasoina
I guess the new memory detect does not work correctly with my old work horse. It is a 100 MHz pentium with 56 Megs RAM. AMIBIOS dated 10/10/94 with a version number of 51-000-0001169_0011-101094-SIS550X-H. 2.2.18 reports: Memory: 55536k/57344k available (624k kernel code, 412k reserved, 732k

Re: 2.2.18 vs Inspiron

2000-12-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[James Simmons] > Ah the infamous Rage Mobility chipset. Three versions of the same > chipset but each is very different. I knew it was bad when ATI refuses to publish Windows drivers -- they basically say "get drivers from your laptop vendor, there is *no* generic driver that works for everyone

for Alan Cox [patch-2.2.19-pre2] more fixes to microcode driver(fwd)

2000-12-17 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Alan, please ignore this one _if_ you have already received it today. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 10:53:49 + (GMT) From: Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [patch-2.2.19-pre2] more fixes to mic

Re: [PATCH] link time error in drivers/mtd (240t13p2)

2000-12-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > The rest of the kernel already depends totally on these "subtle" issues > with link order. Why should mtd be different? Because I maintain the MTD code and I want it to be. I think the link order dependencies are ugly, unnecessary and far more likely to

Re: [PATCH] link time error in drivers/mtd (240t13p2)

2000-12-17 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:39:50 + (GMT), David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > >> The rest of the kernel already depends totally on these "subtle" issues >> with link order. Why should mtd be different? > >Because I maintain the MTD code and I wan

Re: [PATCH] link time error in drivers/mtd (240t13p2)

2000-12-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > Your choice. Just bear in mind that if CONFIG_MODULES=y but mtd > objects are built into the kernel then mtd _must_ have a correct link > order. Consider a config with CONFIG_MODULES=y but every mtd option is > set to 'y', link order is critical. Yep,

Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.

2000-12-17 Thread Chris Mason
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Russell Cattelan wrote: > > > I'm curious about this. > Does the mean reiserFS is doing all of it's own buffer management? > > This would seem a little redundant with what is already in the kernel? > For metadata only reiserfs does its own write management. The buffers co

[patch] 2.4.0-test13-pre2: ChangeLog sync

2000-12-17 Thread Tim Waugh
Hi Linus, Here is a small patch that syncs up the parport ChangeLog to the current source tree. Tim. */ 2000-12-13 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * drivers/parport/ChangeLog: Resync. --- linux-2.4.0-test12/drivers/parport/ChangeLog.sync Wed Dec 13 12:37:45 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-test

[patch] 2.4.0-test13-pre2: mark CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO experimental

2000-12-17 Thread Tim Waugh
Hi Linus, Here is a patch that marks CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO experimental. Tim. */ 2000-12-14 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * drivers/parport/Config.in: Mark CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO experimental. * drivers/parport/ChangeLog: Updated. --- linux-2.4.0-test13-pre1/drivers

[patch] 2.4.0-test13-pre2: ppa 2.07

2000-12-17 Thread Tim Waugh
Hi Linus, This patch fixes some timing issues with ppa. Tim. */ 2000-12-13 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * drivers/scsi/ppa.c, drivers/scsi/ppa.h: Timing fixes. New parameter "recon_tmo=". This is 2.07-for-2.4.x. --- linux-2.4.0-test12/drivers/scsi/ppa.c.ppa207Tue

[Fwd: [patch] call_usermodehelper]

2000-12-17 Thread Andrew Morton
I missed a certain mailing list on this one... Original Message Subject: [patch] call_usermodehelper Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:01:14 +1100 From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Thomas Sailer <[EMAIL

[patch] 2.4.0-test13-pre2: macro documentation

2000-12-17 Thread Tim Waugh
Hi Linus, This patch adds inline documentation to a couple of macros, with improvements suggested by Andi Kleen. Tim. */ 2000-12-13 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * include/linux/init.h, include/linux/module.h: Inline documentation for some macros. Patch from Armin Kuster. -

[patch] 2.4.0-test13-pre2: better parport_pc commentary

2000-12-17 Thread Tim Waugh
Hi Linus, Here is a patch to make the parport_pc comments better. No code change. Tim. */ 2000-12-17 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * drivers/parport/parport_pc.c: Better commentary. Patch from R Horn. * drivers/parport/ChangeLog: Updated. --- linux-2.4.0-test12/dri

Re: Sound (emu10k1) broken in 2.2.18

2000-12-17 Thread Simon Lodal
> - Do you have emu10k1 compiled in, or as a module? > - Does your SBLive appear to have been detected? (Check 'dmesg') > - If emu10k1 is a module, is the module loaded? Does it seem to detect > your SBLive when loaded? (Again check 'dmesg') On my machine emu10k1 works as a module, but not a

Kernel Panic with 2.4.0-test12 when using iso9660 over nfs

2000-12-17 Thread Dieter Schuster
If I mount a cdrom over NFS with 2.4.0-test12 on the NFS-Server, the server crashs. In the log-files are no Information. On the screen comes the following: Code: 89 42 04 89 10 b8 01 00 00 c7 43 04 00 00 00 c 03 00 Aieee, killing interupt handler Unable to handle kernel Null pointer deveference a

Re: kapm-idled : is this a bug?

2000-12-17 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> How about adding a flag to FLAGS, or a new letter in STATE in > /proc/pid/stat, to mean "this is an idle task"? > > ps & top could easily by taught to recognise the flag. What's the problem with using PID 0 as the idle task ? That's 'standard' with OS'ses that display the idle task. It's als

Re: [patch] pci.c inline documentation

2000-12-17 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 05:37:51PM +0200, Jani Monoses wrote: > + * Otherwise if @from is not %NULL, searches continue from that point. Searches continue from the next one I think. > + * pci_register_driver - register a new pci driver [...] > + * pci_unregister_driver - unregister a pci driver

Re: [patch] docbook fix kmod.c

2000-12-17 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 05:26:09PM +0200, Jani Monoses wrote: > kernel-api.tmpl references the exported functions of kmod.c but > there are none. There are: hotplug_path, exec_usermodehelper, call_usermodehelper, request_module. Try adding kmod.c to APISOURCES in the Makefile. Tim. */ -

Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors

2000-12-17 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
Good morning, currently, there is no way for an external application to monitor whether a filesystem or underlaying block device has hit an error condition - internal inconsistency, read or write error, whatever. Short of parsing syslog messages, which isn't particularly great. This is necessar

Re: aic7xxx

2000-12-17 Thread stewart
ditto. On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Mathias Wiklander wrote: > Sorry I've forgot that. It is 2.4.0-test12 > > /Eastbay > "Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > > > > Helps if we could get a kernel version. > > > > Mathias Wiklander wrote: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I have problem using my scsi card. It is a

Re: APM bug with Inspiron 5000e

2000-12-17 Thread Alan Cox
> I am seeing this bug with both test8 and test12 kernels. Help/suggestions > for debugging are appreciated. Ask Dell for a working BIOS. This 5000E is a known BIOS bug. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pleas

Re: [PATCH] link time error in drivers/mtd (240t13p2)

2000-12-17 Thread Alan Cox
> David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The conditional compilation is far more obvious to people than subtle > >issues with link order. So I prefer to avoid the latter at all costs. > > The rest of the kernel already depends totally on these "subtle" issues > with link order. Why should

using kernel headers from user space

2000-12-17 Thread Glen Shere
Keith Owens wrote: > Linus has spoken, it is an error for user space applications to > include kernel headers. Even modutils does not include > linux/module.h, instead it has a portable (2.0 through 2.4) local > definition of struct module. Oh my. This isn't clear to the part-time kernel hacke

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-17 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:56:56PM +0200, Petri Kaukasoina wrote: > I guess the new memory detect does not work correctly with my old work > horse. It is a 100 MHz pentium with 56 Megs RAM. AMIBIOS dated 10/10/94 with > a version number of 51-000-0001169_0011-101094-SIS550X-H. > > 2.2.18

Re: [patch] 2.4.0-test13-pre2: mark CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO experimental

2000-12-17 Thread Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
"Tim Waugh wrote:" > Hi Linus, > > Here is a patch that marks CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO experimental. Why it does not depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL if it really is experimental ? > --- linux-2.4.0-test13-pre1/drivers/parport/Config.in.fifoexp Thu Jun 29 10:20:36 >2000 > +++ linux-2.4.0-test13-pr

Re: [patch] 2.4.0-test13-pre2: mark CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO experimental

2000-12-17 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 05:22:23PM +0100, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote: > Why it does not depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL if it really is experimental ? Oh, missed that. Thanks, fixed. Tim. */ PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] link time error in drivers/mtd (240t13p2)

2000-12-17 Thread Horst von Brand
Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > Messing about with conditional compilation because the link order is > incorrect is the wrong fix. The mtd/Makefile must link the objects in > the correct order. > > cfi_probe.o needs to come after cfi_cmdset_000?.o. > doc_probe.o needs to come aft

test13-pre2, fpu_entry.c compile error

2000-12-17 Thread Frank Davis
Hello,   I haven't seen this posted yet, so I have included it below. Regards, Frank   fpu_entry.c: In function `math_emulate':fpu_entry.c:194: structure has no member named `segments'make[2]: *** [fpu_entry.o] Error 1make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/math-emu'make[1]: ***

[PATCH] making hdx=scsi work with modular SCSI support

2000-12-17 Thread Scott Murray
Andre, While trying to get my CD-R drive working under test11, I discovered that the hdx=scsi kernel parameter is disabled unless both IDE-SCSI support and SCSI are compiled in statically. That definitely wasn't the case in my configuration and I think it unlikely to be common. The attached pat

Kernel panic for nfsd access for test12

2000-12-17 Thread Tommy Wu
Does anyone use nfsd on kernel 2.4.0-test12 ? Usually, I backup my linux box via another machine use nfs to mount it, then run afio to backup file to mo. It is work very fine through kernel 2.4.0-test7 to test11. But this week, I change my linux box's kernel to 2.4.0-test12, I found whe

[PATCH] sim710.c compiler warning

2000-12-17 Thread Pavel Rabel
Patch fixes compiler warning for 2.4.0-test12 sim710.c: In function `sim710_detect': sim710.c:1452: warning: comparison between pointer and integer Pavel Rabel --- drivers/scsi/sim710.c.old Tue Dec 5 15:34:00 2000 +++ drivers/scsi/sim710.c Tue Dec 5 15:37:18 2000 @@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @

[RFC] Semaphores used for daemon wakeup

2000-12-17 Thread Daniel Phillips
This patch illustrates an alternative approach to waking and waiting on daemons using semaphores instead of direct operations on wait queues. The idea of using semaphores to regulate the cycling of a daemon was suggested to me by Arjan Vos. The basic idea is simple: on each cycle a daemon down's

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre1 lockup: run_task_queue or tty_io are wrong

2000-12-17 Thread Jamie Lokier
Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ho humm. I'll have to check what the proper fix is. Right now the rule is > that nobody can _ever_ remove himself from a task queue, although there is > one bad user that does exactly that, and that means that it should be ok > to just cache the "next" pointer in run_task_q

Re: Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors

2000-12-17 Thread Mark Hahn
> currently, there is no way for an external application to monitor whether a > filesystem or underlaying block device has hit an error condition - internal > inconsistency, read or write error, whatever. > > Short of parsing syslog messages, which isn't particularly great. what's wrong with it?

Re: test12: innd bug came back?

2000-12-17 Thread Jorg de Jong
> >On 13 Dec 2000, Henrik [ISO-8859-1] Størner wrote: > > > >> Just to add a "me too" on this. I didn't report when I saw it last week, I'd like to second that. ME TOO ! Since I switched to 2.4.0.test12 I again have the innd bug. ( well at least the same symptoms !) No problems with test10 and t

[PATCH] ppc fixes for drivers/char/serial.c

2000-12-17 Thread Andreas Tobler
Hi Alan, can you may include the attached patch in one of the next pre19 patches? It adds the possibility to work with pcmcia modem cards on PowerBooks, this patch was in for a longer time in the ppc tree of Paul M. and Ben Herrenschmidt. Ben told me to send it to you with his ack. Thanks in ad

Re: Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors

2000-12-17 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2000-12-17T13:23:52, Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Short of parsing syslog messages, which isn't particularly great. > what's wrong with it? Because it means having to know about all potential messages the filesystems might dump out. > reinventing /proc/kmsg and klogd would be t

Re: Kernel panic for nfsd access for test12

2000-12-17 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Do you use netfilter? It's a known bug if you do. Tommy Wu wrote: > > Does anyone use nfsd on kernel 2.4.0-test12 ? > > Usually, I backup my linux box via another machine use nfs to mount it, then run > afio to backup file to mo. It is work very fine through kernel 2.4.0-test7 to >test11

[PATCH] mdacon.c cleanup in 2.2.19

2000-12-17 Thread Pavel Rabel
Patch is removing few ifdefs. Both MODULE_PARM and __initfunc are removed by preprocessor if compiled as module. Pavel Rabel --- drivers/video/mdacon.c.old Sun Dec 17 18:53:18 2000 +++ drivers/video/mdacon.c Sun Dec 17 18:54:55 2000 @@ -75,14 +75,10 @@ static struct vc_data *mda_displ

2.2.18 ide-scsi & scsi generic modules

2000-12-17 Thread Alex Buell
There was a post on linux-kernel earlier today stating that "hdx=scsi" did not work correctly if both were compiled as modules for 2.4.10-testxx and a patch was posted. I can confirm that this is true for 2.2.x, with "hdx=ide-scsi". Once I compiled both statically into the kernel, it works. Perh

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre1 lockup: run_task_queue or tty_io are wrong

2000-12-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > How about using a sentinel list entry representing the current position > in run_task_queue's loop? Nope. There may be multiple concurrent run_task_queue's executing, so for now I've applied Andrew Morton's patch that most closely gets the old beha

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre1 lockup: run_task_queue or tty_io are wrong

2000-12-17 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:02:31PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > > How about using a sentinel list entry representing the current position > > in run_task_queue's loop? > > Nope. > > There may be multiple concurrent run_task_queue's executin

Re: [OT] Re: Linus's include file strategy redux

2000-12-17 Thread ferret
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > I have not moved or deleted a tree. I do not HAVE a kernel tree in > > the first place. Therefore, nothing for the symlink to point to when > > I install the kernel. > > If this is not the machine you

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre1 lockup: run_task_queue or tty_io are wrong

2000-12-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff V. Merkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Try thinking about the work to do model (since task queues are so similiar) >Having to "kick" these things should be automatic in the kernel. I could >do a lot of cool stuff with this in there, manos aside. No, the

set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 0 to 59

2000-12-17 Thread Matthew Dharm
I was trying to figure out why I periodically get the message set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 0 to 59 on my console. It appears that the kernel is attempting to update my CMOS clock for me, based on the more accurate data being provided by my xntpd. According to the notes in the code, this sh

Re: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 0 to 59

2000-12-17 Thread Andries . Brouwer
What architecture? What kernel version? Are you in fact running xntpd? > According to the notes in the code, this should work if my RTC > is less than 15 minutes off... which I can guarantee it is. Well, since you looked at the source: For some randomly chosen kernel version and architecture it

[Patch] shm cleanup

2000-12-17 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Linus, Here is my shm cleanup patch. It survived several days of stress testing on my 8way. It is somewhat conservative wrt to locking and the truncate logic could be optimised for speed. But it is robust and passes all the SYSV compatibilty tests I remembered. I had to implement some semant

Re: [Patch] shm cleanup

2000-12-17 Thread Christoph Rohland
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only comment I have is that as far as I can tell, your shm_writepage() > has a small bug: if "__get_swap_page()" fails, we can't just drop the > dirty page in question, so instead of returning -ENOMEM we should really > return a "1" to tell the VM t

Re: aic7xxx

2000-12-17 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Weird. The modules just give me unresolved symbol errors instead of the loop. Mathias Wiklander wrote: > > Sorry I've forgot that. It is 2.4.0-test12 > -- = Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net

Re: test12: innd bug came back?

2000-12-17 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Jorg de Jong wrote: > > >On 13 Dec 2000, Henrik [ISO-8859-1] Størner wrote: > > > > > >> Just to add a "me too" on this. I didn't report when I saw it last week, > > I'd like to second that. ME TOO ! > Since I switched to 2.4.0.test12 I again have the innd bug. > ( well at

Re: test12: innd bug came back?

2000-12-17 Thread Henrik Størner
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Jorg de Jong wrote: >> > >On 13 Dec 2000, Henrik [ISO-8859-1] Størner wrote: >> > > >> > >> Just to add a "me too" on this. I didn't report when I saw it last week >> I'd like to second that. ME TOO ! >> Si

random.c patch

2000-12-17 Thread Karel Kulhavy
There are several places where the rotation yields garbage according to ANSI C definition when called with 0 bit position argument. diff -Pur linux_reference/drivers/char/random.c linux/drivers/char/random.c --- linux_reference/drivers/char/random.c Wed Jul 19 00:58:13 2000 +++ linux/driver

/dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-17 Thread Karel Kulhavy
I noticed peculiarities in the behaviour of the delta-delta-3 system for entropy estimation in the random.c code./ When I hold right alt or control, I get about 8 bits of entropy per repeat fro the /dev/random which is overestimated. I think the real entropy is 0 bits because it is absolutely dete

test13-pre3

2000-12-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
The most noticeable part of this is that the run_task_queue fix should cure the lockup that some people have seen. The shmfs cleanup should be unnoticeable except to users who use SAP with huge shared memory segments, where Christoph Rohlands work not only makes the code much more readable, it s

Re: recursive exports && linux nfs

2000-12-17 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > 2) using: I can do cd /nfs/fs, but the directoy is always empty, and when I > > >try to step into a subdirectory I always get "No such file or directory". > > > > > > Thanks a lot for any insights, even if this means "this is not supported" > > > ;) > > > > This can't be supported

2.4.0-test12 and pci

2000-12-17 Thread Hexxor
Hello all, I hope I'm posting to the right place for this I noticed there was a patch to enable the 'pci=autoirq' option, but any occurance I've found seems to be incomplete or something (it won't apply) and I'm getting weird irq messages in my logs, searching for the errors brings up posts from

mount and 2.2.18

2000-12-17 Thread Igor Mozetic
After installing the latest 2.2.18 kernel on a Debian 2.2 box the following keeps appearing in kern.log: Dec 17 18:33:53 xxx kernel: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel Is this harmless or do I need the latest mount? Currently I don't use kNFSv3, user-space v2 is fine. -Igor Mozetic -

Signal 11 - revisited

2000-12-17 Thread Rainer Mager
I was wondering if anyone had any new info/suggestions for the Signal 11 problem. I think I last reported that I had tried 2.4.0test12 w AGPGart and DRM turned off. This seemed a bit more stable but I did have X crash with Signall 11 after about 1.5 days. I'd really appreciate any advice on how

linux-2.4.0-test13-pre2 has problems on Alpha

2000-12-17 Thread Daiki Matsuda
Hi, all. I tested test13-pre2 on Alpha, but it is not compilable. So, I send a small patch, and in test13-pre3 its problem may not be repaired. 'CONFIG_ALPHA' is used in drivers/pci/Makefile, but it is not defined in anywhere. So, I added it to arch/alpha/config.in. I think the point in arch/al

2.2.18 asm-alpha/system.h has a problem

2000-12-17 Thread Daiki Matsuda
Hi, all. I encounterd the problem that 'cdrdao' is not compilable in 2.2.18 on Alpha. And I researched a little. So, then new code added in include/asm-alpha/system.h on 2.2.18 has a problem in C++. The 'new' may be the reserved word in C++. And I send its patch. Regards Daiki Matsuda --- linu

PROBLEM : Networking stops working with kernel 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-17 Thread Zanetti Arnaud
Summary After an undetermined amount of download, eth0 just stop receiving/transmitting bytes Description: After working perfectly for an undetermined time / volume of download, eth0 just stop working (i.e. : it won'n receive/transmit anymore bytes). I just can see the 'drop' field in /proc/net/

2.4.0-test13-pre3 and ext2 as module

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
Hi I compiled test13-pre3 a few minutes ago and when running make modules_install I got this: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.o depmod: buffer_insert_inode_queue depmod: fsync_inode_buffers As you may have noticed I have ext2

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre3 and ext2 as module

2000-12-17 Thread Alan Cox
> I compiled test13-pre3 a few minutes ago and when running > make modules_install I got this: > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in >/lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.o > depmod: buffer_insert_inode_queue > depmod: fsync_inode_buffers Jeff Raubitschek posted a

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre3 and ext2 as module

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I compiled test13-pre3 a few minutes ago and when running > > make modules_install I got this: > > > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in >/lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.o > > depmod: buffer_insert_inode_queue > > depmod:

RE: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-17 Thread David Schwartz
> I noticed peculiarities in the behaviour of the delta-delta-3 system for > entropy estimation in the random.c code./ When I hold right alt > or control, I > get about 8 bits of entropy per repeat fro the /dev/random which is > overestimated. I think the real entropy is 0 bits because it is abso

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre3 and ext2 as module

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Martin Josefsson wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > I compiled test13-pre3 a few minutes ago and when running > > > make modules_install I got this: > > > > > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in >/lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.o > > >

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

2000-12-17 Thread Barry K. Nathan
When I try "modprobe apm" I get these errors: /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o: unresolved symbol pm_send_all /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o: unresolved symbol pm_active This is my first time building APM as a module, so I don't know when

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre3 and ext2 as module

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
Hi Linus, will you please consider this patch by Jeff Raubitschek for the next pre-patch? It fixes two unresolved symbols in ext2.o when building ext2 as a module. --- linux-2.4.0-test12/kernel/ksyms.c Tue Dec 12 11:19:17 2000 +++ linux/kernel/ksyms.cTue Dec 12 11:18:57 2000 @@ -252,6

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

2000-12-17 Thread Alan Cox
> /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o: unresolved > symbol pm_active > > This is my first time building APM as a module, so I don't know when the > error was first introduced... 13pre in the Makefile redo pm.o should be listed as a symbol exporting object in kernel/Make

Re: PROBLEM : Networking stops working with kernel 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-17 Thread Jorge Nerin
Zanetti Arnaud wrote: > > Summary > After an undetermined amount of download, eth0 just stop > receiving/transmitting bytes > > Description: > After working perfectly for an undetermined time / volume of download, > eth0 just stop working (i.e. : it won'n receive/transmit anymore bytes). > I ju

linux-2.4.0-test13-pre3: Makefile problem in ipv4/netfilter

2000-12-17 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
When trying to compile linux-2.4.0-test13-pre3 with the following .config: kernel configuration I got the following error message: -- ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o a

2.4.0-test13-pre3: Makefile problem in drivers/video

2000-12-17 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
When trying to build video.o as a module, video.o doesn't get copied to /lib/modules/* during installation. - 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: [lkml]Re: VM problems still in 2.2.18

2000-12-17 Thread Mark Symonds
- Original Message - From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 2:38 PM Subject: Re: [lkml]Re: VM problems still in 2.2.18 > > I think Andrea just earned his official God status ;) Just wanted to quickly rep

Re: random.c patch

2000-12-17 Thread Sandy Harris
Karel Kulhavy wrote: > > There are several places where the rotation yields garbage according to ANSI > C definition when called with 0 bit position argument. > > diff -Pur linux_reference/drivers/char/random.c linux/drivers/char/random.c > --- linux_reference/drivers/char/random.c Wed Jul

Re: aic7xxx

2000-12-17 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > > Weird. The modules just give me unresolved symbol errors instead of the > loop. > > Mathias Wiklander wrote: > > > > Sorry I've forgot that. It is 2.4.0-test12 > > There was a SCSI Makefile bug in test12 that caused those unresoved symbols. This patch from Bob Tracy

unresolved symbols pm_*register ad1848.o

2000-12-17 Thread khromy
2.4.0-test13-pre3 unresolved symbols: modprobe ad1848 /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: unresolved symbol pm_unregister_Reccd1e64 /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: unresolved symbol pm_register_R8dbab11c /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kern

test12 final, test13-pre3 freezing system

2000-12-17 Thread Robert Lynch
I find that running these kernels (because of a netfilter modules compile error, didn't try test13-pre1 or 2) in X my entire system freezes, requiring a hard reboot. With test12 final, suddenly the screen streaked, then froze. No oops, just the freeze. Been a while (when I used to run Windoze)

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