Re: problem with devfsd compilation

2001-02-02 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to compile devfsd on my system running RedHat linux 7.0 (kernel 2.2.16-22). I get the error "RTLD_NEXT" undefined. I am not sure where this symbol is defined. Is there anything that I am missing on my system. It's a problem

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:13:45AM +, Alan Cox wrote: the used board BP6 (abit), apics enabled. non-overclocked. card is a 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) Try 2.4.1ac - that should fix it ok, downloading the -ac1 patch; I'll report. --

Fw: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-02-02 Thread Nicholas Knight
oops, I forgot to send this to linux-kernel as well... - Original Message - From: "Nicholas Knight" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "David D.W. Downey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:24 AM Subject: Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x - Original Message - From:

Re: esp causing crashes..

2001-02-02 Thread Mark Orr
On 01-Feb-2001 Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:38:28PM -0600, Mark Orr wrote: I dont like to be the sort of person who, when people report problems, fires back "it works fine here!"...but...just as a point of reference, I have a Hayes ESP too -- it's connected to a 56k

Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

2001-02-02 Thread Christoph Rohland
"H. Peter Anvin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What happened with this being a management tool for shared memory segments?! Unfortunately we lost this ability in the 2.4.0-test series. SYSV shm now works only on an internal mounted instance and does not link the directory entry to the deleted

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-02 Thread Pekka Pietikainen
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:32:55PM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 12:19:56AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: I now find myself confused with the new approach. try "man -k disc" and compare the output with "man -k disk" Since nearly all of the utilities refer to "disk"

2 SCSI controllers causing boot problems...

2001-02-02 Thread Drew Bertola
I know I've seen this in the past, but the answer slips my mind and I can't find anything in the archives. I've just set up a box w/ an aic7xxx card. The boot drive hangs off that card. During installation, the boot drive is sda. Lilo contains "root=/dev/sda8". I compiled a new kernel

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-02-02 Thread Andrew Morton
"David S. Miller" wrote: ... Finally, please do some tests on loopback. It is usually a great way to get "pure software overhead" measurements of our TCP stack. Here we are. TCP and NFS/UDP over lo. Machine is a dual-PII. I didn't bother running CPU utilisation testing while

[patch] 2.2.18 serial console sysrq backport

2001-02-02 Thread Michael Stiller
Hi *, i just backported the 2.4.x serial.c changes to enable MAGIC_SYSRQ via serial console on 2.2.18. Patch is working ok so far, i have included it here, maybe it is useful for someone. You need to enable CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ to use it. To trigger MAGIC_SYSRQ send a

Re: rlim_t and DNS?

2001-02-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | [Admin Mailing Lists] | i have no bits directory | | Really? What version of libc, and on what Linux distro? I thought all | versions of glibc2 had /usr/include/bits/. No, it was introduced in glibc 2.0.5. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab

Re: Modules and DevFS

2001-02-02 Thread Helge Hafting
"Michael B. Trausch" wrote: [...] DevFSd provides symlinks as follows: /dev/ttyS0 = /dev/tts/0 /dev/tty0 = /dev/vc/0 /dev/pty* = /dev/pty/* Until programs use the new names (e.g., init should tell getty to use /dev/vc/0 instead of /dev/tty0), and everything on

Installation on RAID volume (Mylex controller)

2001-02-02 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
I want to install on a RAID volume controlled by a Mylex 170. Built an image of a 2.4.1 with DAC960/DAC1100 "compiled in" and copied it over vmlinuz on a Red Hat 7 boot diskette (boot.img). I entered this at the boot prompt boot: linux root=/dev/rd/c0d0 DAC960 appears to detect correctly the

vaio doesn't boot with 2.4.1-ac1, stops at PCI: Probing PCI hardware

2001-02-02 Thread Ookhoi
Hi! Kernel 2.4.1-ac1 doesn't boot on a vaio c1ve (crusoe). I boot a kernel via the usb floppy drive, and it ends with: ... Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd98e, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing

Re: vaio doesn't boot with 2.4.1-ac1, stops at PCI: Probing PCI hardware

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Cox
Here it hangs hard. It used to boot with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1-prex Should I try to determine which patch made the fatal change? Should I send my That would be great. Firstly however does 2.4.1 (Linus) boot ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-02 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Hello, with ReiserFS support in 2.4.1 I have decided to give it a try. I created a filesystem on a spare partition, mounted it as /mnt, and tried to use it. The kernel crashed - I am able to reproduce it with the following steps: - boot linux with init=/bin/bash - [optional]

Re: vaio doesn't boot with 2.4.1-ac1, stops at PCI: Probing PCI hardware

2001-02-02 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Alan, Here it hangs hard. It used to boot with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1-prex Should I try to determine which patch made the fatal change? Should I send my That would be great. Firstly however does 2.4.1 (Linus) boot ? It does boot. :-) Is there something I can do now?

RE: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-02-02 Thread Sam James
All, I updated the Cisco local directors in front of this email cluster. ECN should work now, let me know if you have any further troubles. Adelphia isn't a bad ISP, we are just a little to big for our own good sometimes, and getting in touch with the right people to solve problems like this

[Patch]Re: Serious reproducible 2.4.x kernel hang

2001-02-02 Thread Prasanna P Subash
#include stdio.h #include unistd.h #include sys/types.h #include sys/socket.h int main(int argc, const char* argv[]) { int retval; int sockets[2]; char buf[1]; retval = socketpair(PF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0, sockets); if (retval != 0) { perror("socketpair");

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.1-ac1 UP-APIC/NMI watchdog fixes

2001-02-02 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 2 Feb 01 at 3:35, Mikael Pettersson wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 01:37:28 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Mikael Pettersson wrote: * NMI watchdog cleanups: mark setup_apic_nmi_watchdog() as __init, fix the K7 init code to not leave any perfctr MSR uninitialised,

Re: problems with devfsd compilation

2001-02-02 Thread Paul Collins
Georg Nikodym ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Also, RH7's /etc/rc.sysinit can already start devfsd automatically with the following line: [ -e /dev/.devfsd -a -x /sbin/devfsd ] /sbin/devfsd /dev So, all you have to do is create an empty file /dev/.devfsd That file is created by devfs

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-02 Thread Hans Reiser
This is why our next patch will detect the use of gcc 2.96, and complain, in the reiserfs Makefile. Hans Jan Kasprzak wrote: Hello, with ReiserFS support in 2.4.1 I have decided to give it a try. I created a filesystem on a spare partition, mounted it as /mnt, and tried

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:13:45AM +, Alan Cox wrote: the used board BP6 (abit), apics enabled. non-overclocked. card is a 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) Try 2.4.1ac - that should fix it ok, it doesn't crash (the first test) but the

Re: esp causing crashes..

2001-02-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:44:07AM -0600, Mark Orr wrote: Well that surely shouldnt happen...I use minicom all the time (I still call BBSes), and havent had any crashes. I can quit/disconnect, or quit/stay connected and it works okay. I've even got it set up to use 23bps, which is the

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains

2001-02-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:25:08PM +, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: No. Just allow passing the multiple of the devices blocksize over ll_rw_block. That was just one example: you need the sub-ios just as much when you split up an IO over stripe boundaries in LVM or raid0, for example.

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains

2001-02-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:07:44PM +, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: No. I want something good for zero-copy IO in general, but a lot of that concerns the problem of interacting with the user, and the basic center of that interaction in 99% of the interesting cases is either a user VM buffer

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains

2001-02-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:18:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: A kiobuf is 124 bytes, a buffer_head 96. And a buffer_head is additionally used for caching data, a kiobuf not. Go measure the cost of a distant cache miss, then complain

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlinkrelated)

2001-02-02 Thread John Morrison
Recompile with pre 2.96. John Hello, with ReiserFS support in 2.4.1 I have decided to give it a try. I created a filesystem on a spare partition, mounted it as /mnt, and tried to use it. The kernel crashed - I am able to reproduce it with the following steps: - boot linux

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-02 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Hans Reiser wrote: : This is why our next patch will detect the use of gcc 2.96, and complain, in the : reiserfs Makefile. : OK, thanks. It works with older compiler (altough I use gcc 2.96 for a long time for compiling various 2.[34] kernels without problem). -Yenya -- \ Jan "Yenya"

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-02-02 Thread Trond Myklebust
" " == Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Much the same story. Big increase in sendfile() efficiency, small drop in send() and NFS unchanged. This is normal. The server doesn't do zero copy reads, but instead copies from the page cache into an NFS-specific buffer using

Re: [patch] 2.4.0, 2.4.0-ac12: APIC lock-ups

2001-02-02 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: Your latest patch passes all my testing. 2.4.1+irq-whacker+netperf:APIC dies instantly 2.4.1+irq-whacker+netperf+patch: 8 million interrupts, then I got bored. Linus, would you please apply the following patch for 2.4.2? The idea of

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Cox
This is why our next patch will detect the use of gcc 2.96, and complain, in the reiserfs Makefile. What makes you think its gcc 2.96 ? If the person concerned can clarify what they built with (2.96-69 or egcs-1.1.2 (kgcc)), that would be useful. I've certainly done the Reiserfs testing I

Re: vaio doesn't boot with 2.4.1-ac1, stops at PCI: Probing PCI hardware

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Cox
Firstly however does 2.4.1 (Linus) boot ? It does boot. :-) Is there something I can do now? Ok that means its something in my patches. Time to do some patch searching. I see two probable candidates - the local apic code and the pci changes. Does 2.4.1 with the following patch applied

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Cox
Hans Reiser wrote: : This is why our next patch will detect the use of gcc 2.96, and complain, in the : reiserfs Makefile. : OK, thanks. It works with older compiler (altough I use gcc 2.96 for a long time for compiling various 2.[34] kernels without problem). Ok which 2.96 compiler

Re: [livid-dev] [Patch] DVD bugfix in ide-cd.c

2001-02-02 Thread Szymon Polom
Hi... Fredrik Vraalsen wrote: This is a small patch to Linux kernel 2.4.1 that fixes a problem with DVD playback in OMS (Open Media System). With the stock 2.4.1 kernel OMS will only play up to a certain point on the DVD before it complains about no more data left on input (basically

Re: [livid-dev] [Patch] DVD bugfix in ide-cd.c

2001-02-02 Thread Szymon Polom
Hello, Szymon Polom wrote: Fredrik Vraalsen wrote: This is a small patch to Linux kernel 2.4.1 that fixes a problem with DVD playback in OMS (Open Media System). With the stock 2.4.1 kernel OMS will only play up to a certain point on the DVD before it complains about no more data

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-02 Thread Tor Arntsen
Mike Harrold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My understanding (going back to the 80s) is that the correct term is disc. "disk" is short for diskette. (discette would be pronounced as "dissect" (think miscellaneous), so "diskette" was used instead. No, this isn't right. "Disk" was used for hard disks.

Re: vaio doesn't boot with 2.4.1-ac1, stops at PCI: Probing PCI hardware

2001-02-02 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Alan, Firstly however does 2.4.1 (Linus) boot ? It does boot. :-) Is there something I can do now? Ok that means its something in my patches. Time to do some patch searching. I see two probable candidates - the local apic code and the pci changes. Does 2.4.1 with the

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-02 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Alan Cox wrote: : Hans Reiser wrote: : : This is why our next patch will detect the use of gcc 2.96, and complain, in the : : reiserfs Makefile. : : : OK, thanks. It works with older compiler (altough I use gcc 2.96 : for a long time for compiling various 2.[34] kernels without problem).

Re: kernel ver 2.4.1 VFS problem

2001-02-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That problem solved by compiling the correct SCSI driver into the kernel. Now it is the problem with input console. It says Unable to open Input console. This is after mounting VFS. Same thing ... you haven't compiled in a console driver. I guess

Re: sard on kernel 2.4

2001-02-02 Thread Chris Evans
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Linus, There is a significative amount of people who use sard's additional block layer statistics (I'm one of them). It would be nice to have it in the official free. Definitely. Cheers Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[BUG] directory renaming/removal

2001-02-02 Thread David Howells
Run the following script (It's been tried on linux-2.2.x and linux-2.4.x): #!/bin/sh cd /tmp mkdir x cd x mkdir x y z strace -etrace=rename,mkdir,rmdir,chmod mv x z echo - chmod -w y strace -etrace=rename,mkdir,rmdir,chmod mv y z The output: rename("x", "z/x") = 0

Re: [BUG] directory renaming/removal

2001-02-02 Thread Marko Kreen
I must say that I dont know what the standards say, but... On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:28:28PM +, David Howells wrote: (1) Linux can't rename directories that are marked as read-only. This is strange because the directories actually being modified _do_ have write permission.

[INFO] 2.2.15 - 2.4.0/1 Performance

2001-02-02 Thread Vibol Hou
Hi, I just thought I'd pass piece of information this to those of you who have done work on the kernel. Attached is a PNG image of the CPU usage graph on one of my most loaded webservers over the past four weeks. It shows the HUGE difference in CPU consumption from the now old 2.2+ kernel;

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Frank de Lange
2.4.1. rebuilt here and with a floodping towards my machine causes a hard crash where nothing works anymore. I'm currently running 2.4.1 with Maciej's patch-2.4.0-io_apic-4. Additionally, I disabled focus_processor in apic.c to get rid of some network delays. Flood pings both from and to this

Re: 2.4.1 - can't read root fs (devfs maybe?)

2001-02-02 Thread mirabilos
- Original Message - From: "David Ford" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Michael J. Dikkema" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:58 PM Subject: Re: 2.4.1 - can't read root fs (devfs maybe?) "Michael J. Dikkema" wrote: I went from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 and

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-02 Thread mirabilos
- Original Message - From: "Roeland Th. Jansen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:16 PM Subject: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff 2.4.1. rebuilt here and with a floodping towards my machine causes a hard crash where nothing works

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains

2001-02-02 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:51:35PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: If I have a page vector with a single offset/length pair, I can build a new header with the same vector and modified offset/length to split the vector in two without copying it. You just say in the higher-level

Re: [Patch] DVD bugfix in ide-cd.c

2001-02-02 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Feb 01 2001, Fredrik Vraalsen wrote: This is a small patch to Linux kernel 2.4.1 that fixes a problem with DVD playback in OMS (Open Media System). With the stock 2.4.1 kernel OMS will only play up to a certain point on the DVD before it complains about no more data left on input

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-02 Thread mirabilos
Oh you English people, why do you do it so complicated? We even don't need a kernel locale. Take the nominations as they are, color/colour, disk/disc/diskette/floppy, etc. And if you write by yourself, do it as you spell it. I'd even write it German if I wasn't used to speak fully English

Re: 2.4.1 lvm reiserfs adaptec 2940uw noritake alpha

2001-02-02 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
If these 3 drives are on the adaptec aha-2940UW, I get an oops (reply for oops as I have to do it again and capture it) and the system locks (in interrupt handler, not syncing) when the copy completes. I did a timed cp the first time and it took 3.5 minutes and crashed as soon as I got the

Re: [Patch] DVD bugfix in ide-cd.c

2001-02-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: Thanks applied, guess we need another work-around for buggy changers... -- Jens Axboe To quote my friend, about comments agreeing with Hale Landis. WHY!!! are you still supporting junk? ;-) Cheers, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel

Re: 2 SCSI controllers causing boot problems...

2001-02-02 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Michael Pacey wrote: On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:09:21 Drew Bertola wrote: I know I've seen this in the past, but the answer slips my mind and I can't find anything in the archives. I've just set up a box w/ an aic7xxx card. The boot drive hangs off that card. During installation, the

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.1-ac1 UP-APIC/NMI watchdog fixes

2001-02-02 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
Mikael, I've forgotten to cc you when sending Ingo my patch-2.4.0-ac12-upapic-19 fixes a few days ago, my apologies. Since the two patches conflict with each other, I've merged them together and provide the result below. Please check if it is fine for you. I'm unsure about the K7_NMI_EVENT

Re: problem with devfsd compilation

2001-02-02 Thread Georg Nikodym
"M" == Meunier iso-8859-1 writes: M Not true. I'm pretty sure /dev/.devfsd is only created when you M mount devfs at boot time or via mount -t devfs devfs /dev in your M system initialization script. Creating /dev/.devfsd with touch M defeats the purpose of /etc/rc.sysinit example. Right

Re: NT soon to surpass Linux in specweb99 performance?

2001-02-02 Thread Michael Poole
Paul Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Maxwell wrote: Looks like TUX caught MS's attention: http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q4/web99-20001211-00082.html Anyone know if their method of achieveing this is as flexible as TUX, or is their "SWC 3.0" simply mean

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-02-02 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jan 29 2001, Dylan Griffiths wrote: The VIA KT133 chipset exhibits the following bugs under Linux 2.2.17 and 2.4.0: 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner of screen and locks for a bit 2) Detects a maximum of 64mb of ram, unless worked around by the "mem=" switch

Re: hard crashes 2.4.0/1 with NE2K stuff

2001-02-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:52:16PM +0100, Frank de Lange wrote: I'm currently running 2.4.1 with Maciej's patch-2.4.0-io_apic-4. Additionally, I disabled focus_processor in apic.c to get rid of some network delays. Flood pings both from and to this system do not cause any problems, other than

Re: vaio doesn't boot with 2.4.1-ac1, stops at PCI: Probing PCI hardware

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Cox
Does 2.4.1 with the following patch applied still boot No, it doesn't boot anymore (hangs at probing pci hardware again). I hope this helps. :-) Excellent. That means I have a good handle on the problem. It also means I know which bits to not send Linus - To unsubscribe from this list:

isdn_ppp.c bug (isdn_lzscomp.c aka STAC compression oops on 2.4.x)

2001-02-02 Thread infernix
Hi, I tried to run ISDN STAC compression on my 2.4.0 kernel. It compiled fine but once I dialed in and started to use STAC compression it gave me a big fat oops. I mailed Andre Beck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), the author of isdn_lzscomp.c (available at www.isdn4linux.de) if this was a known problem,

Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-02 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, February 02, 2001 12:26:52 PM + Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is why our next patch will detect the use of gcc 2.96, and complain, in the reiserfs Makefile. What makes you think its gcc 2.96 ? We have had many reports of exactly this symlink problem, and each

Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Cox
What makes you think its gcc 2.96 ? We have had many reports of exactly this symlink problem, and each time it was a redhat user with a gcc 2.96, and switching to kgcc fixed it. We have one report (now two with Alan's) that 2.96-69 does not show this crash. Ok. That would make sense.

Re: 3Com 3c523 in IBM PS/2 9585: Can't load module in kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-02 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
eth0: memprobe, Can't find memory at 0xc! I get the same memprobe error. Haven't bothered with it for some time as I had problems getting the IBMMCASCSI recognized in 2.4.x but that seems to have been fixed now. I have patches that I believe fix this, but their own my box at home

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-02 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: sarcasm What we really need is the ability to echo en_US/en_GB /proc/sys/kernel/locale so you can choose the one you want. /sarcasm Heh. But you don't need the explicit sarcasm tags in the en_GB version. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

RAMFS

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Cox
Random quick poking Does this fix the ramfs problem in -ac ? --- fs/ramfs/inode.c~ Wed Jan 31 22:02:16 2001 +++ fs/ramfs/inode.cFri Feb 2 14:51:47 2001 @@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ inode-i_blocks += IBLOCKS_PER_PAGE; rsb-free_pages--;

DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-02 Thread T . Stewart
hi, I have a D-Link DFE-530TX Rev A, PCI ethernet card, but it refuses to work. I have looked at http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#pci which sugests using the via-rhine driver. I did this and compiled it into the kernel. It detects it at boot (via- rhine v1.08-LK1.1.6 8/9/2000 Donald

mpparse.c question

2001-02-02 Thread Manfred
I've started cleaning up mpparse.c/ioapic.c for the addition of acpi support, but I got stuck in the mess of global variables. What's the purpose of of the irq_2_pin in io_apic.c? I assume that I overlook something, but afaics the code allows one physical interrupt source (e.g. INTA from device

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.1-ac1 UP-APIC/NMI watchdog fixes

2001-02-02 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Maciej W. Rozycki writes: I've forgotten to cc you when sending Ingo my patch-2.4.0-ac12-upapic-19 fixes a few days ago, my apologies. Since the two patches conflict with each other, I've merged them together and provide the result below. Please check if it is fine for you. Looks

Re: 2.4.x/alpha/ALI chipset/IDE problems summary Re: 2.4.1 not fullysane on Alpha - file systems

2001-02-02 Thread John Jasen
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: Sorry, but the ALI code was written based upon ix86 :-( Where were you guys during 2.3.X development? We had lots of problems with the few 2.3.x kernels we downloaded; and RD effort was needed elsewhere. Would it help if a UP1100 was somehow made

RE: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-02-02 Thread Dunlap, Randy
From: Rogerio Brito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] While I don't have problems with the Duron above, I do have a 486 here with 8MB of memory that I intend to use as a router for my local LAN, but 2.4.0 only recognizes 7MB, while 2.2.18 recognizes all 8MB. Under 2.4.0 (I

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Cox
: It is the original one. I'll try with the -69: : With 2.96-69 the reiserfs seems to work well. Sorry for the confusion, I forgot to upgrade the gcc on my machine. Excellent. Im just glad to know its a fixed bug. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] minor ne2k-pci irq fix

2001-02-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Martin Diehl wrote: Sorry, wasn't clear enough. I've meant, the kernel (PCI stuff) changing the BAR bus address in the config space when enabling the device (i.e. the bus address value which is used for later mapping). Doing so would make the pci_resource_start() value

Re: Direct (unbuffered) I/O status ...

2001-02-02 Thread Steve Lord
We're trying to port some code that currently runs on SGI using the IRIX direct I/O facility. From searching the web, it appears that a similar feature either already is or will soon be available under Linux. Could anyone fill me in on what the status is? (I know about mapping block

Re: 3Com 3c523 in IBM PS/2 9585: Can't load module in kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-02 Thread Michael Pacey
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 01:44:01 Tom Sightler wrote: My patches also include changes that should improve this, but I doubt it will eliminate the problem. The basic thing here is that it's a horrid card in regards to performance and most of them only have 8K of buffer, it's just too easy to

Re: isdn_ppp.c bug (isdn_lzscomp.c aka STAC compression oops on2.4.x)

2001-02-02 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, infernix wrote: However, the patch hasn't been implemented yet, neither in 2.4.1 or in 2.4.1-ac1, because the obvious "HACK,HACK,HACK" sentence is still present :) Could someone see to it that this mail reaches the kernel's isdn_ppp.c maintainer and get this thing

Re: mpparse.c question

2001-02-02 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Manfred wrote: What's the purpose of of the irq_2_pin in io_apic.c? Just for what the comment says: to map our IRQ number to an apic:pin entity in O(1). It has to be fast! You would have to parse the MP table otherwise -- see pin_2_irq(). I assume that I overlook

Re: mpparse.c question

2001-02-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: Can that happen, is that important? Silly question: Why can't we ignore all but the first pin? If we don't enable the additional pins, we don't have to disable them during disable_irq(). Possibly yes -- I haven't seen such a system. it

Re: RAMFS

2001-02-02 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:51:53PM +, Alan Cox wrote: Does this fix the ramfs problem in -ac ? --- fs/ramfs/inode.c~ Wed Jan 31 22:02:16 2001 +++ fs/ramfs/inode.c Fri Feb 2 14:51:47 2001 @@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ inode-i_blocks += IBLOCKS_PER_PAGE;

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-02-02 Thread David Lang
I have been watching this thread with interest for a while now, but am wondering about the real-world use of this, given the performance penalty for write() As I see it there are two basic cases you are saying this will help in. 1. webservers 2. other fileservers I also freely admit that I

Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-02 Thread Hans Reiser
Chris Mason wrote: Hans, decisions about proper compilers should not be made in each individual part of the kernel. If unpatched gcc 2.96 is getting reiserfs broke is broke. If you use reiserfs, DO NOT use 2.96. Period. Nobody gains by letting a single user make this mistake. wrong,

SMP Race in brelse

2001-02-02 Thread Daniel Phillips
There is a rare SMP race in brelse: 1138 void __brelse(struct buffer_head * buf) 1139 { 1140 if (atomic_read(buf-b_count)) { 1141 atomic_dec(buf-b_count); 1142 return; 1143 } 1144 printk("VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer\n"); 1145 }

Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Cox
So, did Linus say no? If not, let's ask him with a patch. Quite simply, neither we nor the users should be burdened with this, and the patch removes the burden. Since egcs-1.1.2 and gcc 2.95 miscompile the kernel strstr code dont forget to stop those being used as well. Oh look you'll need

loopback driver hardlocking machine

2001-02-02 Thread Rob Bos
Good day; I have been having consistent trouble with the last several kernels; all the test[9-12], 2.4.0 (all patched with reiser) and the 2.4.1 kernel (unpatched) seem to do this for me. I have devfs enabled as well, but this seems to happen with or without devfs. I don't believe it happened

Re: mpparse.c question

2001-02-02 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: (hm, dont we have an assert in there to catch ISA IRQs bound to the second IO-APIC?) In any case, it would be a very surprising move if anyone added a second IO-APIC for the sake of *ISA* devices. This would be truly backwards. It's just the matter of

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-02 Thread Jonathan Morton
I have a D-Link DFE-530TX Rev A, PCI ethernet card, but it refuses to work. I have looked at http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#pci which sugests using the via-rhine driver. I did this and compiled it into the kernel. It detects it at boot (via- rhine v1.08-LK1.1.6 8/9/2000 Donald Becker)

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.1-ac1 UP-APIC/NMI watchdog fixes

2001-02-02 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Mikael Pettersson wrote: I'm unsure about the K7_NMI_EVENT macro -- I think it should go into include/asm-i386/msr.h, but the comment should remain here. It should get reworded a bit in this case, I suppose, though. I'd prefer to keep it in nmi.c -- it doesn't

[PATCH] G450 and lockup

2001-02-02 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Hi Alan, hi others, source of problems with matroxfb on G450 was revealed: BIOS forgets to initialize ZORG (0x1C0C) register, and although matroxfb does not use it, it must contain reasonable value, as it was proved that otherwise it does not work... Patch contains: 1) matroxfb_DAC1064.c:

Re: Linux-MM bugzilla

2001-02-02 Thread lists
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:06:32PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: The information page about this bugzilla can be found here: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/bugzilla.shtml OK, I just registered linux-mm.org and changed the httpd

Re: Linux-MM bugzilla

2001-02-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:06:32PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: The information page about this bugzilla can be found here: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/bugzilla.shtml OK, I just

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains

2001-02-02 Thread bsuparna
Hi, On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:28:33PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a second pass attempt, based on Ben's wait queue extensions: Does this sound any better ? It's a mechanism, all right, but you haven't described what problems it is trying to solve, and where it is likely to be

[PATCH] Guard mm-rss with page_table_lock (2.4.1)

2001-02-02 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. This patch tries to fix the potential rss accounting race where we change mm-rss without holding page_table_lock. My reasoning for the correctness of the patch below is as follows. First I cover the lock pairs added by the patch (top to bottom) and then the places it does not touch.

Re: [patch] 2.4.0, 2.4.0-ac12: APIC lock-ups

2001-02-02 Thread GĂ©rard Roudier
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: +/* + * It appears there is an erratum which affects at least the 82093AA + * I/O APIC. If a level-triggered interrupt input is being masked in + * the redirection entry while the interrupt is send

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-02 Thread Urban Widmark
I did this and compiled it into the kernel. It detects it at boot (via- rhine v1.08-LK1.1.6 8/9/2000 Donald Becker) but says the hardware address (mac address?) is 00-00-00-00-00-00. This is a good example of what is missed by not copying the exact message. For example, mine says: eth0: VIA

Re: RAMFS

2001-02-02 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: No, so have to unlock it also, if you return -ENOSPC. So the correct fix seems to be: --- linux/fs/ramfs/inode.c~ Wed Jan 31 22:02:16 2001 +++ linux/fs/ramfs/inode.cFri Feb 2 14:51:47 2001 @@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ inode-i_blocks +=

1st glance at kiobuf overhead in kernel aio vs pread vs user aio

2001-02-02 Thread bcrl
Hey folks, First off, sorry for spamming all the mailing lists, but I want to make sure that everyone interested in kiobufs, aio and the like sees this. Since the mass of discussion going on about kiobufs started, I ran a few tests of the behaviour of various code when reading from a cached

Version 2.4.1 has ext2 problems.

2001-02-02 Thread Richard B. Johnson
Files generated by e2fsck in lost+found cannot be removed. Script started on Fri Feb 2 14:29:55 2001 # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 6356624 2473924 3559796 41% / /dev/sdc3 2253284 1373532765292 64%

Re: Disk is cheap?

2001-02-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Everyone who says, disk is cheap, ought to donate me one. Everyone who says, memory is cheap, has to send me some. I'm still stuck with a P-133, 56 MB RAM (60-70 ns, some EDO, some FPM) and not only Linux but also W2K on a 2.1 and a 0.8 GB HDD. I accept donations in IDE and SCSI,

Re: Your message to Meltingpot awaits moderator approval

2001-02-02 Thread Richard B. Johnson
WARNING!! Messages to linux-kernel are now being intercepted (and answered) by this company: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My message was sent directly to linux-kernel, with no cc address. It should not have gone anywhere else. On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-02-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I am asking because I have just ordered a new drive for my Vaio (8.1 gig in a 8.45mm drive!) and I want to install 2.4.x on it. (I like getting 8.1GB in under centimeter? That's 8.1GB in compactflash slot? Pavel -- I'm

Better battery info/status files

2001-02-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes units, and makes format tag: value. Please apply. Pavel --- clean/drivers/acpi/cmbatt.c Wed Jan 31 16:14:26 2001 +++ linux/drivers/acpi/cmbatt.c Thu Feb 1 10:55:31 2001 @@ -246,38 +254,32 @@ goto

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-02-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! It's not an incompatibility with the k7 chip, just bad code in include/asm-i386/string.h. So you're saying SMP *is* supported on Athlon? Do motherboards exist? Check today's slashdot ;-). Pavel -- I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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