You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
But wasn't that Xerox that had that?
US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
The patent was for using the technique of using XOR for dragging/moving
parts of a graphics image without erasing other parts.
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:25:58AM -, you [Ole Andr Vadla Ravns ] claimed:
I don't know if this is broken in 2.4.1-ac17 and
2.4.2-pre4, but, what happens when mounting a filesystem
Hmm. Yeah, I think that may be one of the problems (Intel's card isn't
supported afaik; if I have to I'll switch to 3com, or hopelessly try to
implement support). I'm looking for a patch to implement sendfile in
Samba, as Alan suggested. That seems like a good first step.
As Alan said,
Kernel 2.4.1-ac15, 3ware driver.
512mb ram, amd thunderbird 1000, 3ware escalade 6400 with 2 x 45gb IBM
in raid5 mode.
'iozone 512 16384' is a guaranteed, repeatable way to totally kill this
machine.
The kernel starts spitting out a zillion of
"Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers"
Well, once again, VIA chipsets cause havok. The Asus CUV4X-D
VIA694XDP/VT82C686B chipset. The southbridge (686b) could NOT see
it's way clear to understand what my hard drives' geometry was.
Kept getting LI every single reboot. Put the drives back on the Promise
PDC20267 ATA100 controller and
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:46:34PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
I note that at least 5 device drivers have similar implementations
of rvmalloc()/rvfree() et al:
ieee1394/video1394.c
usb/ibmcam.c
usb/ov511.c
media/video/bttv-driver.c
media/video/cpia.c
If you are offering to do this work now, here is a thread worth
reading which includes a patch to start from...
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0002.1/0586.html
BTW, Alan Cox sent me the following additional information in a
private email. Might as well get this in
Hi,
in my laptop (HP 4150B) I upgraded from a 12GB IBM Travelstar to an
20GB IBM Travelstar (both 4200rpm). After the upgrade I moved also to
2.4.2-pre3 and reiserfs. However, the problem I now have is that after
resume I get the message "hda: lost interrupt" and the only thing to do
is to
This one should be easy to track down, it's reproducible (2 for 2 so
far).
Kernel 2.4.1ac17 compiled by gcc 2.95.2.
Scenario: In single-user mode; only user process running is /bin/bash
(pid 1). Only fs'es mounted are / (ro), /spare (rw) (both ext2),
/proc.
# mount -t ext2 -o loop
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Neil Booth wrote:
I have a SOYO "SY-5EMA+ Super 7" motherboard, with a K6-2 processor.
The 45 Gig IBM drive hangs the BIOS if I let it autodetect it, so I
turn off autodetection for IDE2 primary where it sits. This is probably
not relevant.
Not really. IBM has software
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:
Can 2.2.x linux made to boot from an ide zip drive? If so, what is required?
There is a (rather old, but sufficient) mini-HOWTO about this. I use it to
create a Linux-From-Scratch with RPMs. The url is:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:
Can 2.2.x linux made to boot from an ide zip drive? If so, what is required?
Oops, sorry, wrong URL (damned):
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Install-From-ZIP.html
Found it with google ("zip install linux mini"). Just to make sure that,
if it's
I was poking around in a vmlinux the other day and was surprised at the
amount of repetitive crap text that was in there. For example, try:
strings vmlinux|grep $PWD|wc -c
which gets some 70KB in my case - depends on strlen($PWD) obviously. The
culprit is BUG() in a static inline that is in
Is it possible to flush all entries in the buffer cache corresponding
to a single block device (i.e. simply drop them if they aren't dirty,
or write them to disk and drop them after this if they are dirty)?
I've got another device in my SCSI chain which writes to the disk, and
if the caches are
Sorry for posting this message to the list, but i don't know what's
happenning. Since two weeks ago i haven't recieved any mail from the
list. I tried to resubscribe again, but i received no response, so i have
to use web archives to access the list. Anybody know what the problem is?
David
Hi!
I am trying to use the --mac-source option in the netfilter code to better refine
access to my linux box. However, I have run up against something. The router
through which my private subnet work box passes sends a 14-group "invalid" mac
address, presumably as an attempt to conceal the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
There is another much more effective solution in the works. The C
standard allows bounds checking of arrays.
The C standard does not allow reliable bounds checking on {signed,
unsigned, vanilla} char arrays, because the corresponding pointers can
sock_creat(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP, sock);
sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
sin.sin_port = htons((unsigned short)serv_port);
sin.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY); /*i am not sure about this*/
Needs the target IP address here.
msg.msg_name = sin;
msg.msglen = sizeof(struct
Paul Gortmaker wrote:
Anyway this small patch makes sure there is only one "kernel BUG..." string,
and dumps __FILE__ in favour of an address value since System.map data is
needed to make full use of the BUG() dump anyways. The memory stats of two
otherwise identical kernels:
Shouldn't
Recently I came across two more things, that are possibly related to
IO-APIC problems:
1)http://xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2001January/004751.html
Someone with SMP that has problem with interrupt delivery (stuck
interrupt). Only in SMP mode and this is not NE2000 related.
Hi,
I run an 3*XEON 550MHz Primergy with 2GB of RAM.
On this machine, i have compiled kernel 2.4.0SMP.
Is it possible to bind a process to a specific
cpu on this SMP machine (process affinity) ?
I there something like pset ?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Widmann Thomas
Siemens AG - Munich
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On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 around 13:26:52 +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
Paul Gortmaker wrote:
Anyway this small patch makes sure there is only one "kernel BUG..." string,
and dumps __FILE__ in favour of an address value since System.map data is
needed to make full use of the BUG() dump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike A. Harris) writes:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:
The biggest thing that the linux community does to stifle innovation is to
bash commercial vendors trying to make a profit by whining endlessly about
"sourceless" distributions and recommending "open-source" solutions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Cox) writes:
For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet
drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps
with different "features" that were of value to you. Instead, you have
crappy GPL code that locks up
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Augustin Vidovic) writes:
1- GPL code is the opposite of crap
No. A license doesn't automatically make good code.
Regards
Henning
--
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INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael H. Warfield) writes:
But wasn't that Xerox that had that? Yeah, the same ones that
screwed us over with the compression patent that shot .gif images out
of the sky. There was inovation for you.
Wrong company. You may want to check your facts before bashing.
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 12:46:30PM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
1- GPL code is the opposite of crap
No. A license doesn't automatically make good code.
true but at least with GPL, people can work on crap GPL code and make
it good. that's an option you don't have with closed
At 09:32 PM 2/16/01, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, David Relson wrote:
At 08:52 PM 2/16/01, you wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
But wasn't that Xerox that had that?
US Patent
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*** of your replies.
Henning P. Schmiedehausen writes:
But at least I would be happy if there would be a printing
engine that is entirely open source and
Hi!
I might just decide to do the kernel as well.
Hmmm... this sounds like it's turning into a group effort. Would you (or
someone else) like to set up a sourceforge project for this? I would
prefer not to have to deal with that end myself.
OK, I've filled in the paperwork - we
Hi!
This is true, but one thing I'd really like to have is controlled buffer
overrun, which TCP *doesn't* have. I really think an ad hoc UDP protocol
(I've already begun sketching on the details) is more appropriate in this
particular case.
Explain 'controlled buffer overrun'.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Hi,
I run an 3*XEON 550MHz Primergy with 2GB of RAM.
On this machine, i have compiled kernel 2.4.0SMP.
Is it possible to bind a process to a specific
cpu on this SMP machine (process affinity) ?
Linux 2.4 is mostlu ready for process affinity, but it
Hi !
I've a parallel zip drive and an epson printer on the parallel port, the
printer is connected to the zip drive in daisy chain. All is modularised.
There are problems with this configuration with all the kernels :
1.2.18, 2.2.19-pre13, 2.4.2-pre4 and 2.4.1-ac15
The behaviour is different
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
I was poking around in a vmlinux the other day and was surprised at the
amount of repetitive crap text that was in there. For example, try:
strings vmlinux|grep $PWD|wc -c
which gets some 70KB in my case - depends on strlen($PWD) obviously.
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Hi,
I run an 3*XEON 550MHz Primergy with 2GB of RAM.
On this machine, i have compiled kernel 2.4.0SMP.
Is it possible to bind a process to a specific
cpu on this SMP machine (process affinity) ?
Linux 2.4 is
On 02.17 Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
I was poking around in a vmlinux the other day and was surprised at the
amount of repetitive crap text that was in there. For example, try:
strings vmlinux|grep $PWD|wc -c
If you try
strings vmlinux|grep /usr
Thomas Widmann wrote:
Hi,
I run an 3*XEON 550MHz Primergy with 2GB of RAM.
On this machine, i have compiled kernel 2.4.0SMP.
Is it possible to bind a process to a specific
cpu on this SMP machine (process affinity) ?
I there something like pset ?
A patch which creates
[Manfred Spraul]
Unless you modify the ABI and pass the array bounds around you won't
catch such problems,
[Eric W. Biederman]
Of course. But this is linux and you have the source. And I did
mention you needed to recompile the libraries your trusted
applications depended on.
So by
On 02.17 J . A . Magallon wrote:
#if 1
extern void *__io_virt_debug(unsigned long x, const char *file, int line);
extern unsigned long __io_phys_debug(unsigned long x, const char *file, int
li
ne);
#define __io_virt(x) __io_virt_debug((unsigned long)(x), __FILE__, __LINE__)
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:20:54PM -0800, Mike Pontillo wrote:
[snip]
Assuming I am a corporate entity and I need to spend a few bucks to fix
a GPL driver, just because I fix it and deploy my fix on my corporation's
internal network machines -- and quite possibly benefit the hell out of
Is it possible to flush all entries in the buffer cache corresponding
to a single block device (i.e. simply drop them if they aren't dirty,
or write them to disk and drop them after this if they are dirty)?
Yes, just send the BLKFLSBUF ioctl to the device this syncs the device then
removes
Hi'all,
Well, subject says it all... When I try to compile mozilla (CVS version) with
the '--enable-elf-dynstr-gc' option, the compile fails with a segfault:
../../dist/bin/elf-dynstr-gc ../../dist/lib/components/libsample.so
make[2]: *** [install] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
compiling
On 02.17 Paul Gortmaker wrote:
I was poking around in a vmlinux the other day and was surprised at the
amount of repetitive crap text that was in there. For example, try:
strings vmlinux|grep $PWD|wc -c
which gets some 70KB in my case - depends on strlen($PWD) obviously. The
culprit
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] crit :
[...]
For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet
drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps
with different "features" that were of value to you. Instead, you have
crappy GPL code that locks
* Pavel Machek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010217 05:40]:
Being able to remotely resed machine with crashed userland would be
*very* nice, too...
If it provides a true remote console, enable SYSRQ and youi should get this
for free.
--
Patrick Michael Kane
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On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Patrick Michael Kane wrote:
* Pavel Machek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010217 05:40]:
Being able to remotely resed machine with crashed userland would be
*very* nice, too...
If it provides a true remote console, enable SYSRQ and youi should get this
for free.
Yes, it
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 12:41:57PM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
If HP would spent only 5% of their driver writing
buget for Windows into Linux driver development, that I would call "a
move".
Have you seen this: http://hp.sourceforge.net/
I certainly don't know what the
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
But wasn't that Xerox that had that?
US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:20:34PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
The patent was for
[Nick, I've added you to the Cc list so you can look at
it for future versions of your patch]
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:13:45PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
You must also update wake_process_synchroneous(), otherwise you can get
lost wakeups with pipes.
Something like
James Bottomley wrote:
Is it possible to flush all entries in the buffer cache corresponding
to a single block device (i.e. simply drop them if they aren't dirty,
or write them to disk and drop them after this if they are dirty)?
Yes, just send the BLKFLSBUF ioctl to the device this
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:58:45PM +0100, Jean Francois Micouleau wrote:
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
If IBM, Intel, Compaq, HP, Dell, SGI and other companies would
wholeheartedly drop their Windows support in favour of Linux, that I
would call "a move". If HP
Hello,
ipcs (msg) gives incorrect results if used-bytes is above 65536. It
stays at 65536 even though messages are being read and removed from the
msg queue.
The sysv msg queue either ignores the /proc/sys/kernel/msgmnb value if
it is above 65536 or simply gets it wrong. Proof: I can place more
Henning P. Schmiedehausen writes:
But at least I would be happy if there would be a printing
engine that is entirely open source and all the printer vendors can
write a small, closed source stub that drives their printer over
parallel port, ethernet or USB and give us all the features, that
At 05:20 PM 02/16/2001, Alan Cox wrote:
For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet
drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps
with different "features" that were of value to you. Instead, you have
crappy GPL code that locks up
Fortunately despite your best efforts there is now a choice in 2.4
When is that specification for 2.4 drivers going to be available? Talk
about "stifling the marketplace"!!! Vendors cant even write reliable
drivers if they want to.
db
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I've noticed this when attempting to build APMD, mc146818rtc.h has
a reference to a spinlock_t while asm/spinlock.h is not included.
Patch follows:
--- linux-2.2.18.orig/include/linux/mc146818rtc.hFri Jan 12 19:15:00 2001
+++ linux-2.2.18/include/linux/mc146818rtc.h Tue
Mark Swanson wrote:
Hello,
ipcs (msg) gives incorrect results if used-bytes is above 65536. It
stays at 65536 even though messages are being read and removed from the
msg queue.
I'm testing it.
Could you check /proc/sysvipc/msg?
I know that several API's have 16-bit numbers, perhaps
I'm using these drivers just fine on a couple of streaming servers that
get hit pretty hard.
Dennis wrote:
both lock up under load. You dont run a busy ISP i guess. The fact that
they come out with a new release every few minutes is clear evidence that
it is problematic.
--
Hi,
* Andrew Morton wrote:
Hi,
I run an 3*XEON 550MHz Primergy with 2GB of RAM.
On this machine, i have compiled kernel 2.4.0SMP.
Is it possible to bind a process to a specific
cpu on this SMP machine (process affinity) ?
I there something like pset ?
A patch which
At 05:31 PM 02/16/2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:
The biggest thing that the linux community does to stifle innovation is to
bash commercial vendors trying to make a profit by whining endlessly about
"sourceless" distributions and recommending "open-source"
Speaking as a Linux _USER_, if this happens, can I get said print
engine working on my ARM machines with these closed source drivers?
Can Alpha users get this print system working? Can Sparc uses
get it working? What? I can't? They can't? Well, its no good to
me nor them. You've just
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 01:37:58PM +, Russell King wrote:
Henning P. Schmiedehausen writes:
But at least I would be happy if there would be a printing
engine that is entirely open source and all the printer vendors can
write a small, closed source stub that drives their printer over
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:53:51AM -0500, David Mansfield wrote:
This may be a bit OT, but when you say O_DIRECT, that implies that you
can pass that flag to open(2) and it will bypass the page cache, and
yes.
read directly into user-space buffers (zero-copy IO)? Does this also
yes.
You are right.
/proc/sysvipc/msg is correct. It shows:
cbytes: 1048575
qnum: 95325
ipcs shows:
used-bytes: 65535
messages: 65535
It's a 16-bit number issue.
--- Manfred Spraul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Swanson wrote:
Hello,
ipcs (msg) gives incorrect results if used-bytes is
At 08:34 PM 02/16/2001, Neal Dias wrote:
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It's not about facts, it's not about the truth, it's not about Jim
Allchin being an idiot or deluded. It's about propaganda,
misinformation, and marketing. It's about business. Nothing new, nor
unexpected. And
Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] crit :
[...]
When is that specification for 2.4 drivers going to be available? Talk
about "stifling the marketplace"!!! Vendors cant even write reliable
drivers if they want to.
May be said vendors should give a look at l-k between 2.2 and 2.4 instead
of spending
The exact error is in /usr/include/linux/msg.h
The three unsigned shorts should be unsigned int instead.
Would too many things break if this was changed?
Should user-space tools like ipcs be rewritten to use /proc/sysvipc
instead? (I notice that my old 2.2.14 kernel doesn't have
Jack Bowling wrote -
I am trying to use the --mac-source option in the netfilter code to better refine
access to my linux box. However, I have run up against something. The router
through which my private subnet work box passes sends a 14-group "invalid" mac
address, presumably as an
Hello,
I am building a -fPIC shared object that will define and access a Linux
kernel system call, but _syscall2 fails with -fPIC .so compilation.
What can I do?
F.E. the statement:
_syscall2 (int, tux, unsigned int, action, user_req_t *, req)
Gives the following gcc error when
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Thomas Widmann wrote:
#cat /proc/1310/cpus_allowed
Now, if i want to run this process on only one cpu, i which way
do i have to set the bitmask ?
Let's say, i want to run it on cpu0. how look's the bitmask ?
Wild guess: as this is a bitmask, you must
At 07:01 PM 02/16/2001, Alan Olsen wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:
There is much truth to the concept, although Microsoft should not be ones
to comment on it as such.
What truth? I have seen more "innovation" in the Open Source movement
than I ever have in my 18+ years of being a
At 07:10 PM 02/16/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dennis wrote:
...
objective, arent we?
Nope. Are you claiming to be?
For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet
drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps
... Rant deleted
I had
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:38:29PM -0500, Dennis wrote:
It's not about facts, it's not about the truth, it's not about Jim
Allchin being an idiot or deluded. It's about propaganda,
misinformation, and marketing. It's about business. Nothing new, nor
unexpected. And to the comment "It is not
At 05:59 PM 02/16/2001, John Cavan wrote:
Dennis wrote:
objective, arent we?
You might ask yourself the same question...
For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet
drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps
with different
Is it possible to bind a process to a specific
cpu on this SMP machine (process affinity) ?
I there something like pset ?
http://isunix.it.ilstu.edu/~thockin/pset - pset for linux-2.2 (not ported
to 2.4 yet)
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On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:
At 07:01 PM 02/16/2001, Alan Olsen wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:
There is much truth to the concept, although Microsoft should not be ones
to comment on it as such.
What truth? I have seen more "innovation" in the Open Source movement
Manfred Spraul wrote:
Mark Swanson wrote:
Hello,
ipcs (msg) gives incorrect results if used-bytes is above 65536. It
stays at 65536 even though messages are being read and removed from the
msg queue.
Ok, does the value stay at 65536 or 65535?
It should stay at 65535 if you use a
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Michael Bacarella wrote:
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:38:29PM -0500, Dennis wrote:
It's not about facts, it's not about the truth, it's not about Jim
Allchin being an idiot or deluded. It's about propaganda,
misinformation, and marketing. It's about business. Nothing
Hello All,
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stefan Hanse writes -
Umm.. An ethernet MAC address is 48bit long, ie AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF, 6
groups, not 14. Is this really an ethernet
interface? (If it really has 14 groups).
Good question. I have determined by scanning my
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:
At 07:01 PM 02/16/2001, Alan Olsen wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:
There is much truth to the concept, although Microsoft should not be ones
to comment on it as such.
What truth? I have seen more "innovation" in the Open Source movement
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:05:36PM -0500, Dennis wrote:
At 07:01 PM 02/16/2001, Alan Olsen wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:
There is much truth to the concept, although Microsoft should not be ones
to comment on it as such.
What truth? I have seen more "innovation" in the
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:08:48PM -0500, Dennis wrote:
At 07:10 PM 02/16/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dennis wrote:
...
objective, arent we?
Nope. Are you claiming to be?
For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet
drivers for the eepro100, you'd
# mount -t ext2 -o loop /spare/i486-linuxaout.img /spare/mnt
loop: enabling 8 loop devices
Loop does not currently work in 2.4. It might partly work by luck but thats it.
This will change as and when the new loop patches go in. Until then if you need
loop use 2.2
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On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:56:15PM -0500, Dennis wrote:
At 05:59 PM 02/16/2001, John Cavan wrote:
Dennis wrote:
objective, arent we?
You might ask yourself the same question...
For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet
drivers for the eepro100, you'd
need fat pointers, which would make sizeof (long) /= sizeof (void *),
which would break quite some software, I think.
There are plenty of architectures where sizeof long != sizeof (void *). If your
code makes bad assumptions and a bounds checking cc breaks it then its progress.
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Hello!
Unfortunately, it seems to be very buggy. Here are two buggy scenarios.
--- ../vger3-010210/linux/net/ipv4/tcp.cSat Feb 10 23:16:51 2001
+++ linux/net/ipv4/tcp.cSat Feb 17 23:27:43 2001
@@ -691,6 +691,8 @@
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+
Alan Cox writes:
# mount -t ext2 -o loop /spare/i486-linuxaout.img /spare/mnt
loop: enabling 8 loop devices
Loop does not currently work in 2.4. It might partly work by luck
but thats it. This will change as and when the new loop patches go
in. Until then if you need loop use 2.2
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:08:48PM -0500, Dennis wrote:
good commercial drivers dont need fixing. another point. You are arguing
that having source is required to fix crappy code, which i agree with.
Too bad we havn't seen much (any?) good closed-source (what you ment to say
when you said
both lock up under load. You dont run a busy ISP i guess. The fact that
they come out with a new release every few minutes is clear evidence that
it is problematic.
I've been technical director of an ISP. I help manage sites that have not
insignificant loads and no eepro100 driver problems.
When is that specification for 2.4 drivers going to be available? Talk
about "stifling the marketplace"!!! Vendors cant even write reliable
drivers if they want to.
Its called the source code, which includes example driver skeletons. WHere
is the documentation for writing your own etinc
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, David Wood wrote:
Everything actually works rather well, with the exception that when I've
started XFree86 a few times, coupled with switching virtual consoles, I
get irretrievably "corrupted" text virtual consoles. The
Greetings,
I have been staying up late thinking about this, so I'm writing to clear
my head.
(and get some sleep in the future)
Background:
Under ia32 Pentium and higher, 3 different MMU page sizes are
available in hardware: 4kB, 4MB 2MB. Under Alpha (21064), sizes
include 8kB, 4MB for code,
Jeff Garzik writes:
And in another message, On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
3) The acenic/gbit performance anomalies have been cured
by reverting the PCI mem_inval tweaks.
Just to be clear, acenic should or should not use MWI?
And can a general rule be applied
against 2.4.1:
this may seem rather frivolous, but...
patch below makes all data lines start with the appropriate letter, a
colon, then a tab. previously some entries used (varying amounts of)
space characters instead of tabs.
--- MAINTAINERS.origSun Feb 18 01:48:03 2001
+++ MAINTAINERS
Alexey,
Damn you are quick! :) Testing immediately
Cheers
Chris
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
Unfortunately, it seems to be very buggy. Here are two buggy scenarios.
--- ../vger3-010210/linux/net/ipv4/tcp.c Sat Feb 10 23:16:51 2001
+++ linux/net/ipv4/tcp.c
Specifically, this part:
@@ -2324,11 +2309,17 @@
sense.ascq == 0x04)
return CDS_DISC_OK;
+
+ /*
+* If not using Mt Fuji extended media tray reports,
+* just return TRAY_OPEN since ATAPI doesn't provide
+
Thus spake Henning P . Schmiedehausen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
"If a company does not write a driver which works on all hardware
platforms in all cases and gives us the source, then it is better,
that the company writes no drivers at all."
"If I can't force a company to write a driver for
Thus spake Dennis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
You are confusing "progress" with "innovation". If there is only 1 choice,
thats not innovation. Expanding on a bad idea, or even a good one, is not
innovation.
This is bizarre.
Please name one innovation in the history of mankind that could not be
James L. wrote -
Hello All,
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stefan Hanse writes -
Umm.. An ethernet MAC address is 48bit long, ie AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF, 6
groups, not 14. Is this really an ethernet
interface? (If it really has 14 groups).
Good question. I have determined
Howdy,
Trying to implement some different buffer caching
algorithms in Linux. This is just for comparison
purposes for a thesis, not suggesting any problem with
the current scheme. Here is what I'm attempting:
o Eliminate BUF_CLEAN, BUF_DIRTY, and BUF_LOCKED
lists in favor of a single
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