Re: Kernel is unstable

2001-03-02 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Linus, On 1 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: Note how do_brk() does the merging itself (see the comment "Can we just expand an old anonymous mapping?"), and that it's basically free when done that way, with no worries about locking etc. The same could be done fairly trivially in mmap too,

Re: report bug: System reboots when accessing a loop-device over a second loop-device with 2.4.2-ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Mario Hermann
Hello, Jens Axboe wrote: This should make it work again. Yeah! Works fine. -- Jens Axboe Thx Mario Hermann - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Night freezes of computer (2.4.2)

2001-03-02 Thread Ondrej Sury
I have Duron on Via chipset. Kernel is 2.4.2. When I leave my computer in work on during night, it freezes hard. I have X running, so there are no messages on console. I suspect that maybe ACPI is doing that, so I am going to disable it and try it again. I will also shutdown Xserver before

Linux/mips64 on 64 node, 128p, 64G machine

2001-03-02 Thread Kanoj Sarcar
Hi, Just a quick note to mention that I was successful in booting up a 64 node, 128p, 64G mips64 machine on a 2.4.1 based kernel. To be able to handle the amount of io devices connected, I had to make some fixes in the arch/mips64 code. And a few to handle 128 cpus. A couple of generic patches

Re: Kernel is unstable

2001-03-02 Thread David Howells
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also note that the merging tests were not free, so at least under my set of normal load the non-merging code is actually _faster_ than the clever optimized merging. That was what clinched it for me: I absolutely hate to see complexity that doesn't

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-02 Thread Matilainen Panu
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, ext Alan Cox wrote: (from Red Hat 7) but very erratic on all 2.4-kernels I've tried it with (2.4.[012], compiled both with egcs and RH7's gcc-2.96, both share the Under redhat 7 you should use kgcc to compile the kernel, since

Re: How to set hdparms for ide-scsi devices on devfs?

2001-03-02 Thread Eduard Hasenleithner
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 03:10:53AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: procfs echo unmaskirq:1 /proc/ide/hdx/settings Thank you, thats perfect. Is setting the parameters a relatively new feature? I searched for a possibiliy like this and found no references. PS: Is there still a possibility for

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-03-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! * userland issues (what, you thought that limits on the command size will go away?) the space allowed for arguments is not a userland issue, it is a kernel limit defined by MAX_ARG_PAGES in binfmts.h, so one could tweak it if one wanted to without breaking any userland. Which

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-03-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I was hoping to point out that in real life, most systems that need to access large numbers of files are already designed to do some kind of hashing, or at least to divide-and-conquer by using multi-level directory structures. Yes -- because their workaround kernel

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-03-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! * userland issues (what, you thought that limits on the command size will go away?) Last I checked, the command line size limit wasn't a userland issue, but rather a limit of the kernel exec(). This might have changed. I _really_ don't want to trust the ability of

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-02 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Reiser) writes: If I can't get information about BSD v. Linux 2.4 networking code, then reiserfs has to get ported to BSD which will be both nice and a pain to do. So we would get dual-licensed ReiserFS (BSD and GPL)? Are you aware of the legal implications, making

Re: ftruncate not extending files?

2001-03-02 Thread Malcolm Beattie
bert hubert writes: I would've sworn, based on the fact that I saw people do it, that ftruncate was a legitimate way to extend a file Well it's not SuSv2 standards compliant: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/ftruncate.html If the file previously was larger than

Re: 2.4.2ac8 lost char devices

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Mark Hahn wrote: Well, somethig has broken in ac8, because I lost my PS/2 mouse and me too /aol. No luck. it seems to be the mdelay(2) added to pc_keyb.c in -ac6. are you sure? My bet is that it is to do with misc device registration as I lost not just psaux

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac8

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.2-ac8 o Stop two people claiming the same misc dev id (Philipp Rumpf) is this what has broken misc devi registration on my machine? I have two misc devices -- microcode and psaux -- now (ac8) I get none, /proc/misc is empty. Also, on boot gpm

PPP problems

2001-03-02 Thread Rob
Hi, I'd like to thank everyone that helped me with the compiler problem. I've updated everthing in Documentation/Changes I have a brand spankers new gcc, ppp, etc. The problem I'm running into now is when I try to connect to the internet, it says that I don't have a kernel that supports PPP.

Re: Will Mosix go into the standard kernel?

2001-03-02 Thread Tor Arntsen
On Mar 1, 20:13, Tim Wright wrote: [discussion about commercial customers and kernels snipped] I don't think we disagree, actually. My point was a different one. With vendor-patched kernels you can either stick to the hacked kernel or you can move on to an ftp.kernel.org kernel. For the type

Re: Another rsync over ssh hang (repeatable, with 2.4.1 on both ends)

2001-03-02 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:41:01PM -0800, Scott Laird wrote: I have a fairly repeatable rsync over ssh stall that I'm seeing between two Linux boxes, both running identical 2.4.1 kernels. The stall is fairly easy to repeat in our environment -- it can happen up to several times per minute,

Re: negative mod use count

2001-03-02 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:55:30PM -0800, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Boris Dragovic wrote: what does negative module use count mean? That means that there's a bug in someone's driver. Not necessarily. Please read the other replies (specifically mine) to discover the

Re: Wrong data [was Re: Incorrect module init message..]

2001-03-02 Thread Erik Mouw
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 01:49:41AM +, Pavel Machek wrote: No, Pavel's clock is fine AFAIK. The message was sent in January. However, it was just received AGAIN today. I don't Unfortunately, my clock is b0rken. This damn little machine just does not have ability to retain time

[patch] ps2fix-2.4.2-A0

2001-03-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, tachino Nobuhiro wrote: + if (c == misc_list) { This should be (c != misc_list) indeed, this fixed the ps2 problem for me too. Patch against -ac8 attached. Ingo --- linux/drivers/char/misc.c.orig Fri Mar 2 13:42:00 2001 +++

Re: Q: explicit alignment control for the slab allocator

2001-03-02 Thread Mark Hemment
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: Yes, I see the difference, but I'm not sure that it will work as intended. offset must be a multiple of the alignment, everything else won't work. The code does force the offset to be a multiple of the alignment - rounding the offset up. The idea

Re: PPP problems

2001-03-02 Thread Chris \_Shad0w_\ Crowther
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Rob wrote: have a kernel that supports PPP. I've even contacted my System Administrator, Hi Chris ;^). Any ideas on what I could try next? A cc would be great, as I'm not on the linux-kernel list. Possibly a silly question, but you have created the /dev/ppp

Re: 2.4.2ac8 lost char devices

2001-03-02 Thread Philipp Rumpf
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:05:32PM +0900, tachino Nobuhiro wrote: Hello, At Fri, 02 Mar 2001 00:42:28 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, its not just ps/2 mice -- it seems to be something generic to char devices. agpgartis failing to register itself, too. what changed

[patch-2.4.2-ac8] misc_register() fix (was Re: Linux 2.4.2ac8

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.2-ac8 o Stop two people claiming the same misc dev id (Philipp Rumpf) is this what has broken misc devi registration on my machine? I have two misc devices -- microcode and psaux -- now (ac8) I get

Info on adding system calls

2001-03-02 Thread T.L.Madhu
Hi, I want to add a function defined in my loadeble kernel module as system call. I know the procedure regarding how to add a system call permanently into the kernel. But, doesn't know regarding how to add it for kernel loadable module. I will be thankful, if you can provide me any

Re: [patch] ps2fix-2.4.2-A0

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: + if (c == misc_list) { This should be (c != misc_list) oops, I didn't notice -- ignore the patch I sent a minute ago :) Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

[OT] style-curiosity

2001-03-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 03.02 Tigran Aivazian wrote: + c = misc_list.next; + while (c != misc_list) { + if (c-minor == misc-minor) { + up(misc_sem); + return -EBUSY; + } c = c-next; - if (c == misc_list) { -

Re: ftruncate not extending files?

2001-03-02 Thread Dmitry A. Fedorov
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, bert hubert wrote: ftruncate() and truncate() may extend a file but they are not required to do so. I would've sworn, based on the fact that I saw people do it, that ftruncate was a legitimate way to extend a file - especially useful in combination with mmap().

PS/2 mouse support broken in 2.4.2-ac8?

2001-03-02 Thread Anthony Fok
[Please Cc: me in your replies because I am currently not subscribed to linux-kernel. Thank you! :-) ] Hello Alan and others, Thanks a lot for the 2.4.2 kernel and the latest patches. I really appreciate all your hard work. :-) I just upgraded to 2.4.2-ac8 from ac6, but to my dismay, my

Please feel free to disregard my previous message... (re: PS/2 mouse in ac8)

2001-03-02 Thread Anthony Fok
I just checked an up-to-date linux-kernel archive, and it appears that the problem is already known and a patch has been posted too, so you can ignore my earlier posting about my PS/2 mouse problems in 2.4.2-ac8. Thanks again! :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and

Looking for MP-BIOS-less patch

2001-03-02 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
Hi all, I have found an old NCR 3430 system (with MCA, and proprietary MP board) As of now, I was able to install and recompile linux on it (2.2.14-5.0 and 2.2.18), but I haven't found any way to get smp running. As far as I know the NCR is not Intel MP compliant. Looking on the ml archive I

Re: Q: explicit alignment control for the slab allocator

2001-03-02 Thread Manfred Spraul
Zitiere Mark Hemment [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In which cases an offset alignment is really a win? You've got me. :) I don't know. In the Bonwick paper, such a facility was described, so I thought "hey, sounds like that might be useful". Could be a win on archs with small L1 cache

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-03-02 Thread Oystein Viggen
Pavel Machek wrote: xargs is very ugly. I want to rm 12*. Just plain "rm 12*". *Not* "find . -name "12*" | xargs rm, which has terrible issues with files names "xyzzy" "bla" "xyzzy bla" "12 xyzzy bla" These you work around using the smarter, \0 terminated, version: find . -name "12*"

Re: How to set hdparms for ide-scsi devices on devfs?

2001-03-02 Thread Wakko Warner
PS: Is there still a possibility for setting the IDE-sleep timeout for a ide-scsi harddisk? (I know, this doesnt make sense) I didn't know you could use ide-scsi emulation for hard drives. -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-03-02 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On 2 Mar 2001, Oystein Viggen wrote: Pavel Machek wrote: xargs is very ugly. I want to rm 12*. Just plain "rm 12*". *Not* "find These you work around using the smarter, \0 terminated, version: Another example demonstrating why xargs is not always good (and why a bigger command line is

Re: [2.4.2-ac5] X (4.0.1) crashes

2001-03-02 Thread David Balazic
Pavel Machek wrote : Hi! I use XFree86 4.0.1 with nvidia-drivers 0.96. Take it up with nvidia. Obfuscated effectively binary only code isnt anyone elses problem It is not only "effectively binary" but "actually binary". There are no sources, only a few line of C "glue" code.

Re: Q: explicit alignment control for the slab allocator

2001-03-02 Thread Mark Hemment
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: Zitiere Mark Hemment [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could be a win on archs with small L1 cache line sizes (16bytes on a 486) - but most modern processors have larger lines. IIRC cache colouring was introduced for some sun hardware with 2 memory busses:

cpu/bus speed detection (was Re: Linux 2.4.2ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Please send me the value of your 0x2A MTRR. Because this isnt properly intel documented there is a certain amount of research still required. ok, adding this to init_intel(): u32 lo, hi; rdmsr(0x2A, lo, hi); printk(KERN_ERR

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-03-02 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:04:10AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! * userland issues (what, you thought that limits on the command size will go away?) Last I checked, the command line size limit wasn't a userland issue, but rather a limit of the kernel exec(). This

Re: ZF MachZ Watchdog driver

2001-03-02 Thread Fernando Fuganti
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Jakob stergaard wrote: I have a user-space daemon for driving the watchdog. I see it uses the same user-space interface as sbc60xxwdt.c, except it can't be disabled :) Did you write one too ? a simple one (should be complex ?) look at

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-02 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:02:13AM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Reiser) writes: If I can't get information about BSD v. Linux 2.4 networking code, then reiserfs has to get ported to BSD which will be both nice and a pain to do. So we would get

PATCH for Multicast bug in RAW IP sockets 2.4.0

2001-03-02 Thread Mark Clayton
In ipv4 a call to the setsockopt() function with the optname set to IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and a raw ip socket adds the socket to the multicast group specified by the user. As a result the tcpip stack code does the following: ... ip_setsockopt(_,_,IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP,_,_) calls

Re: apic patches (with MIS counter)

2001-03-02 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:14:11PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: if you like, I can start banging the machine on it's head now. Please do. I believe the code is safe to be included in 2.4.3, but if any problem is going to pop up, it'd

Re: Q: explicit alignment control for the slab allocator

2001-03-02 Thread Manfred Spraul
Mark Hemment wrote: Hmm, no that note, seen the L1 line size defined for a Pentium ? 128 bytes!! (CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT of 7). That is probably going to waste a lot of space for small objects. No, it doesn't: HWCACHE_ALIGN means "do not cross a cache line boundary".

Re: via 686a audio driver rate locked at 48Khz

2001-03-02 Thread Sergei Haller
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: Wayne Whitney wrote: I have a system with an MSI-6321 motherboard with the Via 686a southbridge, and I'm having a little trouble with the via82cxxx_audio sound driver. The stock 2.4.2 driver produces only a rhythmic a buzzing sound. I saw a

Re: via 686a audio driver rate locked at 48Khz

2001-03-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Sergei Haller wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: Wayne Whitney wrote: I have a system with an MSI-6321 motherboard with the Via 686a southbridge, and I'm having a little trouble with the via82cxxx_audio sound driver. The stock 2.4.2 driver produces only a rhythmic a

Re: negative mod use count

2001-03-02 Thread Boris Dragovic
Not necessarily. Please read the other replies (specifically mine) to discover the real answer as to why modules can _legally_ have negative use counts. thanks to all the replies, I think it is a bug in the module since the use count is -3 :). it is ltmodem driver for lucent win modems...

Re: PPP problems

2001-03-02 Thread Jeremy Jackson
Rob wrote: Hi, I'd like to thank everyone that helped me with the compiler problem. I've updated everthing in Documentation/Changes I have a brand spankers new gcc, ppp, etc. The problem I'm running into now is when I try to connect to the internet, it says that I don't have a kernel that

Re: Kernel is unstable

2001-03-02 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:40:44AM +, David Howells wrote: no matter how finely optimised the algorithm... But merging wouldn't be done very often... only on memory allocation calls. Correct, it would happen only at mmap time of course. Perhaps it'd be reasonable to only do VMA merging

kernel 2.4.2 SMP + ATM hangs

2001-03-02 Thread Miguel Armas
Hi there! We are having problems with a Compaq Proliant 1600 Server and a Fore 200E ATM card using kernel 2.4.2. We have been using it for a long time with SMP enabled and everything worked just fine (we didn't have ATM). A couple days ago we installed a Fore 200E ATM card and after getting

Re: How to set hdparms for ide-scsi devices on devfs?

2001-03-02 Thread Jeremy Jackson
Wakko Warner wrote: PS: Is there still a possibility for setting the IDE-sleep timeout for a ide-scsi harddisk? (I know, this doesnt make sense) Yeah, why would you ? ide-scsi is mainly to support cd-rw drives, AFAIK I didn't know you could use ide-scsi emulation for hard

Re: ftruncate not extending files?

2001-03-02 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Dmitry A. Fedorov wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, bert hubert wrote: ftruncate() and truncate() may extend a file but they are not required to do so. I would've sworn, based on the fact that I saw people do it, that ftruncate was a legitimate way to extend a file -

Re: How to set hdparms for ide-scsi devices on devfs?

2001-03-02 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Mar 02 2001, Jeremy Jackson wrote: Wakko Warner wrote: PS: Is there still a possibility for setting the IDE-sleep timeout for a ide-scsi harddisk? (I know, this doesnt make sense) Yeah, why would you ? ide-scsi is mainly to support cd-rw drives, AFAIK It's a general

Re: 2.4.2ac8 lost char devices

2001-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
Well, somethig has broken in ac8, because I lost my PS/2 mouse and (less important, but perhaps it is useful) the microcode driver. So I think it something common to both. Someone broke all the misc devices. Patch coming in ac9 RSN - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
So we would get dual-licensed ReiserFS (BSD and GPL)? Are you aware of the legal implications, making your currently GPL-only code BSD-licensed (status of third party patches for the GPL code and so on)? Read Hans licensing. He's been very careful both to make that clear and cover it. -

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac8

2001-03-02 Thread Fernando Fuganti
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.2-ac8 o Fix missing watchdog configure.help (Fernando Fuganti) was Jakob stergaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) that find out that, I just sent a new watchdog driver for 2.2 (I'm diffing 2.4 right now) Fernando Fuganti - To unsubscribe

Re: [OT] style-curiosity

2001-03-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 03.02 Tigran Aivazian wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: for (c = misc_list.next; c != misc_list; c = c-next) { if (c-minor == misc-minor) { up(misc_sem); return -EBUSY; } } the above is good but the below is better:

Re: report bug: System reboots when accessing a loop-device over a second loop-device with 2.4.2-ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Mario Hermann
Hello! Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, Mar 01 2001, Mario Hermann wrote: I tried the following commands with 2.4.2-ac7: losetup /dev/loop0 test.dat losetup /dev/loop1 /dev/loop0 mke2fs /dev/loop1 My System reboots immediatly. I tried it with 2.4.2-ac4,ac5 too - same effect. With

gids in kernel

2001-03-02 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
apache documentation states: # NOTE that some kernels refuse to setgid(Group) or semctl(IPC_SET) # when the value of (unsigned)Group is above 6; # don't use Group nobody on these systems! does this apply to linux in either the 2.2 or 2.4 kernels? i'd like to use a block of uids from

Re: strange nonmonotonic behavior of gettimeoftheday

2001-03-02 Thread Eli Carter
John Being wrote: I've got following problem with 2.2.17 (Redhat stock kernel) Linux * 2.2.17-14 #1 Mon Feb 5 14:57:25 EST 2001 i586 unknown on AMD K6, VIA Technologies VT 82C586, Compaq Presario XL119. Following C program #include stdio.h #include sys/time.h #include unistd.h

Re: report bug: System reboots when accessing a loop-device over a second loop-device with 2.4.2-ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Mar 02 2001, Mario Hermann wrote: I tried the following commands with 2.4.2-ac7: losetup /dev/loop0 test.dat losetup /dev/loop1 /dev/loop0 mke2fs /dev/loop1 My System reboots immediatly. I tried it with 2.4.2-ac4,ac5 too - same effect. With 2.4.2 it hangs

Re: strange nonmonotonic behavior of gettimeoftheday -- seen similar problem on PPC

2001-03-02 Thread Christopher Friesen
John Being wrote: gives following result on box in question root@**:# ./clo Leap found: -1687 msec and prints nothing on all other my boxes. This gives me bunch of troubles with occasional hang ups and I found nothing in kernel archives at

Re: gids in kernel

2001-03-02 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Admin Mailing Lists wrote: apache documentation states: # NOTE that some kernels refuse to setgid(Group) or semctl(IPC_SET) # when the value of (unsigned)Group is above 6; # don't use Group nobody on these systems! does this apply to linux in either the 2.2 or

Re: report bug: System reboots when accessing a loop-device over a second loop-device with 2.4.2-ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Mar 02 2001, Mario Hermann wrote: There is another small bug with the loop over loop problem. Now it works fine for files but not for Devices: losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/sr1 losetup /dev/loop1 /dev/loop0 dd if=/dev/loop1 of=test.dat bs=2048 count=1024 Pending miscount, this should

Re: DMA on a AMD7409 controller with kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-02 Thread Thomas Dodd
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Hylke van der Schaaf wrote: With kernet 2.2.18 DMA mode for my harddisks worked just fine, getting IDE DMA working on an AMD7409 controller with kernel 2.4.2 is a problem. questions: Why is DMA disabled on revision C4? How can I gat DMA working again? in

Broken APM Support since 2.4.1-ac1

2001-03-02 Thread Daniel Stutz
Hello, APM support for Lifebook C 6185 is broken since 2.4.1-ac1. While trying to go in suspend mode the system hangs. It works fine in 2.4.1, so I think it's not the fault of the bios. The last version I tried is 2.4.2-ac5 Daniel -- -- In God we Trust, all others please submit signed

PPP bug in 2.4.1-ac20 ?

2001-03-02 Thread Daniel Stutz
pppd version is 2.3.11 In all 2.4.1 versions pppd exits with something like: ioctl(PPPIOFLAGS): invalid argument I don't know if this is fixed in a 2.4.2 version. I don't even know if this is not a pppd bug. Daniel -- -- In God we Trust, all others please submit signed PGP/X.509 key

Broken APM Support in 2.4.X

2001-03-02 Thread Daniel Stutz
Hello, I'm using a Lifebook C 6185 with kernel 2.4.1 (unpatched). Power Management is working fine in this version, but in all other versions from 2.4.1-ac1 till 2.4.2-ac8 the systems hangs if it goes to suspend mode. Is this a known issue? If not, I am a kernel hacking virgin, but if

Re: strange nonmonotonic behavior of gettimeoftheday -- seen similar problem on PPC

2001-03-02 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Christopher Friesen wrote: John Being wrote: gives following result on box in question root@**:# ./clo Leap found: -1687 msec and prints nothing on all other my boxes. This gives me bunch of troubles with occasional hang ups and I found nothing in kernel

Re: Another rsync over ssh hang (repeatable, with 2.4.1 on both ends)

2001-03-02 Thread kuznet
Hello! I've also reported The report by Scott Laird is sane unlike your one. It can be explained by bug rather than only by poltergeist. 8) Thanks for confirming that 2.2.15pre13 is not the cause. Russel, you are warned that kernels2.2.17 and rsync is an incompatible combination. Alexey -

[ANNOUNCE] Final aacraid driver for 2.2.x and 2.4.x

2001-03-02 Thread Matt_Domsch
The final aacraid driver for Linux kernels 2.2.x and 2.4.x are now posted at http://domsch.com/linux. Changes from aacraid v1.0.7 for 2.2.x are in PERCID_add.patch: - MAINTAINERS file update - PCI ID update Changes from aacraid beta for 2.4.x include: - MAINTAINERS file update - PCI ID update -

Re: PPP bug in 2.4.1-ac20 ?

2001-03-02 Thread Andreas Tobler
Andreas Tobler wrote: Daniel Stutz wrote: pppd version is 2.3.11 In all 2.4.1 versions pppd exits with something like: ioctl(PPPIOFLAGS): invalid argument I don't know if this is fixed in a 2.4.2 version. I don't even know if this is not a pppd bug. Update pppd to

Mixing UDMA33/66 drives, VIA IDE, Linux 2.2.18

2001-03-02 Thread Oliver Feiler
Hello, I've run into a problem while using the follwing different drives: IBM-DTTA-351010 and IBM-DJNA-351520. The first one is a UDMA33 drive and the second one seems to be a UDMA66 capable drive, UDMA4. I have attached a "hdparm -i" of both drives at the end of the mail.

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Alan, Those formulae (both 'bus' and 'mul' calculation) are broken, I think. If I extend 'bus' to be 4 bits instead of 2 then I can make it work on all of my machines (or all those I tried), of course, extending the buscode[] table appropriately. However, the radically broken, imho, thing is

Re: [patch][rfc][rft] vm throughput 2.4.2-ac4

2001-03-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On 1 Mar 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tested it yet for a number of reasons. The most important one is that the FreeBSD people have been playing with this thing for a few years now and Matt Dillon has told me

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
ah, I see, so we are using the Reserved (14 upwards) bits of the MSR_EBC_HARD_POWERON? Ok, so the task is to understand how the bus info is encoded. Well actually they are documented in part by some of the intel and other docs. But all the docs agree on the bus speed encoding ... - To

Re: [BUG] 2.4.x system Freezes

2001-03-02 Thread kees
Hi, I experience simular problems with 2.2.19(pre6) on a SMP machine at work. Random lockups, tried removing SCSI adapter, sound card, replaced network card all didn't help. My last action was replacing the videocard. Since then I havn't had any lockups, before they came at least once a day

Re: The IO problem on multiple PCI busses

2001-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
I do not want an interface where the user still has to do grotty stuff like mmap() on /dev/{mem,kmem}, this was the core of the problem I had with the syscall idea, don't bring it back. Make mmap()'s on a PCI--ISA bridge do something special, for example. The user doesn't need to know anything

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
If I extend 'bus' to be 4 bits instead of 2 then I can make it work on all of my machines (or all those I tried), of course, extending the buscode[] table appropriately. That would be interesting to see. Certainly the mul code got extended by a bit later on However, the radically broken,

[PATCH] adds missed lock_kernel/unlock_kernel to reiserfs_dir_fsync().

2001-03-02 Thread Alexander Zarochentcev
Hi ! Bug found in reiserfs in linux-2.4.2: reiserfs_dir_fsync has no lock_kernel/unlock_kernel calls which are required by reiserfs journal interface functions. It causes reserfs_panic in any attempt to fsync a directory (on SMP machines). Bug report was related to qmail which likes to fsync a

[PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/Locking

2001-03-02 Thread Chris Mason
filesystems need to grab the bkl on their own for fsync now: -chris --- linux/Documentation/filesystems/Locking.1 Fri Mar 2 11:20:18 2001 +++ linux/Documentation/filesystems/Locking Fri Mar 2 11:21:10 2001 @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ open: maybe (see below) flush: yes

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
the bad news to this "rule" is that I just found one "exception". Namely, I have Celeron-600/100 and PentiumII-333/66 and both evaluate to bus/mul=0/0 even in 4bit bus representation which is impossible. So, this is my big stumbling block if you tell me how to overcome this, I can very

Re: Another rsync over ssh hang (repeatable, with 2.4.1 on both ends)

2001-03-02 Thread Russell King
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russel, you are warned that kernels2.2.17 and rsync is an incompatible combination. So, what you're saying is that because these kernels have known problems with rsync, the fact that my symptoms on 2.4.0 are 100% _precisely_ the same means its not the same bug? In

[PATCH] detail in fs/block_dev.c

2001-03-02 Thread christophe barbe
in fs/block_dev.c block_read() function (in 2.2 and 2.4 series) rblocks = blocks = (left + offset + blocksize - 1) blocksize_bits; bhb = bhe = buflist; if (filp-f_reada) { if (blocks read_ahead[MAJOR(dev)] / (blocksize 9)) blocks = read_ahead[MAJOR(dev)] / (blocksize

2.4.2 TCP window shrinking

2001-03-02 Thread Jim Woodward
Hi All, This has probably been covered but I saw this message in my logs and wondered what it meant? TCP: peer xxx.xxx.1.11:41154/80 shrinks window 2442047470:1072:2442050944. Bad, what else can I say? Is it potentially bad? - Ive only ever seen it twice with 2.4.x Regards, Jim. - name :

Re: Another rsync over ssh hang (repeatable, with 2.4.1 on both ends)

2001-03-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:31:07PM +, Russell King wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russel, you are warned that kernels2.2.17 and rsync is an incompatible combination. So, what you're saying is that because these kernels have known problems with rsync, the fact that my symptoms on

NetGear fa311 driver update

2001-03-02 Thread Keith Craigie
Hi all, I brought NetGear's fa311 driver up to compile under 2.4.2. I put the updated source here - http://millweed.com/projects/fa311/fa311.c Or you can apply the following patch to the source gotten from the NetGear support site (http://www.netgear-support.com/ts/downloads/fa31lx70.zip) -

scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

2001-03-02 Thread Jeremy Hansen
We're doing some mysql benchmarking. For some reason it seems that ide drives are currently beating a scsi raid array and it seems to be related to fsync's. Bonnie stats show the scsi array to blow away ide as expected, but mysql tests still have the idea beating on plain insert speeds. Can

Linux 2.4.2ac9

2001-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.2-ac9 o misc device fix (ps/2 and drm are now back) (Tachino Nobuhiro) | Believe it or not my main test box used no misc | device files.. o Radeon build without 8bit (Cha

Re: Kernel is unstable

2001-03-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, David Howells wrote: Surely, doing the merge will always have take longer than not doing the merge, no matter how finely optimised the algorithm... But merging wouldn't be done very often... only on memory allocation calls. Ehh.. If the merging doesn't actually happen,

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac7

2001-03-02 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: [24940903.pdf] Table 14 in paticular gives the config bits ok, thank you. Now I understand (maybe) whats' going on. Linux treated bits 22,23,24,25 but ignored 27 which it shouldn't have. Now, coupled with the fact that the problematic box I have

Re: Another rsync over ssh hang (repeatable, with 2.4.1 on both ends)

2001-03-02 Thread kuznet
Hello! same means its not the same bug? It is the same, I think. If you still insist that it is purely a 2.2.15pre13 bug I never said this. I said that your strace is _wrong_, how can I be sure that tcpdump is not wrong too? You could understand this. 8) together to put 2.2.18 on this

Using IPCSysV in a device driver

2001-03-02 Thread Nathalie Barat
I am wondering if it is permitted to use message queues between a user application and a device driver module... Can anyone help me? Thank you Nathalie Barat Please CC to me... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[PATCH] ZF MachZ Watchdog driver for 2.4

2001-03-02 Thread Fernando Fuganti
Hi ! here is the patch against 2.4.2-ac8 of the new watchdog driver for the embedded MachZ processor made by ZFmicro. more information on http://cvs.conectiva.com.br/drivers/ZFL-watchdog Fernando Fuganti diff -Nru linux-2.4.2-ac8.orig/Documentation/Configure.help

is it possible to port linux into palm IIIc ?

2001-03-02 Thread Thomas Lau
I am using PalmIIIc is it possible to port into palm ? Thanks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: is it possible to port linux into palm IIIc ?

2001-03-02 Thread William Stearns
Good day, Thomas, On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Thomas Lau wrote: I am using PalmIIIc is it possible to port into palm ? Thanks http://www.uclinux.org Cheers, - Bill --- If you have any trouble

Re: strange nonmonotonic behavior of gettimeoftheday -- seen similar problem on PPC

2001-03-02 Thread george anzinger
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Christopher Friesen wrote: John Being wrote: gives following result on box in question root@**:# ./clo Leap found: -1687 msec and prints nothing on all other my boxes. This gives me bunch of troubles with occasional hang

[PATCH] 2.4.2-acX does not recognize any bus on Intel Serverworks based motherboard

2001-03-02 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Hi Martin, what's idea behind 'pcibios_last_bus = 0xff' ? On friend's STL2 Intel motherboard Serverworks bridge contains 0x01 in reg. 0x44 (first bus behind bridge) and 0xFF in reg. 0x45 (last bus behind bridge). This sets pcibios_last_bus to 0xFF in serverworks fixup code. After this

Re: Another rsync over ssh hang (repeatable, with 2.4.1 on bothends)

2001-03-02 Thread Scott Laird
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: together to put 2.2.18 on this machine. I can't guarantee when I'll be able to do this though. You planned to make more accurate strace on Monday, if I remember correctly. Now it is not necessary, Scott's one is enough to understand that some

Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

2001-03-02 Thread Steve Lord
We're doing some mysql benchmarking. For some reason it seems that ide drives are currently beating a scsi raid array and it seems to be related to fsync's. Bonnie stats show the scsi array to blow away ide as expected, but mysql tests still have the idea beating on plain insert

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