Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Tim Hockin
Looks interesting. Seemingly literate use of spinlocks. thanks - I gave it lots of thought. Off-hand I see old style initialization. Is it right for new driver? the old-style init is because it is an old driver. I want to do a full-on rework, but haven't had the time. i2c framework is not

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-06-01 Thread thunder7
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:20:23AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Looking at the diff of lspci -vvvxxx between MPS1.1 and MPS1.4 (on the same system) may be quite useful... maybe I missed the earlier lspci -vvvxxx, but I only see one here... Yep, I didn't want to keep sending long messages. Here

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Off-hand I see old style initialization. Is it right for new driver? the old-style init is because it is an old driver. I want to do a full-on rework, but haven't had the time. New-style init by itself shouldn't be hard to do, independent of a full re-work... 2. Spaces and tabs are

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
General comments: * Code looks really clean. Nice work. * Use module_init/exit. I know, I know, you heard it before :) * I dunno if Linus will take it as-is because he has been threatening to stop taking PCI drives that use old-style PCI init for no good reason. (he even made me change a

Re: [CHECKER] 2.4.5-ac4 non-init functions calling init functions

2001-06-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Dawson Engler wrote: Here are *uninspected* 2.4.5-ac4 results of a checker that warns when a non-__init function calls an __init function (suggested by [EMAIL PROTECTED]). There seem to be two cases: 1. The best case: the caller should actually be an __init

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tim Hockin wrote: +int __init +cobalt_acpi_init(void) +{ + int err, reg; + u16 addr; + unsigned long flags; + + if (cobt_is_5k()) { + /* setup osb4 i/o regions */ + if ((reg = get_reg(OSB4_INDEX_PORT, OSB4_DATA_PORT, 0x20))) +

Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tim Hockin wrote: spinlock_t sym53c8xx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; +spinlock_t sym53c8xx_host_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; #defineNCR_LOCK_DRIVER(flags) spin_lock_irqsave(sym53c8xx_lock, flags) #defineNCR_UNLOCK_DRIVER(flags) spin_unlock_irqrestore(sym53c8xx_lock,flags)

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-01 Thread Andries . Brouwer
On Tue, 29 May 2001, John Chris Wren wrote: In BSD, select() states that when a time out occurs, the bits passed to select will not be altered. In Linux, which claims BSD compliancy for this in the man page (but does not state either way what

Re: sk_buff question

2001-06-01 Thread Francois Romieu
Emmanuel Varagnat [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit : I need to had a header to the data in the sk_buff. But what to do if there is no enough space left at the head ? I assume alloc+copy isn't the expected answer, is it ? I saw skb_copy_expand, but it gives me a new sk_buff. Is there a way to expand

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-06-01 Thread David Rees
I don't know myself, (it sounds like other bigmem problems), but setting up a 2GB swap file is easy enough to test. :-) -Dave On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:29:39AM +0200, Marcin Kowalski wrote: I found this post of interest. I have 1.1 Gig of RAM but only 800mb of Swap as I expect NOT to use

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Pete Zaitcev
From: Tim Hockin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:57:48 -0700 (PDT) i2c framework is not used, I wonder why. Someone thought that it was too heavy perhaps? If so, I disagree. i2c is only in our stuff because the i2c core is not in the standard kernel yet. As soon as it is,

2.4.4 Kernel Oops and ls+rm segfaults

2001-06-01 Thread Gregor Jasny
Hi! Can anyone tell me, where this oops came from? The machine is a HP NetServer II lc (EISA+PCI architecture). The distribution is a slackware 7.0 with parts of 7.1 and current. gcc: 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease) I hope you can help me. Regards, -Gregor ksymoops 2.4.1 on i586

Re: 2.4.4 Kernel Oops and ls+rm segfaults

2001-06-01 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Gregor Jasny wrote: Hi! Can anyone tell me, where this oops came from? The machine is a HP NetServer II lc (EISA+PCI architecture). The distribution is a slackware 7.0 with parts of 7.1 and current. gcc: 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease) I hope you can help me.

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Pete Zaitcev
But, each time a user cats this proc file, the user is banging the hardware. What happens when a malicious user forks off 100 processes to continually cat this file? :) Nothing good, probably. Same story as /proc/apm, which only hits BIOS instead (and it's debateable what is better).

Re: unmount issues with 2.4.5-ac5, 3ware, and ReiserFS (was: kernel-2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread thunder7
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:04:50PM -0500, Jordan wrote: Alan Cox wrote: I'm staying on 2.4.5-ac5 for whatever it's worth (putting my life on the line for the community? kidding...) and will report anything new. I will be on the lookout for later ac patches, 2.4.6 ... and hopefully

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-06-01 Thread thunder7
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:56:44AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Is the BIOS set to Plug and Play supported OS somewhere? If not, try enabling it. It wasn't set, but with it set there is no difference. Greetings, Jurriaan -- IF MICROSOFT BUILT CARS.. New seats would force everyone to have the

Re: 2.4.4 Kernel Oops and ls+rm segfaults

2001-06-01 Thread Gregor Jasny
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2001 10:52 schrieb Alexander Viro: On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Gregor Jasny wrote: Can anyone tell me, where this oops came from? The machine is a HP NetServer II lc (EISA+PCI architecture). The distribution is a slackware 7.0 with parts of 7.1 and current. gcc: 2.95.4

qlogicfc driver

2001-06-01 Thread christophe barbé
My previous mail about Qlogic Fiber Channel driver didn't get so many attention. The QLogic support is like a wall. You can't use a normal e-mail. Instead of that you should use a http form. And the answer you get is anonymous and IMHO a standart one. ... Please check our site periodically for

Re: unmount issues with 2.4.5-ac5, 3ware, and ReiserFS (was: kernel-2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Lech Szychowski
/dev/hda10/space1 reiserfsdefaults 1 2 /dev/sdb1 /var/log/LOGS reiserfs defaults 0 0 strace umount /space1: open(/usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_TIME, O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2441, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 2441, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE,

Re: APIC problem or 3com 3c590 driver problem in smp kernel 2.4.x

2001-06-01 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:27:07PM -0400, Feng Xian wrote: The driver for my pci device, I have the SA_SHIRQ set. What kind of PCI device do you have? I had this problem once with an PCI-Matchmaker[1] based board (for which we still have the wrong PCI-ID btw, but my patch was rejected

cs46xx bug in 2.4.5-ac5

2001-06-01 Thread Nicholas L. Nigay
Hello. I have Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 1). xmms-1.2.5-pre1 worked fine with 2.4.4-ac11. Sound support is compiled as modules. After last kernel upgrade to 2.4.5-ac5 following problems occured. 1 xmms crashes with kernel message like Unable to

Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-01 Thread Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes
Jeff wrote: so, this driver is mixed spinlocks and save/restore_flags? Any chance this can be converted to all spinlocks? It's spinlock for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, and save_flags for 2.0. Tim, did you cc Gerard Roudier? He mainains the sym53c8xx driver. All mail archives strip the cc list :-(

USB mouse wheel breakage was Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac5

2001-06-01 Thread Michael
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.5-ac4 o Update USB hid drivers (Vojtech Pavlik) I think these changes have broken my USB wheel mouse. Events seems to be getting lost (/dev/input/mice) It only scrolls when either the scroll direction

Linux 2.4.5-ac6

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still need fixing to lock against format changes during a

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6

2001-06-01 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: o Fix the cs46xx right this time (me) o Further FATfs cleanup (OGAWA Hirofumi) o ISDN PPP code cleanup, cvs tag update (Kai Germaschewski) o Large amount of UFS file system cleanup

Q: ip_build_and_send_pkt

2001-06-01 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
Hello. I have a couple of questions about 2.4.5 IP layer and will be very grateful if someone will answer :) In net/ipv4/ip_output.c there is the function ip_build_and_send_pkt(). This function adds an IP header to given skbuff and sends it out. But it seems that the only place where this

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Bogdan Costescu
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Pete Zaitcev wrote: But, each time a user cats this proc file, the user is banging the hardware. What happens when a malicious user forks off 100 processes to continually cat this file? :) Nothing good, probably. Same story as /proc/apm, which only hits BIOS

Is it possible to read NTFS5 in the future?

2001-06-01 Thread Liu Wen
NTFS5 is really an efficient filesystem under Windows 2000. I have a 12G data partition kept as FAT32 just in order to use it under Linux. But I am thinking of converting it to NTFS,which would be very inconvinient to use Linux. How about the kernel developing project to work on NTFS? Regards

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis time)

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bogdan Costescu wrote: On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Pete Zaitcev wrote: But, each time a user cats this proc file, the user is banging the hardware. What happens when a malicious user forks off 100 processes to continually cat this file? :) Nothing good, probably. Same story as

[Fwd: Re: cs46xx bug in 2.4.5-ac5]

2001-06-01 Thread Nicholas L. Nigay
I've tried with ac6. Immediate cs46xx unloading now works. But problem with xmms still remains. Now instead single 'Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer...' i had flow of 'cs46xx: ERROR DAC count0 or count dmasize (-4160)' ( number in parenthesis may vary ). Such messages increases uptime on

BUG: kernel-2.4.5: Flags; bus-master 1, dirty ...

2001-06-01 Thread Rolf Fokkens
Hi! Sometimes syslog suddenly starts to log a lot of messages, an example is included. So far I get the impression that this is vortex related (I do have a 3c905b). Rolf ... May 28 23:15:25 linux06 kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 15505(1) current 15505(1) May 28 23:15:25 linux06 kernel:

Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP

2001-06-01 Thread Magnus Sandberg
Hi Andre, I just wrote this Email but I had an old address to Suse. I have some problems with Ultra-DMA and SMP and don't know if I did something wrong of their are known problems. - On 1st of June 2001 Magnus Sandberg wrote; - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: USB mouse wheel breakage was Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac5

2001-06-01 Thread M.
On 01 Jun 2001 10:57:17 +0100, Michael wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.5-ac4 o Update USB hid drivers (Vojtech Pavlik) I think these changes have broken my USB wheel mouse. Events seems to be getting lost (/dev/input/mice)

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-06-01 Thread Phil Auld
Alexander Viro wrote: ...snip... We should start removing the crap from procfs in 2.5. Documenting shit is a good step, but taking it out would be better. Not to open a what may be can of worms but ... What's wrong with procfs? It allows a general interface to the kernel that does not

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis

2001-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
Only some of them can be cached... (some of the MIIs in some drivers are already cached, in fact) you can't cache stuff like what your link partner is advertising at the moment, or what your battery status is at the moment. I am sure that to an unpriviledged application reporting back the

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-06-01 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:43:58AM -0400, Phil Auld wrote: Alexander Viro wrote: ...snip... We should start removing the crap from procfs in 2.5. Documenting shit is a good step, but taking it out would be better. Not to open a what may be can of worms but ... What's wrong

[NEW ISDN DRIVER] TurboPAM isdn card

2001-06-01 Thread Stelian Pop
Hi, I've wrote a driver for the ISDN active card TurboPAM made by Auvertech: http://www.auvertech.fr This is a card targeted at ISPs / access providers, supporting up to 30 B-channel connections simultaneously. The patch is available against Linux 2.4.5 and 2.2.19. Since it is rather

2.2.19 SMP - timing problems

2001-06-01 Thread Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
After adding second CPU to my server, I get the following strange behavior: earth:/home/czajnik# ping -s 1 213.25.174.24 PING 213.25.174.24 (213.25.174.24): 1 data bytes 10008 bytes from 213.25.174.24: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=10551.5 ms 10008 bytes from 213.25.174.24: icmp_seq=6

Re: Is it possible to read NTFS5 in the future?

2001-06-01 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 13:17 01/06/01, Liu Wen wrote: NTFS5 is really an efficient filesystem under Windows 2000. I have a 12G data partition kept as FAT32 just in order to use it under Linux. But I am thinking of converting it to NTFS,which would be very inconvinient to use Linux. How about the kernel developing

[newbie question] addresses of loaded programs/functions

2001-06-01 Thread Collins, Tom
Hello I am writing a profiling tool for a project I am working on, and I need to know how to map addresses of calling functions to the appropriate human-readable name. Is there a data structure in the kernel that I can access to achieve this? Or can I reference a load map (in days gone by, I

Promise Ultra100 TX2 Issue

2001-06-01 Thread ryan
Hi all, I have a system running that uses two Promise Ultra66 cards (PDC20262). However, the hard disks are capible of Ultra100 transfer rates. I needed an Ultra66 card for another machine, so I decided to upgrade this one's cards to Ultra100. I purchased a pair of Promise Ultra100 TX2's

Re: unmount issues with 2.4.5-ac5, 3ware, and ReiserFS (was: kernel-2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Lech Szychowski
Looks like -ac6 has fixed this problem :) -- Leszek. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:480/33.7 -- REAL programmers use INTEGERS -- -- speaking just for myself... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

HDD Errors ?!

2001-06-01 Thread Roberto Fichera
Hi All, today I found this in my /var/log/messages: Jun 1 05:26:47 radius kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Jun 1 05:26:47 radius kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=25358813, sector=25165970 Jun 1 05:26:47

2.4.[35] + Dell Poweredge 8450 + Oops on boot

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Katz
Hello, I'm trying to get 2.4 to run on a Dell Poweredge 8450, with no luck so far .. Below is what I get when I boot a 2.4 kernel (happens in 2.4.3(-ac9) and 2.4.5(-ac5), 2.2.19 works fine).. I've attached a full boot log and my config settings .. The settings, and kernels I'm trying (at

RE: 2.4.[35] + Dell Poweredge 8450 + Oops on boot

2001-06-01 Thread Matt_Domsch
my config settings .. The settings, and kernels I'm trying (at least 2.4.3-ac9) work on other Dell boxes here, such as the 2450, and 6350 (with same internals, ie the raid (dual channel) + nic)... Quick spec of the box is: Dell PowerEdge 8450 4x550 Xeon / 2gig Onboard

Strange bug (?) in 2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Ole André Vadla Ravnås
Hi I suspect that I've found a bug in 2.4.5. I use isolinux (1.62) for CD-booting, and its configuration file is like this: default linux display some.msg label linux kernel linux append ramdisk_start=0 ramdisk_size=12288 root=/dev/rd/0 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd The kernel has devfs

HowTo: Kernel verbose logging.

2001-06-01 Thread Ola Theander
Dear subscribers. I'm currently experimenting with a third party application, VMWare's GSX-server. This application allows you to run multiple virtual servers on a single physical computer, providing there are enough resources, such as memory, available. The problem is that this application

RE: 2.4.[35] + Dell Poweredge 8450 + Oops on boot

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Katz
Just before I got your suggestion, I tried just that (disabling the PNP Bios) .. I looked up the trace addresses in the system.map (which I forgot to include) and saw that it was from the pnp bios) .. It did the trick :) I will also see if there's an updated bios available .. Thanks! Terry

Kernel oops

2001-06-01 Thread David Harris
I am running gnome netleds_applet version 0.9.1 and it is sporadically dieing, with a various kernel oops warnings in my syslogs. I caught the last one and ran it through ksymoops - I've attached the output of that. It happens every few days and doesn't seem to be caused by anything specific that

union mounting file systems... retry #1

2001-06-01 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all After reading Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 (Penguin Wizard) at http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/misc/WWOL2.4.html, I found somthing about union mounting file systems under Linux internals, (seventh paragraph). I've been trying to find out how to do this, but I just fail. Some places I

VIA timer bug

2001-06-01 Thread Jonas Diemer
Hello! I hope this is the right place for my request. I have heard about a VIA sytem timer bug. I have a Via KX-133 (for athlon) board and the following problem: Once the bug is triggered, the system timer goes crazy (i think it is the system timer, i am not sure). following things happen

ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
2.4.5 : when quote some xfers have taken place, the realtek card dies here. Jun 1 14:58:12 grobbebol kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 1 14:58:12 grobbebol kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=1303. Jun 1 14:58:14 grobbebol kernel: NETDEV

Highmem Bigmem question

2001-06-01 Thread jlnance
Hello All, This is probably an FAQ, but I read the FAQ and its not in there. I have a machine with 2G of memory. I compiled the kernel with the 4G memory option. How much address space should each process be able to address? Does this change if I use the 64G option? I'm after 2.4

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-06-01 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:07:21AM +0200, Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if( KT133A || KT133 || KX133 ) { if( Mainboard==Epox 8KTA-3(+) BIOS=8kt31417 ) return 0; /* EPOX already fixed it their way. */ #ifdef NEW_PATCH Offset 76: Set bit5=0 and bit4=1 (every PCI master grand)

Kernel oops

2001-06-01 Thread David Harris
(many apologies for repost - i'll actually attach the attachment this time) I am running gnome netleds_applet version 0.9.1 and it is sporadically dieing, with a various kernel oops warnings in my syslogs. I caught the last one and ran it through ksymoops - I've attached the output of that. It

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Marc Lehmann wrote: one thing I found out using triel and error is that setting PCI Delay Transaction to enabled causes data corruption on WRITE to my ide drives connected to an Promise Ultra 100 PCI controlelr (I didn't get any corruption on the devices connected to the via ide interface,

[PATCH] devfs v178 available

2001-06-01 Thread Richard Gooch
Hi, all. Version 178 of my devfs patch is now available from: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html The devfs FAQ is also available here. Patch directly available from: ftp://ftp.??.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rgooch/v2.4/devfs-patch-current.gz AND:

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Roeland Th. Jansen wrote: when quote some xfers have taken place, the realtek card dies here. Working on the problem. You'll need to downgrade the 8139too driver to the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief,

PROBLEM: megaraid

2001-06-01 Thread Adam Margulies
I've had to keep an old 1.14b version of the driver around in order to build a functional kernel for a while now. If I use the newer version (1.14g-ac2), then the kernel can't find my root filesystem on boot. Is this a problem other people have seen? I believe I have the very latest firmware

Re: [QUESTION] which routines must be re-entrant?

2001-06-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:01:34PM -0700, Dawson Engler wrote: Is there an easy way to tell which routines must be re-entrant? (it doesn't have to be exhaustive, even an incomplete set is useful) I was going to write a checker to make sure supposedly re-entrant routines actually were, but

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Danny ter Haar
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Working on the problem. You'll need to downgrade the 8139too driver to the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. also on : www.bzimage.org/kernel-patches/v2.4/alan/v2.4.5/ 8139_too_work.c (62kB) And

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-06-01 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 2:59 PM +0200 2001-06-01, David Weinehall wrote: Not to open a what may be can of worms but ... What's wrong with procfs? Imho, a procfs should be for process-information, nothing else. The procfs in its current form, while useful, is something horrible that should be taken out on the

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Danny ter Haar wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Working on the problem. You'll need to downgrade the 8139too driver to the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. also on : www.bzimage.org/kernel-patches/v2.4/alan/v2.4.5/

Question regarding pci_alloc_consitent() and __get_free_pages

2001-06-01 Thread Steffen Persvold
Hi, I have a question regarding the pci_alloc_consistent() function. Will this function allocate pages that are physical contiguous ? i.e if I call this function with a size argument of 32KByte will that be 8 consecutive pages in memory on i386 architecture (4 pages on alpha). In general, will

Re: missing sysrq

2001-06-01 Thread D. Stimits
Dieter Nützel wrote: D. Stimits wrote: Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: However, if I go to /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq does not exist. It is a compile time option, so the person who compiled your kernel left it out. I compiled it, and the

[newbie] NFS broken in 2.4.4?

2001-06-01 Thread Roland Kuhn
Hi folks! When a process tries to lstat64 a file on nfs and the reply is not received it gets blocked forever. Should it be that way? Please help, Roland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

ifconfig freezes in 2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Jan Hudec
Hi, When I compiled and booted 2.4.5, the machine got stuck in ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 (SysRq still worked, ^C did not seem to). I tried to strace it. Last thing strace managed to write was: ioctl(4, 0x8914 (no comma, not including the trird argument). I tried to switch of some compile-time

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-01 Thread lost
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (ii) The Linux man page only says RETURN VALUE On success, select and pselect return the number of descriptors contained in the descriptor sets, which may be zero if the timeout expires before anything interesting

MD Auth messages.

2001-06-01 Thread John McGarrigle
Sorry if you got any majordomo auth messages from me. Just mailman messing up :\ John 'Neuron' McGarrigle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18220396 Phone: +44 (0)7944 604 644 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[newbie] NFS client: port-unreachable

2001-06-01 Thread Roland Kuhn
Hi folks! When I lstat64 a directory on an nfs mount the answer to GETATTR is received by the network interface but dropped (not seen by the client) afterwards. Only 50musec after the receive of the answer an icmp-destination-unreachable (port-unreachable) goes out to the server. This is

Re: unmount issues with 2.4.5-ac5, 3ware, and ReiserFS (was: kernel-2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Hans Reiser
known VFS bug, ask viro for details, 2.4.5 is not stable because of it, use 2.4.4 Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:04:50PM -0500, Jordan wrote: Alan Cox wrote: I'm staying on 2.4.5-ac5 for whatever it's worth (putting my life on the line for the

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-06-01 Thread Miquel Colom Piza
This is my first email to the list. I'm not subscribed but I've read it for years. I don't agree with those claiming that 2.4.xx is bad or still beta. We the administrators have the responsability to test early kernels and send good bug reports so the developers can solve the bugs. That's the

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-06-01 Thread Manfred Spraul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :setpci -s 00:07.2 INTERRUPT_LINE=15 :lspci -vx -s 00:07.2 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Unknown device 0925:1234 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19 I/O

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Roeland Th. Jansen
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:45:46PM +, Danny ter Haar wrote: the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. also on : www.bzimage.org/kernel-patches/v2.4/alan/v2.4.5/ 8139_too_work.c (62kB) And also there:

Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-01 Thread Andries . Brouwer
So how does this say the value of the fdsets are undefined after a timeout? You are right, it doesn't say so. I should have said That is, a wise programmer does not assume any particular value for the bits after an error. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: 2.4.5 still breaks dhcpcd with 8139too

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matthias Andree wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: I see that Alan has reverted back to the 2.4.3 driver for his ac-series for other reasons, hopefully either the old driver will going in to 2.4.6 or the new one will get fixed? I've got one of the two problems fixed

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Manfred Spraul wrote: Could you compile uhci as a module, set the configuration to MPS1.4 and find out with which interrupt line setting it works. I'd try both setpci -s 00:07.2 INTERRUPT_LINE=13 setpci -s 00:07.2 INTERRUPT_LINE=3 [even if 13 works, please try 03 as well. 13 is

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-06-01 Thread Ken Brownfield
I'd be forced to agree. I have 2.4.x in limited production, and with the exception of the HP/APIC fatal issues that have a noapic work-around, I have had no problem at all with any of the 2.4.x kernels I've used. Open software by definition will never reach the kind of monolithic stability

unresolved symbol irda_cleanup

2001-06-01 Thread David Jez
Hi, I solved this problem. IrDA hasn't worked since 2.4.2 kernel with this error message. Problem was static definition of irda_clenup() in irsyms.c My patch is from kernel 2.4.4, but can be aplied to 2.4.5 too. Dave. PS: I'm not in mailing list. diff -urN

Re: unmount issues with 2.4.5-ac5, 3ware, and ReiserFS (was: kernel-2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Hans Reiser wrote: known VFS bug, ask viro for details, 2.4.5 is not stable because of it, use 2.4.4 Different issue. Missing lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() in kill_super() appeared in -pre6 and was fixed in -ac2 or so. -ac5 apparently had introduced something new, that

cobalt patches

2001-06-01 Thread Tim Hockin
Thanks for all the comments, so far. I'm going to incorporate all the changes mentioned, and resubmit the questioned patches. Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

RE: [CHECKER] 2.4.5-ac4 non-init functions calling init functions

2001-06-01 Thread Khachaturov, Vassilii
If you do implement such a thing, make sure that you don't mistakenly spot smth that gets exported to a non-kernel-tree driver, or smth that gets called by a non-__init, --- but not in the current kernel config! V. -Original Message- From: Dawson Engler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: PROBLEM: isdn connecting error(auth failed) with 2.4.4-ac9 and2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Thu, 31 May 2001, CZUCZY Gergely wrote: May 27 15:00:50 kign kernel: ippp0: dialing 1 0651201201... May 27 15:00:51 kign kernel: isdn_net: ippp0 connected May 27 15:00:51 kign ipppd[391]: Local number: 2536889, Remote number: 0651201201, Type: outgoing May 27 15:00:51 kign ipppd[391]:

Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time)

2001-06-01 Thread Tim Hockin
Pete Zaitcev wrote: i2c is only in our stuff because the i2c core is not in the standard kernel yet. As soon as it is, I will make cobalt_i2c* go away. I am puzzled by this comment. Did you look into drivers/i2c/? It certainly is a part of a stock kernel. The main user is the V4L, in

Re: [newbie] NFS client: port-unreachable

2001-06-01 Thread Trond Myklebust
== Roland Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks! When I lstat64 a directory on an nfs mount the answer to GETATTR is received by the network interface but dropped (not seen by the client) afterwards. Only 50musec after the receive of the answer an

Re: [PATCH] remove unnecessary zero initializations from aironet4500_proc.c (245ac1)

2001-06-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Hi. The following patch removes two superfluous initializations from aironet4500_proc.c, making the .o ~12K smaller in size. It applies against 245ac1 and was discovered by Adam Ritcher some time ago. --- linux-245-ac1-clean/drivers/net/aironet4500_proc.cSat May 19

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-06-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I can easily give more examples - just ask. BTW, the fact that this stuff is so fragmented is not a bug - we want it evenly spread over disk, just to have the ability to allocate a block/inode not too far from the piece of bitmap we'll need to modify. BTW is this still true? This

Re: 2.4.5 still breaks dhcpcd with 8139too

2001-06-01 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: Matthias Andree wrote: Will that 8139too be able to share its IRQ with a bttv card (Hauppauge WinTV in my case)? With 2.2.19, it's currently possible, at least after unloading and reloading the 8139too module, but it's a no-go with 2.4.5. Can

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6

2001-06-01 Thread Wayne . Brown
The oops problem with the cs46xx in my ThinkPad 600X under -ac4 and -ac5 has changed now. It no longer gives an oops; instead the program trying to access the sound card hangs (until I kill it). Subsequent attempts to access the sound card get a Device or resource busy error. There are no

Re: PROBLEM: isdn connecting error(auth failed) with 2.4.4-ac9 and2.4.5

2001-06-01 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
On Thu, 31 May 2001, CZUCZY Gergely wrote: May 27 15:00:52 kign ipppd[391]: Remote message: Access Denied May 27 15:00:52 kign ipppd[391]: PAP authentication failed You passwors in /etc/{ppp,isdn}/pap-secrets is wrong. Modules Loaded NVdriver hisax isdn slhc au8820

Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-06-01 Thread thunder7
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:28:33PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :setpci -s 00:07.2 INTERRUPT_LINE=15 :lspci -vx -s 00:07.2 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Unknown device 0925:1234

Re: 2.2.19 locks up on SMP - tcp-hang patch NOT fixed the problem!

2001-06-01 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Tue, 29 May 2001 15:50:22 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I tried to install freeswan1.9. After establishing ipsec tunnel with my peer I got the wait_on_bh message. (I cannot paste exactly because It is a production machine, and I restarted it as fast as I could) So what to do?

2.4.5-ac5 locks on ReiserFS umount (ac4 doesn't)

2001-06-01 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! I'm using ReiserFS in the kernel, not as a module. My root filesystem is ReiserFS. I mounted another ReiserFS partition and then tried to unmount it. umount hung. sync hung. shutdown hung. Both umount and sync were shown in the D state on Ctrl-ScrollLock. I reverted to 2.4.5-ac4 and

Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, more info

2001-06-01 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi again, Earlier today I wrote about my SMP and Ultra-DMA problem. Now have I written down the boot information. I hope that the attachment show the correct information, it was written in W*rd so some lower case chars can have been converted into upper case... I also checked the IDE-patch and

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-06-01 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:28:48AM -0400, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once you get into the area of flushing data (or not flushing, which is what delayed txn would imply), it is entirely possible that the driver simply does not support what occurs when the PCI Delay Txn option is

international patches from kerneli far behind

2001-06-01 Thread L Larssen
Hello, Sorry if this subject does not fit in this list. I am a bit worried about the development of the international kernel patches from kerneli.org. These patches are getting far behind on the real kernel distributions. At this moment the latest patches are 2.2.18.3 and 2.4.3.1 while the

Re: [PATCH] sym53c8xx timer and smp fixes

2001-06-01 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: Tim Hockin wrote: spinlock_t sym53c8xx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; +spinlock_t sym53c8xx_host_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; #defineNCR_LOCK_DRIVER(flags) spin_lock_irqsave(sym53c8xx_lock, flags) #defineNCR_UNLOCK_DRIVER(flags)

Re: missing sysrq

2001-06-01 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2001 16:51 schrieben Sie: Have you tried echo 1 /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq? You need both, compiled in and activation. no, look at the code. the enable variable defaults to 1. Then there must be a bug? I get 0 with 2.4.5-ac2 and -ac5 without echo 1. Fresh booted

[PATCH] Re: interrupt problem with MPS 1.4 / not with MPS 1.1 ?

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Does this patch fix things for you, such that MPS 1.1 and MPS 1.4 both work? -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | diff -urN linux-2.4.5/drivers/pci/quirks.c linux.viairq/drivers/pci/quirks.c --- linux-2.4.5/drivers/pci/quirks.cSat May

New USB HID driver in -ac series

2001-06-01 Thread Nathan Walp
I upgraded from 2.4.5-ac2 to 2.4.5-ac5 recently, and all seemed well. However, I noticed that the scrollwheel on my mouse wasn't working very well. I have that new Logitech cordless optical mouse, so my first thought was that the batteries were low, but it was late at night, and I didn't have

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