Re: freeze with 2.4.5-ac16

2001-06-21 Thread Justin Guyett
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Justin Guyett wrote: the offending process is memeat (allocates 192*1024*1024 bytes, then memsets it to 0, then sleeps forever, though apparently it never gets to that part). It has to be in memset(ptr, 0, 192*1024*1024). ksymoops from sysrq-m attached, hmm, well

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 ^ Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFFER allocations are fucking up here (they can't block on IO, so they

Cannot complie aic7xxx_mod.o

2001-06-21 Thread warren
Hi, I get the source code of aic7xxx untar it in my Linux Kernel directory and go to the directory /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx to make aic7xxx_mod.o. But i cannot make the modules. The error is as follows: My Linux is RedHat 6.2 and kernel version is 2.2.14-5.0 . Please give

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 ^ Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFFER allocations are

Re: aic7xxx oops with 2.4.5-ac13

2001-06-21 Thread Trevor Hemsley
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 03:05:02, Jeff V. Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ditto. I am also seeing this oops calling the sg driver for a robotic tape library, and it also seems to happen on 2.4.4. In my case it appears that it was the symptom of severe bus problems. About 5 minutes after I

Re: temperature standard - global config option?

2001-06-21 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Boot) wrote on 08.06.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Only the truly stupid would assume accuracy from decimal places. Well then, tell all the teachers in this world that they're stupid, and tell everyone who learnt from them as well. *All*? I'm in high school (gd. 11,

State changes for T/TCP

2001-06-21 Thread anpol
Hi everyone, I am trying to implement T/TCP in linux 2.2.14. I am using a Linux box as a client and a FreeBSD box as server. I have the following problem: I send multiple data packets from the client, the sequence looks like this: 1. Client sends syn with data SYN, PSH 2. Client sends data

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-21 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Rob Landley writes: On Wednesday 20 June 2001 15:53, Martin Dalecki wrote: Mike Harrold wrote: super computing, hmm what about some PowerPC CPU variant - they very compettetiv in terms of cost and FPU performance! Transmeta isn't the adequate choice here. You honestly think you can fit

2.4.6pre iptables masquerading seems to kill eth0

2001-06-21 Thread Helge Hafting
I have a home network with two machines connected with 3c905B cards. The main machine also has a isdn dialup connection. Networking works well except if I let the main machine masquerade so the other can use the internet too. I use iptables for this. It works for a day or so, then eth0 goes

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-21 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:53:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not I. The slides for my last meeting were done as TIFF files and I used xv to display them. Plus, the most recent documentation I wrote for one of our mainframe applications was done with vi and LaTeX. What, in addition to

cproto use in the kernel source tree?

2001-06-21 Thread Urban Widmark
I would like to automate generating the prototype list for smbfs. The list in include/linux/smb_fs.h is probably mostly correct ... or not. Does anyone use this type of tool anywhere else in the kernel sources? Any input on how to set it up right is appreciated. Here is what I have right now.

Re: aic7xxx oops with 2.4.5-ac13

2001-06-21 Thread Tachino Nobuhiro
Hello, At Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:15:10, Trevor Hemsley wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 03:05:02, Jeff V. Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ditto. I am also seeing this oops calling the sg driver for a robotic tape library, and it also seems to happen on 2.4.4. In my case it appears that

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: 2 4 2 77084 1524 18396 66904 0 1876 108 2220 2464 66079 198 1 ^

Re: SCSI Tape corruption - update

2001-06-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2001, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2001, Rob Turk wrote: Have you ruled out hardware failures? There's been a few isolated reports That tape drive (Sony SDT-9000, less than 2 years of service) works perfectly on

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-21 Thread Jonathan Morton
I have seen school projects with interfaces done in java (to be 'portable') and you could go to have a coffee while a menu pulled down. Yeah, but the slowness there comes from the phrase school project and not the phrase done in java. I've seen menuing interfaces on a 1 mhz commodore 64

AGP for 760MP chipset

2001-06-21 Thread SPENCE
I managed to get my hands on a dual athlon box and get it working fairly well. I have been unable to get agpgart working however because it is an unrecognized chipset. It would be great to get this working and I would be happy to supply any info or do some testing for the developers. On a

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-21 Thread Paul Flinders
Alan Cox wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092935,00.html Of course the URL that goes with that is : http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/features.asp Yes., Microsoft ship GNU C (quite legally) as part of their offerings... Do they include the source?

Linux 2.4.6-preX and MediaGX

2001-06-21 Thread Thibaut LAURENT
Hi, I'm trying to build a kernel for Cyrix MediaGX. Kernel version is 2.4.6-pre3 as it comes straight from the XFS devel tree. Processor type is set to 586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX. Everything compiles fine. Here comes my problem : the darn thing won't boot. I've seen at least 3 different behaviours

Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread Balbir Singh
I realize that the Linux kernel supports user level drivers (via ioperm, etc). However interrupts at user level are not supported, does anyone think it would be a good idea to add user level interrupt support ? I have a framework for it, but it still needs a lot of work. Depending on the

Kernel hooks

2001-06-21 Thread Ufuk Yzererolu
Can anyone tell me how I can use kernel hooks in my program? I want to raise an action when a network connection to my server is established? Ufuk Yuzereroglu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Linux 2.4.6-preX and MediaGX

2001-06-21 Thread Danny ter Haar
Thibaut LAURENT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea ? Try without APIC support compiled into the kernel. I've seen too many different setup's barf on that! ;-) Danny -- Holland Hosting www.hoho.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:41:32AM -0700, Balbir Singh wrote: I realize that the Linux kernel supports user level drivers (via ioperm, etc). However interrupts at user level are not supported, does anyone think it would be a good idea to add user level interrupt support ? I have a framework

Re: temperature standard - global config option?

2001-06-21 Thread Jonathan Morton
Only the truly stupid would assume accuracy from decimal places. Well then, tell all the teachers in this world that they're stupid, and tell everyone who learnt from them as well. *All*? I'm in high school (gd. 11, junior) and my physics teacher is always screaming at us for

Re: ip_tables/ipchains

2001-06-21 Thread Ted Gervais
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Pete Toscano wrote: I had a similar problem with this yesterday. Try moving your .config file to a safe place, making mrproper, then moving your .config back and rebuilding. I did this and all was well. HTH, pete Thanks Pete. I will give that a try.. On Wed,

Loop encryption module locking bug (linux-2.4.5).

2001-06-21 Thread Ingo Rohloff
Hi, There is a bug in the locking scheme for the encryption functions, which can be hooked into the loop device. I have a patch which resolves the problem. First what happens: If you do (for example) a losetup -e twofish /dev/loop0 test.lop the following happens: The loop0 device gets opened

Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread Dmitry A. Fedorov
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Balbir Singh wrote: I realize that the Linux kernel supports user level drivers (via ioperm, etc). However interrupts at user level are not supported, does anyone think it would be a good idea to add user level interrupt support ? I have a framework for it, but it still

RE: temperature standard - global config option?

2001-06-21 Thread Randal, Phil
Jonathan Morton wrote: I should instead write 59 ±2°C, since that is the most precision I can possibly know it to. With some advanced measuring techniques it *may* be acceptable to write 59.43 ±2°C *at most*, and then only if you really know why you need the extra information. It's easy to

[OOPS] Failed to boot 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-21 Thread Mircea Damian
Hi, [1.] One line summary of the problem: I can not start 2.4.6-pre5 on my machine. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I've tried to upgrade from 2.4.5-pre1 to 2.4.6-pre5 but it failed the new kernel failed to boot. It OOPS-es while it's starting. I managed to write down some of

Re: Loop encryption module locking bug (linux-2.4.5).

2001-06-21 Thread Andi Kleen
sarcasm I think your mail is offtopic for linux-kernel: it doesn't mention Microsoft or user space java programming or pointer to random unrelated web pages, but an actual kernel bug. /sarcasm Ingo Rohloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If lo_open doesn't call the cipher lock function and

Re: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout

2001-06-21 Thread Rafael Martinez
---Reply to mail from Dionysius Wilson Almeida about eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout No..that was pretty much what i saw in the logs. I see wait_for_cmd_done timeout being the only one being repeated in the logs The same here with 2.4.1 and 2.4.3. Rafael Martinez - To unsubscribe

RE: temperature standard - global config option?

2001-06-21 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Randal, Phil wrote: Jonathan Morton wrote: I should instead write 59 ±2°C, since that is the most precision I can possibly know it to. With some advanced measuring techniques it *may* be acceptable to write 59.43 ±2°C *at most*, and then only if you really know

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Paul Flinders wrote: Alan Cox wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092935,00.html Of course the URL that goes with that is : http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/features.asp Yes., Microsoft ship GNU C (quite legally) as part

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-21 Thread Jesse Pollard
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:09:10PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092935,00.html Of course the URL that goes with that is : http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/features.asp Yes., Microsoft ship GNU C (quite legally) as part

fealnx problem

2001-06-21 Thread Jon Forsberg
I have an Surecom EP-320X-S Ethernet adapter which apparently uses a Myson MTD-8xx chip. It works well with the fealnx driver (labeled Myson MTD-8xx PCI Ethernet support in kernel config) except for one thing: After a while in use it stops working and prints Jun 21 12:18:18 naut kernel: NETDEV

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-21 Thread Helge Hafting
Larry McVoy wrote: You can scream all you want that it isn't free software but the fact of the matter is that you all scream that and then go do your slides for your Linux talks in PowerPoint. Never used powerpoint. If I need slides I use a (linux-based) word processor and a bigger font

[PATCH] i810 watchdog driver: support for i815/i8[2456]0 chipsets

2001-06-21 Thread pazke
Hi all, this small patch (2.4.5-ac16) adds Intel i815/i820/i840/i850/i860 chipsets support into i810 TCO watchdog driver, also MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE added. Should work but untested (can't stop server just to test it :) Best regards. -- Andrey Panin| Embedded systems software

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac15

2001-06-21 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 21 June 2001 07:44, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Ok, I suspect that GFP_BUFFER allocations are fucking up here (they can't block on IO, so they loop insanely). Why doesn't the VM hang the

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address - 2.4.5

2001-06-21 Thread Rafael Martinez
Hello I have got a error in my syslog about a Null pointer in the kernel: Kernel 2.4.5 glibc 2.2.12 gcc version 2.96 2731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0) Modell: ISP2150 Motherboard: L440GX+ DP CPU: 2 x Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) 850 MHz L2 cache: 256K / Bus: 100 MHz RAM: 256 MB SCSI

Re: temperature standard - global config option?

2001-06-21 Thread Richard J Moore
59.42886726469 ±2°C is obviously ludicrous, even if that's what my calculator gives me. I should instead write 59 ±2°C, since So, if I follow you argument then shouldn't you be writing 58 ±2°C or should it be 60 ±2°C ? Richard Moore - RAS Project Lead - Linux Technology Centre (ATS-PIC).

Re: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address - 2.4.5

2001-06-21 Thread Brian Gerst
Rafael Martinez wrote: Hello I have got a error in my syslog about a Null pointer in the kernel: Kernel 2.4.5 glibc 2.2.12 gcc version 2.96 2731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0) Modell: ISP2150 Motherboard: L440GX+ DP CPU: 2 x Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) 850 MHz L2 cache: 256K / Bus:

needed this to run 2.4.6-pre4

2001-06-21 Thread Jeff Chua
still not in 2.4.6-pre4. Without this, you'll get a lot of undefined symbols referencing do_softirq Jeff [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] --- include/asm-i386/softirq.h Thu Jun 14 17:10:34 2001 +++ include/asm-i386/softirq.h.new Thu Jun 14 17:17:15 2001 @@ -36,13 +36,13 @@

Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread john slee
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 06:38:09PM +0700, Dmitry A. Fedorov wrote: kernel module to delivery hardware interrupts to user space programs. Hardware interrupts (IRQ) are accessible by character devices /dev/irq[0-15]. Interrupts delivered by signals and select(2)/poll(2) i believe libgpio uses

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-21 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 21 June 2001 10:46, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: My last LinuxExpo talk was also made with PP, This makes about as much sense as going to a cocktail party with nose glasses on. -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

[Patch] tmpfs fixes against 2.4.6-pre

2001-06-21 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Linus, the appended patch fixes several tmpfs problems: 1) writing out of a mapping of a tmpfs file into the same file can deadlock 2) shmem_remount_fs garbles parameters which are not supplied 3) shmem_file_setup should check the maximum size Please apply Christoph diff

Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
At 23:50 +1000 2001-06-21, john slee wrote: i believe libgpio uses the existing usb/iee1394/serial/parallel interfaces to provide a limited userspace driver capability. That only means, however, that the specific kernel drivers explicitly support mid-level usermode access. They still handle

Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread john slee
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:58:33PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: At 23:50 +1000 2001-06-21, john slee wrote: i believe libgpio uses the existing usb/iee1394/serial/parallel interfaces to provide a limited userspace driver capability. That only means, however, that the specific kernel

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-21 Thread Jesse Pollard
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 20 June 2001 17:20, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Rob Landley writes: My only real gripe with Linux's threads right now [...] is that ps and top and such aren't thread aware and don't group them right. I'm told they added some kind of

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-21 Thread chuckw
You can scream all you want that it isn't free software but the fact of the matter is that you all scream that and then go do your slides for your Linux talks in PowerPoint. I think this is an unfair generalization. Not really. In Linus's book he describes that his presentations used

Re: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout

2001-06-21 Thread Masaru Kawashima
Hi! On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:31:34 -0700 Dionysius Wilson Almeida Dionysius Wilson Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jun 20 16:14:07 debianlap kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout! Jun 20 16:14:38 debianlap last message repeated 5 times I saw the same message. The comment before

correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages

2001-06-21 Thread Stefan . Bader
Hi, I ran into some problems with buffer.c trying to unlock a page of async io buffer heads more than once. IMHO end_buffer_io_async() shouldn't rely on the value of b_end_io to decide if the whole page can be unlocked. It would make it easier for other layers (well remappers like md or lvm)

Re: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout

2001-06-21 Thread John Madden
Dionysius Wilson Almeida Dionysius Wilson Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jun 20 16:14:07 debianlap kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout! Jun 20 16:14:38 debianlap last message repeated 5 times I saw the same message. The comment before wait_for_cmd_done() function in

2.4.x deadlocking

2001-06-21 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Hi, My collegue has a Lifetec 9888 laptop (PII) that suffers from IRQ deadlocking : His TI PCMCIA bridge locates itself on IRQ 12, and so does his mouse. System boots fine, but as soon as he types anything or moves his mouse, the keyboard locks. 2.2.x doesn't seem to allocate a IRQ to the

Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread Dmitry A. Fedorov
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Oliver Neukum wrote: Lastly an IRQ kernel module can disable_irq() from interrupt handler and enable it again only on explicit acknowledge from user. Unless you need that interrupt to be enabled to deliver the signal or let Need not. Signal and other event delivery

Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:39:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I ran into some problems with buffer.c trying to unlock a page of sorry for the huge delay in the answer, I was going to answer your previous two emails very shortly (I didn't forgotten ;). async io buffer heads

Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages

2001-06-21 Thread Chris Mason
On Thursday, June 21, 2001 05:08:13 PM +0200 Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems we can more simply drop the tmp-b_end_io == end_buffer_io_async check enterely and safely. Possibly we could build a debugging logic to make sure nobody ever lock down a buffer mapped on a

Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread Oliver Neukum
On Thursday, 21. June 2001 16:46, Dmitry A. Fedorov wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Oliver Neukum wrote: Lastly an IRQ kernel module can disable_irq() from interrupt handler and enable it again only on explicit acknowledge from user. Unless you need that interrupt to be enabled to deliver

Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:16:42AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: Think of a mixture of fsync_inode_buffers and async i/o on page. Since fsync_inode_buffers uses ll_rw_block, if that end_io handler is the last to run the page never gets unlocked. correct Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list:

RE: The latest Microsoft FUD

2001-06-21 Thread Linux Bigot
All, Wouldn't microsoft be happy to see so many linux developers and extraordinaries while away their time on a trivial issue instead of coming up with other befitting replies. Not to mention, it reduces the SNR of kernel list pretty much. We all _love_ linux and let's focus on that. best of

Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:39:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: diff -ruN old/fs/buffer.c new/fs/buffer.c --- old/fs/buffer.c Thu Jun 21 09:47:20 2001 +++ new/fs/buffer.c Thu Jun 21 10:44:01 2001 @@ -798,11 +798,12 @@ * that unlock the page.. */

Re: temperature standard - global config option?

2001-06-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:18:12PM +0100, Jonathan Morton wrote: I've been taught by every Maths, Engineering and Physics teacher/lecturer I've encountered to write down significant figures consistent with the precision of the value. So blindly writing down a value of 59.42886726469 ±2°C

Re: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux and OpenSource.

2001-06-21 Thread Brent D. Norris
simple source access. I don't know that anyone has ever asked for the source code for Word. If they did, we would give it to them. But it's not a typical request. So who wants to go ask for the source code to word then? I mean we have Bill's word that they will give it to us. Brent Norris

Re: spindown

2001-06-21 Thread Jamie Lokier
Pavel Machek wrote: Isn't this why noflushd exists or is this an evil thing that shouldn't ever be used and will eventually eat my disks for breakfast? It would eat your flash for breakfast. You know, flash memories have no spinning parts, so there's nothing to spin down. Btw Pavel, does

Re: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout

2001-06-21 Thread Masaru Kawashima
Hi, again! I'ts me, Masaru Kawashima, from home. I'm sorry I made a stupid mistake last time! This time, I promise you that I attach the proper patch for linux/drivers/net/eepro100.c. (running version) On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:19:39 +0900 Masaru Kawashima Masaru Kawashima [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it useful to support user level drivers

2001-06-21 Thread Abramo Bagnara
Dmitry A. Fedorov wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Oliver Neukum wrote: Lastly an IRQ kernel module can disable_irq() from interrupt handler and enable it again only on explicit acknowledge from user. Unless you need that interrupt to be enabled to deliver the signal or let Need not.

Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org 2.4.5-ac17 o Sanity check the BIOS tables for bootflag (me) o Update multicast support by devices doc

loop device broken in 2.4.6-pre5

2001-06-21 Thread Jari Ruusu
File backed loop device on 4k block size ext2 filesystem: debian:/root # dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1024 count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out debian:/root # losetup /dev/loop0 file1 debian:/root # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/loop0 bs=1024 count=10 conv=notrunc dd: /dev/loop0: No space left on

RE: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux and Open Source.

2001-06-21 Thread Khachaturov, Vassilii
simple source access. I don't know that anyone has ever asked for the source code for Word. If they did, we would give it to them. But it's not a typical request. So who wants to go ask for the source code to word then? I mean we have Bill's word that they will give it to us. If

Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages

2001-06-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: It seems we can more simply drop the tmp-b_end_io == end_buffer_io_async check enterely and safely. I doubt it. Think about somebody who writes a partial page (but a full buffer). Somebody _else_ then reads the rest of the page. You'll have one

Re: temperature standard - global config option?

2001-06-21 Thread Lauri Tischler
Richard J Moore wrote: 59.42886726469 ±2°C is obviously ludicrous, even if that's what my calculator gives me. I should instead write 59 ±2°C, since So, if I follow you argument then shouldn't you be writing 58 ±2°C or should it be 60 ±2°C ? What it means is that whatever dingus

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.5-ac17 o Swapfile bugfix (Rik van Riel) Written by Stephen Tweedie ... regards, Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)

Re: RPC vs Socket

2001-06-21 Thread Trond Myklebust
== Blesson Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all I am in the way of building a new remote file system. Presently I decided to use sockets for remote communication. Lately I understood that RPC is used in coda and

Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:54:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: The above _will_ break. tmp may be locked due to the write - and the indeed, I missed the pending writes sorry. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: needed this to run 2.4.6-pre4

2001-06-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeff Chua wrote: still not in 2.4.6-pre4. Without this, you'll get a lot of undefined symbols referencing do_softirq it's already in pre5... -- Jeff Garzik | Andre the Giant has a posse. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:56:04AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: What's the problem with the existing code, and why do people want to add a (unnecessary) new bit? there's no problem with the existing code, what I understood is that they cannot overwrite the -b_end_io callback in the lowlevel

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-21 Thread Miles Lane
On 21 Jun 2001 15:48:11 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Thursday 21 June 2001 10:46, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: My last LinuxExpo talk was also made with PP, This makes about as much sense as going to a cocktail party with nose glasses on. One of the mantras that get hammered into

more gendisk stuff

2001-06-21 Thread Andries . Brouwer
An hour ago or so I put 07-2.4.6pre5-gendisk on ftp.kernel.org (and rediffed the previous six patches against 2.4.6pre5). It has add_gendisk, del_gendisk, get_gendisk, blk_gendisk[] (a.k.a. register_gendisk, unregister_gendisk, find_gendisk), so that one now can find the gendisk structure given

Problem with patch 2.4.6pre5

2001-06-21 Thread Vallimar
Hello, After applying this patch, I suddenly got flooded by iptables with tonnes of messages being flagged as TAINTED by my firewall. I previously ran 2.4.6pre3 with no problems whatsoever, so I think the additional network driver updates might have caused a problem? I'm using a 3c905b if

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17

2001-06-21 Thread Craig Schlenter
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:38:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: [snip] 2.4.5-ac17 [snip] Hi Alan Sorry to bug you but could you tell us what's up with the synchronisation between your tree and Linus' please? I haven't seen any ac stuff being spooled into Linus' tree for a while and the trees seem

Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:56:04AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: What's the problem with the existing code, and why do people want to add a (unnecessary) new bit? there's no problem with the existing code, what I understood

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-21 Thread Adam Sampson
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, the very concept of Java encourages not caring about performance, system-design or any elegance whatsoever. The same arguments were made 30 years ago about writing the OS in a high level language like C rather than in raw assembly. 30 years

Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
As you know, there's been another flap recently about the GPL status of loadable kernel modules. You have a note that touches on this in the kernel COPYING file, but it is not sufficient to resolve the questions that keep coming up. Earlier today I was contacted by a principal at a well-known

Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages

2001-06-21 Thread Chris Mason
On Thursday, June 21, 2001 07:15:22 PM +0200 Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:56:04AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: What's the problem with the existing code, and why do people want to add a (unnecessary) new bit? there's no problem with the existing

Re: Loop encryption module locking bug (linux-2.4.5).

2001-06-21 Thread Andreas Dilger
Ingo Rohloff writes: PS: Because I try to understand the inner workings of the loop device better, I have a question: In lo_send is a loop: while (len0). How can I configure a loop device, so that this loop is executed more than once. It seems this is only possible if

[RFC][PATCH] cutting up struct kernel_stat into cpu_stat

2001-06-21 Thread Zach Brown
The attached patch-in-progress removes the per-cpu statistics from struct kernel_stat and puts them in a cpu_stat structure, one per cpu, cacheline padded. The data is still coolated and presented through /proc/stat, but another file /proc/cpustat is also added. The locking is as nonexistant as

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Jeff Golds
Eric S. Raymond wrote: The GPL license reproduced below is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, but the Linux kernel is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. The GPL license requires that

2.4.6pre5aa1

2001-06-21 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Diff between 2.4.6pre3aa2 and 2.4.6pre5aa1: - Moved on top of 2.4.6pre5. Only in 2.4.6pre3aa2: 00_alpha-warnings-1 Only in 2.4.6pre3aa2: 00_backout-udelay-1 Only in 2.4.6pre3aa2: 00_locks-1 Only in 2.4.6pre3aa2:

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:14:42 -0400 To calm down the lawyers, I as the principal kernel maintainer and anthology copyright holder on the code am therefore adding the following interpretations to the kernel license: 1. Userland

Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages

2001-06-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:56:04AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: What's the problem with the existing code, and why do people want to add a (unnecessary) new bit? there's no problem with the existing code, what I understood is that they cannot

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Jeff Mahoney
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:39:13AM -0700, Jeff Golds wrote: Eric S. Raymond wrote: The GPL license reproduced below is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, but the Linux kernel is copyrighted by me and others

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Wei Weng
On 21 Jun 2001 13:46:48 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: ** Reply to message from Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:14:42 -0400 To calm down the lawyers, I as the principal kernel maintainer and anthology copyright holder on the code am therefore adding the following

Bad bridge mapping problem: PCMCIA card not started

2001-06-21 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, I hope that I post this at the right place. There was no answer at various other places. Please CC me for any reply. I would like to know if the problem I encounter can be fixed: I upgraded the system memory from 192 MB to 512 MB. The system clearly detected the upgrade and linux booted.

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-21 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 23:13, Pete Zaitcev wrote: Then again JavaOS was an abortion on top of Slowaris. [...] This is a false statemenet, Rob. It was an abortion, all right, but not related to Solaris in any way at all. I worked on the sucker for six months at IBM in 1997. I don't know

Re: temperature standard - global config option?

2001-06-21 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lauri Tischler) wrote on 21.06.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Richard J Moore wrote: 59.42886726469 ±2°C is obviously ludicrous, even if that's what my calculator gives me. I should instead write 59 ±2°C, since So, if I follow you argument then shouldn't you be

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Mike Harrold [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:04:21 -0400 (EDT) Not to mention utterly unenforceable. Consider: 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system. 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Harrold
To be honest, I disagree that #include'ing a GPL header file should force your app to be GPL as well. That may be how the license reads, but I think it's a very bad idea. I could write 1 million lines of original code, but if someone told me that but simply adding #include stdio.h my code

rename problem on vfat file systems

2001-06-21 Thread abc abc
Hi, I have been having problems using rename system call on vfat file systems. I have looked at the kernel code and tried everything I could do to figure out what might be going wrong. As a last resort I thought you might be able to help me. The /etc/fstab entry for the drive that I mount looks

Re: rename problem on vfat file systems

2001-06-21 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, abc abc wrote: If I reboot the machine just after the rename() call is completed, when the machine comes up the file /mnt/sns-c/segments/segfile has zero bytes and there is no file in the tmp directory. Effectively the file is lost some where. Running fsck recovers

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Timur Tabi wrote: In my opinion, this whole thing would just go away (including some of Microsoft's anti-GPL rants), if the FSF officially declared that under the GPL, #including a GPL header file does NOT force your code to be also GPL. The problem being, there is no

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-21 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 21 June 2001 10:02, Jesse Pollard wrote: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 20 June 2001 17:20, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Rob Landley writes: My only real gripe with Linux's threads right now [...] is that ps and top and such aren't thread aware and don't group

Re: fealnx problem

2001-06-21 Thread Francois Romieu
Jon Forsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit : I have an Surecom EP-320X-S Ethernet adapter which apparently uses a Myson MTD-8xx chip. It works well with the fealnx driver (labeled Myson MTD-8xx PCI Ethernet support in kernel config) except for one thing: After a while in use it stops working and

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