Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
: pcnet32_start_xmit() called, csr0 05f3. eth0: pcnet32_start_xmit() called, csr0 07f3. etc... Does this patch help at all? Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns Mandrak

Re: ACPI lockup on boot in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
://developer.intel.com/technology/IAPC/acpi/downloads.htm Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blondie - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] 8139too.c patch to allow setting of MAC address to actually work.

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
this and other changes. The new version can be downloaded from the SourceForge project page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/), and hopefully it should show up in a release kernel eventually... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building

Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related?

2001-01-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
isn't delivering interrupts, or many other things... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blondie - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Updated zerocopy patch up on kernel.org

2001-01-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
e and adds no new bugs, testers are thus in nirvana and thus have nothing to report. :-) Is there any value to supporting fragments in a driver which doesn't do hardware checksumming? IIRC Alexey had a patch to do such for Tulip, but I don't see it in the above patchset. Jeff -- J

Re: [PATCH] make drivers/scsi/atari_scsi.c check request_irq (240p3)

2001-01-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
you need to return the request_irq error value back to the caller, if possible. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blon

pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
onclusion should be drawn from this data. I just thought that the VM folks might find it interesting and/or useful. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and

Re: pre5 VM feedback..

2001-01-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $!@#@! pre6 is already out :) Yes, and for heavens sake don't use it, [...] Too late... First and foremost, a correction: The VM data I posted was for pre1, not pre5. Here is the VM data from

Re: 2.4.0 config breaks /dev/fd0* major/minor ?

2001-01-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeffrey Rose wrote: I get a wrong major/minor reported when attempting to mount /dev/fd0 ... Sounds like it can't find the floppy driver, for whatever reason... -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
'-L label' and '-U UUID'. Most modern mke2fs proggies will assign a UUID to each newly created filesystem. For /etc/fstab, you can specify LABEL=xxx or UUID=xxx instead of a device name. The one thing I don't know is... can the kernel mount the root fs if only given the uuid? Jeff -- J

Re: 2.4.0-ac10 patching issue

2001-01-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Frank Davis wrote: Hello, I just applied 2.4.0-ac10 to 2.4.0(patch -p1 patch-2.4.0-ac10), and include/iinux/autoconf.h and include/linux/modversion.h didn't apply cleanly. I received .rej files. make mrproper, those files are generated by the build -- Jeff Garzik | "Yo

Re: Linux 2.4.0-ac10 build errors

2001-01-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Steven Cole wrote: I got the following errors building 2.4.0-ac10: The first three digits are the line number in the build log. Always run 'make mrproper' before building. Alan's patch accidentally includes some files that are generated by the build system. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik

Re: Ethernet drivers: SiS 900, Netgear FA311

2001-01-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
driver, the FA311 is not yet supported by the kernel. Not true, see natsemi.c (in 2.4.x at least). -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig."

Re: Q: natsemi.c spinlocks

2001-01-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
drivers which use PCI DMA of some sort -should- use pci_alloc_consistent, etc. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig."

[PATCH] Re: Q: natsemi.c spinlocks

2001-01-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
-- I think Donald suggested it could be removed completely -- but I would prefer to have something I am 100% certain will work, and then test the driver without locking under stress conditions to make sure no race or other bug exists. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this wo

Re: 2.4.1-test10

2001-01-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
. - tulip driver update from Jeff Garzik - more cpq and DAC elevator fixes from Jens. Looks good. - Petr Vandrovec: nicer ncpfs behaviour - Andy Grover: APCI update - Cort Dougan: PPC update - David Miller: sparc updates - David Miller: networking updates - Neil Brown: RAID5 fixes Do

[PATCH] Re: Problem with Madge Tokenring (abyss.o) in 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
, needed to be updated to use special IRQ versions of the dev_kfree_skb function. Linus (and others), the patch also adds a missing dev-last_rx assignment (which records the time of last packet reception). -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | p

Re: 2.4.1-test10

2001-01-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
to the bug tracking system at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tulip/ Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blondie - To unsubs

Re: NETDEV timeout on tulips [was: Re: 2.4.1-test10]

2001-01-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
lip-diag.c and capturing the register state before and after the breakage is useful. A useful command line is "tulip-diag -mmmaaavvveef". Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with

Re: nividia fb 0.9.0?

2001-01-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
: I just mentioned this to Bakonyi Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED], who said that it would be better to roll a new patch without the v4l stuff, and update rivafb. rivafb is apparently stable but the v4l code is not (yet). -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building

Re: Patches

2001-01-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
and then, Netscape's text/plain autodetect will puke and eat an attached patch. But that happens so infrequently that the utility outweighs the pain. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded

[PATCH] Re: eepro100 problems in 2.4.0

2001-01-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
oblem go away. I don't really know why but it might be worth trying if it wasn't already selected. -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig."

Re: [PATCH] Re: eepro100 problems in 2.4.0

2001-01-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik wrote: Micah Gorrell wrote: Because of the problems we where having we are no longer using the machine with 3 nics. We are now using a machine with just one and it is going live next week. We do need kernel 2.4 because of the process limits in 2.2. Does the 'Enable Power

Re: [PATCH] Re: MatroxFB support can't be compiled into kernel

2001-01-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
`extern') in two different compilations, you will get an error when you link them. The only reason this might be useful is if you wish to verify that the program will work on other systems which always work this way. -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there'

Re: 2.4.0-pre10 -- Unresolved symbols in smctr.o and comx.o

2001-01-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
be converted to mdelay or schedule_timeout. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blondie - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac12 (ppp-generic)

2001-01-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Aaron Tiensivu wrote: | o Set last_rx on ppp_generic (Jeff Garzik) Is this related to my MPPP crashes or is this an unrelated fix? I don't know how MPPP works, so I can't say for sure, but it is most likely an unrelated fix. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this

Re: es1371 freezes 2.4.0 hard

2001-01-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Bustos wrote: Quoth Jeff Garzik on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:24:13AM -0500: What happens if you remove the call to pci_enable_device() in the source code, drivers/sound/es1371.c? That seems to do it. Ok. For a temporary fix, there ya go. But removing pci_enable_device is incorrect

Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11

2001-01-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
with modules at all for core functionality... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blondie - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0

2001-01-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Martin Diehl wrote: I've the documentation for the SiS 5591/95 chipset which provides IRQ-routing using the 85C503 ISA bridge function function. This is the same vendor/device id as the pirq_sis*() rely on. According to this datasheet the pirq_sis*() thing is wrong,

Re: LVM 1.0 release decision

2001-05-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
be no problem to release software before all of it passes Linus. You are the one who has to deal with user support after all :) Just make sure that all fixes and changes currently in the kernel are also in your software release... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked

RFT: New Tulip ethernet driver update

2001-05-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
on the web page listed above. Thanks all, and viva la open source! -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac8 now with added correct EXTRAVERSION

2001-05-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote: * Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] [May 11. 2001 13:18]: 2.4.4-ac8 o Tulip driver updates(Jeff Garzik) Networking stopped working with this kernel. I have the following NIC: Can you define TULIP_DEBUG to 4 in drivers/net/tulip

Re: 2.4.4-ac8 doesn't work with Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32

2001-05-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Does this patch, against ac8, help with the PNIC problem? -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | Index: drivers/net/tulip/media.c === RCS file: /cvsroot/gkernel/linux_2_4

Re: 2.4.4-ac8 doesn't work with Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32

2001-05-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Here's another patch to try, for PNIC. Feedback welcome. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | diff -ur 2.4/drivers/net/tulip/media.c build-2.4/drivers/net/tulip/media.c --- 2.4/drivers/net/tulip/media.c Fri May 11 22:12:51 2001

Re: [PATCH] winbond-840 update

2001-05-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
we want in the mainstream kernel... -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - 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

PATCH 2.4.4.ac8: Tulip net driver fixes

2001-05-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tulip/), and go to Linus when he returns. (Actually, Alan already has part of this patch) -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | diff -ur /spare/tmp/linux_2_4/drivers/net/tulip/ChangeLog linux_2_4

PATCH 2.4.5.1: Fix Via interrupt routing issues

2001-05-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
For those of you with Via interrupting routing issues (or interrupt-not-being-delivered issues, etc), please try out this patch and let me know if it fixes things. It originates from a tip from Adrian Cox... thanks Adrian! -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building

Re: PATCH 2.4.5.1: Fix Via interrupt routing issues

2001-05-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
a better ifdef? From the point of view of the Via southbridge chip, IO-APIC is external... The comment above the ifdef was more along the lines of, Via on PPC (OpenPIC?) might need this too, not just io-apic -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024

Re: PATCH 2.4.5.1: Fix Via interrupt routing issues

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Axel Thimm wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:28:06PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: For those of you with Via interrupting routing issues (or interrupt-not-being-delivered issues, etc), please try out this patch and let me know if it fixes things. It originates from a tip from Adrian Cox

PATCH 2.4.4.ac9: Tulip net driver fixes

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote: * H . J . Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [May 14. 2001 11:22]: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:25:34PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Attached is a patch against 2.4.4-ac8 which includes several fixes to the Tulip driver. This should fix the reported PNIC problems, as well

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
out of it] (b) does not require centrally assigned majors and minors. (c) does not require devfs. most distros ship without it afaik, and switching to it is not an overnight process, and requires devfsd to be useful in the real world. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Register block device using existing API, and obtain a dynamically assigned major number. Export a tiny ramfs which lists all device nodes. Mounted on /dev/snap, /dev/snap/0 would be the first blkdev for snap's dynamically assigned major. (Al

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Richard Gooch wrote: So we add yet another series of hacks to avoid doing what's necessary?!? We cannot change the world in a day. :) Doing what's necessary is way beyond the scope of 2.4, IMHO. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Note also that persistence of permissions and hardcoded in-kernel naming is a problem throughout proc... It's not unique to in-driver filesystems. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
allocated majors. Is there such a beast already, or does someone need to write it? What range(s) should be used for block devices? register_blkdev will assign a dynamic major to your block device, if a static one is not provided. This has been true since 2.2, maybe 2.0 IIRC. -- Jeff Garzik

Re: Intel(R) PRO/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter in 2.4.4

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mihai Moldovanu wrote: In 2.4.2 the driver for this was e100.o Can someOne tell me wich one is in 2.4.4 ? You need to download that from Intel, it's not in the official kernel and never has been. eepro100 is the in-kernel driver for those series of cards. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called

Re: NETDEV_CHANGE events when __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER is modified

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
... Regards, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - 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

Re: PATCH: esssolo pci_enable_device / retcodes

2001-05-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Looks ok to me. BTW thanks for doing these PCI sound cleanups... they definitely need doing. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
. What are the valid cases that couldn't just register as a misc'ish driver? The one that stands out is serial devices (you have hundreds of them), but that's the same argument as a disk anyway. /dev/fbN, /dev/dspN, /dev/videoN, ... -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick

Re: NETDEV_CHANGE events when __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER is modified

2001-05-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
for removing it... I do not like removing it in a so-called stable series, though. alloc_etherdev() was enough to solve the race and flush out buggy drivers using dev-name during probe. Notice I did not remove init_etherdev and fix it properly -- IMHO that is 2.5 material. Jeff -- Jeff

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
not actually think that it is a bad idea to call /sbin/hotplug when we enumerate the motherboard devices. Don't ask for it or you might actually get it ;-) I think having a pci_driver for northbridge and southbridge devices would make ACPI-free PM easy and achieveable. Jeff -- Jeff

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: It should be a case of Just plug in a new kernel, and suddenly your existing filesystem just allows you to do more! 20% more for the same price! AND we'll throw in this useful ginzu knife for just 4.95 for shipping and handling. Absolutely free! ...Linus demonstrates

Re: [PATCH] rootfs (part 1)

2001-05-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
/ramfs.o [jgarzik@rum linux_2_4]$ ls -l mm/shmem.o (includes tmpfs) -rw-r--r--1 jgarzik jgarzik 17496 May 15 09:28 mm/shmem.o -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: ((struct pci_dev*)dev)-resource[...].start

2001-05-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
might [have to] care about whether or not a pci mem region is prefetchable. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: ((struct pci_dev*)dev)-resource[...].start

2001-05-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jonathan Lundell wrote: At 5:37 PM -0400 2001-05-16, Jeff Garzik wrote: This is not a safe assumption, because the OS may reprogram the PCI BARs at certain times. The rule is: ALWAYS read from dev-resource[] unless you are a bus driver (PCI bridges, for example, need to assign resources

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
if its a block device and a dynamic major is requested. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - 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

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10

2001-05-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
a comment fixes gcc warning next to the code, so people know why it's there. -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.5pre3 warning fixes

2001-05-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - 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

PATCH 2.4.5.3: quota initcall

2001-05-18 Thread Jeff Garzik
IMHO this is an obvious change, but it is untested... dquot_hash and dqstats are correctly declared static and in BSS, and thus are automatically cleared at kernel startup. Since quota init now just printk's a startup message, we can safely make it an initcall. -- Jeff Garzik | Do you

PATCH 2.4.5.3 (try 2): quota initcall

2001-05-18 Thread Jeff Garzik
Doh! I should really turn on that quota compile options... brown ppr bag Much better patch attached. -- Jeff Garzik | Do you have to make light of everything?! Building 1024| I'm extremely serious about nailing your MandrakeSoft | step-daughter, but other than that, yes. Index

Re: Linux Quality Database on Newsforge

2001-05-18 Thread Jeff Garzik
. The stress-kernel rpms are Cerberus++, ie. with extra goodies that haven't made it to cerberus yet. -- Jeff Garzik | Do you have to make light of everything?! Building 1024| I'm extremely serious about nailing your MandrakeSoft | step-daughter, but other than that, yes

Re: Potential help for VIA problems and ASUS motherboards

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
may want to flash your BIOS and see if the problems are fixed. YMMV, but it worked for me. I'm curious if 2.4.5-pre3 works for you... when using MPS 1.4, or, without the BIOS update. Regards, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Do you have to make light of everything?! Building 1024| I'm

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
(KERN_INFO %s\n, version); -- Jeff Garzik | Do you have to make light of everything?! Building 1024| I'm extremely serious about nailing your MandrakeSoft | step-daughter, but other than that, yes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 aironet fixes

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
hotplug part of the code? I just want to make sure you didn't mark them __init due to an assumption based on function name. -- Jeff Garzik | Do you have to make light of everything?! Building 1024| I'm extremely serious about nailing your MandrakeSoft | step-daughter, but other than

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
and shrink * giving filesystems the ability to grow and shrink On-line optimization (defrag, etc) shouldn't be hard once you have the ability to move blocks and files around, which would come with the ability to grow and shrink blkdevs and fs's. -- Jeff Garzik | Do you have to make light

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4-ac11 network drivers cleaning

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Keith Owens wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2001 17:58:49 -0400, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, but to be complete and optimal, version strings should be a single variable 'version', such that it can be passed directly to printk like

ethtool and pre4

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
pre4 is out, and a couple ethernet drivers have gained support for ethtool. In order to take advantage of the new support, you can download ethtool 1.2 from http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ or check it out of CVS (instruction at the above URL). -- Jeff Garzik | Do you have

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
of zero for the mapping is certainly an acceptable value, and it should be handled by drivers. In fact its an open bug in a couple net drivers that they check the mapping to see if it is non-zero... -- Jeff Garzik | Do you have to make light of everything?! Building 1024| I'm extremely

PATCH: ali noautodma, and Alpha AXP

2001-05-20 Thread Jeff Garzik
interrupt and hdc: lost interrupt. With the attached patch, it no longer appears to tune the drives for UDMA, but I still get lost interrupt messages and no usable drives. -- Jeff Garzik | Do you have to make light of everything?! Building 1024| I'm extremely serious about nailing your

Re: [PATCH] struct char_device

2001-05-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
straightened me out with EVMS/LVM is partitions done right so... why not implement partitions as simply doing block remaps to the lower level device? That's what EVMS/LVM/md are doing already. -- Jeff Garzik | Are you the police? Building 1024| No, ma'am. We're musicians. MandrakeSoft

Re: [PATCH] struct char_device

2001-05-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: Alan recently straightened me out with EVMS/LVM is partitions done right so... why not implement partitions as simply doing block remaps to the lower level device? That's what EVMS/LVM/md are doing already. Because

Re: [PATCH] struct char_device

2001-05-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik wrote: /dev/sda - partition_blkdev - /dev/disk{0,1,2,3,4} /dev/hda - partition_blkdev - /dev/disk{5,6,7} I also point out that handling disk partitions as a -tiny- remapping blkdev also has the advantage of making it easy to have a single request device per hardware device

Re: DVD blockdevice buffers

2001-05-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
life cases where we want to allow sector writes). Due to limitations in low-level drivers, Andrea was forced to hardcode 4096 for the block size, instead of using PAGE_SIZE or PAGE_CACHE_SIZE. -- Jeff Garzik | Are you the police? Building 1024| No, ma'am. We're musicians. MandrakeSoft

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/others

2001-05-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
These two patches look generally ok. However, I'm going to hold them in my mailbox for a little while, until two 8139 bug fixes and a tulip bug fix are sent to Linus/Alan. -- Jeff Garzik | Are you the police? Building 1024| No, ma'am. We're musicians. MandrakeSoft

Re: PATCH: more esssolo1 cleanups

2001-05-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Looks ok. General comment: the code to search through the list of PCI devices and drivers to find the one associated with our minor should be in a separate function, if that code appears more than once. esssolo_find_minor or somesuch... -- Jeff Garzik | Are you the police? Building 1024

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
/null Sat May 19 17:36:30 2001 +++ linux_2_4/drivers/block/snap.c Thu May 17 11:48:54 2001 @@ -0,0 +1,1055 @@ +/* + Copyright 2001 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] + Copyright (C) 2000 Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + May be copied or modified under the terms of the GNU General Public

Re: Patch for PM in ymfpci (against 2.4.5-pre3)

2001-05-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Looks ok, only a small nit: an include and 'pmdev' are left over from the older PM implementation, and can be removed. -- Jeff Garzik | Are you the police? Building 1024| No, ma'am. We're musicians. MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
cache, as Al Viro has done in recent patches? Can you break your allocation into an array of pages, obtained via get_free_page? If runlists are on-disk structures, can you look at bh-b_data instead of keeping them in memory? -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024

Re: 2.4.5 does not link on Ruffian (alpha)

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
).. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - 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

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
The questions I have about the features above are: * Are any of the above features implemented in the kernel? If yes, where can I read (url-link to the article, paper... please) about it? http://google.com/ -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft

Re: new aic7xxx oopses with AHA2940

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
patch? It adds some debugging checks which will halt your kernel with BUG! at file:line... -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | Index: linux_2_4/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c diff -u linux_2_4/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.c:1.1.1.26 linux_2_4

Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
versions, and reload them. So, you could say that partial support for live upgrades is included. I stand corrected, though I clearly know better: Modules are unloaded/reloaded all the time during my driver development :) -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik wrote: Notice also a metadata miscdev solves the problem of passing options on open -- just pass those options to the miscdev before you open it... to be more clear, it == the data device, not the metadata miscdev -- Jeff Garzik | Do you have to make light of everything

Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
miscdevs are a clean solution to what procfs hacks and ioctls are trying to accomplish. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Do you have to make light of everything?! Building 1024| I'm extremely serious about nailing your MandrakeSoft | step-daughter, but other than that, yes

Re: ac15 and 2.4.5-pre6, pwc format conversion

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
other video devices (preferably all at the same time). Send a patch for this instead! Format conversion should not be in the kernel... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Are you the police? Building 1024| No, ma'am. We're musicians. MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Problems with ac12 kernels and up

2001-05-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
at the root_mountflags usage and it looks ok, so I put it in the figure out later pile. Haven't yet verified if this 'ac' only problem -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.5 does not link on Ruffian (alpha)

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
that my build needed CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC to work. Tested that theory... sure enough, I can boot 2.4.5-vanilla no problems now. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

[PATCH] Re: 2.4.5 does not link on Ruffian (alpha)

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
no longer includes tty.h, fixing a nasty include loop) -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | Index: arch/alpha/kernel/process.c === RCS file: /cvsroot/gkernel/linux_2_4/arch/alpha

Plain 2.4.5 VM...

2001-05-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
215744K cached Vanilla 2.4.5 VM. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - 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

Re: Plain 2.4.5 VM...

2001-05-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
this was not transient behavior. I can assure you, these are bugs not features :) -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: 2.4.5-ac3: qlogic corruption on alpha

2001-05-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
simply adds mb()) causes problems. However, it is more likely that the patch is harmless but also useless, not fixing the real problem. Other questions - is your machine SMP? How much RAM? -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe

Re: 2.4.5-ac3: qlogic corruption on alpha

2001-05-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
gcc-2.95.2 - gcc-2.95.3 gcc-2.95.3 - egcs-1.1.2 Regards, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.4.5 still breaks dhcpcd with 8139too

2001-05-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - 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

Re: [PATCH] net #9

2001-05-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
and always have been arrays, not pointers. The previous incarnation, {,,,}, was actually doubly lame, because not only was it an unnecessary zeroing of the var, but using causes an extra string to be generated in the output asm. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024

Re: [PATCH] net #3

2001-05-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
. But in this particular case, that would be overkill. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - 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

Re: via-rhine DFE-530TX rev A1

2001-05-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
Yiping Chen wrote: Yes, please download the newest driver from D-Link, becuase the Win98 will change to D3 mode after it boot. So the Mac address can't be fetch in Linux. Most drivers read the EEPROM in their probe phase to present this sort of problem. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief

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

2001-05-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
reports that MPS1.1 works on SMP Via boards, while MPS1.4 kills it. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

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

2001-05-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
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... -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - To unsubscribe from

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

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
) -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024| MandrakeSoft | - 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

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

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
; - outb(reason, 0x61); + /* Clear and re-enable the memory parity error line. */ + reason = 0xf; + outb(reason | 4, 0x61); + outb(reason ~4, 0x61); + } Interesting. I wonder if this positively affects anyone else. -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you

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