CML2 and Python 1.5.x?

2001-05-21 Thread John Stoffel
I've seen alot of people bitching and moaning about CML2 and mostly it seems to be a need for Python 2.x that is really upsetting people. I don't know the status of the port to C, but I do remember that Eric said he had looked at doing it in Python 1.5 language, but decided against it. Would

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-21 Thread John Stoffel
David Actually, the current system has both types. As well as the David hard dependencies, we also have stuff like David CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED, CONFIG_CPU_ADVANCED, David CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED, CONFIG_MTD_DOCPROBE_ADVANCED, David etc. CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL serves a very similar purpose, too.

Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy

2001-05-22 Thread John Stoffel
David You appear to be responding to my email, yet you did not do me David the courtesy of including me in the recipients. Should I assume David you're asking this question of me directly, or was it a David rhetorical question? It was more of an attempt to cutdown on the number of recipients,

Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka I stick my neck out a mile...

2001-04-29 Thread John Stoffel
, it should just update the contents and give scroll bars if needed for both up/down scolling and side to side. Once the user has setup their prefs, the CML code shouldn't keep it jumping all over the screen. John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies

Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka I stick my neck out a mile...

2001-04-30 Thread John Stoffel
Eric John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Which is a real PITA because now I have to edit my .config file to have: CONFIG_RTC=y Eric The correct fix for this PITA is for Linus not to ship a broken Eric defconfig. While I can sympathize with this comment, I still feel that CML2 needs to be more

Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...]

2001-05-02 Thread John Stoffel
Eric Giacomo Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No. You propmt only one invalid assertion. After you this prompt you continue to validate rules and you will maybe prompt for another invalid rules. But these invalid rules are generally infrequent. Eric I may be having problems with your English.

Re: Why recovering from broken configs is too hard

2001-05-03 Thread John Stoffel
Eric David Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If so, given the above ruleset involving symbols A, B and C, and given that such a ruleset is violated for some reason (you don't even care why), use the following approach: set C to 'n' - are we ok? set B to 'n' - are we ok? set A to 'n' - are we

Re: [PATCH] Reap dead swap cache earlier v2

2001-06-07 Thread John Stoffel
; Marcelo + ret = 1; Marcelo + } Thanks, John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: VM Report was:Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-08 Thread John Stoffel
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Re: VM Report was:Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-08 Thread John Stoffel
changes are impacting performance. The kernel compile doesn't really have any one process grow to a large fraction of memory, so dropping in a compile which *does* is a good thing. John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: VM Report was:Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-08 Thread John Stoffel
on performance would be a big win. Having people just send in reports of I ran X,Y,Z and it was slow doesn't help us, since it's so hard to re-create their environment so you can run tests against it. Anyway, enjoy the weekend all. John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent

Re: 2.4.6-pre2, pre3 VM Behavior

2001-06-14 Thread John Stoffel
start pushing out pages to disk earlier. John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: 2.4.6-pre2, pre3 VM Behavior

2001-06-14 Thread John Stoffel
job with 2.4.5+ work, it seems like it's getting better and better all the time, and I really appreciate it. We're now more into some corner cases and tuning issues. Hopefully. John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: 2.4.6-pre2, pre3 VM Behavior

2001-06-14 Thread John Stoffel
write rate, high read rate. - seems like we want to keep writing the buffers, but at a lower rate. Just some thoughts... John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548 - To unsubscribe from

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-06-26 Thread John Stoffel
this discussion... Me too, even if I can just contribute comments and not much code. John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

2.6.21-rc6-mm1 ATA HPT37x regression

2007-04-16 Thread John Stoffel
Hi Jeff and crew, I was just testing out 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 to test some Cyclades patches and I noticed that my HPT302 (rev1) controller with a pair of 120gb WD disks are not longer detected and I get the following in the dmesg logs: [ 148.121490] hpt37x: DPLL did not stabilize. Where before,

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 ATA HPT37x regression

2007-04-17 Thread John Stoffel
Sergei == Sergei Shtylyov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sergei Hello. Sergei John Stoffel wrote: I was just testing out 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 to test some Cyclades patches and I noticed that my HPT302 (rev1) controller with a pair of 120gb WD disks are not longer detected and I get the following

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 ATA HPT37x regression

2007-04-17 Thread John Stoffel
Ok, so do I need to do anything special with the next -mm release and the next version? Well, let Alan decide that (2Alan: and I said that HPT code is bogus :-). Alan Try drivers/ide/pci/hpt366 - if that works grab a dmesg and let Alan me know. It means that Sergei's DPLL sync code seems

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 ATA HPT37x regression

2007-04-18 Thread John Stoffel
John == John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, so do I need to do anything special with the next -mm release and the next version? Well, let Alan decide that (2Alan: and I said that HPT code is bogus :-). Alan Try drivers/ide/pci/hpt366 - if that works grab a dmesg and let Alan me

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 ATA HPT37x regression

2007-04-18 Thread John Stoffel
John == John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John == John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, so do I need to do anything special with the next -mm release and the next version? Well, let Alan decide that (2Alan: and I said that HPT code is bogus :-). Alan Try drivers/ide/pci/hpt366

2.6.21-rc3 - oops on remove of USB dongle

2007-03-09 Thread John Stoffel
Hi all, I've just compiled and installed 2.6.21-rc3 on my Dual CPU Dell Precision 610MT system. Dual 550mhz Xeon, 768mb of RAM. Mix of SCSI, ATA drives. I'm using the new ATA_ drivers for my PATA disks. After booting, I pulled my seldom used USB-serial device from the system to toss in my

Re: 2.6.21-rc3 - oops on remove of USB dongle

2007-03-09 Thread John Stoffel
Greg On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:40:21AM -0500, John Stoffel wrote: Hi all, I've just compiled and installed 2.6.21-rc3 on my Dual CPU Dell Precision 610MT system. Dual 550mhz Xeon, 768mb of RAM. Mix of SCSI, ATA drives. I'm using the new ATA_ drivers for my PATA disks. After

Re: 2.6.21-rc3 - oops on remove of USB dongle

2007-03-09 Thread John Stoffel
Duh... forgot the patches: 2.6.21-rc-usb-serial.patch Description: two patches for usbserial oops on 2.6.21-rc3

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-13 Thread John Stoffel
Serge == Serge Belyshev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Serge Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Serge [snip] It seems to be a plain linear slowdown. The lurchiness I'm experiencing varies in intensity, and is impossible to quantify. I see neither lurchiness nor slowdown in mainline through

Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console.

2007-03-15 Thread John Stoffel
Gerd The console subsystem already has an idea of a boot console, Gerd using the CON_BOOT flag. The implementation has some flaws Gerd though. The major problem is that presence of a boot console Gerd makes register_console() ignore any other console devices Gerd (unless explicitly specified on

Re: [PATCH 4/5] Char: cyclades, remove volatiles

2007-04-09 Thread John Stoffel
Jiri == Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jiri Andrew Morton napsal(a): On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 23:45:38 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cyclades, remove volatiles The other changes seem uncontroversial, but this one has the potential to change runtime behaviour. And

Re: I give up

2007-04-09 Thread John Stoffel
Gene == Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gene On Monday 09 April 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Now the 64k$ question: While running with LVM2 managed disks, is it possible to run without dm_mod, the device-mapper? If so, please tell me how to achieve this. No; device

Re: I give up

2007-04-09 Thread John Stoffel
Gene == Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gene I wouldn't touch dump/restore with a 50 foot pole, particularly Gene since I have serious doubts about it viability in the LVM Gene environment. Why? It's can't be any worse than Tar with it's silly assumption about the static device numbers,

Re: I give up

2007-04-09 Thread John Stoffel
Gene I haven't seen any 200GB for $55 yet, more like $129 maybe a Gene rebate at Circuit City. We don't have a Fry's around here. Newegg.com, 320Gb for $85 ea, plus shipping, plus a SATA controller board, just under $200. I'm happy. And thanks for the SATA controller work Jeff! John - To

Re: [PATCH 4/5] Char: cyclades, remove volatiles

2007-04-10 Thread John Stoffel
Jiri == Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got an old Cyclom-Y card (ISA) that I use, should I bother trying out your changes? Jiri No, don't bother with these. If you are willing to test, please Jiri test next patchset -- I'll post it shortly. Or do you prefer Jiri external patched

Re: I give up

2007-04-11 Thread John Stoffel
Jan == Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan On Apr 10 2007 23:54, Gene Heskett wrote: So fix tar to not do silly things. Kernel major:minor numbers are not stable. YOU Tell that to the tar/star people, they are flabbergasted that its not stable. It apparently is for every other

Re: I give up

2007-04-11 Thread John Stoffel
Gene == Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gene Does Bacula not use tar for its dirty work? Nope, it uses it's own filesystem walking code. John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: I give up

2007-04-11 Thread John Stoffel
Gene Humm, interesting John. Neither yumex, or smart, is offering it Gene to me as an installable rpm for FC6. Go and grab it from http://www.bacula.org, I'm pretty sure there are RPMs available on there. You might also need to install seperate RPMs for the follwoing packages:

Re: [PATCH 00/44 take 2] [UBI] Unsorted Block Images

2007-02-20 Thread John Stoffel
Artem This patch-set contains UBI, which stands for Unsorted Block Artem Images. This is closely related to the memory technology Artem devices Linux subsystem (MTD), so this new piece of software is Artem from drivers/mtd/ubi. Can you define UBI in each and every file you create? This is a

Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console.

2007-04-03 Thread John Stoffel
Sorry, I've been away for the past 10+ days and not reading email at all. Olaf On 15-Mar-07, John Stoffel wrote: Would this explain why recent version of GDM don't find the keyboard properly when you boot with a kernel command line of: kernel ... console=tty0 console=ttyS1,96008N1

Re: [patch] scsi: revert [SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd-done

2008-01-07 Thread John Stoffel
I'll agree with what Willy wrote here, Bugzilla is a pain to use, you can't just dump an email into it and have it captured. I think we should be looking at something more like 'WebRT' which is an *issue* tracker software. But that too might be too heavy weight and too noisy as well. And

Re: [patch] scsi: revert [SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd-done

2008-01-07 Thread John Stoffel
Stefan == Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stefan John Stoffel wrote: The question to me really revolves around how do you automate the process in a transparent manner so that people don't have to change much how they interact with lkml. Stefan I think the more important questions

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-08 Thread John Stoffel
Tuomo == Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tuomo The ext3 journalling code can be summarised as: superblock- last_checked = random(); Tuomo sync(superblock) Tuomo I hate it: every time Linux crashes, e.g. due to power failure, Tuomo it takes almost an hour to boot, because the

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-08 Thread John Stoffel
Tuomo == Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tuomo On 2008-01-08, John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at your filesystems, using 'tune2fs' and see if the ext3 journal is actually turned on and used. If it's not, then I can see why you're having problems on reboots. Tuomo

Re: sata_nv issues with MCP51 SATA controller

2007-09-15 Thread John Stoffel
Jon == Jon Ivar Rykkelid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jon Prakash Punnoor wrote: I don't have exaclty the same hw, but the same chipset and I don't have any problems - even with the swncq patch applied. Do you have an hpet? If not, try booting with acpi_use_time_override. My system won't work

Re: 2.6.24-rc5: tape drive not responding

2007-12-16 Thread John Stoffel
Hi, This looks to be a regression between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc5, I'll try to bi-sect this and report more on it. Basically, when I bootup, I get a ton of errors in the dmesg log along the lines of: [ 215.007701] sym1: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=1128 SBCL=ae [ 215.008145]

Re: 2.6.24-rc5: tape drive not responding

2007-12-17 Thread John Stoffel
Andrew == Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:25:51 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:05:51 -0500 John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ 215.007701] sym1: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=1128 SBCL=ae

Re: 2.6.24-rc5: tape drive not responding

2007-12-17 Thread John Stoffel
Andrew == Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:25:51 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:05:51 -0500 John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ 273.382057] sd 12:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg13 type 0 [ 276.244872

Re: 2.6.24-rc5: tape drive not responding

2007-12-17 Thread John Stoffel
Just to confirm, the propsed patch to st.c fixes the issue with 2.6.24-rc5 as well at 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 with access to my DLT tape drives. Thanks! John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: 2.6.24-rc5: tape drive not responding

2007-12-17 Thread John Stoffel
James == James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 13:43 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:02:02 -0500 John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to confirm, the propsed patch to st.c fixes the issue with 2.6.24-rc5 as well at 2.6.24-rc5

Re: [PATCH] Clustering indirect blocks in Ext3

2007-11-20 Thread John Stoffel
Abhishek It took me some time to get compilebench working due to the Abhishek known issue with drop_caches due to circular lock dependency Abhishek between j_list_lock and inode_lock (compilebench triggers Abhishek drop_caches quite frequently). Here are the results for Abhishek compilebench run

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-11 Thread John Stoffel
Here's my results on a PIII Xeon, 550mhz, 440GX chipset, and an ISA slot, which until recently was actually used with an 8 port serial card: jfsnew:~/src sudo ./port80 out: 729 in : 348 jfsnew:~/src sudo ./port80 out: 729 in : 354 jfsnew:~/src sudo ./port80 out: 729 in : 350 jfsnew:~/src sudo

Re: [RFT] Port 0x80 I/O speed

2007-12-12 Thread John Stoffel
My results, PIII, Dual 550Mhz Xeon. jfsnew:~/src sudo ./port80 cycles: out 774, in 332 jfsnew:~/src sudo ./port80 cycles: out 774, in 332 jfsnew:~/src sudo ./port80 cycles: out 774, in 332 jfsnew:~/src sudo ./port80 cycles: out 774, in 332 jfsnew:~/src sudo ./port80 cycles: out 774, in 332

2.6.24-rc5-mm1: kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:59!

2007-12-14 Thread John Stoffel
Hi, Just fired up 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 on a Dual CPU PIII 550mhz system with 2gb of RAM. Got the following error. Let me know if you need more details or want me to run tests or make changes. Looks like something in the SCSI st driver, which makes sense since I have a pair of DLT 7k drives hooked

Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1: kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:59!

2007-12-15 Thread John Stoffel
John Just fired up 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 on a Dual CPU PIII 550mhz system John with 2gb of RAM. Got the following error. Let me know if you John need more details or want me to run tests or make changes. John Looks like something in the SCSI st driver, which makes sense John since I have a pair of DLT

Re: [PATCH 02/10] [SG] Update block layer to use sg helpers

2007-10-23 Thread John Stoffel
Jens == Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jens --- Jens block/ll_rw_blk.c |8 ++-- Jens 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Jens diff --git a/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/block/ll_rw_blk.c Jens index 8025d64..61c2e39 100644 Jens

Re: IDE crash...

2007-10-23 Thread John Stoffel
Jens == Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens On Tue, Oct 23 2007, David Miller wrote: From: Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:23:59 +0200 On Tue, Oct 23 2007, David Miller wrote: From: Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:09:33 +0200

Re: IDE crash...

2007-10-24 Thread John Stoffel
Jens == Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens On Tue, Oct 23 2007, John Stoffel wrote: Jens == Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens On Tue, Oct 23 2007, David Miller wrote: From: Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:23:59 +0200 On Tue, Oct 23 2007, David

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

2007-10-02 Thread John Stoffel
Linus I said I was hoping that -rc8 was the last -rc, and I hate Linus doing this, but we've had more changes since -rc8 than we had Linus in -rc8. And while most of them are pretty trivial, I really Linus couldn't face doing a 2.6.23 release and take the risk of some Linus really stupid

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

2007-10-02 Thread John Stoffel
Linus I said I was hoping that -rc8 was the last -rc, and I hate Linus doing this, but we've had more changes since -rc8 than we had Linus in -rc8. And while most of them are pretty trivial, I really Linus couldn't face doing a 2.6.23 release and take the risk of some Linus really stupid

Re: [PATCH] remove throttle_vm_writeout()

2007-10-05 Thread John Stoffel
I think that's an improvement in all respects. However it still does not generally address the deadlock scenario: if there's a small DMA zone, and fuse manages to put all of those pages under writeout, then there's trouble. Miklos And the only way to solve that AFAICS, is to make sure fuse

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v10

2007-09-11 Thread John Stoffel
Peter Per device dirty throttling patches These patches aim to Peter improve balance_dirty_pages() and directly address three Peter issues: Peter 1) inter device starvation Peter 2) stacked device deadlocks Peter 3) inter process starvation Peter 1 and 2 are a direct result from removing

Re: [PATCH 21/23] mm: per device dirty threshold

2007-09-11 Thread John Stoffel
Peter Scale writeback cache per backing device, proportional to its Peter writeout speed. By decoupling the BDI dirty thresholds a Peter number of problems we currently have will go away, namely: Ah, this clarifies my questions! Thanks! Peter - mutual interference starvation (for any number

Re: NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested.

2007-08-22 Thread John Stoffel
Valdis == Valdis Kletnieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Valdis On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:50:42 EDT, John Stoffel said: Now maybe those issues are raised when you have a Linux NFS server with Solaris clients. But in my book, reliable NFS servers are key, and if they are reliable, 'soft,intr' works

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Virtual Machine Time Accounting

2007-08-20 Thread John Stoffel
Laurent The aim of these four patches is to introduce Virtual Machine Laurent time accounting. So what does this buy us? What increased functionality? Laurent [PATCH 1/4] as recent CPUs introduce a third running state, Laurent after user and system, we need a new field, guest, in Laurent

Re: NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested.

2007-08-21 Thread John Stoffel
Robin I'm bringing this up again (I know it's been mentioned here Robin before) because I had been told that NFS support had gotten Robin better in Linux recently, so I have been (for my $dayjob) Robin testing the behaviour of NFS (autofs NFS, specifically) under Robin Linux with hard,intr and

Re: NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested.

2007-08-21 Thread John Stoffel
Peter == Peter Staubach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter John Stoffel wrote: Robin I'm bringing this up again (I know it's been mentioned here Robin before) because I had been told that NFS support had gotten Robin better in Linux recently, so I have been (for my $dayjob) Robin testing

2.6.23-rc2: WARNING: at kernel/irq/resend.c:70 check_irq_resend()

2007-08-09 Thread John Stoffel
Hi, I'm opening this ticket as a new subject, even though it looks like it might be related to the thread Networking dies after random time. Sorry for the wide CC list, but since my network hasn't died since I rebooted into 2.6.23-rc2 (after 30+ days at 2.6.22-rc7), I'm wondering if the problem

Re: Flynn's Original Paper about Computer Organization

2007-10-15 Thread John Stoffel
Mohamed I am looking for Michael Flynn original paper about computer Mohamed organization in which Flynn devised the so-called Flynn Mohamed Taxonomy. I tried Google, IEEE Xplore, ACM, Yahoo but in Mohamed vain. I would be very grateful if someone can post a scanned Mohamed version of the

Re: [PATCH 000 of 35] Refactor block layer to improve support for stacked devices.

2007-08-01 Thread John Stoffel
Tejun Avi Kivity wrote: NeilBrown wrote: To achieve this, the for_each macros are now somewhat more complex. For example, rq_for_each_segment is: #define bio_for_each_segment_offset(bv, bio, _i, offs, _size)\ for (_i.i = 0, _i.offset = (bio)-bi_offset + offs,\ _i.size =

Re: Serial console problem in 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 and earlier

2007-04-25 Thread John Stoffel
Christoph On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: Nothing special apart from the usual problem with serial not accepting characters that we had for awhile now. I wasn't aware of that one. Christoph I use a serial console on my x86_84 box. For a while now I Christoph can see all

Re: Serial console problem in 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 and earlier

2007-04-25 Thread John Stoffel
Christoph == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christoph On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, John Stoffel wrote: Christoph I use a serial console on my x86_84 box. For a while now I Christoph can see all output but I cannot type any Christoph characters. /dev/console broke? I've sorta seen

Re: Serial console problem in 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 and earlier

2007-04-25 Thread John Stoffel
Christoph On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, John Stoffel wrote: Ok, no idea then. It's working for me in 2.6.21-rc7 as long as I don't have more than one console= entry in my kernel boot args. Christoph 2.6.21-rc7 is working fine here too. mm is the problem. Ah ok. My issue must be something else

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread John Stoffel
Richard == Richard B Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Last time I checked, GPL was about SOFTware, not FIRMware, Richard and not MICROcode. Oh be real, there's no real difference between them and you know it. It's all about where the bits are stored and what they tend to do in a

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6: USB disk unusable level of data corruption

2005-02-04 Thread John Stoffel
Is USB/SCSI just terminally broken under 2.6? David I don't think so, but there are problems that appear in some David hardware configs and not others. Many folk report no problems; David a (very) few report nothing but. This is just a chime in to let people know others are seeing problems

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-18 Thread John Stoffel
Sean == Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sean Bitkeeper isn't motivated to raise the bar in terms of Sean implementation, nor is cvs the best choice in terms of which Sean free tool to use. Once a free SCM is actually used at the head, Sean there are opportunities to implement updating too, not

Re: USB Storage problem (usb hangs)

2005-02-21 Thread John Stoffel
me The device is: USB2.0 to IDE 3.5 hard disk enclosure. me Producer: Seven. me Part of /var/log/messages with USB debug enabled in kernel is me attached to this email. me Kernel: 2.6.9, 2.6.10 (i cant remember from which one is attached log). me Distribution: Gentoo. Try upgrading to

Re: USB Storage problem (usb hangs)

2005-02-21 Thread John Stoffel
John == John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: me Kernel: 2.6.9, 2.6.10 (i cant remember from which one is attached log). me Distribution: Gentoo. John Try upgrading to 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 or newer, I've found that usb-storage John works a bit better here, though I haven't confirmed this without

Re: USB Storage problem (usb hangs)

2005-02-23 Thread John Stoffel
Sebastian, Try upgrading to 2.6.11-rc2-mm4 or newer, I've had better luck with my USB/Firewire external case on there. Just make sure you don't turn on usb-storage logging, it's way too verbose for general use! John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-01 Thread John Stoffel
Dominik == Dominik Karall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dominik When I switch on my external harddisk, which is connected Dominik through usb, the kernel hangs. First time I did that at Dominik bootup there were a lot of backtraces printed on the screen Dominik but they did not find the way in the

Re: 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-01 Thread John Stoffel
Dominik, So what is the chipset inside the enclosure? Looking at your output, the 'Argosy' stuff doesn't tell me anything. You might have to open up the case to look in there to find more details. Again, check with your vendor and see if there is newer firmware. And have you powered up the

Re: 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-01 Thread John Stoffel
Dominik Why should I check for newer firmware!? I don't understand Dominik that point of view. The device works without any problems Dominik with 2.6.13-ck1 as 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 and before kernels. So Dominik there is no need to check the firmware imho. That's on point of view. In my experience,

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread John Stoffel
Hi Linus James, I've still got problems under 2.6.13-rc6 with my DLT7000 drive on an AIC7880 builtin controller. Here's the message I got in dmesg. My system is a heavily upgraded Debian/unstable with dual 550mhz Xeon processors and 768mb of RAM, dual SCSI busses. The annoying problem is

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread John Stoffel
James == James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you for looking into this with me, I really appreciate it. I'm kinda stumped why this suddenly started happening, but it could be hardware related of course... James So basically the problem is on scsi1 with the tape device, which James

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread John Stoffel
Hi James, As a test, I dropped back to 2.6.12.1 and the drive hung again last night while trying to do backups, so I suspect that I might have controller or tape drive problems of some sort. I'll also try to go back to 2.6.12-rc6 as well and see how that works out. My next step is to try and

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread John Stoffel
James Well, I suspect the tape is hanging the bus, from which no card James can recover. Blech, not going to be fun to fix this sucker. James Just to test this, can you try sending a bus reset with sgutils (from James the debain package sg3-utils): James sg_reset -b /dev/sg3 James Then remove

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread John Stoffel
Hi James, Dropped back to 2.6.11.1 and it hung again. I was able to get the drive back by power cycling it and then doing the scsiadd to drop and re-add the drive. I then used the bacula 'btape' tool to run some tests. It seems to be just fine with regular files, but when it hit EOM, all hell

SCSI tape problems: 2.6.12, DLT 7000, Adaptec AIC7xxx controller

2005-07-31 Thread John Stoffel
Hi All, I've just a Dell Precision 610 dual CPU Xeon workstation, with 550mhz CPUs and 768mb of RAM. I'm running 2.6.12 right now, and using two different SCSI busses on the system to run some disks and a DLT 7000 tape drive on it's own bus. I'm using Bacula (www.bacula.org) as my backup

Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG]

2005-08-03 Thread John Stoffel
Andrew == Andrew James Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew I updated my kernel more frequently after learning of ketchup. Andrew (http://www.selenic.com/ketchup/). The bother of getting the Andrew patch sequence right and applying it was enough to discourage me. Andrew No, it's not

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread John Stoffel
Linus James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after Linus 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's Linus fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. This might explain why my DLT7000 has been dropping off the bus at times and requiring a full

ATA - pata_mpiix.c support for 82371AB chipsets?

2007-01-22 Thread John Stoffel
Hi Alan Jeff, I've finally got the new ATA drivers setup and working for my main data disks, which is great. But I'm also trying to get my CDRW/DVDROM drive on the MPIIX (82371AB) chipset working. I'm running 2.6.20-rc5 currently on a Debian system, using the pata_mpiix as a module. The rest

Re: single bit errors on files stored on USB-HDDs via USB2/usb_storage

2006-12-08 Thread John Stoffel
Stefan == Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stefan Search for firmware updates from the manufacturer of the Stefan enclosure, of the bridge board, or of the bridge chip... if Stefan you didn't do so already. Some chips support firmware upload Stefan to an EEPROM, usually via a Windows

Re: What happened to CONFIG_TCP_NAGLE_OFF?

2006-11-30 Thread John Stoffel
Matt == Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matt On 11/29/06, Phillip Susi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How might I achieve having TCP_NODELAY effectively set for all sockets (by default)? Is there a new/different kernel config option, a patch, a sysctl or proc setting? Or can I fake this

Re: [2/3][PATCH][v2] TDM Framework

2012-07-27 Thread John Stoffel
From: Sandeep Singh sand...@freescale.com TDM Framework is an attempt to provide a platform independent layer which can offer a standard interface for TDM access to different client modules. Please don't use TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) like TDM without explaining the clearly and up front.

RE: [2/3][PATCH][v2] TDM Framework

2012-07-30 Thread John Stoffel
Singh == Singh Sandeep-B37400 b37...@freescale.com writes: Singh -Original Message- Singh From: John Stoffel [mailto:j...@stoffel.org] Singh Sent: 27 July 2012 19:42 Singh To: Singh Sandeep-B37400 Singh Cc: linuxppc-...@lists.ozlabs.org; linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org; ga

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v7 9/9] block: Avoid deadlocks with bio allocation by stacking drivers

2012-08-29 Thread John Stoffel
Kent == Kent Overstreet koverstr...@google.com writes: Kent On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 03:39:14PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: It's also instructive to remember why the code is the way it is: it used to process bios for underlying devices immediately, but this sometimes meant too much

Re: [PATCH 0/9] firewire-sbp2: misc hotplug related patches

2008-02-04 Thread John Stoffel
Stefan == Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stefan I got quite good results with several OxSemi based SBP-2 Stefan devices, also with an Initio based dual-LU device and LSI Stefan based devices. A Prolific PL-3505 based device with known Stefan buggy firmware didn't work too well; I

Re: [PATCH 0/9] firewire-sbp2: misc hotplug related patches

2008-02-04 Thread John Stoffel
Stefan John Stoffel wrote: I've completely given up on my Firewire/USB external enclosure with a PL-3xxx chipset. Stefan Is it a variant whose firmware cannot be updated? No, it can be updated, and I have done that once before. It became a little more stable, but not much. I forget

Re: [git pull] x86 arch updates for v2.6.25

2008-02-05 Thread John Stoffel
Linus == Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Linus On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Maxim Levitsky wrote: The x86 tree was merged several times, but I don't see kgdb included in latest mainline -git. So just one question, will it be included or no? Linus I won't even consider pulling it unless

Re: [PATCH] Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig

2008-02-20 Thread John Stoffel
Balbir == Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Balbir Andi Kleen wrote: Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig I was a little surprised that 2.6.25-rc* increased struct page for the memory controller. At least on many x86-64 machines it will not fit into a

Re: [PATCH] Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig

2008-02-20 Thread John Stoffel
Jan == Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan On Feb 20 2008 20:50, Balbir Singh wrote: John Stoffel wrote: I know this is a pedantic comment, but why the heck is it called such a generic term as Memory Controller which doesn't give any indication of what it does. Shouldn't

Re: [PATCH] Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig

2008-02-20 Thread John Stoffel
Balbir == Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Balbir John Stoffel wrote: I know this is a pedantic comment, but why the heck is it called such a generic term as Memory Controller which doesn't give any indication of what it does. Shouldn't it be something like Memory Quota Controller

Re: [PATCH] cyclades: Prepare for relaxed locking in callers

2008-02-20 Thread John Stoffel
Alan Basically wrap it in lock_kernel where it is hard to prove the Alan locking is ok. I've got cyclades cards, both ISA and Serial. Do you want/need any specific tests? Or should I just send you (or your deputy) the ISA card for your collection? John Alan Signed-off-by: Alan Cox [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] cyclades: Prepare for relaxed locking in callers

2008-02-20 Thread John Stoffel
Alan == Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alan On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:22:29 -0500 Alan John Stoffel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Basically wrap it in lock_kernel where it is hard to prove the Alan locking is ok. I've got cyclades cards, both ISA and Serial. Do you want/need any

Re: Major network performance regression in 3.7

2013-01-06 Thread John Stoffel
Willy == Willy Tarreau w...@1wt.eu writes: Willy On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 04:49:35PM -0500, John Stoffel wrote: Willy == Willy Tarreau w...@1wt.eu writes: Willy On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 11:00:15AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 10:51 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: (sd

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