Re: the remount problem [2.4.0] kind of solved [patch]

2001-01-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Goswin Brederlow wrote: Maybe the kernel coud swap in the deleted libraries and keep it in memory or real swap from then on instead of blocking the fs. No, you have no idea how large the file might grow and you need to keep that data somewhere. Wichert. --

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the record, the kgcc mess you speak of was used by Conectiva, and I believe also by debian Debian never had that mess. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Mouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install the "alien" package on your machine and you will be able to convert between rpm and deb. Bad plan, considering packages rely on some infrastructure that is not in the rpm (update-modules). I tend to be pretty quick with

Re: Children first in fork

2001-04-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article 9bn90l$anp$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that I've tested it myself. I did a few months ago, it didn't work. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote: Linux LVM is a Sistina GPL project and there's no danger at all that we want to change its GPL nature! I think the general sentiment is that LVM is a Linux project, currently being managed by Sistina. Also, since you have merged patches from other you

Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're a bit irritated. That's good. I *want* people who don't write help entries for their configuration symbols to be a bit irritated. That way, they might get around to actually doing what they ought to. You mean you

Re: dropcopyright script

2001-02-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick Hohensee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... ## drop copyright notices to the bottoms of C files in current dir and # subs. Why would anyone want to do this? Wichert. --

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-03-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a large name space allows one to omit checking what part can be reused - reuse is unnecessary. You are just delaying the problem then, at some point your uptime will be large enough that you have run through all 64bit pids for example.

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mr. James W. Laferriere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not the problem being discussed , This is a user now root having gained root is now attempting to from the command line to load a module . How do we get this event recorded ? Recent versions of

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christopher Li wrote: Rename should just work. It will create a new tree object and you will notice that in the entry that changed, the hash for the blob object is the same. What if you rename and change a file within a changeset? Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: share/private/slave a subtree - define vs enum

2005-07-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Bryan Henderson wrote: Two advantages of the enum declaration that haven't been mentioned yet, that help me significantly: There is another one: with enums the compiler checks types for you. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http

Re: share/private/slave a subtree - define vs enum

2005-07-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Mike Waychison wrote: enums in C are (de?)promoted to integral types under most conditions, so the type-checking is useless. It's a warning in gcc afaik and spare should complain as well. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http

rtc misses interrupts after resume

2005-03-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
at 1024Hz. Mar 15 09:53:06 typhoon last message repeated 103 times and indeed looking at /proc/interrupts interrupt 8 is not getting hit. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple

Re: Can't use SYSFS for Proprietry driver modules !!!.

2005-03-27 Thread Wichert Akkerman
being sued. Are you sure? It is perfectly legal to relicense things if you own the copyright. As long as he never distributes his GPL version I don't see why he should have a problem. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net

Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

2005-02-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
by analyzing the compressed datastream. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously James Simmons wrote: Checkout DBUS. Its very nice. D-BUS is already userspace. netlink however is a nice transport system and there are several existing tools that pass messages from netlink onto D-BUS. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
to be the first to deliver an email to you. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
a message in since that will not work with things like bounces and aliases. Using headers like List-Id or X-Mailing-List is reliable, but does not work with the duplicate filtering you suggested. It is a matter of choosing your own preference. And ours seem to differ. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
of the few others that are there. And the answer to all of those seems to be at HAL. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
that are not implemented instead of the other way around as usual. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
for latitude keyboards after a resume I just discovered :( Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
test. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

negative diskspace usage

2005-01-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
1068904 101% /tmp This is on a ext3 filesystem on a 2.6.10-ac10 kernel. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Technical Manager Phone: +31 620 607 695| Attingo, airport internet services Fax: +31 30 693 2557| http://www.attingo.nl/ - To unsubscribe from

Re: negative diskspace usage

2005-01-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wichert Akkerman wrote: After cleaning up a bit df suddenly showed interesting results: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md4 1019M -64Z 1.1G 101% /tmp Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available

Re: negative diskspace usage

2005-01-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
, counted=252586). After fixing those everything returned to normal. I did run dumpe2fs on the filesystem, if that is interesting I can retrieve and post that. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make

Re: negative diskspace usage

2005-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
inodes, 0 directories Free blocks: 262144-262147, 262608-262863, 262866-264959 Free inodes: 117761-132480 -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
that '' is an accepted alternative spelling. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up

2001-05-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike A. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For the record, the kgcc "mess" you speak of was used by >Conectiva, and I believe also by debian Debian never had that mess. Wichert. -- _ /

Re: the remount problem [2.4.0] kind of solved [patch]

2001-01-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Maybe the kernel coud swap in the deleted libraries and keep it in > memory or real swap from then on instead of blocking the fs. No, you have no idea how large the file might grow and you need to keep that data somewhere. Wichert. --

Re: Children first in fork

2001-04-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article <9bn90l$anp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Not that I've tested it myself. I did a few months ago, it didn't work. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote: > Linux LVM is a Sistina GPL project and there's no danger at all > that we want to change its GPL nature! I think the general sentiment is that LVM is a Linux project, currently being managed by Sistina. Also, since you have merged patches from other you

Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5

2001-06-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You're a bit irritated. That's good. I *want* people who don't write >help entries for their configuration symbols to be a bit irritated. >That way, they might get around to actually doing what they ought to. You mean

Re: Bug in large files ext2 in 2.4.0-test11 ?

2000-11-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >work in our transition mechanisms. IOW, we don't have to just worry about >1 architecture and 1 distribution, we have to make sure upgrades work, >make sure things don't break, and ensure backward compatibility is retained

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Install the "alien" package on your machine and you will be able to >convert between rpm and deb. Bad plan, considering packages rely on some infrastructure that is not in the rpm (update-modules). I tend to be pretty quick

Re: dropcopyright script

2001-02-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Hohensee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >## drop copyright notices to the bottoms of C files in current dir and ># subs. Why would anyone want to do this? Wichert. --

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-03-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >a large name space allows one to omit checking what part can be >reused - reuse is unnecessary. You are just delaying the problem then, at some point your uptime will be large enough that you have run through all 64bit pids for

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mr. James W. Laferriere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not the problem being discussed , This is a user now root & > having gained root is now attempting to from the command line > to load a module . How do we get this event recorded ? Recent

Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.

2005-03-27 Thread Wichert Akkerman
future issues arise. > > Likely this won't be enough to keep you or your company from being sued. Are you sure? It is perfectly legal to relicense things if you own the copyright. As long as he never distributes his GPL version I don't see why he should have a problem. Wichert. -- Wi

Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

2005-02-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
ct motion by analyzing the compressed datastream. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously James Simmons wrote: > Checkout DBUS. Its very nice. D-BUS is already userspace. netlink however is a nice transport system and there are several existing tools that pass messages from netlink onto D-BUS. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simpl

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
g on which path happens to be the first to deliver an email to you. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: 2.6.11rc4: irq 5, nobody cared

2005-02-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
o deliver a message in since that will not work with things like bounces and aliases. Using headers like List-Id or X-Mailing-List is reliable, but does not work with the duplicate filtering you suggested. It is a matter of choosing your own preference. And ours seem to differ. Wichert. --

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
ml or one of the few others that are there. And the answer to all of those seems to be at HAL. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
ed API bits that are not implemented instead of the other way around as usual. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christopher Li wrote: > Rename should just work. It will create a new tree object and you > will notice that in the entry that changed, the hash for the blob > object is the same. What if you rename and change a file within a changeset? Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerma

Re: share/private/slave a subtree - define vs enum

2005-07-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Bryan Henderson wrote: > Two advantages of the enum declaration that haven't been mentioned yet, > that help me significantly: There is another one: with enums the compiler checks types for you. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make

Re: share/private/slave a subtree - define vs enum

2005-07-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Mike Waychison wrote: > enums in C are (de?)promoted to integral types under most conditions, so > the type-checking is useless. It's a warning in gcc afaik and spare should complain as well. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
for example... same for latitude keyboards after a resume I just discovered :( Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
gh they had a seperate beta test. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

rtc misses interrupts after resume

2005-03-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
at 1024Hz. Mar 15 09:53:06 typhoon last message repeated 103 times and indeed looking at /proc/interrupts interrupt 8 is not getting hit. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
have seen that '<<' is an accepted alternative spelling. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

negative diskspace usage

2005-01-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
1068904 101% /tmp This is on a ext3 filesystem on a 2.6.10-ac10 kernel. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Technical Manager Phone: +31 620 607 695| Attingo, airport internet services Fax: +31 30 693 2557| http://www.attingo.nl/ - To unsubscrib

Re: negative diskspace usage

2005-01-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > After cleaning up a bit df suddenly showed interesting results: > > > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/md4 1019M -64Z 1.1G 101% /tmp > >

Re: negative diskspace usage

2005-01-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
280474, counted=252586). After fixing those everything returned to normal. I did run dumpe2fs on the filesystem, if that is interesting I can retrieve and post that. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/

Re: negative diskspace usage

2005-01-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
inodes, 0 directories Free blocks: 262144-262147, 262608-262863, 262866-264959 Free inodes: 117761-132480 -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li