On 18 Jan 2001 11:35:57 +, Tim Fletcher wrote:
This is when devfs comes into its own, as the disks are refered to by
their device/controller id not by the /dev/sd{a,b,c,etc} numbering, hence
when one fails the others don't change. Also I think the kernel autodetect
code for scsi devices
Le 08 May 2001 06:27:52 +0200, Dennis Bjorklund a écrit :
Is there a way in linux to montior file writes?
I have something that is writing to the disk every 5:th second (approx.)
probably kupdate ... look for noflushd on freshmeat.net and read the
docs.
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Le 15 May 2001 09:21:47 +0100, Tigran Aivazian a écrit :
On 15 May 2001, Blesson Paul wrote:
In everyfile system, dget() function is called. But I cannot find
where is the dget() function is written. Where is it
To find this out, you type:
# vi -t dget
and then look at
Le 06 Mar 2001 09:31:01 +0100, Rogier Wolff a crit :
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By author:Kenn Humborg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:41:12PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
Does kmalloc() make any guarantees of the
Wouldn't it be easier to run the script interpreter through WINE ? This
way we could workaround several Win32 peculiarities, and users wouldn't
bother taking special steps when coding on their home PC.
Xav
Le 06 Mar 2001 15:12:42 +, Sean Hunter a crit :
I propose
Le 12 Mar 2001 21:05:58 +1100, Herbert Xu a crit :
Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xargs is very ugly. I want to rm 12*. Just plain "rm 12*". *Not* "find
. -name "12*" | xargs rm, which has terrible issues with files names
Try
printf "%s\0" 12* | xargs -0 rm
Or find -print0
Le 13 Mar 2001 22:58:08 -0700, Andreas Dilger a crit :
Luckily, after the symlink is created it ignores the size, and only uses
the i_blocks count to determine if the symlink is stored in the inode
itself or in another block (the fast symlink will be NUL terminated).
It could well have been
Hi,
it seems that since I have 2.2.17, APM events aren't processed as they
should: sometimes my laptop just halts instead of sleeping/hibernating.
This often (but not always) occurs when:
* I push the on/off button (which should only go to standby)
* The battery is low
* The timeout for entering
When you say "halt", do you mean "shutdown -h now" or do you mean that
the computer just powers off?
I have a VAIO and suspend works fine (hibernate isn't supported). I'd
be interested in seeing your /etc/sysconfig/apm*.
Just "off", i.e. as soon as it should start entering standby or
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Actually; Ethernet badly needs something like this too. I would kill
to be able to do something like:
ifconfig eth0 speed 100 duplex full
o across different networks cards -- I've been thinking about it of
late as I had to battle with
Hi,
on my ide CDROm I get, roughly each 2 seconds, disk changes although the
drive is empty and I don't touch it:
Dec 12 08:57:43 localhost kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device
ide0(3,64)
Dec 12 08:58:14 localhost last message repeated 16 times
Dec 12 08:59:16 localhost last message
on my ide CDROm I get, roughly each 2 seconds, disk changes although the
drive is empty and I don't touch it:
Dec 12 08:57:43 localhost kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device
ide0(3,64)
Dec 12 08:58:14 localhost last message repeated 16 times
Dec 12 08:59:16 localhost last message
What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long
oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine?
I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and
see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today.
shift+pageup ?
Xav
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Hi,
as modprobe (insmod) seems to have POSIX args handling, we should perhaps add "--"
to the modprobe cmdline, in order to stop further args processing, and to avoid
mixing a textual argument with an option.
BTW, it should perhaps be generalized.
Xav
--- linux-2.4-test10/kernel/kmod.c
Hi,
as modprobe (insmod) args parsing seems POSIX compliant, we should put a
"--" before
what should be interpreted only as a textual argument, not as an option.
This is a lot safer: whatever is passed, modprobe will take it as a module
name.
--- linux-2.4.0-test10/kernel/kmod.cTue Sep 26
Le 25 Apr 2001 00:06:57 +1000, Daniel Stone a écrit :
problem is you guys are to unix-centric, try to be user-centric a little.
We're too UNIX-centric, yet you're the one trying to put UNIX on a phone?
Come on ...
Hey ! We already put uClinux on a phone ! Full-fledge linux is not far,
Le 25 Apr 2001 18:12:38 -0500, Whit Blauvelt a écrit :
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:56:11PM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Le 25 Apr 2001 14:52:56 -0400, Dave Mielke a écrit :
strace writes to standard error, not standard output, by default. Better yet,
though, use the -o option of strace
Le 08 Mar 2001 14:05:25 +0100, Goswin Brederlow a écrit :
I believe the 2xRAM rule comes from the OS's where ram was only buffer
for the swap. So with 1xRAM you had a running system with 1xRAM
memory, so nothing is gained by that much swap.
I think kernels 2.4.x came back to this behavior.
Le 27 Apr 2001 15:28:04 +0100, Matt a écrit :
I'm writing a device driver for a DSP card that requires some software
loaded onto the card for it to function, currently I'm copying the
software to the /dev node and the driver is doing the magic in it's
write() handler.
Can the driver pull
Hi !
I have an ABit VP6 (Dual PIII, infamous VIA686, onboard IDE + onboard
HPT370). This is a new machine, so I didn't test it on several kernels.
Using 2.4.4-ac11 (SMP), it started to deadlock really often when
accessing the new disk (Seagate Barracuda, udma5, big reiserfs partition
+ swap) I
On 05 Jun 2001 16:51:13 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
that would fix it too indeed, OTOH I think changing the empty zone
handling in the kernel is beyond the scope of the bugfix (grep for
zone-size in mm/*.c :). Certainly making empty zones
On 05 Jun 2001 23:19:08 -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:16:30PM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
Because the 2.4 VM is so broken, and
because my machines are frequently deeply swapped,
The swapoff algorithms in 2.2 and 2.4 are basically
On 06 Jun 2001 09:54:31 +0100, Sean Hunter wrote:
This is what Linus recommended for 2.4 (swap = 2 * RAM), saying that
anything less won't do any good: 2.4 overallocates swap even if it
doesn't use it all. So in your case you just have enough swap to map
your RAM, and nothing to really
On 05 Jun 2001 18:39:16 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Hi !
I have an ABit VP6 (Dual PIII, infamous VIA686, onboard IDE + onboard
HPT370). This is a new machine, so I didn't test it on several kernels.
Using 2.4.4-ac11 (SMP), it started to deadlock really often when
accessing the new disk
Hi,
I have a DVD (IDE, using ide-scsi) with read errors, and when reading it
(UDF-mounted or directly with xine) on the read error the drive clicks,
I have an error in the log and, after a while, the kernel hangs.
Here is the (hand-copied) log:
scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0, CDB:
On 26 Jun 2001 20:43:33 -0400, Dan Maas wrote:
Windows NT/2000 has flags that can be for each CreateFile operation
(open in Unix terms), for instance
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY
FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH
FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING
FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS
FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN
On 28 Jun 2001 14:02:09 +0200, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
This would be very useful, I think. Would it be very hard to classify
pages like this (text/data/cache/...)?
How would you classify a page of perl code ?
Xav
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Hi,
I retested my scratched DVD on 2.4.5-ac19, and the machine still hangs
(when using drip) after spitting a few errors in the log:
Jun 28 00:32:55 bip kernel: Info fld=0x1f49e0, Current sd0b:00: sense key Medium Error
Jun 28 00:32:55 bip kernel: Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read
On 28 Jun 2001 18:13:38 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Hi,
I retested my scratched DVD on 2.4.5-ac19, and the machine still hangs
(when using drip) after spitting a few errors in the log:
Jun 28 00:32:55 bip kernel: Info fld=0x1f49e0, Current sd0b:00: sense key Medium
Error
Jun 28 00:32:55
On 05 Jul 2001 15:02:51 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
Here's an idea I just came up with while I was composing this... along the
lines of using unused bandwidth for something that at least has a chance of
being useful. Suppose we come to the end of a period of activity, the
general
On 05 Jul 2001 17:04:00 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
Well, on a laptop memory and disk bandwith are rarely wasted - they cost
battery life.
Let me comment on this again, having spent a couple of minutes more
thinking about it. Would you be happy paying 1% of your battery life to get
I have another suggestion for the MAINTAINER list:
Put the filenames/directories the maintainer is responsible of, perhaps
in a hierarchical tree (X maintains usb drivers, Y maintains usb
keyboards, Z maintains usb keyboard from such vendor).
This should be coherent and easily parsable.
This
Le 05 Feb 2001 12:36:37 -0500, Gregory Maxwell a crit :
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:31:57AM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote:
How well is this card supported for it's capture capabilities and dual head?
Capture and dual head are almost totally unsupported without using a
proprietary, binary only
Le 13 Feb 2001 07:58:56 -0600, Matt Stegman a crit :
Hello,
Anything in 2.4 isn't an option right now. I'm using, and am really happy
with, the ext3 journalling patch. I'm not planning on a 2.4 upgrade until
ext3 has been ported. Damn shame I don't have the skill to do that
myself...
Le 20 Feb 2001 02:10:12 +0100, Andreas Bombe a crit :
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:53:48PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It also sounds like you will be
breaking the extremely useful C postulate that, at the ABI level at
least, arrays and
Le 20 Feb 2001 11:40:18 -0500, Jeremy Jackson a crit :
Xavier Bestel wrote:
Le 20 Feb 2001 02:10:12 +0100, Andreas Bombe a crit :
An array is a word that contains the address of the first element.
No. Exercise 3: compile and run this:
file a.c:
char array[] = "I'm r
Le 21 Feb 2001 01:13:03 +0100, Andreas Bombe a crit :
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:09:55AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Le 20 Feb 2001 02:10:12 +0100, Andreas Bombe a crit :
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:53:48PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 10:59 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
So, what needs to be done is simply find out the specifications of
the file-system.
I didn't know that was that simple, great !
So, what do we wait ? (I love that abusive we)
Xav
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On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:06 +0100, Ricardo Correia wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
The real test of whether Sun were serious about ZFS being anywhere but
Solaris is what they do to license it - they've patented everything they
can, and made the code available only under licenses incompatible with
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 00:46 +0200, roland wrote:
We just quietly added an exciting feature to Workstation 6.0. I believe it
will make WS6 a great tool for Linux kernel development. You can now debug
kernel of Linux VM with gdb running on the Host without changing anything in
the Guest VM.
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 07:23 +, Pavel Machek wrote:
I absolutely detest all suspend-to-disk crap. Quite frankly, I hate the
whole thing. I think they've _all_ caused problems for the true suspend
(suspend-to-ram), and the last thing I want to see is three or four
Well, it is a bit
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 18:50 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
(And guess what, it uses APM and suspend is really faster and way more
reliable than each kernel implementation I could try).
If you tried Suspend2 and had problems with reliability, please send me
logs. I'll do all I can to help.
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 20:22 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
On Monday 12 March 2007 19:55, Mike Galbraith wrote:
Hmm. So... anything that's client/server is going to suffer horribly
unless niced tasks are niced all the way down to 19?
Fortunately most client server models dont usually have
Le mardi 13 mars 2007 à 05:49 +1100, Con Kolivas a écrit :
Again I think your test is not a valid testcase. Why use two threads for your
encoding with one cpu? Is that what other dedicated desktop OSs would do?
One thought occured to me (shit happens, sometimes): as your scheduler
is strictly
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:31 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
nice on my debian etch seems to choose nice +10 without arguments contrary to
a previous discussion that said 4 was the default. However 4 is a good value
to use as a base of sorts.
I don't see why. nice uses +10 by default on all linux
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 04:25 +0100, Gabriel C wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:38:38 BST, Kasper Sandberg said:
with latest xorg, xlib will be using xcb internally,
Out of curiosity, when is this latest Xorg going to escape to distros,
Already is
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:27 -0800, v j wrote:
You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one
small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't think that is the point
here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am
telling you as a user that if Linux
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 23:28 -0800, v j wrote:
Open = 3rd party Linux drivers can be loaded. Closed = No third party
Linux drivers can be loaded.
Then go ahead and use Windows CE or VxWorks. By your silly definition
they are pretty open.
Xav
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On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 12:51 +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote:
I am still a kernel newbie, and I am still not very much aware about
the GPL vs. Non-GPL drivers debate. I personally think it'd be better
that all drivers should be GPL'd but if that's the case, what would be
the legal position of such
Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 10:20 -0800, v j a écrit :
So far I have heard nothing but, if you don't contribute, screw you.
All this is fine. Just say so. Make it black and white. Make it
perfectly clear what is and isn't legal. If we can't load proprietary
modules, then so be it. It will help
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 21:48 -0800, v j wrote:
We only get crap because no one here yet knows how to interpret
proprietary modules loaded into the kernel.
The proprietary modules where only a tiny wrapper is linux-specific and
the rest is cross-platform are in a grey area, yes.
But your modules,
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:36 -0600, Scott Preece wrote:
if the drivers are for devices
proprietary to their hardware, then they have no real value to anyone
else. And the drivers MIGHT contain information useful to their actual
competitors.
Don't you feel like a contradiction in those two
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:07 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
Dell notebook, single P-M-2GHz, ATI X300, open source X.org:
(1) build a kernel in one window with make -j$((NUMBER_OF_CPUS + 1)).
(2) try to read email and/or surf in Firefox/Thunderbird.
Stock scheduler wins easily, no contest.
What
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:36 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
Xavier Bestel wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:07 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
Dell notebook, single P-M-2GHz, ATI X300, open source X.org:
(1) build a kernel in one window with make -j$((NUMBER_OF_CPUS +
1)).
(2) try to read email
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 07:11 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
I don't agree with starting to renice X to get something usable
X looks very special to me: it's a big userspace driver, the primary
task handling user interaction on the desktop, and on some OS the part
responsible for moving the mouse
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 09:10 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
Hah I just wish gears would go away. If I get hardware where it runs at just
the right speed it looks like it doesn't move at all. On other hardware the
wheels go backwards and forwards where the screen refresh rate is just
perfectly a
On mar, 2007-04-03 at 20:14 +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
On my pc i encounter a strange error:
the pktsetup is started during system start and set my dvd driver to
packet writing mode. then i insert a dvd movie and start xine. and
sometimes xine says that it can't play the dvd. BUT after
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 23:20 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
[...]
Err sorry, I mixed up everything ... I'm using *etherwake* to make the
WOL magic packet, and ethtool to check the interface options.
Weird.
Can you capture the traffic from the receiving
Le mardi 18 septembre 2007 à 06:29 -0500, Marco Peereboom a écrit :
Now if they'd fix the copyright message to only mention Reyk all would
be good.
All this mess so easily solved ? Too good to be true.
Xav
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Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 13:04 +0100, DervishD a écrit :
Hi Benny :)
* Benny Halevy [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
I would like to hear peoples opinion about the indentation convention
described below that I personally found the most practical with
several different editors.
While I
Hi,
I have replaced my machine with another one which gives many ECC errors.
At first sight they may be pessimistic because memtest (with ECC off)
doesn't find anything (I'm letting run it overnight, I'll see tomorrow
morning if it really didn't find anything).
I'd like to let it run without
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 07:13 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
A few years on, Wine has matured to the point where it's
ready to run quite a few apps, even some protected by Safedisc.
One sticking point is that apps like Photoshop and probably
Punkbuster want to retrieve the hard drive's serial number
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 12:14 +, Ben Crowhurst wrote:
Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development?
Why not C# instead ?
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On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 19:09 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development?
Why not C# instead ?
Why not Haskell nor Erlang instead ? :-D
I heard of a bash compiler. That would enable development time
rationalization and maximize the
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 09:11 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
I'm sure that the majority of Linux users would never acquire
the 4-board assembly that we use to acquire X-Ray data and
generate real-time images for the baggage scanners in use
at the world's major airports. That assembly,
Hi,
Le lundi 22 octobre 2007 à 13:22 -0400, Anas Nashif a écrit :
The Manageability Engine Interface (aka HECI) allows applications to
communicate with the Intel(R) Manageability Engine (ME) firmware.
It is meant to be used by user-space manageability applications to
access ME features
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 15:09 +0200, jan sonnek wrote:
Hello,
where can I find actually TODO list for kernel beginer?
Many Thanks,
On http://kernelnewbies.org/
Cheers,
Xav
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On mar, 2008-02-12 at 22:18 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On mar, 2008-02-12 at 21:27 +0100, Wagner Ferenc wrote:
which are the currently active Linux kernel versions at any point in
time? The quote is taken from http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/29
Hi,
On mar, 2008-02-12 at 21:27 +0100, Wagner Ferenc wrote:
Hi,
which are the currently active Linux kernel versions at any point in
time? The quote is taken from http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/29.
Or more precisely: which are the stable versions I can depend on for
a more or less
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 12:41 +0100, mahamuni ashish wrote:
int main()
{
float f= 1256.35;
char ch[4];
printf(\n1. f : %f,f);
memset(ch,'\0',strlen(ch) );
Can't work. ch[]'s content is undefined, so strlen(ch) may read anywhere
in memory, and/or memset() write anywhere.
Xav
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On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:32 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Die, 2007-10-09 at 12:20 +0300, Grosjo.net - jom wrote:
[...]
Would it be possible to include the patches (available on www.synce.org)
for WindowsMobile5, as most mobile phones are under Window$, and it is
very convenient to
Hi,
I have a server running with RAID5 disks, under debian/stable, kernel
2.6.18-5-686. Yesterday the RAID resync'd for no apparent reason,
without even mdamd sending a mail to warn about that:
Sep 2 01:06:01 awak kernel: md: syncing RAID array md0
Sep 2 01:06:01 awak kernel: md: minimum
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:56 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
In itself, this event is already strange. But what's even stranger is
that another guy had the same resync exactely at the same time
That mystery is solved, see /etc/cron.d/mdadm:
# By default, run at 01:06 on every Sunday, but do nothing
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 10:06 +0200, Patrick Mau wrote:
My debian installation has a system cronjob that will perform a resync
every first Sunday morning at 1:06 AM:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/cron.d/mdadm
...
6 1 * * 0 root [ -x /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray ] [ $(date +\%d) -
le 7 ]
Hi,
I just replaced a fast ethernet card with a Realtek 8169 Gigabit
ethernet card on an old DELL Poweredge running debian. I upgraded the
kernel to 2.6.22 but it didn't solve my problems.
At boot, the kernel says:
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded
eth0: RTL8169s/8110s at
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 15:32 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
this is userspace doing eth name by MAC address, your new card has a
different MAC address than your old card, the userspace application
tries to bind each name uniquely to an ethX name so it keeps eth0 free
for your old card.
If
Hi again,
with the r8169 I can't send a magic packet anymore. I'm using ethtool
for that, with the previous one (an rtl8139b) it was working very well.
ethtool -D apparently says it could send the packet ok.
The receiving side hasn't changed (it's an r8169 too), it's setup for
wake-on-lan and is
Le mardi 11 septembre 2007 à 23:30 +0200, Francois Romieu a écrit :
Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
[...]
with the r8169 I can't send a magic packet anymore. I'm using ethtool
for that, with the previous one (an rtl8139b) it was working very well.
ethtool -D apparently says it could send
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:26:09 +0200 (CEST), Guennadi Liakhovetski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Josh Boyer wrote:
On 8/24/07, Casey Dahlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that
lights up when they are plugged in. On
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 07:37 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
start gears like this:
# gears gears gears
Then lay them out side by side to see the periodic stallings for
~10sec.
Are you sure they are stalled ? What you may have is simple gears
running at a multiple of your screen refresh rate,
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 08:35 -0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 8/29/07, Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:00 -0400, Jiri Slaby wrote:
The files are available only under GPLv2 since now.
Since the BSD people are already getting upset about (for various
reasons
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:55 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
If the swap device is full, then there is no need for random
seeks as the swap pages can be read in disk order.
If the swap file is full, you probably have a machine dead into a swap
storm.
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On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 16:06 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
Xavier Bestel wrote:
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:55 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
If the swap device is full, then there is no need for random
seeks as the swap pages can be read in disk order.
If the swap file is full, you
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 09:21 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
so enlighten us. What editor do you use/suggest/push?
Corbet !
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On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 06:39 +0300, jonatan perry wrote:
Hello,
I would like to know who the USB system works under linux, I mean,
I would like to write a kernel module who will create a virtual USB
device, so that the kernel will think that a hardware USB device is
exists, were can I start?
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 07:26 -0700, Vlad wrote:
Relatime seems to be wasteful of both IO resources _and_ CPU cycles.
Instead of performing a single IO operation (as atime does), relatime
performs at least three IO operations and three CPU-dependent
operations:
1) a read IO operation to find
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 18:36 +0200, Philippe Elie wrote:
Increase speed for a build with no updates
==
On a resonably fast machine with a decent config it takes
roughly 10 seconds to do a make where nothing is updated.
Generating one single
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 09:56 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Once you have that snapshot image in user space you can do anything you
want. And again: you'd hav a fully working system: not any degradation
*at*all*. If you're in X, then X will continue running etc even after the
snapshotting
Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a crit :
Then I would like to exercise my right under the GPL to aquire the source
code
for the firmware (and the required compilers, starting with genfw.c which is
mentioned in acenic_firmware.h) since - as far as I know - firmware is
Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 10:32 +0200, Olivier Galibert a crit :
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:17:15AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 10:04 +0200, David Schmitt a crit :
Then I would like to exercise my right under the GPL to aquire the source
code
for the firmware
Le mercredi 13 avril 2005 10:25 +0100, David Woodhouse a crit :
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:59 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
Theoretically, you are never supposed to share your index if you work
in fully git environment.
Maybe -- if we are prepared to propagate the BK myth that network
Le mercredi 13 avril 2005 à 09:48 -0700, H. Peter Anvin a écrit :
Xavier Bestel wrote:
On a related note, maybe kernel.org should host .torrent files (and
serve them) for the kernel git repository. That would ease the pain.
/me inflicts major bodily harm on Xav.
There is a reason we
Le lundi 07 fvrier 2005 08:05 -0500, linux-os a crit :
Main Question Why does Linux 'freeze up' when W2K gives a BadCRC error
msg
(never freezes)?
Of course it should not. However, there were many incomplete changes
made in 2.6.nn and some may involve problems with locking, etc.
I
Le lundi 07 fvrier 2005 09:17 -0500, Justin Piszcz a crit :
Yeah, I can try 2.4.29 later tonight; also, the DVD is not scratched, just
formatted with Joilet/ISO instead of UDF (which is what should be used on
DVDs).
However, dd if=/dev/hdh of=file.img
Even with bs=1 for 1 byte
Le samedi 19 février 2005 à 00:51 +0100, Oliver Neukum a écrit :
Well, we can say that userspace definitely is interested in power
key ;-).
I wouldn't call that selfevident. The system might be eg. a ticket
vending system and we care only about wake ups from touchscreen,
trackball and
Le mardi 15 mars 2005 21:54 -0800, Andrew Morton a crit :
You may be able to set the thing up by hand with the help of
Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
There's something I don't get in this document's ascii-art:
8--
Le mercredi 16 mars 2005 11:00 +0100, Xavier Bestel a crit :
Le mardi 15 mars 2005 21:54 -0800, Andrew Morton a crit :
You may be able to set the thing up by hand with the help of
Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt.
There's something I don't get in this document's ascii-art:
8
Le jeudi 10 mars 2005 à 11:28 -0500, John Richard Moser a écrit :
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I've been looking at the UDI project[1] and thinking about binary
drivers and the like, and wondering what most peoples' take on these are
and what impact that UDI support would
Le mercredi 02 fvrier 2005 15:21 +0100, Haakon Riiser a crit :
How can I use a frame buffer driver's optimized copyarea, fillrect,
blit, etc. from userspace? The only way I've ever seen anyone use
the frame buffer device is by mmap()ing it and doing everything
manually in the mapped memory.
Le vendredi 04 fvrier 2005 00:03 -0500, Jon Smirl a crit :
Doing this in user space lets you have two reset
programs, vm86 and emu86 for non-x86 machines.
Perhaps only emu86 should be used, to have a well-debugged codepath on
all archs (amd64, ppc, ...)
As it's usermode, the code size is less
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