Re: State of the Union: Wireless

2006-01-10 Thread Chase Venters
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 00:39, Denis Vlasenko wrote: How are we going to find out which stack is best and which stack we should concentrate our efforts on? In an absense of wifi maintainer, maybe we should throw _all stacks_ (currently two) into the mainline, and evolution will find the

[PATCH] net: fix PRIO qdisc bands init

2006-01-10 Thread Amnon Aaronsohn
The PRIO queuing discipline currently initializes only the bands that appear in the priomap. It should instead initialize all the configured bands. Signed-off-by: Amnon Aaronsohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.14/net/sched/sch_prio.c 2005-10-28 02:02:08.0 +0200 +++

Re: [Acx100-devel] Re: State of the Union: Wireless

2006-01-10 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:39:25AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Friday 06 January 2006 06:22, Jeff Garzik wrote: State of the Union - Wireless January 5, 2006 [ snip ] * Wireless drivers and the wireless stack need to be maintained IN-TREE

Re: [PATCH 2/2 - 2.6.15]net:32 bit (socket layer) ioctl emulation for 64 bit kernels

2006-01-10 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 05:31, Shaun Pereira wrote: --- linux-2.6.15-vanilla/include/net/x25.h2006-01-03 14:21:10.0 +1100 +++ linux-2.6.15/include/net/x25.h2006-01-10 16:15:16.0 +1100 @@ -223,6 +223,18 @@ extern struct x25_route *x25_get_route(s extern struct

Re: State of the Union: Wireless

2006-01-10 Thread Johannes Berg
Denis Vlasenko wrote: I am confused. Which isn't really all that surprising. ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/softmac/ieee80211softmac-20060107.tar.bz2 which is not the same. For example, ieee80211softmac.h file exists in both tarballs but is not identical. Suppose one wants to

Re: [PATCH] net: fix PRIO qdisc bands init

2006-01-10 Thread jamal
lkml trimmed off. On Tue, 2006-10-01 at 12:30 +0200, Amnon Aaronsohn wrote: The PRIO queuing discipline currently initializes only the bands that appear in the priomap. It should instead initialize all the configured bands. Did you actually run into some issues that prompted you to produce

Re: [2.6.15] running tcpdump on 3c905b causes freeze (reproducable)

2006-01-10 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Have you tried enabling the NMI watchdog? Enable CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC and boot with `nmi_watchdog=1' on the command line, make sure that the NMI line of /proc/interrupts is incrementing. I'll give it a try. I've added it to the append-line in the lilo config. Am now

Re: [PATCH] net: fix PRIO qdisc bands init

2006-01-10 Thread Amnon Aaronsohn
--- jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you actually run into some issues that prompted you to produce this patch? Why would you want to have something not in the priomap to do any queueing of packets? I wrote this patch because the qdisc wasn't running correctly when I used priorities that

Re: State of the Union: Wireless

2006-01-10 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 18:08 -0500, Mike Kershaw wrote: Two things to inject, from my own little corner of userspace: Thanks. I don't know if the solution to this is a warning, marking non-rfmon virtual interfaces down, or just saying they'll figure it out, but I figured it's worth

Re: State of the Union: Wireless

2006-01-10 Thread Mike Kershaw
I don't know if the solution to this is a warning, marking non-rfmon virtual interfaces down, or just saying they'll figure it out, but I figured it's worth considering at an early stage. I think the solution lies with the driver: It just doesn't allow creating an rfmon virtual interface

Re: State of the Union: Wireless

2006-01-10 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 20:17 +0100, Stefan Rompf wrote: Caveats: -rfmon can affect all virtual devices as Mike pointed out See my reply to him. -As a matter of fact, virtual devices are not independant eveb without rfmon, simply because one physical device can only tune to one channel at a

Re: State of the Union: Wireless

2006-01-10 Thread Johannes Berg
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 11:09 -0500, Mike Kershaw wrote: I don't think that I really agree with that. I don't, as a user or as a programmer, want to unconfigure all my existing stuff just to drop into rfmon for a few minutes. I'd definitely prefer that they stop working, than have to remember

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/irda/Kconfig: DONGLE_OLD: remove dependency on non-existing symbol

2006-01-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
Jean-Luc Leger [EMAIL PROTECTED] reported this alternative dependency on a non-existing symbol. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.15-mm2-full/drivers/net/irda/Kconfig.old 2006-01-10 17:48:41.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.15-mm2-full/drivers/net/irda/Kconfig

Re: Bug in TCP Vegas Implementation

2006-01-10 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:48:16 +1100 Joel Sing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Stephen, I've just tracked down a bug that appears to have been introduced in the 2.6.15 kernel. Within the TCP Vegas implementation the slow start congestion window increase code has been replaced with a call to

Re: [E1000-devel] Transmit timeout with E1000

2006-01-10 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Erik Mouw wrote: I have lots of transmit timeouts with an Intel E1000 card during large TCP transmissions (remotely viewing a 3000x2000 jpeg image using XV is an excellent way to trigger it). This is what I get in linux-2.6.8.1: sorry to hear you're having a problem, and

Re: [E1000-devel] tso off, tx hang, and codes crashing

2006-01-10 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Robin Humble wrote: until we turned off tso on our cluster using ethtool -K eth0 tso off ethtool -K eth1 tso off then for certain sized runs of some codes we were getting: KERNEL: assertion (!sk-sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/core/stream.c (279) KERNEL: assertion

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/irda/Kconfig: DONGLE_OLD: remove dependency on non-existing symbol

2006-01-10 Thread David S. Miller
From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:09:03 +0100 Jean-Luc Leger [EMAIL PROTECTED] reported this alternative dependency on a non-existing symbol. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/{,wireless/}Kconfig: remove dead URL

2006-01-10 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 01:37 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: shadow.cabi.net does no longer exist. Surely it would be better to point to the new home of these tools rather than removing the reference to them entirely? -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe netdev in the

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/{,wireless/}Kconfig: remove dead URL

2006-01-10 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 01:08 +, Alan Cox wrote: I don't think they have a current home as such. I've got the scarabd tar ball here so you can archive that somewhere on infradead if you'd rather a reference remain. ftp.uk.linux.org would probably make more sense. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/{,wireless/}Kconfig: remove dead URL

2006-01-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2006-01-11 at 00:46 +, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 01:37 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: shadow.cabi.net does no longer exist. Surely it would be better to point to the new home of these tools rather than removing the reference to them entirely? I don't think they

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/{,wireless/}Kconfig: remove dead URL

2006-01-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:46:48AM +, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 01:37 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: shadow.cabi.net does no longer exist. Surely it would be better to point to the new home of these tools rather than removing the reference to them entirely? If you know

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/{,wireless/}Kconfig: remove dead URL

2006-01-10 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 01:46, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 01:37 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: shadow.cabi.net does no longer exist. Surely it would be better to point to the new home of these tools rather than removing the reference to them entirely? shaper is completely

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/{,wireless/}Kconfig: remove dead URL

2006-01-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2006-01-11 at 01:53 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: shaper is completely obsolete and it's probably best to just remove all references to it and the kernel driver too. I would agree with that but it nees to go through a proper obsolesence and obliteration cycle not just vanish. - To

Wireless: One small step towards a more perfect union...?

2006-01-10 Thread John W. Linville
A few days ago, Jeff Garzik reminded us all of the grossly imperfect state of wireless (802.11 aka WiFi) networking in Linux. First in his list of key issues was the lack of a permanent maintainer for the kernel wireless code. Jeff approached me to see if I was interested in that role, and after

Re: [PATCH] net: fix PRIO qdisc bands init

2006-01-10 Thread jamal
On Tue, 2006-10-01 at 07:18 -0800, Amnon Aaronsohn wrote: [..] Anyway, even when all the bands appear in the priomap, it makes more sense to go over each band only once as the patch does, instead of multiple times as the current implementation. So it is an optimization - not a bug then,

Re: [E1000-devel] tso off, tx hang, and codes crashing

2006-01-10 Thread Robin Humble
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:16:23AM -0800, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Robin Humble wrote: until we turned off tso on our cluster using ethtool -K eth0 tso off ethtool -K eth1 tso off ... the major problems only happen for 32 cpu parallel runs. smaller runs work fine.

Re: [PATCH] net: fix PRIO qdisc bands init

2006-01-10 Thread David S. Miller
From: jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:02:45 -0500 So it is an optimization - not a bug then, correct? It is only an optimization in as much as it avoids duplicate work during initialization. Like you I don't see how this patch fixes anything. No matter what you set

Re: Wireless: One small step towards a more perfect union...?

2006-01-10 Thread David S. Miller
From: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:05:36 -0500 I hereby claim responsibility for the state of wireless networking support in the Linux kernel. Thanks for taking on this important role John. It is truly appreciated. Even though it may end up feeling like a

Re: 32 bit (socket layer) ioctl emulation for 64 bit kernels - patch1

2006-01-10 Thread Shaun Pereira
Hi Arnd Thanks for reviewing those patches, and your feedback. I have made the changes recommended. If these are acceptable, I will build a proper [PATCH] for submission.Is there anyone in particular that I need to mail in order that these patches go into the next release? Here is the updated

Re: [PATCH] net: 32 bit (socket layer) ioctl emulation for 64 bit kernels

2006-01-10 Thread Shaun Pereira
And the correct x.25 patch, (will build a [PATCH] if this is ok). Tested with with xot to a Cisco box. Thanks once again for your help /Shaun Index: linux-2.6.15/net/x25/af_x25.c === --- linux-2.6.15.orig/net/x25/af_x25.c +++

Re: [PATCH] improve configopt, slightly correct acx111 radio recalib

2006-01-10 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 17:11, Andreas Mohr wrote: Hi all, this patch adds support for configopt parsing for ACX100 EEPROM version v5 (please report whether ACX100 v5 now works, preferrably with logs showing configopt activity). Also, we now only start another radio recalibration