How to change kernel version tag?

Hi all. Could I change the kernel version tag manually? say, I have a kernel which is 7.0-CUREENT, but for some reasons I wanna it be something like 6.1-RELEASE, while the kernel itself does't change from 7.0-CURRENT to 6.1-RELEASE. All I want is the change of tag. For example, if this works, t

Re: How to change kernel version?

Yuan, Jue wrote: Hi all. Could I change the kernel version tag manually? say, I have a kernel which is 7.0-CUREENT, but for some reasons I wanna it be something like 6.1-RELEASE, while the kernel itself does't change from 7.0-CURRENT to 6.1-RELEASE. All I want is the change of tag. For examp

Re: How to change kernel version tag?

Yuan, Jue wrote: Hi all. Could I change the kernel version tag manually? say, I have a kernel which is 7.0-CUREENT, but for some reasons I wanna it be something like 6.1-RELEASE, while the kernel itself does't change from 7.0-CURRENT to 6.1-RELEASE. All I want is the change of tag. For exampl

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

On Thursday 24 August 2006 16:45, Julian Elischer wrote: > Eric Anderson wrote: > > > On 08/20/06 04:21, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: > >> > >>> I'm tired of trying to use rsync or gcp (which doesn't like symlinks > >>> often) to copy trees of files/di

Re: global data via module howto

Hi, I've done it. Thanks for the road map. M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roman Kurakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : M. Warner Losh wrote: : > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Roman Kurakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > : I have the fol

Re: How to change kernel version?

On Friday 25 August 2006 22:02, Intron is my alias on the Internet wrote: > Yuan, Jue wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > Could I change the kernel version tag manually? say, I have a kernel > > which is 7.0-CUREENT, but for some reasons I wanna it be something like > > 6.1-RELEASE, while the kernel itself

Re: How to change kernel version tag?

On Friday 25 August 2006 22:32, Roman Kurakin wrote: > Yuan, Jue wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > Could I change the kernel version tag manually? say, I have a kernel > > which is 7.0-CUREENT, but for some reasons I wanna it be something like > > 6.1-RELEASE, while the kernel itself does't change from 7.

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

At 9:05 AM -0400 8/25/06, John Baldwin wrote: On 24 August 2006, Julian Elischer wrote in a cvs-commit log: > > Add an option to allow copying of a hierarchy while > linking he regular files. Very good for commiting this -- except that I'm not quite sure that log-message is parseable! From

Latest patch for PPP

Hello, in the latest security advisory for PPP, the patch deals with conditions in a for loop. The correct line is : for (rlen=0; len >= 2 && p[1] >= 2 && len >= p[1]; len-=p[1], p+=p[1]) { Couldn't the condition be simpler like : for (rlen=0; p[1] >= 2 && len >= p[1]; len-=p[1], p+=p[1]){ Or is

momentary system "pauses" when switching VTYs

Hello. I did a stock install of 6.1-RELEASE yesterday and I noticed something weird. Whenever I switched the virtual console to a different screen, it would take almost 2 whole seconds before switching. At first I thought it was IRQ related since it was happening during the heavy disk activity o

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

On 08/25/06 11:49, Garance A Drosehn wrote: At 9:05 AM -0400 8/25/06, John Baldwin wrote: On 24 August 2006, Julian Elischer wrote in a cvs-commit log: > > Add an option to allow copying of a hierarchy while > linking he regular files. Very good for commiting this -- except that I'm not qu

Re: Latest patch for PPP

Frederic Praca: Hello, in the latest security advisory for PPP, the patch deals with conditions in a for loop. The correct line is : for (rlen=0; len >= 2 && p[1] >= 2 && len >= p[1]; len-=p[1], p+=p[1]) { Couldn't the condition be simpler like : for (rlen=0; p[1] >= 2 && len >= p[1]; len-=p[1],

fsync: giving up on dirty

I got this error today, while some very heavy disk access was occurring: Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: fsync: giving up on dirty Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: 0xff01bbb99a20: tag devfs, type VCHR Aug 25 13:47:07 snapshot1 kernel: usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 445 mountedhere 0x

Re: doadump at pcpu.h:165

On Thu, 2006-Aug-24 17:39:56 +0200, Daniel A. wrote: >My server crashes very often and it's very random. ... >panic: machine check trap ... >As far as I understand, the issue is CPU-related, but that doesn't make >sense, as my network interface cards are constantly giving me watchdog >timeouts.