On 4 Sep 2000, Stuart Lynne wrote:
> M-Systems distributes something that is perfectly legal for an end user
> to use. Nothing prevents someone from linking anything they want into their
> own copy of a kernel they will use themselves.
Sheesh, I am glad to see that you are also a product of the
> "QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 30"
>
> Just add this ti the pdc_quirks_list and see if it fixes the problem.
> It is an nIEN problem.
Horst von Brand, you suggested it could be bad cabling or some other physical problem.
I have tried several cables (yes, UDMA66 cables), I have tried two Promise
cont
Hello,
I revised the code that calculates the nanoseconds in Linux, and I
thought I'll drop some notes here:
As I found out there is a systematic error of 167ns per tick, almost
17us per second. This is because of the timer chip that is used to
generate the interrupts for "100 Hz".
Linux use
>Then it's actually not licensed to anyone, and is thus illegal to use
>by anyone (unless you say otherwise, of course.) You don't have to
>put the © symbol into something for it to be copyrighted (although a
>legal copyright notice, meaning "©", "Copyright", or "Copr", the year,
>and the owner -
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
>Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 20:23:11 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Gregory McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>[gregm@tweetie gregm]$ uname -a
>Linux tweetie.comstar.net 2.4.0-test7 #20 Sat Sep 2 16:17:06 EDT 2000 i686
>unknown
>[gregm@tweetie gr
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hans,
>
>We talked at LWE '99 about this issue.
>As you can see that this is getting to be a bigger mess as I predicted
>more than a year ago. As you explained to me that IGEL had verbal terms
>of agreement that the code re
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In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > I have been following it in this list for longer - you cut the thing you are
> > sitting on when telling people who say "I saw GNU licence violation"
> > to not to bother or tu
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>
> This it will have to wait for 2.5, but everyone needs to get off the issue
> that it is a filter and understand that it is a command completion
> pre-handler. I hope that you fina
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Ricky Beam wrote:
[snip]
> As an aside, they also have/had agressive transparent web proxying in
> the network... everything on port 80 coming and going is/was cached.
> EVERYTHING.
Ugh. If bandwidth is a problem, charge them by the Gb and let them save
money by reducing thei
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 09:09:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> >
> > Is this file corruption 'thing' specific to innd or is it the same
> > problem reported with corrupt mailboxes with pre2 and high disk
> > activity?
>
> The mailbox corruption t
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:00:19 +0530,
"Mahadev K Cholachagudda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Where can i get the insmod program source ?.
ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/modutils
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Date:Sun, 3 Sep 2000 20:23:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gregory McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[gregm@tweetie gregm]$ uname -a
Linux tweetie.comstar.net 2.4.0-test7 #20 Sat Sep 2 16:17:06 EDT 2000 i686
unknown
[gregm@tweetie gregm]$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
1
Works jus
> I've heard comments from Alan, and others in the past bashing
> threads, and I can understand the "threads are for people who
> can't write state machines" comments I've heard, but what other
> ways are there of accomplishing the goals that threads solve in
> an acceptable manner that gives goo
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> There was no "GNU licence violation", because there is no GNU licence in a
> patch.
You automatically own an implicit copyright on anything you create.
Regardless of whether you specify a license for code you write,
anyone who steals it is breaking the
Sorry - I punched the wrong key on that message.
Mea Culpa - mea maxima culpa.
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hi to all,
Where can i get the insmod program source
?.
please help
Thanks in advance
Mahadev
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>First of all, the "250,000" is wrong:
I was just making up a number. I can go scan ARIN for all their netblocks
and give you the exact number of address that would have to be scanned.
(I won't. It's alot.)
>Second, dialup users don't have enough ba
Hello Alexander,
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > Pine problem ? Has anybody reported which version of pine ?
> > The only version of pine I am aware of with a overrun problem
> > was V4.10 . Is anyone else a
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> Pine problem ? Has anybody reported which version of pine ?
> The only version of pine I am aware of with a overrun problem
> was V4.10 . Is anyone else aware of any newer Versions with
> this malady ? Tia , JimL
Hello all,
Anyone wishing to re-audit the drivers/block and drivers/char for locking issues
and submit their patches to me directly, feel free. I think if more people comb
through the code than myself, patches I missed will be found (100 eyes are better than
2). Once I think I have all the n
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> Then they need more competant admins. It isnt _hard_ to transproxy outgoing
>> smtp traffic via a spamtrapper that checks for valid src/destination and
>> headers.
>
>I can't believe that you are suggesting this.
Mindspring did this (maybe still does.
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
>
> Is this file corruption 'thing' specific to innd or is it the same
> problem reported with corrupt mailboxes with pre2 and high disk
> activity?
The mailbox corruption thread is at least partly due to a pine bug that is
triggered by a bugtraq pos
Alan Cox writes:
> [somebody]
>> Excuse me? How the hell do you expect them to "clean up their act" when
>> their "dialup" users are the problem? Are you gonna scan 250,000 machines
>> to make sure they aren't running SMTP servers? Trap all port 25 traffic?
>
> FreeServe in the UK have over 3
Hello Alexander ,
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> > Is this file corruption 'thing' specific to innd or is it the same
> > problem reported with corrupt mailboxes with pre2 and high disk
> > activity?
> Hell knows. Let me put it
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Ricky Beam wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, I hate spam. The only simple way to prevent spam is
> to kill the people from whom it is originating -- that means the monkey
> with the keyboard pushing the send button.
Hey Ricky,
I like this view! Regardless of our offline pissing
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> Is this file corruption 'thing' specific to innd or is it the same
> problem reported with corrupt mailboxes with pre2 and high disk
> activity?
Hell knows. Let me put it that way: one long-standing bug definitely
had kicked the bucket. The questi
FWIW, although this is an interesting theory, in my experience, having a
good kernel debugger allows me *more* time to think clearly, rather than
less. YMMV.
IMHO, the division of labor between man and computer should be that each
does what they are best at. In the case of debugging, this means
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>FreeServe in the UK have over 3 million dialup users and no spam problem.
Well, the economics of the UK is very different than the US. Besides,
aren't their laws against that sorta stuff over there?
>> It's the same problem EVERY ISP has. RR is just higher
Hello,
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:57:54PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
>
> I'm having endless problem with an eepro100 here. After some trying found out
> that doing a soft reset (ctrl+alt+del) fixed the problem, and that a power
> cycle made it happen again.
>
> Kernel version is 2.2.17p
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 01:13:51 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> This is why Linus does not allow a debugging facility like this into
> the kernel, so people spend time _thinking_ when they go hunting down
> bugs.
I spend my time thinking. But I prefer to spend i
OK, I decided to do it, since it gave me a chance to tweak two people
in the nose, one who really earned it and one who probably should know
better. It is up on my web page and may be used and copied freely by
anyone whose email service does not have Earthlink.net black holed.
(Somebody who himsel
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:12:40AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 06:11:05PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > "Andi Kleen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Do you think the SA_NOCLDWAIT/queued exit signal approach makes sense ?
> >
> > I'm not sure whether it's worth th
Hi,
> Are there any advances in getting sparc 32 working again with
> 2.4.0-testX? I tried test7 today and it reports something about
> free_bootmem then reboots.
You mentioned it was a sun4c on the sparclinux list. sun4c is badly out
of date and I don't have the time to fix it at the moment. I
Jorge Nerin writes:
> Neal H Walfield wrote:
>> Starting twelve days ago the load average has increased by one every
>> twenty-four hours. Normally, it remains close to 0. At the moment, they
>> are at twelve; I imagine that tomorrow, they will be at thirteen:
> You may have stuck processes wi
From: Michael Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:04 Sep 2000 20:27:53 +
Is it required that the O_NONBLOCK flag be copied from a listening
socket to an accepted socket? Dan Bernstein believes this is a
bug.
If we "fixed" this every inetd on every Linux system would
unfo
Is this file corruption 'thing' specific to innd or is it the same
problem reported with corrupt mailboxes with pre2 and high disk
activity?
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Could people who have seen the innd active list file corruption thing
> please try out linux-2.4.0-test8-pre4? Despite some repor
From: "David Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > My server is in the tested/good list w/ orbs. Aren't you following your
own advice
> > > about properly setting up your MTA to allow good guys and stop bad guys in
accord
> > > with ORBS DNS?
> >
> > I get too much junk to care abo
Could people who have seen the innd active list file corruption thing
please try out linux-2.4.0-test8-pre4? Despite some reports, it was _not_
fixed in pre2, and pre3 was a internal-only test to fix the remaining
issue with Al Viro.
pre4 finally passes all my truncate() tests, and the code look
> My home directory lives on a SunOS 4.1.4 server, which helpfully expands
> 16-bit UIDs to 32 bits as signed quantities, not unsigned. So any uid above
> 32768 gets 0x added to it.
Doesn't
http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?type=0&doc=fpatches/102394
fix this on the 4.1.4 s
On Saturday September 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Linus,
>
> The attached patch is submitted to enable variable sector size block
> chaining via ll_rw_block() in the I/O subsystem layer.
>
> Jeff904a905,907
> > /
> > // This code is being commented out to allow support for variable chai
> Ugh... yes, but not with an 80386, i486, Pentium, Pentium-MMX,
> 5x86, Crusoe, WinChip, K6, K6-2, or 6x86. Also not with XT disks
> or anything off the EISA, VLB, and MCA busses.
Lots of people are building terabyte sized arrays on K6 type boxes. A PII
or Athlon is just overkill for the job
Al
On Mon, Sep 04 2000, Nathan Myers wrote:
> The IDE CD audio driver is broken in the 2.2.17pre series, since 2.2.17pre2.
> I have attached below the patch fragment that causes the problem, and the
> console error messages that appear. Backing out the one change fixes CD
> audio playback in 2.2.1
Rik van Riel writes:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:16:23AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
>>> With all the talk about bugs and slowness on a 386/486/586
>>> -- does anyone think those platforms will have multi-T disks
>>> hooked up to them?
Note: no "68
> This is why Linus does not allow a debugging facility like this into
> the kernel, so people spend time _thinking_ when they go hunting down
> bugs.
I spend my time thinking. But I prefer to spend it thinking about the bug
not about finding it and how long fsck takes. There are only a few thing
Date:Sat, 02 Sep 2000 15:58:50 -0600
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I can only assume the reason for this is one of control, and that
there are no valid technical reasons for it. I have spent more
nights with printk() than I care to.
And I bet the lessons lear
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Few month ago, I gathered precice data and posted it on lk-ml. In our
> experiment, I used four 100Base cards, the Web-Bench gained nearly 5%
> performance by the patch. The CPU load reached over 95%.
>
> I want to show the reference to experiments results, But unfor
> Well, in our own manpages
>
> man 7 socket
>
>It is possible to do non-blocking IO on sockets by setting
>the O_NONBLOCK flag on a socket file descriptor using
>fcntl(2). O_NONBLOCK is inherited through an accept.
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The IDE CD audio driver is broken in the 2.2.17pre series, since 2.2.17pre2.
I have attached below the patch fragment that causes the problem, and the
console error messages that appear. Backing out the one change fixes CD
audio playback in 2.2.17pre20, on this machine.
This is on an e-machin
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:29:56PM +0200, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
>
> I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
> Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts a lot of places in the kernel
> (trivially), noticeably the file systems. The URL below points a
> big patch for all
Hi folks,
as written earlier, I have several problems at boot time. This is
the output of 'dmesg | ksymoops':
ksymoops 2.3.4 on i586 2.4.0-test8. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test8/ (default)
-m /boo
> On a side note, is there anyone/anyplace willing to allow relaying for my server?
One
> by one all the networks around here are falling under the ORBS netblock blacklist
and
> I'm not going to go through any more expense for myself, company, or LUG when we
are
> perfectly legitimate
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:00:41PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, John Kennedy wrote:
> > Ping seems to be spending its time in a sendto()/poll() loop:
> >
> > sendto(3, "U\3Z\241\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\206\240\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\3\0"..., 56, 0,
>{sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(1
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Is it required that the O_NONBLOCK flag be copied from a listening
> > socket to an accepted socket? Dan Bernstein believes this is a bug.
>
> My posix 1003.1g draft leaves it undefined. It is possible that
> SuS clarifies this. Unless he can cite a SuS
Rasmus,
I think it is worth it to clarify this even if you already understood it
yourself - other readers of linux-kernel may find it useful (and those who
find it too obvious will forgive me).
The concept of Linux subsystem maintainer doesn't mean that _any_ changes
to his subsystem should go t
Hello,
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, David Luyer wrote:
>
> > just try "traceroute -s 111.111.111.111 d.e.f.2"
>
> > What shows this simple test?
> >
> > arp who-has d.e.f.2 tell a.b.c.1
> >
> > or
> >
> > arp who-has d.e.f.2 tell d.e.f.1
>
> When I tried traceroute -s d.e.f.1 d.e.f.2, it
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> (I think I have seen you name mentioned as (co-)maintainer of ext2.
> Hence this mail.)
>
> I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
> Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts ext2 as per the following
> patch.
Lest Steph
Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > There is overproduction of generic-purpose software in world and
> > of course lots of companies are going to bancrupt soon, but if you
> > continue this way, GPL is going the same way...
>
> Do not follow the thought, sorry.
The Novell stuff. Sorry to say, but who need
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per your
> suggestion to Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo). This impacts bfs as per
> the following patch.
>
Rasmus, thanks of course, but this idea _only_ makes sense if you produce
a big patch
Hi.
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts a lot of places in the kernel
(trivially), noticeably the file systems. The URL below points a
big patch for all these changes.
(I have been advised against the fine granularity of the pa
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> (I think I have seen you name mentioned as (co-)maintainer of ext2.
> Hence this mail.)
>
> I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
> Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts ext2 as per the following
> patch.
Umm... S
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> I was under the understanding a "patch" to something GPL, means
> the "patch" is also GPL. If the patch was not GPL, and it
> patches GPL code, then it itself is in violation of the GPL.
> The fact that the patch is a "derivative work" of the origina
> I would have liked to install RH 6.2 on the Athlon (700MHz) computer.
> The installation from local CD was very easy, however, after reboot
> I received some error messages. My questions are:
>
> 1. What exctly does a "Disabling CPUID Serial Number ... general protection
>fault: 000" mean?
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Then they need more competant admins. It isnt _hard_ to transproxy outgoing
> smtp traffic via a spamtrapper that checks for valid src/destination and
> headers.
I can't believe that you are suggesting this.
The moment you being to start encouraging commerc
> "Ricky" == Ricky Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ricky> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
>> Much more of a reason to get them to clean up their act!
Ricky> Excuse me? How the hell do you expect them to "clean up their
Ricky> act" when their "dialup" users are the problem? Are
"QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 30"
Just add this ti the pdc_quirks_list and see if it fixes the problem.
It is an nIEN problem.
Cheers,
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Lars Knudsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have have serious problems using a specific Quantum disk connected to a Promise
>ATA/100 controller. The disk
> Is it required that the O_NONBLOCK flag be copied from a listening
> socket to an accepted socket? Dan Bernstein believes this is a bug.
My posix 1003.1g draft leaves it undefined. It is possible that
SuS clarifies this. Unless he can cite a SuS version that has clarified this
I believe its li
> Excuse me? How the hell do you expect them to "clean up their act" when
> their "dialup" users are the problem? Are you gonna scan 250,000 machines
> to make sure they aren't running SMTP servers? Trap all port 25 traffic?
FreeServe in the UK have over 3 million dialup users and no spam prob
> > You need it for some new video cards (for example those cheap intel i810 boards
> > that are becoming extremely common).
>
> I got my i810 to work on Debian (kernel 2.0.34) without agpgart by setting
> a switch in the driver code.
That limits you to 1Mb of video ram I believe
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On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Elmer Joandi wrote:
> Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> > My and co-worker's code for doing full taskfile access under linux was
> > rejected here but is being used in MicroSoft Whistler 2001. They are
> > quick to grab the very best of Linux and adopt it for their own.
>
> ? You me
Hi.
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts hpfs as per the following
patch.
diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/hpfs/anode.c
linux/fs/hpfs/anode.c
--- linux-240test8-pre2/fs/hpfs/anode.c Tue Oct 19 22:52:52 1
Hi.
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts hfs as per the following
patch.
diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/hfs/file.c
linux/fs/hfs/file.c
--- linux-240test8-pre2/fs/hfs/file.c Sun Feb 27 05:33:42 2000
+
Hi.
(I think I have seen you name mentioned as (co-)maintainer of ext2.
Hence this mail.)
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts ext2 as per the following
patch.
diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/ext2/ballo
Hi.
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per your
suggestion to Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo). This impacts bfs as per
the following patch.
diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/bfs/dir.c
linux/fs/bfs/dir.c
--- linux-240test8-pre2/fs/bfs/dir.cThu Aug 24 0
Hans,
We talked at LWE '99 about this issue.
As you can see that this is getting to be a bigger mess as I predicted
more than a year ago. As you explained to me that IGEL had verbal terms
of agreement that the code returned to M-Systems was returned with a GPL
license in it placed by IGEL. M-S
Hi.
(I hope you are the code maintainer for affs. Your name is in the
affs files.)
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts affs as per the following
patch.
diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/affs/amigaffs.c
Hi.
(I hope you are the code maintainer for adfs. Your name is in the
files.)
I have changed the interface to mark_buffer_dirty (as per Tigran
Aivazian's suggestion). This impacts adfs as per the following
patch.
diff -u --recursive -X misc/dontdiff linux-240test8-pre2/fs/adfs/dir_f.c
linux/f
Hi,
I would have liked to install RH 6.2 on the Athlon (700MHz) computer.
The installation from local CD was very easy, however, after reboot
I received some error messages. My questions are:
1. What exctly does a "Disabling CPUID Serial Number ... general protection
fault: 000" mean?
2.
> > - In the absence of any applications which actually do 3D rendering, is
> > there any performance advantage to loading the agpgart module?
>
> You need it for some new video cards (for example those cheap intel i810 boards
> that are becoming extremely common).
I got my i810 to work on Deb
Is it required that the O_NONBLOCK flag be copied from a listening
socket to an accepted socket? Dan Bernstein believes this is a bug.
Pavel Kankovsky writes:
> What happens when x->tcpstate == 1 (i.e. waiting for the first byte of TCP
> request length), x->io->revents == 0 (i.e. not ready f
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:24:02PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> > Most architectures can boot ELF images -- defining section names for
> > .config.gz and the version string in the ELF file can be done in an
> > architecture-independent fashion.
>
> Yep, then add some
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, John Kennedy wrote:
> Ping seems to be spending its time in a sendto()/poll() loop:
>
> sendto(3, "U\3Z\241\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\206\240\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\3\0"..., 56, 0,
>{sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}}, 16) = 56
> poll([{fd
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
>"Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> The rr.com service is expanding across the US. It is a cable
>> service recently bought by AT&T. It serves areas without ISDN
>> or DSL, so the only alternative is a POTS modem. The rr.com
>> service is mu
I just downloaded the 2.2.17 kernel.
This problem seems to be resolved in that version of the eepro driver.
Thanks for the new kernel, Alan,
Brian Hayward
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>I just upgraded to the 2.2.16 kernel (from 2.2.14) and compiled a new
>kernel. I i
Hello!
Just a note: The patch to test8-pre3 contains 2 definitions of a
function to test is a memory-block is zero:
fs/buffer.c: int mem_is_zero(char *p, unsigned len)
fs/ext2/inode.c: static inline int all_zeroes(u32 *p, u32 *q)
driver/usb/hid.c: static __inline__ int search(__s32 *array, __s32
(OK, I've read enough of this crap.)
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, David Luyer wrote:
>I'm seeing a problem between Linux 2.2 and BSD/OS 4.1 in the situation on one
>of our backbones.
Why is it the people placed in charge of networks usually have no clue
how they work? (don't answer that.)
[broken netwo
The following change to the apm_get_power_status function makes my Sony
Vaio SR7K report sane battery life expectations. From surfing the web, I
believe this problem happens on other recent Sony laptops (outside of the
SR series). I'm thinking about making this fix run-time selectable via a
sysctl
Anyone out there know how to get on the reiserFS devel mailing
list? I was on the namesys pages, but they have wonderful
microsoft code on them or java or something so that you can't
actually _use_ their mailing list subscription thing if you don't
run java or whatever. Certainly doesn't work fo
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Al wrote:
>>it is in the kernel. Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter) can't
>>take your code and use it without consent. The GPL is one way of giving
>>consent, with certain strings attached.
>
>But they can take the ideas and methods demonstrated by the code in the
>p
On 4 Sep 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
>>> >I am sorry to here of this, but I know what you mean about microsoft.
>>> >My and co-worker's code for doing full taskfile access under linux was
>>> >rejected here but is being used in MicroSoft Whistler 2001. They are
>>> >quick to grab the
From: Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:Mon, 4 Sep 2000 15:42:57 +0200
In test7 the stallion.c serial driver is in the drivers/media/video
directory. This means that it won't compile and that compilation will break
if the Stallion driver is enabled.
Could this fil
Ok Linux 2.2.17 official is now out. This is the same as 2.2.17pre20 without
the -pre20 id string
This is the version waiting Linus. Its in the queue for holy penguin pee so
either it will get peed on or I will get abuse from Linus depending whether
he likes it or not 8)
In the mean time I'm tak
On 9/3/00, 3:20:01 AM, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding
Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?:
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Not at all. In fact, I'd prefer it that way, because this same thing is
> > obviously going to be
Hello,
I just upgraded to the 2.2.16 kernel (from 2.2.14) and compiled a new
kernel. I immediately started having problems with my eepro/10 card.
It would run for a short period of time, then die on me. If I reloaded
the module, it would run for a short period of time then die again.
My next
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Hedrick) writes:
>>
>>
>> >Apology to Jeff,
>>
>> >I am sorry to here of this, but I know what you mean about microsoft.
>> >My and co-worker's code for doing full taskfile access under linux was
>> >rejected here but is bein
Russell Coker writes:
>
> --Boundary-=_nWlrBbmQBhCDarzOwKkYHIDdqSCD
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Yuk! MIME!
> On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> That sounds logical, I have attached a patch that does that change and
> changes serial.c (the code I copied
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
>Russell Coker writes:
>> I made the following patch for the stallion non-intelligent driver based on
>> cut/paste from serial.c. I have tested it and it works, the directories
>> /dev/tte and /dev/cue are correctly created when the module is inserted.
>>
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Erm... You do realize that "by hands" is "by editor commands", don't you?
> Notice that it is not a global search and replace - you see the instance,
> you decide whether to change it with the long sequence of editor commands
> or with the short one.
Ye
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>I'd prefer to have things like UnlockPage implemented as the architecture
>prefers (with a safe SMP common code default) instead of exporting zillons
I changed idea. I'd preferred to implement a mechanism that allows to
implement common code taking c
Andre,
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:30:13PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
[...]
> WOOHOO, you remember Way to go Alan
> You and several others know that I stink at describing a complex point
> regardless that I understand it completely. I am just glad that you hung
> in there lon
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Alexander, I did think of automating it but seeing fat (I am sure you saw
> it as well) made me think that it is safer to do it by hand.
Umm? What part of grep -nw is going to catch the fat_... stuff? It should
be done separately. You _will_ catch t
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