Re: xor as a lazy comparison

Is not xor (^) typically compiled to a one cycle instruction regardless of requested optimization level? (May not always have been the case on every target architecture for != equality tests.) Clayton Weaver cgweav at fastmail dot fm PS: Anyone know where I can get a waterproof, battery powered

klogd -f logname "append to logname" patch

; \ "%s - %s\n", output, strerror(errno)); Regards, Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects." Will Rogers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: question about tulip patch to set CSR0 for pci 2.0 bus

Note: the pci probe (cat /proc/pci) on this machine says "No bursts" for the host bridge. Regards, Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects." Will Rogers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: Signal 11

t paths on '-' as well as '/' after a user upgraded compiler and libc and recompiled teTeX). Regards, Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects." Will Rogers - To unsubscribe from this list: se

question about tulip patch to set CSR0 for pci 2.0 bus

u generation? (Merely a suggestion) Regards, Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

tulip-ethernet 2.2.17-2.2.18preN http nethangs fixed

This problem is solved. Regards, Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects." Will Rogers (just kidding) It was the cache alignment setting in tulip.c (saved me sifting through the bowels of the pci code t

Re: tulip log (additional detail: single-threaded httpd)

l deadlock.) Regards, Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects." Will Rogers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

tulip log (2.2.17-2.2.18pre23 http-induced kernel deadlock)

to do experimental hardware flow control, etc, haven't noticed it by now.) imho, Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects." Will Rogers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: reproducible 2.2.1x nethangs (dma?)

over ethernet, didn't flinch; same SIGCHLD during accept() events showed in the log, but never with the httpd parent's stack corrupted after accept() restarted). Dma error? On connect only? (Doesn't happen during 100mb ftp transfers.) (The ethernet card does support dma buffer management.

Re: reproducible 2.2.1x nethangs

estarted is at least worth a look for possible races. Regards, Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects." Will Rogers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: reproducible 2.2.1x nethangs

sn't have the dentry cache, vm improvements, etc, so this is worth fixing). (Note: i486, no SMP) -- Regards, Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects." Will Rogers - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

reproducible 2.2.1x nethangs

and without filesystem corruption. Since the error can be reproduced so reliably, it should be possible to debug it, if I know where/how to enable verbose logging. Suggestions? Regards, Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "Everybody's ignorant, just in differe

update: i21143 (tulip) and 2.2.17 (upgrade to .91-g and egcs-1.1.2 seems to have fixed it)

had doubts, there are kernels after 2.0.38 where a real tulip card is reliable, if you have the lucky compiler"). :-), Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects." Will Rogers - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: problems with Tulip driver in 2.2 and 2.4 (true 21143 in 2.2.x, too)

partitions and drives that never show such symptoms running 2.0.38. It's not as if the ext2fs metadata write code in 2.2.17 has big revisions from 2.0.38. pci bus in question is 2.0, no apic.) Regards, Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "Everybody's ignor

PID bit-width

. More convenient user display formatting is far down the priority list here compared to security and uniquely identifying processes even in the context of an intelligent attack on fast hardware that may not even have been invented yet. Convenience is good. Security is mission-critical. Regard

makefile bash2 typo (Re: We interrupt you regularly scheduled catfight for.. Linux 2.2.18pre13)

h2; \ >else echo sh; fi ; fi) > [] What is the second "fi" for? Regards, Clayton Weaver <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Seattle) "Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects." Will Rogers - To unsubscrib