Re: Allow (O=...) from file

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:37:03PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > Here's a clue: when I build with ARCH=x86, I get some warnings, but the > targz-pkg builds succesfully: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/git/linux-2.6 > make ARCH=x86 allnoconfig > [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/git/linux

Re: Allow (O=...) from file

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:00:03PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:04:33PM -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote: > > Sam, > > > > This piece of the top-level Makefile in current git causes an > > out-of-tree driver Makefile to fail. > > > > 101 ifdef O > > 102 ifeq ("$(origin O)", "

Re: Allow (O=...) from file

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:04:33PM -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote: > Sam, > > This piece of the top-level Makefile in current git causes an > out-of-tree driver Makefile to fail. > > 101 ifdef O > 102 ifeq ("$(origin O)", "command line") > 103 KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(O) > 104 endif > 105 endif > >

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc3

2007-11-19 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:33:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Go get it, and test it. I gav 2.6.24 a first try and "make targz-pkg" fails on i386: /bin/sh /home/erik/git/linux-2.6/scripts/package/buildtar targz-pkg Makefile:119: *** Output directory (O=...) specifies kernel src dir. Stop. ma

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/arm/00-INDEX add missing entries.

2007-09-06 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:35:12PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Index two unindexed documentation files. Looks OK to me, either submit to Russell's patch system, or maybe Andrew would like to take the patch. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't wo

Re: Versioning file system

2007-07-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:57:40AM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Erik> The only valid use of Streams in Windows I've seen was a virus > Erik> checker that stored a hash of the file in a separ

Re: Versioning file system

2007-07-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:47:59PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 07:32:34PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > > (sorry for the late reply, just got back from holiday) > > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:29:56PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > As I

Re: Versioning file system

2007-07-04 Thread Erik Mouw
(sorry for the late reply, just got back from holiday) On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:29:56PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > As I mentioned in my Linux.conf.au presentation a year and a half ago, > the main use of Streams in Windows to date has been for system > crackers to hide trojan horse code and ro

Re: no more git snapshots?

2007-06-07 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:22:06PM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >After that came -rc4. Next one will be -rc4-git1. > > Ah, ok. I'm using ketchup(1) to track 2.6-git, so it'd take a -rc4-git0 > (same as rc4) to notice that the next version came out...

Re: Question about spinlock in linux kernel

2007-06-06 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:40:58AM +0800, jidong xiao wrote: > I found there is such a kernel symbol ".text.lock.spinlock", > for example, > # cat /proc/kallsyms | grep spinlock > 8011e440 T bust_spinlocks > 802d00fc t .text.lock.spinlock > 8832ae20 d state_spinlock [n

Re: O_DIRECT for FAT

2007-05-15 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:02:51AM +0100, Hubertus Grobbel wrote: > I found out, that the option O_DIRECT for opening a file on a fat- > filesystem successfully completes. But reading and writing to that > file leads to EINVAL errors (using kernel 2.6.18). Make sure your buffer is page aligned and

Re: Execute in place

2007-05-03 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:04:44PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Phillip Susi wrote: > > I seem to remember seeing some patches go by at some point that allowed one > > of > > the rom type embeded system filesystems to directly execute binaries out of > > the original rom memory

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-17 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:47:32PM +0200, Tomasz K?oczko wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > [..] > >Well, that was totally useless answer from the ZFS developers. What > >he should have told you is to contact Sun management, since they are > >the only ones who can decide whether o

Re: System hanging randomly (SMP Kernel 2.6.20) - ATI chipset+Pentium 4HT

2007-03-02 Thread Erik Mouw
elp me. I'm a primary Linux user, I'm a little > disapointed because I have not been able to find the solution since monts. Try to recreate the problem without the proprietary wlan driver. With that driver loaded it's impossible to debug. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.co

Re: Changelog question

2007-02-26 Thread Erik Mouw
le to extract such infos from the ChangeLogs in the above > directories. Use git to figure out: git-log v2.6.17..v2.6.18 Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.nl -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe fr

Re: smp and irq conflict

2007-02-02 Thread Erik Mouw
like the Hauppauge PVR 150 or PVR 500. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EM

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-01 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:45:06AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:59:03PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > > I can't remember that kind of corruption ever being reported to the > > bcm43xx-dev mailing list. > > Well I assumed it messed up the eeprom

Re: Need all the patche from kernel-2.6.7 to kernel-2.6.19 related to VM

2007-02-01 Thread Erik Mouw
.v2.6.19 mm/" . Only disadvantage is that it will give you only the diff from 2.6.11. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-01 Thread Erik Mouw
with a ralink on it. You could use a CardBus or USB card. > Seems the ralink driver maintainers are doing a lot of the work on the > core wifi infastructure too. Lots of work beyond just the driver then. So are the bcm43xx maintainers. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recove

Re: [PATCH] Print number of oopses in Sysrq-P output

2007-01-18 Thread Erik Mouw
initialised at 0. They live in the .bss segment so they will automatically initialised at 0 and not take space in the kernel image. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from

Re: query related to serial console

2007-01-17 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:26:54AM +, Seetharam Dharmosoth wrote: > Is Linux having 'non-break interface for serial > console' ? No idea. Could you explain what a 'non-break interface for serial console' is? Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com --

Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-17 Thread Erik Mouw
xt2 0 40'): > > Jan 17 11:03:41 localhost kernel: [254985.117447] EXT2-fs: sdb1: couldn't > mount RDWR because of unsupported optional features (1). I don't know if any of those tools tell the kernel that the partition table changedand that it has to reread them

Re: How can I create or read/write a file in linux device driver?

2007-01-12 Thread Erik Mouw
gest you read Dilbert about that. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: How can I create or read/write a file in linux device driver?

2007-01-12 Thread Erik Mouw
> > Please search the archives, this get asked a lot and it has been > explained a million times why it's a bad idea. > You can also read http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8110 Rather point to http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/WhyWritingFilesFromKernelIsBad Erik -- +-- Erik M

Re: can't cleanup /proc/swaps without rebooting ?

2007-01-11 Thread Erik Mouw
8 0 -118 > # "swapoff /dev/sdc1" or "swapoff /tmp/swa5TlBva/swapfilenext". Don't know if the latter works when the file is unlinked, just try. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, D

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-11 Thread Erik Mouw
x27;t use O_DIRECT. Use things like madvise() and posix_fadvise() > instead. Both don't do what I want it to do: only read the sector I request you to read and certainly do not try to outsmart me by doing some kind of readahead. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.co

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2006-12-22 Thread Erik Mouw
that you publish your invention? Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAI

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Mouw
"However, we thought the legal and technical expense involved in writing this binary driver and possibly violating the Linux kernel copyright was well spend." My 0.02 EUR. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 26

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-21 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:48:42AM +0545, Manish Regmi wrote: > Yes... my application does large amount of I/O. It actually writes > video data received from ethernet(IP camera) to the disk using 128 K > chunks. Bursty video traffic is really an application that could take advantage from the kerne

Re: [PATCH] Add a new section to CodingStyle, promoting include/linux/kernel.h.

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Mouw
he printk() KERN_ALERT etc. levels? I've seen quite some people using "<1>" on the kernelnewbies list. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: Detecting disk I/O errors

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Mouw
e started in a monitor mode. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 06:24:39PM +0545, Manish Regmi wrote: > On 12/18/06, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >if you want truely really smooth writes you'll have to work for it, > >since "bumpy" writes tend to be better for performance so naturally the > >kernel will favor those. > >

Re: Linux slack space question

2006-12-11 Thread Erik Mouw
rward the answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as possible. Hmm no. You asked a public forum so the reply will go to that same public forum. See http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#noprivate . Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address:

Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

2006-12-05 Thread Erik Mouw
t fiwi_*? If that's too close to wifi_*, try frwr_. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: A problem about DIRECT IO on ext3

2005-08-31 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:07:45AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29 2005, Erik Mouw wrote: > > There are four prerequisites for direct IO: > > - the file needs to be opened with O_DIRECT > > - the buffer needs to be page aligned (hint: use getpagesize() instead >

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:33:29PM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: > On Aug 25 2005, at 16:04, Erik Mouw was caught saying: > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:08:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I really wanted to release a 2.6.13, but there's been enough changes > &g

Re: A problem about DIRECT IO on ext3

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Mouw
d1); > close(fd2); return 0; > } With the changes, the result is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp > ls -l directio aaa -rwxr-xr-x 1 erik erik 49152 2005-08-29 15:26 aaa* -rwxr-xr-x 1 erik erik 12628 2005-08-29 15:26 directio* Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.c

Re: syscall: sys_promote

2005-08-26 Thread Erik Mouw
unlimited limits is still allowed to use those limits. AFAIK setrlimit() can't be used to change resource limits of other processes. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscrib

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-26 Thread Erik Mouw
a self-extracting binary will probably only work on one platform. Besides, initramfs was made to set up userland. A self-extracting binary creates a chicken-and-egg problem: when run it will create a userland, but in order to be run it needs a userland. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-r

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-26 Thread Erik Mouw
ould give you a more technical answer, but if > you're a coder you would probably already know. > > For one, if you do "dd if=/dev/zero of=foo" on a ramfs the system > will lock up. "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!" "Well, then don't do that.&q

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-25 Thread Erik Mouw
e, the system will not boot. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-25 Thread Erik Mouw
. > But, it can also be used to hold and run a complete Linux system, > so a more robust filesystem (tmpfs) is useful. What makes you think tmpfs is more robust than ramfs? What do you mean with a "robust filesystem"? Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 3

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-25 Thread Erik Mouw
going on with either ACPI or cpufreq. When the system boots, I see that the CPU is correctly detected as a 1200 MHz mobile Athlon, but once I log in /proc/cpuinfo says it's 2.6 or 3.6 GHz CPU. I don't have the laptop with me right now, but I'll send the boot messages tonight. Erik --

Re: IRQ problem with PCMCIA

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:31:58AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2005-08-23 at 09:49 +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > > Is there any place where we can get your current patches? > > Which ones - the PATA IDE ones are in 2.6.11-ac, a subset in Fedora > (other changes in the core IDE

Re: debug a high load average

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
d. 1.5 MB/s suggests you're using an IDE drive in PIO mode. Switch to DMA mode (hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda) and see if it gets any better. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe fro

Re: what does scsi sense means?

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
u can get "sense information" which tells you more about why a particular command failed. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: IRQ problem with PCMCIA

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
t your current patches? Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: kernel

2005-08-12 Thread Erik Mouw
post to this list at all. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] M

Re: VGER news

2005-08-09 Thread Erik Mouw
proc386.jpg Matti is talking about an increase, which implies a difference. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

Re: core file not generated when kernel is crashed with Sysrq key

2005-07-28 Thread Erik Mouw
re are projects for kernel crash dumps, search the archives. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Mouw
#x27;s even the other way around from what IBM pictures: there are more sectors/track in outer zones, so that means there is simply more data in the outer zones. If you want less physical movement of the head, you should make sure the data is in the zone(s) with the largest number of sectors/track. Erik

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:12:58PM +0200, Andreas Baer wrote: > Erik Mouw wrote: > >Easy: Drives don't have the same speed on all tracks. The platters are > >built-up from zones with different recording densities: zones near the > >center of the platters have a lower rec

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Mouw
wer recording density and hence a lower datarate (less bits/second pass under the head). Zones at the outer diameter have a higher recording density and a higher datarate. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.nl -- 0800 220 20 20 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The

Re: help! kernel errors?

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Mouw
a look at linux/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt And we're only interested in the *first* Oops, not in any later one. The first Oops is most probably the cause of all other Oopses. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH,

Re: Kernel cached memory

2005-07-22 Thread Erik Mouw
27;t have a proper use. Cached memory will be freed automatically when the kernel needs memory for other (more important) things. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: often ide errors on amd64 / A8N-SLI

2005-07-22 Thread Erik Mouw
troller]< long section ->[slave]--short section-->[master] > > > as one common cause is having the cable the other way around. Another common cause is to have the master and slave swapped. The master should be at the end of the cable. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.hardd

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-20 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:35:07PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:16:36PM +0200, Bastiaan Naber wrote: > >AFAIK you can't use a 15 GB tmpfs on i386

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-20 Thread Erik Mouw
machine and run a 64 bit kernel on it. If compatibility is a problem, you can still run a 32 bit i386 userland on an x86_64 kernel. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from th

Re: Developing a filesystem

2005-07-08 Thread Erik Mouw
definitions > (such as struct file_system_type), but this is giving me some errors. > So I think that I have to integrate my code with the kernel sources to > make it compile. Have a look at http://lwn.net/Articles/21823/ "Compiling external modules". Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw

Re: [Hdaps-devel] RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Erik Mouw
way you can't update the firmware of the CD/DVD drive. Bootable FreeDOS floppy images would be a nice idea, though. Erik (not a ThinkPad owner) -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe

Re: enforcing DB immutability

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Mouw
once you modify a cow-linked file, the file contents are copied, the file is unlinked and you can safely work on the new file. It has some horrible semantics in that the inode number of the opened file changes, I don't know if applications are or should be aware of that. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -

Re: SkyMinder (CLPS711x derivative) - decided to try 2.6.11.7

2005-04-18 Thread Erik Mouw
s subscription) and not mailing rmk personally with all your questions. See http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ . Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [Crosspost] GNU/Linux userland?

2005-04-13 Thread Erik Mouw
> world). Try uclibc buildroot, see http://www.uclibc.org/toolchains.html . Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&

Re: Kernel crash problem and Madwifi

2005-03-24 Thread Erik Mouw
c3c2b144 ba10 c01dd219 c3d76000 1043 > > Call Trace:[] [] [] [] > [] > [] Next time run the oops through ksymoops. Undecoded oopses are almost useless. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark

Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-03-23 Thread Erik Mouw
vice is exploited, an attacker would be able to > easily shut down the system. That's easy to fix: set limits from initrd or initramfs. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe

Re: Random number generator in Linux kernel

2005-03-08 Thread Erik Mouw
n C", it has a complete section about random numbers, including a couple of functions that do what you want. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: CSMI questions

2005-02-24 Thread Erik Mouw
Microsoft of UNIX." - Linus Torvalds on linux-kernel For the full story, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2001/5/20/81 . Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption

2001-07-19 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:02:59PM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote: > --- Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On > > FUD. I've been using reiserfs on quite some systems > > Probably !. I said just from my computer, :-) > > Reiserfs uses system resources more than

Re: kernel patch process

2001-07-07 Thread Erik Mouw
-- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [patch] Fix warnings in videobook

2001-07-06 Thread Erik Mouw
<> is valid SGML short format, are you > using XML docbook ? Not that I am aware of, I'm using the SGML packages in Debian Potato (2.2r3). > I'll apply them anyway - they do no harm and short form SGML is evil in some > books ;) Thanks. Erik [not an SGML langua

[patch] Fix warnings in videobook

2001-07-06 Thread Erik Mouw
ot open jade:videobook.sgml:187:6:E: end tag for element "ROW" which is not open All of which can be fixed by changing <> into . Patch applies cleanly against 2.4.6, 2.4.7-pre3, and 2.4.6-ac1. Please apply, it even makes the tables visible :) Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, In

Re: access to sysinfo structure

2001-07-06 Thread Erik Mouw
to access this > > information from userspace. cat /proc/loadavg cat /proc/meminfo cat /proc/uptime Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX

Re: Unresolved symbols since 2.4.5 ?

2001-07-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:48:52PM +0200, Cyril ADRIAN wrote: > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Erik> Looks like your system has an old version of modutils. You need Adrian > Erik> Bunk's linux-2.4 packages

Re: Unresolved symbols since 2.4.5 ?

2001-07-05 Thread Erik Mouw
;apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade' and rebuild the kernel. Erik [happily running linux-2.4.6-pre8 on potato] -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Techno

[OT] Re: source for ps command

2001-07-05 Thread Erik Mouw
cps-2.0.6-5 (get the procps-2.0.6 SRPM from CD or download it from the web) On a Debian system it's even easier: erik@arthur:~ >dpkg -S `which ps` procps: /bin/ps erik@arthur:~ >apt-get -qq source procps dpkg-source: extracting procps in procps-2.0.7 Erik -- J.

Re: pcmcia lockup inserting or removing cards in 2.4.5-ac{13,22}

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Mouw
e this: # # PCMCIA/CardBus support # CONFIG_PCMCIA=y CONFIG_CARDBUS=y # CONFIG_I82365 is not set # CONFIG_TCIC is not set That fixed it for me for at least three laptops. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Inform

Re: Mail list archives down

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Mouw
-- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:

[OT] Re: shared memory problem

2001-07-03 Thread Erik Mouw
environment" by Richard Stevens. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635

[patch] fix TI 1410 lockups

2001-07-02 Thread Erik Mouw
_ops }, { PD(TI,1211), &ti_ops }, { PD(TI,1251B), &ti_ops }, + { PD(TI,1410), &ti_ops }, { PD(TI,1420), &ti_ops }, { PD(TI,4410), &ti_ops }, { PD(TI,4451), &ti_ops }, Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication

Re: [Re: gcc: internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11]

2001-06-29 Thread Erik Mouw
our question is discussed in it as well. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635

Re: iwconfig seg-faults

2001-06-28 Thread Erik Mouw
this a known "issue"? Yes, recompile iwconfig against your current kernel solves the problem (you need to put a -I flag in the wireless-tools Makefile). Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Informat

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-25 Thread Erik Mouw
hography, etc. Erik [who works in an information theory group] -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands

Re: MemShared == 0 ?

2001-06-25 Thread Erik Mouw
he meaning of this? * Check the lkml FAQ: http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s14-3 Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft,

Re: GPIB support

2001-06-25 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:30:57AM +0800, hugang wrote: > What is GPIB. http://www.google.com/search?q=gpib Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University

Re: mktime in include/linux

2001-06-22 Thread Erik Mouw
; don't care about libc5. It's still pretty weird. Wierd? Weird. This has been brought up many times on this list: you are not supposed to include kernel headers in userland. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering,

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Erik Mouw
is right: consult a lawyer. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-27818

Re: gnu asm help...

2001-06-18 Thread Erik Mouw
LOCK "incl %0" > :"=m" (v->counter) > :"m" (v->counter)); > } I also don't know the exact meaning, but here are two nice tutorials about inline assembly: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ia.html http://www.uws

Re: [patch] nonblinking VGA block cursor

2001-06-16 Thread Erik Mouw
t kind of keyboards, they're extremely reliable and are great to use. Anyway, my point is that keyboards are a matter of taste, just like blinking or non-blinking cursors are. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineeri

procfs get_info() method obsolete?

2001-06-11 Thread Erik Mouw
nes. */ n = dp->get_info(page, &start, *ppos, count); However, I'd rather be sure before I start documenting lies in the procfs-guide. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technol

Re: VM suggestion...

2001-06-07 Thread Erik Mouw
ake more sense than "it doesn't work" reports. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone:

Re: PID's

2001-06-06 Thread Erik Mouw
ady works like that. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843

Re: isolating process..

2001-06-06 Thread Erik Mouw
and decrease his ulimits up to miminum of 1 process, > 0 core size, appropriate memory/ etc. That's indeed the way to do it. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, De

[PATCH] procfs guide

2001-06-03 Thread Erik Mouw
2.4.5-ac7 as well. Please apply. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +

Re: Compile problem with ov511.c (Kernel 2.4.5)

2001-06-03 Thread Erik Mouw
Try this patch: http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2001week21/1010.html Or use 2.4.5-ac*. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technolo

Re: HowTo: Kernel verbose logging.

2001-06-01 Thread Erik Mouw
lize that this > probably isn't feasible but perhaps there is something that takes me > halfway? You probably want strace, see man strace. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Sys

Re: Oops with 2.4.5-ac3

2001-05-31 Thread Erik Mouw
ithout the nvidia module. If you still get oopses, report them over here. If not, complain to nvidia. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 50

Re: [PATCH] Procfs Guide

2001-05-30 Thread Erik Mouw
org/documents/kdoc/procfs-guide/lkprocfsguide.html Erik PS: Was it really necessary to quote my complete message *including* the patch? Next time quote properly before you post. -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Facult

Re: [PATCH] Procfs Guide

2001-05-30 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:30:48AM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:29:17AM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > > I'm still looking for a proper way to automatically include the example > > source into the SGML file, this patch with the same content in two > >

Re: unresolved symbols printk ?

2001-05-28 Thread Erik Mouw
t FAQ? http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s8-8 Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-278363

Re: Problem compiling kernel 2.4.5 with gcc 2.96

2001-05-27 Thread Erik Mouw
you need 2.4.5-ac1 for it. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-1

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