Re: Linux 3.19-rc1 - merge window closed

2014-12-22 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 12:43:10 -0800, you wrote: >On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:11:39 -0800 "Nicholas A. Bellinger" > wrote: > >> Just hit the following build failure with CONFIG_AUDIT=y: >> >> arch/x86/ia32/audit.c: In function ‘ia32_classify_syscall’: >> arch/x86/ia32/audit.c:38:7: error: ‘__NR_execvea

3.7.5: Kernel panic on halt

2013-02-04 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, I was running machine overnight on 12V battery test, with this simple kernel compile loop: grant@itxmini:~/linux/linux-3.7.5a$ while :; do make clean; make -j5; done Today it was time to shutdown the box ('halt' command) and recharge the battery. Snapshot of screen: http://bugs

Re: RAID extremely slow

2012-07-27 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:45:18 -0700, you wrote: >On 07/27/2012 12:08 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Have you set the io scheduler to deadline on all members of the array? >> That's kind of "job one" on older kernels. >> > >I have not, thanks for the tip, I'll look into that now. Plus I disable the o

Re: Intel DP965LT Mainboard running?

2007-03-30 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:31:38 +0200, Oliver Joa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >does anyone have a running Intel DP965LT Mainboard? I can not get this >Board running. You can see the Problems in the Thread "Corrupt >XFS-Filesystems on new Hardware and Kernel". Please can you give me a >runnin

Re: Linux 2.4.34.1

2007-02-03 Thread Grant Coady
ecommended for >users of smbfs with unix extension, since a security fix in 2.4.34 >broke symlinks. Special thanks to Dann Frazier, Santiago Garcia >and Grant Coady who did the boring work of tracking and fixing the >problem. > >The files are located at the usual places. Please

[RFC PATCH] 20-rc6-mm3: kernel/params.c: compile fail when CONFIG_SYSFS not set

2007-01-31 Thread Grant Coady
kset') make[1]: *** [kernel/params.o] Error 1 make: *** [kernel] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- params.c |4 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm3/kernel/params.c2007-01-30 16:25:34.0 +1100 +++ linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm

[PATCH] -mm3: include/linux/blkdev.h double def'd -> compile fail

2007-01-30 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, Random .config: 20-rc6-mm3a/002 found the following boo-boo... From: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Defining protos twice caused: In file included from kernel/sched.c:39: include/linux/blkdev.h:928: error: redefinition of 'blk_replug_current_nested' include/li

[PATCH] -mm2: typo in ipc/ipc_sysctl.c -> compile failure

2007-01-29 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, Dunno who does IPC so hoping you do ;) (ref.config: 20-rc6-mm2b/048) Cheers, Grant. From: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix typos causing compile failure when CONFIG_PROC_FS not set in ipc/ipc_sysctl.c, compile tested. ipc/ipc_sysctl.c:107: error: `proc_ipc_doulongvec_

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-27 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:55:19 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello Santiago, > >On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:00:30AM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have discovered a problem with the changes applied to smbfs in 2.4.34 and >> in the security backports like las

kernel.org: missing version in latest 2.6 snapshot

2007-01-25 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, This is odd: Index of /pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots NameLast modified Size Parent Directory - incr/ 13-Dec-2006 22:45- old/26-Sep-2006 07:41-

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-23 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:12:57 -0700, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Users have reported a symlink issue with my recent smbfs backport. >Turns out my backport overlooked a second 2.6 patch w/ the fix: > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/?PAGE=cset&REV=419e7b76CdrmRG_NZ8LKj9DUUBGu1w >

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-23 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:19:37 -0700, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:03:21AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> Hi Grant ! >> >> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:52:44AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: >> > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-22 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:36:30 +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > As you can see I now can see the symbolic links perfectly and they work as >> > expected. >> > >> > In fact, this patch is working so well that it poses a security risk, as >> > now >> > the devices on

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-22 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:18:16 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Grant, just to be sure, are you really certain that you tried the fixed kernel >? >It is possible that you booted a wrong kernel during one of your tests. I'm >intrigued by the fact that it changed nothing for you and t

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -0700, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:00:40PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: >Ah, think I see the problem now: > >--- kernel-source-2.4.27.orig/fs/smbfs/proc.c 2007-01-19 17:53:57.247695476 >-0700 >+++ kernel-source-2.4.27/fs/smbfs/pr

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:03:21 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Grant ! > >On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:52:44AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -0700, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >On Thu, Jan

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:21:16 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Grant ! > >On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:09:57AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: >(...) >> >} else { >> >- mnt->file_mode = mnt-

PATCH net-Kconfig-pocket_adapter-ISA-to-PARPORT

2005-09-09 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Jeff, This patch changes pocket and parallel adaptors to depend on PARPORT instead of ISA in order to get the option in newer SuperIO based systems. Tested on x86 (AMD K7). Also applies to 2.6.13-git8 cleanly. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Kconfig |8 -

Re: 2.6.13-mm2

2005-09-09 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Andrew, Marko, On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 02:43:36 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 05:30:42 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >> >ftp://ftp.k

Re: 2.6.13-mm2

2005-09-08 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 05:30:42 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm2/ Hi Andrew, After this error: CC drivers/parport/parport_pc.o drivers/parport/parport_pc.c:2511: error: via_686a_data causes a se

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Genesys USB 2.0 enclosures

2005-09-04 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 14:04:46 -0700, Matthew Dharm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:53:19PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: >> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Jan De Luyck wrote: >> >> > I've posted in the past about problems with these enclosures - increasing >> > the >> > delay seems to fix

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm2

2005-09-01 Thread Grant . Coady
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:03:38 +0200, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Jean, >Hi Grant, > >> adm9240 i2c still broken, spamming debug with: >> (...) >> Aug 23 18:48:40 peetoo kernel: [ 1591.151834] i2c_adapter i2c-0: Transaction >> (pre): CNT=08, CMD=2c, ADD=5a, DAT0=00, DAT1=00 >> Aug 23

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm2

2005-08-23 Thread Grant . Coady
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:30:21 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc6/2.6.13-rc6-mm2/ > >- Various updates. Nothing terribly noteworthy. adm9240 i2c still broken, spamming debug with: Aug 23 18:48:40 peetoo kernel

2.6.12.5 ATAPI Iomega Zip100 problem, more info, solved?

2005-08-15 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Some more info on removable media oddness. I use both vfat and ext2 format zip disk. Two mountpoints: /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zipvfatnoauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/zip2 ext2noauto,user 0 0 Odd behaviour: $ mount /mnt

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-14 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:12:55 +1000, Roger Luethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ #define APC_BPORT_REG 0x30 #define APC_REGMASK0x01 -define APC_BPMASK 0x03 +#define APC_BPMASK 0x03 Color me skeptical. I've seen some weird bit flips and data

Resolved?: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-14 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:43:31 +1000, Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, Problem was dataloss on extracting kernel source, sometimes only one character changed. Details on http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/boxen/sempro/ Not the NIC, not reiserfs, not the kernel config, no

Re: [PATCH,RFC] quirks for VIA VT8237 southbridge

2005-08-13 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:41:33 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Grant Coady wrote: >> I'm tracking a dataloss on box with this chip, finding it difficult >> to nail a configuration that reliably produces dataloss, sometimes >> only one bit (e.g.

Re: [PATCH,RFC] quirks for VIA VT8237 southbridge

2005-08-13 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:10:38 +0200, Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >this fixes the 'doubled ioapic level interrupt rate' issue I've been >seeing on a K8T800/AMD64 mainboard. >It also switches off quirk_via_irq() for the VT8237 southbridge. I'm tracking a dataloss on box with this

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-12 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:21:30 +1000, Masoud Sharbiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you turn on UDP checksums and try again? That would isolate the fault between the network or SATA. It is the second tarball extraction from cache that suffers data corruption, not a network error. I am in proc

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-12 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:43:42 +0400, "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How to test and isolate this error is in NIC driver, SATA driver or >> filesystem? >> > >Could it be that tarbal on NFS server changed? >It is not very likely that error in kernel drivers fixed typos in so

Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-11 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Situation is dataloss with no errors logged. Test: unpack 2.6.12 tarball from NFS mount source, diff against previous attempt: $ diff -Nrup linux-2.6.12.old linux-2.6.12 Binary files linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h and linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h differ diff -N

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-03 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Jesper, On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 23:28:06 +0200, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I like it, just a little concerned about confusing new user with too many alternative patching methods up front... >+ This (as usual with Linux and other UNIX like operating systems) can be >+done in several dif

Re: 2.6.13-rc5 randconfig kernel build errors

2005-08-03 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Adrian, On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:20:50 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> After 300 random builds, add one more error: >> drivers/acpi/osl.c:261: error: `AmlCode' undeclared (first use in this >> function) >> drivers/acpi/osl.c:61:10: empty file name in #include > >Please exclud

Re: 2.6.13-rc5 randconfig kernel build errors

2005-08-03 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:58:59 +1000, Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Greetings, > >Preliminary results, better sample (some hundreds) in a day or so. After 300 random builds, add one more error: drivers/acpi/osl.c:261: error: `AmlCode' undeclared (first use in this fu

2.6.13-rc5 randconfig kernel build errors

2005-08-02 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Preliminary results, better sample (some hundreds) in a day or so. 2.6.13-rc5 ~~ Done processing 70 random builds, from which: ### 6 .configs produced errors ### 4 .configs produced undefs ### 29 .configs produced warnings # zcat result-report-error-abbrev.gz|cut -d: -f2-

Report: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: only 8 errors for 752 randconfig builds

2005-08-01 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Automating random config kernel build testing, for 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: Done processing 752 random builds, from which: ### 8 .configs produced errors ### 11 .configs produced undefs ### 52 .configs produced warnings Abbreviated errors (first 2 lines/error): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/opt/linu

Re: 2.6.13 ub 2/3: Fold one line

2005-07-31 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:37:43 -0400, Yani Ioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 7/31/05, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Evidently, Yani Ioannou's display is wider than mine. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (Thinkpad) ;-). The changes were done by a script I >wrote which wasn't checking if the 80

[PATCH] 2.6: fix PCI_DEVIEC_ID_APPLE_UNI_N_ATA spelling

2005-07-30 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Patch to fix PCI_DEVIEC_ID_APPLE_UNI_N_ATA spelling. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c |2 +- include/linux/pci_ids.h |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -X dontdiff -Nrup linux-2.6.13-rc4-git2/drive

Re: Heads up for distro folks: PCMCIA hotplug differences (Re: -rc4: arm broken?)

2005-07-30 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:36:28 +0100, Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Let me qualify that, because it's not 100% fine due to the changes in >PCMCIA land. > >Since PCMCIA cards are detected and drivers bound at boot time, we no Without an unbind/eject option? Implies reboot to remove a de

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc4 1/1] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH7R

2005-07-30 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:21:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[speaking to the audience] I wouldn't mind if someone did a pass >through pci_ids.h and removed all the constants that are not being used. > If constants are not being used, it's IMHO more appropriate to store >that

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc4 1/1] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH7R

2005-07-29 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:52:39 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >However you did your search, you did it wrong. The very first two >entries I tried had zero uses: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6]$ grepsrc ICH7_22 >./include/linux/pci_ids.h:#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ICH7_22 0x27e0

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc4 1/1] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH7R

2005-07-29 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:21:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[speaking to the audience] I wouldn't mind if someone did a pass >through pci_ids.h and removed all the constants that are not being used. Only these seem not referenced by source: PCI_CLASS_SYSTEM_PCI_HOTPLUG PCI_DEV

Re: Obsolete files in 2.6 tree

2005-07-29 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:40:46 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: drivers/media/video/zr36120.c drivers/media/video/zr36120_i2c.c drivers/media/video/zr36120_mem.c >> >> >> Being discussed on the V4L list > It seems that nobody are interested on maintaining i

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:22:25 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Breaks Toshiba laptop: hard lockup --> what is on screen is same as >> working dmesg up to point: "host/uhci.c: detected 2 port" >> >> Same .config as for 2.4.31-hf3 or 2.4.32-pre1 >> http://scatter.mine.nu/test

2.4.32-pre2: uhci.c: ff80: host controller halted. very bad

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, More info on Toshiba laptop lockup with 2.4.32-pre2: /var/log/syslog: Jul 28 22:59:33 tosh kernel: Linux version 2.4.32-pre2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5) #4 Thu Jul 28 22:57:05 EST 2005 Jul 28 22:59:33 tosh kernel: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) Jul

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:05:12 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Here goes another -pre, after a long period. Breaks Toshiba laptop: hard lockup --> what is on screen is same as working dmesg up to point: "host/uhci.c: detected 2 port" Same .config as for 2.4.31-hf3 or 2.4.32-pr

Re: xor as a lazy comparison

2005-07-27 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:58:48 -0400, "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I think the XOR thread was started by somebody as a ruse or >a joke. XOR will always destroy the value of an operand. You missed the part where somebody checked assembler output and found compiler optim

Re: Weird USB errors on HD

2005-07-26 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:34:10 -0600, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Karim Yaghmour wrote: >> That being said, shouldn't there be a way for the kernel to refuse to >> use this hd if it's not getting enough power. I don't know enough about >> USB to say, but isn't there something more ele

Re: [SOLVED ?] VIA KT400 + Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + ehci_hcd = IRQ trouble

2005-07-26 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:39:26 +0200, Michel Bouissou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yes, but it doesn't tell us why kernels 2.4x felt perfectly happy with the old >BIOS... You turned off 4k stacks? I have a Via KM400 chipset box locked up a few times, once under 2.4.31-hf2 after 4.5 hours compilin

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 test: finding compile errors with make randconfig

2005-07-25 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:27:22 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You should edit init/Kconfig to disallow CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=n, since >any errors you see with CONFIG_BROKEN=y aren't interesting. Straight over the top of my head yesterday :) Is the following what you had in mind?

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 test: finding compile errors with make randconfig

2005-07-24 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:27:22 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Looking at the .config, the problem is actually: > CONFIG_BROKEN=y > >You should edit init/Kconfig to disallow CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=n, since >any errors you see with CONFIG_BROKEN=y aren't interesting. Very good point.

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 test: finding compile errors with make randconfig

2005-07-24 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:39:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:42:58AM +1000, Grant Coady wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:13:27 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >it's generally useful, bu

Re: xor as a lazy comparison

2005-07-24 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:40:25 +0200 (MEST), Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have seen this in kernel/signal.c:check_kill_permission() > >&& (current->euid ^ t->suid) && (current->euid ^ t->uid) > >If current->euid and t->suid are the same, the xor returns 0, so these >st

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 test: finding compile errors with make randconfig

2005-07-24 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:13:27 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >it's generally useful, but the target kernel should be the latest -mm >kernel. 097-error:drivers/char/drm/drm_memory.h:163: error: redefinition of `drm_ioremap_nocache' 097-error:drivers/char/drm/drm_memory.h:163: error

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 test: finding compile errors with make randconfig

2005-07-24 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:01:22 +0200, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> context. Deliberately simplistic for traceability at the moment, truncated >> error length for this post. >> >If you could put the data online somewhere I'd be interrested in >taking a look at it. 7.4MB raw data --> low

2.6.13-rc3 test: finding compile errors with make randconfig

2005-07-23 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Few days ago I compiled 241 random configurations of 2.6.13-rc3, today I finally got around to parsing the results, top 40, sorted by name. Percentage is error_builds / total_builds. build script similar to: count=0 while [ $((++count)) -le $limit ]; do trial=$(printf %003d

Re: PROBLEM: IDE Zip drive doesn't work under 2.6.12

2005-07-22 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:21:05 -0400 (EDT), Jim Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Recently I upgraded from 2.6.11.11 to 2.6.12.3. This morning I tried >using my Zip drive... unfortunately it doesn't work under 2.6.12.3. To >verify that this was a kernel problem, I rebooted to 2.6.11.11. Here

Re: 2.6.12 vs. /sbin/cardmgr

2005-07-16 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:36:45 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tracy) wrote: >rct wrote: >> Dominik Brodowski wrote: >> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:37:22PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: >> > > Dominik Brodowski wrote: >> > > > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12:17AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: >> > > > > (/sb

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm1

2005-07-15 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:36:53 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm1/ Did _not_ break Yenta + CardBus on Toshiba ToPIC100: http://scatter.mine.nu/test/linux-2.6/tosh/dmesg-2.6.13-rc3-mm1a.gz --G

Re: eepro100/e100 broken in 2.6.13-rc3

2005-07-14 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:28:15 -0700, Jesse Brandeburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 7/13/05, Mikhail Kshevetskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> symptom >> === >> modprobe e100 >> ifconfig eth0 netmask >> >> result: >> === >> SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable >> >> There were no such err

linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm2: kconfig: warning: defaults for choice values not supported

2005-07-12 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, Lately in 2.6.13-rc* I've noticed a warning pop up: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm2a$ make menuconfig ... scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig net/ipv4/Kconfig:92:warning: defaults for choice values not supported <<== ?? # # using defaults found in .config # Linux K

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-07 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:32:52 -0400, Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >hdparm can also use O_DIRECT for the -t timing test. I've not been able to get dual channel I/O speed faster than single interface speed, either as 'md' RAID0 or simultaneous reading or writing done the other day: Time

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:51:50 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Btw, can you try this same thing (or at least a subset) with a large file >on a filesystem? Does that show the same pattern, or is it always just the >raw device? > Sure, take a while longer to vary by block siz

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:21:26 +0200, Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ># gcc -Wall -O2 -o oread oread.c ># time ./oread /dev/hda Executive Summary `` Comparing 'oread' with hdparm -tT on latest 2.4 vs 2.6 stable on various x86 boxen. Performance drops for 2.6, sometimes:

Re: [PATCH 2.4] PCI 2/2 update pci.ids (0/2)

2005-04-04 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:24:20 +1000, Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Marcelo, > >This patch updates pci.ids to latest snapshot, requires patch 1/2 >to compile. gzip'd due to size. Compile and run tested. > >Sign-off-by: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PRO

[PATCH 2.4] PCI 2/2 update pci.ids (0/2)

2005-04-04 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Marcelo, This patch updates pci.ids to latest snapshot, requires patch 1/2 to compile. gzip'd due to size. Compile and run tested. Sign-off-by: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body o

[PATCH 2.4] PCI 1/2 update pci.ids

2005-04-04 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Marcelo, Found the size of pci.ids strings (MAX_NAME_SIZE) needed increasing to accommodate latest pci.ids snapshot, compile failed at 140, succeeded at 150, so I went 160. This patch is required for the update to latest pci.ids snapshot patch 2/2. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <[EM

Re: dmesg verbosity [was Re: AGP bogosities]

2005-03-22 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:37:29 +0100, Diego Calleja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >El Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:07:53 -0500, >Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> I'm really not trolling, but I suspect if we made the boot process less >> verbose, people would start to wonder more about why Linux tak

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc1

2005-03-22 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Marcelo, On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:55:13 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Here goes the first release candidate for v2.4.30. drivers/pci/pci.ids is lagging http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids by a fair amount, >6300 lines diff I don't know policy on this reference, just

Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-03-20 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:27:55 +1100, Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "William" == William Beebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >William> Sure enough, I created the following script and ran it as a >William> non-root user: > >William> #!/bin/bash $0 & $0 & > >There are two approaches to