Re: [3/3,v3] tools/power turbostat: Enable accumulate RAPL display

2021-03-25 Thread Kurt Garloff
AT: >>> idx = IDX_PKG_ENERGY; >>> break; >>> case MSR_DRAM_ENERGY_STATUS: >>> @@ -353,7 +357,7 @@ int idx_valid(int idx) >>> { >>> switch (idx) { >>> case IDX_PKG_ENERGY: >>> - return do_rapl & RAPL_PKG; >>> + return do_rapl & (RAPL_PKG | RAPL_AMD_F17H); >>> case IDX_DRAM_ENERGY: >>> return do_rapl & RAPL_DRAM; >>> case IDX_PP0_ENERGY: >>> -- >>> 2.25.1 Unsurprisingly, the patch from Bas works for me as well. (Tested on a Zen 3 and an embedded Zen.) Tested-by: Kurt Garloff Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff Thanks, -- Kurt Garloff , Cologne, Germany

Re: [GIT PULL] Floppy patch for 5.12

2021-02-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
ata work again, despite current libblkid. (Fortunately, most use cdrom these days.) Best, -- Kurt Garloff , Cologne, Germany

[PATCH 1/1]: turbostat: Fix Pkg Power on Zen

2021-02-01 Thread Kurt Garloff
commit 5d399d05df42ffcaa2b3836b580631c4024487a0 Author: Kurt Garloff Date:   Mon Feb 1 09:01:47 2021 +     turbostat: Fix Pkg Power tracking on Zen         AMD Zen processors use a different MSR (MSR_PKG_ENERGY_STAT) than intel     (MSR_PKG_ENERGY_STATUS) to track package power; however we

Re: turbostat: Fix Pkg Power on Zen

2021-02-01 Thread Kurt Garloff
    98.80   0.06 1   17  9   0.40    2329    3400    308 0   38  282 0.00    0.35    99.29   [...] -- Kurt Garloff Cologne, Germany On 26/12/2020 13:13, Kurt Garloff wrote: > Hi Len, > > find attached fix to avoid exiting with -13 on Zen. Patch is against &g

Re: [PATCH] floppy: reintroduce O_NDELAY fix

2021-01-26 Thread Kurt Garloff
) to fail. It turns out that >> this is being used setfdprm userspace for ioctl-only open(). >> >> Reintroduce back the original behavior wrt !(FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE) >> modes, while still keeping the original O_NDELAY bug fixed. >> >> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.o

Re: NFS 4.2 client support broken on 5.10.5

2021-01-08 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Trond, Am 08.01.21 um 15:39 schrieb Kurt Garloff: > Hi Trond, > > On 08/01/2021 12:58, Trond Myklebust wrote: >> On Fri, 2021-01-08 at 12:41 +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote: >>> [...] >>> The kernel tree is on an NFS share, and I run 5.10.5 client kernel >&g

Re: NFS 4.2 client support broken on 5.10.5

2021-01-08 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Trond, On 08/01/2021 12:58, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Fri, 2021-01-08 at 12:41 +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote: >> Hi Neil, Anna, Trond, >> >> compiling a kernel, I suddenly started getting errors from objtool >> orc. >> (This first occurs on init/main.o.) >

NFS 4.2 client support broken on 5.10.5

2021-01-08 Thread Kurt Garloff
ly be able to see right away what's wrong. Best, -- Kurt Garloff Cologne, Germany /* testpwrite.c * reproduces issue on NFS 4.2 client on Linux 5.10.5 * (c) Kurt Garloff , 1/2021 * License: GNU GPL 2 or later */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #def

turbostat: Fix Pkg Power on Zen

2020-12-26 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Len, find attached fix to avoid exiting with -13 on Zen. Patch is against turbostat as included in Linux-5.10.2. Please merge. PS: This is probably material for -stable, as it used to work before on Zen (Zen2 aka Ryzen 3000 in my case). -- Kurt Garloff Cologne, Germany commit

IOMMU vs Ryzen embedded EMMC controller

2019-09-20 Thread Kurt Garloff
[AHCI mode] (rev 61) Looks like we'd need some quirks to actually create a pci_device handle for the embedded AMD eMMC controller? Thoughts? PS: Please copy me on responses, I'm off LKML for half a decade now :-O -- Kurt Garloff Cologne, Germany

[PATCH] usb/core/devio.c: Don't reject control message to endpoint with wrong direction bit

2013-09-24 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, this has been discussed on linux-usb and Alan Stern provided very helpful feedback. Please merge this patch ... From: Kurt Garloff Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:19:02 +0200 Subject: Tolerate wrong direction bit in endpoint address for control messages Trying to read data from the Pegasus

Re: [PATCH] usb/core/devio.c:tolerate wrong direction flag in control endpoints

2013-09-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Alan, Alan Stern schrieb: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > >> that qualifies as a bug or not. Maybe it should not claim to be a > > >> HID device then? > > > Maybe not. This particular combination of bRequestType and > bRequest &

Re: [PATCH] usb/core/devio.c:tolerate wrong direction flag in control endpoints

2013-09-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Alan, On 09/23/2013 04:28 AM, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Kurt Garloff wrote: > >> Well, this seems to be a question of terminology, no? >> I saw the endpoint byte as consisting of endpoint index plus the direction >> bit. > See the entry for &quo

Re: [PATCH] usb/core/devio.c:tolerate wrong direction flag in control endpoints

2013-09-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Alan, thanks for your review and your constructive comments! Alan Stern schrieb: >On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Kurt Garloff wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> USB devio rejects control messages when the index does not have the >> direction bit set correctly. > >I wouldn&

[PATCH] usb/core/devio.c:tolerate wrong direction flag in control endpoints

2013-09-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
keep me in copy for the discussion, my participation on LKML is mostly reading summaries from Jonathan and Thorsten these days, unfortunately. -- Kurt Garloff Cologne, Germany commit bc1e4e1ae1d5a4f9b2d263f22c651dd5ba4f8ff9 Author: Kurt Garloff Date: Sun Sep 22 11:54:59 2013 +0200 From

[PATCH] scsi_scan message cosmetic error

2007-01-08 Thread Kurt Garloff
overkill for something that does not tend to change. Please merge. (Patch applied against latest 2.6.20rc version that I tested.) From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [SCSI SCAN] Fix logging message for PQ3 devices The blacklist flags BLIST_ATTACH_PQ3 has value 0x100, not 0x

Re: [PATCH 3/5] Call security hooks conditionally if the security_op is filled out.

2005-08-25 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:20:31PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > Call security hooks conditionally if the security_op is filled out. > Branches can be more efficient than the unconditional indirect function > call. Inspired by patch from Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > >

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make cap default

2005-07-05 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi James, On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:40:40AM -0400, James Morris wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > # define COND_SECURITY(seop, def) \ > > (security_opt->seop == NULL) || \ > > security_ops

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make cap default

2005-07-05 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Tony, On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 03:51:52PM -0700, Tony Jones wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 05:43:33PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > Note that we could think of getting rid of dummy; however, it's > > still used as fallback for stubs that are not implemented by an

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Serge, On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:37:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Kurt Garloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Getting rid of dummy entirely would be better, I agree, but someone > > needs to review that this won't break anything. > > Unfortunately I t

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use conditional

2005-07-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Serge, On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:01:05AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Tony Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 08:59:02AM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > > > > The topic of replacing dummy (with capability) was discussed ther

Re: 2.6.11 vs 2.6.10 slowdown on i686

2005-03-18 Thread Kurt Garloff
6.10. > If not, complain again :) Is there a clean patchset that we should look at to test? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff, Director SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. pgp77K575xjBf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [rsbac] Thoughts on the "No Linux Security Modules framework" old claims

2005-02-25 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Amon, On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:28:38AM +0100, Amon Ott wrote: > On Donnerstag 24 Februar 2005 01:55, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > If you apply them (and I hope Linus will), capabilities is default > > and you can replace that by loading an LSM. You can stack capability > >

Re: [rsbac] Thoughts on the "No Linux Security Modules framework" old claims

2005-02-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
efault and you can replace that by loading an LSM. You can stack capability on top of the primary LSM again, if the latter supports this. Best regards, -- Kurt Garloff, Director SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. pgpoRQjzM1H0i.pgp Description: PGP signature

[PATCH] New 2/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 04:11:09PM -0500, Kurt Garloff wrote: > From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Clean LSM stub file [...] So, for convenience, I merged Andreas' fix on top of this patch into a new patch 2, which is attached. So CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK dis

Re: [PATCH] 4/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Rik, On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:54:07AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > >The case that security_ops points to the default capability_ > >security_ops is the fast path and arguably the more likely one > >on most systems. >

Re: [PATCH] 5/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi James, On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:50:01AM -0500, James Morris wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > /* Condition for invocation of non-default security_op */ > > #define COND_SECURITY(seop, def) \ > > - (likely(security_ops == &ca

Re: [PATCH] 2/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Andreas, On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:30:33PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 22:11, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > Rather than having every LSM hook twice, once for the case with > > CONFIG_SECURITY enabled and once for the disabled case, put > > eve

Re: Bogus REPORT_LUNS responses breaks SCSI LUN detection

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
host 1 channel 0 id 8 lun 0x0200080c0400 has a LUN larger than > currently supported. LUN flattening issue? > I noticed that these LUN hex values decode to text fragments: > Easy RAID decodes to: 'e.syRAID' > Vendor=Transtec, lun decodes to 't.anstec'. Ask them to fix it. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff, Director SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. pgpgtc8QYpG6h.pgp Description: PGP signature

[PATCH] 5/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Test security_enabled var rather than security_ops pointer References: 40217, 39439 Rather than doing a pointer comparison, test an integer var for being null. Should be slightly faster. I consider this patch as optional. Note that it do

[PATCH] 4/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Consider the capability case the likely one References: 40217, 39439 The case that security_ops points to the default capability_ security_ops is the fast path and arguably the more likely one on most systems. So mark it likely to tell the co

[PATCH] 2/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Clean LSM stub file References: 40217, 39439 Rather than having every LSM hook twice, once for the case with CONFIG_SECURITY enabled and once for the disabled case, put everything in one inline function. This reduces the chance of the two to

[PATCH] 3/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Replace indirect calls by a branch References: 40217, 39439 In the LSM stub collection, rather do a branch than an indirect call. Many of the functions called do only return 0 or do nothing for the default (capability) case. This is a fas

[PATCH] 1/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Default to capability rather than dummy if no LSM is loaded References: 40217, 39439 If a kernel is compiled with CONFIG_SECURITY to enable LSM, the default behaviour changes unless a user load capability. This is undesirable. This patch

[PATCH] 0/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
are against 2.6.11-rc4 and follow in subsequent mails. -- Kurt Garloff, Director SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. pgpmSdj323S6S.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SMP spin-locks

2001-06-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:26:05PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Question 2: What is the purpose of the code sequence, "repz nop" Puts iP4 into low power mode. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail

Re: threading question

2001-06-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
d to be much faster than thread creation. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

[PATCH] ide oops in 2.2.19/2.4.4

2001-06-11 Thread Kurt Garloff
FUJITSU MPD3130AT, 12417MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1583/255/63, (U)DMA hdc: st3144AT, 124MB w/32kB Cache, CHS=1001/15/17 Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux:

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Kurt Garloff
2.6/3.0 comes out. That's fine with me. Well, maybe you never considered applying this policy change right now within 2.4, Linus. Well, ignore my posting then, if you like. Best regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma

Re: nfs MAP_SHARED corruption fix

2001-05-09 Thread Kurt Garloff
, Trond. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security /** test_nfs_shared_map.c * * Creates a file, expands

Re: nfs MAP_SHARED corruption fix

2001-05-08 Thread Kurt Garloff
+len-1) */ /* Try adding here: msync (adr, len, MS_SYNC); */ munmap (adr, len); close (fd); The code works on files on local harddisks and on NFS volumes on a 2.2 kernel, but breaks on NFS drives on a 2.4.4 kernel. msync() works around the bug. Andrea's patch did help as well. Regards, -- K

vt.c: unimap changes to (fg_?)console

2001-05-07 Thread Kurt Garloff
y which terminal you want to. I already sent it to Andries. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security

Re: NFS-performance drop with 2.4.4 and 8139too

2001-05-02 Thread Kurt Garloff
knfsd, linux-2.4.4, 8139too-0.9.16 > linux-2.4.4, 8139too-0.9.16 > > transfers seem to start with about 2 MB/s but drop > immediatly to about 20 K/s. PS: If you send your .config, pipe it via grep -v "^#" Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: OnStream USB

2001-05-01 Thread Kurt Garloff
ar -b 64, see README.) Newer versions of osst overcome this block size limitation, but those have not yet been merged to the mainstream kernel. If you find trouble, please also report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enjoy! -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG

Re: read perf improved by mounting ext2?

2001-04-24 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:58:58AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24 2001, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > There are enough partitions to see a clear pattern: Those with mounted ext2 > > filesystems perform better. Umounting them does not harm, they just need to > > have been

read perf improved by mounting ext2?

2001-04-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
not harm, they just need to have been mounted once. reiser or (v)fat however don't improve anything. swap does, as does a ext2 over raid5. Kernel 2.4.3pre7; Dual iPIII-700 system; i440BX MoBo. Is this to be expected? Blocksize issues? Readahead behaviour? What's changed on ext2 mounting

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
impossible when you have to redesign stuff and have to wait for stabilization ... Good luck! -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: APIC errors ...

2001-04-18 Thread Kurt Garloff
aybe some timing stuff at the local APICs ... Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: 2.4.3: still experiencing APIC-related hangs

2001-04-09 Thread Kurt Garloff
gt; Where is this patch found? I am not seeing it so far on kernel.org. Attached, as I assume more people are interested in it ... Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE G

Re: gcc oopses with 2.4.3

2001-04-06 Thread Kurt Garloff
tion. Your CPU was reading some machine insn from memory it never heard about. => exception 6 => signal 4 (SIGILL) If your main memory is not faulty, it's your cache or your CPU. Or your compiler. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhove

APIC errors ...

2001-04-05 Thread Kurt Garloff
ms, I'll post a summary to LKML.) Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG] (See mail hea

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-24 Thread Kurt Garloff
) Does the OOM killer choose the right processes? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: [CHECKER] blocking w/ spinlock or interrupt's disabled

2001-03-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
something? PS: Very nice work! Keep on going! Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: SMP on assym. x86

2001-03-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:20:40PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Notice, that one of your CPUs is twice as fast as second one. You'll > need some heavy updates in scheduler. I know that making sure to have a fair sche

Re: Some strange patch to drivers/input/keybdev.c

2001-03-23 Thread Kurt Garloff
kbd attached. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security --- linux.compile.old/drivers/char/pc_keyb.c

Re: Interesting post from the MC project to linux-kernel. :block while spinlock held...

2001-03-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
drivers/scsi/atp870u.c < > drivers/scsi/psi240i.c < > drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c< > drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c <---- ^^ How do I fond about about details? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: SMP on assym. x86

2001-03-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
e timing each run - possibly thats not so clean but its > more robust. > > I rather like Kurt's patch Thx! If you have some requests to make it suitable for -ac kernels, I'll do my best. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Eindhoven

Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.

2001-03-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
ter having > enabled SMP on my UP box. As you have two CPUs, you can spend more time in CPU than your wall clock shows if you time multithreaded processes or multiple processes. At most (ideal case) twice as much. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eind

SMP on assym. x86

2001-03-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
stepping 02 Patch against 2.4.2 is attached. Feedback is welcome. I think the patch is safe, but I could imagine that the earlier SMP initialization might cause problems for some people or other archs. I would like this patch to go into the mainstream kernel, if no problem can be found. Regards

Re: About DC-315U scsi driver

2001-03-11 Thread Kurt Garloff
scsi > found by me. > > Can anyone do me a favor to modify the driver in order to suite the > new kernel? Compiling it should be no problem. Making it work flawlessly is. I'd like to know as well. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Ein

Re: Patch submissions

2001-03-06 Thread Kurt Garloff
ich was not supported before, we may want to add it to the kernel to get it tested and improved. But, that's probably what you meant. > probably even out of linux-kernel ... No. I want to see experimental stuff on l-k. That's what it's meant for. Regards, -- Ku

Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?

2001-02-27 Thread Kurt Garloff
later, Andries? I also have a patch to make it available for the kernel ... http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Securi

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.3 is available

2001-02-27 Thread Kurt Garloff
nel device tables ... As there was no support amongst USB crowds for adding a version info for the table formats, the modutils-2.4.2 could not provide support for per 2.4.0 kernel hotplug device tables. Nor can 2.4.3. The rest of the functionality is unaffected. Keith, correct me if I misunders

Re: finding Tekram SCSI dc395U linux patch driver:

2001-02-20 Thread Kurt Garloff
investing time to work on the driver and potentially even fix problems. Pissed off, because I think it's very bad to fix problems and not submit the patches back to the official maintainers. BTW, if somebody can provide a reasonable description of the chip (TRM-S1040), the chances that I'd

Re: dc295

2001-02-12 Thread Kurt Garloff
reasonable chipset docu. > Any insight appreciated. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [SuSE Nuernberg,

Re: Confirmation request about new 2.4.x. kernel limits

2001-01-10 Thread Kurt Garloff
we don't support 64-bit PCI bus master cards, Indeed. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: The NSA's Security-Enhanced Linux (fwd)

2000-12-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
e to a module, which then takes the decision ... Just like PAM in userspace. http://www.rsbac.org/ I think it's a good approach and I think, it has gone much further than the NSA stuff. I'd prefer to have RSBAC merged in 2.5. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

tmscsim (DC390/AM53C974) SCSI driver 2.0f

2000-12-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
meters override SCSI Bios settings I apologize for the diffs: There have been indenting changes, which make the diffs hardly readable. I'll send you diffs against 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-test12 in private mail. Please apply! Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

osst driver for 2.4.0

2000-12-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
tream devices. The code for this is by Kai and has already been merged into the kernel ... So, please consider applying the patch against 2.4.0-test13-pre3, which I send to you in private mail. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG

Re: 2.4.0 kernels and vpn

2000-12-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
tor/ I'd recommend using FreeS/WAN, though as it's a standardized solution, even offering interoperability with other OSes. > Also, I received a comment that all I had to do was enable gre > tunneling, is this correct? This does not give you the P from VPN. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff

osst driver update 0.8.5->0.8.6.1

2000-12-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
list corruption by preventing to fsf past EOD. * Error handling fixes for the polling mode (used on IDE). Patch is against 2.2.19pre2. Please apply! Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel devel

Re: 2.4.0 kernels and vpn

2000-12-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
an/ Or look at CIPE (kerneli patches). Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

AMD-Viper & Maxtor 91536U6 dieing

2000-12-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-20 Thread Kurt Garloff
t away with using the reserved memory. The safe way is to respect the BIOS' RAM map. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

DC390/tmscsim-2.0f SCSI driver released

2000-12-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
ever since with both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. (Maybe even 2.0, I didn't test.) I'd be glad to get some feedback. If it's positive, I'll ask Alan and Linus to put it into the mainstream kernel. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, N

Re: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
root 1, 9 Dec 17 22:41 /dev/urandom Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: TIOCGDEV ioctl

2000-12-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
ht device no all the time and how to create the correct symlink also in 2.2. Yes, it needs to work on both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. So, I'd like to ask for inclusion of the original patch. Or can we come up with the /proc/tty solution without adding too much code? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff &

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre2

2000-12-17 Thread Kurt Garloff
s not do it completely correctly; otherwise you should have had crashes before ... Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

TIOCGDEV ioctl

2000-12-15 Thread Kurt Garloff
&tty); Patches against 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-testX are attached. Please apply. -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security

Re: kapm-idled : is this a bug?

2000-12-11 Thread Kurt Garloff
cosmetical one introduces a real one: Don't do it!) Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: Linux for local languages - patch

2000-12-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
PROTECTED] > > Wouldnt mind seeing your patch. Andries, I sent you a patch a couple of months ago which does enable the support of wide characters and another font (besides the sun12x22) making use of it. I hope it's in your codebase by now, so it does not get lost when the advance

Re: IDE_TAPE problem wiht ONSTREAM DI30

2000-12-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
I hope that Onstream gets the > message in the end: They do NOT support Linux. I have a completely different impression. Otherwise neither the DI-30 would be supported by ide-tape, nor would there be the osst driver, supporting SC-x0, DI-30 (over ide-scsi) and

Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

2000-11-30 Thread Kurt Garloff
have to avoid? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

Re: IDE-SCSI/HPT366 Problem

2000-11-29 Thread Kurt Garloff
from the harddisk on an IDE channel and write it (with cdrecord) to some CDRW on the same IDE channel, you have to expect trouble: As with IDE there is no disconnect from the bus (as opposed to SCSI), you risk buffer underruns. A lockup however is not to be expected :-( Regards, -- Kurt

Re: modutils-2.3.21: modprobe looping

2000-11-28 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:24:48PM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote: > This is a pity, because I think the current behaviour is not acceptable, > as it can kill the machine by just being invoked by kmod. > I will try to make sense out of the code and make sure that modprobe > will not

2.4.0-test: rmmod -a without effect

2000-11-28 Thread Kurt Garloff
uess it's the kernel's fault. Same behaviour with 2.4.0-test9 and -test11-ac2. Is this known and to be expected? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development

Re: modutils-2.3.21: modprobe looping

2000-11-28 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:33:53AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:22:59 +0100, > Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Find attached the modules.dep that caused this: There is a circular > >dependency of pppoe on pppox on pppoe on >

modutils-2.3.21: modprobe looping

2000-11-28 Thread Kurt Garloff
case. Test system was a PPC machine running 2.4.0-test9. Do you have a fix for this? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG

USB-Storage drivers

2000-11-27 Thread Kurt Garloff
rs without patching the Config file. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG] (See mail head

Re: [2.2.17] yes: oops again in /proc/scsi/scsi

2000-11-27 Thread Kurt Garloff
-single-device housekeeping in the SCSI layer. You told that you did parallel rescan-scsi-bus.sh calls. That may have confused the kernel. Did the above oops happen without such abuse? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulati

Re: [2.2.17] oops in /proc/scsi/scsi

2000-11-27 Thread Kurt Garloff
applied but too short for my Plextor? Well, the default for tmscsim is 1.5s time after a reset before it start command processing again. This can be changed by echoing DelayReset values tp the proc file. If your Plextor requires 5s, just do echo "delayreset 5" >/proc/scs

Re: [2.2.17] oops in /proc/scsi/scsi

2000-11-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
to trigger it. The above looks like the bug is occuring somewhere else. Having said this, I'd like to ask you to try 2.0e6 of the tmscsim driver and check whether you are able to reproduce the bug. Thanks! Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL

Re: [PATCH] Speed up interrupt entry

2000-11-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
S) ",%edx\n\t" \ ^^^ > - "movl %edx,%ds\n\t" \ > - "movl %edx,%es\n\t" > + "movl $" STR(__KERNEL_DS),%eax\n\t" \ ^ You missed a ' "' Apart from that it

Re: PROBLEM: tmscsim driver on test11-pre7 stops working when starting X

2000-11-21 Thread Kurt Garloff
rect only if level triggered IRQs are used. > I just fear that Linus might avoid large patches for the now > imminent 2.4... :-? The 2.0d driver does not work correctly with 2.4, and I'm trying to make sure 2.0f will be perfect. I don't see why Linus should refuse to accept a patch. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature

2.4.0-t9: Oops in ipcperms

2000-11-14 Thread Kurt Garloff
not be reliable. Apparently, the ipcp passed by sys_shmat() to ipcperms() was invalid. Any ideas? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security <

Re: Where did kgcc go in 2.4.0-test10 ?

2000-11-01 Thread Kurt Garloff
95.2 or 2.96(??). Is that a patch that leaked in > the way to test10, or is for another reason ?. kgcc is a redhat'ism. They invented this package because their 2.96 fails compiling a stable kernel. However, it's not a good idea to dist specific code into the official kernel tree.

Re: Tekram's TRM-1040S USCSI proc driver?

2000-10-28 Thread Kurt Garloff
me and I do not want to push the driver into the kernel, as long as I do not understand and solved these issues. After all, it's not a sound driver that just fails to operate, but a SCSI driver which you entrust your data to. Sorry! Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: NFS in 2.4.x

2000-10-17 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:22:48AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: > >Ask RedHat. > > I'm _not_ using a Red Hat kernel. That is why I posted here, > because Red Hat will tell me that I'm not using their > kernel. People h

Re: OnStream DI-30 with ide-tape version 1.16f problems

2000-10-17 Thread Kurt Garloff
t;-> ht0: 990KBps, 64*32kB buffer, 10208kB pipeline, 60ms >tDSC > kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 0, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 MEDIUM NOT PRESENT. > kernel: ide-tape: ht0: drive not ready Did you insert a medium? Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: tmscsim update for Linux 2.2.18pre15?

2000-10-11 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:15:08AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > Actually, 2.0e3 did include one rather important fix which solved the > > Uh. Fix? This sounds like working around very broken devices to me, or > are devices a

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