Re: [PATCH] modules: CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS: add hint that userspace support may easily be missing.

2015-06-03 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jun 04, Rusty Russell wrote: > But disappointing that Debian doesn't configure with it, and there's no > easy way to check it. Looks like Ubuntu vivid is the same. > > Might be time to change the default in kmod? Changing the default will not make me enable compression support, but providin

Re: isapnp & module autoload (udev?)

2007-08-24 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Aug 24, Meelis Roos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tested 2.6.23-rc3 along with Debian unstable on a older pentium2-era > PC that has a ISA bus sound card that isapnp finds. snd-sb finds it too > using isapnp. However, there seems to be no module autoloading > happening. > > So, the questio

Re: [patch 2.6.19-rc6] fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers

2006-12-06 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Dec 06, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please explain in more details how hotplugging would be broken, possibly > > with examples. > First, for reference, I refer to hotplugging using the trivial ASH scripts > from [1], updated by removing no-longer-needed special cases for platf

Re: [patch 2.6.19-rc6] fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers

2006-12-05 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Dec 05, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The pushback on $SUBJECT patch. Which amounts to wanting to break hotplug > for several busses, unless someone (NOT the folk promoting the breakage!) Please explain in more details how hotplugging would be broken, possibly with examples. > T

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Apr 04, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, like they did with tg3 and others. This sucks, yes. -- ciao, Marco (@debian.org) signature.asc Descript

Re: Ext2, fsync() and MTA's?

2001-05-23 Thread Marco d';Itri
On May 21, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Just set chattr +S on the spool dir. That's what the flag is for. >The biggest problem with that is that it propagates to subdirectories >and files --- would a version of the flag which applied only to >directories be a help here? Y

peer shrinks window

2001-03-09 Thread Marco d';Itri
In two days I've got 46 messages like: Mar 7 08:00:55 attila kernel: TCP: peer 163.162.41.4:37582/20 shrinks window 752789960:5840:752797200. Bad, what else can I say? If needed I can ask about the os running there, I think it's solaris. (nmap confirms: Solaris 7) Linux attila 2.4.0-test11 #1

Re: [PATCH][CFT] per-process namespaces for Linux

2001-02-26 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Feb 26, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There is no way to implement them without credentials' cache. Which needs >to be done for many other reasons, but that's a separate patch and >separate story. If it's done - no serious penalty involved. However, >I doubt that we want a uni

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-25 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Dec 25, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Add a printk() to __remove_inode_page() that complains whenever it removes >a dirty page. > >Oh, in order to not see this with swap pages (which _can_ be removed when >they are dirty, if all users of them are gone), add a PageClearDirty(

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Dec 24, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /* The page is dirty, or locked, move to inactive_dirty list. */ > if (page->buffers || TryLockPage(page)) { > ... > >and change the test to > > if (page->buffers || PageDirty(page) || TryLockPage(page)) { D

Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Dec 24, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I put "cp active active.ok" in the rc file before shutting down the >> daemon and at the next boot the files are different, every time. > >Could you send me both files? BTW, which filesystem it is? I use ext2. The files are not corrupted

innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-24 Thread Marco d';Itri
I can confirm the bug which loses updates to the inn active file when it's unmapped is present again in 2.4.0-test12. I put "cp active active.ok" in the rc file before shutting down the daemon and at the next boot the files are different, every time. Alexander Viro posted this test case: #inclu

Re: All INNOMINATE linux-list feeds are now killed...

2000-12-12 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Dec 06, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We deeply regret this and apologize honestly, but also would >> like to resubscribe... >Could you make it a one-way list this time? If vger postmasters do not mind, next week I'm going to unidirectinally gate linux-kernel (and maybe other h

null TTY in tty_fasync?

2000-09-20 Thread Marco d';Itri
At the end of a UUCP poll this message was logged: Sep 19 23:42:47 wonderland kernel: Warning: null TTY for (04:40) in tty_fasync What does it mean? Linux wonderland.linux.it 2.4.0-test8 #12 Sat Sep 16 19:35:51 CEST 2000 i586 unknown -- ciao, Marco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

The INN/mmap bug

2000-09-17 Thread Marco d';Itri
I added to block_write_full_page() the debugging code suggested by Alexander Viro: if (inode->i_dev == 0x305 && inode->i_ino == 48991) // Md printk("block_write_full_page: writing page %d, size %Ld\n", page->index, inode->i_size); and I have ju

Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-16 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Sep 15, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I tried doing that for Andrea but I think it's not useful, active is >> mmapped and strace shows nothing interesting. >mmapped... Does mmap() go past the end of file? I asked INN developers and they think it should not. The file size is f

Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-15 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Sep 14, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - the whole active file is now 100% identical to the saved copy >Ugh... How about relevant subset of strace? I tried doing that for Andrea but I think it's not useful, active is mmapped and strace shows nothing interesting. >> Right now

Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-13 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Sep 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Innd data corruption, probably caused by bug truncation bug (Rik > van Riel) This bug has not been fixed, I can still reproduce it (but not every time). This is how it happens: - INN (1.7.2+insync+other patches, the debian package I maintain) i