Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > But yeah, if Debian/sid is just using random compiler snapshots of the > day, I htink we can just bury this as "pointless". Err, debian/sid *isn't* defaulting to gcc-4.2 yet, but it is made available to people who want to install it and play with it.

Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm hoping your Debian/sid gcc version is some very experimental > known-buggy one, and not something that people _expect_ to be solid and > work well? No such luck. :( Debian's close to moving to gcc-4.2 as the default compiler in sid. We've rebui

Re: OpenAFS gatekeepers request addition of AFS_SUPER_MAGIC to magic.h

2006-12-29 Thread Stephen Frost
* Adam Megacz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --- include/linux/magic.h 2006-12-29 15:48:50.0 -0800 > +++ include/linux/magic.h 2006-11-29 13:57:37.0 -0800 > @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ > > #define ADFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xadf5 > #define AFFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xadff > -#define AFS

Re: [git patches] libata fixes

2006-12-20 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > FWIW the Tejun cleanups are a fix, split into three reviewable pieces. > > Also, my local iomap branch has advanced sufficiently enough that I > think it's high time to kill those libata warnings that spew on every > build. (I hear the crowds roar) Perh

Re: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Lion Vollnhals ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 14.08.2005, 09:29 -0400 schrieb Willem Riede: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:54:35 +, Allen Martin wrote: > > That is disappointing. I was seriously considering a motherboard with your > > chipset because of its impressive specifications

Re: 10 GB in Opteron machine

2005-07-22 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jakob Oestergaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is really the clever way to run a 64-bit system - 99% of what is > commonly run on most systems only gains overhead from the 64-bit address > space - tools like postfix, cron, syslog, apache, ... will not gain from > being native 64-bit. For mo

Re: Kernel header policy

2005-07-11 Thread Stephen Frost
* Marc Aurele La France ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > To that end, I would propose, as a possible technical solution, extending > the kernel build process to detect these errors during kernel development. Well, couple stupid comments: #1: I'm not *entirely* sure Linus reads every mail to lkml.. D

Re: [PATCH] dynamic tick patch

2005-01-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Benjamin Herrenschmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hrm... reading more of the patch & Martin's previous work, I'm not sure > I like the idea too much in the end... The main problem is that you are > just "replaying" the ticks afterward, which I see as a problem for > things like sched_clock() wh

Re: rsync hangs on RedHat 2.4.2 or stock 2.4.4

2001-06-12 Thread Stephen Frost
* David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Russell King writes: > > At the time I suggested it was because of a missing wakeup in 2.4.2 kernels, > > but I was shouted down for using 2.2.15pre13. Since then I've seen these > > reports appear on lkml several times, each time without a sol

'spurious APIC interrupt' - Dell PowerEdge 1400

2001-03-26 Thread Stephen Frost
Running into a problem with one of our Dell PowerEdge 1400 servers. We see these messages very rarely, but after they show up the machine goes into a really odd state: Mar 26 09:37:27 maul kernel: spurious APIC interrupt on CPU#1, should never happen. Mar 26 09:37:27 maul kernel: unexpected IRQ v

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* fsnchzjr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Watch Microsoft's Jim Allchin go Linux-bashing!!! > Nice little article on how we're all going to die of herpes from our > repeated exposition to Linux... > http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc Just reme

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* David Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP > kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined. I don't have more > time to debug it but I'll strip the config and put it up at > http://stuph.org/smp-config They're try

Re: Updated zerocopy patches on kernel.org

2001-01-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Now against 2.4.1-pre2: > > ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.1p2-1.diff.gz Tried it with 2.4.1-pre3, didn't have any problem applying it, but when I rebooted the system it pretty much had no interest in talking T

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > Now, the interesting bit here is that the processes can grow to be > > pretty large (200M+, up as high as 500M, higher if we let it ;) ) and what > > happens with MOSIX i

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread Stephen Frost
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > but it just doesn't apply when you look at some other applications, > > such as streaming out video data or performing fileserving in a > > high-performance compute cluster where you are serving bulk

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-08 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jes Sorensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "David" == David S Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't question Alexey's skills and I have no intentions of working > against him. All I am asking is that someone lets me know if they make > major changes to my code so I can keep track

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Oliver Xymoron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > A 100ms delay sounds like some interrupt shut up or similar (and then > > timer handling makes it limp along). > > Possibly related datapoint: after several days of uptime, my > 2.4.0-test10pre? machin

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > This go around I compiled everything into the kernel, actually. > > If it would be useful I can compile them as modules reboot and then see > > what happen

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > Any idea if these issues would cause a general slow-down of a > > machine? For no apparent reason after 5 days running 2.4.0test12 > > everything going

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > machine? For no apparent reason after 5 days running 2.4.0test12 > > everything going through my firewall (set up using iptables) I got about > > 100ms time added on to pings and traceroutes. I'll probably reboot the > > machine tonight and see if that h

Re: test13-pre1 changelog

2000-12-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Especially if we get that netfilter problem sorted out (see the other > thread about the IP fragmentation issues associated with that one), and > if we figure out why apparently some people have trouble with external > modules (at least one person h

Re: 2.2.17 & Eepro(10)

2000-11-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* Jeroen Geusebroek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm having troubles with the eepro driver included in kernel 2.2.17. > It stops sometimes with no apparent reason. The one thing i noticed > is that it seems to have a lot of carrier problems(998!) > > This is part of the result from ifconfig: >

Re: 32-bit pid_t / security

2000-10-01 Thread Stephen Frost
* Andries Brouwer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So, in the long run we want a large pid_t. What about the short run? > For today the disadvantages are negligeable, and for people who > like security there are definite advantages. Much more the problem is giving people the *impression* of a

Re: Linux kernel modules development in C++

2000-09-28 Thread Stephen Frost
* Igmar Palsenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Tell my teacher it's a good idea, he is telling otherwise :) Academics and reality don't tend to equate. :) Something to do with the world not exactly being perfect. The reality is, if you hadn't guessed, Linux is doing rather well. :)

Re: eepro100 trouble

2000-09-06 Thread Stephen Frost
* Admin Mailing Lists ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:57:54PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > > > > > I'm having endless problem with an eepro100 here. After some trying found out > > > that doing a soft reset (ctrl