Sorry for this off-topic post, but,
I'm getting this email way too many times. I now have 5 copies of the email
from Alexander Viro (in response to Linus).
Is anyone else facing the same problem?
Is vger messed up again?
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-Sudhi.
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You have a race condition.
> int flagvar = 0;
> struct semaphore blocking_sem;
>
> void function_called_from_kernel_thread(void)
> {
> chew_on_hardware();
^^^
As soon as you do/did this, the IRQ must've happened. So, before the next
statement is executed, the IRQ handler is
I just got two separate crashes using 2.2.17 and reiserfs.
H/W:
FIC-SD11 with K7-700, 384MB of RAM
Dlink Quad Ethernet card (tulip)
The first one:
find . -print | cpio -C 4096 -pumd /newplace
i.e., copying a rather large directory tree from one disk to another
dis
Thanks Alan!
In fact, I tested mem=384M and it seems to _not_ crash. So, I assume that it
works.
> The BIOS E801 memory reporting is buggy on a lot of these
> boards. Since the
> vendors dont appear to care you probably want to pass
> mem=383M or mem=384M
> depending if the BIOS uses top of me
I am running 2.2.17 + reiserfs patches on Athlon-700 on FIC-SD11 with 384MB
of RAM.
The weird thing is Linux only sees 64MB of RAM! The BIOS sees 384MB of RAM.
I am working around this by saying "mem=384M" on the cmdline.
Additional h/w include: 3 Quantum 15GB disks, 52x IDE CDROM, Dlink
Quad-et
Hello,
I am writing a /proc interface to the ethernet bonding driver and had the
following questions:
1) Why does a slave interface need an IP address? Isn't it sufficient if
slave->flags is set to IFF_UP|IFF_RUNNING ?
2) What happens if the MTU of differnet slave devices are different? How
doe
Hi all,
I am trying very hard to get kernel 2.4.0-test8 to recognize the Promise
Ultra66 PCI IDE add-on card -- based on PDC 20265.
The motherboard is a FIC SD-11 (Athlon 700). The only other PCI card is a
D-link quad ethernet card (DFE-570TX).
The kernel correctly recognizes the card as a PDC-
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