Re: Request for comments: reserving a value for O_SEARCH and O_EXEC

2013-08-12 Thread Rich Felker
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:42:03AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > You'll have the same problem that O_TMPFILE had: the kernel currently > ignores unrecognized flags. I wonder if it's time to add a new syscall > (or syscalls) with more sensible semantics. That's not a problem here. In fact, in th

Re: Request for comments: reserving a value for O_SEARCH and O_EXEC

2013-08-12 Thread Andy Lutomirski
[cc: linux-api] On 08/02/2013 07:48 PM, Rich Felker wrote: > Hi, > > At present, one of the few interface-level conformance issues for > Linux against POSIX 2008 is lack of O_SEARCH and O_EXEC. I am trying > to get full, conforming support for them both into musl libc (for > which I am the maint

Request for comments: reserving a value for O_SEARCH and O_EXEC

2013-08-02 Thread Rich Felker
Hi, At present, one of the few interface-level conformance issues for Linux against POSIX 2008 is lack of O_SEARCH and O_EXEC. I am trying to get full, conforming support for them both into musl libc (for which I am the maintainer) and glibc (see the libc-alpha post[1]). At this point, I believe i

Re: [RFC V1] DA9210 driver request for comments

2013-06-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 02:42:04PM +0100, Steve Twiss wrote: > From: Steve Twiss > > The following describes the driver DA9210 from Dialog Semiconductor Ltd. > > This is a request for comment relating to the Dialog DA9210 driver. > The patches have been made relative to the following kernel vers

[RFC V1] DA9210 driver request for comments

2013-06-20 Thread Steve Twiss
From: Steve Twiss The following describes the driver DA9210 from Dialog Semiconductor Ltd. This is a request for comment relating to the Dialog DA9210 driver. The patches have been made relative to the following kernel version: linux-next next-20130620 This driver is for the Dialog DA9210 Mult

Re: Removing MAX_ARG_PAGES (request for comments/assistance)

2007-01-02 Thread David Howells
Ollie Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - I haven't tested this on a NOMMU architecture. Could someone please > validate this? There are a number of potential problems with NOMMU: (1) The argument data is copied twice (once into kernel memory and once out of kernel memory). (2) The perm

Re: Request for comments

2001-07-19 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:33:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Cornel Ciocirlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I was thinking of starting a project to implement a Cisco-like > > "NetFlow" architecture for Linux. This would be relevant for edge routers > > and/or network monitoring

Re: Request for comments

2001-07-19 Thread Andi Kleen
Cornel Ciocirlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I was thinking of starting a project to implement a Cisco-like > "NetFlow" architecture for Linux. This would be relevant for edge routers > and/or network monitoring devices. Linux 2.1+ already has such a cache in form of the rtcache si

Re: Request for comments

2001-07-19 Thread jlnance
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:44:52PM +0300, Cornel Ciocirlan wrote: > What this would do is keep a "cache" of all the "flows" that are passing > through the system; a flow is defined as the set of packets that have the > same headers - or header fields. For example we could choose "ip source, > ip

Re: Request for comments

2001-07-19 Thread Francois Romieu
Cornel Ciocirlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ecrit : [heavy linux networking rewrite in sight] > Is it useful at all ? Point b) above could be implemented in userspace > (Actually I've done a basic skeleton a while ago). Are the others worth > the trouble ? > > What do you gurus think ? * Are you sure o

Re: Request for comments

2001-07-19 Thread Crutcher Dunnavant
++ 19/07/01 18:44 +0300 - Cornel Ciocirlan: > a) more efficient packet filtering. After a cache entry is created for a > flow, we apply the ACLs for the packet and associate the action with the > flow. All subsequent packets belonging to the same flow will be > dropped/accepted without re-appying

Request for comments

2001-07-19 Thread Cornel Ciocirlan
Hi, I was thinking of starting a project to implement a Cisco-like "NetFlow" architecture for Linux. This would be relevant for edge routers and/or network monitoring devices. What this would do is keep a "cache" of all the "flows" that are passing through the system; a flow is defined as the

Update of Request for comments on: Linux vs. Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64 UNIX.

2001-05-23 Thread Cesar Da Silva
There's a new update of the above thesis on the link: http://www.student.hig.se/~na98csa/linux/ and a postscript file at: http://www.student.hig.se/~na98csa/linux/xjobb.ps I would appreciate help on filling in the empty spaces on Linux and IRIX. Do also please provide a reference to where the

Request for comments on a thesis about Linux vs. IRIX, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Tru64 UNIX.

2001-05-23 Thread Cesar Da Silva
Hi! I'm looking for some help on reviewing my thesis about comparing the kernel functions/features in Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, and Tru64 UNIX. I would appreciate if you also could point out some other features that I should add to my list (in the tables, on page 25-28 on the postscript f

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Brian Gerst wrote: > > The datasheets are somewhat confusing, as it doesn't mention bit 10 > > at all, just an oversized box for bit 11. > The Athlons support sysenter and syscall, but the K6's only support > syscall. The earlier version of syscall (bit 10) is undocumented b

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread Brian Gerst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Brian Gerst wrote: > > > > features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow > > > > The K6's don't support sysenter/sysexit. > > The K6 datasheets suggests otherwise. > Some models seem to have sysenter/sysexit, whilst othe

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > And where does sysenter/sysexit fit in? > sysenter/sysexit is the "sep" feature. Ah, of course. *slaps head* regards, davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Brian Gerst wrote: > > > > features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow > > > > The K6's don't support sysenter/sysexit. > > The K6 datasheets suggests otherwise. > Some models seem to have sysenter/sysexit, whilst others

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Brian Gerst wrote: > > features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow > > The K6's don't support sysenter/sysexit. The K6 datasheets suggests otherwise. Some models seem to have sysenter/sysexit, whilst others have syscall/sysret. No model seems to h

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > That is actually correct -- the K6-2 doesn't actually have mtrr and sep, > but has syscall and k6_mtrr instead (the stepping bug causes k6_mtrr not > to show up.) Part of the bugginess of the old system was using one flag > for multiple purposes. Thi

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread Brian Gerst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi hpa, > > First test, the AMD K6-2. > > Also, look at the feature flags: > before: > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mmx 3dnow > > after: > features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow > > Note, I lost MTRR

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi hpa, > > First test, the AMD K6-2. > > Before your patch.. > cpu family : 5 > model : 8 > stepping: 12 > > After.. > > cpu family : 5 > model : 8 > stepping: 4 > > L

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
Hi hpa, First test, the AMD K6-2. Before your patch.. cpu family : 5 model : 8 stepping: 12 After.. cpu family : 5 model : 8 stepping: 4 Line 1826 of setup.c c->x86_mask = tfms & 7; Shoul

CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)

2000-11-09 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Hi guys, I wanted to give you a preview of the CPUID revision patch; it is not 100% ready yet in that (a) it still has a bunch of debugging printk() and (b) I haven't ported over mtrr.c yet. This code took a lot longer to write than I had expected, mostly because I kept running into various form