Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-19 Thread Mikulas Patocka
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:57:44PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > You have small posibility that interrupt will eat up memory - interrupt in > > process that has PF_MEMALLOC. Patch: > > this is not the point of getblk, to fix the getblk deadlock

RE: Problem with 3c59x and 3C905B

2000-12-19 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Working out why your switch isn't talking full-duplex would > > probably make things work too, but it's not a fix. > > > > He said he has a 10/100 hub (NG DS104) -- it is a half-duplex only 10/100 > hub. 10/100 hub does

Re: emu10k1 broken in 2.2.18

2000-12-19 Thread rui . sousa
All reports I've seen mention that the driver works fine if compiled as a module. You may want to try that. For this reason I also don't believe the problem is the any of the emu10k1 source files (which you diff'ed), unfortunately I haven't had much time/means to test this since I'm without a hom

Re: 2.4.0-test5 bug: invalid "shmid_kernel" passed to "shm_nopage_core"

2000-12-19 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Kevin, On 26 Nov 2000, Kevin Buhr wrote: > The fact that this has crashed once in all the time I've been using > this setup would seem to imply a very subtle race condition. Ugh. I am just running a stress test on 2.4.0-test13-pre3 + appended patch without problems. Is the shm segment delete

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Converting drivers/net/rcpci45.c to new PCI API

2000-12-19 Thread Francois Romieu
Rasmus Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit : [...] > There are some other cleanups I want to do, and I need to make my indentation > match the drivers, but that will be after the basic conversion is done. > > > --- linux-240-t13-pre1-clean/drivers/net/rcpci45.cSat Nov 4 23:27:08 2000 > +++ l

Re: [RFC] Semaphores used for daemon wakeup

2000-12-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
Daniel Phillips wrote: > The idea of using semaphores to regulate the cycling of a daemon was > suggested to me by Arjan Vos. Actually, his name is Arjan van de Ven - sorry Arjan :-o Thanks also to Phillip Rumpf for auditing this patch for cross-platform correctness. -- Daniel - To unsubscribe

Re: emu10k1 broken in 2.2.18

2000-12-19 Thread Juri Haberland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All reports I've seen mention that the driver works fine if compiled as a > module. You may > want to try that. For this reason I also don't believe the problem is the > any of the emu10k1 > source files (which you diff'ed), unfortunately I haven't had much > time/mea

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Converting drivers/net/rcpci45.c to new PCI API

2000-12-19 Thread Rasmus Andersen
> > + unregister_netdev(dev); > > + iounmap((void *)dev->base_addr); > > +free_irq(dev->irq, dev); > > I'd rather inhibit irq first then release the ressources. > + free_irq(dev->irq, dev); > + iounmap((void *)dev->base_addr); > + unregister_netdev(dev); Fair enough. I

Re: linux 2.2.19pre1 oops on cpuid

2000-12-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:35:58 -0500 (EST), M Sweger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Question: Is it possible to update the ksymoops utility to a > newer version vs. the one supplied which is v0.6? Read the warning message. ksymoops is separate from the kernel after 2.2. WARNING: This v

[patch-2.4.0-test13-pre3] rootfs (3rd attempt) (fwd)

2000-12-19 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Linus, please ignore this one _only_ if you have received this message today already -- it is identical to previous one (resending only because of email problems) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:25:08 + (GMT) From: Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linu

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:42:05AM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Failing getblk would likely introduce filesystem corruption. Look at > getblk in 2.0 - when allocating new page fails it tries to reuse existing > clean buffers or wakes up bdflush and waits until it writes them. This is > the righ

2.2.18: Thread problem with smbfs

2000-12-19 Thread Hans-Joachim Baader
Hi, I hava a strange problem with smbfs. My application creates threads that copy files from a mounted SMB share to the local disk. When I run the application normally, there's no problem. However when I run it in gdb 4.18 or 5.0, one of the threads goes into the D state (not always), and the who

Re: Driver for emulating a tape device on top of a cd writer...

2000-12-19 Thread Stelian Pop
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:04:42PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Basically, I would like to be able to use a cdwriter as a tape > > device, with software like dump(8) or tar(1). With /dev/tcdw > > as name (for example), I'd like to be able to do: > > [...] > What you describe is actually one of t

Re: 2.2.18: Thread problem with smbfs

2000-12-19 Thread Urban Widmark
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Hans-Joachim Baader wrote: > and so on, endlessly. So, AFAIK, smbfs thinks it has lost connection and > tells smbmount to re-establish it, which succeeds (at least smbmount > thinks so). This happens several times per second. -512 means that the recv was interrupted by a si

Re: TIOCGDEV ioctl

2000-12-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 06:57:20AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > According to Alexander Viro: > > > OK, I can see the point of finding out where the console is redirected > > > to. How about the following: > > > > > > /proc/sys/vc -> /dev/

Re: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-19 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:33:13PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Note that writing to /dev/random does *not* update the entropy estimate, > for this very reason. The assumption is that inputs to the entropy > estimator have to be trusted, and since /dev/random is typically > world-writeable, i

[PATCH] fix emu10k1 init breakage in 2.2.18

2000-12-19 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Alan, 2.2.18 broke the emu10k1 driver when compiled into the kernel. The problem is that 2.2.18 now implements 2.4-style module_init, so emu10k1 ended up being initialised twice when built non-modular, which rendered it dysfunctional. The fix is to remove the now obsolete explicit init calls. Pat

[PATCH] ident of whole-disk ext2 fs

2000-12-19 Thread Paul Gortmaker
I always disliked the unknown partition table messages you get when you mke2fs a whole disk and don't bother with a table at all, so I fixed it. Output before/after shown below: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 - hdd: unknown partition table + hdd: whole disk EXT2-fs, revision 1.0, 1k blocks, s

Linux Quality Database Project

2000-12-19 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Last may I posted a message to the list with the subject "Organized Linux QA?" asking if there'd be any interest in building a web database to collect bug reports in linux kernel test versions and to make it easier to search for bugs (and success reports) based on things like hardware configuratio

Oops with 2.4.0-test13pre3 - swapoff

2000-12-19 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Hi This is oops I've got when rebooting after some heavy disk activity on my SMP system: Written by hand: kernel BUG swap_state.c:78! -- invalid operand: EIP: 0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 Stack: c0206c16 c0206e2f 004e Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [

Presentation Layer in TCP/IP linux implementation

2000-12-19 Thread khaled
Hello Linux World, Is there a way to add a generic and transparent presenation layer in the path of TCP/IP packets. I am speaking about something probably in the path between the user space mechanims (send/recv/read/write) and the actual sock_sendmsg/sock_recvmsg (and their proto counterparts).

Re: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Kurt Garloff] > It should not be world-writeable, IMHO. So the only one who can feed > entropy there is root, who should know aht (s)he's doing ... No, it is *good* to allow users to add entropy to the RNG pool, but it is *bad* to assume that it is in fact entropy. The beauty of cryptographic

Re: emu10k1 broken in 2.2.18

2000-12-19 Thread Alan Cox
> want to try that. For this reason I also don't believe the problem is the > any of the emu10k1 I dont think its the emu10k1 itself. Nor does it seem to be the init function not being called (folks report seeing the init messages in both cases). I need to trace the init order some time - To uns

Re: [RFC] Semaphores used for daemon wakeup

2000-12-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
Tim Wright wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:06:10PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > This patch illustrates an alternative approach to waking and waiting on > > daemons using semaphores instead of direct operations on wait queues. > > The idea of using semaphores to regulate the cycling of

Re: system freeze on 2.4.0-test10 or greater

2000-12-19 Thread Patrizio Bruno
I found that removing modules 'r128' and 'agpgart' my machine doesn't freeze. P. - Patrizio Bruno DADA spa / Ed-IT Development Staff Borgo degli Albizi 37/r 50122 Firenze Italy tel +39 05520351 fax +39 0552478143 PGP PublicKey available at

Re: ip_defrag / ip_conntrack issues (was Re: [PATCH] Fix netfilter locking)

2000-12-19 Thread Tom Leete
Harald Welte wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:11:14AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > >From: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:15:52 +1100 > > > >Alexey is right, locking is screwed (explains some reports of > >occasional failure during rmmod). >

Re: ip_defrag / ip_conntrack issues (was Re: [PATCH] Fix netfilter locking)

2000-12-19 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:55:35 -0500 From: Tom Leete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The patch only deals with the ip_defrag_queue path. I have not seen the alternate one happen. It's only been up an hour, I'll put some more time on it. --- linux/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c~Tue Dec 12 06:5

2.2.18aa2 weird problem

2000-12-19 Thread Mike Black
I've got three machines -- two are identical motherboards. I've been using the same kernel binary on all three machines for over a year thru all the upgrades since 2.2.15 (16, 17, and now 18aa2). Now that I've compiled 2.2.18aa2 it only works on two of the machines. Both of these use RAID1/IDE

[PATCH] Bug in date converting functions DOS<=>UNIX in FAT and SMBFS drivers

2000-12-19 Thread Igor Yu. Zhbanov
Few weeks ago I have sent the following letter: > Hello! > > I have found a bug in drivers of file systems which use a DOS-like format > of date (16 bit: years since 1980 - 7 bits, month - 4 bits, day - 5 bits). > > There are two problems: > 1) It is unable to convert UNIX-like dates before 1980

Re: generic sleeping locks?

2000-12-19 Thread Eli Carter
Rusty Russell wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > > Are there blocking lock primitives already defined somewhere in the > > > > kernel? > > > > > > down and up are normally appropriate for this > > > > Ungh. Forest. Trees. *sigh* Sorry for the

2.2.18 question (fh_lock_parent)

2000-12-19 Thread Michael J. Dikkema
I've been getting tonnes of these since I installed 2.2.18. Is this a problem? Should I even worry about this? If I don't need to worry about it, is there a way to stop displaying this message? fh_lock_parent: mqueue/xfBAA14279 parent changed or child unhashed fh_lock_parent: mqueue/xfBAA16413 p

Re: ip_defrag / ip_conntrack issues (was Re: [PATCH] Fix netfilter

2000-12-19 Thread kuznet
Hello! > able to lockup/OOPS his machine by logging into X as a user who had > his home directory over NFS. I believe this report is to be ignored. It is fully meaningless. X has nothing to do with NFS, NFS is with X, and defragmenter is at least with one of them. Alexey - To unsubscribe from

Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.

2000-12-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:38:17AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > Stephen, > > > > The ->flush() operation (which we've been discussing a bit) would be very > > useful now (mainl

Re: [RFC] Semaphores used for daemon wakeup

2000-12-19 Thread Tim Wright
Hi Daniel, On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 02:11:16PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: [...] > I'm curious, is my method of avoiding the deadlock race the same as > yours? My solution is to keep a count of tasks that 'intend' to take > the down(): > > atomic_inc(&bdflush_waiters); > up(&bdf

Re: QLogicFC problems with 2.4.x?

2000-12-19 Thread Robert Read
The driver loads for me on 2.4 on Intel, but I don't have access to an Alpha right now. Have you tried Mathew Jacob's driver? It looks like it supports Alpha. http://www.feral.com/isp.html robert On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:24:38PM -0500, Peter Rival wrote: > Hi, > >I was just lent a QLog

Re: 2.2.18aa2 weird problem

2000-12-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:08:27AM -0500, Mike Black wrote: > Rebooting this machine to 2.2.17-RAID works just fine Which RAID patch are you using against 2.2.17 exactly? Also make sure you're using exactly the same kernel configuration of 2.2.17-RAID. > Might there be a problem with RAID5 as ro

Re: 2.2.18 signal.h

2000-12-19 Thread Michael Meissner
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:52:42PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:53:50PM +0600, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > > GCC will complain the absence of a statement after `out1:out2:`, but not > > two complains for `out1' and `out2', because they form a single entity. > > I u

Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.

2000-12-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:38:17AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > > Stephen, > > > > > > The ->flush() operation (which we've been discussing

Re: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-19 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:49:48 +0100 From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:33:13PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Note that writing to /dev/random does *not* update the entropy estimate, > for this very reason. The assumption is that inputs to the en

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 18 Dec 00 at 23:51, Alan Cox wrote: > > Yeah. Just do not read video memory when another CPU starts. I'll try > > disabling cache on both CPUs, maybe it will make some difference, as > > secondary CPU should start with caches disabled. But maybe that it is > > just broken AGP bus, and nothing

Re: old binary works not with 2.2.18

2000-12-19 Thread kees
Hello, Yep, *After* I build a new kernel I _always_ build a new iBCS module. I have an old utility 'hd' (hexdump) from SCO3.2v4.2 that also needs iBCS but has a slightly different format, *that* works under 2.2.18 Kees On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, John O'Donnell wrote: > kees wrote: > > > Hi, > >

Krn. 2.4.0-12 Scsi failure(oops) under Alpha Linux aic7xxx driver

2000-12-19 Thread Leslie Donaldson
I finally hand typed in most of the oops enjoy.. After the oops is my ststem information. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (scsi1:0:0:0) Data overrun detected in Data-Out phase, tag 5; Have seen Data Phase. Length =0,NUM SGS=0. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 003ffc006000 bzip2(

X 4.0.1 -> pci memory overlap

2000-12-19 Thread Leslie Donaldson
Hello, I know this isn't quite the right place but... very few people have actually but 2 pci video cards in an alpha an they are actually from different chipset manufactures. Well X reports an overlap bug and I was wondering if anyone has a good idea where to start looking for the problem. [root

unexpected IO-APIC

2000-12-19 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
Hello! I have a Dell Precision 220 at work and got this message every time I boot up linux. I use kernel 2.4.0-test12. I have included lspci output (the chipset is a i820) and dmesg output. If I can provide any help, please let me know. Regards, Mathieu. Dmesg output

Sound problem with AC97 module

2000-12-19 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
Hello! I have a Dell precision 220 at work with an built-in sound card. The problem I have is that I continiously get these error messages in my logs: Dec 14 18:21:02 shookay kernel: DMA overrun on send Dec 14 18:21:02 shookay kernel: i810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout? I have joined

Re: /dev/random: really secure?

2000-12-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:33:13PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > Note that writing to /dev/random does *not* update the entropy estimate, > > for this very reason. The assumption is that inputs to the entropy > > estimator have to be trusted, and since /dev/random is typically > > wor

Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.

2000-12-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> I think the semantics of the filesystem specific ->flush and ->writepage >> are not the same. >> >> Is ok for filesystem specific writepage() code to sync other "physically >> contiguous" dirty pages with reference to the one requested by >> writepage(

Re: [PATCH] ident of whole-disk ext2 fs

2000-12-19 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:14:04AM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > I always disliked the unknown partition table messages you get when you > mke2fs a whole disk and don't bother with a table at all, so I fixed it. > Output before/after shown below: > > Partition check: > hda: hda1 hda2 > - hdd

Time problem

2000-12-19 Thread Timothy A. DeWees
Hello, I am having a weird time problem when mounting Novell 5.1 volumes with ncpmount. The Novell server is located in a different timezone, and once I mount the volume my system time gets set back 5 hours (to match the Novell server). I am also loosing my mounts periodically. The system

Re: old binary works not with 2.2.18

2000-12-19 Thread John O'Donnell
kees wrote: > > Hello, > > Yep, *After* I build a new kernel I _always_ build a new iBCS module. > > I have an old utility 'hd' (hexdump) from SCO3.2v4.2 that also needs iBCS > but has a slightly different format, *that* works under 2.2.18 > > Kees Kudos!!! I use the same utility but from 5.

Re: QLogicFC problems with 2.4.x?

2000-12-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
It does, but 2.4 alpha hasn't quite worked for me (the latest matrix of support for LINUX is below- and I haven't passed Michael Declerck's testing yet). I'll be checking the latest alpha bits this week some time and I still also need to finish the kernel thread work that will allow loop events t

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 18 Dec 00 at 21:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Pardon me for not fully groking the issues here and possibly coming to a > wrong conclusion, but this has to do with SMP systems crashing at APIC > init time, just before penguin display (with fbcon at least)? If so, I > have a board that does t

Re: [PATCH] ident of whole-disk ext2 fs

2000-12-19 Thread Martin Dalecki
Dnia Wto 19. Grudzie? 2000 18:45, Andries Brouwer napisa?: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:14:04AM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > I always disliked the unknown partition table messages you get when you > > mke2fs a whole disk and don't bother with a table at all, so I fixed it. > > Output before/af

Re: 2.4.0-test5 bug: invalid "shmid_kernel" passed to "shm_nopage_core"

2000-12-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
Christoph Rohland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am just running a stress test on 2.4.0-test13-pre3 + appended patch > without problems. Is the shm segment deleted sometimes or is it always > the same segment? IIRC, in my particular crash case, the Enlightenment window manager was using the X

Re: [PATCH] ident of whole-disk ext2 fs

2000-12-19 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:46:17PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote: > Dnia Wto 19. Grudzie? 2000 18:45, Andries Brouwer napisa?: > > But what if you just replace the "unknown partition table" > > by "no recognized partition table" > > What about the more correct. > hdd: no partition table > > There

Re: QLogicFC problems with 2.4.x?

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Rival
This is just to let everyone know that, thanks to Craig Ruff, I now have qlogicfc working under 2.4.11 on my ES40 and GS80. The secret is to set CONNECTION_PREFERENCE to P2P_ONLY instead of LOOP_ONLY, and to build it in to the kernel instead of as a module. My problem now is that the GS80 oo

IPC_RMID should not block the key

2000-12-19 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Alan, here is a patch against 2.2.18 to resemble the same behaviour for 2.2 as we have in 2.4. This is what everybody else does and the 2.2 behaviour leads to some really bad situations. Greetings Christoph diff -uNr 2.2.18/ipc/shm.c c/ipc/shm.c --- 2.2.18/ipc/shm.cWed Ju

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread Alan Cox
> > In the case where it boots does it also report mismatched MTRRs ?? > > Yes, it complains. But BIOS correctly reports x1/x2 depending on > number of CPUs I plug into motherboard, so I believe that it did > some initialization before it start loading OS. That may explain the hangs. Intel docs

Re: Time problem

2000-12-19 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 19 Dec 00 at 10:37, Timothy A. DeWees wrote: > > I am having a weird time problem when mounting Novell 5.1 volumes with > ncpmount. The Novell server is located in a different timezone, and once I > mount the volume my system time gets set back 5 hours (to match the Novell > server). Y

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Uh. It took couple of hours to find it. Just place > > { int i; volatile unsigned short* p = 0xC00B8000; for (i = 0; i < 6553600; >i++) { *p; } }(**) > > instead of udelay(300) and this loop does not f

Re: [PATCH] fix emu10k1 init breakage in 2.2.18

2000-12-19 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Mikael Pettersson wrote: > 2.2.18 broke the emu10k1 driver when compiled into the kernel. > The problem is that 2.2.18 now implements 2.4-style module_init, > so emu10k1 ended up being initialised twice when built non-modular, > which rendered it dysfunctional. The fix is to remove the now >

Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.

2000-12-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:38:17AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > > > > Stephen,

Sparse cores for 2.2

2000-12-19 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Alan, Here is a backport of the sparse core writing for 2.2. It never made any problems on 2.[34] and makes live much easier for us. Could you apply this to 2.2.19? Greetings Christoph diff -uNr 2.2.18/fs/binfmt_elf.c c/fs/binfmt_elf.c --- 2.2.18/fs/binfmt_elf.c Mon Dec

[PATCH] remove warnings from drivers/net/eepro.c (240-test12-pre7)(fwd)

2000-12-19 Thread aris
hi, as my patches for eepro are getting late, here is a patch from Rasmus that i would apply with mine, please apply -- Aris --- Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho

success with test13-pre3

2000-12-19 Thread Dan Aloni
I'm glad to report that 2.4.0-test13-pre3 fixes the lockup (and odd Oops messages) problems I had from test12 til test13-pre2. I've been running it on both of my computers for a day and a half and everything is OK. At first, we thought it had something to do with the modules I was using, but I w

Re: PCMCIA modem (v.90 X2) not working with 2.4.0-test12 PCMCIA services

2000-12-19 Thread David Hinds
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 05:52:30PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > Socket 1: > product info: "PCMCIA", "V.90 Communications Device ", "", "" > manfid: 0x018a, 0x0001 Now I have another report of this card not working, under 2.2. Perhaps it is a Winmodem? -- Dave - To unsubscribe from this

NFS Locking problems

2000-12-19 Thread Ari Pollak
Is there a problem with NFS locking in 2.4.0-test12 and/or 2.2.18? I'm using nfs-utils 0.2.1 and NFS v2, connected to a NFS v2 server running Linux 2.2.18. Whenever mutt tried to place a lock on a file on an NFS share, I get the following messages in syslog (I get the same message for each time mu

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 19 Dec 00 at 19:30, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > When I replaced address with 0xC01B8000 (some cachable memory), it worked > > fine. When replaced with 0xC00C8000 (supposedly unused address, but maybe > > it is just set as cacheable in chipset), it works too. > > Hmm, a read from an uncached

Possible patch for reiserfs-3.6.22 against 2.4.0-test12 w/ new_writepage

2000-12-19 Thread Carlos E. Gorges
Testers are welcome :-) diff -Nur --exclude=Documentation linux-vanila/fs/buffer.c linux-reiser/fs/buffer.c --- linux-vanila/fs/buffer.cTue Dec 19 17:59:32 2000 +++ linux-reiser/fs/buffer.cTue Dec 19 16:26:55 2000 @@ -827,6 +827,10 @@ return; } +void set_buffer_async_io(struct

Re: User based routing?

2000-12-19 Thread Ian Stirling
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:46:51PM +, Ian Stirling wrote: > > Are there any patches floating around? > > Basically to allow for example a server to dial out to ISP's on behalf > > of users, and give them full control over that interface. > > I know about UML, and it's not quite suited. >

Re: Startup IPI (was: Re: test13-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread ferret
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 18 Dec 00 at 21:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Pardon me for not fully groking the issues here and possibly coming to a > > wrong conclusion, but this has to do with SMP systems crashing at APIC > > init time, just before penguin display (w

Re: Possible patch for reiserfs-3.6.22 against 2.4.0-test12 w/ new_writepage

2000-12-19 Thread Steven Cole
For Linux-2.4.0-test12 : Reiserfs-3.6.23 ftp://ftp.reiserfs.org/pub/2.4/linux-2.4.0-test12-reiserfs-3.6.23-patch.gz See the archived message regarding this release here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=97722705425882&w=2 For Linux-2.4.0-test13-preX, the following Makefile patch is al

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Converting drivers/net/rcpci45.c to new PCI API

2000-12-19 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Tue, Dec 19 2000, Francois Romieu wrote: [deleted] > > - if (pci_enable_device(pdev)) > > - break; > > - pci_set_master(pdev); > > + unregister_netdev(dev); > > + iounmap((void *)dev->base_addr); > > +free_irq(dev->irq, dev); > > I'd rather inhibit irq first then re

Re: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 0 to 59

2000-12-19 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Russell King wrote: > Matthew Dharm writes: > > Ahh... I think I see. While the math says "if the diference between the > > real time and the cmos time is less than 30 min", it doesn't recognize that > > the time difference between 2:59 and 3:00 is only 1 min. > > Which is i

Re: /dev/random probs in 2.4test(12-pre3)

2000-12-19 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 02.12.00 in <90cs2v$6u6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Again, that's wrong even when you replace /dev/random with something > else. After all, you could be getting EINTR at any time, too, or get > interrupted by a signal in the middle (in which case you'd get

Re: aic7xxx

2000-12-19 Thread Mathias Wiklander
It didn't help me with this patch. The aic7xxx driver (module or kernelcompiled) just put this 4 rows: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 cha

Re: 2.2.18 question (fh_lock_parent)

2000-12-19 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday December 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've been getting tonnes of these since I installed 2.2.18. Is this a > problem? Should I even worry about this? If I don't need to worry about > it, is there a way to stop displaying this message? > > fh_lock_parent: mqueue/xfBAA14279 parent

Re: PCMCIA modem (v.90 X2) not working with 2.4.0-test12 PCMCIA services

2000-12-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:46:14AM -0800, David Hinds wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 05:52:30PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > > > Socket 1: > > product info: "PCMCIA", "V.90 Communications Device ", "", "" > > manfid: 0x018a, 0x0001 > > Now I have another report of this card not working

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Converting drivers/net/rcpci45.c to new PCI API

2000-12-19 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:05:30PM +0100, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > > You should release the irq when the adapter is closed, not removed, > unless there's some special case that can't be handled if you take > ints during init. You seem to be right. I have moved the free_irq to the close function

Re: PCMCIA modem (v.90 X2) not working with 2.4.0-test12 PCMCIA services

2000-12-19 Thread David Hinds
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:41:29PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > On a related topic, the 3c575_cb driver on an IBM Thinkpad 765D is getting > tx errors on the 2.2.18 kernel with PCMCIA services 3.1.22. > > Card is a 3Com 3CCFE575BT Cyclone Cardbus Adapter. > > Error is: > > eth0: transmit

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Converting drivers/net/rcpci45.c to new PCI API

2000-12-19 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Tue, Dec 19 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:05:30PM +0100, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > > > > You should release the irq when the adapter is closed, not removed, > > unless there's some special case that can't be handled if you take > > ints during init. > > You seem to

Re: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 0 to 59

2000-12-19 Thread Russell King
Oliver Xymoron writes: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Russell King wrote: > > So, why don't we update the hours and be done with it? We would have to > > play the same game with the days of the month vs hours. Also, we don't > > know if the CMOS clock is programmed for UTC time or not (the kernel's > >

Re: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 0 to 59

2000-12-19 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Russell King wrote: > Oliver Xymoron writes: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Russell King wrote: > > > So, why don't we update the hours and be done with it? We would have to > > > play the same game with the days of the month vs hours. Also, we don't > > > know if the CMOS clock

pci.c question [recent changes undone]

2000-12-19 Thread Jani Monoses
Hi I'm curios what was that change & undo about in test12 and test13pre3ac3 regarding the disabling of PCI IO and MM access while writing to the config registers in pci_read_bases(). These lines were cut from test 12 and now they are back. /* Disable IO and memory w

[ PATCH ] against 2.4.0-test13-pre3 - fixes builds for ALPHA

2000-12-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
Hmm. Gotta build setup-*.c somehow. Alpha Config defines ALPHA_FOO (Generic or specific model #) but not vanilla alpha. --- linux.orig/arch/alpha/config.in Tue Dec 19 14:54:14 2000 +++ linux/arch/alpha/config.in Tue Dec 19 14:53:05 2000 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ # define_bool CONFIG_UID16 n +def

[patch] get_binfmt/put_binfmt macros

2000-12-19 Thread Jani Monoses
Hi this patch replaces the binfmt module handling parts with macro calls which do the same thing similar do the get/put_exec_domain macros. Also changes an internal function name in fs/exec.c (put_binfmt) which does almost the same thing as put_binfmt (one check less) to avoid compilatio

Re: PCMCIA modem (v.90 X2) not working with 2.4.0-test12 PCMCIA services

2000-12-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 01:51:14PM -0800, David Hinds wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:41:29PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > On a related topic, the 3c575_cb driver on an IBM Thinkpad 765D is getting > > tx errors on the 2.2.18 kernel with PCMCIA services 3.1.22. > > > > Card is a 3Com

Re: ATAPI: audio CD still stops on >> (fast forward, 2.4.0-test12)

2000-12-19 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Jens Axboe wrote (Mon Dec 18 2000, 18:56:13 GMT): > On Mon, Dec 18 2000, Norbert Warmuth wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > But problem with >> (fast forward playng of short samples) still remains > > > > on some audio CD's. > > > > Dec 15 12:17:25 utx kernel: "47 00 00 00

[PATCH] 2.2 - wanxl unchecked copy_to_user

2000-12-19 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Hi, Please consider applying, there must well be other things to do on this failure, please check. - Arnaldo --- linux-2.2.19-2/drivers/net/wanxl.c Wed Jun 7 18:26:43 2000 +++ linux-2.2.19-2.acme/drivers/net/wanxl.c Tue Dec 19 20:05:53 2000 @@ -1088,7 +1088

Strange warnings about .modinfo when compiling 2.2.18 on Alpha

2000-12-19 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, I just compiled 2.2.18 for my AlphaServer 400 4/233, and noticed a lot of messages like the following during the compile, they all contain the 'Ignoring changed section attributes for .modinfo' part: {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:7: Warning: Ignoring changed secti

[PATCH] e820 memory detection fix for ThinkPad

2000-12-19 Thread Marc Joosen
Hi Alan, lkml-readers, This is a tiny patch to make the int15/e820 memory mapping work on IBM ThinkPads. Until now, I have had to give lilo a mem= option with one meg of RAM less than I actually have, so ACPI events don't overwrite any data. The only alternative was to use one of the patche

Platform string wrong for AlphaServer 400 4/233

2000-12-19 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, This is a minor issue, but I thought I'd report it anyway. When I do a # cat /proc/cpuinfo on my AlphaServer 400 4/233 I get the following (IMHO wrong) output: cpu : Alpha cpu model : EV45 cpu variation : 7 cpu revision: 0 cpu seri

[PATCH] 2.2 - cs89x0 - unchecked kmalloc

2000-12-19 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Please consider applying - Arnaldo --- linux-2.2.19-2/drivers/net/cs89x0.c Mon Aug 9 16:05:05 1999 +++ linux-2.2.19-2.acme/drivers/net/cs89x0.cTue Dec 19 20:25:12 2000 @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ : is running from all accounts. A

Re: Platform string wrong for AlphaServer 400 4/233

2000-12-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
Take it up with Compaq. The platform string value is that which is set in the HWRPB constructed with SRM. > > Hi, > > This is a minor issue, but I thought I'd report it anyway. > > When I do a > > # cat /proc/cpuinfo > > on my AlphaServer 400 4/233 I get the following (IMHO wrong) output:

[PATCH] 2.2 - ultrastor: spurious restore_flags

2000-12-19 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Please consider applying - Arnaldo --- linux-2.2.19-2/drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c Sat Apr 11 15:13:25 1998 +++ linux-2.2.19-2.acme/drivers/scsi/ultrastor.cTue Dec 19 20:45:55 2000 @@ -882,9 +882,8 @@ (inb(SYS_DOORBELL_INTR(config.doorbell_address)) & 1))

Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.23 is available

2000-12-19 Thread Keith Owens
modutils 2.3.23 has a bug with empty MODULE_GENERIC_STRING entries, depmod loops. Index: 23.11/depmod/depmod.c --- 23.11/depmod/depmod.c Sun, 17 Dec 2000 10:18:04 +1100 kaos (modutils-2.3/b/43_depmod.c 1.39 644) +++ 23.11(w)/depmod/depmod.c Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:13:18 +1100 kaos +(modutils-2.3/b/

Wireless Extension update

2000-12-19 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
Hi Linus and Alan, This is a totally trivial update of the Wireless Extensions definition. It just adds a few more #define, so no troubles or pain expected. The patch attached applies cleanly to *both* 2.4.0-test12 and 2.2.18 (tested), and I would suggest including it in b

2.4.0-test13pre3 acpi circular dependency

2000-12-19 Thread Adam J. Richter
Although the stock linux-2.4.0-test13pre3 does not allow one to build the acpi interpreter as a loadable module, I had tweaked the Makefiles in previous kernels to do this (the supporting code is there and it seemed to work, at least for shutting off the power after a shutdown). Unfortuna

2.4.0 test12 ipchains doesn't work as module

2000-12-19 Thread John Covici
I configured 2.4.0 test12 to use the ipchains compatability option as a module and I did a modprobe on all the other modules in that section of such as iptable_filter, etc. When I tried to do the modprobe on ip_nf_compat_ipchains (if I have the name correct) it said device or resource busy. When

Re: [RFC] Semaphores used for daemon wakeup

2000-12-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
Tim Wright wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 02:11:16PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > [...] > > I'm curious, is my method of avoiding the deadlock race the same as > > yours? My solution is to keep a count of tasks that 'intend' to take > > the down(): > > > > atomic_inc(

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