Re: MTU and 2.4.x kernel

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> Fragmentation does _not_ work on poor internet more. At all. We are implementing an IP stack. Fragmentation works very well thank you, pointing at a few broken sites as an excuse to not do things right isnt very good. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ker

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Feb 19 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > So put 0 and sure anyone can submit I/O on the size that they want. > > Now the driver has to support padding reads, or gathering data to do > > a complete block write. This is silly. Sr should support 512b transfers > > just fine, but only because I added

Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law. > As a person with a some decades of experi

Re: Linux OS boilerplate

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> I've been poring over the x86 boot code for a while now and I've been > considering writing a FAQ on the boot process (mostly for my own use, > but maybe others will be interested). This would include all relevant > information on setting up the x86 hardware for a boot (timers, PIC, A20, > prote

Re: Proliant hangs with 2.4 but works with 2.2.

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> The programs 'gpm', 'kudzu' and 'startx' all hang the server immediately > after they exit (with exit status 0). I cannot pinpoint why the kernel hangs > and would appreciate any help. The only thing I suspect it may be is that it The three of them all touch the mouse. Does dd if=/dev/psau

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> it had been cleared up. In particular, the Configure.help in 2.4.2-pre4 > says "reiserfs can be used for anything that ext2 can be used for". The configure.help is wrong on that and one other thing. NFS doesnt work without extra patches and big endian boxes dont work with reiserfs currently C

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1 can't mount ext2 CD-ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> > But it has to go somewhere, and 2.4 right now is unusable on two of my boxes > > with M/O drives. > > Reads can be pretty easily padded, but writes are a bit harder. Maybe > push it to some helper before the device queue sees it? For 2.4 the > best sd solution is probably to just make it able

Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread brian
> > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law. > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As a person with a some decade

Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday February 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law. > > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [

anyone can tell me 2.4.2 is stable or not?

2001-02-18 Thread Thomas Lau
is it stable for use? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Kernel mailing list , what changes i have to made in kernel so that i can run kernel from ROM, means i keep my kernel in ROM and i execute my kernel from ROM . Thanks , Happy Hacking, Jaswinder. -- These are my opinions not 3Di. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

RE: /proc/stat missing disk_io info

2001-02-18 Thread Rainer Mager
Not to be pushy or anything but since I received zero responses to this I was wondering what else I can do. I'd be happy to patch the problem myself but I have no idea what the correct value for DK_MAX_MAJOR should be. Anywho, if anyone has any thoughts I'd appreciate them. --Rainer > -Or

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread dek_ml
Neil Brown writes: >On Sunday February 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I migrated some exported disks over to reiserfs and had no luck when I >> mounted the disk via NFS on another machine. I've noticed many messages >> about reiser and NFS in the archives, but my understanding was

[OT] Re: Money stifles innovation

2001-02-18 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:47:10PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the p

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday February 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OK, I grabbed these patches and applied them against 2.4.2-pre4 and > recompiled, rebooted. I am now able to use reiserfs with NFS, > basic operations appear to work as expected but I haven't done large amounts > of file IO or lots of concurren

ip_conntrack error under 2.4.1-ac18

2001-02-18 Thread Billy Harvey
I'm getting multiple messages like: Feb 18 23:05:50 rhino kernel: ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 8184 entries exceeded Feb 18 23:05:52 rhino last message repeated 2 times while running nessus, with 100 simultaneous connections set, against a company machine. This is the first time I've observed

Re: Kernel executation from ROM

2001-02-18 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Sirs, Thanks for your help, I see . The biggest negative point of running kernel from ROM is that ROM speed is slow :( Any how , thanks for your help, Best Regards, Jaswinder. -- These are my opinions not 3Di. - Original Message - From: "Peter Waltenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: Kernel timers and jiffie wrap-around

2001-02-18 Thread george anzinger
Jamie wrote: > > Hi ! > > I've been trying to determine the reliability of kernel timers when a box has been >up for a while. Now as everyone is aware (for HZ=100 (default)), when the uptime of >the kernel reaches (approx.) 1.3 years the clock tick count (jiffies) wraps-around. >Now if a kern

Re: [OT] Re: Money stifles innovation

2001-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:47:10PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > Actually the problem is lack of morals and bad people who are really evil > > at the core (you wouldnt want them for your neighbor). > Actually, it's because we've made it illegal to corpo

"i810_audio: DMA overrun on send" countless times in logs

2001-02-18 Thread Steven Walter
This message pops up in my logs countless times, often accompanied by temporarily freezes of the system, and pops in the sound. It seems to occur more often when under load, i.e. playing a DVD. In fact, they degrade the performance so badly as to make DVDs unwatchable. I would chock this up to

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2001-02-18 Thread Nitin Dhingra
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Re: [PATCH] APMD on Linux 2.2.18 and include/linux/mc146818rtc.h

2001-02-18 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Marc Esipovich wrote: > > I've noticed this when attempting to build APMD, mc146818rtc.h has > a reference to a spinlock_t while asm/spinlock.h is not included. > > Patch follows: User space does not need to ever see any kernel spinlocks - you will find such a fix for this is in

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