Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-03 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: AC> 2.4.5-ac7 AC> o Make USB require PCI(me) Huh?! How about people from StrongArm sa11x0 port, who have USB host controller (in sa companion chip) but do not have PCI? Probably there are more such embedded ar

RE: select() - Linux vs. BSD

2001-06-03 Thread David Schwartz
> I would have said just the opposite. That if it you have a large > number of > handles you're waiting on, and you have to go back through and > set the bits > everytime you timeout that you would incur a larger overhead. From the > perspective of my application, it would have been more effici

[CHECKER] security rules? (and 2.4.5-ac4 security bug)

2001-06-03 Thread Dawson Engler
Hi All, Enclosed is a potential security hole in 2.4.5-ac where an integer from user space is used as a length argument to copy_to_user. Additionally, do people have suggestions for good security rules? We're looking to expand our security checkers. Right now we just have checkers that warn whe

Re: Compile problem with ov511.c (Kernel 2.4.5)

2001-06-03 Thread Erik Mouw
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:18:40AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/greear/kernel/2.4/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes >-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 >-march=i686 > -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include >/home/greear/kernel/

Re: symlink_prefix

2001-06-03 Thread Andries . Brouwer
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 3 02:49:08 2001 On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This evening I needed to work on a filesystem of a non-Linux OS, > full of absolute symlinks. After mounting the fs on /mnt, each > symlink pointing to /foo/bar in that filesystem sh

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-03 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:23:10 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >2.4.5-ac6 >... >o Resync with Eric's master Configure.help(Eric Raymond) ac5->ac6 accidentally(?) dropped the help text for CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC. Patch below (vs -ac7) adds it back. Please apply. /Mikael --- linux-2.4.5-ac7/Documen

XMM: monitor Linux MM inactive/active lists graphically

2001-06-03 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Zlatko, > > Do you have your modified xmem available somewhere. Think it might be of > interest to a few of us. > > TIA > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For some time I've been trying to make a simple, yet functional web page to put some stuff t

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-03 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:19:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > AC> 2.4.5-ac7 > > AC> o Make USB require PCI(me) > > Huh?! > > How about people from StrongArm sa11x0 port, who have USB host controller (in > > sa companion chip) but do not have PCI? > > The stro

lowlatency 2.2.19

2001-06-03 Thread William Montgomery
I am testing Ingo's lowlatency patch on the 2.2.19 kernel and have a strange problem. I applied the most recent patch I could find, lowlatency-2.2.16-A0 and fixed a few failed hunks. The kernel appears stable after many (~24) hours of stress testing with Benno's latencytest suite and others.

Re: [PATCH] 245-ac7 i2c Config.in fix ( please ignore the previous message )

2001-06-03 Thread Carlos E Gorges
Please ignore the previous message, this is a problem caused by sensors patch. cya; -- _ Carlos E Gorges ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tech informática LTDA Brazil _ - To

[PATCH] procfs guide

2001-06-03 Thread Erik Mouw
Hi, I got some comments on my procfs guide when I posted it a couple of days ago, so here is a new version. What's new: - add revision history (Jonathan Lundel) - remove_proc_entry() is not recursive (Jonathan Lundel) - numerous spelling correcti

isc_time_now Fatal Error

2001-06-03 Thread Clinton Hogge
Hello, I've sent the following to the Bind9-Users list. It appears that this is a kernel-related bug and they suggested I post it here as well. I'm running Linux 2.4.5 and Bind 9.1.2 on a PowerPC. The same error has popped up under 2.4.3 as well. Please CC me with any responses as I'm not yet s

2.4.5-ac7 SMP crash (hotplug race?)

2001-06-03 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! Today, while playing with sleep mode of USB device I have, I got kernel hang on my SMP box (2xP3-667, 386M RAM, Abit VP6). Scenario was like this: background mpg123 over esd to 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU1 (rev 08) minicom over ttyS1 t

Re: mount --bind accounting

2001-06-03 Thread Andries . Brouwer
>> /* No capabilities? What if users do thousands of these? */ > look at mount_is_safe() Yes, good. My remark means that more tests are required than those sketched in mount_is_safe(), and that means that for the time being we can throw out the routine mount_is_safe(), and remove the test on cap

Re: [bug] at slab.c ...

2001-06-03 Thread Robert Vojta
... and yesterday my box completely lockups and magic keys didn't work too for me ... no messages in logs ... Best regards, .R.V. -- _ |-| __ Robert Vojta -= Oo.oO =- |=| [Ll] IPEX, s.r.o. "^" `o PGP signature

Re: Problem with kernel 2.2.19 Ultra-DMA and SMP, once more

2001-06-03 Thread Magnus . Sandberg
Hi, I guess there are no simple answers... Below I have 3 different answers to my previous questions. As they relate to the same problem,I descided to put them togheter in this mail. Mark Hahn don't realy seams to agree with Andre about if noapic is crippling the system or not. Alan Cox says t