On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:36:27PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Somebody reminded me in private email that we finally have a reasonable
> console documentation in console_codes(4).
To me "finally" sounds as if this happy state was achieved only recently.
But console_codes.4 is from Mon Oct 31 22
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:02:19PM +0200, Jan Dvorak wrote:
> i recently met with a new (Unisys) keyboard, which have (among 'normal'
> windows keys) 3 more keys on top of arrows, labeled by pictures as
> halfsun, halfmoon, and power switch. Following patch adds 'support' for them
> +#define E0_
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:29:11AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> If we can try to keycodes in 8-bits it would be nice. The difficulty
> is that X cannot handle more than 8-bits without telling it you have
> multiple keyboards. The keycode (at least in X) is exported to
> X applications. Th
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:06:22PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18 2001, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > > vmware and one or two other apps I've also seen do this. WHen you unlock the
> > > cdrom door as root you can unlock it even if a file system is mounted
> >
> > Right, so I'll check w
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 06:52:01PM +0300, Ville Holma wrote:
> EXT2-fs: #blocks per group too big: 2147516416
> debian:~# e2fsck /dev/hdb7
> e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> Corruption found in superblock. (frags_per_group = 2147516416).
> debian:~# e2fsck -b -2147450879 /
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:08:52PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> I am still working on this, but would appreciate some help from
> whomever owns this driver proper. I have discovered that the
> 3Ware drivers are not updating the gendisk_head with devices
> reported and exposed to user space
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:55:00PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:47:01PM +0200, Guest section DW wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:08:52PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > >
> > > I am still working on this, but would appreciate some he
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:54:28AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Andries Brouwer writes:
> > Here some statistics.
>
> Can you generate statistics on the number of files in each directory,
> and the total size of each directory?
>
> This would also be helpful to determine how often indexing wil
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:43:16AM +1300, Ralph Loader wrote:
> A while ago I did some experimentation with simple bit-op based string
> hash functions. I.e., no multiplications / divides in the hash loop.
>
> The best I found was:
>
> int hash_fn (char * p)
> {
> int hash = 0;
> while (*p
Reading patch-2.4.2 I met a strange amount of crap in
partitions/ibm.c. It is as if the author does not know
where the kernel keeps the starting offset of a partition,
and simulates a HDIO_GETGEO ioctl from user space.
I think the following patch does the same and removes a lot
of cruft. (Warning:
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:35:34PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> for partitions not in the first 8gb of a harddisk, what
> should the c/h/s start and end value be ?
>
> most fdisks seem to set start and end to 255/63/1023.
> but partition magic creates partitions with start set to
> 0/1/10
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:02:09PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Please also check vger.timpanogas.org/nwfs/nwfs.tar.gz:disk.c for NetWare
> specific calculations of the CHS values, a different method is used for
> NetWare partitions vs. everything else (Novell just had to be different).
> > On
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:24:07AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 04:11:56AM +0100, Guest section DW wrote:
> > (See http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html )
> > Are types 57 and 77, labeled "VNDI Partition", actually in us
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:48:16PM -0500, Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote:
> I have just purchased a new HD and I'm getting problems creating a
> filesystem for it. The HD is a Maxtor 80 Gb
>
> Disk /dev/hde: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 15871 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
>Devi
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:37:55AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> You're much better off designing a larger ISO-8859-1 font and load in in
> user space. You can use the 12x22 font in the kernel as a base.
kbd-1.05 comes with sun12x22.psfu, which essentially is the kernel font
together with a un
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:52:54PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Im running kernel 2.4.1, I have entries like /proc/ide/hda,
> /proc/ide/ide0/hda etc irrespective of wether im using devfs or
> traditional device names.
>
> Is always using traditional device names for /proc/ide intentional, or
>
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:29:24PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Well leaving it the way it is doesnt make much sense either really, it
> refers to devices that dont exist.
You are mistaken. The existence of a device is unrekated to the name
someone uses to access it. You may well use /tmp/myown
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:03:50PM -, Sébastien HINDERER wrote:
> Could someone tell me where I can find a document listing the
> escape-sequences that could be sent to the console and what
> they do.
man console_codes
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 08:48:10PM -, Sébastien HINDERER wrote:
> According to linux/drivers/console.c, function setterm_commands, case 12,
> one can change the virtual console by sending an escape sequence to
> /dev/cnsole (what I want to do), hower, this is not documented in man
> pages.
H
> Transmit keycodes is AFAIK not implemented in official drivers.
Maybe I misunderstand what you mean, but the kernel has had a
keycode mode since before 1.0.
Andries
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On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:40:14PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Transmit keycodes is AFAIK not implemented in official drivers.
> >
> > Maybe I misunderstand what you mean, but the kernel has had a
> > keycode mode since before 1.0.
>
> I meant ability for application to simulate pressing "
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:32:44PM +0200, Mircea Damian wrote:
> Call me idiot too but please explain what is wrong here:
What is wrong is that this is the kernel list, not the LILO list.
> root@taz:~# lilo -v
> LILO version 21.7, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> Device 0x0300: Inva
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:18:30PM +0100, David Balazic wrote:
> Then I installed linux ( "some" beta version , kernel
> is some recent 2.4.0-testXX )
>
> After the installation the disk ( win2000 ) would not boot.
> It reports :
> Read error on disk.
> Press ctrl+alt+del to reboot.
>
> If I ru
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:54:47PM +0100, David Balazic wrote:
> Is there a way to change the geometry from fdisk ?
> I tried expert mode and 'set sectors' and 'set heads',
> but after I exit fdisk with 'w' , it is unchanged.
As you know, a disk does not have a geometry, but
the location of a pa
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:59:22AM +0100, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> PS: The load_nls code tries to check for buffer overflows, but
> gets it wrong:
>
> struct nls_table *nls;
> charbuf[40];
>
> if (strlen(charset) > sizeof(buf) - sizeof("nls_"))
> fail;
>
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 02:47:35PM +0100, Jean-Marc Saffroy wrote:
> As you see, it looks like the rmdir fails simply because the dir name ends
> with a dot !! This is confirmed by sys_rmdir in fs/namei.c, around line
> 1384 :
>
> switch(nd.last_type) {
> case LAST_DOTDOT
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:32:39AM +0100, Eric Paire wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Guest section DW wrote:
> >
> > > I see that an entire discussion has taken place. Let me just remark this,
> > > quoting the Austin draft:
> > >
> >
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 05:03:00PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> Oh, good. It's not just me and Tigran then.
You have it all backwards. It would be good if it were
just you and Tigran. Unfortunately it also hits me.
(I am reorganizing my disks, copying large trees from
one place to the other. Alw
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 08:58:39PM -0800, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> > (I am reorganizing my disks, copying large trees from
> > one place to the other. Always doing a diff -r between
> > old and new before removing the old version.
> > Yesterday I had a diff -r showing that the old version
> > was c
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:51:05AM -0800, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> Ok. Are there any IDE-related errors in your logs
Once, after a reboot:
Nov 22 17:25:50 mette kernel: hdf: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequest }
Nov 22 17:25:50 mette kernel: hdf: drive not ready for c
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 10:07:44PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> If anybody really worries about the ix86 call trace going past column
> 80, just patch your kernel to print 5 fields per line instead of 8. Do
> not change the format. But hand copying an oops from an 80x24 screen
> is not going to
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:15:25PM +0100, Daniel Sangenberg wrote:
> I have a problem with 2.2.17 + the latest ide patches and 2 * 61 gb ibm ide
> discs, the discs are connected as slave on a two channels (onboard ide
> channels on a asus p2b (i440BX Chipset)), there is nohing else connected on
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:31:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This patch prevents scsi_ioctl_send_command() from overwriting the SEND
> DIAGNOSTICS (Drive Self Test) reserved bits in cmd[1], as found in SCSI-3.
> Code provided by Michael Landrus of Dell.
>
> Comments are requested. If th
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:33:57AM +0200, Andreas Franck wrote:
+ printk(KERN_INFO "calling ide_register_module\n");
ide_register_module(&idefloppy_module);
+ printk(KERN_INFO "ide_register_module finished\n");
You do not want debugging code like this in the kernel code.
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:00:09AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Also, from what I've seen lately on IRC and lkml, the Single Unix
> Specification ("SuS") is generally held in higher regard than POSIX; and
> when spec questions arise, kernel developers tend to check SuS before
> POSIX (if POSIX is
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:44:02PM +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
Dag Frank -
I see lots of messages from you about corruption in 2.4.0-test11
but we all know very well that 2.4.0-test11 corrupts things
and further evidence is not necessary.
Hopefully all, or at least the most significant, p
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:17:04PM +0100, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> I have a quite old cdrom drive, called Cyberdrive 240D. With linux 2.2.17
> it worked with soemtimes odd behavior, but it worked.
> With 2.4.0-test11 I can mount cdroms in it but if I want to access it (eg.
> ls, cd...) I get mess
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:25:20AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote:
[a long and very well documented story]
> How can I "erase" this 2940/255/63 CHS setting from the disk
It is far from clear that it is on your disk, so it is far from
clear that something can be erased.
First a few warnings - probably y
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:11:41AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote:
> I have to think more deeply then what the best measure would be.
I suppose you can get all systems involved to agree on 255 heads
if you select LBA in the BIOS.
Andries
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:37:19AM +, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I have my system clock drift roughly -1 s/min, though my CMOS clock is
> > fine unless tampered with.
> adjtimex will let you tell Linux the clock on the board is crap too
But may tamper with the CMOS clock
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On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 00:20:25 +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote
(Subject: Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?)
> Let this thread die. Now.
Unfortunately we have to detect a serious case of memory loss.
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 00:30:09 +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
(Subject: Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?)
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 01:45:46AM -0200, Dan Aloni wrote:
>
> I noticed I forgot a ; somewhere there. Here's the right patch:
>
> --- linux-2.4.0-test9/kernel/user.c Mon Oct 9 01:37:35 2000
> +++ linux.vanilla/kernel/user.c Sun Oct 8 22:33:55 2000
> @@ -51,22 +51,18 @@
> *up->pp
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:19:26AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Linux 2.4 Status/TODO Page
>
>* 2.4.0-test2 breaks the behaviour of the ether=0,0,eth1 boot
> parameter (dwguest)
This has been fixed.
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:11:39PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Linux version 2.2.17
> I tried to add a new Hard disk. It's s Seagate ST39102LW 8.1 Gb.
Hmm. Your C/H/S multiplies out to 9.1 GB.
On the other hand, Seagate ST39102LW has 9105018880 bytes,
so probably the 8 was a typo (and you
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:13:11AM +0900, Tom Holroyd wrote:
> Mine works OK, except for that invalidate on last close thing
> (how do I go back to the old behavior? Why was it changed?).
You go back to the old behaviour by commenting out the
invalidate_buffers call in
if (atomic_dec_an
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:31:24AM -0600, Jim Freeman wrote:
> Dunno how to fix, but using the attached minimal .config,
> 2.2.18pre15 compiles die when CONFIG_HFMODEM=y.
>
> The deaths differ depending on the compiler used.
hfmodem has been broken for a very long time, maybe even
from the very
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:36:09AM -0600, Doug Siebert wrote:
> This note is sort of a half question half bug report.
[devices are accessed in blocksize-size units, and this unit is changed
upon a mount, and is 1024 to start with; this gives problems if one
wants to access the last few sectors o
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:05:41PM +0300, Art Boulatov wrote:
> I've seen new options for "mount" like --bind, --over, but didn't really
> get how they work or are they implemented at all.
"mount --bind" works on vanilla 2.4. The others don't.
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:05:55PM -0800, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
> In fact, the "mount" man page on my Mandrake 7.2 system says:
>
> "It is possible to replace /etc/mtab by a symbolic link to
> /proc/mounts..." and then goes on to describe some of the issues and
> problems with doing so - loopb
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:48:54PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Patrick O'Rourke wrote:
> > Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by
> > the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process()
> > from picking init.
There is a dozen other proces
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:01:43PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Last month I had a computer algebra process running for a week.
> > Killed. But this computation was the only task this machine had.
> > Its sole reason of existence.
> > Too bad - zero information out of a week's computation.
> >
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:23:54PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Really the whole oom_kill process seems bass-ackwards to me. I can't in my mind
> > logically justify annihilating large-VM processes that have been running for
> > days or weeks instead of just returning ENOMEM to a process that just
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:52:09PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
> > You see, the bug is that malloc does not fail. This means that the
> > decisions about what to do are not taken by the program that knows
> > what it is doing, but by the kernel.
> Even if malloc fails the situation is no different.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:04:09AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 22 Mar 2001, Michael Peddemors wrote:
>
> > Here, Here.. killing qmail on a server who's sole task is running mail
> > doesn't seem to make much sense either..
>
> I won't defend the current OOM killing code.
>
> Instead, I'm as
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:24:03PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Can we please remember that OOM is *not* in any way a "normal system state"
> that has to be handled in a civilized, orderly way? This is just an escape
> route in case everything else has failed.
Can we please remember that a Bl
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:56:23AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> > > Feel free to write better-working code.
> >
> > I don't get paid for it and I'm not idling through my days...
>
>
No lies please.
Andries
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:50:25AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Mar 23 11:48:49 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2019 (emacs).
> > Mar 23 11:48:49 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1407 (emacs).
> > Mar 23 11:48:50 mette kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 1495 (emac
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:26:22PM +, James A. Sutherland wrote:
> > Clearly, Linux cannot be reliable if any process can be killed
> > at any moment.
>
> What on earth did you expect to happen when the process exceeded the
> machine's capabilities? Using more than all the resources fails. T
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:57:27AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:56:23AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> >
> > > > > Feel free to write
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 01:32:42AM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:26:22PM +, James A. Sutherland wrote:
> > If SuSE's install program needs more than a quarter Gb of RAM, you need a
> > better distro.
>
> Well, it's rpm ...
Yes. I investigated and found rpm's data ba
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:35:01PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >a large name space allows one to omit checking what part can be
> >reused - reuse is unnecessary.
>
> You are just delaying the problem then, at some point your upt
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:18:06PM -0800, John Byrne wrote:
> Do you have any interest in doing away with the concept of major and
> minor numbers altogether; turning the dev_t into an opaque unique id?
>
> At the application level, the kinds of information that is derived from
> the major/minor
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:33:34PM +0200, Jorge Nerin wrote:
> Hello, good work with 2.4.x, but I miss one thing. in early 2.3.x the MS
> keys, you know, two flags and one "properties" key worked as navigation
> keys in the console.
>
> The flags get you to the "left" or "rigth" virtual consol
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:29:34AM +0200, Dr. Michael Weller wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> > Szaka writes:
> > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > > > Every time this subject comes up, I point to AIX and SIGDANGER - a signal
> > > > sent to processes when th
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:02:38PM +0100, Sean Hunter wrote:
> The reason the aero engineers don't need to select a passanger to throw out
> when the plane is overloaded is simply that the plane operators do not allow
> the plane to become overloaded.
Yes. But today Linux willing overcommits. It
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:16:03PM -0500, Aaron Lunansky wrote:
> I tried mounting a file as an ISO image (turns out it was corrupted) - after
> running mount file.iso /cdrom -o loop
> mount hung and did not respond.. I could not ^Z it into the background, or
> kill, or kill -9 it...
>
> I'm cert
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:44:56PM -, mirabilos wrote:
> AFAICS the fs isn't corrupt.
> No further idea.
surely, if you have a given fs image that fails to mount,
it is entirely straightforward to find why the kernel dislikes it
you may send an url (for the first few MB of the fs) to [EMAIL
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:36:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This copies the sun 12x22 font to a 12x20 font.
> Readability on a 21" monitor remains very high @ 1600x1200, but you get
> 60 lines instead of 55.
Wouldnt it suffice to do
setfont -h20 sun12x22
?
[With a setfont from
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:34:24AM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> > Well, this has nothing to do with the above, but is there any
> > utility or /proc entry that lets me say to my CD drive that it
> > should not work at full speed?
I missed the original post, but there is a mount fl
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:12:07AM -0800, Lourenco wrote:
> i am getting an error every time i try to copy a big
> file from my cdrom to one of my harddrives...
>
> PS : It works FINE with 2.2.* and other OS's...
>
> ...
> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
> ISO 9660 Extensions: Mi
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:33:35AM -0200, Marcel Silva e Sousa wrote:
> Hi all, i see a critical bug in kernel version 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, look it:
>
> My Hard Disk:
> hda: IBM-DPTA-372730, ATA DISK drive
> hda: 53464320 sectors (27374 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=3328/255/63, UDMA(33)
>
> [root@john /
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:27:55AM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
> If my ASUS A7V133-based computer got started by the bios automatic
> startup timer, /dev/rtc doesn't work properly. /proc/drivers/rtc
> shows sane values, but IRQ 8 is not triggered causing programms like
> 'hwclock' to hang.
>
>
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:33:24PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:20:40AM +, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > Dear all (and list maintainers in particular)
> >
> > Wouldn't it be a good idea to prepend all lkml subjects with [LKML] like
> > many other lists do to dist
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:19:08PM +, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > There are advantages: distinguish personal messages from mailing list
> > messages, and distinguish between different mailing lists. And
> > disadvantages - maybe only one: sacrificing valuable Subje
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:25:39PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Do you expect any problems with the partition table?
No.
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On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:08:16AM -0500, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> > >+ struct list_headhash;
> > Why not name consistently with the struct block_device?
> > struct list_headcd_hash;
> Because foo_ is a throwback to the days when C compilers had a single
> namespac
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:11:41PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> Using kernel 2.2.17-14 as supplied by RedHat, and using mount from
> mount-2.9u-4, mounting by label using the -L option does not work.
>
> mount -L backup1 /a
> mount: no such partition found
>
> The mount man page says that
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:34:22PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> I presume that you're assuming that my /proc/partitions is empty because its
> size shows as 0:
>
> ls -l /proc/partitions
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root0 May 23 17:31 /proc/partitions
Ah, yes, sorry - I was too q
> In 322 lines of code,
[hmm - gzipped, ach]
Including the code in a readable form is much better - many people
would glance at it and perhaps have remarks.
And in those cases where the code is too large to give,
a URL is preferable.
Andries
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:22:59PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 127304
> SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 802
> [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 06:19:49PM +0400, Sergey Tursanov wrote:
> In file include/linux/kd.h was declared KDKBDREP ioctl number
> But in 2.4.x kernel there is only m68k version for that.
> I wrote some code for implement this feature on x86 machines.
Yes, it is unfortunate that many ioctls are
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 07:42:33PM +0100, David Flynn wrote:
> ive done the badblock test, and compiled a list of 2302 bad blocks on this
> disk ... however, when running mke2fs -l badblocfile /dev/hdc1
>
> i got this interesting errormessage for every one of the bad blocks :
>
> Bad block 1006
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:00:44PM -0400, Josh Fryman wrote:
> this is an odd one. i think it's technically a feature
> but might be perceived instead as a "bug". anyway, i've
> got a pair of Ultra100 Maxtor 52049h4 20GB drives, on a
> Promise Ultra 100 (PDC20267) controller.
>
> the drives
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:40:56PM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> no one seems to have noticed
Don't worry. The set of people who noticed was nonempty.
On the other hand, in my tree:
static inline unsigned int disk_index (kdev_t dev)
{
struct gendisk *g = get_gendisk(dev);
return
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:07:33PM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> > static inline unsigned int disk_index (kdev_t dev)
> > {
> > struct gendisk *g = get_gendisk(dev);
> > return g ? (MINOR(dev) >> g->minor_shift) : 0;
> > }
>
> Well,
>
> a) this is not in the official kernel,
> b)
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:55:54PM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> I (being new to kernel hacking) have yet to understand what needs
> to happen for patches to enter the main branches.
You mail them to Linus, with a cc to linux-kernel.
If he likes the patch it will be part of the next (pre)release.
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
:: It's neither a bug nor undocumented.
Kenneth Johansson wrote:
: Interesting but I wonder how much this helps someone that not already know
: what it is. Should not the ls manual also contain something that explains
In fact the best info is on the stat page:
...
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 08:26:55AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> a DF-32 for PDP 8 systems with 32 K bytes of disk space
32768 13-bit words (12-bit plus parity)
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On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:10:40PM +0200, Rudolf Polzer wrote:
> There is a problem concerning chvt. A normal user can run a
>
> bash$ while [ 1 ]; do chvt 11; done
>
> which cannot be killed using the console (only remotely, virtually never
> on a nonnetworked multiuser machine). So I changed t
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:48:40PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> If you're using it on a wintel arch machine, have you managed to get the
> numeric keypad's = key or the power key to work? Doesn't here and I've
> tried more than one model of keyboard on more than one machine, no luck
> even with
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 06:08:59PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > To understand the details of the code, trace the steps:
> > (i) The USB code can be found e.g. on
> > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-5.html
> > We find that Power is 102 and that Keypad-= is 103.
>
> I find t
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:58:18PM -0500, Stephen C Burns wrote:
> Each time I run lilo, I receive the following message in syslog:
>
> modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-3
>
> This machine has no IDE devices. when I run lilo in verbose mode, I see
> that it is querying all possible har
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:03:31PM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote:
> > > Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info.
> > > There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem.
> >
> > Sure it isn't a problem, but it's really annoying if it won't need to
> > touch hda anyway.
> >
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:03:32PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:01:07AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote:
> > But why don't you use the bios keyword? From lilo.conf(5):
>
> It doesn't help.
Of course it does.
(But you must distinguish people
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:16:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'm running RedHat 7.0 with all official RH patches applied. The kernel I
> > currently run fow a few days is 2.2.19-7.0.8
> > I run the pre-compiled kernel of RH. Suddenly I the following messages:
> >
> > Jul 2 15:12:16 gateway SER
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:02:56PM +0100, Andy Piper wrote:
> I'd quite like to get the device working and stable,
> and so would Andries
I can speak for myself, thank you.
For me the Dane-Elec is working and stable.
Andries
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On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:29:54PM +0100, Andy Piper wrote:
> > For me the Dane-Elec is working and stable.
>
> You are using the Compact Flash reader part of the device, right?
Yes.
> I don't think it is working with SmartMedia.
I cannot test that part - don't think I have any SmartMedia.
>
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:29:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> To make sure this gets enough publicity and eyes on it..
> > http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/lsbreview.html
Yes. Lots of tiny inaccuracies. And no email address.
(But a form with the mysterious button "Change".)
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On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:06:03AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Is anyone working on supporting the dynamic disk format introduced with
> Windows 2000? If not, does anyone have the specs / any detailed info on the
> on disk structures involved?
I once collected some stuff from the Micros
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:32:20AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > root@kama3:/home/szabi# cat /proc/mounts
> > > /dev/hdb2 /usr ext2 rw 0 0
> > > root@kama3:/home/szabi# swapon /dev/hdb2
> >
> > - Doctor, it hurts when I do it!
> > - Don't do it, then.
> >
> > Just what behaviour had you expected?
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