Re: [RFC][PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-14 Thread Jonathan Lundell
0x0001 /* Get settings, non-privileged. */ >+#define ETHTOOL_GSET 0x0001 /* Get settings. */ > #define ETHTOOL_SSET 0x0002 /* Set settings, privileged. */ >+#define ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO 0x0003 /* Get driver info. */ > > /* compatibility with older code *

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ct any disk-bound process that severely? -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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/

Re: Documentation of module parameters.

2001-04-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
really appreciate it. > >Thanks In Advance. > >Chris Kloiber -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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/

Re: That leaked spam...

2001-04-17 Thread Jonathan Lundell
Dear Friend: >> >> YOU CAN make over a half million dollars every 4 to 5 months from >> your home for a one time investment of only twenty five U.S. >> Dollars. >... -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&qu

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-18 Thread Jonathan Lundell
client of the counter can trivially achieve the effect of a reset by (locally) storing a snapshot and doing a subtract. Conversely, if the counter is truly reset, information is lost permanently. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: ioctl arg passing

2001-04-23 Thread Jonathan Lundell
. This particular layout happens to work with 64-bit pointers as well (I'm assuming that __s16 is a signed 16-bit type). You can move the pointers to the front, but it's not necessary in this case, so I tried to preserve some of your original ordering (code first, rx before

Re: PATCH 2.4.4.3: 3rdparty driver support for kbuild

2001-04-23 Thread Jonathan Lundell
he moment it >overlaps you need human intervention. That is true for my makefile-2.5 >as well as your Perl method. Where "non-overlapping" needs to be construed broadly to include "not logically conflicting", and not merely as overlapping diffs. -- /Jonathan Lun

Re: Please help

2001-03-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
exist any kind of definition of the abstract interface between the architecture-independent and architecture-dependent parts of the kernel? Or am I being naive? -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

Re: sysrq.txt

2001-03-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
e F9 key on a G3 PowerBook is labeled "prt screen", and you get that function with the "fn" key, not the "alt" key (which is a secondary label on the "opt" key). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

Re: Serial port latency

2001-03-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
s);/* wait for reply */ > } What are your settings for VTIME and VMIN? -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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/

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-27 Thread Jonathan Lundell
Ds of either flavor: OOM-killable or not. 100 seems like "enough" non-killable users to me, but that may be a lack of imagination on my part. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Disturbing news..

2001-03-28 Thread Jonathan Lundell
eeding to be made non-executable so that it can't execute? > >aeee, my head hurts now, thanks :( It shouldn't. rm is not prevented from removing an unwriteable file (though it complains by default). Directory permissions control operations on links. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To

Re: Storage - redundant path failover / failback - quo vadis linux?

2001-05-18 Thread Jonathan Lundell
icate to the multi-pathing level, seems exactly right. I'm guessing that provision needs to be made for some external-device-dependent means of signalling both failure and recovery. There are potentially side-channel/out-of-band means to communicate this kind of status from specific devices.

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
s as with identical ones; the fix is to replug correctly, not to change MAC addresses. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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/

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
s/dev/fcn lets you do that. I know from system documentation, or can figure out once and for all by experimentation, the correspondence between PCI bus/dev/fcn and physical locations. Jeff's extension gives me the mapping between eth# and PCI bus/dev/fcn, which is not otherwise available (outs

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-20 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 3:37 AM -0600 2001-05-20, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >Jonathan Lundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> At 10:42 AM +0200 2001-05-19, Kai Henningsen wrote: >> > > Jeff Garzik's ethtool >> > > extension at least tells me the PCI bus/dev/f

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-20 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 2:16 AM +1200 2001-05-21, Chris Wedgwood wrote: >On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:36:14AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > I know from system documentation, or can figure out once and for > all by experimentation, the correspondence between PCI > bus/dev/fcn and phy

Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice.

2001-05-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
errors reported from your disk >it's long overdue for replacement. This can't be right. It implies that the drive is returning bogus data with no error indication. Remapping a bad sector is not the same as recovering it. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice.

2001-05-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
remapping) off. There's way too much chance that a system will read the remapped sector and assume that it contains the original data. That would be hopelessly corrupting. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice.

2001-05-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 5:56 PM +0200 2001-05-24, Andi Kleen wrote: >On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:04AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > At 10:31 AM +0200 2001-05-24, Andi Kleen wrote: >> >reiserfs doesn't, but the HD usually has transparently in its firmware. >> >So it hits a ba

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
s that were themselves saturated in both directions (all ignoring overhead). Full saturation is not reasonable for either PCI or Ethernet; I'm just looking at order-of-magnitude numbers here. The bottom line is: don't make any hard and fast assumption about the number of devices connec

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
r and the PCI >card sniffs the DMA controller setup (as it goes to pci, then when nobody >claims it on to the isa bridge) then does bus mastering DMA of its own to fake >the ISA dma That's sick. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: [CHECKER] large stack variables (>=1K) in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8

2001-05-25 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ts, but it's a potential benefit of having the stack at the bottom rather than the top of a page. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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.kerne

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-30 Thread Jonathan Lundell
rhaps not much in this context), the POSIX way is sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) POSIX sysconf is pretty useful for this kind of thing (not just HZ, either). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More m

Re: How to know HZ from userspace?

2001-05-30 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 1:38 AM +0100 2001-05-31, Joel Becker wrote: >On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:24:37PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: >> FWIW (perhaps not much in this context), the POSIX way is >>sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) >> >> POSIX sysconf is pretty useful for this kind of

Re: Configure.help is complete

2001-06-01 Thread Jonathan Lundell
n the proliferation of ioctls. Sure, it's non-standard and a mess. But it's semi-documented, easy to use, and v. general. What's the preferred alternative, to state the first question another way? For any single small project/driver, creating a new fs simply isn't going to

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-21 Thread Jonathan Lundell
for example (and this is true for many/most multiple-device cards), has a bridge, its own internal PCI bus, and four "slots" ("devices" in PCI terminology). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 2:02 PM -0700 2001-05-22, Richard Henderson wrote: >On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 01:48:23PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: >> 64KB for 8-bit DMA; 128KB for 16-bit DMA. [...] This doesn't >> apply to bus-master DMA, just the legacy (8237) stuff. > >Would this 8237 be som

Re: alpha iommu fixes

2001-05-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
gh part of the address lives in a non-counting register). This doesn't apply to bus-master DMA, just the legacy (8237) stuff. There was also a 24-bit address limitation. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses

2001-06-14 Thread Jonathan Lundell
forced >to implement it... That's right, of course. A small problem is that dev->slot_name becomes ambiguous, since it doesn't have any hose identification. Nor does it have any room for the hose id; it's fixed at 8 chars, and fully used (bb:dd.f\0). -- /Jonathan Lundell. -

Re: any good diff merging utility?

2001-06-17 Thread Jonathan Lundell
patch2: >@@ 10,1 10,2 @@ > #include >+#include <2.h> > >The patch will fail to patch :-). But there is no real conflict between >the patches. Problem is, you can't tell automatically. Even if the diffs don't conflict physically, it's entirely possible that

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
mention recursion) significantly more expensive than on most other architectures. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Jonathan Lundell
initions. At this >point you get into law and the like and its probably best you read up on it >from a reputable source not l/k Though header files don't fall clearly on the interface-definition side of the line. ctype.h, for example, in userland, or any other header with #defined

Re: mktime in include/linux

2001-06-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
#defined in Rick's userland? There can't, of course, be any blanket prohibition against using kernel headers in userland. Think about ioctl.h, for example. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EM

Re: Q serial.c

2001-06-22 Thread Jonathan Lundell
pts are dynamically routed (eg round-robin). Where can I find the 5.05 driver? -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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/

[OT] Re: When the FUD is all around (sniff).

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
raham Lincoln say that? :) That's the common, but doubtful, attribution. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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/

Re: [PATCH] proc_file_read() (Was: Re: proc_file_read() question)

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
GE_SIZE ? page : start, n); > if (n == 0) { > if (retval == 0) > retval = -EFAULT; > break; > } > >- *ppos += start < page ? (long)start : n; /* Move down >the file */ >+

Re: [comphist] Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
sized guys were generally attached to mainframes, IBM or otherwise. Here's a little info: http://www.digital-interact.co.uk/site/html/reference/media_9trk.html (but take it with a grain of salt; IBM surely didn't go to nine tracks because of ASCII!). -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscr

Re: [PATCH] proc_file_read() (Was: Re: proc_file_read() question)

2001-06-27 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 10:07 AM +0200 2001-06-27, Martin Wilck wrote: >On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > >> I use the hack myself, to implement a record-oriented file where the >> file position is a record number. I could probably live with >> PAGE_SIZE, but the current ha

Re: [OT] Re: When the FUD is all around (sniff).

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
oln as "a caller >at the White House." Years later, two old-timers claimed they had >heard Lincoln say it in an 1856 address in Illinois, but a news >account of the speech didn't mention it. The Fehrenbachers give the >old-timers' recollections a D. The evidence,

Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-08 Thread Jonathan Lundell
sing cpio archive layout is OK, but _please_, don't make it dependent >on GNU cpio. If size is an issue (and of course it is), presumably the archive would be compressed. As long as tar can be convinced to pad with (say) nulls, the padding shouldn't have that much of an impact on arc

Re: [PATCH] Minor cleanup and export three functions

2001-07-19 Thread Jonathan Lundell
sumed that it was sent clear text. Obviously not. Eudora does leave you one little clue: At 2:19 AM +0100 2001-07-20, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; >BOUNDARY="-559023410-1804928587-995591940=:20239" -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsub

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ng some of the other names). How, if at all, would RAID devices, using more than one physical device, or SCSI bus, or PCI card, fit into this naming scheme? -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lundell
been very kind) -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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/

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-25 Thread Jonathan Lundell
kernels. Or, under extreme circumstances, Linux apps. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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/

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-04-26 Thread Jonathan Lundell
I slot number, as above, and a physically meaningful description that the user could use to identify an actual slot. Unfortunately the proper place for such a translation function is in the (hardware-specific) BIOS. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-28 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ing set". (Does Linux swap out text, by the way, he asks ignorantly?) -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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 Pleas

Re: deregister?

2001-04-29 Thread Jonathan Lundell
n spell? Since when? OED 2nd Ed: deregister. v. trans. To remove from a register. Hence deregistration. (first citation 1925) unregistered. ppl. a. Not entered in a register; unrecorded. (first citation 1604) The OED has no entry for "unregister". -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsu

Re: deregister?

2001-04-29 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 10:39 PM -0700 2001-04-29, Steve VanDevender wrote: >Jonathan Lundell writes: > > At 10:03 PM -0400 2001-04-29, Andres Salomon wrote: > > >Americans can spell? Since when? > > Shouldn't that be 'Sinse when'? > > OED 2nd Ed: > > &

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread Jonathan Lundell
re you were >> working on at the time :-) >> > >RDTSC in Crusoe processors does basically this. > > -hpa The Pentium III TSC has the bizarre characteristic, per Intel docs anyway, that only the low half can be written (as I recall the high half gets set to zero), ma

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-05-01 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 7:27 PM -0600 2001-04-30, Richard Gooch wrote: >Jonathan Lundell writes: > > ... > > Consider, instead of /dev/bus/pci0/dev1/fcn0/bus0/tgt1/lun2/part3 >> something like >> >> /dev/bus/pci0d1f0/scsi0t1l2p3 >> or >> /dev/bus/pci0:d1:f0/sc

Re: isa_read/write not available on ppc - solution suggestions ??

2001-05-02 Thread Jonathan Lundell
work reliably across multiple PCI buses etc. What's the Linu[sx] attitude to using a type to help control (and illuminate) the use of these objects? I'm thinking here in particular of the cookie returned by ioremap() and used by readx/writex, but I suppose there might be similar app

Re: unsigned long ioremap()?

2001-05-03 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ly. It'd be a big job. And Linus further suggests that ioremap's first argument is an architecture-specific object, not necessarily either a physical CPU address or a PCI address (though it's typically both in many (most?) i386 implementations). Now *there'd* be a cleanup. --

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-05-03 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 9:32 AM +0200 2001-05-03, Kai Henningsen wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Lundell) wrote on 26.04.01 in ><p05100303b70eadd613b0@[207.213.214.37]>: > >> At 10:31 PM -0600 2001-04-26, Richard Gooch wrote: >> >BTW: please fix your mailer to do linewrap at 72 c

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-03 Thread Jonathan Lundell
the network to arbitrate which node should be the owner of the disk. There are also the more extreme STONITH and STOMITH [shoot the other node/machine in the head] required by some shared filesystems (eg GFS). http://linux-ha.org/stonith.html http://sistina.com/gfs/howtos/gfs_howto/STOMITH__

Re: unsigned long ioremap()?

2001-05-03 Thread Jonathan Lundell
", if that doesn't offend >any sensibilities :) With a little arithmetic behind the scenes and a NULL pointer to the struct xdev, you could have: struct xdev_regs { u32 reg1; u32 reg2; } *xdr = 0; #define RTL_R32(REG) readl(cookie+(unsigned long)(&xdr->REG)) cookie

Re: unsigned long ioremap()?

2001-05-04 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ters as pointers. As Abramo points out, if you can't abide the above cast, you can create a relatively trivial macro to hide the dirty work. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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/

Re: page_launder() bug

2001-05-06 Thread Jonathan Lundell
not true, but the !!page->buffers is not a bug. There's something to be said for expressing it a little more clearly: page_count(page) == (page->buffers ? 2 : 1); (sorry, I don't remember the relative precedence of == and ?:) -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe f

Re: Not a typewriter

2001-05-10 Thread Jonathan Lundell
tl command. There's also ENOIOCTLCMD (apparently supposed to be a non-user errno, but i don't see where it gets changed to something else) and EINVAL. I'm not sure what the rationale is for choosing among them; perhaps someone would elucidate? -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To un

Re: Not a typewriter

2001-05-10 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 8:07 PM -0400 2001-05-10, Alexander Viro wrote: >On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > >> ENOTTY is used by several non-serial devices (or file systems) to >> object to an unrecognized ioctl command. There's also ENOIOCTLCMD >> (apparently supposed

Re: [2.4.4ac4] Kernel crash while unmounting CD: cause andsolution

2001-05-11 Thread Jonathan Lundell
rking like at the beginning of its days. >With the same CD's which it doesn't want to burn and which causes the crash >before! Not that a dirty CD lens should be able to cause a panic -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-05-11 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 1:32 PM -0300 2001-05-11, Ralf Baechle wrote: >On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:51:25AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: >> Kai Henningsen wrote: >> >What's a lot more important is that the mail standards say that this stuff >> >should not be interpreted by the r

Re: [PATCH] adding PCI bus information to SCSI layer

2001-05-11 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 11:20 PM -0300 2001-05-11, Ralf Baechle wrote: >On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 03:49:05PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > >It's 998 plus a CR/LF sequence which is 1000 bytes, not exactly an odd >number. And it's the official successor of RFC 822 which was an official >STD.

ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-11 Thread Jonathan Lundell
12 >#define ERESTARTNOINTR 513 >#define ERESTARTNOHAND 514 /* restart if no handler.. */ >#define ENOIOCTLCMD515 /* No ioctl command */ -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PRO

Re: ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-12 Thread Jonathan Lundell
>Its a way of passing back 'you handle it' >- >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 a

Re: ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ers/block/swim3.cSat May 12 15:22:30 2001 >@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ > sizeof(struct floppy_struct)); > return err; > } >- return -ENOIOCTLCMD; >+ return -ENOTTY; > } -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Lundell
t more invasively s/ENOIOCTLCMD/ENOTTY/ (mutatis mutandis) would result in no loss of function. I assert that ENOIOCTLCMD is redundant, pending a specific counterexample. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: ENOIOCTLCMD?

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Lundell
. I assert that ENOIOCTLCMD is >> redundant, pending a specific counterexample. > >On the contrary. I can now no longer force an unsupported response when there >is a generic routine I dont wish to use That makes sense. Thanks. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: Not a typewriter

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Lundell
>why creat doesn't end in an "e;" and so forth. I tell the Some time back, Ken Thompson was asked, if he had it to do over again, what changes he would make to Unix. The only thing he could think of: spell it "create()". -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe f

Re: [PATCH] Remove silly beep macro from pgtable.h

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
-#define __beep() asm("movb $0x3,%al; outb %al,$0x61") Let's please not assume that every i386 implementation has a full set of legacy PC IO hardware. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
A side observation: PCI or SCSI bus/device/lun/etc paths are not physical locations; you also need external hardware-specific knowledge to be able to talk about real physical locations in a way that does the system operator any good.) -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
configuring a system and *want* to renumber things. (There are magic ways to do it, though). That's all Solaris 2.6; not sure about 2.8. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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/

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ce $i > get configuration/config procedure for device $i identity > configure $i > done ...it's just that right now the connection between eth* and its physical identity isn't made. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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/

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
ns and no text. Or aren't labelled at all. I'm using one fairly well-known dual-port PCI serial board that silently interchanged the two ports on a rev change, with no labelling change at all ('cause there was no label!). Make your ttySx match *that*! -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsu

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
the connection all ways (eth# <-> bus location <-> physical location <-> MAC address) in a uniform manner. (Where MAC address might be something else in a non-Ethernet domain.) -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&quo

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
In practice, you'd have to experiment or remove a card and check the jumpering or some such. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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

RE: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
rives)? Removable media from another OS? Shared drives? Not that this kind of "firm" ID might not be an improvement, or at least a good sanity check. [Side question, not original with me: why isn't all this a 2.5 discussion?] -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 4:57 PM +0200 2001-05-16, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: >On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:37:45AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote: >> At 10:02 AM +0200 2001-05-16, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: >> > > It's also true that some buses simply don't yield up physical >>

Re: ((struct pci_dev*)dev)->resource[...].start

2001-05-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
otentially) changed? I'd expect the answer to be: for all practical purposes never. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - 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.or

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-17 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 11:23 PM +0200 2001-05-17, Kai Henningsen wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Lundell) wrote on 15.05.01 in ><p05100316b7272cdfd50c@[207.213.214.37]>: > >> What about: >> >> 1 (network domain). I have two network interfaces that I connect to >> two

x86 TSC time warp puzzle

2005-04-01 Thread Jonathan Lundell
happens at about 5 Hz. And the characteristic delay on each type of machine seems consistent. Any ideas of where to look? Other lists to inquire on? Thanks. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

RE: x86 TSC time warp puzzle

2005-04-02 Thread Jonathan Lundell
audio use. This is a desktop board, and this is well after boot (hours). Also, ACPI is disabled in the BIOS. I suppose I can try to disable SMI via the APIC? -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH 1/2] msi: Invert the sense of the MSI enables.

2007-05-25 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On May 24, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: Do we have a feel for how much performace we're losing on those systems which _could_ do MSI, but which will end up defaulting to not using it? At least on 10GB ethernet it is a significant difference; you usually cannot go anywhere near line spe

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Apr 15, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: It's a really good thing, and it means that if somebody shows that your code is flawed in some way (by, for example, making a patch that people claim gets better behaviour or numbers), any *good* programmer that actually cares about his cod