Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-18 Thread Kenneth Johansson
Alan Cox wrote: > > > Fix your userspace applications to behave correctly. If _you_ > > > require your userspace applications to not clear counters, then fix > > > the application. > > > > You are confused. What would you say if a close() by another, > > No he isnt confused, you are trying to d

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-03-02 Thread Kenneth Johansson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Linus has spoken, and 2.4.x now requires swap = 2x RAM. > But, the 2GB per swap partition limit still exists, best as we can tell. > So, we sell machines with say 8GB RAM. We need 16GB swap, but really we > need like an 18GB disk with 8 2GB swap partitions, or ideally

test8-pre6 file corruption and oops

2000-09-07 Thread Kenneth Johansson
I get this on only one of my machines but it's probably not that stange as they really don't have much in common other than being i386 compatible. Could old errors on the filesystem produce this error?? I have only run fsck under t8p6. The last one is incomplete but the kernel had inserted part

Re: test8-pre6 file corruption and oops

2000-09-08 Thread Kenneth Johansson
"Juan J. Quintela" wrote: > >>>>> "kenneth" == Kenneth Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > hi > > I only can guess that you are using a wrong System.map for > doing the ksymoops. __mon_yday is an array, not a fu

Re: test8-pre6 file corruption and oops

2000-09-08 Thread Kenneth Johansson
"Juan J. Quintela" wrote: > >>>>> "kenneth" == Kenneth Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > kenneth> Is there some way I can fix the old report I don't have a unprocessed >version of the oops as klogd "fixed" it automa

Re: test9-pre1 hang when loading scsi-ide cdrom

2000-09-16 Thread Kenneth Johansson
Frank van de Pol wrote: > Just experienced a (reproducable) hang of the system when loading the > drivers for my cdrom drives. (ide-cd and ide-scsi). System freezes > completely; interupts / alt-sysreq is still working. > ... > > It appears to me that something breaks during the init/registrati

Re: IDE-cd problem with 2.4-test9

2000-10-17 Thread Kenneth Johansson
Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > > strange thing, wanted to burn some data ... but i do not see the CD > anymore tryed to use the CD in ide-mode nothing... > Same problem I have. I used to work for me and I have not changed anything. But other people are complaining on problems to burn

Re: three kernel trees?

2000-10-17 Thread Kenneth Johansson
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > Alan, > > Were Linux to go totally modular in 2.5, development cycles will be > reduced by 1/2 to 1/3. This is because you could always roll back to > known good modules to post a release. The way you guys are going, if > Linux stays monolithic, your cycles will get lo

Re: Git archive now available

2005-04-15 Thread Kenneth Johansson
Darren Williams wrote: Hi All Thanks to the team at [EMAIL PROTECTED] we now have a no so complete Git archive at http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/ If somebody could send me a complete Git mbox I will update the archive with it. - dsw gmane.org is already archiving this list. - To unsub

Re: EXT2 Filesystem permissions (bug)?

2001-06-26 Thread Kenneth Johansson
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 the meaning instead of just the mapping from bits to symbol. Do linux even support the sticky bit (t) I can't see a reason to use it, why would I

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-29 Thread Kenneth Johansson
Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > (Does Linux swap out text, by the way, he asks ignorantly?) .text is just droped and read back from the actuall file it's not put into the swap - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-15 Thread Kenneth Johansson
Chip Salzenberg wrote: > According to Alan Cox: > > Given a file handle 'X' how do I find out what ioctl groups I should > > apply to it. > > Wouldn't it be better just to *try* ioctls and see which ones work and > which ones don't? As ioctl's is just numbers that can be valid but mean totally d

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-03 Thread Kenneth Johansson
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 21:23 +0200, Renate Meijer wrote: > On Apr 3, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Dag Arne Osvik wrote: > > > Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 13:55:39 +0200 Dag Arne Osvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> I've been working on a new DES implementation for Linux,