Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-11 Thread Chris Meadors
he screen doesn't just go black. Probally the majority of Matrox owners have multisync monitors, but I'm stuck with an old monosync, and it looses sync when trying to return to a VESA text mode. I don't use the matroxfb driver so this patch wouldn't help me, and is also why I say XF

Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread Chris Meadors
e problem with the returning to VESA text modes from XFree 4.0 anytime I use the hallib, with 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. If I compile an X server without the hallib it's fine (G450 users don't have that option, and I like my dual head). If X changes the mode upon starting it should put it

Re: [lkml]Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread Chris Meadors
be able to use a nice 132 character wide terminal again. And I'm getting addicted to dual head in X, might be fun on the console too. -Chris -- Two penguins were walking on an iceberg. The first penguin said to the second, "you look like you are wearing a tuxedo." The second pen

Re: [CHECKER] security rules?

2001-04-13 Thread Chris Evans
d a lot of these sort of errors. I've already nailed a few. Cheers Chris On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Dawson Engler wrote: > > We're looking at making a set of security checkers. Does anyone have > suggestions for good things to go after in addition to the usual > copy_*_user and

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Chris Meadors
lons. Is the acpi=no-idle work around the perminate fix? -Chris -- Two penguins were walking on an iceberg. The first penguin said to the second, "you look like you are wearing a tuxedo." The second penguin said, "I might be..." --David Lynch, Twin Peak

Documentation of module parameters.

2001-04-16 Thread Chris Kloiber
ce can any exterior documentation be gleaned. Those of us who don't speak C would really appreciate it. Thanks In Advance. Chris Kloiber - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info a

Re: [CHECKER] copy_*_user length bugs?

2001-04-18 Thread Chris Evans
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, David Schleef wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:39:15PM -0700, Dawson Engler wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > at the suggestion of Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I wrote a simple > > checker to warn when the length parameter to copy_*_user was (1) an >

Re: [CHECKER] copy_*_user length bugs?

2001-04-18 Thread Chris Evans
tempted into userspace. The source is a kernel object which is not 2Gb large! So, we read off the end of some kernel object, and there is often something very interesting after it ;-) For a good real-world example, please see my Bugtraq post regarding sysctl(): http://www.securityfocus.com/archive

Re: VFS problem

2001-04-18 Thread Chris Mason
h >> Erreur de segmentation ( SEGFAULT ) >> >> -and then the partition freeze .Any attempt to read/write on it leads to Hmmm, are you sure there aren't any reiserfs messages on screen or in the log? -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

[PATCH] reiserfs transaction overflow

2001-04-18 Thread Chris Mason
soon. Anyway, this patch should fix 2.4.x, please apply: -chris --- linux/fs/reiserfs/journal.c.1 Tue Apr 17 09:36:36 2001 +++ linux/fs/reiserfs/journal.c Tue Apr 17 09:37:50 2001 @@ -2052,7 +2052,7 @@ sleep_on(&(SB_JOURNAL(p_s_sb)->j_join_wait)) ; } } -lock_jo

[PATCH] ac only, allow reiserfs files > 4GB

2001-04-18 Thread Chris Mason
call, mostly because I didn't want to copy/maintain that hunk of code in reiserfs. Testing has been light, I'll beat on it more this evening. patch against 2.4.3-ac7. -chris diff -Nru a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c --- a/fs/attr.c Wed Apr 18 18:33:44 2001 +++ b/fs/attr.c Wed Apr 18 18:

[PATCH] reiserfs should daemonize

2001-04-19 Thread Chris Mason
Hi guys, The reiserfs commit thread needs to daemonize. This patch was actually from Andi Kleen eons ago (but blame me if it breaks). Please apply. Against 2.4.3: --- linux/fs/reiserfs/journal.c Thu Apr 19 14:02:56 2001 +++ linux/fs/reiserfs/journal.c Thu Apr 19 18:11:57 2001 @@ -1814,16 +1

[RFC] yet another knfsd-reiserfs patch

2001-04-23 Thread Chris Mason
_from_fh(struct super_block *, __u32 *fh, int size) ; iget the inode or parent directory inode based on data in the array. Default ops are provided, the other filesystems should work the same as before. Anyway, please take a look. -chris # This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following pro

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Mason
On Monday, February 12, 2001 11:42:38 PM +0300 Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Chris, >> >> Do you know if the people reporting the corruption with reiserfs on >> 2.4 were using IDE drives with PIO mode and IDE multicount turned on? >> >&

opl3sa not detected anymore

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Funderburg
After the updates to the opl3sa2 driver (2.4.2-pre3?) my card isn't being detected anymore. Are there further updates to come, or do I need to change the settings? The driver is being loaded as a module with the following in /etc/modules.conf: alias sound-slot-0 opl3sa2 options sound dmabuf=1

Re: opl3sa not detected anymore

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Funderburg
without them, you get this: opl3sa2: io, mss_io, irq, dma, and dma2 must be set Thanks for your help! CF On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jérôme Augé wrote: > Chris Funderburg wrote: > > following in /etc/modules.conf: > > > > alias sound-slot-0 opl3sa2 > > options sound d

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Mason
On Tuesday, February 13, 2001 01:39:02 AM +0300 Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris, your quoting is very confusing above. but I get your very > interesting remark (thanks for noticing) that the nulls are specific to > crashes on 2.2, and therefor could be due to t

Re: opl3sa not detected anymore

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Funderburg
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Scott Murray wrote: Thanks! The isapnp=0 fixed it. I don't actually have an isapnp.conf file. On my next compile I'll just disable the ISA Pnp driver. I don't actually need it, but it's something that I've never bothered to turn off. :) CF >

SO_RCVTIMEO, SO_SNDTIMEO

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Evans
is -ETIMEDOUT used? ... TIA, Chris - 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://vger.kernel.org/lkml/

calling all gurus! odd and subtle network problem

2001-02-15 Thread Chris Friesen
s as to what was going on? My only theory is that something is screwy with the card or the drivers, but I have no idea why it would run fine for almost 6 months then suddenly start causing problems. I eagerly await your opinions. Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: calling all gurus! odd and subtle network problem -- followup, possible answer

2001-02-15 Thread Chris Friesen
Chris Friesen wrote: > The kicker is that the NIC with the MAC address in question happened to be in my > G4 box running linux (yellowdog, 2.2.17 kernel). It was a D-Link 530TX NIC, if > it matters. The linux box was not configured as a DHCP server or client, and > both interface

[PATCH] reiserfs fix for null bytes in small files

2001-02-16 Thread Chris Mason
why people see null bytes. If anyone wants more details, drop a line to me or the reiserfs list ;-) This patch against 2.4.1 (will work on any 2.4.1ac or 2.4.2pre as well) should fix it, please try it on your non-production machines, we are still running it through tests here. -chris --- linux/fs

Re: [reiserfs-list] [PATCH] reiserfs fix for null bytes in smallfiles

2001-02-16 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, February 16, 2001 05:01:39 PM +0100 Xuan Baldauf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Chris Mason wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I think Alexander Zarochentcev and I have finally figured out >> cause for null bytes in small reiserf

SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-16 Thread Chris Evans
Repeat the write() - send another 1Mb. --> BUG!! The call blocks indefinitely instead of returning with EAGAIN after 5s. I hope this is detailled enough. I'm trying to gain access to a FreeBSD box to compare results.. Cheers Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &quo

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-17 Thread Chris Evans
Alexey, Damn you are quick! :) Testing immediately Cheers Chris On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > > Unfortunately, it seems to be very buggy. Here are two buggy scenarios. > > > --- ../vger3-010210/linux/net/ipv4/tcp.c Sat Feb 10 23:16:51

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-17 Thread Chris Evans
. - Set 5 seconds SO_SNDTIMEO on the connected socket - Do a sendfile() from a big file down the connected socket. Make sure the size is big (e.g. 1Mb) so the call blocks. --> BUG!! The call blocks indefinitely rather than being interrupted after 5 seconds. Cheers Chris On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 [EM

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaksmozilla compile

2001-02-17 Thread Chris Mason
oduced binary. > Where in the libsample.so file are the differences (what byte offset?). Are they restricted to a given range, or do they vary randomly? > These problems occur on: > > 2.4.1 > 2.4.2-pre4 > 2.4.2-pre4 with Chris Mason's 'reiserfs fix for null bytes in

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-17 Thread Chris Evans
Hi, By the way - I tested SO_RCVLOWAT, another 2.4 addition. Good news this time - seems to work fine. Cheers Chris - 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

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaksmozilla compile

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Mason
not very robust, as it > does not detect garbled input files). As said, running objdump on the > corrupted (reiserfs compiled) library also produces errors. Great, that will help narrow things down. Please run the elf-dynstr-gc program under strace, on top of both the ext2 and reiserfs tree

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaksmozilla compile

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Mason
If your bug is *really* odd, I might ask a few different ways, just to make sure you give the same answer every time ;-) -chris - 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.k

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Evans
which I can't account for. Cheers Chris - 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: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Evans
an a timeout error), and the loop goes around again. > If transmission of any page never takes more than SO_SNDTIMEO it never > times out. Which is good, because SO_SNDTIMEO is an inactivity monitor. Cheers Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Evans
s fixed. I think the FreeBSD behaviour is definitely correct and we want it on Linux. Cheers Chris --- filemap.c.old Sun Feb 18 23:35:06 2001 +++ filemap.c Mon Feb 19 00:13:38 2001 @@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ for (;;) { struct page *page, **hash; - unsign

sendfile() breakage was Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Evans
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Chris Evans wrote: > > BTW, if you have enough fast network, you probably can observe > > that sendfile() is even not interrupted by signals. 8) But this > > is possible to fix at least. BTW the same fix will repair SO_*TIMEO > > partially, i.e.

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Mason
wrong on that and one other thing. NFS doesnt work > without extra patches and big endian boxes dont work with reiserfs > currently > > Chris - would it be worth sending me a patch that notes the NFS thing in > Configure.help and includes the patch url ? Yes, it would. I'd rath

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Mason
On Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:40:24 AM +1100 Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When reiserfs came along, it abused this, and re-interpreted the > opaque datum to contain information for recalling (locating) an > inode - if read_inode2 was defined. I think this is wrong. > I s

Re: SO_SNDTIMEO: 2.4 kernel bugs

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Evans
t be a useful thing to export to userspace. Cheers Chris - 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: [2.4.1] system goes glacial, Reiser on /usr doesn't sync

2001-02-20 Thread Chris Mason
ffee break and come back to it, there's still >> no evidence that you banged on the keyboard. > > > Wild shot in the darkI'd lay odds that you had about 6-7 Megs free in > your buffers/cache line, yes? > David, have any of Rik's patches helped here

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-20 Thread Chris Mason
ing the userspace NFS server with reiserfs: ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/nfs -chris - 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: reiserfs probs on 2.2.17

2001-02-20 Thread Chris Mason
inds of deadlocks should have been long since fixed, so there is probably a larger problem. Running reiserfsck --replay-journal will replay the journal. This happens on every mount, so I'm really not sure how it could have fixed things ;-) The --check option is readonly, and if there was

Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

2001-02-22 Thread Chris Mason
h tea: 3m58s The percentage increase just gets bigger as you create more and more files. That doesn't mean this is a real world case, but it is what the hash was designed for. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: 2.4.1 under heavy network load - more info

2001-02-23 Thread Chris Evans
e in 32Mb, were the caching not out of balance. Cheers Chris - 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: reiserfs problem

2001-02-23 Thread Chris Mason
port back if switching to 2.95.2 or egcs fixed the oops. Anyway, which compiler did you use to compile the kernel? -chris - 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.ker

Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion

2001-02-23 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, February 23, 2001 10:18:56 PM +0100 Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running linux-2.4.2-pre4 with Chris Mason's tailconversion bug fix > applied, but I still have problems with null bytes in files. I wrote a > little test prog

Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion

2001-02-24 Thread Chris Mason
est program does not close the fd by the way, so some of the errors were from that (but not all). So, there must be somewhere else that we are screwing up the tail conversion, I'll see what I can find. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&quo

Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion

2001-02-24 Thread Chris Mason
eing set right. It is more than possible that I've screwed up something there, and the code thinks a page is valid when it really isn't. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More ma

Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion

2001-02-25 Thread Chris Mason
unformatted node after a direct->indirect conversion. This code only gets called when the page/buffer wasn't already up to date, which is why you see it more when there is less ram. Fix will be out shortly -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

[PATCH] Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion

2001-02-25 Thread Chris Mason
been copied. This was the big bug, it was zeroing previously copied bytes. Any testing on non-production machines would be appreciated, I'll forward to Linus/Alan once I've gotten more feedback. -chris diff -ur diff/linux/fs/reiserfs/inode.c linux/fs/reiserfs/inode.c --- diff/linux/fs

Re: [CFT][PATCH] Re: fat problem in 2.4.2

2001-03-01 Thread Chris Mason
ew_file_size + [one block], and then truncate that block off the end of the file, leaving nothing but the hole. I'll never admit to suggesting it though. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: [patch][rfc][rft] vm throughput 2.4.2-ac4

2001-03-01 Thread Chris Evans
mprove the vm by careful profiling, tweaking and benching, not by throwing random patches in that seem cool in theory. Cheers Chris - 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:/

[PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/Locking

2001-03-02 Thread Chris Mason
filesystems need to grab the bkl on their own for fsync now: -chris --- linux/Documentation/filesystems/Locking.1 Fri Mar 2 11:20:18 2001 +++ linux/Documentation/filesystems/Locking Fri Mar 2 11:21:10 2001 @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ open: maybe (see below) flush: yes

Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

2001-03-02 Thread Chris Mason
ecific fsync op needs to be called. But, you should not need to call file_fsync in the XFS fsync call (check out ext2's) For why ide is beating scsi in this benchmark...make sure tagged queueing is on (or increase the queue length?). For the xlog.c test posted, I would expect scsi to get fast

Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

2001-03-02 Thread Chris Mason
ll restrict their scans to a list of dirty buffers for that specific file. Only file_fsync goes through all the dirty buffers on the device, and the ext2 fsync path never calls file_fsync. Or am I missing something? -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

PATCH: kernel/sched.c - Optimisation of some variable assignments

2001-03-05 Thread chris . higgins
*/ - next = idle_task(this_cpu); - c = -1000; if (prev->state == TASK_RUNNING) goto still_running; + next = idle_task(this_cpu); + c = -1000; still_running_back: list_for_each(tmp, &runqueue_head) { --END-OF-PATC

2.2.19pre15 SCSI errors with AIC-7xxx driver

2001-03-06 Thread Chris Kennedy
g SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 2802 [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:02: sense key Illegal Request Additional sense indicates Invalid command operation code scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:02, sector 163868 (scsi

Re: [PATCH] filemap_fdatasync & related changes

2001-01-04 Thread Chris Mason
On Thursday, January 04, 2001 10:48:13 AM +0100 Christoph Rohland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Just noticed the filemap_fdatasync code doesn't check the return value >> from writepage. Linus, would you take a patch tha

Re: [PATCH] filemap_fdatasync & related changes

2001-01-04 Thread Chris Mason
(page) ; UnlockPage(page) ; } And then, in filemap_fdatawait: list_del(&page->list) ; if (PageDirty(page)) list_add(&page->list, &mapping->dirty_pages) ; else list_add(&page->list, &mapping->clean_pages) ; -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

[PATCH] fsync on unmounting root

2001-01-04 Thread Chris Mason
Hi guys, Looks like the prerelease, and at least test13 don't fsync the device when someone does an unmount on / mount -o remount works, just unmounting the root misses the fsync. This patch works for me: -chris --- linux/fs/super.c.1 Thu Jan 4 13:38:55 2001 +++ linux/fs/super.cTh

Re: [PATCH] fsync on unmounting root

2001-01-04 Thread Chris Mason
On Thursday, January 04, 2001 01:58:47 PM -0500 Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > >> Looks like the prerelease, and at least test13 don't fsync the device >> when someone does an unmount on / >> >> mo

reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-prerelease

2001-01-04 Thread Chris Mason
k with the new kernel. Log the super before balancing to avoid warning messages about logging an unprepared buffer. Clears the dirty bit before sending buffers to submit_bh in reiserfs_writepage. Please send any bug reports to the reiserfs list. -chris diff -urN linux-3.6.23/fs/buffer.c linux/

Re: [PATCH] dcache 2nd chance replacement

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Evans
two of you ajourn this debate to alt.flame Better still stop _theorizing_ and start _measuring_ Cheers Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-final

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, January 05, 2001 02:04:08 PM +0100 Claas Langbehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:52:49PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: >> This patch is meant to be applied on top of the reiserfs >> 3.6.23 patch to get everything working in the new prerel

Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Mason
Here's the latest version of the patch, against 2.4.0. The biggest open issues are what to do with bdflush, since page_launder could do everything bdflush does. And, how to deal with writepage funcs that return 1 for fsync_inode_buffers. -chris diff -urN linux.2.4.0/fs/buffer.c lin

Re: reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-final

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Evans
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > > Could someone create one single patch for the 2.4.0 ? > > > I put all the code into CVS, and Yura is making the official patch now. Since 2.4.0 final should fix a few i/o performance issues (particuarly under heavy write loads), a qu

Looking for maintainer of ENSONIQ SoundScape driver

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Rankin
ioned in the MAINTAINERS file for this ISA PNP card, and I have received no response from the linux-sound mailing list. Is there anybody out there? Cheers, Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pleas

Re: [PATCH] VESA framebuffer w/ MTRR locks 2.4.0 on init

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Kloiber
Alan Cox wrote: > > > 1) The amount of video memory is being incorrectly reported my the VESA call > > used in arch/i386/video.S (INT 10h AX=4f00h). My Dell Inspiron 3200 (NeoMagic > > video) returns that it has 31 64k blocks of video memory, instead of the > > correct 32. This means that vesa

Re: Looking for maintainer of ENSONIQ SoundScape driver

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Rankin
16992 0 (autoclean) [sscape] mpu401 18928 0 (autoclean) [sscape] sound 56976 0 (autoclean) [sscape ad1848 mpu401] soundcore 3952 5 (autoclean) [sscape sound] So although sscape can load mpu401 and ad1848, it mustn't unload them? The mixer c

Re: reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-final

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, January 05, 2001 02:54:53 PM -0200 Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Evans wrote: >> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote: >> >> > > Could someone create one single patch for the 2.4.0 ? >> > > >>

Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, January 05, 2001 01:43:07 PM -0200 Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > >> >> Here's the latest version of the patch, against 2.4.0. The >> biggest open issues are what to do with b

Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, January 05, 2001 01:43:07 PM -0200 Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > >> >> Here's the latest version of the patch, against 2.4.0. The >> biggest open issues are what to do with b

Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Mason
s (not some async daemon), and the writing only starts when we are over the hard dirty limit. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Updated patch: module-usage for sound coprocessor device

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I recently posted a patch for the coprocessor device in the 2.4.0 sound drivers. Well, it appears that I missed the synth device in the mpu401.c file and so here is an updated version. Cheers, Chris diff -urN -X linux-2.4.0/dontdiff linux-vanilla/drivers/sound/audio.c linux-2.4.0

ENSONIQ SoundScape PNP - small patch

2001-01-06 Thread Chris Rankin
speaker instead. Chris --- linux-vanilla/drivers/sound/sscape.cSun Nov 12 02:33:14 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0/drivers/sound/sscape.c Sat Jan 6 17:58:03 2001 @@ -671,7 +673,7 @@ return; } - if (sscape_is_pnp == 0) { + if

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-06 Thread Chris Mason
quested. > Because there may be multiple copies of the same block in the > journal, one should take the newest one that can be found in > the last commited transaction. > > IMHO Chris Mason already wrote such code, at least he talked about > it... > Talked about it, but never

Re: Oops in 2.4.0-ac2

2001-01-06 Thread Chris Mason
On Sunday, January 07, 2001 03:48:41 AM +0100 Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A null buffer was passed by kupdate_one_transaction (looks like a > Reiserfs function) to __refile_buffer. Chris? > Known bug, there should be another reiserfs release soon that include

ISA-PNP /proc interface in 2.4.0 : 100% CPU!

2001-01-07 Thread Chris Rankin
d of isapnp_info_device->activate() and isapnp_info_device->deactivate()? The former don't try to acquire the mutex, and are precisely what the "activate" and "deactivate" /proc commands invoke anyway. Cheers, Chris This is the output from /proc/isapnp: Card 1 &#

Re: Software requirements in Changes document

2001-01-07 Thread Chris Ricker
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Matthias Juchem wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Comparing the Changes document for 2.4.0 against the one from 2.3.11 one > can see that many requirements were removed. Nine out of 22 are still > there. > Have the removed ones been unnecessary or only less

PATCH for 2.4.0: assign ad1848 mixer operations to correct module

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Rankin
&ad1848_mixer_operations, Or maybe the sound_install_() functions should accept "owner" parameters, so that the static structs could become "const"? Cheers, Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Delay in authentication.

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Meadors
iles dns protocols: files services: files ethers: files rpc:files netgroup: files What else could effect that? -Chris -- Two penguins were walking on an iceberg. The first penguin said to the second, "you look like you are wearing a tuxedo." The sec

Revised patch: Linux 2.4.0 ad1848 mixer ownership

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, This is a revised version of my ad1848 patch; instead of modifying the static structures, update the "owner" fields in the audio_devs[] and mixer_devs[] structures instead. Chris --- linux-vanilla/drivers/sound/ad1848.cFri Aug 11 16:26:43 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-ac3/dri

Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state)

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Mason
s_page; > + } ^ This doesn't look right... -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Delay in authentication.

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Meadors
libc-2.2, but this problem also existed in 2.1.x (which I had installed when I went to the 2.3 kernels that exposed this problem). -Chris -- Two penguins were walking on an iceberg. The first penguin said to the second, "you look like you are wearing a tuxedo.&qu

Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state)

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Mason
dirty until try_to_free_buffers writes it again. > + submit_bh(WRITE, bh); > + } > + bh = bh->b_this_page; > + } while (bh != head); -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: PATCH for 2.4.0: assign ad1848 mixer operations to correct module

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Rankin
tion in mpu401.c. It might be "interesting" to redeclare all the static struct mixer_operations as "const", along with the argument in sound_install_mixer(), and see exactly how many sound modules scream in pain. Maybe too interesting for 2.4.1... :-) ? Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

2.2 vs. 2.4 benchmarks

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Evans
aging to do better, due to keeping the more useful pages in RAM better. I have no explanation. Cheers Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Delay in authentication.

2001-01-09 Thread Chris Meadors
into this server. Another interesting thing I have noticed about this delay. If I remove the data in the password field from the shadow file ("username::...") there is no pause during login. -Chris -- Two penguins were walking on an iceberg. The first penguin said to the second, "

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread Chris Evans
right patch from Jens, it doesnt suck anymore. ) Is this "right patch from Jens" on the radar for 2.4 inclusion? Cheers Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Set ownership correctly for MPU401 synth operations

2001-01-09 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, This patch makes the mpu401_synth_operations structure respect attach_mpu401()'s "owner" parameter. This should prevent more sound module from being accidentally unloaded. Cheers, Chris --- linux-vanilla/drivers/sound/mpu401.cFri Jan 5 23:14:08 2001 +++ linux-2.

Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux)

2001-01-09 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 02:32:09 AM +0100 Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> EIP; c013f911<= > Trace; c013f706 > Trace; c0136e01 The buffer reiserfs is sending to filldir is big enough for the huge file name, so I think the real fix should be done in VFSland. But, in

Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux)

2001-01-09 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 02:32:09 AM +0100 Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> EIP; c013f911<= > Trace; c013f706 > Trace; c0136e01 > Here is a patch against our 2.4 code (3.6.25) that does the same as the patch posted for 3.5.29: -chr

Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSELinux)

2001-01-09 Thread Chris Mason
problem is too easy to reproduce and > VERY dangerous I think alerting people to this problem is in order. > Sorry, a quick attempt at reproducing on 2.2.17 and 2.2.19 kernels did not cause an oops. Could you please send me a decoded version of the oops to help track things down? thanks, C

Request for Data: Anyone out there with an ENSONIQ SoundScape?

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Rankin
ge DMA 1 8-bit byte-count compatible DMA 0,3 8-bit byte-count compatible ... And uses these module options: options sscape irq=5 dma=1 io=0x338 mpu_io=0x330 mpu_irq=9 Cheers, Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messa

Re: * 4 converted to << 2 for networking code

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Jones
Mike Harrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] My feeling is that it shouldn't matter if you use <<2 or *4 even if the compiler optimises - one would hope that the compiler would optimise to the fastest in both directions. I agree this should be left to the compiler. The programmer shoul

Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSELinux)

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Mason
the buffer sent from userspace, I don't see how we stay in bounds. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux)

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 07:02:08 PM +0300 "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Chris Mason wrote: > >> On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 02:32:09 AM +0100 Marc Lehmann >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> &g

Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSELinux)

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:38:34 PM -0500 Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > >> In filldir, I don't like the line where we ((char *)dirent += reclen ; >> If reclen is much larger than the buffer sent from

[PATCH] : Mark read-only ISA-PNP function parameters as "const"

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, This is an incredibly boring patch that just adds "const" to some of the ISA-PNP function prototypes. It compiles cleanly with gcc-2.95.2. Cheers, Chris --- linux-vanilla/include/linux/isapnp.hSun Dec 31 19:11:06 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-ac3/include/linux/isapnp.h Wed Ja

Re: Subtle MM bug

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Wing
nstead of nobody because its programmer used pthreads and assumed that setuid() would affect all threads. I pointed this out to the author and Red Hat, and it was fixed in pidentd 3.0.11 and Red Hat 6.2. -Chris Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

[PATCH]: Keep sound-module usage correct, even if audio_open fails

2001-01-10 Thread Chris Rankin
ow includes the coprocessor too. Cheers, Chris --- linux-vanilla/drivers/sound/audio.c Fri Aug 11 16:26:43 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-ac3/drivers/sound/audio.c Wed Jan 10 23:53:23 2001 @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ * Daniel Rodriksson: reworked the use of the device specific copy_user *

Re: Possible deadlock with ->writepaged version offlush_dirty_buffers() and 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 05:56:09 PM -0200 Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > It seems there is a possible deadlock condition with your patch which > changes flush_dirty_buffers() to use ->writepage (something which we > _definately_

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