Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 05:52:16AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch removes the ISA legacy functions that are deprecated since > kernel 2.4 and that aren't available on all architectures. > > The 7 drivers that were still using this obsolete API are now marked > as BROKEN. NACK. Al has pa

Re: [2.6.15-rc1] VFS: file-max limit 400490 reached

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik wrote: I rebooted my RHEL4-based ipv4/ipv6 gateway/server into 2.6.15-rc1, and very soon the box was brought to its knees, spewing VFS: file-max limit 400490 reached Follow-up: I may have excised too much from the head of the log I posted. It now looks like the radvd troub

Re: [2.6.15-rc1] VFS: file-max limit 400490 reached

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:26:48AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: VFS: file-max limit 400490 reached does lsof show anything useful? Alas, no. [from memory, I've since rebooted] lsof | wc -l 808 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netde

Re: [2.6.15-rc1] VFS: file-max limit 400490 reached

2005-11-11 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:26:48AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > VFS: file-max limit 400490 reached does lsof show anything useful? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-11 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:27:56AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:08:29AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > >>it's not valid to mark working drivers broken, IMO. > >> > >>Mark them x86-only, perhaps. > > > > > >hp100 works fine on parisc. > > Certainl

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:08:29AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: it's not valid to mark working drivers broken, IMO. Mark them x86-only, perhaps. hp100 works fine on parisc. Certainly. The point was, don't mark them broken, limit them to the arches where they work.

[2.6.15-rc1] VFS: file-max limit 400490 reached

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
I rebooted my RHEL4-based ipv4/ipv6 gateway/server into 2.6.15-rc1, and very soon the box was brought to its knees, spewing VFS: file-max limit 400490 reached with the resultant userspace breakage associated with that. Data points: * recent 2.6.14-git-recent works * 2.6.15-rc1 fails

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-11 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:08:29AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > it's not valid to mark working drivers broken, IMO. > > Mark them x86-only, perhaps. hp100 works fine on parisc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More ma

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes the ISA legacy functions that are deprecated since kernel 2.4 and that aren't available on all architectures. The 7 drivers that were still using this obsolete API are now marked as BROKEN. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it's not valid t

[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes the ISA legacy functions that are deprecated since kernel 2.4 and that aren't available on all architectures. The 7 drivers that were still using this obsolete API are now marked as BROKEN. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobo

[IPV6] Fix rtnetlink dump infinite loop

2005-11-11 Thread Herbert Xu
Hi: The recent change to netlink dump "done" callback handling broke IPv6 which played dirty tricks with the "done" callback. This causes an infinite loop during a dump. The following patch fixes it. This bug was reported by Jeff Garzik. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks,

Re: [GIT PATCHES] 2.6 SCTP updates

2005-11-11 Thread David S. Miller
From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:21:03 -0800 > On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 15:08 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:01:42 -0800 > > > > > I think it is much easier for me to send the patches as

Re: [GIT PATCHES] 2.6 SCTP updates

2005-11-11 Thread Sridhar Samudrala
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 15:08 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:01:42 -0800 > > > I think it is much easier for me to send the patches as attachments > > rather than re-applying on a new tree. So i am attaching the 4 patches > > a

Re: [GIT PATCHES] 2.6 SCTP updates

2005-11-11 Thread David S. Miller
From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:01:42 -0800 > I think it is much easier for me to send the patches as attachments > rather than re-applying on a new tree. So i am attaching the 4 patches > and hope this works for you. Actually, there are no "Signed-off-by:" l

Re: [GIT PATCHES] 2.6 SCTP updates

2005-11-11 Thread David S. Miller
From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:01:42 -0800 > On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:13 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/GIT/sctp-2.6$ git pull > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sridhar/lksctp-2.6.git > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:

Re: [GIT PATCHES] 2.6 SCTP updates

2005-11-11 Thread Sridhar Samudrala
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:13 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:00:40 -0800 > > > Please pull the following SCTP updates from > >master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sridhar/lksctp-2.6.git > > I can't pull this cleanly

Re: Small af_inet6 fix

2005-11-11 Thread David S. Miller
From: Olaf Kirch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:03:19 +0100 > The patch below fixes a minor issue with inet6_init. > I noticed though that the code explicitly ignores > the error code of sock_register by calling: > (void) sock_register(&inet6_family_ops); > Why does it do this

Re: [PATCH 3/7] tcp: rearrange microsecond rtt sampling used by vegas

2005-11-11 Thread David S. Miller
From: Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:33:07 +0100 > Are you sure, that you don't mean just "rtt_sample(sk, tcp_usrtt(skb));" here? > I always believed that function pointers used like I proposed above. Both methods of invoking a function via function pointer work the same

Re: [GIT PATCHES] 2.6 SCTP updates

2005-11-11 Thread David S. Miller
From: Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:00:40 -0800 > Please pull the following SCTP updates from >master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sridhar/lksctp-2.6.git I can't pull this cleanly into Linus's current tree, there are some file level conflicts: [EMAIL

[GIT PATCHES] 2.6 SCTP updates

2005-11-11 Thread Sridhar Samudrala
Dave, Please pull the following SCTP updates from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sridhar/lksctp-2.6.git Thanks Sridhar include/linux/sysctl.h |1 + include/net/sctp/command.h |7 --- include/net/sctp/structs.h | 19 --- net/sctp/associola.c

Re: Consensus? WAS(RFC 2863)

2005-11-11 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > duh - I didnt mean to delete _all_ routes. I meant to use that event as > a base to delete whatever the kernel added and vice-versa. > what does inactive routes mean? blackhole routes i understand Negative. Routes that are not considered while making actual ro

Re: Consensus? WAS(RFC 2863)

2005-11-11 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well, the kernel doesnt add default routes - some admin or daemon does. > So whatever solution it is should not delete such routes either. Sure. Inactivate them instead and activate back on carrier (IFF_RUNNING, not the carrier alone) return. >> Seems inactive

[-mm patch] drivers/net/wireless/tiacx/: add missing #include 'a

2005-11-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
This is required for always getting the vmalloc()/vfree() prototypes. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/wireless/tiacx/common.c |1 + drivers/net/wireless/tiacx/pci.c|1 + drivers/net/wireless/tiacx/usb.c|1 + 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+) -

Re: [PATCH 4/8] tcp: add tcp_slow_start helper

2005-11-11 Thread David S. Miller
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:40:42 -0800 > >Are you sure that removing those last two lines are correct? > >Maybe this code is trying to influence the congestion window > >validation engine by updating snd_cwnd_stamp like that. And > >are we sure that the

Re: [PATCH] TCP build fix

2005-11-11 Thread David S. Miller
From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:43:47 -0500 > Recent TCP changes broke the build. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for catching this Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMA

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c: make SkPciWriteCfgDWord() a static inline

2005-11-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
No external user and that small - such a function should be static inline and not a global function. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/sk98lin/h/skvpd.h |8 -- drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c| 43 -- 2 files changed, 21 ins

[Fwd: [Bug 5591] New: KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/core/stream.c (279)]

2005-11-11 Thread Stephen Hemminger
--- Begin Message --- http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5591 Summary: KERNEL: assertion (!sk->sk_forward_alloc) failed at net/core/stream.c (279) Kernel Version: 2.6.14 Status: NEW Severity: normal Owner: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [PATCH 4/8] tcp: add tcp_slow_start helper

2005-11-11 Thread Stephen Hemminger
David S. Miller wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:15:11 -0800 Move all the code that does linear TCP slowstart to one inline function to ease later patch to add ABC support. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, but one question about t

Re: [PATCH] TCP build fix

2005-11-11 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Jeff Garzik wrote: Recent TCP changes broke the build. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c index 4376814..b7d296a 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ static void tcp_vegas_cong_avoi

[PATCH] Gianfar update and sysfs support

2005-11-11 Thread Andy Fleming
This seems to have gotten lost, so I'll resend. Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Added sysfs support to gianfar for modifying FIFO and stashing parameters * Updated driver to support 10 Mbit, full duplex operation * Improved comments throughout * Cleaned up and optimized offloadi

Re: [PATCH 2.6.14 0/18] Yet Another Bonding Sysfs patchset

2005-11-11 Thread Jay Vosburgh
Mitch Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jay says he's finally ready to take this patch. So here we go again. > >Rebased against 2.6.14 final. Which turned out to be way more work than I >expected. > >Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Consensus? WAS(RFC 2863)

2005-11-11 Thread jamal
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 00:36 +0100, Thomas Graf wrote: > * Stefan Rompf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-11-10 19:46 > > fib_disable_ip() evicts all routes pointing to that interface, including > > userspace generated ones, doesn't it? If so, we don't get away that easy. > > Right, the patch represents J

Re: Consensus? WAS(RFC 2863)

2005-11-11 Thread jamal
On Thu, 2005-10-11 at 23:10 +, Paul Jakma wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Thomas Graf wrote: > > > This is not only about dial on demand but about "on demand" > > interfaces. We need to have a route to the device so the > > driver/manager/whatever can see the demand. If we disable routes on >

Re: Consensus? WAS(RFC 2863)

2005-11-11 Thread jamal
On Thu, 2005-10-11 at 20:01 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Stefan Rompf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > fib_disable_ip() evicts all routes pointing to that interface, including > > userspace generated ones, doesn't it? If so, we don't get away that easy. > > Right. I'm no longer sure we sho

Re: Consensus? WAS(RFC 2863)

2005-11-11 Thread jamal
On Thu, 2005-10-11 at 19:46 +0100, Stefan Rompf wrote: > Am Mittwoch 09 November 2005 22:12 schrieb Thomas Graf: > > > Something like this should do the job, although it doesn't take care > > of taking things up again for now. Now all supporters of this should > > tell me how to implement any case

Re: [patch 1/7] s390: synthax checking for VIPA addresses fixed

2005-11-11 Thread Frank Pavlic
Jeff Garzik wrote: Frank Pavlic wrote: [patch 1/7] s390: synthax checking for VIPA addresses fixed From: Peter Tiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - synthax checking for VIPA addresses fixed Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diffstat: qeth.h | 65 +

Re: [PATCH 3/7] tcp: rearrange microsecond rtt sampling used by vegas

2005-11-11 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi Stephen, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > + if (rtt_sample) > + (*rtt_sample)(sk, tcp_usrtt(skb)); > } Are you sure, that you don't mean just "rtt_sample(sk, tcp_usrtt(skb));" here? I always believed that function

Re: RED qdisc not working...

2005-11-11 Thread Andy Furniss
Daniel J Blueman wrote: Has anyone been able to get the RED (random early detection) qdisc working lately? I can't get anything going through it to be dropped or marked; the 'marked', 'early', 'pdrop' and 'other' fields remain at 0 [1]. In my example script [2], I get the 3072Kbits/s transfer in

Linux crypto API and HW accelerators

2005-11-11 Thread S.H Mirjalili
Dear Friends, I am a student working on Linux crypto API and HW accelerators. I want to change the Linux crypto API to support multiple HW or SW accelerators. actually I am implementing a scheduler to send the packet to the best accelerator that can process that packet sooner. I found your name in

Re: [PATCH] fs_enet: fix compilation

2005-11-11 Thread Vitaly Bordug
Jeff Garzik wrote: Vitaly Bordug wrote: Fs_enet was compile-broken due to recent platform code update (a number of platform stuff has been moved to the separate header). This fixes the compile issue. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hmm, patch doesn't seem to apply That's

Re: [PATCH] gianfar mii needs to zero out the mii_bus structure

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
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Re: [patch 1/7] s390: synthax checking for VIPA addresses fixed

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
applied 1-7 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [patch 1/7] s390: synthax checking for VIPA addresses fixed

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Frank Pavlic wrote: [patch 1/7] s390: synthax checking for VIPA addresses fixed From: Peter Tiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - synthax checking for VIPA addresses fixed Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diffstat: qeth.h | 65 +++

Re: [PATCH] fs_enet: fix compilation

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Vitaly Bordug wrote: Fs_enet was compile-broken due to recent platform code update (a number of platform stuff has been moved to the separate header). This fixes the compile issue. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hmm, patch doesn't seem to apply - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH] [IPV4] Fix secondary IP addresses after promotion

2005-11-11 Thread Patrick McHardy
Thomas Graf wrote: > * Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-11-08 15:11 > >>I have a patch to do this, but it needs some debugging, for some >>unknown reason it crashes sometimes if I remove addresses without >>specifying the mask. > > Interesting, do you use an iproute2 version with the wild

Re: [PATCH 00/10]: Netfilter IPsec support

2005-11-11 Thread Patrick McHardy
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Gerd v. Egidy wrote: Hi, This is the latest set patches for netfilter IPsec support. The use of netif_rx for the innermost SA if it used transport mode has been replaced by explicit NF_HOOK calls in xfrm{4,6}_input.c. Could you please describe the solution you implemente

Re: [patch 13/13] e100 driver: optionally allow bad EEPROM checksum

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Now that this thread has settled down... I don't have a philosophical objection to the change, if it gets a non-trivial segment of the user population working. Since it's just one report right now, I think its fair to let the patch live outside the upstream tree. Jeff - To unsub

Re: [PATCH 2.6.14 0/18] Yet Another Bonding Sysfs patchset

2005-11-11 Thread Krzysztof Oledzki
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Mitch Williams wrote: Jay says he's finally ready to take this patch. So here we go again. Rebased against 2.6.14 final. Which turned out to be way more work than I expected. Is this patchset going to be included in 2.6.15? Best regards, Krzys

Re: [PATCH 00/10]: Netfilter IPsec support

2005-11-11 Thread Gerd v. Egidy
Hi, > This is the latest set patches for netfilter IPsec support. > The use of netif_rx for the innermost SA if it used transport > mode has been replaced by explicit NF_HOOK calls in > xfrm{4,6}_input.c. Could you please describe the solution you implemented a bit more? There was just so many b

Small af_inet6 fix

2005-11-11 Thread Olaf Kirch
The patch below fixes a minor issue with inet6_init. I noticed though that the code explicitly ignores the error code of sock_register by calling: (void) sock_register(&inet6_family_ops); Why does it do this? Olaf -- Subject:

[PATCH] TCP build fix

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Recent TCP changes broke the build. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c index 4376814..b7d296a 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_vegas.c @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ static void tcp_vegas_cong_avoid(struct

Re: Consensus? WAS(RFC 2863)

2005-11-11 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Thomas Graf wrote: The state of an on-demand interface must be visible, typically an on-demand interface is in dormant state and goes to up while it is in use and back to dormant after some time of inactivity. Further, if the interface knows that a demand cannot be met it