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find_exported_dentry: npd != pd -> stale NFS file handle
Please place me in CC when replying I wonder if there's anybody that can help me. Sorry if posting to wrong group. I have RH machines setup in LAN, each is NFS server and client. All are SMP with sata HDDs Some about server which hit the problem most of time http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/s5000PS... 5 Feb 2007 07:22

2.6.20 PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2
On 2/5/07, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I get this error on booting up 2.6.20 (Similar error on 2.6.17.7 also, the message is slightly different in 2.6.17.7) PCI Cannot allocate resource region 2 of device 0000:02:0a.0 Just did a search about this message around the kernel source ... 8 Feb 2007 01:03

[PATCH 2.6.19.2] r8169: support RTL8169SC/8110SC
From: Edward Hsu <edward_hsu(a)realtek.com> patch-r8169-6.001.00 is for /driver/net/r8169.c to support RTL8169SC/8110SC, which is a new Realtek Gigabit PCI Ethernet Controller. RTL8110SC's PCI DID is 0x8167, while RTL8110S and RTL8110SB share 0x8169. Signed-off-by: Edward Hsu <edward_hsu(a)realtek.com> ----------... 2 Feb 2007 03:57

Using _syscall3 to manipulate files in a driver
I have the source code for a vendor written driver that is targeted at 2.6.9. It includes this and then proceeds to manipulate files from the driver. asmlinkage _syscall3(int,write,int,fd,const char *,buf,off_t,count) asmlinkage _syscall3(int,read,int,fd,char *,buf,off_t,count) asmlinkage _syscall3(int,open,cons... 1 Jan 2007 18:39

2.6 driver for Silan SC92031 (second try)
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:17:06 -0200 Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb(a)cesarb.net> wrote: From: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb(a)cesarb.net> This is a driver for the Silan SC92031/Rsltek 8139D NIC chip. ... +config SC92031 + depends on NET_PCI && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL + select CRC32 ... + ... 9 Dec 2006 15:34

- Potential performance bottleneck for Linxu TCP
Wenji Wu wrote: From: Wenji Wu <wenji(a)fnal.gov> Greetings, For Linux TCP, when the network applcaiton make system call to move data from socket's receive buffer to user space by calling tcp_recvmsg(). The socket will be locked. During the period, all the incoming packet for the TCP socket ... 1 Dec 2006 18:44

Add IDE mode support for SB600 SATA
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:23:50 +0800 "Conke Hu" <conke.hu(a)amd.com> wrote: ATI SB600 SATA controller supports 4 modes: Legacy IDE, Native IDE, AHCI and RAID. Legacy/Native IDE mode is designed for compatibility with some old OS without AHCI driver but looses SATAII/AHCI features such as NCQ. This patch provides user... 24 Nov 2006 21:09

mmaping a kernel buffer to user space
Hi all, I recently run with the following situation while developing a PCI driver. The driver allocates memory for a PCI device using pci_alloc_consistent as this memory is going to be used to perform DMA transfers. To pass the data from/to the user application, I mmap the buffer into userspace. However, if I tr... 2 Nov 2006 06:53

usb device descriptor read/64, error -110
Running the latest FC6 kernel based on 2.6.18.1. What does this error mean? device descriptor read/64, error -110 Is this a kernel bug? Thanks in advance? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at h... 30 Oct 2006 21:02

Debugging I/O errors?
Hi all Stresstesting a SATA drive+controller, I get the error below after a while. How can I find if this error is due to a controller failure, a bad driver, or a drive failure? thanks for all help system info below roy ----- Running an unpatched 2.6.18.1 This is a SIS controller: 01:03.0 RAID b... 26 Oct 2006 07:52