Re: Linux-2.4.2

Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

Eloy A. Paris wrote:

> I solved the problem by changing all calls to ld in
> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/Makefile from "ld ... -oformat
> ..." to "ld ... --oformat ..."

Right. This is a change on binutils 2.10.1.0.7 and up (now at
2.10.91.0.2). A few people sent a patch to the list (Andreas
Jaeger was the first), but it wasn't added to 2.4.2...

Jaeger's message:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=98180656028765&w=2

More at the Changelog:

http://ftp.valinux.com/pub/support/hjl/binutils/release.binutils-2.10.91.0.2

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Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Eloy A. Paris]

Billy Harvey wrote:

> I get the following error in a make bzImage:
>
> nm vmlinux | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$\)\|\( [aUw]\)\|\(\.\.ng$\)\|\(LASH[RL]DI\)' | sort > System.map
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
> ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect
> ld: cannot open binary: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [bbootsect] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

Are you running Debian and follow unstable? I think ldso got updated
today or yesterday and probably the problems started after that.

I solved the problem by changing all calls to ld in
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/Makefile from "ld ... -oformat ..." to
"ld ... --oformat ..."

Cheers,

Eloy.-

Linux-2.4.2

[Linus Torvalds]

Ok, the patch looks huge (it's a meg and a half compressed, 6+ megs
uncompressed), but most of the patch by far is S/390 updates and the new
Cris architecture. 

The biggest real changes that impact normal users are the two bugs that
could corrupt your harddisk. The IDE driver bug that Russell found has, to
my knowledge, never been shown to happen on anything but his ARM machine,
but for all we know it could be quite bad even on x86. Similarly, the
elevator bug could cause corruption, but probably has not actually bit
people in practice. But both are definitely deadly at least in theory even
on bog-standard common PC hardware.

The reiserfs fix should hopefully make the "null bytes in log-files"
problem a non-issue, and along with the smbfs/HIGHMEM thing it is
certainly important for those that it can affect.

		Linus

----

final:
 - sync up more with Alan
 - Urban Widmark: smbfs and HIGHMEM fix
 - Chris Mason: reiserfs tail unpacking fix ("null bytes in reiserfs files")
 - Adan Richter: new cpia usb ID
 - Hugh Dickins: misc small sysv ipc fixes
 - Andries Brouwer: remove overly restrictive sector size check for
   SCSI cd-roms

-pre4:
 - big S/390x 64-bit merge
 - typos and license name fixes. doc updates.
 - more include file cleanups (phase out "malloc.h")
 - even more elevator corner cases.. When not merging, find the best insertion point.
 - pmac ide update
 - network fixes (netif_wake_queue on tx timeout)
 - USB printer select() fix
 - NFS client missed initialization, deamon fixed client address check

-pre3:
 - Jens: better ordering of requests when unable to merge
 - Neil Brown: make md work as a module again (we cannot autodetect
   in modules, not enough background information)
 - Neil Brown: raid5 SMP locking cleanups
 - Neil Brown: nfsd: handle Irix NFS clients named pipe behavior and
   dentry leak fix
 - maestro3 shutdown fix
 - fix dcache hash calculation that could cause bad hashes under certain
   circumstances (Dean Gaudet)
 - David Miller: networking and sparc updates
 - Jeff Garzik: include file cleanups
 - Andy Grover: ACPI update
 - Coda-fs error return fixes
 - rth: alpha Jensen update

-pre2:
 - driver sync up with Alan
 - Andrew Morton: wakeup cleanup and race fix
 - Paul Mackerras: macintosh driver updates.
 - don't trust "page_count()" on reserved pages!
 - Russell King: fix serious IDE multimode write bug!
 - me, Jens, others: fix elevator problem
 - ARM, MIPS and cris architecture updates
 - alpha updates: better page clear/copy, avoid kernel lock in execve
 - USB and firewire updates
 - ISDN updates
 - Irda updates

-pre1:
 - XMM: don't allow illegal mxcsr values
 - ACPI: handle non-existent battery strings gracefully
 - Compaq Smart Array driver update
 - Kanoj Sarcar: serial console hardware flow control support
 - ide-cs: revert toc-valid cache checking in 2.4.1
 - Vojtech Pavlik: update via82cxxx driver to handle the vt82c686
 - raid5 graceful failure handling fix
 - ne2k-pci: enable device before asking the irq number
 - sis900 driver update
 - riva FB driver update
 - fix silly inode hashing pessimization
 - add SO_ACCEPTCONN for SuS
 - remove modinfo hack workaround, all newer modutils do it correctly
 - datagram socket shutdown fix
 - mark process as running when it takes a page-fault

Re: Linux-2.4.2

[John Heil]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:19:43 -0800 (PST)
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
> To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: Linux-2.4.2
> 
> 
> Ok, the patch looks huge (it's a meg and a half compressed, 6+ megs
> uncompressed), but most of the patch by far is S/390 updates and the new
> Cris architecture. 
> 
> The biggest real changes that impact normal users are the two bugs that
> could corrupt your harddisk. The IDE driver bug that Russell found has, to
> my knowledge, never been shown to happen on anything but his ARM machine,
> but for all we know it could be quite bad even on x86. Similarly, the
> elevator bug could cause corruption, but probably has not actually bit
> people in practice. But both are definitely deadly at least in theory even
> on bog-standard common PC hardware.
> 
> The reiserfs fix should hopefully make the "null bytes in log-files"
> problem a non-issue, and along with the smbfs/HIGHMEM thing it is
> certainly important for those that it can affect.
> 
> 		Linus
> 
> ----
> 
> final:
>  - sync up more with Alan
>  - Urban Widmark: smbfs and HIGHMEM fix
>  - Chris Mason: reiserfs tail unpacking fix ("null bytes in reiserfs files")
>  - Adan Richter: new cpia usb ID
>  - Hugh Dickins: misc small sysv ipc fixes
>  - Andries Brouwer: remove overly restrictive sector size check for
>    SCSI cd-roms

snip


Hi, 

Which -ac series patch does this match up with or superceed
ie should this be considered superior to -ac19 ?

Thnx much


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Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Peter Samuelson]

[John Heil]
> Which -ac series patch does this match up with or superceed ie should
> this be considered superior to -ac19 ?

Neither "supercedes" the other -- they are different trees.  The -ac
series has some patches that Linus may never get because they are
experimental, or still buggy.

If you want stability, run the real Linus 2.4.  If you want all the
really minor bug fixes and more of the experimental code, run -ac.  If
you want production quality, run your kernel on a test server before
deploying.  (As always!)

Peter

Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Billy Harvey]

I get the following error in a make bzImage:

nm vmlinux | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$\)\|\( [aUw] \)\|\(\.\.ng$\)\|\(LASH[RL]DI\)' | sort > System.map
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect
ld: cannot open binary: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [bbootsect] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Keith Owens]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:19:20 -0500, 
Billy Harvey <Billy.Harvey@thrillseeker.net> wrote:
>ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect
>ld: cannot open binary: No such file or directory

Change -oformat to --oformat.  Binutils incompatibility.

Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:13:30PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
[snip]
> If you want stability, run the real Linus 2.4.  If you want all the
> really minor bug fixes and more of the experimental code, run -ac.  If
> you want production quality, run your kernel on a test server before
> deploying.  (As always!)

..and rely on a reputable distributor to help you choose what to run and
provide you support to fix it when it breaks.

Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Alan Cox]

> If you want stability, run the real Linus 2.4.  If you want all the

I think the key word is actually probably 'predictability'. The Linus tree
is conservative. (IMHO too conservative and probably in his not conservative
enough 8))

> really minor bug fixes and more of the experimental code, run -ac.  If
> you want production quality, run your kernel on a test server before
> deploying.  (As always!)

Yep

Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Werner Almesberger]

Alan Cox wrote:
> I think the key word is actually probably 'predictability'. The Linus tree
> is conservative. (IMHO too conservative and probably in his not conservative
> enough 8))

Hmm, given that there are several patches in your tree that never seem
to make it to Linus' tree, would it make sense to flag patches that
should go into 2.4 as "Not for Alan; Linus _please_ pick it up" (and to
keep on pushing until Linus does) ?

- Werner

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Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Alan Cox]

> Hmm, given that there are several patches in your tree that never seem
> to make it to Linus' tree, would it make sense to flag patches that
> should go into 2.4 as "Not for Alan; Linus _please_ pick it up" (and to
> keep on pushing until Linus does) ?

Im trying to push stuff to Linus in a reasonably controlled way. That tends to
mean the less important or more obscure hardware comes later

Alan

Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, John Heil wrote:
> 
> Which -ac series patch does this match up with or superceed
> ie should this be considered superior to -ac19 ?

There is no 1:1 comparison to _any_ of the -ac patches, I'm afraid. The
two series are fairly disparate, as they have different intentions. Alan
accepts some stuff that I would be nervous about, and sometimes I say "to
hell with it, we need to fix this" and make Alan nervous.

		Linus

Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Alan Cox]

> Which -ac series patch does this match up with or superceed
> ie should this be considered superior to -ac19 ?

I'll be merging most of the 2.4.2 changes if there are any I dont have with
Linus for the next -ac which will be a 2.4.2-ac1 and thus somewhat shorter

Re: Linux-2.4.2

[J . A . Magallon]

Building with gcc-2.96:

In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/raid/md.h:50,
                 from init/main.c:24:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/raid/md_k.h: In function `pers_to_level':
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/raid/md_k.h:41: warning: control reaches end of non
-void function

-- 
J.A. Magallon                                                      $> cd pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                                          $> more beer

Linux werewolf 2.4.2 #1 SMP Thu Feb 22 11:40:37 CET 2001 i686

Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Adam Sampson]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> Ok, the patch looks huge (it's a meg and a half compressed, 6+ megs
> uncompressed), but most of the patch by far is S/390 updates and the new
> Cris architecture. 

I get this while compiling 2.4.2:

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=k6    -c -o msdos.o msdos.c
msdos.c: In function `minix_partition':
msdos.c:403: `MINIX_PARTITION' undeclared (first use in this function)
msdos.c:403: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
msdos.c:403: for each function it appears in.)
msdos.c:406: `MINIX_NR_SUBPARTITIONS' undeclared (first use in this function)
msdos.c: In function `msdos_partition':
msdos.c:571: `MINIX_PARTITION' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [msdos.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/src/linux/fs/partitions'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/src/linux/fs/partitions'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_partitions] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/src/linux/fs'
make: *** [_dir_fs] Error 2

My config:

CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_MK6=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5
CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
CONFIG_MICROCODE=m
CONFIG_X86_MSR=m
CONFIG_X86_CPUID=m
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y
CONFIG_PNP=m
CONFIG_ISAPNP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_PARIDE=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARIDE_PD=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PCD=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PF=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PT=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PG=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_ATEN=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_BPCK=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_COMM=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_DSTR=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_FIT2=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_FIT3=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_EPAT=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_EPIA=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_FRIQ=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_FRPW=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_KBIC=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_KTTI=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_ON20=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_ON26=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_PACKET=m
CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
CONFIG_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=m
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_FILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=m
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LIMIT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MARK=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MULTIPORT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TOS=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_UNCLEAN=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_OWNER=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MIRROR=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MARK=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPFWADM=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_KHTTPD=m
CONFIG_BRIDGE=m
CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER=m
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3=y
CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y
CONFIG_SCSI=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=2
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING=y
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=8
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY=5
CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS=m
CONFIG_SCSI_DTC3280=m
CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380=m
CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400=y
CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_PORT=y
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_IMM=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=20
CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE=m
CONFIG_SCSI_T128=m
CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F=m
CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F_MAX_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR=m
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_BONDING=m
CONFIG_EQUALIZER=m
CONFIG_TUN=m
CONFIG_ETHERTAP=m
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL1=m
CONFIG_EL2=m
CONFIG_ELPLUS=m
CONFIG_EL16=m
CONFIG_EL3=m
CONFIG_3C515=m
CONFIG_VORTEX=m
CONFIG_LANCE=m
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC=y
CONFIG_WD80x3=m
CONFIG_ULTRA=m
CONFIG_SMC9194=m
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RACAL=y
CONFIG_NI5010=m
CONFIG_NI52=m
CONFIG_NI65=m
CONFIG_AT1700=m
CONFIG_DEPCA=m
CONFIG_HP100=m
CONFIG_NET_ISA=y
CONFIG_E2100=m
CONFIG_EEXPRESS=m
CONFIG_EEXPRESS_PRO=m
CONFIG_HPLAN_PLUS=m
CONFIG_HPLAN=m
CONFIG_ETH16I=m
CONFIG_NE2000=m
CONFIG_SK_G16=m
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCNET32=m
CONFIG_ADAPTEC_STARFIRE=m
CONFIG_AC3200=m
CONFIG_APRICOT=m
CONFIG_CS89x0=m
CONFIG_TULIP=m
CONFIG_DE4X5=m
CONFIG_DGRS=m
CONFIG_DM9102=m
CONFIG_EEPRO100=m
CONFIG_NATSEMI=m
CONFIG_NE2K_PCI=m
CONFIG_8139TOO=m
CONFIG_RTL8129=m
CONFIG_SIS900=m
CONFIG_EPIC100=m
CONFIG_TLAN=m
CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=m
CONFIG_ACENIC=m
CONFIG_YELLOWFIN=m
CONFIG_SK98LIN=m
CONFIG_PLIP=m
CONFIG_PPP=m
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=m
CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=m
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=m
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=m
CONFIG_PPPOE=m
CONFIG_SLIP=m
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
CONFIG_SLIP_SMART=y
CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6=y
CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y
CONFIG_SHAPER=m
CONFIG_INPUT=m
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV=m
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=m
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV=m
CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=m
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_EXTENDED=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_MANY_PORTS=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_PPDEV=m
CONFIG_I2C=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=m
CONFIG_I2C_PHILIPSPAR=m
CONFIG_I2C_ELV=m
CONFIG_I2C_VELLEMAN=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCF=m
CONFIG_I2C_ELEKTOR=m
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=m
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
CONFIG_JOYSTICK=y
CONFIG_INPUT_NS558=m
CONFIG_INPUT_LIGHTNING=m
CONFIG_INPUT_PCIGAME=m
CONFIG_INPUT_ANALOG=m
CONFIG_INPUT_A3D=m
CONFIG_INPUT_ADI=m
CONFIG_INPUT_COBRA=m
CONFIG_INPUT_GF2K=m
CONFIG_INPUT_GRIP=m
CONFIG_INPUT_INTERACT=m
CONFIG_INPUT_TMDC=m
CONFIG_INPUT_SIDEWINDER=m
CONFIG_INPUT_SERPORT=m
CONFIG_INPUT_WARRIOR=m
CONFIG_INPUT_MAGELLAN=m
CONFIG_INPUT_SPACEORB=m
CONFIG_INPUT_SPACEBALL=m
CONFIG_INPUT_IFORCE_232=m
CONFIG_INPUT_IFORCE_USB=m
CONFIG_INPUT_DB9=m
CONFIG_INPUT_GAMECON=m
CONFIG_INPUT_TURBOGRAFX=m
CONFIG_NVRAM=m
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_ALI=y
CONFIG_DRM=y
CONFIG_DRM_MGA=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_PMS=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_BWQCAM=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_CQCAM=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA5249=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_STRADIS=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_ZORAN=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_BUZ=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_ZR36120=m
CONFIG_RADIO_CADET=m
CONFIG_RADIO_RTRACK=m
CONFIG_RADIO_RTRACK2=m
CONFIG_RADIO_AZTECH=m
CONFIG_RADIO_GEMTEK=m
CONFIG_RADIO_SF16FMI=m
CONFIG_RADIO_TERRATEC=m
CONFIG_RADIO_TRUST=m
CONFIG_RADIO_TYPHOON=m
CONFIG_RADIO_TYPHOON_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_RADIO_ZOLTRIX=m
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=m
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
CONFIG_ADFS_FS=m
CONFIG_AFFS_FS=m
CONFIG_HFS_FS=m
CONFIG_BFS_FS=m
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_EFS_FS=m
CONFIG_CRAMFS=m
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
CONFIG_HPFS_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS=m
CONFIG_ROMFS_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_SYSV_FS=m
CONFIG_UDF_FS=m
CONFIG_UFS_FS=m
CONFIG_CODA_FS=m
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_NFSD=m
CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
CONFIG_NCP_FS=m
CONFIG_NCPFS_PACKET_SIGNING=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_IOCTL_LOCKING=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_STRONG=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_NFS_NS=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_OS2_NS=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_SMALLDOS=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_NLS=y
CONFIG_NCPFS_EXTRAS=y
CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION=y
CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL=y
CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_SMB_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m
CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R=m
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=m
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE=m
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FB_HGA=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_I2C=m
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MAVEN=m
CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y
CONFIG_FBCON_MFB=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES=y
CONFIG_FBCON_VGA=y
CONFIG_FBCON_HGA=m
CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16=y
CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22=y
CONFIG_FONT_6x11=y
CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8=y
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO3=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ICH=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP=y
CONFIG_SOUND_AD1816=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401=m
CONFIG_SOUND_PSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_TVMIXER=m
CONFIG_USB=m
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_OHCI=m
CONFIG_USB_AUDIO=m
CONFIG_USB_BLUETOOTH=m
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m
CONFIG_USB_ACM=m
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_USB_HID=m
CONFIG_USB_KBD=m
CONFIG_USB_MOUSE=m
CONFIG_USB_WACOM=m
CONFIG_USB_DC2XX=m
CONFIG_USB_MDC800=m
CONFIG_USB_SCANNER=m
CONFIG_USB_MICROTEK=m
CONFIG_USB_IBMCAM=m
CONFIG_USB_OV511=m
CONFIG_USB_DSBR=m
CONFIG_USB_DABUSB=m
CONFIG_USB_PLUSB=m
CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS=m
CONFIG_USB_NET1080=m
CONFIG_USB_USS720=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_WHITEHEAT=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_DIGI_ACCELEPORT=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_FTDI_SIO=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_PDA=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA28=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA28X=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA19=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA18X=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA19W=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN_USA49W=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_OMNINET=m
CONFIG_USB_RIO500=m
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y

Incidentally, have the VM rebalancing changes that are in -ac20 been
merged? I'm sort of hoping they haven't, since they cause my machine
to go heavily into swap even when there's plenty of real memory free.

-- 

Adam Sampson
azz@gnu.org

Re: Linux-2.4.2

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

"Adam Sampson wrote:"
> I get this while compiling 2.4.2:
> 
> msdos.c:403: `MINIX_PARTITION' undeclared (first use in this function)
> msdos.c:403: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> msdos.c:403: for each function it appears in.)
> msdos.c:406: `MINIX_NR_SUBPARTITIONS' undeclared (first use in this function)
> msdos.c: In function `msdos_partition':
> msdos.c:571: `MINIX_PARTITION' undeclared (first use in this function)
> make[3]: *** [msdos.o] Error 1
> 
> My config:
> 
[...]
> CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION=y

It seems that Linus didn't fully merge some stuff from Alan patches.
Try the following patch:

diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla/include/linux/genhd.h linux.ac/include/linux/genhd.h
--- linux-2.4.2/include/linux/genhd.h	Thu Jan  4 22:50:47 2001
+++ linux/include/linux/genhd.h	Tue Feb 20 20:46:28 2001
@@ -222,6 +222,11 @@
 };  /* 408 */
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION
+#   define MINIX_PARTITION         0x81  /* Minix Partition ID */
+#   define MINIX_NR_SUBPARTITIONS  4
+#endif /* CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION */
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 extern struct gendisk *gendisk_head;	/* linked list of disks */

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