Joystick has stopped working

2000-04-23 Thread Stephen Hocking
For sometime now, the analogue joy stick driver hasn't been working - it seems to persistently return totally wild deviations when being read. Also, trying to use it as a kld doersn't seem to work. Has anyone else had similar probs? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I'm sure that something can be done for the kld compatibility issues :so that you can have your SMP cake and eat it too. Just give it a bit :more thought. :) : :- Jordan Thought I have. Time I don't. While I don't particularly see a problem staying compatible with KLD modules that do

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: :> :> :Rather than break the FreeBSD4 modules over which you have no control, :> :perhaps your arguments should be used to accelerate the 5.0 release :> :and make 4.x a short lived branch. :> :> I don't think this is possible. 4.0 is the most sta

Re: To MFC or not to MFC, that is the question.

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :>Really, then you have a short memory. Why don't we ask Jordan for a :>clarification. : :How about if you let me review the patches in question and I'll render :a decision. : :If you, Matt, could put the SMP and linux stuff into -current first :and then give me a day or so to check i

Re: __func__ not declared for kernel build (5.0-CURRENT)

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: :> obviously missing __FUNCTION__ was added by GCC many years ago, but it was :> a while before it's use in defines in header (.h) files was dealt with :> properly. : :You mean outside a function? What's the proper way of dealing with tha

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-23 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Alok K. Dhir wrote: > >Totally off topic question that I've wondered for some time now - what >does MFC stand for? According to the FAQ section located on the web @ http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/misc.html#AEN3908 Q: What does 'MFC' mean? A: MFC is an acronym for 'Merged From

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-23 Thread Will Andrews
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:36:45AM -0400, Alok K. Dhir wrote: > Totally off topic question that I've wondered for some time now - what > does MFC stand for? Merge From CURRENT. -- Will Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- P

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-23 Thread Alok K. Dhir
Totally off topic question that I've wondered for some time now - what does MFC stand for? Thanks for humoring my ignorance, and thanks for all your hard work on FreeBSD... :) On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:31:34 -0700 (PDT) > From: Matthew Dillon <[EMA

Re: __func__ not declared for kernel build (5.0-CURRENT)

2000-04-23 Thread Marty Leisner
Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 24 Apr 2000 02:43:28 +0200 > Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > obviously missing __FUNCTION__ was added by GCC many years ago, but it was > > a while before it's use in defines in header (.h) files was dealt

csh/nls problem causing make release failure

2000-04-23 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, As Poul-Henning has pointed out, make release is broken... ===> bin/csh/nls ===> bin/csh/nls/finnish install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 tcsh.cat /snap/release/../usr/share/nls/fi_FI.ISO_8859-1/tcsh.cat install: /snap/release/../usr/share/nls/fi_FI.ISO_8859-1/tcsh.cat: No such file or d

PCM and Midi.

2000-04-23 Thread Bob Martin
Does anyone know when PCM will support midi? Thanks! Bob -- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current"

Re: buildworld breakage (netstat/route.c rev 1.43)

2000-04-23 Thread Will Andrews
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 06:44:51PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote: > If Mark or Garrett could fix this ASAP that would be nice. :) Never mind, this was an oversight on my part. -- Will Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE

Re: __func__ not declared for kernel build (5.0-CURRENT)

2000-04-23 Thread Assar Westerlund
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > obviously missing __FUNCTION__ was added by GCC many years ago, but it was > a while before it's use in defines in header (.h) files was dealt with > properly. You mean outside a function? What's the proper way of dealing with that? >

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
> > BTW; whilst I think Poul was entirely the wrong person to raise the > issue, I agree that you probably want to hang back on MFCing the linux > scripting changes for a week or so. This is really just common sense. > recently i added autoload to a usb related kernel module. very ha

Re: MAKEDEV warning

2000-04-23 Thread Brian Somers
Yep, that's the ticket ! Thanks. > Yes, that was an oversight on my part. Please let me know if the > fix I committed solves this issue. > > Poul-Henning > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Somers writes: > >I've got an mfs /tmp too :-] > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> On 0, Ted Sikora <[EMAIL

buildworld breakage (netstat/route.c rev 1.43)

2000-04-23 Thread Will Andrews
Buildworld on 5.0-CURRENT is breaking here: ===> usr.bin/netstat cc -O -pipe -Wall -DINET6 -DIPSEC -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -c /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/if.c cc -O -pipe -Wall -DINET6 -DIPSEC -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -c /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/inet.c cc -O -pipe -Wall -D

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Mike Muir
Mike Muir wrote: > > Nate Williams wrote: > > > I was under the impression that 4.x hasn't been designated as the stable > > branch (yet). That will happen when 4.1 is released, but until that > > happens 3.x is still considered the -stable release. > > That would kinda make sense since cvsupi

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Mike Muir
Nate Williams wrote: > I was under the impression that 4.x hasn't been designated as the stable > branch (yet). That will happen when 4.1 is released, but until that > happens 3.x is still considered the -stable release. That would kinda make sense since cvsuping with tag=RELENG_3 seems to give

Re: Stale modules (Re: panic in the morning)

2000-04-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Donn Miller wrote: > Which mailing list would be appropriate for discussing kernel modules, > etc.? freebsd-arch. Kris In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: Stale modules (Re: panic in the morning)

2000-04-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Leif Neland wrote: > > make world doesn't build a kernel. Making a kernel doesn't build > > modules. This bit me again the other day when updating, as well - panic at > > boot when loading a stale linux.ko. > > > If making world _and_ kernel doesn't build modules, what _then

Re: To MFC or not to MFC, that is the question.

2000-04-23 Thread Mike Muir
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > >Really, then you have a short memory. Why don't we ask Jordan for a > >clarification. > > How about if you let me review the patches in question and I'll render > a decision. > > If you, Matt, could put the SMP and linux stuff into -current first > and t

Re: To MFC or not to MFC, that is the question.

2000-04-23 Thread Mike Muir
Good greif that last one failed to go to stable@ or current@.. time to fix mail. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-23 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> In general I agree with the concept but I think .0 releases have to > have a bit more flexibility, and that 4.0 in particular (due to the > rules change made for the BSDI merger) has to be even more flexible. And this is something I can render an opinion on right away: I disagr

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-23 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Rather than break the FreeBSD4 modules over which you have no control, > :perhaps your arguments should be used to accelerate the 5.0 release > :and make 4.x a short lived branch. > > I don't think this is possible. 4.0 is the most stable releas

To MFC or not to MFC, that is the question.

2000-04-23 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
>Really, then you have a short memory. Why don't we ask Jordan for a >clarification. How about if you let me review the patches in question and I'll render a decision. If you, Matt, could put the SMP and linux stuff into -current first and then give me a day or so to check it out, I'll

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :>:> There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... :>:> that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that :>:> is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be :>:> recompiled and I'd rather not force people to do that t

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :> :In that case I have a strong objection to the SMP patchset being :> :merged to 4.0. I have kernel modules in object format only that :> :are working now, which this would break :-(. :> : :> :Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-23 Thread David Greenman
>:> There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... >:> that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that >:> is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be >:> recompiled and I'd rather not force people to do that twice.

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :>I do not consider the linux scripting patch to be a major infrastructure :>change, I consider it to be a simple bug fix. If you have a functional :>issue with the patch I'm all ears. If you disagree with my assessment of :>the triviality of the linux scripting patch, then I

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Mike Smith
> I wonder if it makes sense to add a release id to the module header > and have the module loader refuse (unless forced) to load modules that > are out-of-date with the kernel? We actually have a whole module dependancy and versioning system more or less ready to go into -current.

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-23 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :In that case I have a strong objection to the SMP patchset being > :merged to 4.0. I have kernel modules in object format only that > :are working now, which this would break :-(. > : > :Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) > : [EMAIL

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread David Greenman
>I do not consider the linux scripting patch to be a major infrastructure >change, I consider it to be a simple bug fix. If you have a functional >issue with the patch I'm all ears. If you disagree with my assessment of >the triviality of the linux scripting patch, then I will as

SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :> There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... :> that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that :> is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be :> recompiled and I'd rather not force people to do that twice. :>

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > If core wants to change the current rules, that's fine by me. As I > said before I think the breakage that we thought would happen with 5.x > due to the BSDI merger that prompted the loose rules for 4.x is > overrated, and the rules should

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Nate Williams
> >Core should consider reverting the special rules that were originally > >created with the expectation of major breakage in 5.x back to > >the set of rules we had for 3.x and 4.x. > > I have no idea what special rules you are talking about for 4.x/5.x. > > 4.x-stable is a -stable

attachable driver modules (Re: Stale modules (Re: panic in the morning))

2000-04-23 Thread attila!
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Donn Miller wrote: > I'd like to discuss further the possibility of creating some sort of > mechanism where the modules can be built with the kernel. Also, we > can have some sort of option in LINT or GENERIC where a keyword, such > as module, can be put somewhere in the ke

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon writes: : :>Core should consider reverting the special rules that were originally :>created with the expectation of major breakage in 5.x back to :>the set of rules we had for 3.x and 4.x. : :I have no idea what special rules you are

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : :Matt, : :I will say it this last time: : : Your patch does not qualify for immediate MFC. : :-- :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 And I will say this to you for the last time: Under the current rules my patch DOES qualify for an immediate MFC. Hell, by t

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon writes: >Core should consider reverting the special rules that were originally >created with the expectation of major breakage in 5.x back to >the set of rules we had for 3.x and 4.x. I have no idea what special rules you are talking a

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> : :> :-- :> :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 :> :>I think you're confused, Poul. I've gone over the commits made :>to the tree by people over the last few months and frankly there :>are dozens of simultanious -current and -stable commits. A quick :>check

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > : > :In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon writes: > : > :>There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... > :>that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that > :>is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be >

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Matt, I will say it this last time: Your patch does not qualify for immediate MFC. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... > that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that > is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be > recompiled and I'd rather not force people to do that twice. > >

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon writes: : :>There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... :>that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that :>is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be :>recompile

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon writes: >I'm sorry, Poul, but you are going to have to come up with better >reasoning then that. > >Not all changes committed to -current require a waiting period before >being MFC'd to stable. Specifically, simple and obvious bug f

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
:In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon writes: : :>:I don't see anything justifying an immediate MFC in this patch. Please :>:allow the normal waiting period to elapse before you MFC. :> :>Unless you can justify a reason for it NOT to be MFC'd immediately, I :>see no reason to wa

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon writes: >There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... >that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that >is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be >recompiled and I'd

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
There's another good reason to MFC the linux patch on wednesday... that is, to do it at the same time the SMP cleanup is MFC'd, and that is because both patch sets require the linux kernel module to be recompiled and I'd rather not force people to do that twice. The SMP pat

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon writes: >:I don't see anything justifying an immediate MFC in this patch. Please >:allow the normal waiting period to elapse before you MFC. > >Unless you can justify a reason for it NOT to be MFC'd immediately, I >see no reason to wait for

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon writes: : :>I intend to commit this to -current and immediately MFC it to -stable. :>I don't expect there to be any controversy though I'm sure there is a :>cleaner way to do it. : :I don't see anything justifying an immediate MFC in t

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon writes: >I intend to commit this to -current and immediately MFC it to -stable. >I don't expect there to be any controversy though I'm sure there is a >cleaner way to do it. I don't see anything justifying an immediate MFC in this patch.

Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesday

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
This is the same patch I put up for review two weeks ago. I got one positive comment back and nothing else, so I presume nobody has a problem with it. I've been running with it for a while but have only tested it with a few linux applications (Java (jre, jdk), and the oracle

Re: pthread_cond_broadcast() not delivered

2000-04-23 Thread Daniel Eischen
Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Hi, > > (14) netchild@ttyp2% uname -a > FreeBSD Magelan.Leidinger.net 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #14: Fri Apr 21 >17:28:37 CEST 2000 root@:/big/usr/src/sys/compile/WORK i386 > > I've an application which uses pthread_cond_{wait,broadcast}() and > the debug

on the road to stomping out __func__

2000-04-23 Thread attila!
you're correct (see reply from Bruce Evans below) __func__ is in /usr/src/contrib/gcc/c-common.c ChangeLog:9854: `__func__'. c-common.c:164:/* Make bindings for __FUNCTION__, __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, and __func__. */ c-common.c:190: declare_hidden_char_array ("__func__", name); which

Re: __func__ not declared for kernel build (5.0-CURRENT)

2000-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, attila! wrote: : :> '__func__ is not found for either the 'GENERIC' or 'hun' target. : :__func__ is a new feature in C99. It is an alias for the gcc feature :__FUNCTION_NAME. Both give the name of the current function as a string. : :This feature should not be used unt

worldbuild breakage of the day (BOTD?)

2000-04-23 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
cc -O -pipe -Wall -DINET6 -DIPSEC -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -c /usr/ src/usr.bin/netstat/ipx.c cc -O -pipe -Wall -DINET6 -DIPSEC -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -c /usr/ src/usr.bin/netstat/route.c /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/route.c: In function `p_tree': /usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/

pthread_cond_broadcast() not delivered

2000-04-23 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, (14) netchild@ttyp2% uname -a FreeBSD Magelan.Leidinger.net 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #14: Fri Apr 21 17:28:37 CEST 2000 root@:/big/usr/src/sys/compile/WORK i386 I've an application which uses pthread_cond_{wait,broadcast}() and the debug output gives me the impression that the b

Re: __func__ not declared for kernel build (5.0-CURRENT)

2000-04-23 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, attila! wrote: > '__func__ is not found for either the 'GENERIC' or 'hun' target. __func__ is a new feature in C99. It is an alias for the gcc feature __FUNCTION_NAME. Both give the name of the current function as a string. This feature should not be used until C99 be

Re: Remote serial gdb is broken in -CURRENT.

2000-04-23 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > In the last few days, my remote serial gdb has almost completely > stopped working. Previously I had (almost) no trouble at 38400 bps; > now I can barely get a response at all at 9600 bps. Does anybody have > an idea where this could be coming from? I

Re: Stale modules (Re: panic in the morning)

2000-04-23 Thread Donn Miller
Leif Neland wrote: > > make world doesn't build a kernel. Making a kernel doesn't build > > modules. This bit me again the other day when updating, as well - panic at > > boot when loading a stale linux.ko. > > > If making world _and_ kernel doesn't build modules, what _then_? Making world build

Re: Last changes to SDL made smpeg not work

2000-04-23 Thread Chris Piazza
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 03:28:54PM +0800, Stephen Hocking wrote: > The mpeg player smpeg doesn't work (catches a signal then just hangs) when you > compile & link against the SDL which uses the native threads - however when > you compile against one that uses linux threads, then it does. I've se

Re: Stale modules (Re: panic in the morning)

2000-04-23 Thread Leif Neland
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > I cvsup'ed, built world and kernel. Hhmm, actually I see no reason why > > there should be a problem since everything should be done by make world. > > make world doesn't build a kernel. Making a

Last changes to SDL made smpeg not work

2000-04-23 Thread Stephen Hocking
The mpeg player smpeg doesn't work (catches a signal then just hangs) when you compile & link against the SDL which uses the native threads - however when you compile against one that uses linux threads, then it does. I've seen some problems with sdl test apps that mix sound & video when we use