Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263503AbTE3JfF (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2003 05:35:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263496AbTE3JfF (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2003 05:35:05 -0400 Received: from catv-50622120.szolcatv.broadband.hu ([80.98.33.32]:22145 "EHLO catv-50622120.szolcatv.broadband.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263503AbTE3Je6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2003 05:34:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3ED728DF.8030203@freemail.hu> Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 11:48:15 +0200 From: Boszormenyi Zoltan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.70-mm2 References: <3ED70B9A.5050104@freemail.hu> <20030530012710.57cca756.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030530012710.57cca756.akpm@digeo.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------070802020207040405050704" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070802020207040405050704 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Andrew Morton wrote: >Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I am testing it now with your two extra patches. >>I started vmware but I don't notice it now. Everything is snappy. >>The system is a RH9 with upgrades. The latest errata kernel still >>stops for seconds sometimes and vmware (and rsync between two drives >>for that matter) makes a noticable performance impact. With .70-mm2, >>I can still work on other things and not wait for other things to >>finish first. >> >> > >OK, thanks. > > > >>However there are problems: Basically, the autoload fails. >>My eth0/eth1 (both use 8139too) are down. >>The iptables modules do not load so the iptables service is failing. >>When I modprobe the needed modules, the things start working. >> >> > >Make sure that you've correctly enabled the "Kernel Module Loader" in the >"Loadable Mudule Support" menu. > From my .config, you can see it was enabled. >And read the readme file in mudule-init-tools carefully. You need to build >the /etc/modprobe.conf file with all the aliases in it. It takes a bit of >fiddling, but demand-modloading does work. > OK, I read it's FAQ, and the answer for the first question helped. Attached is a small patch against RH9 /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. This solved most of my problems. >>E.g. named can be started after I modprobe capabilities. I brought up >>named for example because the kernel logs messages for this one: >> >>process `rndc' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT >>process `named' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT >> >> > >That's OK. It's just the kernel spamming the application developers ;) > OK. :-) However, "modprobe capability" is still not automatic. What is the alias line for capability? I can't figure it out myself. Perhaps it's not supported configuring capability (aka CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES) as a module? It's definitely allowed... >This is a bug in rpm. It can be worked around with: > > alias rpm='LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm' > > Thanks for the answers. Best regards, Zolt?n --------------070802020207040405050704 Content-Type: text/plain; name="rc.sysinit.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="rc.sysinit.patch" --- rc.sysinit~ 2003-05-30 10:45:01.000000000 +0200 +++ rc.sysinit 2003-05-30 10:45:01.000000000 +0200 @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ IN_INITLOG= fi -if ! LC_ALL=C grep -iq nomodules /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null && [ -f /proc/ksyms ]; then +if ! LC_ALL=C grep -iq nomodules /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null && [ -f /proc/modules ]; then USEMODULES=y fi --------------070802020207040405050704-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/