Re: [patch 2.6.19-git] rtc, remove syslog spam on registration

2006-12-12 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:23:55 -0800 David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This removes some syslog spam as RTC drivers register; debug messages shouldn't come out at info level. Signed-off-by: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks David, please also cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] on future

Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in 2.6.19-git

2006-12-12 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:48:51 +0100 (CET) Ben Castricum wrote: This bug started to show up after the release of 2.6.19 (iirc plain 2.6.19 was still working fine). The full dmesg is at http://www.bencastricum.nl/lk/bootmessages-2.6.19-g9202f325.log, and the .config

Re: 2.6.19-mm1 (md/raid1 randomly drops partitions - possible sata_uli problem)

2006-12-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday December 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So when md writes to write out the superblock, to gets EIO... Odd that you aren't getting errors for normal writes. What devices are the md/raid1 built on? Sata drives, on sata_uli. I'll try to reproduce it tomorrow and

Re: [PATCH] connector: Some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:54:11 -0600 Erik Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew. There was some discussion on this patch but I believe we've agreed on the first version I sent. This was ACKed by Matt Helsley. Would you consider taking this in to -mm? I've included my original

Re: [patch] net, 8139too.c: fix netpoll deadlock

2006-12-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Francois Romieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I'll queue it, if Linus doesn't pick it up; please CC me in the future) I have lived with the NAPI -poll() handler runs in BH irq enabled context rule for years. Is it definitely false/dead ? If so at least 8139cp needs the same fix. hm,

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-12 Thread Chuck Ebbert
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:49:09 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1) That was from a 2.6.18.3 kernel iirc. Here's an idea from Michael Tokarev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: since .version always contains 1 when you build an RPM, you can modify

Re: [patch] lockdep: fix seqlock_init()

2006-12-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +#define seqlock_init(x)\ + do {\ + (x)-sequence = 0; \ + spin_lock_init((x)-lock); \

Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug?

2006-12-12 Thread Haar János
Hello, Justin, This is a 64bit system. But i cannot understand, what is the curious? :-) I am not a kernel developer, and not a C programmer, but the long pointers shows me, the 64 bit. Or am i on the wrong clue? :-) Anyway, this issue happens for me about daily, or max 2-3 day often. But i

Re: cfq performance gap

2006-12-12 Thread AVANTIKA R. MATHUR
Jens Axboe wrote: On Fri, Dec 08 2006, Avantika Mathur wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 13:05 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, Dec 07 2006, Avantika Mathur wrote: Hi Jens, (you probably noticed now, but the [EMAIL PROTECTED] email is no longer valid) I saw that,

Re: [patch 2.6.19-git] RTC Kconfig sorted by type

2006-12-12 Thread David Brownell
+if RTC_CLASS != n + if RTC_CLASS because otherwise Thanks for the clarification. I think Alessandro was going to redo this one soon, since the Kconfig changed so much the patch would no longer apply. I trust he'll remember your comments! - Dave - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH 010 of 14] knfsd: SUNRPC: add a generic function to see if the peer uses a secure port

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:59:27 +1100 NeilBrown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Chuck Lever [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only reason svcsock.c looks at a sockaddr's port is to check whether the remote peer is connecting from a privileged port. Refactor this check to hide processing that is specific to

Re: 2.6.19-mm1

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:17:42 +0800 Conke Hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for applying ATI SB600 SATA patch! But it seems the patch file name should be ati-sb600-sata-quirk.patch, not via-sb600-sata-quirk.patch, type error? :) That's the sort of thing which happens when people

Weird code in scripts/kconfig/Makefile

2006-12-12 Thread Pete Zaitcev
Hi, Roman All: In 2.6.19 (and Linus' curent tree), I found the following: libpath=$$dir/lib; lib=qt; osdir=; \ $(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory /dev/null 21 \ osdir=x$$($(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory); \ test -d $$libpath/$$osdir

Re: [PATCH] connector: Some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:31:32 -0600 Erik Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's rather a lot of churn for such a thing. Did you consider simply using put_unaligned() against the specific offending field(s)? Hi. This was not considered. I wanted to give you some quick feedback,

Re: Weird code in scripts/kconfig/Makefile

2006-12-12 Thread Jason Baron
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Pete Zaitcev wrote: Hi, Roman All: In 2.6.19 (and Linus' curent tree), I found the following: libpath=$$dir/lib; lib=qt; osdir=; \ $(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory /dev/null 21 \ osdir=x$$($(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory);

Re: mapping PCI registers with write combining (and PAT on x86)...

2006-12-12 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:05:32PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: #if defined(__mc68000__) snip #warning What do we have to do here?? #endif if (io_remap_pfn_range(vma, vma-vm_start, off PAGE_SHIFT, vma-vm_end - vma-vm_start,

RE: [PATCH] incorrect error handling inside generic_file_direct_write

2006-12-12 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Andrew Morton wrote on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:40 AM On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:18:32 +0300 Dmitriy Monakhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but according to filemaps locking rules: mm/filemap.c:77 .. * -i_mutex(generic_file_buffered_write) *-mmap_sem

Re: [PATCH] connector: Some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors

2006-12-12 Thread Erik Jacobson
But it's rather a lot of churn for such a thing. Did you consider simply using put_unaligned() against the specific offending field(s)? Hi. This was not considered. I wanted to give you some quick feedback, so I tried your suggestion in the fork path. It seemed to fix the problem as well.

[PATCH] Alpha increase PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM

2006-12-12 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Sending it again marking Jay Estabrook -aneesh Module loading on Alpha was failing with error Could not allocate 8 bytes percpu data. Looking at dmesg we have the below error No per-cpu room for modules. Increase the PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM in a similar way as x86_64 Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar

[PATCH] psmouse split

2006-12-12 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, When Zephaniah Hull sent in a patch for the OLPC touchpad [0], it was suggested that the psmouse driver be split out into separate components. What's currently there is way too fat, and people are not happy about adding even more code to the driver. I've taken a stab at doing just that.

Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

2006-12-12 Thread Nick Piggin
Mark Fasheh wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:52:26AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: Nick Piggin wrote: Hmm, doesn't look like we can do this either because at least GFS2 uses BH_New for its own special things. Also, I don't know if the trick of only walking over BH_New buffers will work anyway,

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: This seems to be a very silly question (and I'm bound to be utterly wrong as proven in my last round) but why are we implementing a new set of atomic primitives which effectively do the same thing as our existing set? Why can't we just use

Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

2006-12-12 Thread Nick Piggin
Trond Myklebust wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:53 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: Not silly -- I guess that is the main sticking point. Luckily *most* !uptodate pages will be ones that we have newly allocated so will not be in pagecache yet. If it is in pagecache, we could do one of a number of

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-12 Thread Nick Piggin
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: This seems to be a very silly question (and I'm bound to be utterly wrong as proven in my last round) but why are we implementing a new set of atomic primitives which effectively do the same thing as our existing set? Why can't

Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

2006-12-12 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:53 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: Not silly -- I guess that is the main sticking point. Luckily *most* !uptodate pages will be ones that we have newly allocated so will not be in pagecache yet. If it is in pagecache, we could do one of a number of things: either remove

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: parisc seems to, but sparc uses its own open coded spinlock for bitops, and the array of regular spinlocks for atomic ops. OTOH, consolidating them might give more scalable code *and* a smaller cacheline footprint? Yeah, I think you'd actually end up

Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

2006-12-12 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:56 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: Note that these pages should be *really* rare. Definitely even for normal filesystems I think RMW would use too much bandwidth if it were required for any significant number of writes. If file foo exists on the server, and contains data,

Re: [patch 2/3] acpi: Add a docked sysfs file to the dock driver.

2006-12-12 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 12:05, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:59:58 +0100 Holger Macht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I like to have them ;-) Ok - how is this? Send a uevent to indicate a device change whenever we dock or undock, so that userspace may now

Re: [patch 2/3] acpi: Add a docked sysfs file to the dock driver.

2006-12-12 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:15 pm, Stefan Schmidt wrote: Hello. On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 12:05, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:59:58 +0100 Holger Macht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I like to have them ;-) Ok - how is this? Send a uevent to indicate a

Re: [patch 2/3] acpi: Add a docked sysfs file to the dock driver.

2006-12-12 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:31:10 -0800 Jesse Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:15 pm, Stefan Schmidt wrote: Hello. On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 12:05, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:59:58 +0100 Holger Macht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [patch 2/3] acpi: Add a docked sysfs file to the dock driver.

2006-12-12 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:00, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: I did have different dock/undock events a few months ago - but after some discussion we scrapped them because Kay wants to avoid driver specific events. The change event is the only thing that makes sense, given the set of

Re: [PATCH v2] libata: Simulate REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices

2006-12-12 Thread Darrick J. Wong
James Bottomley wrote: I thought we were closing in on agreeing that the SPC/MMC inconsistencies made this the correct candidate fix. I tried out the patch below, but with it applied, SCSI still issues REPORT LUNS to the device. It seems that sdev-type = -1 and bflags = 0 when

[PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-12 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Behold! This is the driver for the Toshiba TC86C001 GOKU-S IDE controller, completely reworked from the original brain-damaged Toshiba's 2.4 version. This single channel UltraDMA/66 controller is very simple in programming, yet Toshiba managed to plant many interesting bugs in it. The

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-12 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. On Wednesday 13 December 2006 01:48, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: Behold! This is the driver for the Toshiba TC86C001 GOKU-S IDE controller, completely reworked from the original brain-damaged Toshiba's 2.4 version. Shoot, the patch is actually against the most recent Linus' tree, so it's

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-12 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:48:34 +0300 Sergei Shtylyov wrote: Behold! This is the driver for the Toshiba TC86C001 GOKU-S IDE controller, completely reworked from the original brain-damaged Toshiba's 2.4 version. This single channel UltraDMA/66 controller is very simple in programming, yet

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-12 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Randy Dunlap wrote: Behold! This is the driver for the Toshiba TC86C001 GOKU-S IDE controller, completely reworked from the original brain-damaged Toshiba's 2.4 version. This single channel UltraDMA/66 controller is very simple in programming, yet Toshiba managed to plant many

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-12 Thread Randy Dunlap
Sergei Shtylyov wrote: Hello. Randy Dunlap wrote: Behold! This is the driver for the Toshiba TC86C001 GOKU-S IDE controller, completely reworked from the original brain-damaged Toshiba's 2.4 version. This single channel UltraDMA/66 controller is very simple in programming, yet Toshiba

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-12 Thread Alan
+ * We work around this by initiating dummy, zero-length DMA transfer on + * a DMA timeout expiration. I found no better way to do this with the current Novel workaround and probably better than resetting the chip as the winbong does. +static int tc86c001_busproc(ide_drive_t *drive, int

[PATCH] sata_nv: add suspend/resume support v3

2006-12-12 Thread Robert Hancock
This patch is against 2.6.19-rc6-mm2 and should apply to what is in Linus' and Jeff's git trees currently. This includes a later fix to the kfree ordering in the nv_remove_one function. Both the original patch and the later fix are already in the -mm tree. --- This patch adds the necessary

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-12 Thread Alan
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:48:34 +0300 Sergei Shtylyov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Behold! This is the driver for the Toshiba TC86C001 GOKU-S IDE controller, completely reworked from the original brain-damaged Toshiba's 2.4 version. Actually un-nack the PCI quirk. While it is true the native mode is

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-12 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 12/13/06, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static int tc86c001_busproc(ide_drive_t *drive, int state) +{ Waste of space having a busproc routine. The maintainer removed all the usable hotplug support from old IDE so this might as well be dropped. I took over IDE when hotplug was already

Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

2006-12-12 Thread Nick Piggin
Trond Myklebust wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:56 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: Note that these pages should be *really* rare. Definitely even for normal filesystems I think RMW would use too much bandwidth if it were required for any significant number of writes. If file foo exists on the

RFC: UML: remove MODE_TT?

2006-12-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
MODE_TT is both marked as deprecated and marked as BROKEN. Would a patch to remove MODE_TT, always enable MODE_SKAS, and doing all possible cleanups after this be accepted? cu Adrian -- Is there not promise of rain? Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been

Re: BUG? atleast =2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-12 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 03:27 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:58:00 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: Kasper, what problems (other that the annoying message) are you having? if it had only been the messages i wouldnt have complained. the

SATA DMA problem (sata_uli)

2006-12-12 Thread David Shirley
Hi Chaps, Basically I detected this problem because I added another drive to my PCI SATA card, and now the system is running dog slow. I tracked it down to one of the drives being forced into PIO4 mode rather than UDMA mode; dmesg bits: sata_nv :00:0b.0: version 2.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt

VM_RESERVED vs vm_normal_page()

2006-12-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi folks ! What is the logic regarding VM_RESERVED, and more specifically, why is vm_normal_page() nor returning NULL for these ? I have struct pages that are a bit special for things like SPE mappings on Cell and I'd like to avoid a lot of the stuff the VM tries to do on them, like rmap

BUG# 6419, via-rhine II could be the problem

2006-12-12 Thread Sergio Monteiro Basto
My bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6419 Today I found that my computer hang problem could be just a problem with via-rhine II. I got exactly the same problem describe on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245398;msg=107 I had transfer by eth0 (via-rhine II), about

RE: cfq performance gap

2006-12-12 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
AVANTIKA R. MATHUR wrote on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 5:33 PM rawio is actually performing sequential reads, but I don't believe it is purely sequential with the multiple processes. I am currently running the test with longer runtimes and will post results once it is complete. I've also

Parse boot parameter error?

2006-12-12 Thread Shaohua Li
Say a boot parameter is xxx, if you give a string xxxy, then the boot parameter's corresponding function is executed. Is this intended? If not, below patch fixes it. diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index 036f97c..d56940c 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -193,7 +193,8 @@ static

Re: [PATCH 000 of 14] knfsd: Assorted nfsd patches for 2.6.20 - prepare for IPv6 and more

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
NeilBrown wrote: Following are 14 patches for knfsd that are suitable for inclusion in 2.6.20. First 13 are from Chuck Lever and make preparations for IPv6 support (I think we've get them right this time). Last is from Peter Staubach and fixes and issue with exclusive create interacting badly

Re: [PATCH] connector: Some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors

2006-12-12 Thread Erik Jacobson
Hi. I didn't want to leave this hanging and it stayed in my head so I thought I'd better just finish it and test it. I tried out this patch and it got rid of all three unaligned acces errors I was seeing with process connectors and the patch is indeed much smaller. I ran our container daemon

Re: [PATCH] psmouse split

2006-12-12 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Andres, On Tuesday 12 December 2006 23:31, Andres Salomon wrote: Hi, When Zephaniah Hull sent in a patch for the OLPC touchpad [0], it was suggested that the psmouse driver be split out into separate components. What's currently there is way too fat, and people are not happy about

Re: Survey about the Kernel Community

2006-12-12 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Hi, Sure, we will post the results to the mailing list after analyzing them. Moreover, we post a link to the proceedings of the conference where the results are published. -- Timo Hi, Well, I filled in the survey. Was wondering if you also post the results here at the mailing list. That

Re: 2.6.18.3 also 2.6.19 XFS xfs_force_shutdown (was: XFS internal error [...])

2006-12-12 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:12:23PM +0900, Shinichiro HIDA wrote: Hi, I met same problem on my 2 machines, 2.6.19 (Debian unstable) also 2.6.18.3 (Debian stable), The trace: ;; [1] lune: debian unstable with 2.6.19 Dec 12 21:31:25 lune kernel: [c0297b70] xfs_da_do_buf+0x340/0xa10 Dec 12

Re: cfq performance gap

2006-12-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Dec 12 2006, AVANTIKA R. MATHUR wrote: That said, I might add some logic to detect when we can cheaply switch queues instead of waiting for a new request from the same queue. Averaging slice times over a period of time instead of 1:1 with that logic, should help cases like this while

Re: [PATCH] psmouse split

2006-12-12 Thread Andres Salomon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi Andres, [...] Unfortunately I do not think this is going to work well in in default case: 1. PS/2 probing order is important. You need to probe for intellimouse explorer last otherwise you might miss that mouse supports extended protocol. Sorry, I'm not

[PATCH] binfmt_elf: core dump masking support

2006-12-12 Thread Kawai, Hidehiro
Hi, This patch provides a feature which enables you to specify the memory segment types you don't want to dump into a core file. You can specify them per process via /proc/pid/coremask file. This file represents the bitmask of memory segment types which are not written out when the pid process is

[PATCH 2.6.19] e1000: replace kmalloc+memset with kcalloc and indent the way it is done in other parts of e1000

2006-12-12 Thread Yan Burman
Replace kmalloc+memset with kcalloc + remove now unused size variable Signed-off-by: Yan Burman [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -rubp linux-2.6.19_orig/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c linux-2.6.19_tests/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c --- linux-2.6.19_orig/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c

2.6.18.4: flush_workqueue calls mutex_lock in interrupt environment

2006-12-12 Thread xb
Hi all, Running some IO stress tests on a 8*ways IA64 platform, we got: BUG: warning at kernel/mutex.c:132/__mutex_lock_common() message followed by: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00200200 oops corresponding to anon_vma_unlink() calling list_del() on

Re: IB: Add DMA mapping functions to allow device drivers to interpose

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:59:45 GMT Linux Kernel Mailing List linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org wrote: IB: Add DMA mapping functions to allow device drivers to interpose The QLogic InfiniPath HCAs use programmed I/O instead of HW DMA. This patch allows a verbs device driver to

Re: BUG? atleast =2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-12 Thread Chuck Ebbert
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:39:43 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: do you think it may be a bug in the kernel? the stuff with wine that gets thrown in the kernel messages? Let's just say the behavior has changed. It now returns -EINVAL instead of -ENOTTY when the msdos

Re: RFC: UML: remove MODE_TT?

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff Dike
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:35:33AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: MODE_TT is both marked as deprecated and marked as BROKEN. Would a patch to remove MODE_TT, always enable MODE_SKAS, and doing all possible cleanups after this be accepted? Thanks, but not yet. I've got that queued up in my tree

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] free initrds boot option

2006-12-12 Thread Horms
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 10:32:15AM +1100, Michael Neuling wrote: Is there a kexec-tools patch too? How does second kernel know about the location of the first kernel's initrd to be reused? kexec-tools has to be modified to pass the first kernel initrd. On powerpc, initrd locations

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Paravirt cpu batching.patch

2006-12-12 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Chuck Ebbert wrote: This whole thing needs a proper fix IMO. I posted something a while back but Andi didn't like it, I guess. What's a quick summary of the issue again? J - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Paravirt cpu batching.patch

2006-12-12 Thread Zachary Amsden
Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:54:30 -0800, Chros Wright wrote: --- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.cTue Dec 12 13:50:50 2006 -0800 +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/process.cTue Dec 12 13:50:53 2006 -0800 @@ -665,6 +665,37 @@ struct task_struct fastcall

[PATCH] usblp: Add serial number to device ID

2006-12-12 Thread Dirk Eibach
I noticed that some USB-printers, e.g. Canon PIXMA iP3000 don't add their serial number to the IEEE-1284 device ID string as expected by userspace apps like cups. Because of this, connecting multiple printers of the same type to a system does not work properly. This patch adds the usb serial

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [linux-usb-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/2] x86_64 Early usb debug port support.

2006-12-12 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 12/8/06, Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your or I missed a bug fix/enhancement in there somewhere. I found the problem. the __set_fixmap need to __va, so the entries will be referred from PAGE_OFFSET. solution will be 1. move enable_dbgp_console from setup_early_printk, and

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [linux-usb-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/2] x86_64 Early usb debug port support.

2006-12-12 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 12/8/06, Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your or I missed a bug fix/enhancement in there somewhere. I found the problem. the __set_fixmap need to __va, so the entries will be referred from PAGE_OFFSET. solution will be 1. move

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/loopback.c: convert to module_init()

2006-12-12 Thread David Miller
From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:24:35 +0100 This patch converts drivers/net/loopback.c to using module_init(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not %100 sure of this one, let's look at the comment you are deleting: -/* - * The loopback

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