Re: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >>We'd have to audit and figure out what udelays are for hardware and > >>which are not, but the evidence is that the vast majority of them are > >>for hardware and not needed for virtualization. > >> > > > >Which is irrelevant since the hardware drivers won't be used in a >

Re: [patch 19/31] clockevents: i386 drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:02:11 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add clockevent drivers for i386: lapic (local) and PIT (global). Update > the timer IRQ to call into the PIT driver's event handler and the > lapic-timer IRQ to call into the lapic clockevent driver. The >

Re: [uml-devel] UML hang with 100% CPU

2007-02-15 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > Strangely enough after continuing in gdb, UML is back to normal, and I > > can't make it hang any more. It must be something timing related. > > Can you see if the patch below fixes it? Yay! Got my nice fast UML back instead of ugly slow QEmu ;) Seems to work perfectly now. Thanks,

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 23:28 -0800, v j wrote: > Open = 3rd party Linux drivers can be loaded. Closed = No third party > Linux drivers can be loaded. Then go ahead and use Windows CE or VxWorks. By your silly definition they are pretty open. Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64

2007-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
> It's always seemed broken (though perhaps this was a distro bug?) in > module form, so I've been compiling it in to get it to work. Must have been a distro bug. It should have worked before as long as the config was enabled. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] fix mempolicy's check on a system with memory-less-node take4

2007-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 15 February 2007 08:32, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > please ack if O.K. Ok for me -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH 000/196] V4L/DVB updates

2007-02-15 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:59:55AM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Basically, this series adds support for a bunch of newer cards and newer > drivers, do some relevant cleanups on cx88 (improving source code > readability and reducing binary code size), adds FM radio support on > pvrusb2

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:27 -0800, v j wrote: > You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one > small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't think that is the point > here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am > telling you as a user that if Linux

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Dave Jones wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:46:13PM -0800, v j wrote: > Using our source code would not benefit anybody but > our competitors. This excuse has been given time and time again, and repeatedly been proven false. And as soon as one of your competitors makes their drivers open,

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.19.1 Oops while doing Disk IO + playing sound, 2.6.20 too

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Kara
On Thu 15-02-07 00:33:31, Frank Hartmann wrote: > Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes I see some correlation. Again it seems there is a problem with buffers > > attached to a page which got truncated but Private flag of the page stayed. > > It's probably not important but just out of

Re: [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=62cc49396e593dd71c6595302bb10b085aefbfa5 Commit: 62cc49396e593dd71c6595302bb10b085aefbfa5 Parent: 40d22c1b5675e428b3f3f9a945d0bd62e94ca2f1 Author: Andi Kleen

RE: [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy

2007-02-15 Thread Ananiev, Leonid I
Ken Chen wrote > It might shut up kernel > panic by eliminate double calls to aio_complete(), but it will > silently introduce data corruption. I had got kernel panic after an hour of aiostress running. After patching I have not got aiostress massage "verify error, file %s offset %Lu contents

Re: xfs internal error on a new filesystem

2007-02-15 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:24:27AM +, Ramy M. Hassan wrote: > Hello, > We got the following xfs internal error on one of our production servers: > > Feb 14 08:28:52 info6 kernel: [238186.676483] Filesystem "sdd8": XFS > internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1138 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c.

Re: 2.6.20 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

2007-02-15 Thread Stephane Eranian
Andi, On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:20:56AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:48:39 -0800 Stephane Eranian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > I have released another version of the perfmon new code base package. > > > > Can we

Re: [LIBATA] drives not detected

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/15/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good morning all, Now, when I boot up, I miss two drives, exactly the two connected to this promise card. I have another onboard Promise controller which works just fine, so the driver gets loaded properly, and since i see all my other disks

[LIBATA] drives not detected

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
Good morning all, Yesterday I replaced a Sil680 PCI add-on card for a Promise 2027x PCI add-on card. Now, when I boot up, I miss two drives, exactly the two connected to this promise card. I have another onboard Promise controller which works just fine, so the driver gets loaded properly, and

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread v j
Oh, I am sorry. Seems like the German courts have spoken. I am not sure about what, but they have spoken. Sorry for the confusion. On 2/15/07, Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: v j wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v

Re: [PATCH] Optimize generic get_unaligned / put_unaligned implementations.

2007-02-15 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Andrew, > > +#define get_unaligned(ptr) \ > > +({ \ > > + const struct { \ > > + union {

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Trent Waddington
On 2/15/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And as I understand it, an important principle in out community is freedom. If vj wants to take a particular moral/ethical stance, then he should be free to do that. Of course he will have to live with any consequences, as do we all. Yes, and

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Piggin
v j wrote: On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If your mindset is "how much can I take take take without giving back back back" then personally I think you're sort of acting like a parasite in this context Ok so are thousands of others who are using Linux as their

Re: [BUG] 2.6.20 Oopses in xfrm_audit_log

2007-02-15 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Joy Latten wrote: i upgraded to vanilla kernel 2.6.20 and while i was using strongswan 2.8.2 to setup an IPSEC VPN i got the following kernel Ooops. I had successfully established the same tunnel a few times, but key renegotiation caused a problem ( both ends did not renegotiate at the same

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-02-15 Thread Nadia Derbey
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But, what do you do with Oracle that's asking maxfiles to be set to 0x1, while the default value might be enough for a system that's not running Oracle. I'm afraid that giving boot time values to the max_* tunables we will

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Richard Knutsson
v j wrote: On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: > This is in reference to the following thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ > popular in the

Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug

2007-02-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 15 February 2007 07:34, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:43:35PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:40, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > > > Hello Everybody, > > > > > > This is an experiment towards process_freezer based

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Piggin
v j wrote: On 2/14/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At least one of us is confused about that an embedded User is. It seems to me that you are an embedded developer, not User. I doubt that most Embedded Users care what their OS is, or even know what an OS is. I am not sure what

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 00:04 -0800, v j wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: > > > This is in reference to the following thread: > > > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > > > > > I am not sure if this is ever

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday February 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2/15/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [..] then it is less clear what people believe > > Another area where it is less clear what people believe is if you are > distributing the module separately to the kernel, but, as I

Re: [PATCH 3/6] scsi: megaraid_sas - throttle io if FW is busy

2007-02-15 Thread Richard Knutsson
Sumant Patro wrote: Checks added in megasas_queue_command to know if FW is able to process commands within the timeout period. If number of retries is 2 or more, the driver stops sending cmd to FW. IO is resumed when pending cmd count reduces to 16 or 10 seconds has elapsed from the time cmds

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread v j
On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: > This is in reference to the following thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ > popular in the embedded space.

[PATCH] adjust legacy IDE resource setting (v2)

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Beulich
The change to force legacy mode IDE channels' resources to fixed non-zero values confuses (at least some versions of) X, because the values reported by the kernel and those readable from PCI config space aren't consistent anymore. Therefore, this patch arranges for the respective BARs to also get

Re: [patches] [PATCH 2.6.21 review I] [4/25] x86: kernel-mode faults pollute current->thead

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 14.02.07 18:51 >>> >On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:52:54AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: >> Actually, after a second round of thinking I believe there's still more to do >> - your second patch missed fixing i386's do_trap() similarly to x86-64's >> and, vice versa,

Re: [patches] [PATCH 2.6.21 review I] [4/25] x86: kernel-mode faults pollute current-thead

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Beulich
Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14.02.07 18:51 On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:52:54AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: Actually, after a second round of thinking I believe there's still more to do - your second patch missed fixing i386's do_trap() similarly to x86-64's and, vice versa, x86-64's

[PATCH] adjust legacy IDE resource setting (v2)

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Beulich
The change to force legacy mode IDE channels' resources to fixed non-zero values confuses (at least some versions of) X, because the values reported by the kernel and those readable from PCI config space aren't consistent anymore. Therefore, this patch arranges for the respective BARs to also get

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread v j
On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: This is in reference to the following thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ popular in the embedded space. We (an

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday February 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/15/07, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] then it is less clear what people believe Another area where it is less clear what people believe is if you are distributing the module separately to the kernel, but, as I understand it,

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Piggin
v j wrote: On 2/14/07, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least one of us is confused about that an embedded User is. It seems to me that you are an embedded developer, not User. I doubt that most Embedded Users care what their OS is, or even know what an OS is. I am not sure what the

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 00:04 -0800, v j wrote: On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: This is in reference to the following thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but

Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug

2007-02-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 15 February 2007 07:34, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:43:35PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, On Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:40, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: Hello Everybody, This is an experiment towards process_freezer based implementation

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Richard Knutsson
v j wrote: On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: This is in reference to the following thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ popular in the embedded

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-02-15 Thread Nadia Derbey
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Nadia Derbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But, what do you do with Oracle that's asking maxfiles to be set to 0x1, while the default value might be enough for a system that's not running Oracle. I'm afraid that giving boot time values to the max_* tunables we will

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Nick Piggin
v j wrote: On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your mindset is how much can I take take take without giving back back back then personally I think you're sort of acting like a parasite in this context Ok so are thousands of others who are using Linux as their OS of

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Trent Waddington
On 2/15/07, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And as I understand it, an important principle in out community is freedom. If vj wants to take a particular moral/ethical stance, then he should be free to do that. Of course he will have to live with any consequences, as do we all. Yes, and

Re: [PATCH] Optimize generic get_unaligned / put_unaligned implementations.

2007-02-15 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Andrew, +#define get_unaligned(ptr) \ +({ \ + const struct { \ + union {

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread v j
Oh, I am sorry. Seems like the German courts have spoken. I am not sure about what, but they have spoken. Sorry for the confusion. On 2/15/07, Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: v j wrote: On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j

[LIBATA] drives not detected

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
Good morning all, Yesterday I replaced a Sil680 PCI add-on card for a Promise 2027x PCI add-on card. Now, when I boot up, I miss two drives, exactly the two connected to this promise card. I have another onboard Promise controller which works just fine, so the driver gets loaded properly, and

Re: [LIBATA] drives not detected

2007-02-15 Thread Patrick Ale
On 2/15/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning all, Now, when I boot up, I miss two drives, exactly the two connected to this promise card. I have another onboard Promise controller which works just fine, so the driver gets loaded properly, and since i see all my other disks

Re: xfs internal error on a new filesystem

2007-02-15 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:24:27AM +, Ramy M. Hassan wrote: Hello, We got the following xfs internal error on one of our production servers: Feb 14 08:28:52 info6 kernel: [238186.676483] Filesystem sdd8: XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1138 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c.

RE: [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy

2007-02-15 Thread Ananiev, Leonid I
Ken Chen wrote It might shut up kernel panic by eliminate double calls to aio_complete(), but it will silently introduce data corruption. I had got kernel panic after an hour of aiostress running. After patching I have not got aiostress massage verify error, file %s offset %Lu contents

Re: [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=62cc49396e593dd71c6595302bb10b085aefbfa5 Commit: 62cc49396e593dd71c6595302bb10b085aefbfa5 Parent: 40d22c1b5675e428b3f3f9a945d0bd62e94ca2f1 Author: Andi Kleen

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.19.1 Oops while doing Disk IO + playing sound, 2.6.20 too

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Kara
On Thu 15-02-07 00:33:31, Frank Hartmann wrote: Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes I see some correlation. Again it seems there is a problem with buffers attached to a page which got truncated but Private flag of the page stayed. It's probably not important but just out of curiosity

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Dave Jones wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:46:13PM -0800, v j wrote: Using our source code would not benefit anybody but our competitors. This excuse has been given time and time again, and repeatedly been proven false. And as soon as one of your competitors makes their drivers open,

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 22:27 -0800, v j wrote: You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't think that is the point here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am telling you as a user that if Linux

Re: [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64

2007-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
It's always seemed broken (though perhaps this was a distro bug?) in module form, so I've been compiling it in to get it to work. Must have been a distro bug. It should have worked before as long as the config was enabled. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] fix mempolicy's check on a system with memory-less-node take4

2007-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 15 February 2007 08:32, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: please ack if O.K. Ok for me -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 23:28 -0800, v j wrote: Open = 3rd party Linux drivers can be loaded. Closed = No third party Linux drivers can be loaded. Then go ahead and use Windows CE or VxWorks. By your silly definition they are pretty open. Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [patch 19/31] clockevents: i386 drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:02:11 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add clockevent drivers for i386: lapic (local) and PIT (global). Update the timer IRQ to call into the PIT driver's event handler and the lapic-timer IRQ to call into the lapic clockevent driver. The assignement of

Re: [PATCH 9/11] Panic delay fix

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! We'd have to audit and figure out what udelays are for hardware and which are not, but the evidence is that the vast majority of them are for hardware and not needed for virtualization. Which is irrelevant since the hardware drivers won't be used in a virtualised environment with

Re: [patch 3/4] ipmi: add pci remove handling

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:06:24 -0600 Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add pci_remove handling to the driver, so it will clean up if the device is hot-removed. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.19/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c

[patch 2/3] Input: psmouse - wrap protocol extensions (except synaptics) with ifdefs

2007-02-15 Thread Andres Salomon
Allow ALPS, LOGIPS2PP, LIFEBOOK, and TRACKPOINT protocol extensions (in the psmouse driver) to be disabled during compilation. The synaptics stuff is left alone for now, since it needs special handling for synaptic pass-through ports. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git

[patch 1/3] Input: psmouse - create PS/2 protocol options for Kconfig

2007-02-15 Thread Andres Salomon
Initial framework for disabling PS/2 protocol extensions. The current protocols can only be disabled if CONFIG_EMBEDDED is selected. No source files are changed, merely build stuff. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig

[patch 3/3] Input: psmouse - allow disabling of synaptics protocol extension

2007-02-15 Thread Andres Salomon
Allow disabling of synaptics via CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS; we leave synaptic_detect and synaptic_reset (for synaptics hardware that emulates other protocols), but get rid of synaptic_init. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c

Re: [BUG] at drivers/char/vt.c:3332 do_blank_screen() on resume

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! With 2.6.20, resuming from disk sometimes cannot returns on vt7 where X runs but everything seems working, so just changing to vt1 and returning to vt7 solves the problem. But dmesg shows some BUG() output like [1] whenever this problem occurs I'm using 20070207 snapshot of suspend,

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Paul Mundt
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:01:37PM +0530, Maximus wrote: Im trying to port some drivers between 2.6.14 and 2.6.19 I find that irqdesc has changed completely. how do i port the drivers between 2.6.14 and 2.6.19? is there a porting guide available to port the drivers which use irqdesc?.

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:33:47PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:01:37PM +0530, Maximus wrote: Im trying to port some drivers between 2.6.14 and 2.6.19 I find that irqdesc has changed completely. how do i port the drivers between 2.6.14 and 2.6.19? is there a

Re: Serial console issues.

2007-02-15 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 05:39:22PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this is the most bastardized sucker I've ever seen. . . I have had no end of trouble with it (couldn't even get a boot loader to work with it - had to write my own). And, as luck would have it, the serial port is no

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 04:44:51AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Dave Jones wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:46:13PM -0800, v j wrote: Using our source code would not benefit anybody but our competitors. This excuse has been given time and time again, and repeatedly been

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Mohammed Gamal
I am still a kernel newbie, and I am still not very much aware about the GPL vs. Non-GPL drivers debate. I personally think it'd be better that all drivers should be GPL'd but if that's the case, what would be the legal position of such vendors as ATI or NVIDIA who supply closed source drivers?

Re: [BUG] at drivers/char/vt.c:3332 do_blank_screen() on resume

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:40:32 +0100 Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Contact fbcon people... There aren't any, basically. Since Tony disappeared James has been helping out but doesn't have a lot of time. So we're pretty much on our own with problems in this area. - To unsubscribe from

Re: 2.6.20 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

2007-02-15 Thread Stephane Eranian
Andi, On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:20:56AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:48:39 -0800 Stephane Eranian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have released another version of the perfmon new code base package. Can we have a bug push to

Re: [PATCH 000/196] V4L/DVB updates

2007-02-15 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:59:55AM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Basically, this series adds support for a bunch of newer cards and newer drivers, do some relevant cleanups on cx88 (improving source code readability and reducing binary code size), adds FM radio support on pvrusb2 and do

Re: [PATCH 3/6] scsi: megaraid_sas - throttle io if FW is busy

2007-02-15 Thread Richard Knutsson
Sumant Patro wrote: Checks added in megasas_queue_command to know if FW is able to process commands within the timeout period. If number of retries is 2 or more, the driver stops sending cmd to FW. IO is resumed when pending cmd count reduces to 16 or 10 seconds has elapsed from the time cmds

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram identifies it with sys_vendor = Sony Corporation sys_product = PCG-SRX51P(DE) sys_version = 01 bios_version = R0232U2 Suspend to RAM by using s2ram -v -m -f actually

Re: [uml-devel] UML hang with 100% CPU

2007-02-15 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Strangely enough after continuing in gdb, UML is back to normal, and I can't make it hang any more. It must be something timing related. Can you see if the patch below fixes it? Yay! Got my nice fast UML back instead of ugly slow QEmu ;) Seems to work perfectly now. Thanks, Miklos - To

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Dittmer
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram identifies it with sys_vendor = Sony Corporation sys_product = PCG-SRX51P(DE) sys_version = 01 bios_version = R0232U2 Suspend to RAM by using s2ram

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram identifies it with sys_vendor = Sony Corporation sys_product = PCG-SRX51P(DE) sys_version = 01 bios_version = R0232U2 Suspend to RAM by using s2ram -v -m -f

[PATCH]mm incorrect direct io error handling (v4)

2007-02-15 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
Incorrect direct io error handling (v4) Changes from v3: - Patch preparead gainst 2.6.20-rc6-mm3. It seems now it's not conflict with Nick's stuff. - fix generic segment check function. LOG: If generic_file_direct_write() has fail (ENOSPC condition) inside

Re: [linux-pm] Suspend to RAM, Sony Vaio PCG-SRX51P, lcd stays off

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Dittmer
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I own an older Sony Vaio SRX51P, European Model, P3 based. s2ram identifies it with sys_vendor = Sony Corporation sys_product = PCG-SRX51P(DE) sys_version = 01 bios_version = R0232U2 Suspend to RAM by using s2ram

Re: [BUG] at drivers/char/vt.c:3332 do_blank_screen() on resume

2007-02-15 Thread S.Çağlar Onur
15 Şub 2007 Per tarihinde, Andrew Morton şunları yazmıştı: On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:40:32 +0100 Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Contact fbcon people... There aren't any, basically. Since Tony disappeared James has been helping out but doesn't have a lot of time. So we're pretty much

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 12:51 +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote: I am still a kernel newbie, and I am still not very much aware about the GPL vs. Non-GPL drivers debate. I personally think it'd be better that all drivers should be GPL'd but if that's the case, what would be the legal position of such

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Trent Waddington
On 2/15/07, Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's not the case with VJ's drivers, which are apparently solely for linux, so should be distributed under the GPL. In any case, you're free to use any driver, regardless of license.. copyright does not cover use, only copying and most,

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Ihar `Philips` Filipau
Our source code is meaningless to the Open Source community at large. It is only useful to our tiny set of competitors that have nothing to do with Linux. The Embedded space is very specific. We are only _using_ Linux. Just as we could have used VxWorks or OSE. Using our source code would not

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:00:56PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 12:51 +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote: I am still a kernel newbie, and I am still not very much aware about the GPL vs. Non-GPL drivers debate. I personally think it'd be better that all drivers should be

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:05:11PM +1000, Trent Waddington wrote: On 2/15/07, Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's not the case with VJ's drivers, which are apparently solely for linux, so should be distributed under the GPL. In any case, you're free to use any driver,

Re: [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: It's always seemed broken (though perhaps this was a distro bug?) in module form, so I've been compiling it in to get it to work. Must have been a distro bug. It should have worked before as long as the config was

Re: 2.6.20-git10: BUG at drivers/pci/pci.c:817 during suspend to disk

2007-02-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Update: On Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:16, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, I've got this in the resume-during-suspend phase of suspend to disk with 2.6.20-git10 on HPC nx6325: PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:06.0 to 64 sata_sil :00:12.0: resuming BUG: at

Re: [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:49:57AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: It's always seemed broken (though perhaps this was a distro bug?) in module form, so I've been compiling it in to get it to work. Must have been a distro bug. It should have worked before as long as

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Trent Waddington
On 2/15/07, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume ATI's lawyers think its legal, as it's been a year and a half since I first brought this questionable act to their attention. Lawyers don't think X is legal.. that's not how lawyers think. If ATI's lawyers have advised ATI on this at

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2007-02-15 Thread ddup1
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Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Bodo Eggert
v j [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: This is in reference to the following thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! I think you have a bit of a misunderstanding... Linux is not royalty free. Just the royalty is not in the form of cash, but in the form of having to give your improvements back to the open source world. Sure. But this is not legally binding. Maybe it's not, but it certainly doesn't

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:30:33PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Wednesday February 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am well aware of what Greg KHs position is, in fact he is the reason I started the whole rant. This is only a plea to the higher authorities. Linus, please save Linux! Linus

Re: [PATCH] Add PM_TRACE x86_64 support.

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:08:06 +1100 Nigel Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch add x86_64 support for PM_TRACE, and shifts per-arch code to the appropriate subdirectories. ia64 allmodconfig: include/linux/resume-trace.h:4:30: asm/resume-trace.h: No such file or directory

Re: 2.6.20 mmc: problem with highspeed SD card

2007-02-15 Thread Eugene Ilkov
On 2/15/07, Pierre Ossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eugene Ilkov wrote: I have I/O errors with Transcend SD highspeed card 2GB/150x when it's mounted in r/w mode (cardreader on sharp sl-c1000) It works well if I reverse mmcv4 patch commited to 2.6.19-git2 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/4/27)

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] more support for memory-less-node.

2007-02-15 Thread Bodo Eggert
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now if it's better to set up a empty node or use a nearby node for a memory less cpu can be further discussed. I still think I lean towards the later. Worst case: Only slot 0 is used. Plug your memoryless CPU card into the last slot before your plug the

Re: [RFC PATCH(Experimental) 0/4] Freezer based Cpu-hotplug

2007-02-15 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:09:51AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Why should we make sure that PF_NOFREEZE tasks are also frozen for cpu hotplug? Instead, we can create an infrastructure which allows threads to specify for the scenarios they would want to be excempted from freeze.

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Mws
hi vj, On Thursday 15 February 2007, v j wrote: This is in reference to the following thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ popular in the embedded space. We (an embedded vendor) chose Linux 3 years back because of

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Neil Horman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:16:44PM -0800, v j wrote: On 2/14/07, v j [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has nothing to do with politics. I am not a Linux contributor. I realize that people who have contributed to the Linux Kernel have very valid points. It is their sweat and blood. They have a

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Manu Abraham
On 2/15/07, Mws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi vj, On Thursday 15 February 2007, v j wrote: This is in reference to the following thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ popular in the embedded space. We (an embedded

Re: irqdesc porting help

2007-02-15 Thread Maximus
Hi, My drivers in 2.6.14 use statements like desc-triggered = 1; And desc also points to some members of irqdesc which arent in 2.6.19 but in 2.6.14. Im a newbie, What changes am i supposed to make to make it work in 2.6.19. Im not sure what changes are exactly needed.

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 15 2007 18:43, Neil Brown wrote: We seem to have different definitions of open and closed. Open = 3rd party Linux drivers can be loaded. Closed = No third party Linux drivers can be loaded. Loading a driver is not at issue. Anyone may load a driver. And, after all, because

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