Re: "ide=reverse" do we still need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Rene Herman
On 13-02-08 13:06, Rene Herman wrote: On 13-02-08 05:44, Greg KH wrote: While details escape me somewhat again at the monment, a few months ago I was playing around with a PCI Promise IDE controller and needed ide=reverse to save me from having to switch disks around to still have a bootable

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Frank Seidel
Stephen Rothwell wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:02:08 +1100 Stephen Rothwell wrote: >> Andrew was looking for someone to run a linux-next tree that just >> contained the subsystem git and quilt trees for 2.6.x+1 and I (in a >> moment of madness) volunteered. > > I neglected to mention the other

Re: Regression in latest sched-git

2008-02-13 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 08:30 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:40:08PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Yes, latency isolation is the one thing I had to sacrifice in order to > > get the normal latencies under control. > > Hi Peter, > I don't have easy solution

Re: asm-x86/sigcontext.h changes break userland

2008-02-13 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:26:50AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Jakub Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > x86: use generic register names in struct sigcontext > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=742fa54a62be6a263df14a553bf832724471dfbe > >

Re: [RFC PATCH] ide-floppy: use rq->cmd for preparing and sending packet cmds to the drive

2008-02-13 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:39:22PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Hi Bart, > I think that this _really_ should be done _after_ unifying ATAPI handling [*]. > Otherwise you will be making some of the same changes to the _three_ copies > of (more or less) identical code and more

Re: [PATCH REPOST] printk: fix possible printk buffer overrun introduced with recursion check

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > printk recursion detection prepends message to printk_buf and offsets > printk_buf when actual message is printed but it forgets to trim > buffer length accordingly. This can result in buffer overrun in > extreme cases. > > While at it, make

Re: "ide=reverse" do we still need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Rene Herman
On 13-02-08 13:16, Michael Ellerman wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 13:06 +0100, Rene Herman wrote: On 13-02-08 05:44, Greg KH wrote: While details escape me somewhat again at the monment, a few months ago I was playing around with a PCI Promise IDE controller and needed ide=reverse to save me

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-mm1 and 2.6.24-git13 kernel panic's while bootup at ide_device_add_all

2008-02-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 5 of February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Hi, > > The kernel bootup panics with the 2.6.24-mm1 and 2.6.24-git13 kernel > while defconfig compiled in for x86_64 (Intel(R) Xeon) box Is that still happening or has it been fixed? Rafael > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging

Linux Compatible USB Adapter Recommendations? [OT]

2008-02-13 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm looking to buy a wireless USB adapter that I can plug into a Fedora 8 box. The main feature I want it to be able to stick it in and have it just work. No custom kernel compiles. If it had 802.11n that would be a plus. So - what "just works" with Linux? Thanks in advance. Marc Perkel Junk

Re: [PATCH 4/4] KEYS: Add keyctl function to get a security label

2008-02-13 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > + key_ref = lookup_user_key(NULL, keyid, 0, 1, KEY_VIEW); > > + if (IS_ERR(key_ref)) { > > + if (PTR_ERR(key_ref) != -EACCES) > > + return PTR_ERR(key_ref); > > + > > + /* viewing a key under construction is

Re: [PATCH 2/4] KEYS: Check starting keyring as part of search

2008-02-13 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > + (keyring->expiry && now.tv_sec >= keyring->expiry)) > > time_after()? Possibly. tv_sec oughtn't to wrap, though. I thought time_after() is really for comparing jiffies which might wrap. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] x86: fixup machine_ops reboot_{32|64}.c unification fallout

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jody Belka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please cc on any replies, thanks. > --- > When reboot_32.c and reboot_64.c were unified (commit 4d022e35fd...), > the machine_ops code was broken, leading to xen pvops kernels failing > to properly halt/poweroff/reboot etc. This fixes that up. thanks

Re: 2.6.24-git2: Oracle 11g VKTM process enters R state on startup and is unkillable [still broken in 2.6.25-rc1]

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alessandro Suardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ok, we just found the reason for the 8-way crash, the delta fix > > > from Peter is below if any of you have tried the previous combo > > > patch. Updated sched.git as well, new HEAD is > > > fec13e45305d69fd0bd23b30bd05a0a42cf341f8. > > >

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 07:06:24AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Russell King wrote: > >We know that the -mm tree is pretty much useless in terms of code > >coverage for ARM, and it's getting increasingly unlikely that anything > >short of a build of all ARM defconfigs will pick up on merge issues -

Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although I'm on vacation, I happened to download a recent copy of > x86.git and found that it crashes early. Here's a couple of patches > to apply; I don't know if they apply to current git, but I hope it > helps. thanks Jeremy, applied.

[PATCH] fs/coda: remove static inline forward declarations

2008-02-13 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
They're defined later on in the same file with bodies and nothingin between needs them. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/coda_linux.h |3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/coda_linux.h

Re: pci_get_device_reverse(), why does Calgary need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:17:37AM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Why does the calgary driver need this? Can we just use pci_get_device() > > > instead? Why do you need to walk the device list backwards? Do you get > > > false positives going

Re: [PATCH 09/18] ide: rework PowerMac media-bay support

2008-02-13 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 01:45 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Rework PowerMac media-bay support in such way that instead of > > un/registering the IDE interface we un/register IDE devices: > > > > * Add ide_port_scan()

Re: "ide=reverse" do we still need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 13:06 +0100, Rene Herman wrote: > On 13-02-08 05:44, Greg KH wrote: > > >> While details escape me somewhat again at the monment, a few months ago > >> I was playing around with a PCI Promise IDE controller and needed > >> ide=reverse to save me from having to switch disks

Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression

2008-02-13 Thread Jody Belka
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:59:33PM +1100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Hi, > > Although I'm on vacation, I happened to download a recent copy of > x86.git and found that it crashes early. Here's a couple of patches to > apply; I don't know if they apply to current git, but I hope it helps. >

Re: [GIT]: Make LMB code sharable with sparc64.

2008-02-13 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 00:41 -0800, David Miller wrote: > As I mentioned to a few ppc folks at LCA08 I plan to use > the LMB code from powerpc as a basis for NUMA support on > sparc64. > > There are two changes. > > 1) Move arch/powerpc/mm/lmb.c to lib/lmb.c, put the main >interface bits in

Re: [GIT PATCH] split up feature-removal-schedule.txt

2008-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Greg KH wrote: In the big "linux-next" series of emails, David Miller suggested that the feature-removal-schedule file be broken up into little pieces, as it is causing merge problems for different trees. This changeset does just that. Turns out that this makes things more readable, as it's

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Russell King wrote: We know that the -mm tree is pretty much useless in terms of code coverage for ARM, and it's getting increasingly unlikely that anything short of a build of all ARM defconfigs will pick up on merge issues - which is a lot of CPU cycles, and I'm not going to insist its

Re: [ALSA] HDA: no sound in headphone-out caused by commit f889fa91ad47e (2.6.25-rc1 regression)

2008-02-13 Thread Matej Laitl
On Wednesday 13 of February 2008 11:59:58 Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Now I just found that the new "Speaker" switch forgets it's value from > > time to time, ie. it's muted, you go and have lunch, and when you get > > back and start the music, it's unmuted. It is probably related to > > aggressive

Re: "ide=reverse" do we still need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Rene Herman
On 13-02-08 05:44, Greg KH wrote: While details escape me somewhat again at the monment, a few months ago I was playing around with a PCI Promise IDE controller and needed ide=reverse to save me from having to switch disks around to still have a bootable system. Or some such. Not too clear

Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression

2008-02-13 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jody Belka wrote: Hi all, I thought I'd try out 2.6.25-rc1 as a xen 32-bit pae domU the other day. Unfortunately, I didn't get very far very fast, as the domain just crashed immediately upon booting, without any direct feedback (I did have messages on the xen message buffer, which helped). This

Re: 2.6.25-rc1: volanoMark 45% regression

2008-02-13 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:15:16PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > Zhang, Yanmin wrote: > > volanoMark has 45% regression with kernel 2.6.25-rc1 on my both 8-core > > stoakley and 16-core Tigerton. > > > > I used bisect to locate below patch. > > > > commit 58e2d4ca581167c2a079f4ee02be2f0bc52e8729

bad CONFIG variable references in *Makefiles*

2008-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
unlike the previous list, here's a (much shorter) list of references to CONFIG_ variables that occur in Makefiles that don't appear to be defined anywhere in the tree. because this is a much shorter list, i don't break it down by subdirectory, it covers the entire tree:

[PATCH] kbuild: allow alternative hook script dir in .deb packages

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hook scripts in the default directory /etc/kernel are also executed by packages created using make-kpkg (including official Debian kernels). Allow to specify an alternative hook scripts directory by exporting the environment variable KERNELDEBHOOKDIR so

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:39:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > > In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's > > > one important issue: the system no longer powers off after

Re: Tests of undefined CONFIG variables.

2008-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Paul Mundt wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:54:12AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've also updated the list of what i call "badref" CONFIG variables > > -- that is, tests of CONFIG_ variables that appear to be undefined > > anywhere in a Kconfig file (which

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-02-13 Thread Dmitry
Hi, 2008/2/13, Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:58:50PM +, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > > > You used platform_device_register, but should be using platform_device_add, > > otherwise you get barfs with 2.6.25-rc1 (device is initialized twice). Also > > Thanks for that.

2.6.25-rc1 on Sun Ultra 40

2008-02-13 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
I have been attempting to test 2.6.25-rc1 on my Sun Ultra 40 (two dual-core Opteron CPUs). There is some issue with the HPET clocksource which causes it to hang the boot process if enabled, which I will look into in due course (the HPET works fine on at least 2.6.19). More pressing is that

Re: [PATCH] x86: EFI runtime code mapping enhancement

2008-02-13 Thread Andi Kleen
Huang, Ying wrote: > This patch enhances EFI runtime code memory mapping as following: > > - Move __supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX checking before invoking > runtime_code_page_mkexec(). This makes it possible for compiler to > eliminate runtime_code_page_mkexec() on machine without NX support.

Re: Tests of undefined CONFIG variables.

2008-02-13 Thread Paul Mundt
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:54:12AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i've also updated the list of what i call "badref" CONFIG variables > -- that is, tests of CONFIG_ variables that appear to be undefined > anywhere in a Kconfig file (which typically represents a meaningless > test, naturally).

Re: BUG: 2.6.25-rc1: iptables postrouting setup causes oops

2008-02-13 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:10:24 +0100 Haavard Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team > > > nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (1024 buckets, 4096 max) > > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d76a7138 > > > ptbr = 91d3b000 pgd =

Re: [PATCH] [1/2] CPA: Fix set_memory_x for ioremap v2

2008-02-13 Thread Andi Kleen
> The so-called "significant restructuring" took a mere 2 hours, > which is probably less than the time consumed in this thread. Hmm, it doesn't do what I meant and I don't think you solved the problem. You still check against the vaddrs which won't work for ioremaps or fixmap (and thus not fix

Re: [PATCH -mm v4 6/9] atmel_serial: Split the interrupt handler

2008-02-13 Thread michael
Hi, All works now for me with preempt-rt. The problem is using hrtimer. I think that hrtimer are executed with interrupts disabled so, if this happen when I must receive a char, i have an overrun. The only solution was the dma support to serial device. Regards Michael -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-02-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:58:50PM +, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > You used platform_device_register, but should be using platform_device_add, > otherwise you get barfs with 2.6.25-rc1 (device is initialized twice). Also Thanks for that. I feel like I should knock up a patch to clarify the

Re: [GIT PATCH] split up feature-removal-schedule.txt

2008-02-13 Thread Pekka Pietikainen
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:02:15PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > This changeset does just that. Turns out that this makes things more > readable, as it's easier to look at a list of filenames for things than > picking through a 300 line text file. Hmm.. While you're at it, would it make sense to

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Catalin Marinas
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 22:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Ted's description matches mine (keep quilt tree in git, edit changelog > entries, rebase on newer kernel versions, etc.) I can go into details > if needed. I added some time ago patch history tracking in stgit and you can run "stg log

Re: [PATCH] enclosure: add support for enclosure services

2008-02-13 Thread Luben Tuikov
--- On Tue, 2/12/08, James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I understand what you are trying to do - I guess I > just doubt the value > > you've added by doing this. I think that > there's going to be so much > > customization that system vendors will want to add, > that they are going > >

Re: [PATCH] gdth: convert to PCI hotplug API

2008-02-13 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Wed, Feb 13 2008 at 1:49 +0200, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 143 > +++- > 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-) > below is the same exact

RE: [Bug-fix]:2.6.25-rc0 Generic thermal management [Patch 1/2]: validating input parameters

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas, Sujith
Hi Andrew, For time being I am attaching the patch and in the meanwhile I'll figure out a way to fix the wordwrap issues. This was what Len Brown also had recommended. Regards, Sujith > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [PATCH] [8/8] RFC: Fix some EFI problems

2008-02-13 Thread Andi Kleen
Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> On Tuesday 12 February 2008 21:04:06 Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> >>> And you just copied the real bug in that logic as well: >>> >>> set_memory_uc(md->virt_addr, size); >> Oops you're right. I wanted to fix that, but

[drivers/video/sis/init301.c] SiS_Pr->ChipType >= SIS_661 not evaluated twice

2008-02-13 Thread Roel Kluin
Not sure whether this is important, but in drivers/video/sis/init301.c:1557: if((SiS_Pr->ChipType >= SIS_661) || (SiS_Pr->SiS_ROMNew)) { SiS_Pr->SiS_LCDTypeInfo = (SiS_GetReg(SiS_Pr->SiS_P3d4,0x39) & 0x7c) >> 2; } else if((SiS_Pr->ChipType < SIS_315H) || (SiS_Pr->ChipType >= SIS_661)) {

Re: [ALSA] HDA: no sound in headphone-out caused by commit f889fa91ad47e (2.6.25-rc1 regression)

2008-02-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:24:35 +0100, Matej Laitl wrote: > > > > So there are now 3 vol controls that affect both speakers and headphones: > > > * Master (which appeared somewhere between 2.6.24 and .25-rc1), when set > > > to zero, the sound is still audible in speakers and headphones > > > > This

Re: [ALSA] HDA: no sound in headphone-out caused by commit f889fa91ad47e (2.6.25-rc1 regression)

2008-02-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:57:46 +0100, Matej Laitl wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 of February 2008 19:24:35 Matej Laitl wrote: > > > > Yes, this "slightly better" patch applied on top of your first patch > > > > against hda_codec.c did the trick, but with some side-effects: > > > > (...) > > Now I just

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Catalin Marinas
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 21:16 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > I've never been very happy with stgit because of past experiences > which has scarred me when it got get confused and lost my entire patch > series (this was before git reflogs, so recovery was interesting). It got much better now :-).

Re: [git pull] CPU isolation extensions (updated)

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Max Krasnyansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo said a few different things (a bit too large to quote). [...] > And at the end he said: > > Also, i'd not mind some test-coverage in sched.git as well. > I far as I know "do not mind" does not mean "must go to" ;-). [...] the CPU isolation

[PATCH] pcmcia: ipwireless depends on NETDEVICES.

2008-02-13 Thread Paul Mundt
ipwireless (added by 099dc4fb62653f6019d78db55fba7a18ef02d65b) is clearly a net device: drivers/built-in.o: In function `ipwireless_ppp_start_xmit': /home/pmundt/devel/git/sh-2.6.25/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/network.c:165: undefined reference to `skb_under_panic'

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:50:51PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > I can run the numbers, but almost every one of those changes has at > least 2 signed-off-by: on them, so they should all be being reviewed > properly. Good joke.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Tests of undefined CONFIG variables.

2008-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i've also updated the list of what i call "badref" CONFIG variables -- that is, tests of CONFIG_ variables that appear to be undefined anywhere in a Kconfig file (which typically represents a meaningless test, naturally). http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Badref_CONFIG_variables rday

Re: [build bug] sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c

2008-02-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:25:33 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c: In function 'snd_opl3_find_patch': > > > > sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c:308: error: 'OPL3_PATCH_HASH_SIZE' > > > > undeclared (first use in this

Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash

2008-02-13 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Tue, Feb 12 2008 at 19:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gdth _exit would first remove all cards then stop the timer > and would not sync with the timer function. This caused a crash > in gdth_timer() when module was unloaded. > > del_timer_sync the timer before we delete the

Re: [PATCH] x86: include prototype for no_broadcast in mach-default/setup.c

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fixes sparse warning: > arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c:19:5: warning: symbol 'no_broadcast' was not > declared. Should it be static? hm, this patch causes a build failure: In file included from arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c:13:

Re: [PATCH] x86: pit_clockevent can be static

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > arch/x86/kernel/i8253.c:98:27: warning: symbol 'pit_clockevent' was > not declared. Should it be static? yeah. Thanks Harvey, applied. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:16:53PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > I was amazed at how slow stgit was when I tried it out. I use > git-quiltimport a lot and I don't think it's any slower than just using > quilt on its own. So I think that the speed issue should be the same. I like using "guilt" because

Re: [PATCH][BLUETOOTH] add HCI_BROKEN_ISOC for 0e5e:6622 (bugzilla #9027)

2008-02-13 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi, > This patch fix bugzilla #9027. > ``Syslog flooded with "hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for unknown > connection handle 92" message" > > see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9027 when we get the content of /proc/bus/usb/devices for this one. Do you have the manufacturer name

[patch 2/2] x86, ptrace, man: corresponding man pages

2008-02-13 Thread Markus Metzger
Man pages describing the user API of the ptrace BTS extensions. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: man/man2/ptrace.2 === --- man.orig/man2/ptrace.2 2008-02-13 09:35:47.%N +0100 +++ man/man2/ptrace.2

Re: [build bug] sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c: In function 'snd_opl3_find_patch': > > > sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c:308: error: 'OPL3_PATCH_HASH_SIZE' > > > undeclared (first use in this function) > > > sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c:308: error: (Each

Re: currently active Linux kernel versions

2008-02-13 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would suggest stable - N-1 for most usages. 2.6.24.y is open, 2.6.23.y is > > supposed to be good. The advantage when you proceed like this is that you > > can jump from an older

Re: Upgrade to 2.6.24 breaks NFS service

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
(cc linux-nfs) On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:58:03 + Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I upgraded from 2.6.23.10 to 2.6.24.2 yesterday, and found NFS service > failing. > > To be specific, all locks were blocking forever, with an endless flood > of > > Feb 12 22:53:10 loki notice: kernel: statd:

Re: [git pull] x86 arch updates for v2.6.25

2008-02-13 Thread Amit Shah
On Feb 13, 2008 2:26 PM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Amit Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As far as I remembers, Ubuntu uses klibc in initramfs, right? > > > > > > What version of klibc do you have? There was a bug in klibc that > > > causes such behavior on

[PATCH] kbuild: allow to specify a custom revision for .deb packages

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Allow to specify a custom revision for the generated .deb package by exporting the environment variable KERNELDEBREVISION. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb index ba6bf5d..2577dec

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:51:52PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > We could simply decide that API changes affecting more than one subsystem > > Must Be Serialized(tm). Explicitly. As in "any such change is posted > > Welcome to dreamland. The only way I can get serial changes done is to > wait

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-02-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:28:43PM -0500, Pete MacKay wrote: > We're using the wm9712 codec with the sound/soc/pxa code configured in and > came across this build error: Which kernel version are you building against? I've been testing with v2.6.24 (and have just updated to v2.6.25-rc1 which is

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-13 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:19:14AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > We usually get this warning today in -mm. We don't always - and I'd say in terms of ARM it would be extremely rare. The sysfs API changes at the start of the last merge window is one example of this. I had everything nicely prepared in

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] x86: Configure out compilation of Simple Boot Flag support

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Le Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:29:58 +0100, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > no strong feelings if the ACPI guys ack it - but i suspect the > renaming of the function from acpi_parse_sbf to sbf_acpi_parse was > unnecessary? I rename acpi_parse_sbf() to sbf_acpi_parse() because the function

Re: distributed module configuration

2008-02-13 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:54:33AM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:45:41 +0100 So we could do: config foo tristate "do you want foo?" depends on USB && BAR module

Re: [PATCH 00/18] ide: warm-plug support for IDE devices and other goodies

2008-02-13 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:30:03PM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:49:05PM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:40:43PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 01:44 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > -

Re: [PATCH] gfs2: be*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Now in the GFS2 -nmw git tree. Thanks, Steve. On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 00:06 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Marcin Slusarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > replace all: > big_endian_variable = cpu_to_beX(beX_to_cpu(big_endian_variable) + >

Re: [PATCH] quota: le*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-13 Thread Jan Kara
On Wed 13-02-08 00:06:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Marcin Slusarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > replace all: > little_endian_variable = cpu_to_leX(leX_to_cpu(little_endian_variable) + > expression_in_cpu_byteorder); > with: >

Re: [ata crash] Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Ingo Molnar wrote: > On a second attempt to boot the same bzImage, another ATA related > weirdness showed up: > > [8.226144] Calling initcall 0xc09f3d8e: isapnp_init+0x0/0xf() > [8.232017] Bad IO access at port 0x0 (outb(val,port)) > [8.232799] [ cut here ] >

Re: 2.6.25-rc1: volanoMark 45% regression

2008-02-13 Thread Balbir Singh
Zhang, Yanmin wrote: > volanoMark has 45% regression with kernel 2.6.25-rc1 on my both 8-core > stoakley and 16-core Tigerton. > > I used bisect to locate below patch. > > commit 58e2d4ca581167c2a079f4ee02be2f0bc52e8729 > Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri Jan 25

Re: [PATCH] enclosure: add support for enclosure services

2008-02-13 Thread Luben Tuikov
--- On Tue, 2/12/08, James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I apologize for taking so long to review this patch. > I obviously agree > > wholeheartedly with Luben. The problem I ran into > while trying to > > design an enclosure management interface for the SATA > devices is that > >

Re: [PATCH] ufs: [bl]e*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-13 Thread Roel Kluin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > replace all: > big/little_endian_variable = > cpu_to_[bl]eX([bl]eX_to_cpu(big/little_endian_variable) + > expression_in_cpu_byteorder); > with: > [bl]eX_add_cpu(/little_endian_variable, > expression_in_cpu_byteorder); you

Re: [GIT-PULL] UBI updates

2008-02-13 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
Artem Bityutskiy wrote: Linus, please pull from git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6.git master to receive few UBI updates and fixes. Artem Bityutskiy (2): Documentation: add UBI sysfs ABI docs UBI: be verbose when debuggin is enabled S.Çağlar Onur (1): UBI: silence

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:40:21 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the hrtimer code is preparing an invalid ktime_t. Note that > > >

Re: Kernel BUG at fs/mpage.c:489

2008-02-13 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 20:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:24:03 +1100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW is it really true that the buffer can never be locked by > > anything else at this point? > > It has been for the past five or six years. With the page

[PATCH] x86: EFI runtime code mapping enhancement

2008-02-13 Thread Huang, Ying
This patch enhances EFI runtime code memory mapping as following: - Move __supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX checking before invoking runtime_code_page_mkexec(). This makes it possible for compiler to eliminate runtime_code_page_mkexec() on machine without NX support. - Use set_memory_x/nx in

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-13 Thread David Rientjes
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Paul Jackson wrote: > The infamous unpublished (except to a few) patch I drafted on Christmas > (Dec 25, 2007) basically added two new modes for how mempolicy > nodemasks were to be resolved: > 1) a static, no remap, mode, such as in this present patchset, and > 2) a cpuset

Re: Kernel BUG at fs/mpage.c:489

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:24:03 +1100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW is it really true that the buffer can never be locked by > anything else at this point? It has been for the past five or six years. With the page locked, nobody else can get at that page. > What about

2.6.25-rc1: volanoMark 45% regression

2008-02-13 Thread Zhang, Yanmin
volanoMark has 45% regression with kernel 2.6.25-rc1 on my both 8-core stoakley and 16-core Tigerton. I used bisect to locate below patch. commit 58e2d4ca581167c2a079f4ee02be2f0bc52e8729 Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100 sched: group

Re: pci_get_device_reverse(), why does Calgary need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:16:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Why does the calgary driver need this? Can we just use > pci_get_device() instead? Why do you need to walk the device list > backwards? Do you get false positives going forward? It's not strictly needed, we used it for symmetry. Feel

[PATCH] udf: Fix readdir on UDF

2008-02-13 Thread Jan Kara
Patch cleaning up UDF directory offset handling missed modifications in dir.c (because I've submitted an old version of the patch :() leading to broken readdir. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Marcin Slusarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/fs/udf/dir.c b/fs/udf/dir.c

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] x86: Configure out compilation of Simple Boot Flag support

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Petazzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_BOOT, acpi_parse_sbf); > + acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_BOOT, sbf_acpi_parse); no strong feelings if the ACPI guys ack it - but i suspect the renaming of the function from acpi_parse_sbf to sbf_acpi_parse was

Re: [PATCH] USB: OTG: Fix weirdnesses on enumerating partial otg devices

2008-02-13 Thread Felipe Balbi
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:32:34PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > > > > > Some devices claim > > > > > > to be b_host even though they have an a_connector attached to it. > > > > > > > > > > Why not just fix that bug? Remember that's Linux code. > > > > > > > > The device claiming to be

Re: [RFC PATCH] RTTIME watchdog timer proc interface

2008-02-13 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:21 -0800, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote: > Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 13:44 -0800, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote: > >> Hi Ingo, > >> > >> I think an interface to access RLIMIT_RTTIME from outside is useful. > >> It makes administrator able to set RLIMIT_RTTIME

Re: latest list of unused Kconfig variables

2008-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Paul Mundt wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:56:34AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > latest output here, sorted by architecture: > > > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Unused_CONFIG_variables > > > > as always, there will probably be some false positives for

Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2.6.25] RDMA/cxgb3: Fail loopbackconnections.

2008-02-13 Thread Diego Guella
One question below - Original Message - From: "Roland Dreier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:26 AM Subject: Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2.6.25] RDMA/cxgb3: Fail

Upgrade to 2.6.24 breaks NFS service

2008-02-13 Thread Nix
I upgraded from 2.6.23.10 to 2.6.24.2 yesterday, and found NFS service failing. To be specific, all locks were blocking forever, with an endless flood of Feb 12 22:53:10 loki notice: kernel: statd: server localhost not responding, timed out Feb 12 22:53:10 loki notice: kernel: lockd: cannot

Re: [libata-dev #upstream-fixes] pata_legacy: don't call ata_host_detach() after initialization failure

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ata_host_detach() detaches an attached port and shouldn't be called on > a port which hasn't been attached yet. pata_legacy incorrectly calls > ata_host_detach() on unattached port after initialization failure > causing oops. Fix it. thanks, i'll

Re: BUG: 2.6.25-rc1: iptables postrouting setup causes oops

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:10:24 +0100 Haavard Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:48:29 -0800 > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:46:01 +1100 Ben Nizette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On an AVR32, root over NFS, config

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, you wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:45:09 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Symptom is that the system shuts down normally and completely, it just > > does not power off. > > I've been struggling with an identically-manifesting regression on one of > my

Re: stuck with 2.6.23.14 on x86_64

2008-02-13 Thread Fabio Coatti
Alle martedì 12 febbraio 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki ha scritto: > On Tuesday, 12 of February 2008, Fabio Coatti wrote: > > Alle martedì 12 febbraio 2008, Randy Dunlap ha scritto: > > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:03:41 +0100 Fabio Coatti wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm stuck in a weird situation: I'm

Re: Kernel BUG at fs/mpage.c:489

2008-02-13 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 20:01, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:26:27 +0100 Bart Dopheide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:05:45PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > :)On Wednesday 13 February 2008 08:50, Alan Cox wrote: > > :)> Almost certainly a hardware

Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.25-rc1 does not boot on Alpha

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Bob Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't going to be terribly useful other than giving someone a > heads-up there's a problem with something in 2.6.25-rc1 on the Alpha > PWS 433au. I get the usual messages out of "aboot", including > > aboot: zero-filling 210392 bytes at

Re: latest list of unused Kconfig variables

2008-02-13 Thread Paul Mundt
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:56:34AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > latest output here, sorted by architecture: > > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Unused_CONFIG_variables > > as always, there will probably be some false positives for one reason > or another. > >

Re: [PATCH] gdth: convert to PCI hotplug API

2008-02-13 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 02/13/2008 12:49 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 143 +++- 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-) 06196f50915da97bb897495863f9f084d785c1e4 diff --git

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