[PATCH] mei: reseting -> resetting

2013-04-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
This enum leaks out to userspace via error messages, so fix the spelling. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham --- drivers/misc/mei/hbm.c | 8 drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/mei/init.c| 4 ++-- drivers/misc/mei/mei_dev.h | 2 +- 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8

[PATCH] mei: reseting - resetting

2013-04-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
This enum leaks out to userspace via error messages, so fix the spelling. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com --- drivers/misc/mei/hbm.c | 8 drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/mei/init.c| 4 ++-- drivers/misc/mei/mei_dev.h | 2 +- 4 files changed, 8

Re: [PATCH] make unicode default

2007-10-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jan Engelhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Make the vt return to the system default when it is reset. > Also make UTF-8 the system default. > Derived from http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/31/246 > > Tested and works as expected. Fine with me. I believe the original patch I sent went to -mm, so

Re: [PATCH] make unicode default

2007-10-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jan Engelhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Make the vt return to the system default when it is reset. Also make UTF-8 the system default. Derived from http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/31/246 Tested and works as expected. Fine with me. I believe the original patch I sent went to -mm, so you may

Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE

2007-09-06 Thread Bill Nottingham
H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Hmmm... > > Personally I'd suggest making it the default unless overridden in > /etc/sysctl.conf. My second preference would be a command-line option, not > a compile-time default. > > This is 2007, after all, and it seems Unicode should be the

Re: origin of __tmp1930643048 network device name: kernel-space or user-space

2007-09-06 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jan Engelhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > >dear all, > >I'm trying to track down a problem on a Sun V40Z server with 4 network > >devices grabbing random ethX device names. now, trying to force the > >device names to what I want, I got a __tmpX form of device name, > >which I think is a

Re: origin of __tmp1930643048 network device name: kernel-space or user-space

2007-09-06 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jan Engelhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: dear all, I'm trying to track down a problem on a Sun V40Z server with 4 network devices grabbing random ethX device names. now, trying to force the device names to what I want, I got a __tmpX form of device name, which I think is a

Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE

2007-09-06 Thread Bill Nottingham
H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Hmmm... Personally I'd suggest making it the default unless overridden in /etc/sysctl.conf. My second preference would be a command-line option, not a compile-time default. This is 2007, after all, and it seems Unicode should be the default,

Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE

2007-08-31 Thread Bill Nottingham
Randy Dunlap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > A diffstat would be nice. Sure. linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/Kconfig| 17 + linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/keyboard.c |2 +- linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/sysrq.c|4 ++-- linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/vt.c

[PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE

2007-08-31 Thread Bill Nottingham
terminal and the keyboard driver. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -up linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/keyboard.c.foo linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/keyboard.c --- linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/keyboard.c.foo 2007-08-30 17:18:54.0 -0400 +++ linux-

[PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE

2007-08-31 Thread Bill Nottingham
terminal and the keyboard driver. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -up linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/keyboard.c.foo linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/keyboard.c --- linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/keyboard.c.foo 2007-08-30 17:18:54.0 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.22.noarch

Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE

2007-08-31 Thread Bill Nottingham
Randy Dunlap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: A diffstat would be nice. Sure. linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/Kconfig| 17 + linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/keyboard.c |2 +- linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/sysrq.c|4 ++-- linux-2.6.22.noarch/drivers/char/vt.c

Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically

2007-08-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kay Sievers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Ah, ok, makes sense. Yeah, that weird "platform devices loads itself by > the name" thing got disabled in the platform subsystem. It caused > modprobe loops for other devices. > > The whole idea of issuing MODALIAS with plain module names instead of >

Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically

2007-08-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kay Sievers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > It doesn't have any aliases, so seems it was never autoloaded. It was - prior kernels loaded it via the uevent generated from /devices/platform/pcspkr. Newer kernels seem to never actually trigger a uevent from that (tested with a combination of

Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically

2007-08-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kay Sievers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: It doesn't have any aliases, so seems it was never autoloaded. It was - prior kernels loaded it via the uevent generated from /devices/platform/pcspkr. Newer kernels seem to never actually trigger a uevent from that (tested with a combination of

Re: 2.6.22: pcspkr driver no longer loads automatically

2007-08-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kay Sievers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Ah, ok, makes sense. Yeah, that weird platform devices loads itself by the name thing got disabled in the platform subsystem. It caused modprobe loops for other devices. The whole idea of issuing MODALIAS with plain module names instead of aliases

[PATCH] remove gratuitous space in airo module description

2007-07-27 Thread Bill Nottingham
rds and support \ - for PCMCIA when used with airo_cs."); +cards. Direct support for ISA/PCI/MPI cards and support \ +for PCMCIA when used with airo_cs."); MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL"); MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE("Aironet 4500, 4800 and Cisco 340/350"); module_param_array(io, i

[PATCH] remove gratuitous space in airo module description

2007-07-27 Thread Bill Nottingham
when used with airo_cs.); +cards. Direct support for ISA/PCI/MPI cards and support \ +for PCMCIA when used with airo_cs.); MODULE_LICENSE(Dual BSD/GPL); MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE(Aironet 4500, 4800 and Cisco 340/350); module_param_array(io, int, NULL, 0); Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham [EMAIL

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Alexandre Oliva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Wait, a signed filesystem image that happens to contain GPL code > > is now a derived work? Under what sort of interpretation does *that* > > occur? > > Is the signature not derived from the bits in the GPLed component, as > much as it is derived

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Alexandre Oliva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > And since the specific implementation involves creating a derived work > of the GPLed kernel (the signature, or the signed image, or what have > you) Wait, a signed filesystem image that happens to contain GPL code is now a derived work? Under what

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Alexandre Oliva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > But how about inside the TiVO, so as to use Linux and the rest of the > GNU/Linux distro put in there for an even better DVR experience? > > Sure, this might still be accomplished on another hardware platform. > But the TiVO already has all the

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Neshama Parhoti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > But many of FSF's GNU projects are similar - for example GCC has > contributors > from many many companies and individuals, from which I presume there > are who might object to GPLv3. FSF requires copyright assignment to the FSF on things like the

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Alexandre Oliva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Sure, if they make any changes or fixes to Linux. Other than that, > > only the same benefit that Microsoft get from Windows piracy - TiVo > > employees become familiar with Linux and are more likely to use it > > and maybe contribute more in another

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Alexandre Oliva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Sure, if they make any changes or fixes to Linux. Other than that, only the same benefit that Microsoft get from Windows piracy - TiVo employees become familiar with Linux and are more likely to use it and maybe contribute more in another job

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Neshama Parhoti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: But many of FSF's GNU projects are similar - for example GCC has contributors from many many companies and individuals, from which I presume there are who might object to GPLv3. FSF requires copyright assignment to the FSF on things like the

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Alexandre Oliva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: But how about inside the TiVO, so as to use Linux and the rest of the GNU/Linux distro put in there for an even better DVR experience? Sure, this might still be accomplished on another hardware platform. But the TiVO already has all the hardware

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Alexandre Oliva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: And since the specific implementation involves creating a derived work of the GPLed kernel (the signature, or the signed image, or what have you) Wait, a signed filesystem image that happens to contain GPL code is now a derived work? Under what sort

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Alexandre Oliva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Wait, a signed filesystem image that happens to contain GPL code is now a derived work? Under what sort of interpretation does *that* occur? Is the signature not derived from the bits in the GPLed component, as much as it is derived from the

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-07 Thread Bill Nottingham
Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > There are a number of distros out there right now who can support that > option disabled. I'm pretty sure they are the following right now: > Gentoo unstable (actually stable works now for me, but I'm not >going to guarantee it

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

2007-06-07 Thread Bill Nottingham
Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: There are a number of distros out there right now who can support that option disabled. I'm pretty sure they are the following right now: Gentoo unstable (actually stable works now for me, but I'm not going to guarantee it just

Re: dealing with gcc 'comparison is always false' warnings (was: [PATCH] drivers/infiniband: fix comparsion between unsigned and negative)

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Satyam Sharma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > But yes, the kind of "fixes" you pointed out that _remove_ these conditions > are definitely *not* what we would want to do. I can see that - but I think it should be at least be brought up for each warning, to determine either: 1) if it should be

[PATCH RFC] qla2xxx: fix timeout in qla2x00_down_timeout

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
iterations is unsigned, so it is impossible to get out of the loop and return -ETIMEDOUT. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- If the intention *is* to never fall out of the end of the loop, ignore this, and just replace it with do {} while (1);. --- drivers/scsi/q

[PATCH] drivers/infiniband: fix comparsion between unsigned and negative

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recent gcc versions emit warnings when unsigned variables are compared < 0 or >= 0. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- core/sysfs.c |2 +- core/ucm.c |2 +- core/ucma.c|2 +- core/user_mad.c|5 ++--- core/uverbs_m

[PATCH] drivers/video: Fix comparisons between negative and unsigned

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recent gcc versions emit warnings when unsigned variables are compared < 0 or >= 0. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- aty/aty128fb.c |3 --- aty/radeon_base.c|5 - cirrusfb.c |5 - fbmem.c |8 -

[PATCH] drivers/net: fix comparisons of unsigned < 0

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recent gcc versions emit warnings when unsigned variables are compared < 0 or >= 0. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mlx4/qp.c |3 +-- netxen/netxen_nic_niu.c |6 +++--- tulip/de2104x.c |1 - 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+),

[PATCH] net: fix comparisons of unsigned < 0

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recent gcc versions emit warnings when unsigned variables are compared < 0 or >= 0. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- 8021q/vlan.c |3 +-- dccp/probe.c |2 +- ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3

[PATCH] mm: fix comparisons against unsigned

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recent gcc versions emit warnings when unsigned variables are compared < 0 or >= 0. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- filemap.c | 34 -- slub.c|2 -- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) Patch

[PATCH] alsa: fix comparison of unsigned < 0

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recent gccs emit warnings when unsigned variables are compared < 0 or >= 0. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ac97/ac97_patch.c|3 +-- ali5451/ali5451.c|6 ++ ca0106/ca0106_proc.c |4 ++-- rme9652/rme9652.c|2 -- 4 files changed,

[PATCH] alsa: fix comparison of unsigned 0

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recent gccs emit warnings when unsigned variables are compared 0 or = 0. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ac97/ac97_patch.c|3 +-- ali5451/ali5451.c|6 ++ ca0106/ca0106_proc.c |4 ++-- rme9652/rme9652.c|2 -- 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10

[PATCH] mm: fix comparisons against unsigned

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recent gcc versions emit warnings when unsigned variables are compared 0 or = 0. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- filemap.c | 34 -- slub.c|2 -- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) Patch is noisy due to whitespace

[PATCH] net: fix comparisons of unsigned 0

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recent gcc versions emit warnings when unsigned variables are compared 0 or = 0. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 8021q/vlan.c |3 +-- dccp/probe.c |2 +- ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv6.c |3

[PATCH] drivers/net: fix comparisons of unsigned 0

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recent gcc versions emit warnings when unsigned variables are compared 0 or = 0. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mlx4/qp.c |3 +-- netxen/netxen_nic_niu.c |6 +++--- tulip/de2104x.c |1 - 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions

[PATCH] drivers/video: Fix comparisons between negative and unsigned

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recent gcc versions emit warnings when unsigned variables are compared 0 or = 0. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- aty/aty128fb.c |3 --- aty/radeon_base.c|5 - cirrusfb.c |5 - fbmem.c |8 intelfb

[PATCH] drivers/infiniband: fix comparsion between unsigned and negative

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Recent gcc versions emit warnings when unsigned variables are compared 0 or = 0. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- core/sysfs.c |2 +- core/ucm.c |2 +- core/ucma.c|2 +- core/user_mad.c|5 ++--- core/uverbs_main.c |3 +-- core

[PATCH RFC] qla2xxx: fix timeout in qla2x00_down_timeout

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
iterations is unsigned, so it is impossible to get out of the loop and return -ETIMEDOUT. Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- If the intention *is* to never fall out of the end of the loop, ignore this, and just replace it with do {} while (1);. --- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx

Re: dealing with gcc 'comparison is always false' warnings (was: [PATCH] drivers/infiniband: fix comparsion between unsigned and negative)

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Satyam Sharma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: But yes, the kind of fixes you pointed out that _remove_ these conditions are definitely *not* what we would want to do. I can see that - but I think it should be at least be brought up for each warning, to determine either: 1) if it should be ignored

Re: new sysfs layout and ethernet device names

2007-03-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > If interfaces have to change, so be it. But changing the rules for > > using them years after it's implemented and then claiming "you didn't > > read the instructions" is pretty lame. > > That documentation has been in the kernel tree for almost a full year:

Re: new sysfs layout and ethernet device names

2007-03-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: If interfaces have to change, so be it. But changing the rules for using them years after it's implemented and then claiming you didn't read the instructions is pretty lame. That documentation has been in the kernel tree for almost a full year: It has a

Re: new sysfs layout and ethernet device names

2007-03-28 Thread Bill Nottingham
Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > If you follow the rules in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class your > program will not have any problems. Oh, of *course*. We add interfaces and then claim years later, after code has been written, "Oh, you shouldn't be using that!" in documentation.

Re: new sysfs layout and ethernet device names

2007-03-28 Thread Bill Nottingham
Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: If you follow the rules in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class your program will not have any problems. Oh, of *course*. We add interfaces and then claim years later, after code has been written, Oh, you shouldn't be using that! in documentation. Meanwhile,

Re: new sysfs layout and ethernet device names

2007-03-27 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kay Sievers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > >If you *do* try to use one of these names, the rename will succeed... > >partway. The link in /sys/class/net is renamed, the directory is > >not (as it obviously can't rename on top of whatever is already there.) > >Various networking tools then break in

Re: new sysfs layout and ethernet device names

2007-03-27 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kay Sievers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: If you *do* try to use one of these names, the rename will succeed... partway. The link in /sys/class/net is renamed, the directory is not (as it obviously can't rename on top of whatever is already there.) Various networking tools then break in assorted

new sysfs layout and ethernet device names

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Nottingham
I was fiddling with the 'new' (no CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED) layout and ethernet device names, and noticed that the new layout effectively restricts the availability of certain device names. By making a directory for the ethernet device name in the parent device, you no longer can use any name that

new sysfs layout and ethernet device names

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Nottingham
I was fiddling with the 'new' (no CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED) layout and ethernet device names, and noticed that the new layout effectively restricts the availability of certain device names. By making a directory for the ethernet device name in the parent device, you no longer can use any name that

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-19 Thread Bill Nottingham
Gene Heskett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > FWIW: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] src]# python list-kernel-hardware.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "list-kernel-hardware.py", line 70, in ? > ret = pciids_to_names(data) > File "list-kernel-hardware.py", line 11, in pciids_to_names >

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-19 Thread Bill Nottingham
Gene Heskett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: FWIW: [EMAIL PROTECTED] src]# python list-kernel-hardware.py Traceback (most recent call last): File list-kernel-hardware.py, line 70, in ? ret = pciids_to_names(data) File list-kernel-hardware.py, line 11, in pciids_to_names pciids =

Re: libata-pata with ICH4, rootfs

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Alistair John Strachan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > Is it possible to use pata_mpiix (or pata_oldpiix) with an ICH4 IDE > > > controller and boot off it? > > > > ata_piix (the SATA/PATA driver) deals with the ICH4. pata_mpiix is > > specifically for the Intel MPIIX laptop chipset and

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Rik van Riel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Maybe we should just educate users and teach them to > avoid crazy unsupportable configurations and simply buy > the hardware that has open drivers available? Educating the users may help, but it's hard to do the education once they've already bought the

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Rik van Riel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Maybe we should just educate users and teach them to avoid crazy unsupportable configurations and simply buy the hardware that has open drivers available? Educating the users may help, but it's hard to do the education once they've already bought the

Re: libata-pata with ICH4, rootfs

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Alistair John Strachan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Is it possible to use pata_mpiix (or pata_oldpiix) with an ICH4 IDE controller and boot off it? ata_piix (the SATA/PATA driver) deals with the ICH4. pata_mpiix is specifically for the Intel MPIIX laptop chipset and pata_oldpiix

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > An updated version is below. If you're adding this, you should probably schedule EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for removal at the same time, as this essentially renders that irrelevant. That being said... First, this is adding the measure at module load time. Any

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: An updated version is below. If you're adding this, you should probably schedule EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for removal at the same time, as this essentially renders that irrelevant. That being said... First, this is adding the measure at module load time. Any

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1)

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > It's always been the case that we remove Linux kernel code when the > number of users (and more importantly, developers) drops to near-nil. So, drivers/net/3c501.c? Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1)

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: It's always been the case that we remove Linux kernel code when the number of users (and more importantly, developers) drops to near-nil. So, drivers/net/3c501.c? Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

[PATCH] module-init-tools: don't do '-' substitutions in depmod

2005-09-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
The attached patch removes the '-' for '_' substitution from depmod - this makes the names printed for modules in module.alias match the actual names of the module files. Bill diff -ru depmod.c.old depmod.c --- depmod.c2005-04-30 08:38:46.0 -0400 +++ depmod.c2005-09-08

[PATCH] module-init-tools: don't do '-' substitutions in depmod

2005-09-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
The attached patch removes the '-' for '_' substitution from depmod - this makes the names printed for modules in module.alias match the actual names of the module files. Bill diff -ru depmod.c.old depmod.c --- depmod.c2005-04-30 08:38:46.0 -0400 +++ depmod.c2005-09-08

Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver.

2005-08-26 Thread Bill Nottingham
Robert Love ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Of late I have been working on a driver for the IBM Hard Drive Active > Protection System (HDAPS), which provides a two-axis accelerometer and > some other misc. data. The hardware is found on recent IBM ThinkPad > laptops. How does this relate to the

Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver.

2005-08-26 Thread Bill Nottingham
Robert Love ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Of late I have been working on a driver for the IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS), which provides a two-axis accelerometer and some other misc. data. The hardware is found on recent IBM ThinkPad laptops. How does this relate to the hdaps

[PATCH] vgacon: set vc_hi_font_mask correctly

2005-04-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
When allocating a new VC with vgacon_init(), the font is shared across all the VGA consoles. However, the font mask was always set to the default value of zero in visual_init(), even if we were using 512 character fonts at the time. Moreover, code in vgacon.c:vga_do_font_op() didn't reset the

[PATCH] vgacon: set vc_hi_font_mask correctly

2005-04-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
When allocating a new VC with vgacon_init(), the font is shared across all the VGA consoles. However, the font mask was always set to the default value of zero in visual_init(), even if we were using 512 character fonts at the time. Moreover, code in vgacon.c:vga_do_font_op() didn't reset the

Re: bad caching behavior in 2.6.12rc1

2005-03-25 Thread Bill Nottingham
Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Test box is a 1.5GB laptop. > > > > In typical use, I would open a mailbox A, and then switch > > to mailbox B. Immediately switching back to mailbox A, I > > would find out it was no longer cached. (Using maildirs, > > FWIW.) > > > > Looking at

Re: bad caching behavior in 2.6.12rc1

2005-03-25 Thread Bill Nottingham
Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Test box is a 1.5GB laptop. In typical use, I would open a mailbox A, and then switch to mailbox B. Immediately switching back to mailbox A, I would find out it was no longer cached. (Using maildirs, FWIW.) Looking at /proc/meminfo, I

bad caching behavior in 2.6.12rc1

2005-03-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
When I upgraded from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12rc1, the VM started behaving really badly with respect to caching. Test box is a 1.5GB laptop. In typical use, I would open a mailbox A, and then switch to mailbox B. Immediately switching back to mailbox A, I would find out it was no longer cached. (Using

bad caching behavior in 2.6.12rc1

2005-03-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
When I upgraded from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12rc1, the VM started behaving really badly with respect to caching. Test box is a 1.5GB laptop. In typical use, I would open a mailbox A, and then switch to mailbox B. Immediately switching back to mailbox A, I would find out it was no longer cached. (Using

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Bill Nottingham
Dave Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > [*] I don't know any details of the /proc incompatibility which davej > > mentions, and I'd like to. That sounds like a screw-up. > > We changed the format of /proc/slabinfo. Running slabtop threw up > an error message complaining that the format

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Bill Nottingham
Dave Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: [*] I don't know any details of the /proc incompatibility which davej mentions, and I'd like to. That sounds like a screw-up. We changed the format of /proc/slabinfo. Running slabtop threw up an error message complaining that the format had

Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices

2005-02-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jon Smirl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Is there a specific reason why they are blocked? > > For example I'm looking at making changes to DRM such that DRM will > require the corresponding framebuffer driver to be loaded. If you back > up further this is part of fixing X so that it won't mess

Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices

2005-02-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jon Smirl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Is there a specific reason why they are blocked? For example I'm looking at making changes to DRM such that DRM will require the corresponding framebuffer driver to be loaded. If you back up further this is part of fixing X so that it won't mess with the

Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices

2005-02-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jon Smirl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Why are all of the framebuffer drivers on the hotplug blacklist? Well, that probably depends on your distribution. :) Under Fedora (and RHEL), they're there because we generally don't want to load them unless the user asked for them. Bill - To unsubscribe

Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices

2005-02-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jon Smirl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Why are all of the framebuffer drivers on the hotplug blacklist? Well, that probably depends on your distribution. :) Under Fedora (and RHEL), they're there because we generally don't want to load them unless the user asked for them. Bill - To unsubscribe

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-10 Thread Bill Nottingham
Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I'd like to announce, yet-another-hotplug based userspace project: > linux-ng. This collection of code replaces the existing linux-hotplug > package with very tiny, compiled executable programs, instead of the > existing bash scripts. > > It currently

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-10 Thread Bill Nottingham
Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: I'd like to announce, yet-another-hotplug based userspace project: linux-ng. This collection of code replaces the existing linux-hotplug package with very tiny, compiled executable programs, instead of the existing bash scripts. It currently provides the

slab BUG in FC devel kernel, x86-64

2005-01-28 Thread Bill Nottingham
The kernel in question is based on 2.6.11-rc2-bk4, FWIW. Transcribed by hand. Happened when rsyncing data onto a LVM-on-RAID1, sata_via controller. (root FS is on generic VIA IDE). slab: double free detected in cache 'size-128', objp 81000340bba8. Kernel BUG at slab:2188 invalid operand:

slab BUG in FC devel kernel, x86-64

2005-01-28 Thread Bill Nottingham
The kernel in question is based on 2.6.11-rc2-bk4, FWIW. Transcribed by hand. Happened when rsyncing data onto a LVM-on-RAID1, sata_via controller. (root FS is on generic VIA IDE). slab: double free detected in cache 'size-128', objp 81000340bba8. Kernel BUG at slab:2188 invalid operand:

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac11

2001-05-17 Thread Bill Nottingham
(catching up...) Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > 2.4.4-ac9 ... > o Further tulip updates (Jeff Garzik) ... > 2.4.4-ac8 > o Tulip driver updates(Jeff Garzik) These updates (sorry, haven't tracked down which of the two) conspire

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac11

2001-05-17 Thread Bill Nottingham
(catching up...) Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: 2.4.4-ac9 ... o Further tulip updates (Jeff Garzik) ... 2.4.4-ac8 o Tulip driver updates(Jeff Garzik) These updates (sorry, haven't tracked down which of the two) conspire to

Re: [PATCH] missing return value from pci_xircom_fn() in drivers/char/serial.c

2001-05-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jesper Juhl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I have made a patch against 2.4.4-ac8 that makes the change, it is > below. I guess someone more knowledgeable than me can probably see if > this is correct. If this is completely bogus, then please just disregard > this email. Yup, it's right. My bad.

Re: [PATCH] missing return value from pci_xircom_fn() in drivers/char/serial.c

2001-05-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jesper Juhl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: I have made a patch against 2.4.4-ac8 that makes the change, it is below. I guess someone more knowledgeable than me can probably see if this is correct. If this is completely bogus, then please just disregard this email. Yup, it's right. My bad. :)

Re: [PATCH] make Xircom cardbus modems work

2001-05-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Bill, > > Does the attached patch work for you? Yup, works fine for me (compiled in.) Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[PATCH] make Xircom cardbus modems work

2001-05-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
The attached allows serial.c to work with my Xircom cardbus ethernet+modem combo card. It doesn't get autodetected, because the serial driver explicitly doesn't recognize anything with more than one iomem region (the Xircom modem has two.) If the serial driver is linked in statically, the delay

[PATCH] make Xircom cardbus modems work

2001-05-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
The attached allows serial.c to work with my Xircom cardbus ethernet+modem combo card. It doesn't get autodetected, because the serial driver explicitly doesn't recognize anything with more than one iomem region (the Xircom modem has two.) If the serial driver is linked in statically, the delay

Re: [PATCH] make Xircom cardbus modems work

2001-05-09 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Bill, Does the attached patch work for you? Yup, works fine for me (compiled in.) Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-05-02 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeff Dike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > Is this sufficient to do driver development? TUN/TAP doesn't let me > > > write > > > ethernet drivers inside UML. > > For ISDN not really. For SCSI yes - scsi generic would let you write a > > virtual scsi adapter 'owning' some physical devices > >

Re: Linux Kernel Debuggers, KDB or KGDB?

2001-05-02 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeff Dike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Is this sufficient to do driver development? TUN/TAP doesn't let me write ethernet drivers inside UML. For ISDN not really. For SCSI yes - scsi generic would let you write a virtual scsi adapter 'owning' some physical devices Fine, so go

Re: ac10 ide-cd oopses on boot

2001-04-19 Thread Bill Nottingham
J . A . Magallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Can you back out the ide-cd changes Jens did and see if that fixes it ? > > Reverted the changes in ide-cd.[hc], and same result. You want to back out the stuff from drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c; I backed out the parts of the patch new there to ac10, and

Re: ac10 ide-cd oopses on boot

2001-04-19 Thread Bill Nottingham
J . A . Magallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Can you back out the ide-cd changes Jens did and see if that fixes it ? Reverted the changes in ide-cd.[hc], and same result. You want to back out the stuff from drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c; I backed out the parts of the patch new there to ac10, and it

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Klaus Reimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Hi, > > > > modprobe opl3sa2 io=0x538 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 > > > isapnp=0 > > It would be what you put in the io= parameter. 0x538 does *not* look > > right. > > These are the sound-settings in the BIOS: > > WSS I/O: 0x530 >

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Klaus Reimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > If I am doing this, I can't even load the module and I get the following > message in syslog: > > 2001-03-29 18:13:14.184156500 {kern|err} kernel: opl3sa2: Control I/O port > 0x0 not free > > What is that "control i/o port"? Is this normally 0x100? I

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Klaus Reimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.054774500 {kern|info} kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver > Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.070692500 {kern|notice} kernel: opl3sa2: No cards found > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.070703500 {kern|notice} kernel:

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Klaus Reimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: 2001-03-29 10:02:50.054774500 {kern|info} kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 2001-03-29 10:02:50.070692500 {kern|notice} kernel: opl3sa2: No cards found 2001-03-29 10:02:50.070703500 {kern|notice} kernel:

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