Re: [PATCH] Permissions don't stick on ConfigFS attributes

2005-08-20 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 20 August 2005 11:22, Jon Smirl wrote: A patch for making sysfs attributes persistent has recently made it into Linus' tree. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/7927/match=sysfs+permissions Interesting, it handles more than just the file mode. But does anybody

Re: [OT]Linus trademarks Linux?!!

2005-08-20 Thread alan
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Kernel Hacker wrote: Friend, What fact is behind this article http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25529. The article is also wrong. Try this one instead... http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/08/19/1842249.shtml?tid=2tid=138 -- Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween and

Re: [PATCH] Permissions don't stick on ConfigFS attributes

2005-08-20 Thread Joel Becker
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:01:17PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: The recent changes to sysfs should be ported to configfs to do this. Yeah, I've been meaning to do something, and resusing code is always a good plan. Hopefully I can get to this soon. Joel -- I don't know anything about

Re: [OT]Linus trademarks Linux?!!

2005-08-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 22:13 -0700, alan wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Kernel Hacker wrote: Friend, What fact is behind this article http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25529. The article is also wrong. Try this one instead...

[PATCH] befs, freevxfs: fix breakage introduced by symlink fixes

2005-08-20 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
Somehow only prototypes and return values were converted for befs_follow_link() and vxfs_immed_follow_link(). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/befs/linuxvfs.c |2 +- fs/freevxfs/vxfs_immed.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) ---

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] docs: fix misinformation about overcommit_memory

2005-08-20 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:24:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +Controls overcommit of system memory: It should explain what overcommit is. Here is an improved version. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] i386: semaphore ownership tracking

2005-08-20 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 at 20:02:27 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch enables tracking semaphore ownership. Why? I can't think of any bug in recent years which needed this.. It might be useful in new driver development. OTOH it is really ugly

Re: [OT]Linus trademarks Linux?!!

2005-08-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:06 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:45:46AM -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: OK, now I would like to see a more official statement about this. Does the linuxjournal.com pay $5000? Counting someone else money? I'm not counting anyone's

Re: [PATCH] Permissions don't stick on ConfigFS attributes

2005-08-20 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 20 August 2005 16:31, Joel Becker wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:01:17PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: The recent changes to sysfs should be ported to configfs to do this. Yeah, I've been meaning to do something, and resusing code is always a good plan. Ending up with the same

Re: [Documentation] Use doxygen or another tool to generate a documentation ?

2005-08-20 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Ok, with scripts/kernel-doc, I can produce some html files containing the functions' documentation. make pdfdocs or others targets don't work :| You probarly need some additional packages. But it's not easy to help you with no log of what happened. Sam - To unsubscribe from this

[2.6 PATCH] SLAB : removes local_irq_save()/local_irq_restore() pair in ksize()

2005-08-20 Thread Eric Dumazet
This patch removes unnecessary critical section in ksize() function, as cli/sti are rather expensive on modern CPUS. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Nru linux-2.6.13-rc6-ed/mm/slab.c linux-2.6.13-rc6/mm/slab.c --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-ed/mm/slab.c 2005-08-20

Re: [2.6 patch] simplify SOFTWARE_SUSPEND dependencies

2005-08-20 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This patch expresses the same dependencies in a more simple way. I have this currently in my tree: depends on PM SWAP (X86 || ((FVR || PPC32) !SMP)) (I really want to remove experimental), but it is not urgent enough to push heavily.

Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-20 Thread Emmanuel Fleury
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:55 +0200, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: Hi all, I did try to look for Alsa drivers for the new X-Fi chip from Creatives (http://www.tomshardware.com/consumer/20050818/), but I didn't find any. I there something running around this chip ? Or no plan yet ?

Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 08:48 +0200, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: So, there is no project about this yet No, not yet. The ALSA team has a contact at Creative, I guess the next step is to ask them. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6-rt9] PI aware dynamic priority adjustment

2005-08-20 Thread George Anzinger
Thomas Gleixner wrote: ~ 2. Drift of cyclic timers (armed by set_timer()): Due to rounding errors and the drift adjustment code, the fixed increment which is precalculated when the timer is set up and added on rearm, I see creeping deviation from the timeline. I have a patch lined up to

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6-rt9] PI aware dynamic priority adjustment

2005-08-20 Thread George Anzinger
Thomas Gleixner wrote: George, On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 17:19 -0700, George Anzinger wrote: 2. Drift of cyclic timers (armed by set_timer()): Due to rounding errors and the drift adjustment code, the fixed increment which is precalculated when the timer is set up and added on rearm, I see

Re: [Documentation] Use doxygen or another tool to generate a documentation ?

2005-08-20 Thread Stephane Wirtel
Le Saturday 20 August 2005 a 09:08, Sam Ravnborg ecrivait: Ok, with scripts/kernel-doc, I can produce some html files containing the functions' documentation. make pdfdocs or others targets don't work :| You probarly need some additional packages. But it's not easy to help you

Re: [PATCH 1/2] external interrupts: abstraction layer

2005-08-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
diff --git a/drivers/char/extint.c b/drivers/char/extint.c new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/char/extint.c @@ -0,0 +1,673 @@ +/* + * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public + * License. See the file COPYING in the main directory of this

Re: lost ticks and Hangcheck

2005-08-20 Thread Nathan Becker
Please make sure this issue is reproducible without any binary only drivers. I uninstalled the NVIDIA drivers and tried again with the nv x.org driver. Same problem. I also tried remaining in text mode (with no NVIDIA drivers loaded). Same problem. In both cases it occurs when I start

Re: [PATCH 2/2] external interrupts: IOC4 driver

2005-08-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
+config EXTINT_SGI_IOC4 + tristate Device driver for SGI IOC4 external interrupts + depends on (IA64_GENERIC || IA64_SGI_SN2) EXTINT BLK_DEV_SGIIOC4 Is the ioc4 core abstraction config symbol really BLK_DEV_SGIIOC4? That probably wants fixing in a separate patch. + This

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename PageChecked as PageMiscFS

2005-08-20 Thread David Howells
Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Biased. Fs is a mixed case acronym, nuff said. But I'm still right:-) David - 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: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] docs: fix misinformation about overcommit_memory

2005-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:14:39PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: Someone complained about the docs for vm_overcommit_memory being wrong. This patch copies the text from the vm documentation into procfs. Please apply. ... Do we really need two copies of the same text? Couldn't you instead write

Re: [PATCH 2.6-mm] tms380tr: remove prototypes in Space.c

2005-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 03:07:09AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: these two patches look OK to me, but didn't apply. Can you please resend, according to http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html ? It seems the second of Jochen's patches does no longer apply (at least against the latest

Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

2005-08-20 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi Linus, On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Yes, sure. I have applied your patch to our 2.6.11.4 tree (with the one liner change I emailed you just now) and have kicked off a compile. Actually, hold on. The original patch had

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-20 Thread Nikita Danilov
Howard Chu writes: Nikita Danilov wrote: [...] What prevents transaction monitor from using, say, condition variables to yield cpu? That would have an additional advantage of blocking thread precisely until specific event occurs, instead of blocking for some vague

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1

2005-08-20 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 18:36 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Reuben Farrelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 4. PAM is complaining about PAM audit_open() failed: Protocol not suppor ted and I can't log in as any user including root. I would have picked this was a userspace problem, but

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-20 Thread Andi Kleen
Howard Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In this specific example, we use whatever BerkeleyDB provides and we're certainly not about to write our own transactional embedded database engine just for this. BerkeleyDB is free software after all that comes with source code. Surely it can be fixed

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6-rt9] PI aware dynamic priority adjustment

2005-08-20 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Thomas Gleixner wrote: send_sigqueue is called from posix_timer_fn() and acquires tasklist_lock, which makes no sense to me. send_sigqueue()s (l)onl(e)y user is the posix_timer function (posix_timer_fn(), calling posix_timer_event()). Each posix timer blocks the task from vanishing away by

Linux-2.4.31-hf4

2005-08-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hello ! After having accumulated a few weeks delay, the fourth hotfix for kernel 2.4.31 is finally out. It was also the right time to release it now that the isofs and zlib stories came to an end. Because of the ZISOFS security fix, users of older -hf or plain 2.4.X should upgrade either to

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt9

2005-08-20 Thread Darren Hart
Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 15:13 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: I was trying to use another HRT clock source and couldn't get menuconfig to let me select acpi-pm-timer, turns out it has been disabled in arch/i386/Kconfig, but the description is still in the help... # config

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1

2005-08-20 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Friday, August 19, 2005 04:33:31 -0700): ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc6/2.6.13-rc6-mm1/ - Lots of fixes, updates and cleanups all over the place. - If you have the right debugging options set, this

[PATCH] ia64 cpuset + build_sched_domains() mangles structures

2005-08-20 Thread John Hawkes
I've already sent this to the maintainers, and this is now being sent to a larger community audience. I have fixed a problem with the ia64 version of build_sched_domains(), but a similar fix still needs to be made to the generic build_sched_domains() in kernel/sched.c. The dynamic sched domains

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-20 Thread Rainer Koenig
Hi Jeff, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is a list of problems with the patch. I'll paste this into the bug as well: [Lot of interesting issues] 8) The DMA pad code is very buggy. It uses the dma_map_single() to map a buffer, but never synchronizes nor flushes the buffer.

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 [i6300escb.c 2 bugs, little cleanup]

2005-08-20 Thread Jiri Slaby
In i6300esb.c watchdog card driver were 2 bugs (misused pc_match_device and pci_dev_put wasn't called in one error case) and one little cleanup was done (long line was converted to a shorter one with using built-in macro). Generated in 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 kernel version. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6-rt9] PI aware dynamic priority adjustment

2005-08-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 18:10 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote: posix_timer_event() first checks that the thread (SIGEV_THREAD_ID case) does not have PF_EXITING flag, then it calls send_sigqueue() which locks task list. But if the thread exits in between the kernel will oops. posix_timer_event()

Re: [2.6 patch] fs/adfs/adfs.h: extern inline doesn't make sense

2005-08-20 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:44:43AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: extern inline doesn't make sense. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Adrian - I've committed it to my tree. -- Russell King Linux kernel2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6

open(foo, 3)

2005-08-20 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Linus et Al, Access mode of 3 is undocumented but it does do something halfway sane on all linuxes (checked back to 2.0.X). The open requires both read and write permission to succeed, but the resulting file descriptor can neither be read nor written. The responsible code in filp_open() is

[PATCH] fix send_sigqueue() vs thread exit race

2005-08-20 Thread Oleg Nesterov
[PATCH] fix send_sigqueue() vs thread exit race posix_timer_event() first checks that the thread (SIGEV_THREAD_ID case) does not have PF_EXITING flag, then it calls send_sigqueue() which locks task list. But if the thread exits in between the kernel will oops (-sighand == NULL after

Re: open(foo, 3)

2005-08-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Miklos Szeredi wrote: My question is: is this deliberate or accidental? Wouldn't it be more logical to not require any permission to open such file? Or is there some security concern with that? It's deliberate but historical. It's been a long time since I worked on

2.6.13-rc6-mm1: git-ocfs2.patch breaks jffs

2005-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:33:31AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: ... git-ocfs2.patch ... Subsystem trees ... gcc correctly tells that at least a part of this patch incorrect (not that gcc says is used, not might be used): -- snip -- ... CC

Re: [Documentation] Use doxygen or another tool to generate a documentation ?

2005-08-20 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 11:19:41AM +0200, Stephane Wirtel wrote: Le Saturday 20 August 2005 a 09:08, Sam Ravnborg ecrivait: Ok, with scripts/kernel-doc, I can produce some html files containing the functions' documentation. make pdfdocs or others targets don't work :| You

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6-rt9] PI aware dynamic priority adjustment

2005-08-20 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 18:10 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote: posix_timer_event() first checks that the thread (SIGEV_THREAD_ID case) does not have PF_EXITING flag, then it calls send_sigqueue() which locks task list. But if the thread exits in between the kernel will

[PATCH 0/5] improve i2c probing

2005-08-20 Thread David Brownell
Hmm, some of this resembles my prototype from last month: http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2005-July/013012.html Both ended up with new driver probe() methods attaching to *devices* not to busses, and used the probe signature the i2c core already handles. That helps eliminate

Re: open(foo, 3)

2005-08-20 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 10:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Miklos Szeredi wrote: My question is: is this deliberate or accidental? Wouldn't it be more logical to not require any permission to open such file? Or is there some security concern with that? It's

RTL8139, the final patch ?

2005-08-20 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I now use a notebook that uses RTL8139, and I encounter exactly the same problems as this: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.3/1289.html I know use Fedora Core 4 on this box. With a Linux FC4 kernel (not customized yet). As well as I still encounter the problem, I guess

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-20 Thread Howard Chu
Nick Piggin wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: I fail to see how sched_yield is going to be very helpful in this situation. Since that call can sleep from a range of time ranging from zero to a long time, it's going to give unpredictable results. Well, not sleep technically, but yield the CPU

2.6.13-rc6: halt instead of reboot

2005-08-20 Thread Meelis Roos
I'm currently running 2.6.13-rc6+git as of today and whan I tell my computer to reboot, it starts a reboot as sual and when it reached kernel telling Rebooting the computer halts instead. I noticed it just with an earlier post-rc6 snapshot and it's still there with current git. PC, Duron 1.3

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 10:31 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: It's an X problem and it's being fixed. Get over it, we're not tuning the scheduler for a broken app. You're right, this problem seems much, much better in Xorg 6.8.2. I think the Damage extension might be responsible. There's definitely

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] i386: semaphore ownership tracking

2005-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 03:07 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 at 20:02:27 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch enables tracking semaphore ownership. Why? I can't think of any bug in recent years which needed this.. It might

Re: [2.6 patch] adapt scripts/ver_linux to new util-linux version strings

2005-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 09:55:32AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 05:58:53AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/scripts/ver_linux.old +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1-full/scripts/ver_linux -fdformat --version | awk -F\- '{print util-linux,

[2.6 patch] sound/core/memalloc.c: fix PROC_FS=n compilation

2005-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following compile error with CONFIG_PROC_FS=n: -- snip -- ... CC sound/core/memalloc.o sound/core/memalloc.c: In function 'snd_mem_exit': sound/core/memalloc.c:658: error: 'snd_mem_proc' undeclared (first use in this function) sound/core/memalloc.c:658: error:

SCSI- unexpected disconnect with kernel-2.6.13-r6

2005-08-20 Thread mikep
I am using a LSIU160/Symbios 53c1010 Ultra3 scsi adapter and it works at full speed (75 MB/sec) with kernel-2.6.12. And dmesg shows: kernel: target0:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation kernel: target0:0:0: asynchronous. kernel: WIDTH IS 1 kernel: target0:0:0: wide asynchronous. kernel:

[2.6 patch] drivers/ide/: possible cleanups

2005-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - pci/cy82c693.c: make a needlessly global function static - remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's: - ide-taskfile.c: do_rw_taskfile - ide-iops.c: default_hwif_iops - ide-iops.c: default_hwif_transport - ide-iops.c:

[-mm patch] net/core/sysctl_net_core.c: fix PROC_FS=n compile

2005-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:33:31AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: ... git-net.patch ... Subsystem trees ... This breaks the compilation with CONFIG_PROC_FS=n: -- snip -- ... CC net/core/sysctl_net_core.o net/core/sysctl_net_core.c:50: error:

[2.6 patch] include/linux/quotaops.h: extern inline doesn't make sense

2005-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
extern inline doesn't make sense. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/quotaops.h | 12 ++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1/include/linux/quotaops.h.old 2005-08-20 14:40:53.0 +0200 +++

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt9

2005-08-20 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:43 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:30:05PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 18:56 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Hi Ingo, Paul, others, I'm trying to run a user-mode-linux guest under the RT kernel however the uml

[2.6 patch] drivers/scsi/constants.c should include scsi_dbg.h

2005-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
C files should include the files with the prototypes for their global functions. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1/drivers/scsi/constants.c.old 2005-08-20 14:42:12.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1/drivers/scsi/constants.c 2005-08-20

[RFC: -mm patch] kcalloc(): INT_MAX - ULONG_MAX

2005-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
This change could (at least in theory) allow a compiler better optimization (especially in the n=1 case). The practical effect seems to be nearly zero: text data bss dechex filename 256172075850138 1827016 332943611fc0819 vmlinux-old 25617191

[2.6 patch] mm/filemap.c: make two functions static

2005-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes two needlessly global functions static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1/mm/filemap.c.old 2005-08-20 14:37:27.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm1/mm/filemap.c 2005-08-20 14:46:24.0 +0200 @@ -2034,7 +2034,7 @@ }

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-20 Thread Howard Chu
Nikita Danilov wrote: That returns us to the core of the problem: sched_yield() is used to implement a synchronization primitive and non-portable assumptions are made about its behavior: SUS defines that after sched_yield() thread ceases to run on the CPU until it again becomes the head of its

Fix up befs compile.

2005-08-20 Thread Dave Jones
fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:466: error: conflicting types for 'befs_follow_link' fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:44: error: previous declaration of 'befs_follow_link' was here fs/befs/linuxvfs.c: In function 'befs_follow_link': fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:490: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast

Re: Fix up befs compile.

2005-08-20 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:48:40PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:466: error: conflicting types for 'befs_follow_link' fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:44: error: previous declaration of 'befs_follow_link' was here fs/befs/linuxvfs.c: In function 'befs_follow_link': fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:490:

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename PageChecked as PageMiscFS

2005-08-20 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 20 August 2005 20:45, David Howells wrote: Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Biased. Fs is a mixed case acronym, nuff said. But I'm still right:-) Of course you are! We're only impugning your taste, not your logic ;-) OK, the questions re your global consistency model

Re: Fix up befs compile.

2005-08-20 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 08:58:07PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:48:40PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:466: error: conflicting types for 'befs_follow_link' fs/befs/linuxvfs.c:44: error: previous declaration of 'befs_follow_link' was here

Re: RTL8139, the final patch ?

2005-08-20 Thread Nick Warne
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I now use a notebook that uses RTL8139, and I encounter exactly the same problems as this: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.3/1289.html I know use Fedora Core 4 on this box. With a Linux FC4 kernel (not customized yet). As well

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:38 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: But I also found that I needed to add a new yield(), to work around yet another unexpected issue on this system - we have a number of threads waiting on a condition variable, and the thread holding the mutex signals the var, unlocks the

[PATCH] Permissions don't stick on ConfigFS attributes (revised)

2005-08-20 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 20 August 2005 13:01, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:50:51AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: Permissions set on ConfigFS attributes (aka files) do not stick. The recent changes to sysfs should be ported to configfs to do this. No, it should go the other way, my fix is

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-20 Thread Howard Chu
Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:38 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: But I also found that I needed to add a new yield(), to work around yet another unexpected issue on this system - we have a number of threads waiting on a condition variable, and the thread holding the mutex signals the

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-git10 test report [x86_64](WITHOUT NVIDIA MODULE)

2005-08-20 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:22:09AM -0700, Peter Buckingham wrote: The machine is working quite a bit better with pci=noacpi in leu of disabling ACPI in the BIOS, but there are still those nasty errors in reference to the ACPI tables being broken: ACPI-0362: *** Error: Looking up

Re: [OT]Linus trademarks Linux?!!

2005-08-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/20/05, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 22:13 -0700, alan wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Kernel Hacker wrote: Friend, What fact is behind this article http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25529. The article is also wrong. Try this one

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:38 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: Nick Piggin wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: I fail to see how sched_yield is going to be very helpful in this situation. Since that call can sleep from a range of time ranging from zero to a long time, it's going to give unpredictable

Re: [PATCH] Posix file attribute support on VFAT (take #2)

2005-08-20 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:52:23PM +0900, Hiroyuki Machida wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:07:03AM +0900, Machida, Hiroyuki wrote: This is a take 2 of posix file attribute support on VFAT. Sorry, but this is far too scary. Please just use one of the sane

Re: RTL8139, the final patch ?

2005-08-20 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 21:53 +0100, Nick Warne wrote: Here is the 'final' post after Mr Hirofumi found the cause of my issues: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.3/1709.html I have a problem with it: It's about patching, reverting, patching, reverting,... I got lost. That's why

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-20 Thread Nikita Danilov
Howard Chu writes: Nikita Danilov wrote: That returns us to the core of the problem: sched_yield() is used to implement a synchronization primitive and non-portable assumptions are made about its behavior: SUS defines that after sched_yield() thread ceases to run on the CPU until it

Re: RTL8139, the final patch ?

2005-08-20 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 20 August 2005 21:53, you wrote: I have a problem with it: It's about patching, reverting, patching, reverting,... I got lost. That's why I asked for a... straighter one :-) But I looked at what he said and found the real problem on my system (after all that):

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt9

2005-08-20 Thread Jeff Dike
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 09:27:25PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Jeff, could you help us out here? What exactly does uml need to get out of the calibrate delay loop? Interrupts, it's not too demanding :-) If it's not seeing VTALRM, then it will never leave the calibration loop. Try stracing it

use of uninitialized pointer in jffs_create()

2005-08-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
gcc kindly pointed me at jffs_create() with this warning : fs/jffs/inode-v23.c:1279: warning: `inode' might be used uninitialized in this function And looking at the function : static int jffs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode, struct nameidata *nd) {

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] dcdbas: add Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support

2005-08-20 Thread Doug Warzecha
This patch adds the Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support. This patch incorporates changes based on comments from the previous posting. Summary of changes: * Changed permissions on sysfs files so that only owner can read. * Changed to use __uNN/__sNN types in structs. *

Re: [PATCH 0/5] improve i2c probing

2005-08-20 Thread Mark Underwood
Interestingly (we for me at least ;-) I have been working on an SPI subsystem that was/is a copy of the I2C subsystem with changes as SPI doesn’t have a protocol like I2C. I am at the stage of tidying up the structures in the head files and looking at where they are used in the core layer. To me,

Re: [PATCH/RFT 4/5] CLOCK-Pro page replacement

2005-08-20 Thread Horst von Brand
Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 00:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe we just ignored sparc64. That usually works for solving these kind of bugs. 8) heh. iirc, it was demonstrable on x86 also. No.

Re: [-mm patch] net/core/sysctl_net_core.c: fix PROC_FS=n compile

2005-08-20 Thread David S. Miller
From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:03:09 +0200 This breaks the compilation with CONFIG_PROC_FS=n: .. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied, thanks Adrian. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: RTL8139, the final patch ?

2005-08-20 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Nick Warne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 20 August 2005 21:53, you wrote: I have a problem with it: It's about patching, reverting, patching, reverting,... I got lost. That's why I asked for a... straighter one :-) But I looked at what he said and found the real problem on my system

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-20 Thread Nick Piggin
Howard Chu wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:38 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: But I also found that I needed to add a new yield(), to work around yet another unexpected issue on this system - we have a number of threads waiting on a condition variable, and the thread holding the

[PATHC] remove a redundant variable in sys_prctl()

2005-08-20 Thread Jesper Juhl
Here's a re-send of a small patch I sent on Aug. 9. The patch removes a redundant variable `sig' from sys_prctl(). For some reason, when sys_prctl is called with option == PR_SET_PDEATHSIG then the value of arg2 is assigned to an int variable named sig. Then sig is tested with valid_signal() and

Re: [OT]Linus trademarks Linux?!!

2005-08-20 Thread Linus Torvalds
Gaah. I don't tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own insightful comment on any random topic, whether they know anything about it or not. [ And don't get me

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process

2005-08-20 Thread Andrew Morton
Wieland Gmeiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +asmlinkage long sys_getprlimit(pid_t pid, unsigned int resource, struct rlimit __user *rlim) +{ +struct rlimit value; +task_t *p; +int retval = -EINVAL; + +if (resource = RLIM_NLIMITS) +goto

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-20 Thread Robert Hancock
Howard Chu wrote: I'll note that we removed a number of the yield calls (that were in OpenLDAP 2.2) for the 2.3 release, because I found that they were redundant and causing unnecessary delays. My own test system is running on a Linux 2.6.12.3 kernel (installed over a SuSE 9.2 x86_64 distro),

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-20 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, here are kernbench results: cpusched=ingosched ./kernbench -M -o 128 [..] Average Optimal -j 128 Load Run: Elapsed Time 365,4 User Time 620,8 System Time 64,6 Percent CPU 187,2 Context Switches 38296,8 Sleeps 37867 (reboot)

Re: Problems with connect/disconnect cycles

2005-08-20 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi USB developers, hi Andrew! On Mon, 21 Mär 2005, preining wrote: Dear usb developers, dear Andrew! I found that my builtin sd card reader connected via USB port experiences several connect/reconnect cycles every time I boot. I am using 2.6.11-mm4. Same now with 2.6.13-rc6-mm1. This

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-20 Thread Michal Piotrowski
[1.] One line summary of the problem: oops when shuting down system [2.] Full description of the problem/report: After kernbenching nicksched (heav load make -j128) I just record results on cd and shutdown system. [3.] Keywords (i.e., modules, networking, kernel): plugsched, nicksched, sysfs,

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-20 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:34, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, Hi here are kernbench results: Nice to see you using kernbench :) ./kernbench -M -o 128 [..] Average Optimal -j 128 Load Run: Was there any reason you chose 128? Optimal usually works out automatically from kernbench to 4x

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Problems with connect/disconnect cycles

2005-08-20 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi USB developers, hi Andrew! On Mon, 21 Mär 2005, preining wrote: Dear usb developers, dear Andrew! I found that my builtin sd card reader connected via USB port experiences several connect/reconnect cycles every time I boot. I am

Re: largefile-support-for-accounting.patch added to -mm tree

2005-08-20 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 05:33:27PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another annoying problem is that once the system reaches this 2GB limit, then every process which exits will receive a signal, SIGXFSZ. This signal is generated because an attempt was made to write beyond the limit for the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Problems with connect/disconnect cycles

2005-08-20 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sam, 20 Aug 2005, Alan Stern wrote: Speaking in broad terms, it's normal to see new device connection and configuration messages like the ones above when a USB device is plugged in to your computer. What's not normal is to see disconnects. So you should Mind that this is an *internal*

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-20 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, On 8/21/05, Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:34, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, Hi here are kernbench results: Nice to see you using kernbench :) ./kernbench -M -o 128 [..] Average Optimal -j 128 Load Run: Was there any reason you chose 128?

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-20 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:16, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, On 8/21/05, Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:34, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, Hi here are kernbench results: Nice to see you using kernbench :) ./kernbench -M -o 128 [..] Average

s390 build fix.

2005-08-20 Thread Dave Jones
{standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:397: Error: symbol `.Litfits' is already defined {standard input}:585: Error: symbol `.Litfits' is already defined Newer gcc's inline this it seems, which blows up. --- linux-2.6.12/arch/s390/kernel/cpcmd.c~ 2005-08-18

2.6.12.5: psmouse mouse detection doesn't work

2005-08-20 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, At boot time my Logitech mouse is detected as I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version= N: Name=PS/2 Generic Mouse P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 H: Handlers=event1 ts0 mouse0 B: EV=7 B: KEY=7 0 0 0 0 B: REL=3 After manually reloading psmouse I get the expected I: Bus=0011

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-20 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 8/21/05, Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it will survive all right, but eventually get into swap thrash territory and that's not a meaningful cpu scheduler benchmark. Cheers, Con Ok. How about make -j? It's one of kernbench test runs, on my box load average 1500 ;). BTW I

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-20 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:44, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 8/21/05, Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it will survive all right, but eventually get into swap thrash territory and that's not a meaningful cpu scheduler benchmark. Cheers, Con Ok. How about make -j? It's one of

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