Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

2007-06-19 Thread David Miller
From: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:53:58 +0200 On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:19:17PM -0700, David Miller wrote: Another quirk I have to deal with is that under LDOMs you can export full disks and also just slices. So I'll have to get down into the partition

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

2007-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realise that the latest GPLv3 draft would not pose restrictions here, as such devices would not be classified as consumer products. And even if they were, there's always ROM. I don't know whether hardware seals that state once you

Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

2007-06-19 Thread David Miller
From: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:56:29 +0200 A SCSI pass through is of course perfectly fine. If you have a separate block passthrough that has additional magic a separate block driver is the way to go because it actually is simpler than a scsi driver

Re: [Lf_kernel_messages] Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

2007-06-19 Thread Kunai, Takashi
Hi Michael, I initiated this discussion in The Linux Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Campus last week from the viewpoint of requirements by Japanese vendors/users. As for a file to store message descriptions, I perfectly agree with your analysis and we also noticed some (+) and (-) you pointed out

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-19 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hallo, Is there some way you can feed that into Debian please? Why the go around through a separate repository? The maintainer of git-core is not actively maintaining the package? it already is. But Debian Etch is stable which means there will no newer version of git in Debian Etch. Currently

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

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 01:51:19 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 19, 2007, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GPLv2 is the one that allows more developers. The GPLv2 is the one that is acceptable to more people. Based on my understanding that the anti-tivoization provisions are

Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization

2007-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't looked at it, in depth, today but one of the problems I saw was the apparent loopholes in the text. No specifics, but I remember thinking a lawyer would have a field day with this - dozens of ways they could sidestep these

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

2007-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 18, 2007, Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I.e. the phrase about similar spirit should be replaced with something far more explicit and very, very hard to miss. This is a very good idea. Would you please file it at http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments? I don't think you need more proof that

Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 02:10:02 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't looked at it, in depth, today but one of the problems I saw was the apparent loopholes in the text. No specifics, but I remember thinking a lawyer would have a field

Re: [PATCH] AF_RXRPC: Return the number of bytes buffered in rxrpc_send_data()

2007-06-19 Thread David Miller
From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:52:36 +0100 Return the number of bytes buffered in rxrpc_send_data(). Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patch applied, thanks a lot David. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: [PATCH] ext4:fix unexpected error from ext4_reserve_global

2007-06-19 Thread Alex Tomas
ACK, of course. thanks, Alex Mingming Cao wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 19:29 +0400, Dmitriy Monakhov wrote: I just cant belive my eyes then i saw this at the first time... simple test: strace dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file Thanks for reporting it. open(/dev/zero, O_RDONLY) = 0

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

2007-06-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
But you're not the user of the software on my laptop. I am. ahh, but by your own argument you aren't the software on your laptop is owned by people like Linus, Al Viro, David M, Alan Cox, etc. More accurately according to the GPL v2 theory Linus advanced the laptop you paid is a shared

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

2007-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007 01:51:19 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 19, 2007, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GPLv2 is the one that allows more developers. The GPLv2 is the one that is acceptable to more people. Based on

Re: [-RT] multiple streams have degraded performance

2007-06-19 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 22:12 -0700, Vernon Mauery wrote: In looking at the performance characteristics of my network I found that 2.6.21.5-rt15 suffers from degraded thoughput with multiple threads. The test that I did this with is simply invoking 1, 2, 4, and 8 instances of netperf at a

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

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 02:44:32 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007 01:51:19 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 19, 2007, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GPLv2 is the one that allows more developers. The

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 03:48:15PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: Did you ever code up forkdepot ? Just wondering ? There is a partial implementation lieing around somewhere, but there were a number of problems we ran into that were discussed in the slidedeck. Basically, if the only program

Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

2007-06-19 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, David Miller wrote: What I really care about is what will work transparently for existing userspace. In particular, distribution installers and existing tools like fdisk. When a slice it being exported, it's not being exported like that so that the client can just spam

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:26:57AM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: The main difference appears to be the potential size. Both extended attributes and forks allow for extra data that I neither want or need. But once the extra space is large enough to hide a rootkit in, it becomes a security problem

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Char: istallion, init+locking fixes

2007-06-19 Thread Jiri Slaby
Ingo Korb napsal(a): Move brdp-iosize assignment in stli_initecp up a few lines to stop the driver from requesting an I/O region of length 0. Remove spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore from __stli_sendcmd as all users of that function take the lock already. Signed-off-by: Ingo Korb

Re: [PATCH 1/1] V4L: stk11xx, add a new webcam driver

2007-06-19 Thread Jiri Slaby
Oliver Neukum napsal(a): Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2007 schrieb Jiri Slaby: +struct stk11xx_frame_buf { + void *data; + volatile int filled; + struct stk11xx_frame_buf *next; +}; + What's the volatile doing here? removed (s/volatile/unsigned/), thanks, --

Re: [patch 0/5] m68k 53c700 SCSI

2007-06-19 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi James, On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: These patches add support for m68k to the 53c700 SCSI core and introduce new drivers for various m68k hardware using this 53c700 SCSI core, to replace the just removed drivers using the old 53c7xx SCSI core. [1] [PATCH]

Re: [PATCH] atmel_lcdfb: Fix STN LCD support

2007-06-19 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:50:12 +0200 Nicolas Ferre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nicolas Ferre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fixes STN LCD support for the atmel_lcdfb framebuffer driver. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks correct to me. Although... Index: b/drivers/video/Kconfig

Re: Question about a strange behavior of copy_to_user() in ioctl call

2007-06-19 Thread Jiri Slaby
News Letter napsal(a): Hi, I need some help here to understand copy_to_user(). I encountered a strange copy_to_user() behavior when working on CentOS from Redhat (kernel version 2.6.9-22.ELsmp, x86_64 CPU). For a kernel module, I wrote a ioctl call to allow user mode program to get some

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Jack Stone
Kyle Moffett wrote: On Jun 18, 2007, at 13:56:05, Bryan Henderson wrote: The question remains is where to implement versioning: directly in individual filesystems or in the vfs code so all filesystems can use it? Or not in the kernel at all. I've been doing versioning of the types I

Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD

2007-06-19 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:31 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: +static int mtdoops_erase_block(struct mtd_info *mtd, int offset) +{ + struct erase_info erase; + DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current); + wait_queue_head_t wait_q; + int ret; + + init_waitqueue_head(wait_q); +

[PATCH] net: Make skb_seq_read unmap the last fragment

2007-06-19 Thread Olaf Kirch
From: Olaf Kirch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make skb_seq_read unmap the last fragment Having walked through the entire skbuff, skb_seq_read would leave the last fragment mapped. As a consequence, the unwary caller would leak kmaps, and proceed with preempt_count off by one. The only (kind of

Re: [PATCH] Quota netlink interface

2007-06-19 Thread Jan Kara
On Mon 18-06-07 12:01:03, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:14:55 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: Hello, I've written a patch implementing quota netlink interface. Whenever some event happens (like user exceeding softlimit), a message is sent to userpace. Then, in userspace we can

Re: [PATCH] Quota netlink interface

2007-06-19 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Jan Kara wrote: OK, I can make it 'depends on NET' instead. I guess it's no problem in this case since whoever wants quota is going to have NET enabled. The problem I sometimes have with 'depends on' is that the option is invisible until you have enabled all the

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

2007-06-19 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007 02:44:32 Alexandre Oliva wrote: GPLv3 forbids tivoization, therefore developer has requirement for tivoization in the license, therefore GPLv3 forbidding tivoization is bad. However, my argument is straight

Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

2007-06-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:07:31PM -0700, David Miller wrote: The main disk I/O block read and write is done using descriptors sent to the disk server. SCSI pass-through is provided (optionally) so that disk analysis tools can do things like MODE_SENSE on the disk. SG_IO can easily be

Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization

2007-06-19 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Dienstag 19 Juni 2007 04:46 schrieb Alexandre Oliva: On Jun 18, 2007, Hans-Jürgen Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag 18 Juni 2007 23:18 schrieb Alexandre Oliva: On Jun 18, 2007, Hans-Jürgen Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vendor would be entitled to the benefit of the doubt as

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

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 04:04:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 19, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007 02:44:32 Alexandre Oliva wrote: GPLv3 forbids tivoization, therefore developer has requirement for tivoization in the license, therefore GPLv3 forbidding

Re: [patch-mm 14/25] NTP: Move the cmos update code into ntp.c

2007-06-19 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Hi Thomas, Thomas Gleixner wrote: i386 and sparc64 have the identical code to update the cmos clock. Move it into kernel/time/ntp.c as there are other architectures coming along with the same requirements. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11

2007-06-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:46:03PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: @@ -2493,17 +2493,18 @@ static void idle_balance(int this_cpu, s unsigned long next_balance = jiffies + 60 * HZ; for_each_domain(this_cpu, sd) { - if

Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD

2007-06-19 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:31 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: +static int mtdoops_erase_block(struct mtd_info *mtd, int offset) +{ + struct erase_info erase; + DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current); + wait_queue_head_t wait_q; + int ret; + + init_waitqueue_head(wait_q); +

xfs freeze/umount problem

2007-06-19 Thread David Greaves
David Chinner wrote: FWIW, I'm on record stating that sync is not sufficient to quiesce an XFS filesystem for a suspend/resume to work safely and have argued that the only safe thing to do is freeze the filesystem before suspend and thaw it after resume. Whilst testing a potential bug in

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:10:42PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Jun 18, 2007, at 13:56:05, Bryan Henderson wrote: The question remains is where to implement versioning: directly in individual filesystems or in the vfs code so all filesystems can use it? Or not in the kernel at all. I've

Re: [PATCH RT] Don't call mcount from vsyscall_fn's

2007-06-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This bit me in the butt. I couldn't understand why my init app was segfaulting, with a kernel address, but a user RIP and RSP. Well, the RIP I think was bogus, but the kernel address was always the start of mcount. Looking deeper, I printed

[patch 0/6] s390 patches for 2.6.22

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
Last s390 bug fix patches for 2.6.22. -- blue skies, Martin. Reality continues to ruin my life. - Calvin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[patch 1/6] Missing blank when appending cio_ignore kernel parameter

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] When appending the 'cio_ignore' kernel parameter to the command line, a blank has to be inserted in order to separate 'cio_ignore' from the preceding kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[patch 2/6] Fix zfcpdump header

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Added members for volume number and real memory size to header information. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/s390/char/zcore.c |3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

[patch 3/6] Fix yet another two section mismatches.

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] WARNING: arch/s390/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xb92a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_secondary (between 'restart_addr' and 'stack_overflow') WARNING: arch/s390/appldata/built-in.o(.data+0xdc): Section mismatch:

[patch 4/6] Print list of modules on die().

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Print list of modules on die() like a lot of other architectures do. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/s390/kernel/traps.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index:

[patch 5/6] Move psw_set_key.

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Move psw_set_key() from ptrace.h to processor.h which is a more suitable place for it. In addition the moves makes the function invisible to user space. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[patch 6/6] Add oops_enter()/oops_exit() calls to die().

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is mainly to switch off all potentially debugging stuff that won't report anything useful after an oops happened. Besided that setting pause_on_oops will work too, but doesn't make too much sense on s390. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions with patches v3

2007-06-19 Thread Paulo Pereira
A Wednesday 13 June 2007 22:01:54, Alan Stern escreveu: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:58:05PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: USB Subject: list_add corruption. prev-next should be next (f7d28794), but was f0df8ed4 (prev=f0df8ed4) Kernel Bug at

Please pull git390 'for-linus' branch

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
Please pull from 'for-linus' branch of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6.git for-linus to receive the following updates: arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c |5 ++--- arch/s390/kernel/entry.S |8 +++- arch/s390/kernel/entry64.S |8 +++-

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

2007-06-19 Thread holzheu
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:36 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 15:53 +0200, holzheu wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:12 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:55 +0200, holzheu wrote: Hi Gerrit, The common thing of your and our approach is, that

[PATCH] kerneldoc fix in audit_core_dumps

2007-06-19 Thread Henne
From: Henrik Kretzschmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fix parameter name in audit_core_dumps for kerneldoc. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index e36481e..028650c 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -2040,7

[PATCH] kerneldoc fix in libata

2007-06-19 Thread Henne
From: Henrik Kretzschmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fix parameter name from ata_dev_reread_id() in libata-core.c for kerneldoc. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c index 047eabd..88e2761 100644 ---

Re: [PATCH -cfs] Fix cpu_load calculation error

2007-06-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo/Dmitry, I am resending the patch to fix cpu_load calculation error in cfs v17, this time CCing lkml. v17 cpu_load calculation didn't take into account that a class's delta_exec/fair may be stale because it could not get an

Selective system profiling

2007-06-19 Thread John Sigler
Hello everyone, Here's my situation: I'm pushing data in chunks of 1316 bytes to a PCI device at 38 Mbit/s. In other words, I write 1316 bytes to the device every 277 microseconds. I've noticed that the latency of this operation varies immensely. Most of the time it completes in 50-80

Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11

2007-06-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Srivatsa Vaddagiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the patch below is correct. With the patch applied, I could not recreate the imbalance with rcutorture. Let me know whether you still see the problem with this patch applied on any other machine. thanks for tracking this down! I've

[PATCH] slob: poor man's NUMA support.

2007-06-19 Thread Paul Mundt
This adds preliminary NUMA support to SLOB, primarily aimed at systems with small nodes (tested all the way down to a 128kB SRAM block), whether asymmetric or otherwise. We follow the same conventions as SLAB/SLUB, preferring current node placement for new pages, or with explicit placement, if a

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Stable identification of identical USB hardware

2007-06-19 Thread Kay Sievers
On 6/18/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:35:35AM -0700, Joerg Pommnitz wrote: I want to be able to distinguish between two (or more) mostly identical USB serial devices. The devices in question are UMTS modems. AFAIK they are identical except for the SIM card

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On 6/19/07, Kyle Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I think would be particularly interesting in this domain is something similar in concept to GIT, except in a file-system: perhaps stating the blindingly obvious, but there was an early implementation of a FUSE-based gitfs --

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

2007-06-19 Thread Anders Larsen
On 2007-06-18 21:50:12, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Given the ROM exception in GPLv3, I guess you could seal and anti-tamper it as much as you want, and leave the ROM at such a place in which it's easily replaceable but with signature checking and all such that the user doesn't install ROM that is

Type error in drivers/input/tsdev.c?

2007-06-19 Thread Fengwei Yin
Hi, In function tsdev_event() of drivers/input/tsdev.c, conversion from usec to milisec is like: client-event[client-head].millisecs = time.tv_usec / 100; ~~ should be 1000? Regards Yin, Fengwei - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS

2007-06-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: I would also suggest one more feature: support for block level de-duplication. I mean: 1. Ability for Btrfs to have blocks in several files to point to the same block on disk 2. Support for new syscall or IOCTL to de-duplicate as a single transaction two or

Re: Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals

2007-06-19 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 06/18, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 17:20 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: Andrew or Linus, did you get Ben's patch? It might have been missed... I can resend later today. I did indeed just miss it. I intended to

Re: [patch 5/6] Move psw_set_key.

2007-06-19 Thread Paul Mundt
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Move psw_set_key() from ptrace.h to processor.h which is a more suitable place for it. In addition the moves makes the function invisible to user space. arch/s390/kernel/traps.c |

[GIT PULL] sh fixes

2007-06-19 Thread Paul Mundt
Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6.git Which contains: Kaz Kojima (1): sh: Fix restartable syscall arg5 clobbering. Paul Mundt (2): sh: oops_enter()/oops_exit() in die(). sh: Handle -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK for restartable

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.6.22-rc5 XFS fails after hibernate/resume

2007-06-19 Thread David Greaves
David Greaves wrote: I'm going to have to do some more testing... done David Chinner wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:49:34AM +0100, David Greaves wrote: David Greaves wrote: So doing: xfs_freeze -f /scratch sync echo platform /sys/power/disk echo disk /sys/power/state # resume

Re: Type error in drivers/input/tsdev.c?

2007-06-19 Thread Jiri Slaby
Fengwei Yin napsal(a): Hi, In function tsdev_event() of drivers/input/tsdev.c, conversion from usec to milisec is like: client-event[client-head].millisecs = time.tv_usec / 100; ~~ should be 1000? Seems so. James CCed. regards, --

Re: [patch 5/6] Move psw_set_key.

2007-06-19 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:12:00AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: Move psw_set_key() from ptrace.h to processor.h which is a more suitable place for it. In addition the moves makes the function invisible to user space. Hmm,

Re: [fuse-devel] FS block count, size and seek offset?

2007-06-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why don't you use the existing fuse-unionfs? I thought about doing this but it would need to be modified somehow and even then my users would look to me to fix issues and I don't like trying to find hard bugs in other peoples code. Also, there's a lot

Re: [patch 5/6] Move psw_set_key.

2007-06-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: Move psw_set_key() from ptrace.h to processor.h which is a more suitable place for it. In addition the moves makes the function invisible to user space. Hmm, this does not really describe the changes. Bastian -- Violence in

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.6.22-rc5 XFS fails after hibernate/resume

2007-06-19 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, David Greaves wrote: Good :) Now, not so good :) Oh, crap. :-) So I hibernated last night and resumed this morning. Before hibernating I froze and sync'ed. After resume I thawed it. (Sorry Dave) Here are some photos of the screen during resume. This is not 100% reproducable -

Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD

2007-06-19 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:55 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:31 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: + if (mtd-erasesize OOPS_PAGE_SIZE) + erase.len = OOPS_PAGE_SIZE; It seems to me that your code won't work if mtd-erasesize OOPS_PAGE_SIZE anyway, so this

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS

2007-06-19 Thread Vladislav Bolkhovitin
Pádraig Brady wrote: Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: I would also suggest one more feature: support for block level de-duplication. I mean: 1. Ability for Btrfs to have blocks in several files to point to the same block on disk 2. Support for new syscall or IOCTL to de-duplicate as a single

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 3/7] add interface for netconsole using sysfs

2007-06-19 Thread Keiichi KII
Hello Satyam, First, I'm sorry I couldn't reply to your comments. I'm so appreciate for your comments. I will fix my patches following your advices. But, I have some questions on the another patches. So, I want to ask you some questions and answer your questions. +static int

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 4/7] using symlink for the net_device

2007-06-19 Thread Keiichi KII
Hello Satyam, Sorry, but we're not covering from the error condition fully here. Note that later you merge the temporary modify_target_list entirely back into the target_list ... which would still contain these erroneous nodes. A full cleanup (kobject_unregister the entry, and then list_del

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 4/7] using symlink for the net_device

2007-06-19 Thread Keiichi KII
Hello Satyam, and this is why we have to use the dual-list mechanism to react to the net device rename. This isn't so obvious, a comment at the point where you declare modify_target_list would be nice? (BTW temporary_list would be a better name for that, IMO) All right, my patches are short

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 6/7] add ioctls for adding/removing target

2007-06-19 Thread Keiichi KII
Hello Satyam, *ugh*. I was wondering what a show-stopper this particular patch was -- introduces a couple of ioctl()'s, exports a new structure to userspace, adds a hitherto-unneeded header file, brings in tty_struct/tty_operations and ends up adding so much complexity/ bloat to netconsole.c.

Re: [patch 1/2] kprobes i386 quick fix mark-ro-data

2007-06-19 Thread S. P. Prasanna
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:32:56PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: On Monday 18 June 2007 20:56:32 Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:44:57 -0400 Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fancy it's done by the kprobe_page_fault handler, but I do not see clearly how writing the

Re: [patch 2/2] kprobes x86_64 quick fix mark-ro-data

2007-06-19 Thread S. P. Prasanna
This patch is a quick fix for x86_64 to enable kprobes only if DEBUG_RODATA is not configured. Since DEBUG_RODATA markes the kernel text pages as read-only. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] arch/x86_64/Kconfig |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c: remove dead code

2007-06-19 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:45:31 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes dead code spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] This appears to be a copy-and-paste error from other auto-configuration code. I fixed it on ALSA tree now so that it'll be

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

2007-06-19 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 18, 2007, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, you only talk about people who already use free software, but I tried to make you aware of the importance of _promoting_ free software, i.e. winning new people and companies

Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD

2007-06-19 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 11:00 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:55 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:31 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: + if (mtd-erasesize OOPS_PAGE_SIZE) + erase.len = OOPS_PAGE_SIZE; It seems to me that your code won't

Re: [PATCH] atmel_serial: Fix break handling

2007-06-19 Thread Ivan Kuten
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:33:54 +0100 Russell King wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:21:21PM +0300, Ivan Kuten wrote: Hi Haavard, I tried /dev/ttyAT3, break appeared but not the way I expected, after: stty -F /dev/ttyAT3 brkint I get: cat /proc/tty/driver/atmel_serial serinfo:1.0

Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11

2007-06-19 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:04:30AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: I'm wondering, why did this trigger under CFS and not on mainline? I thought Paul had seen the same problem with 2.6.21.5. I will try a more recent mainline (2.6.22-rc5 maybe) after I get hold of the problem machine and report later

Re: XFS internal error xfs_da_do_buf(2) at line 2087 of file fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c. Caller 0xc01b00bd

2007-06-19 Thread Marco Berizzi
Marco Berizzi wrote: David Chinner wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:59:39PM +0200, Marco Berizzi wrote: David Chinner wrote: Where we saw signs of on disk directory corruption. Have you run xfs_repair successfully on the filesystem since you reported this? yes. If

Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD

2007-06-19 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 13:29 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 11:00 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: Well, mtd-block_isbad() may return error, unlikely, bu still. You also ignore the error at other places. Ignoring that is deliberate since it doesn't really matter if the

[PATCH] I2C: TSL2550 support.

2007-06-19 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
Add support for Taos TSL2550 ambient light sensors. (http://www.taosinc.com/product_detail.asp?cateid=4proid=18). Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig | 10 + drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile |1 + drivers/i2c/chips/tsl2550.c | 427

Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD

2007-06-19 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 11:52 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: Error code means that something very bad and sever is going on and you have to just refuse working with this device. In this case, it will just move on to the next EB. There is code to handle no available EBs at which point it

Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

2007-06-19 Thread Stefan Richter
Natalie Protasevich wrote: On 6/18/07, Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] In the end plenty of statistics and hardware compatibility list could be made. For example, that would make my life easier knowing what level of compatibility Linux can offer for old HP9000

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

2007-06-19 Thread Manu Abraham
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: I argue that if you keep the free loaders out, you miss the chance to communicate with and educate them. Communication across borders doesn't work well, and you create a border between the morally good and the bad. Of course you can't expect that every free

Re: [patch 5/6] Move psw_set_key.

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 11:34 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: Move psw_set_key() from ptrace.h to processor.h which is a more suitable place for it. In addition the moves makes the function invisible to user space. Hmm, this does not really describe the changes. Yes.. you need to

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.6.22-rc5 XFS fails after hibernate/resume

2007-06-19 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:24, David Greaves wrote: David Greaves wrote: I'm going to have to do some more testing... done David Chinner wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:49:34AM +0100, David Greaves wrote: David Greaves wrote: So doing: xfs_freeze -f /scratch sync echo

[PATCH] Optional Beeping During Resume From Suspend To Ram.

2007-06-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi all Here's what I have after today's work. I haven't yet been able to test on x86, but can confirm that it works okay on x86_64. I'm currently working towards testing it on my old Omnibook. My P4 desktop won't resume from suspend to ram at all, and hasn't produced any beeps. I needed to

Re: [PATCH] I2C: TSL2550 support.

2007-06-19 Thread Trilok Soni
Hi Rodolfo, On 6/19/07, Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add support for Taos TSL2550 ambient light sensors. (http://www.taosinc.com/product_detail.asp?cateid=4proid=18). Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig | 10 +

Re: [patch-mm 00/25] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support - V2

2007-06-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:49:44 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: A quick check shows that the keep_proc_acpi_power_around_001.patch from rc5-hrt will apply to rc4-mm2-hrt - I'll give that a try tonight and report back... Confirming - I backported that patch from rc5-hrt to rc4-mm2-hrt, and now

Re: [PATCH] clarify the GPL version of contributions by Jesper Juhl in CREDITS

2007-06-19 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 18/06/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:33:02AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: Just to make things clear in the light of recent discussions. Stuff I contribute to the Linux kernel are licensed under the terms of the GPL version 2. +D: All contributions are

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

2007-06-19 Thread holzheu
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:36 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: snip well surely the messages are caught by some userspace program, right? (like syslog).. that can do the lookup and make it all conveniently lookup-able and cross-referencable etc etc Ok, I agree. Maybe that's really a good

Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization

2007-06-19 Thread Michael Poole
Hans-Jürgen Koch writes: No. Credible licenses should be simple like physical laws. Newton's law is expressed in terms of a single mathematical equation. That's why it's still valid, and you still learn it at school although meanwhile people know that there are limitations to it. If you

Dumping the checksums in a module

2007-06-19 Thread John Sigler
Hello everyone, As far as I understand (which is not very far), if I define CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, then checksums for various functions (all exported functions?) and various structures (which ones?) will be included inside the kernel image, and written to Module.symvers. When an out-of-tree module

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS

2007-06-19 Thread Chris Mason
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:11:13AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: I would also suggest one more feature: support for block level de-duplication. I mean: 1. Ability for Btrfs to have blocks in several files to point to the same block on disk 2. Support

Final Notification.......Ref: L/200-26937

2007-06-19 Thread ONLINE NOTIFICATION
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[PATCH] I2C: TSL2550 support.

2007-06-19 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
Add support for Taos TSL2550 ambient light sensors. (http://www.taosinc.com/product_detail.asp?cateid=4proid=18). Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig | 10 + drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile |1 + drivers/i2c/chips/tsl2550.c | 449

Re: [rtc-linux] RTC_CLASS is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL?

2007-06-19 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:19:59 +0200 Alessandro Zummo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:10:37 +0900 (JST) Atsushi Nemoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The generic RTC subsystem was added to kernel 2.6.17 which was released a years ago. Since then, many drivers were added to the

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