Re: Update Linux 2.4 Status/TODO list

2000-09-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
--- Andre Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Ted and LT, I think this are the two things you wanted that were located in: /src/tar-files/testing/direct_add/ht6560b.c /src/tar-files/testing/direct_add/qd65xx.c /src/tar-files/testing/direct_add/qd65xx.h First Petr and Samuel, are

Re: Experimental driver for Ricoh Bay1Controller SD Card readers

2007-02-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pierre Ossman, le Tue 13 Feb 2007 06:47:41 +0100, a écrit : Sascha Sommer wrote: I still consider this driver experimental, but without documentation this is probably not going to change anytime soon. The question is now what I should do with the driver? Is it worth to be included in

Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

2007-04-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Distribution installers usually try to probe OSes for building a suited grub menu. Unfortunately, mounting an ext3 partition, even in read-only mode, does perform some operations on the filesystem (log recovery). This is not a good idea since it may silently garbage data. XFS has a

Re: Add a norecovery option to ext3/4?

2007-04-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Eric Sandeen, le Sun 08 Apr 2007 22:24:50 -0500, a écrit : Samuel Thibault wrote: Distribution installers usually try to probe OSes for building a suited grub menu. Unfortunately, mounting an ext3 partition, even in read-only mode, does perform some operations on the filesystem (log recovery

Re: differences between MADV_FREE and MADV_DONTNEED

2007-03-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Eric wrote: We should implement a real MADV_DONTNEED and rename the current one to MADV_FREE, but that's 2.6.17 material. We definitely need to check this. I am fairly certain I have seen this conversation before. Yes, it was back in 2005:

mbind and alignment

2007-04-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, mbind(start, len, ...) currently requires that start be page-aligned, but not len (which automatically gets page-rounded up). This is a bit odd: - the userland type of start is void*, which people would expect to be a pointer to some variable. - start needing to be page-aligned but len

Re: mbind and alignment

2007-04-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Andi Kleen, le Wed 04 Apr 2007 13:52:04 +0200, a écrit : So one of those should probably be done to free people from headaches: - document start requirement in the manual page - require len to be aligned too, and document the requirements in the manual page - drop the start

Re: util-linux-ng: unprivileged mounts support

2008-01-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mike Frysinger, le Tue 08 Jan 2008 10:31:04 -0500, a écrit : with all the non-linux changes that have gone in, does there need to be header checks here and then have mount.c key off of them ? i'm thinking so ... Sure! Samuel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

[PATCH] Default keyboard LEDs

2008-01-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
the openvt(1) command anyway. This hence adds a keyboard.default_leds boot parameter that permits to configure the default keyboard LEDs. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Actually, what would be perfect would be to use the configuration that the BIOS sets at boot by default

Re: [PATCH] Default keyboard LEDs

2008-01-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan Engelhardt, le Mon 14 Jan 2008 02:40:08 +0100, a écrit : On Jan 14 2008 00:52, Samuel Thibault wrote: In many cases, one prefers to have e.g. the NumLock on by default. In many cases, one doesn't want to have it by default, e.g. on laptops. Distributions actually have a very hard time

Re: [PATCH] Default keyboard LEDs

2008-01-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
H. Peter Anvin, le Sun 13 Jan 2008 19:50:34 -0800, a écrit : Actually, what would be perfect would be to use the configuration that the BIOS sets at boot by default. That is device-dependent, however. It is, but it can be read out either by INT calls at initialization time, or by reading

[PATCH] Alpha and x86_64 don't use socketcall

2007-11-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alpha and x86_64 architectures don't use socketcall and don't provide __NR_socketcall. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -r 51b2b0d0921c include/asm-alpha/unistd.h --- a/include/asm-alpha/unistd.hWed Nov 21 09:41:11 2007 + +++ b/include/asm-alpha/unistd.h

vcsa and big endian

2007-12-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, On big endian machines, /dev/vcsa stores text/attribute bytes in big endian order, while it stores them in little endian order on little endian machines. Is that expected? Samuel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: vcsa and big endian

2007-12-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 09 Dec 2007 23:43:49 +0100, a écrit : On big endian machines, /dev/vcsa stores text/attribute bytes in big endian order, while it stores them in little endian order on little endian machines. Is that expected? It looks like ggi considers this as normal. In any case

Re: vcsa and big endian

2007-12-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 09 Dec 2007 23:50:39 +0100, a écrit : Samuel Thibault, le Sun 09 Dec 2007 23:43:49 +0100, a écrit : On big endian machines, /dev/vcsa stores text/attribute bytes in big endian order, while it stores them in little endian order on little endian machines

[PATCH][DOC] Console is utf-8 by default

2007-12-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
The console is now by default in UTF-8 mode, so let's document this. BTW, document the needed vt. prefix. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.orig2007-12-26 00:01:44.0 +0100 +++ Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2007-12-23 22:56

Re: [PATCH][DOC] Console is utf-8 by default

2007-12-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
H. Peter Anvin, le Tue 25 Dec 2007 15:45:21 -0800, a écrit : Samuel Thibault wrote: The console is now by default in UTF-8 mode, so let's document this. BTW, document the needed vt. prefix. -vt.default_blu= [VT] +default_blu=[VT] Reverse patch? Erf, yes, it looks like I

[PATCH][DOC] Console is utf-8 by default

2008-01-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
The console is now by default in UTF-8 mode. Also fix the needed vt. prefix. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This documentation fix really deserves going into 2.6.24, else we'll probably get a lot of bug reports like http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9319

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13.1-rc2

2008-01-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Clemens Koller, le Sat 05 Jan 2008 15:51:57 +0100, a écrit : Andrew Morton schrieb: On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:10:52 +0100 Karel Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second util-linux-ng 2.13.1 release candidate is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/

Re: [bisected][mismerge?] Re: [microcode] 2.6.23.git pulled this morning oopses loading P4 microcode

2007-10-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Just to make sure, could you check in System.map that accent_table is correctly 256*3*4=3072 bytes long? Samuel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [bisected][mismerge?] Re: [microcode] 2.6.23.git pulled this morning oopses loading P4 microcode

2007-10-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Mike Galbraith, le Thu 18 Oct 2007 19:56:38 +0200, a écrit : The winner of a very long git bisect session: unicode diacritics support Uh, I fail to see how that could have an impact, I've again checked the boundaries, it looks fine, please people have a look. Could you try something

[PATCH2] keyboard notifier documentation

2008-02-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Document the keyboard notifier. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- /dev/null 2008-02-09 01:22:34.790011677 + +++ linux/Documentation/input/notifier.txt 2008-02-09 01:28:12.0 + @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +Keyboard notifier + +One can use register_keyboard_notifier

Re: [PATCH] keyboard notifier documentation

2008-02-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Randy Dunlap, le Fri 08 Feb 2008 20:12:53 -0800, a écrit : On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 01:33:22 + Samuel Thibault wrote: +- 'vc' always provide the VC for which the keyboard event applies ; +- 'down' is 1 for a key press event, 0 for a key release ; +- 'shift' is the current modifier state, mask

Re: [PATCH] keyboard notifier documentation

2008-02-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Randy Dunlap, le Sat 09 Feb 2008 07:38:59 -0800, a écrit : Samuel Thibault wrote: Randy Dunlap, le Fri 08 Feb 2008 20:12:53 -0800, a écrit : On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 01:33:22 + Samuel Thibault wrote: +- 'vc' always provide the VC for which the keyboard event applies ; +- 'down' is 1 for a key

Re: [PATCH 03/23] printk: Move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files

2012-10-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joe Perches, le Tue 16 Oct 2012 23:06:07 -0700, a écrit : Create files with prototypes and static inlines for braille support. Make braille_console functions return 1 on success. cc: Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org Signed-off-by: Joe Perches j...@perches.com Acked-by: Samuel

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pavel Machek, le Thu 12 Jul 2007 19:19:32 +, a écrit : On Tue 2007-08-21 22:49:51, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hi, Jan Engelhardt, le Tue 21 Aug 2007 22:42:24 +0200, a écrit : - keycodes: even before translation into keysym. They can use the raw xlation for that. For userland

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Pavel Machek, le Sat 01 Sep 2007 12:32:58 +, a écrit : They can use the raw xlation for that. For userland, yes. This is for kernel modules. And should speakup be a kernel module? Why? Because userland only begins quite late in the boot process, and userland

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Pavel Machek, le Sat 01 Sep 2007 17:23:02 +, a écrit : Hi! Because userland only begins quite late in the boot process, and userland may hang. Initrd means userland is started very early on most machines these days, and kernel may hang, too. Very early is not so

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pavel Machek, le Sat 01 Sep 2007 18:18:45 +, a écrit : Very early is not so early, and loading initrd itself may actually fail. The kernel may indeed hang, but there are more chances to get some messages before the hang. Don't _you_ have a VGA screen for getting earliest

Re: console UTF-8 fixes

2007-07-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Egmont got some UTF-8 fixes in mainline, Andrew Morton suggested it might be a good time to remember about bug 7746 Support for unicode dead keys: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7746 : « Quoting a mail from Vojtech Pavlik: Several languages (polish, czech, slovak, ...) use dead

Re: [PATCH] Console events and accessibility

2007-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Greg KH, le Tue 21 Aug 2007 22:48:55 -0700, a écrit : On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:29:39PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Some external modules like Speakup need to monitor console output. This adds a VT notifier that such modules can use to get console output events: allocation

Re: [PATCH] Console events and accessibility

2007-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Wed 22 Aug 2007 10:53:55 +0200, a écrit : Greg KH, le Tue 21 Aug 2007 22:48:55 -0700, a écrit : On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:29:39PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Some external modules like Speakup need to monitor console output. This adds a VT notifier

Re: [PATCH] Console events and accessibility

2007-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Greg KH, le Thu 23 Aug 2007 03:04:02 -0700, a écrit : I mean: yes, with these three patches, speakup will work fine. 3 patches? I only saw 2. Or do you mean the modifications of the 3 files? Maybe you missed the keyboard notification patch which is already in -mm. The patches look sane

Re: [PATCH] Console events and accessibility

2007-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Greg KH, le Thu 23 Aug 2007 09:33:18 -0700, a écrit : Yes I did, sorry. Do you have a pointer for it, all I see is these patches in -mm: console-keyboard-events-and-accessibility.patch Here is the patch console-keyboard-events-and-accessibility-fix.patch

Re: [PATCH] Console events and accessibility

2007-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Thu 23 Aug 2007 19:08:45 +0200, a écrit : If you need help in this area, I can see about doing a bit as I did a lot of cleanup of this codebase a few years ago. I also know of a few users who are willing to help test this stuff out. Oh, great! Maybe Kirk should

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Adrian Bunk, le Sat 25 Aug 2007 03:07:04 +0200, a écrit : If they remain in -mm for some time and people don't complain, well that's good too: at least we know how speakup may hook into the kernel when it gets merged. ... Without any users it's dead code noone uses, Not so much

Keyboard CapsShift Lock

2007-08-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, There exists a CapsShift lock called KG_CAPSSHIFT, but no associated lock/slock, here is a patch. Samuel Add CapsShift lock and slock. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/include/linux/keyboard.h b/include/linux/keyboard.h index d97066f..61f12d4 100644

[PATCH] 10-dots braille keyboards

2007-08-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Some braille keyboards have 10 dots, so extend the Input braille keys definitions. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/include/linux/input.h b/include/linux/input.h index e02c6a6..17df5a7 100644 --- a/include/linux/input.h +++ b/include/linux/input.h @@ -552,6

[PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-08-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
.) This also provides access to k_handler so as to permit simulation of keypresses. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Hi, Some blind people use a kernel engine called Speakup which uses hardware synthesis to speak what gets displayed on the screen. They use the PC keyboard

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-08-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Andrew Morton, le Tue 21 Aug 2007 13:02:33 -0700, a écrit : On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:57:18 +0200 Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some external modules like Speakup need to use the PC keyboard to control them and also need to get keyboard feedback (caps lock status, etc

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-08-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Jan Engelhardt, le Tue 21 Aug 2007 22:42:24 +0200, a écrit : - keycodes: even before translation into keysym. They can use the raw xlation for that. For userland, yes. This is for kernel modules. Samuel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

[PATCH] Console events and accessibility

2007-08-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Some external modules like Speakup need to monitor console output. This adds a VT notifier that such modules can use to get console output events: allocation, deallocation, writes, other updates (cursor position, switch, etc.) Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PATCH] unicode diacritics support

2007-08-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
, and extend ioctls KDGKBDIACR and KDSKBDIACR into their equivalents KDGKBDIACRUC and KDSKBDIACR. New function int conv_uni_to_8bit(u32 uni) for converting unicode into 8bit _input_. No, we don't want to store the translation, as it is potentially sparse and large. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault

Re: [PATCH] unicode diacritics support

2007-08-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Andrew Morton, le Thu 09 Aug 2007 12:46:42 -0700, a écrit : Turn the kernel accent_table into unicode, and extend ioctls KDGKBDIACR and KDSKBDIACR into their equivalents KDGKBDIACRUC and KDSKBDIACR. New function int conv_uni_to_8bit(u32 uni) for converting unicode into 8bit

Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm2: drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c compile error

2007-08-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
function int conv_uni_to_8bit(u32 uni) for converting unicode into 8bit _input_. No, we don't want to store the translation, as it is potentially sparse and large. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/drivers/acorn/char/defkeymap-l7200.c b/drivers/acorn/char/defkeymap-l7200.c

Hardware locality (hwloc) v1.7 released

2013-04-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
The Hardware Locality (hwloc) team is pleased to announce the release of v1.7: http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/ v1.7 is a major new release series. The v1.6 series focused on the core rework to ease the addition of new discovery components. As expected, v1.7 now adds many new

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.23-rc1

2013-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Karel Zak, le Fri 22 Mar 2013 13:56:21 +0100, a écrit : The util-linux release v2.23-rc1 is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23 Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Here is a couple of obvious fixes for non-linux systems. Samuel

Re: Caps lock XOR on multiple keyboards?

2013-03-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I can confirm that things go fine on the Linux console. There is just one state, which is shown on all keyboards. This is really a bug in Xorg, please report the issue there. Pavel Machek, le Sun 24 Mar 2013 11:30:18 +0100, a écrit : There is patch to drive keyboard LEDs through LED

Hardware locality (hwloc) v1.6 released]

2012-12-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
The Hardware Locality (hwloc) team is pleased to announce the release of v1.6: http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/ v1.6 is a major new release series. It includes many new features and changes over the v1.5.x series. It brings a significant rework of the core which eases the combining

Re: [REGRESSION FIXED] i915 KMS dual head broken on DELL latitude E6420 in 3.1-rc*

2013-01-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, le Thu 05 Jan 2012 10:53:01 +0100, a écrit : Samuel Thibault, le Thu 05 Jan 2012 03:16:46 +0100, a écrit : Samuel Thibault, le Fri 16 Sep 2011 18:30:50 +0200, a écrit : Keith Packard, le Thu 15 Sep 2011 09:22:48 -0500, a écrit : On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:12:59 +0200

[PATCH] vga text console and stty cols/rows

2005-09-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
, which can be great for some people (see http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/ls.jpg ). Regards, Samuel Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.13/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c 2005-09-02 18:18:38.0 +0200 +++ linux/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c2005-09-03

idle task's task_t allocation on NUMA machines

2005-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Currently, the task_t structure of the idle task is always allocated on CPU0, hence on node 0: while booting, for each CPU, CPU 0 calls fork_idle(), hence copy_process(), hence dup_task_struct(), hence alloc_task_struct(), hence kmem_cache_alloc(), which picks up memory from the allocation

Re: idle task's task_t allocation on NUMA machines

2005-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Eric Dumazet, le Thu 18 Aug 2005 17:18:55 +0200, a écrit : An idle task should block itself, hence not touching its task_t structure very much. Indeed, but I guess there are a lot of such little optimizations here and there that could be relatively easily fixed, for a not-so little benefit.

Re: idle task's task_t allocation on NUMA machines

2005-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Eric Dumazet, le Thu 18 Aug 2005 17:18:55 +0200, a écrit : I believe IRQ stacks are also allocated on node 0, that seems more serious. For the i386 architecture at least, yes: they are statically defined in arch/i386/kernel/irq.c, while they could be per_cpu. Regards, Samuel - To unsubscribe

Re: idle task's task_t allocation on NUMA machines

2005-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Thu 18 Aug 2005 21:49:41 +0200, a écrit : Eric Dumazet, le Thu 18 Aug 2005 17:18:55 +0200, a écrit : I believe IRQ stacks are also allocated on node 0, that seems more serious. For the i386 architecture at least, yes: they are statically defined in arch/i386/kernel/irq.c

Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release.

2007-01-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Evgenity, le Mon 29 Jan 2007 16:47:36 +0100, a écrit : Userspace M-on-N threading model is based on the idea, that when signal is delivered, kernel saves all information related to previous context in stack, so it is possible to find it and replace. You may want to have a look at some

Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release.

2007-01-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Evgeniy Polyakov, le Tue 30 Jan 2007 12:53:16 +0300, a écrit : You may want to have a look at some existing implementations: I saw most of them. As far as I recall, only PTL (is not shown here) has preemptible scheduler. NTL has it too, but is based on different approach. Marcel has a

Re: Experimental driver for Ricoh Bay1Controller SD Card readers

2007-01-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Sascha Sommer, le Sun 07 Jan 2007 00:32:26 +0100, a écrit : Attached is a very experimental driver for a Ricoh SD Card reader that can be found in some notebooks like the Samsung P35. Yehaaaw! That reader can be found on DELL X300 too. It works almost fine for me, see attached dmesg.

SAK and screen readers

2006-12-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, BrlTTY is a screen reader: it is a deamon run as root on machines used by blind users for getting the content of the screen via braille or speech. BrlTTY, like other screen readers (susebl, yasr, ...) needs to open /dev/tty0 for performing various actions, namely: - VT_ACTIVATE -

Linux should define ENOTSUP

2006-12-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, ENOTSUP is not used at all by linux (though it is defined for parisc), while as susv3 specifies, ENOTSUP shall be different than EOPNOTSUPP. Is there a reason for doing so? (except history) Currently, code like switch(errno) { ENOTSUP: foo(); break;

Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP

2006-12-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Arjan van de Ven, le Wed 06 Dec 2006 15:25:14 +0100, a écrit : Is there any way to fix this? Glibc people don't seem to want to fix it on their part, see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2363 Ulrich asked you to go to us once your time travel machine was

Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP

2006-12-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:16:39 -0800, a écrit : Arjan van de Ven wrote: Is there any way to fix this? Glibc people don't seem to want to fix it on their part, see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2363 Hi, Ulrich asked you to go to us once your time travel

Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP

2006-12-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:26:44 -0800, a écrit : Samuel Thibault wrote: H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:16:39 -0800, a écrit : Arjan van de Ven wrote: Is there any way to fix this? Glibc people don't seem to want to fix it on their part, see http://sources.redhat.com

Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP

2006-12-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:35:49 -0800, a écrit : Samuel Thibault wrote: The two can't be done at the same time. In fact, the two probably can't be done without a period of quite a few *years* between them. Not a reason for not doing it ;) No, but breakage is. There has

Re: Tulip dmfe carrier detection

2006-11-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Samuel Thibault, le Fri 10 Nov 2006 15:49:19 +0100, a écrit : The dmfe module lacks netif stuff for carrier detection, while the board does report carrier status. Here is a patch. Just an additional fixup: the default state should be carrier off. This fixes boot carrier detection. Samuel

Hardware locality (hwloc) v1.5 released

2012-07-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
The Hardware Locality (hwloc) team is pleased to announce the release of v1.5: http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/ v1.5 is a major new release series. It includes many new features and changes over the v1.4.x series. The most noticeable changes are the addition of the lstopo-no-graphics

[PATCH,STAGING] speakup: lower default software speech rate

2012-08-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
and learn how to increase it afterwards Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org --- This was agreed with users on the speakup mailing list. diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_soft.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_soft.c index 42cdafe..2a67610 100644 --- a/drivers

[PATCH] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.24-orig/drivers/char

Re: [PATCH] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Note: as said in the comments, this is currently only for the VisioBraille device, but having this in the vanilla kernel will help a lot to get people testing drivers for other devices, as they will not have to recompile a patched kernel but just insert test modules (remember that for blind people

Re: [PATCH] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Greg KH, le Mon 04 Feb 2008 09:10:08 -0800, a écrit : On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:18:43AM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted etc and thus

Re: [PATCH] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Greg KH, le Mon 04 Feb 2008 10:06:17 -0800, a écrit : However, they share the same low-level primitives: the recently added keyboard and vc notifiers, screen_glyph(), inverse_translate(), kd_mksound, etc. I guess I'm worried that the hooks that you add here will not be usable by speakup,

[PATCH,RESEND] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Greg KH was OK with this patch

Re: [PATCH,RESEND] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andrew Morton, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 16:58:53 -0800, a écrit : On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 22:00:54 + Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted etc

[PATCH] VT notifier extension for accessibility

2008-02-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Some accessibility modules need to be able to catch the output on the console before the VT interpretation, and possibly swallow it. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Karl Dahlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/notifier.h2008-02-15 08:44:10.0 -0500

VT notifier fix for VT switch

2008-02-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Notify when VT switch is complete. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.24-orig/drivers/char/vt.c 2008-01-25 09:32:06.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.24-perso/drivers/char/vt.c2008-02-21 15:51:13.0 +0100 @@ -702,6 +702,7 @@ if (is_switch

[PATCH2] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Wed 06 Feb 2008 02:04:23 +, a écrit : Andrew Morton, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 16:58:53 -0800, a écrit : On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 22:00:54 + Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + serial8250_console.write(braille_co, data, c - data); hm. Is it appropriate

Re: [PATCH2] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andrew Morton, le Sat 23 Feb 2008 00:04:10 -0800, a écrit : +++ linux-2.6.24.1-perso/kernel/printk.c2008-02-21 12:09:06.0 +0100 @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ Please use `diff -p' Argl, that's editdiff's fault. We need to fix it to keep the -p comments. charname[8];

[PATCH] Braille screen reader fixes

2008-02-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Braille screen reader fixes: - console_cmdline's brl_options field is only required when braille console support is enabled. - Use strlcpy to copy the console name. - braille console support depends on VT support. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.24.1-orig/kernel

[PATCH] Braille screen reader documentation

2008-02-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Document the console=brl option and the usage of the braille screen reader. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.24.1-orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2008-01-25 09:31:45.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.24.1-perso/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt2008

Re: VT notifier fix for VT switch

2008-02-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andrew Morton, le Sat 23 Feb 2008 00:04:30 -0800, a écrit : On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:26:40 +0100 Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Notify when VT switch is complete. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.24-orig/drivers/char/vt.c 2008-01-25 09:32

Re: [PATCH] VT notifier extension for accessibility

2008-02-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andrew Morton, le Sat 23 Feb 2008 00:07:13 -0800, a écrit : Did we have a signed-off-by: from Karl? He didn't give any. Samuel -- 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: input: put ledstate in the keyboard notifier

2008-02-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
that's what the keyboard layer is supposed to use. Update param.ledstate again between key handler call and notifying KBD_POST_KEYSYM, since key handlers may update the led state. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux/drivers/char/keyboard.c.orig 2008-02-23 15:14

Re: [PATCH] [NETDEV] [000] dmfe : fix bugs and add features

2007-02-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Jeff Garzik, le Fri 09 Feb 2007 16:15:26 -0500, a écrit : Levitsky Maxim wrote: Before some time I decided to fix suspend/resume on my Davicom network card. During development I also fixed couple of bugs and added support for link detection and WOL Note : 2.6.20 already has support for

Re: [patch 20/35] leds: route kbd LEDs through the generic LEDs layer

2012-11-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pavel Machek, le Mon 06 Feb 2012 15:19:23 +0100, a écrit : On Mon 2011-11-14 05:06:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: Dmitry Torokhov, le Wed 12 Jan 2011 10:27:02 -0800, a écrit : --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ config VT bool Virtual

[PATCH] Route kbd LEDs through the generic LEDs layer

2012-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
behavior of (a priori) all input devices, or of particular input devices. This also permits to fix #7063 from userland by using a modifier to implement proper CapsLock behavior and have the keyboard caps lock led show that modifier state. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org

[PATCH,staging/speakup] Turn some symbols static

2013-01-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Turn static some symbols which do not actually need to be externally-visible Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org diff -ur linux/drivers/staging/speakup-orig/fakekey.c linux/drivers/staging/speakup/fakekey.c --- linux/drivers/staging/speakup-orig/fakekey.c2011-10

Re: [PATCH,staging/speakup] Prefix externally-visible symbols

2013-01-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Greg Kroah-Hartman, le Tue 01 Jan 2013 17:17:22 -0800, a écrit : On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 11:52:57PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: This prefixes all externally-visible symbols of speakup with spk_. (or makes static some of them which do not actually need to be externally-visible) Care

Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/speakup: avoid out-of-range access

2013-01-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Indeed. The same happens in synth_add, so Greg please use this instead: Check that array index is in-bounds before accessing the synths[] array. Signed-off-by: Nickolai Zeldovich nicko...@csail.mit.edu Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org --- drivers/staging/speakup

Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/speakup: avoid out-of-range access

2013-01-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
accessing the synths[] array. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org --- drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/synth.c index df95337..b91d22b 100644

[PATCH] Oddity in mxcsr_feature_mask_init()

2007-06-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
, but it makes more sense (i.e. we just fill fxsave). Samuel Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.21-orig/arch/i386/kernel/i387.c.orig 2007-06-08 18:18:10.0 +0800 +++ linux-2.6.21-orig/arch/i386/kernel/i387.c 2007-06-08 18:18:22.0 +0800 @@ -32,7

Re: [PATCH] Use tty_schedule in VT code.

2007-07-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
James Simmons, le Tue 17 Jul 2007 19:37:57 +0100, a écrit : - schedule_delayed_work(t-buf.work, 0); It was schedule_delayed_work(t-buf.work, 1); in con_schedule_flip() ; could that matter? Samuel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

[PATCH] Fix pata_qdi.c probe code

2007-05-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, There is a small typo in the probe code of pata_qdi.c, here is a patch. Samuel diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_qdi.c b/drivers/ata/pata_qdi.c index 27685ce..fb8c9e1 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/pata_qdi.c +++ b/drivers/ata/pata_qdi.c @@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ static __init int qdi_init(void)

Re: [PATCH] Route kbd LEDs through the generic LEDs layer

2013-07-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pavel Machek, le Fri 12 Jul 2013 13:36:56 +0200, a écrit : This permits to reassign keyboard LEDs to something else than keyboard leds state, by adding keyboard led and modifier triggers connected to a series of VT input LEDs, themselves connected to VT input triggers, which per-input

Re: [PATCH] Route kbd LEDs through the generic LEDs layer

2013-07-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pavel Machek, le Sat 13 Jul 2013 01:33:01 +0200, a écrit : This permits to reassign keyboard LEDs to something else than keyboard leds state, by adding keyboard led and modifier triggers connected to a series of VT input LEDs, themselves connected to VT input triggers, which

Re: [PATCH] Route kbd LEDs through the generic LEDs layer

2013-07-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, David Herrmann, le Mon 15 Jul 2013 17:03:08 +0200, a écrit : @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ bool Virtual terminal if EXPERT depends on !S390 !UML select INPUT + select NEW_LEDS + select LEDS_CLASS + select LEDS_TRIGGERS + select

[PATCHv2] Route kbd LEDs through the generic LEDs layer

2013-07-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
behavior of (a priori) all input devices, or of particular input devices. This also permits to fix #7063 from userland by using a modifier to implement proper CapsLock behavior and have the keyboard caps lock led show that modifier state. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org

Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: kobjects.c: Use correct values when changing voice.

2013-09-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
that was used to select the voice. Note that using the raw input can also lead to an invalid memory read in the case of invalid or malicious user input. Signed-off-by: Christopher Brannon ch...@the-brannons.com Acked-by: Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org --- drivers/staging/speakup

Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging/speakup/kobjects.c: Code improvement.

2013-09-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
-by: Raphael S.Carvalho raphael.sc...@gmail.com Acked-by: Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org --- drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c | 71 1 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c b/drivers

Re: [PATCHv2] Route kbd LEDs through the generic LEDs layer

2013-10-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Andrew Morton, le Tue 08 Oct 2013 16:01:52 -0700, a écrit : Do you believe that the earlier controversies are now addressed and if so, how? Yes. Dmitry thought more about how to integrate that nicely on 12th Jan 2011, which I did. The patch was rebased on 3.x, and I submitted a

Hardware locality (hwloc) v1.8 released

2013-11-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
The Hardware Locality (hwloc) team is pleased to announce the release of v1.8: http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/ v1.8 is a major new release series. It adds PCI discovery on Linux without dependencies on external libs, a new API to manipulate differences between very similar topologies,

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