[2.6 patch] drivers/block/paride/ cleanups (fwd)

2005-02-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch below does the following cleanups in each if the five changed C files: - #ifndef MODULE: remove unused setup function - make a needlessly global struct static - pf.c: pf_init_units can be static and __init After this cleanup, setup.h is completely unused and therefore removed.

[2.6 patch] deadline-iosched.c: make a struct static

2005-02-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global struct static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 29 Jan 2005 --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm1-full/drivers/block/deadline-iosched.c.old 2005-01-29 14:07:00.0 +0100 +++

[2.6 patch] cfq-iosched.c: make some code static

2005-02-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 29 Jan 2005 --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm1-full/drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c.old 2005-01-29 14:05:30.0 +0100 +++

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread none given
On Fri, February 11, 2005 11:18 am, Larry McVoy said: The mails have started flowing in saying "I don't agree with Alexandre and please don't pull the plug" so a point of clarification. We have no intention of shutting down the BK free product. We are aware that there are 10's of thousands of

[2.6 patch] SCSI 53c700.c: make NCR_700_intr static

2005-02-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
NCR_700_intr was EXPORT_SYMBOL'e but has no external users. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 15 Nov 2004 - 24 Nov 2004 drivers/scsi/53c700.c |4 ++-- drivers/scsi/53c700.h |1 - 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) ---

[2.6 patch] SCSI: dpt_i2o.c: make some code static

2005-02-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 15 Nov 2004 - 24 Nov 2004 --- linux-2.6.10-rc1-mm5-full/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c.old2004-11-13 21:01:47.0 +0100 +++

[PATCH] Fix the mincore() syscall

2005-02-11 Thread David Howells
The attached patch fixes the mincore syscall in three ways: (1) It moves as much argument checking outside of the semaphore-holding region as possible. (2) It checks the region parameters against TASK_SIZE so that a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit platform will get the right error when

[2.6 patch] sstfb.c: make some code static

2005-02-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch below makes some needlessly global code static. Additionally, it adds #ifdefs for code only used in the modular/nonmodular cases. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 21 Nov 2004 drivers/video/sstfb.c | 11 +++ 1 files

Re: How to disable slow agpgart in kernel config?

2005-02-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 06:04:06PM +, Nick Warne wrote: > > > This surprises me, especially considering the in-kernel nvidia-agp driver > > > was actually written by NVidia. Are there any agp error messages in > > > your dmesg / X log ? > > > With the nVidia own nv_agp it appears

Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-11 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Friday, February 11, 2005 10:42 am, Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > My email was intented mainly to erase the notion that ckrm cannot handle > cpuset. Also, I wanted to understand if there is any real issues and that > is why I talked with Matt about why he thought ckrm cannot accomodate > memset

Re: [PATCH] ohci1394: dma_pool_destroy while in_atomic() && irqs_disabled()

2005-02-11 Thread Jody McIntyre
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:35:33AM -0500, Dan Dennedy wrote: > I am testing this patch in the same manner as you: exiting Kino capture. > I am getting a similar error in a different location. Can you look into > it, please? > > Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at

Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-11 Thread Chandra Seetharaman
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:54:52AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:46 pm, Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:59:28AM -0800, Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:42:34PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote: > > > > --stuff deleted---

Re: How to disable slow agpgart in kernel config?

2005-02-11 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:21:39PM +0100, Marcus Hartig wrote: > No warnings/errors in both logs. All clean. But switching/maximizing > between tasks like firefox, thunderbird or a gnome-terminal is so slow, > that you can see it how firefox/GTK+ theme is writing the GUI and the > fonts

Re: VIA VT6410 IDE support for 2.6.11-rc3/via82cxxx

2005-02-11 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:27:47 -0500, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mathias Kretschmer wrote: > > Mathias Kretschmer wrote: > > > >> Mathias Kretschmer wrote: > >> > >>> Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>> > Mathias Kretschmer wrote: > > > hi, > > > > I found an older version

Re: Thinkpad R40 freezes after swsusp resume

2005-02-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Try also acpi=off. > > i was hoping for a test that's a bit more granular. might it be > possible to disable suspect bits of the acpi code instead of all of it? > i'm open to applying and testing patches. Well, you'd have to write that code, I'd guess. And I do not think you can

Re: [OOps] 2.6.11-rc3 rmmod ide-scsi

2005-02-11 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi Florian, Thanks for the report, addition of MRW support to cdrom.c exposed bugs in ide-scsi locking. ide-scsi is a "virtual" host driver which is a bridge between IDE and SCSI subsystems so fixing ide-scsi requires assuring that locking is correct both for IDE and SCSI "side". Required

Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Implement a vDSO and use it for signal trampoline #3

2005-02-11 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Hi Ben, are you copyrighting under a new pseudonym? E.g.: On Thursday 10 February 2005 03:32, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > === > --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.0 + > +++

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-11 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:53:27AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:59:42AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > think of SCHED_FIFO on the desktop as an ugly wart, a hammer, that > > > destroys the careful balance of

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes. There's also the whole soft limit thing. > > > > i'm curious, how does this 'per-app' rlimit thing work? If a user has > > jackd installed and runs it from X unprivileged, how does it get the > > elevated rlimit? > > It needs a setuid

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 11, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry McVoy) wrote: > You are also right that figuring out the merges is a pain. So what? > We never said that we'd figure out how to do all this well and then > teach you how to do it well. We're not asking for you to teach us how to do it. We're just

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-11 Thread Paul Davis
>introduced. See devfs. And I think the adoption barrier thing is a red >herring as well: the current users are by and large compiling their >own RT-tuned kernels. not true. most people are using kernels built for specialized distros or addons, such as CCRMA, Demudi, Ubuntu, or dyne:bolic. --p -

Re: [RFC PATCH] add wait_event_*_lock() functions

2005-02-11 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:07:08AM -0600, Al Borchers wrote: > > > On Thursday 10 February 2005 9:39 am, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > >> It came up on IRC that the wait_cond*() functions from > >> usb/serial/gadget.c could be useful in other parts of the kernel. Does > >> the following patch

Re: [PATCH] device-mapper: multipath

2005-02-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> +#include "dm.h" > +#include "dm-path-selector.h" > +#include "dm-bio-list.h" > +#include "dm-bio-record.h" > + > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include Always include private headers after public ones. >

Re: [PATCH] device-mapper: multipath round-robin path selector.

2005-02-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> +#include "dm.h" > +#include "dm-path-selector.h" > + > +#include private after public again. Also it kinda looks to me like dm headers pull in far too much kernel headers? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interrupt starvation points

2005-02-11 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 09:30, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i'm wondering what the best approach would be. Right now if > DIRECT_PREEMPT is enabled [it's disabled currently] and a higher-prio > task has been woken up we switch to it without ever enabling interrupts > again. Re-enabling interrupts during

Re: Interrupt starvation points

2005-02-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found some points during schedule when interrupts are off > for long periods . These two patches seem to help. One enables > interrupts inside schedule() , so that interrupts are enabled after > each need-resched loop, then disabled again

[PATCH] device-mapper: multipath hardware handler for EMC

2005-02-11 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
Outline Hardware Handler for EMC CLARiiON AX/CX-series. Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff/drivers/md/Kconfig 2005-02-09 14:41:52.0 + +++ source/drivers/md/Kconfig 2005-02-09 14:42:24.0 + @@

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Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 11, 2005, Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not Larry choosing not to have you do the work, you are self > selecting not to do it because you won't sign the contracts. No. We don't want access to the BK software. We want access to the data that is stored in the repository,

[PATCH] device-mapper: multipath hardware handler

2005-02-11 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
Each multipath instance can use a Hardware Handler with hooks for the particular hardware you're using. This patch provides the hw_handler infrastructure. So far 3 hooks are available: A status function invoked by device-mapper table and status requests. An initialisation function called

[PATCH] device-mapper: multipath round-robin path selector.

2005-02-11 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
A very basic path selector: round-robin. It uses in turn each path that has not been disabled. By default, it instructs core multipath to use each path it supplies for 1000 bios, but a different repeat_count can be set against any path to provide primitive load-balancing across unequal paths.

[PATCH] device-mapper: multipath

2005-02-11 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
The core device-mapper multipath and path-selector code. Paths are grouped into an ordered list of Priority Groups. Each Priority Group has a Path Selector which chooses which of the Priority Group's paths is to be used for each bio e.g. according to some load-balancing algorithm. If a bio

Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-11 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:46 pm, Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:59:28AM -0800, Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:42:34PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote: > > --stuff deleted--- > > > memset_controller would be similar to this, before pitching it I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-11 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:52:37AM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:40:33PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > - autoload programs for usb, scsi, and pci modules. These > > programs determine what module needs to be loaded when the > > kernel emits a hotplug

Re: Thinkpad R40 freezes after swsusp resume

2005-02-11 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 07:31:14PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Try also acpi=off. i was hoping for a test that's a bit more granular. might it be possible to disable suspect bits of the acpi code instead of all of it? i'm open to applying and testing patches. disabling all of acpi for a week

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-11 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:47:07PM +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 22:41 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 02:30 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > > hey greg > > > > > > i remember for some months back, you posted something similar.. is this > > > a version

Interrupt starvation points

2005-02-11 Thread Daniel Walker
I found some points during schedule when interrupts are off for long periods . These two patches seem to help. One enables interrupts inside schedule() , so that interrupts are enabled after each need-resched loop, then disabled again before __schedule() is called. The other

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-11 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:19:22PM +0100, Christian Borntr?ger wrote: > On Friday 11 February 2005 07:46, Greg KH wrote: > > And finally, even if you do use udevstart to manager /sbin/hotplug > > events, you still need a module autoloader program. This package > > provides executables for that

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 11, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry McVoy) wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:30:22PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> > Can you offer any plausible explanation other than a good faith desire >> > to help the open source community, albeit in a non-traditional way? >> I don't see what

[2.6 patch] pm3fb: remove kernel 2.2 code

2005-02-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes kernel 2.2 code from pm3fb.{c,h}. It also removes KERNEL_2_4 and KERNEL_2_5 since all places where this was used had a #if (defined KERNEL_2_4) || (defined KERNEL_2_5) (Yes, I know the driver is marked as BROKEN.) Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This

RE: aacraid fails under kernel 2.6

2005-02-11 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
Then turn off both read and write cache on the card ... You should contact Dell Technical support as there are many reasons for the adapter to fail ranging from bad power supply, cables, drives etc. Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn -Original Message- From: Jonathan Knight [mailto:[EMAIL

[RFC: 2.6 patch] DVB: possible cleanups

2005-02-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
Before I'm getting flamed to death: This patch contains possible cleanups. If parts of this patch conflict with pending changes these parts of my patch have to be dropped. This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - remove the following

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-11 Thread Yuval Tanny
In fs/Kconfig, See "Documentation/filesystems/fscache.txt for more information." and "See Documentation/filesystems/cachefs.txt for more information." Should be changed to: "See Documentation/filesystems/caching/fscache.txt for more information." and "See

Re: How to disable slow agpgart in kernel config?

2005-02-11 Thread Marcus Hartig
Dave Jones wrote: probably you have selected IOMMU, which is dependant on it. Yes, thanks. Sorry my fault. I had it not deactivated, arggg. This surprises me, especially considering the in-kernel nvidia-agp driver was actually written by NVidia. Are there any agp error messages in your dmesg / X

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-11 Thread Christian Bornträger
On Friday 11 February 2005 07:46, Greg KH wrote: > And finally, even if you do use udevstart to manager /sbin/hotplug > events, you still need a module autoloader program. This package > provides executables for that problem, if you don't want to (or you > can't) use the existing linux-hotplug

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
The mails have started flowing in saying "I don't agree with Alexandre and please don't pull the plug" so a point of clarification. We have no intention of shutting down the BK free product. We are aware that there are 10's of thousands of developers in the open source world who do not agree

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Jon Smirl
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:39:47 -0800 (PST), Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bit I don't understand is that you've claimed you'd be willing to > implement the code needed to export the additional information that > Roman, myself and probably many others would like to have, if someone

Re: [PATCH] adding the ICS MK712 touchscreen driver to 2.6

2005-02-11 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:50:19AM -0500, Richard Koch wrote: > Thanks for the evtest.c program and the information about evtouch. After the > minor change from LONG(BTN_LEFT) to LONG(BTN_TOUCH), patch below, I > was able to then get touch on/off events. Also I tested this driver with the >

Re: aacraid fails under kernel 2.6

2005-02-11 Thread Jonathan Knight
> A number of people have seen problems like this going from 2.4 to 2.6. > Mark Salyzyn from Adaptec has suggested in those cases to make sure that > the board firmware is up to date. I've copied Mark on this mail. We think we're on the latest everything. The BIOS is A07 and the firmware on

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:01:46PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > I don't believe his claim, and I can prove it with a dumb example. > > Consider three patches, A, J and U, such that A and U are identical, > and J is a patch that reverses them. > > You can determine the final state of the tree

Re: [PATCH] adding the ICS MK712 touchscreen driver to 2.6

2005-02-11 Thread Richard Koch
Hello again, Thanks for the evtest.c program and the information about evtouch. After the minor change from LONG(BTN_LEFT) to LONG(BTN_TOUCH), patch below, I was able to then get touch on/off events. Also I tested this driver with the "evtouch" Xwindows driver and it worked nicely. Thanks, Rick

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:30:22PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > Can you offer any plausible explanation other than a good faith desire > > to help the open source community, albeit in a non-traditional way? > > I don't see what you've done as helping the open source community. So in your

Re: [PATCH] ohci1394: dma_pool_destroy while in_atomic() && irqs_disabled()

2005-02-11 Thread Dan Dennedy
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 20:19 -0500, Parag Warudkar wrote: > Attached is the reworked patch to take care of Andrew's suggestions - > > 1) Allocate the work struct dynamically in struct ti_ohci during device > probe, free it during device remove > 2) In ohci1394_pci_remove, ensure queued work, if

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 10, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry McVoy) wrote: > It seems like you've made up your mind that we are operating out of pure > self interest and have no desire to help you or anyone else unless we > get something out of it. In other words, we're making our decisions > based on the net

Re: aacraid fails under kernel 2.6

2005-02-11 Thread Mark Haverkamp
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 14:28 +, Jonathan Knight wrote: > > We are having major problems with the aacraid module under fedora core 2 on > Dell poweredge 2500. These use PERC3/Di controllers. [ ... ] > > The systems run fine with no users, but as soon as the disks go under load > we get the

GL520SM Sensor Chip driver

2005-02-11 Thread maartendeprez
Port of the Genesys Logic 520SM sensor chip driver from linux 2.4 Signed-off-by: Maarten Deprez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2/drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig.orig 2005-02-11 16:14:12.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2/drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig 2005-02-11 16:14:31.0

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.11-rc3-mm2] Relay Fork Module

2005-02-11 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 00:54 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I tested this patch on a 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 kernel and there is a little > > overhead when I compile a Linux kernel: > > > >#time sh -c 'make O=/home/guill/build/k2610 bzImage && > >make O=/home/guill/build/k2610 modules' > > >

Re: Detecting kernel shutdown in a kernel driver

2005-02-11 Thread Andi Kleen
"Simon White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've been writing a device driver for a piece of hardware that we recently > found the pci bridge has an issue on software reset (kernel 2.6.8.1, hardware > reset is fine). The bridge appears to corrupt the subvendor/device ids on > next

Website question

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[PATCH][PPC32] Fix typos in cpm_uart_cpm2.c

2005-02-11 Thread Andrei Konovalov
This patch applies to the kernel 2.6.11-rc3 and removes excess '~' before the bit masks. Signed-off-by: Andrei Konovalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -uprN a/drivers/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_cpm2.c b/drivers/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_cpm2.c --- a/drivers/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_cpm2.c 2005-02-11

[PATCH] FRV: Fix sigaltstack handling for RT signals

2005-02-11 Thread David Howells
The attached patch fixes sigaltstack handling for RT signal return. It was reading a userspace struct into kernel space and then passing the kernel copy to a generic signalling routine which then assumed it had been passed a userspace pointer... Signed-Off-By: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc3-mm2] serial: add the output interface control to VR41xx SIU driver

2005-02-11 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
This patch adds the output interface control to VR41xx SIU driver. And obsolete function for VR41xx SIU is removed. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urN -X dontdiff a-orig/arch/mips/vr41xx/casio-e55/setup.c a/arch/mips/vr41xx/casio-e55/setup.c ---

aacraid fails under kernel 2.6

2005-02-11 Thread Jonathan Knight
We are having major problems with the aacraid module under fedora core 2 on Dell poweredge 2500. These use PERC3/Di controllers. 01:02.1 RAID bus controller: Dell Computer Corporation PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 3 (rev 01) 01:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-3960D /

Re: [RFC] Changing COW detection to be memory hotplug friendly

2005-02-11 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Ok, I'm quite convinced it's correct now. The only thing that can make > mapcount go up without the lock on the page without userspace > intervention (and userspace intervention would make it an undefined > behaviour like in my example with fork),

Re: [CHECKER] Does sys_sync (ext2, 2.6.x) flush metadata?

2005-02-11 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:59:53 -0800 (PST), Junfeng Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > We're working on a file system checker and have a question regarding what > sys_sync actually does. It appears to us that sys_sync should sync both > data and metadata, and wait until both data

Re: [CHECKER] Does sys_sync (ext2, 2.6.x) flush metadata?

2005-02-11 Thread Andi Kleen
Junfeng Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We're working on a file system checker and have a question regarding what > sys_sync actually does. It appears to us that sys_sync should sync both > data and metadata, and wait until both data and metadata hit the disk > before it returns. Is this

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.11-rc3-mm2] Relay Fork Module

2005-02-11 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 00:54 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I tested this patch on a 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 kernel and there is a little > > overhead when I compile a Linux kernel: > > > >#time sh -c 'make O=/home/guill/build/k2610 bzImage && > >make O=/home/guill/build/k2610 modules' > > > >

Re: DVB at76c651.c driver seems to be dead code

2005-02-11 Thread Andreas Oberritter
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:49 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > If I understand it correctly, there are several drivers that only make > sense if they are used together. at76c651.c alone makes zero sense? > This means it would be highly appreciated to have all parts inside the > kernel at some time in

Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] DVB at76c651.c driver seems to be dead code

2005-02-11 Thread Andreas Oberritter
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:36 +0100, Holger Waechtler wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >I didn't find any way how the drivers/media/dvb/frontends/at76c651.c > >driver would do anything inside kernel 2.6.11-rc3-mm2. All it does is to > >EXPORT_SYMBOL a function at76c651_attach that isn't used

Re: [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

2005-02-11 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:36:37 +0100, Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +static int __init sony_acpi_add(struct acpi_device *device) > +{ > + acpi_status status = AE_OK; > + struct sony_snc *snc = NULL; > + int result; > + > + snc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sony_snc),

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-11 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 22:41 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 02:30 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > hey greg > > > > i remember for some months back, you posted something similar.. is this > > a version thats ready for use? if it is! im gonna use it! :D > > Yes, this is that

Re: [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

2005-02-11 Thread Stelian Pop
Based on feedback from Jean Delvare and Pekka Enberg, here is an updated version. Changes from the previous version include: - do not initialize to 0 a static variable - trim to 80 columns - do not do spurious void * casts - use c99 style struct initialization - use simple_strtoul instead of

Re: [PATCH 2/5] sonypi: add another HELP button event

2005-02-11 Thread Stelian Pop
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 05:31:05PM +, Daniel K. wrote: > > { SONYPI_DEVICE_MODEL_TYPE2, 0x08, SONYPI_HELP_MASK, sonypi_helpev }, > > + { SONYPI_DEVICE_MODEL_TYPE2, 0x21, SONYPI_HELP_MASK, sonypi_helpev }, > > I suspect you should simply replace the '0x08' line as it was left over >

Re: [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

2005-02-11 Thread Stelian Pop
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:30:35AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Stelian, all, > > >This driver has been submitted (almost unchanged) on lkml and > >on acpi-devel twice, first on July 21, 2004, then again on > >September 17, 2004. It has been quietly ignored. > > > >Privately I've had many

Re: [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

2005-02-11 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:18:10 +0100, Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +static int sony_acpi_write_brt(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, > unsigned long count, void *data) > +{ > + struct sony_snc *snc = (struct sony_snc *) data; The casts for void pointer conversiosn are

Re: [ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29

2005-02-11 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 16:39 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > What do you mean "adds another incompatibility" ? > > That users will have to switch to dmraid when upgrading to v2.6.x ? which is a rather disruptive and incompatible change. device names change etc etc. > SATA is not the same

Re: Potential timer bug

2005-02-11 Thread Tipp Moseley
Err. I'm stupid. This isn't a bug. On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:09:10 -0700, Tipp Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am running on a uniprocessor x86 with CONFIG_SMP disabled and > CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled. > > The problem I have encountered is when using a timer in a module. The >

Re: [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

2005-02-11 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Stelian, all, This driver has been submitted (almost unchanged) on lkml and on acpi-devel twice, first on July 21, 2004, then again on September 17, 2004. It has been quietly ignored. Privately I've had many positive feedbacks from users of this driver (and no negative feedback), including

Re: USB 2.4.30: fix modem_run

2005-02-11 Thread Duncan Sands
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 16:11 -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > I entered a patch which adds "exclusive_access" lock into 2.4.29, to fix > devices which cannot handle simultaneous accesses. This caused a regression > with European ADSL modems. An ioctl USBDEVFS_REAPURB allows a process to enter > the

Re: [CHECKER] Does sys_sync (ext2, 2.6.x) flush metadata?

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew Morton
Junfeng Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > We're working on a file system checker and have a question regarding what > sys_sync actually does. It appears to us that sys_sync should sync both > data and metadata, and wait until both data and metadata hit the disk > before it returns.

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Sven Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this patch only changes xtime_lock back and forth - it does > > in no way impact the 'threadedness' of the timer IRQ. (it > > does not move the timer IRQ into an interrupt thread.) > > > > nor do we really want to make it configurable - it's > >

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:59:42AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > think of SCHED_FIFO on the desktop as an ugly wart, a hammer, that > > destroys the careful balance of priorities of SCHED_OTHER tasks. Yes, it > > can be useful if you _need_ a

RE: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-11 Thread Sven Dietrich
Ingo wrote: > > * Sven Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch adds a config option to allow you to select > whether timer > > IRQ runs in thread or not. > > this patch only changes xtime_lock back and forth - it does > in no way impact the 'threadedness' of the timer IRQ.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-11 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:40:33PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > - autoload programs for usb, scsi, and pci modules. These > programs determine what module needs to be loaded when the > kernel emits a hotplug event for these types of devices. This > works just like the

Re: DVB at76c651.c driver seems to be dead code

2005-02-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:11:17AM +0100, Mws wrote: > FYI > > The atmel at76c651 frontend driver is used for the > Sagem DBox2 Digital Cable Receiver. > > As all other parts of the dbox2 drivers are atm not hosted at kernel cvs but > at > cvs.tuxbox.org you won't find any components in

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Sven Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, this is not in arm. Here is the patch. > > Index: linux-2.6.10/include/asm-i386/spinlock.h what version do you have? The current released patch is 2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-10. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-11 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:59:42AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > think of SCHED_FIFO on the desktop as an ugly wart, a hammer, that > destroys the careful balance of priorities of SCHED_OTHER tasks. Yes, it > can be useful if you _need_ a scheduling guarantee due to physical > constraints, and it

RE: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-11 Thread Sven Dietrich
No, this is not in arm. Here is the patch. Index: linux-2.6.10/include/asm-i386/spinlock.h === --- linux-2.6.10.orig/include/asm-i386/spinlock.h 2005-02-11 09:25:39.224240321 + +++ linux-2.6.10/include/asm-i386/spinlock.h

Re: [linux-dvb-maintainer] DVB at76c651.c driver seems to be dead code

2005-02-11 Thread Holger Waechtler
Adrian Bunk wrote: I didn't find any way how the drivers/media/dvb/frontends/at76c651.c driver would do anything inside kernel 2.6.11-rc3-mm2. All it does is to EXPORT_SYMBOL a function at76c651_attach that isn't used anywhere. Is a patch to remove this driver OK or did I miss anything? no,

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-11 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:04:19AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So the comparison boils down to putting a magic gid in a sysfs > > file/module parameter or setting an rlimit with standard tools (PAM, > > etc). I'm really boggled that anyone could

Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

2005-02-11 Thread Paul Jackson
[ For those who have already reached a conclusion on this subject, there is little that is new below. It's just cast in a different light, as an analysis of how well the CKRM cpuset/memset task class that Chandra describes meets the needs of cpusets. The conclusion is: not well. A

Re: kernel panic with 2.4.26

2005-02-11 Thread Klaus Muth
Am Freitag, 21. Januar 2005 07:15 schrieb Klaus Muth: > Every now and then (maybe twice a week) my server panics. [...] > Any help will be appreciated. Did help myself. Seems to work. > ksymoops 2.4.5 on i686 2.4.26-msi1. Options used Updated to 2.4.29, keeping my kernel config. No panic since

Re: [ACPI] [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

2005-02-11 Thread Stelian Pop
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:39:37PM +0100, Bruno Ducrot wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 05:18:10PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote: > > Hi, > > > > +ACPI Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme > > +-- > > + Copyright (C) 2004 Stelian Pop <[EMAIL

Potential timer bug

2005-02-11 Thread Tipp Moseley
Hello, I am running on a uniprocessor x86 with CONFIG_SMP disabled and CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled. The problem I have encountered is when using a timer in a module. The timer is set to execute every 3 ticks, and does nothing but increment a counter, and that works fine. However, when the module is

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the comparison boils down to putting a magic gid in a sysfs > file/module parameter or setting an rlimit with standard tools (PAM, > etc). I'm really boggled that anyone could prefer the former, > especially since we had almost this exact debate

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Read more closely: there are two independent limits in the patch, > RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO. This lets us grant elevated nice > without SCHED_FIFO. ok, indeed. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-11 Thread Stelian Pop
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:17:00PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > So if we knew that doing this would hurt our business, which according > you is the only thing we care about, then why would we do it? The usual > response is the marketing value we get out of it. Yes, we certainly do > get some

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i disagree that desktop performance tomorrow will necessarily have to > > utilize SCHED_FIFO. Today's desktop audio applications perform quite > > good at SCHED_NORMAL priorities [with the 2.6.11 kernel that has more > > interactivity/latency fixes

[PATCH] Convert Documentation/DocBook to XML

2005-02-11 Thread Martin Waitz
hoi :) I wanted to experiment with different docbook processors to speed up documentation generation. Well, I haven't found a better way yet but as a side-effect I now have a patch that moves all DocBook templates to valid XML DocBook. Please do a bk pull bk://tali.bkbits.net/linux-doc

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-11 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:48:43AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here's Chris' patch for reference: > > > > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/6408569e13ed6e80 > > how does this patch solve the separation of 'negative nice

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