Re: COMMAND_LINE_SIZE increasing in 2.6.11-rc1-bk6

2005-02-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Something like that.I have yet to see a even a proof of concept > > of the idea of passing device information, to clean up probes. > > Yes, the kexec-based boot loader first, then this. For a > kexec-based boot

[PATCH] Non-DMA mode for floppy on PowerPC

2005-02-13 Thread Pavel Fedin
This patch allows to use floppy drive in non-DMA mode on PegasosPPC machines. To use it: 1. Do not build floppy driver as a module, link it statically. Transferring parameters to it from insmod is still problematic, at least it doesn't work properly on my system. May be i'll clean it up in

Re: Linux 2.6.8.1 CPU Scheduler Documentation

2005-02-13 Thread Nick Piggin
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 06:28 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hello Josh, > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:23:15PM -0600, Josh Aas wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have written an introduction to the Linux 2.6.8.1 CPU scheduler > > implementation. It should help people to understand what is going on in >

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-13 Thread Adam Sulmicki
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Matthew Jacob wrote: I'm curious why you'd have a non-compete for 1 year for just using BK. Larry likes to participate in flamewars on LKML ? :-) That would make BK more or less unique amongst packages, no? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: COMMAND_LINE_SIZE increasing in 2.6.11-rc1-bk6

2005-02-13 Thread Adam Sulmicki
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE wrote: I really suggest to push this limit to 4k. My reason is that under UML I need to put a lot of stuff in command line and uml crash if I not extend this limit. Can we make it depend on arhitecture? another nice feature would be the kernel

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-13 Thread Matthew Jacob
I'm curious why you'd have a non-compete for 1 year for just using BK. That would make BK more or less unique amongst packages, no? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

generating bus read cycles.

2005-02-13 Thread krishna
Hi all, Can anyone explain that, how can (void)*reg_addr; generate a read cycle on the bus. And Is there any source which clearly explains about setup of DMA and How to do DMA transfers. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya /* * The codec register read operation requires 3 read cycles on PXA250 in order

Re: COMMAND_LINE_SIZE increasing in 2.6.11-rc1-bk6

2005-02-13 Thread Werner Almesberger
Eric W. Biederman wrote: > For detecting devices especially in the case that takes > a while that isn't something we need to do early > in the boot process. Yes, but I'd rather have a generic mechanism that works in all reasonable cases. Things have a tendency of growing in the oddest directions.

Re: Linux 2.6.8.1 CPU Scheduler Documentation

2005-02-13 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hello Josh, On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:23:15PM -0600, Josh Aas wrote: > Hello, > > I have written an introduction to the Linux 2.6.8.1 CPU scheduler > implementation. It should help people to understand what is going on in > the scheduler code faster than they would be able to by just reading

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-13 Thread Werner Almesberger
Ingo Molnar wrote: > the pro applications will always want to have a 100% guarantee (it > really sucks to generate a nasty audio click during a live performance) ... and the "generic kernels" distributions use will follow just as swiftly, as soon as the feature appears stable enough. It even

Re: Bogus REPORT_LUNS responses breaks SCSI LUN detection

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:39:02PM -0500, Joe Krahn wrote: > There are apparently several devices that return bad data > for the REPORT_LUNS query, but do not return an error. > The newer kernels only do sequential LUN scans if REPORT_LUNS > fails. There may need to be a kernel option to force

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 17:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > All distros are trying to reduce boot time. They certainly aren't all trying very hard. Debian and Fedora (last time I checked) do not even run the init scripts in parallel. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk5: XFS: fcron: could not write() buf to disk: Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-02-13 Thread Darren Williams
Hi Nathan I can also confirm that this patch resolves an issue I am seeing with re-aim-7 writing to xfs fs mounted on ramdisk, I was also getting EAGAIN. Thanks Darren On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Nathan Scott wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:44:54PM +0300, Alexander Y. Fomichev wrote: > > On

[BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-13 Thread Larry McVoy
This is a heads up that the BK tree for the kernel is currently at 59,000 changesets give or take a few. The BK that you are using uses unsigned shorts for the internal names of each delta which means you folks are about 100 days away from things no longer working. The good news is that the

avoiding pci_disable_device()...

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Currently, in almost every PCI driver, if pci_request_regions() fails -- indicating another driver is using the hardware -- then pci_disable_device() is called on the error path, disabling a device that another driver is using To call this "rather rude" is an understatement :) Fortunately, the

Re: whoops in kernel 2.6.9

2005-02-13 Thread Herbert Xu
Konstantin V. Gavrilenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whoops happened when tried to do > #ip route del blackhole to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > > output of dmesg, and lsmod > EIP is at fib_release_info+0x8b/0xf0 This was fixed in 2.6.10. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu

Re: PATCH 2.6.11-rc4]: IBM TrackPoint configuration support

2005-02-13 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Sunday 13 February 2005 19:32, Stephen Evanchik wrote: > Here is the latest IBM TrackPoint patch. I believe I made all of the > necessary changes in this release including the removal of the > middle-to-scroll functionality. One item I didn't address was a > comment about checking the return

Re: Oops with oprofile + RT preempt 2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-01

2005-02-13 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 07:55:35PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 14:30 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Philippe Elie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > oprofile_ops.cpu_type == NULL, this has been fixed 3 weeks ago, can > > > you retry with -rc4 ? > > > > i've

Re: Oops with oprofile + RT preempt 2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-01

2005-02-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 14:30 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Philippe Elie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > oprofile_ops.cpu_type == NULL, this has been fixed 3 weeks ago, can > > you retry with -rc4 ? > > i've uploaded an -rc4 port of the -RT tree half an hour ago (-39-00). > OK, I will test

PATCH 2.6.11-rc4]: IBM TrackPoint configuration support

2005-02-13 Thread Stephen Evanchik
Here is the latest IBM TrackPoint patch. I believe I made all of the necessary changes in this release including the removal of the middle-to-scroll functionality. One item I didn't address was a comment about checking the return code of ps2_command .. I looked at other usages and it wasn't clear

whoops in kernel 2.6.9

2005-02-13 Thread Konstantin V. Gavrilenko
Whoops happened when tried to do #ip route del blackhole to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx output of dmesg, and lsmod Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip: c031ce3b *pde = Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: sch_sfq sch_htb cls_u32 sch_ingress

2.6.10 parport_pc: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones

2005-02-13 Thread steve
Hi, When I run modprobe parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 and found parport_pc: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones in dmesg output and of course my paralel port does not use irq. Have no way to tell parport_pc to use IRQ? With 2.6.8 the above command is fine. Search the

Linux 2.6.8.1 CPU Scheduler Documentation

2005-02-13 Thread Josh Aas
Hello, I have written an introduction to the Linux 2.6.8.1 CPU scheduler implementation. It should help people to understand what is going on in the scheduler code faster than they would be able to by just reading through the code. The paper can be downloaded in PDF or LyX form from here:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-13 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Sunday 13 February 2005 14:13, Stephen Evanchik wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:52:44 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I have read the code once again, and saw that you have special > > handling within PS/2 protocol based on model constant. Please set > > psmouse type

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-13 Thread Todd Shetter
Jeff Garzik wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:23:42PM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:47:28PM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, 2.4.29 with highmem 4GB, and highmem

[no subject]

2005-02-13 Thread pse
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Re: linux-2.6.11-rc3 and isdn mppp

2005-02-13 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 04:50:23PM +, Christian Heim wrote: > Well, i have to setup ISDN here at home, and wanted to use both channels. > I am able to add the second channel, but then the kernel (at least i think) > starts to complain. > > >17:36:22 kraftwerk Badness in local_bh_enable at

RTC Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-02-13 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
Hi, Having CONFIG_RTC=y, I tried on x86 the rtctest program found in linux-2.6.10/Documentation/rtc.txt. However, it failed at: ioctl(fd, RTC_UIE_ON, 0); with: ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device Did I miss something? Maybe something else conflicts with CONFIG_RTC? Cheers. signature.asc

PCI access mode on x86_64

2005-02-13 Thread Piotr Kaczuba
Hi! Is there a reason why "PCI access mode" config option isn't available for x86_64? Due to this, PCIE config options aren't available either. Piotr Kaczuba - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

[PATCH] 5/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Test security_enabled var rather than security_ops pointer References: 40217, 39439 Rather than doing a pointer comparison, test an integer var for being null. Should be slightly faster. I consider this patch as optional. Note that it does not

[PATCH] 4/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Consider the capability case the likely one References: 40217, 39439 The case that security_ops points to the default capability_ security_ops is the fast path and arguably the more likely one on most systems. So mark it likely to tell the compiler

[PATCH] 2/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Clean LSM stub file References: 40217, 39439 Rather than having every LSM hook twice, once for the case with CONFIG_SECURITY enabled and once for the disabled case, put everything in one inline function. This reduces the chance of the two to go out

[PATCH] 3/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Replace indirect calls by a branch References: 40217, 39439 In the LSM stub collection, rather do a branch than an indirect call. Many of the functions called do only return 0 or do nothing for the default (capability) case. This is a fast-path

[PATCH] 1/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Default to capability rather than dummy if no LSM is loaded References: 40217, 39439 If a kernel is compiled with CONFIG_SECURITY to enable LSM, the default behaviour changes unless a user load capability. This is undesirable. This patch makes

Re: [PATCH] linux-libc-headers-2.6.10.0: if_tunnel.h relies on byteorder.h having been included

2005-02-13 Thread Mariusz Mazur
On niedziela 13 luty 2005 17:38, Nix wrote: ---snip--- Applied, thanks. Though I believe CCing such mails to lkml is kind of pointless. -- In the year eighty five ten God is gonna shake his mighty head He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been" Or tear it down, and start again - To

[PATCH] 0/5: LSM hooks rework

2005-02-13 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, this goes back to a discussion in August last year: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.1/0623.html The following patchset addresses three issues of the security.h stub collection: * All the functions are implemented twice, once for CONFIG_SECURITY enabled and once for

netdev-2.6 queue updated

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
See attached for list of changes, BK info, and patch URL. Recent changes: * posted patch against 2.6.11-rc4 (see attached) * incorporated ieee80211 lib code into the wireless-2.6 sub-tree, which is included in this queue. This code will form the basis of the "Linux wireless stack". Wireless

[SATA] libata-dev queue updated

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
A minor update since the last post. Recent changes: * updated to 2.6.11-rc4, posted patch (see attached). * turned on ATAPI by default. If you got an S/ATAPI DVD burner for Christmas, you'll like this. WARNING DANGER WARNING: Some drivers such as sata_promise and ahci have not yet been

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-13 Thread Stephen Evanchik
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:31:49 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're right. The IBM trackpoints unfortunately don't have a 'native' > mode, they always do full processing and send classic PS/2 packets. > > I think we shouldn't need a handler, since we can use the PS/2 protocol

Re: [PATCH 2.6] Check return value of copy_to_user in fs/cifs/file.c [Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc4]

2005-02-13 Thread Luca
Il Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:28:38PM +0100, Marcel Sebek ha scritto: > > @@ -1164,13 +1164,22 @@ > > current_read_size, *poffset, > > _read, _read_data); > > > > + if (rc == -EAGAIN) > > +

[PATCH] i386 ramdisk_max fix for < 1GB kernel space

2005-02-13 Thread John Cho
There was a vmalloc tuning patch made back in September 2004 that reserved a larger amount of memory for vmalloc. Unfortunately, the patch does not work properly for modified kernels where the kernel's virtual address space has been reduced to 512MB or less. More specifically, if __PAGE_OFFSET

Re: possible CPU bug and request for Intel contacts

2005-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Seth, Rohit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a little different note, while running the 4G-4G kernel on our > machine, we saw occasional hangs. Those are root caused to the fact > that this kernel was first chaging the stack pointer from virtual > stack to kernel and then changing the CR3 to

[PATCH 2.6] Add PCI quirk for SMBus on the Toshiba Satellite A40

2005-02-13 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi all, The Toshiba Satellite A40 laptop hides its SMBus device, much like a number of Asus boards reputedly do. This prevents access to the LM90 hardware monitoring chip. This simple patch extends the PCI quirk used for the Asus and HP systems to this Toshiba laptop. Please consider for merge

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 02:13:15PM -0500, Stephen Evanchik wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:52:44 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I have read the code once again, and saw that you have special > > handling within PS/2 protocol based on model constant. Please set > >

repost: 2.6.11-rc4 BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code: ip/6840

2005-02-13 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:51:11PM +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > While executing > iptables -t nat -D OUTPUT -d 80.126.170.174 -p tcp --dport https -j DNAT --to > 192.168.0.1 > iptables -t nat -D OUTPUT -d 80.126.170.174 -p tcp --dport http -j DNAT --to > 192.168.0.1 still present in

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-13 Thread Stephen Evanchik
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:52:44 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I have read the code once again, and saw that you have special > handling within PS/2 protocol based on model constant. Please set > psmouse type to PSMOUSE_TRACKPOINT instead of model and provide full > protocol

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 02:07:39PM -0500, Stephen Evanchik wrote: > > > Perhaps this should be done in userspace? It is probably usable on > > > non-trackpoint devices, too... > > > > For a big part it's not possible to do in userspace, because the > > touchpoint doesn't give the pressure

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-13 Thread Stephen Evanchik
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:14:17 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps this should be done in userspace? It is probably usable on > > non-trackpoint devices, too... > > For a big part it's not possible to do in userspace, because the > touchpoint doesn't give the pressure

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 07:14:44PM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 13.02.2005, 13:01 +0100 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:05:00AM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > > > > > > This > > > > > sequence does not always work and there is not something like a "magic > > >

[Partially solved] Re: irq 10: nobody cared! (was: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1)

2005-02-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, William. On Feb 12 2005, William Park wrote: > Your 'dmesg' says > Warning: Secondary channel requires an 80-pin cable for operation. > I assume it is. Well, I just finished compiling the 2.6.11-rc4 kernel and the problem persisted. This time, I enabled ACPI debugging and it indeed

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:23:42PM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:47:28PM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, 2.4.29 with highmem 4GB, and highmem i/o support enabled,

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-13 Thread Kenan Esau
Am Sonntag, den 13.02.2005, 13:01 +0100 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:05:00AM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > > > > This > > > > sequence does not always work and there is not something like a "magic > > > > knock sequence". > > > > > > You mean that the only needed bit is

Re: [PATCH] uml: support a separate build tree; support USER_OBJS dependencies

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Err... FWIW, aforementioned patch lacks e.g. vmlinux.lds.S. Yeah, I have that fixed locally. I just haven't pushed out the new stuff yet. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: ARM undefined symbols. Again.

2005-02-13 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:40:53AM +, Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:05:01PM +, Russell King wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:42:43PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:43:59AM +, Russell King wrote: > > > > > > > > Maybe we need an

Re: [PATCH 2.6] Check return value of copy_to_user in fs/cifs/file.c [Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc4]

2005-02-13 Thread Marcel Sebek
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 04:44:16PM +0100, Luca wrote: > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > this is hopefully the last -rc kernel before the real 2.6.11, so please > > give it a whirl, and complain loudly about anything broken. > > The following patch against 2.6.11-rc4 fixes this

[PATCH] typos in toplevel Makefile

2005-02-13 Thread Olaf Hering
fix two typos. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -purNx tags ../linux-2.6.11-rc4.orig/Makefile ./Makefile --- ../linux-2.6.11-rc4.orig/Makefile 2005-02-13 04:06:56.0 +0100 +++ ./Makefile 2005-02-13 16:48:22.0 +0100 @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ CFLAGS += $(call

Re: irq 10: nobody cared! (was: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1)

2005-02-13 Thread Rogério Brito
On Feb 12 2005, William Park wrote: > Do you have MSI on by any chance? (CONFIG_PCI_MSI) If so, try kernel > without it. My motherboard exhibits runaway IRQ with it. Ok, now I've just downloaded the -rc4 patch and while selecting the options to compile, I saw what MSI means. No, I didn't have

Re: [PATCH] uml: support a separate build tree; support USER_OBJS dependencies

2005-02-13 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:12:54PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > 1. To support a separate build tree for the um/i386 architecture the > > following changes have been done: > > Have a look at > >

[PATCH] linux-libc-headers-2.6.10.0: if_tunnel.h relies on byteorder.h having been included

2005-02-13 Thread Nix
In iproute2, ip/iptunnel.c says: #include #include #include #include Now the original Linux kernel includes byteorder.h as a side-effect of including netdevice.h, which it does inside a __KERNEL__ ifdef when if_arp.h is included. I think it makes more sense to include it in those headers

Re: irq 10: nobody cared! (was: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1)

2005-02-13 Thread Rogério Brito
On Feb 12 2005, William Park wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:50:43PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > To prevent the matters of loosing track of what is being done, I only > > changed one option at a time. I put the dmesg logs of all my attempts > > at

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-02-13 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:22:46AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > And I suppose it was running just fine without the patch as well? Correct. > The question was whether the patch helps, or whether it is not needed. If you look again at the patch I posted, it only borrowed a few lines of the

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-13 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Enrico, > It is possible to include the SIS5595 chip driver to the final > release? No, sorry. It's not even in -mm yet (in fact it's even not in Greg's bk-i2c tree yet). It needs to spend some time (and get some testing) in -mm before it can go to Linus. You are still welcome to get the

[RESUBMIT] [PATCH] [BUGFIX] sound/oss/es1371.c: Don't print joystick address before it's set.

2005-02-13 Thread Bodo Eggert
Resubmit because of no feedback nor inclusion in the latest changelogs. I'm not sure wether this patch qualifies for the patch monkey, so I still omit it. Changed to apply with -p1 instead of -p0 after reading a unrelated hint on LKML (maybe this should be mentioned in the SubmittingPatches?)

Re: [PATCH] uml: support a separate build tree; support USER_OBJS dependencies

2005-02-13 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 1. To support a separate build tree for the um/i386 architecture the > following changes have been done: Have a look at http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/work/current/2.6/2.6.11-rc3-mm2/patches/cross-build That's Al Viro's take on the same problem, plus

[PATCH 2.6] Check return value of copy_to_user in fs/cifs/file.c [Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc4]

2005-02-13 Thread Luca
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > this is hopefully the last -rc kernel before the real 2.6.11, so please > give it a whirl, and complain loudly about anything broken. The following patch against 2.6.11-rc4 fixes this compile time warning: CC [M] fs/cifs/file.o fs/cifs/file.c:

[PATCH 2.6] Check return of copy_from_user value in cifssmb.c [Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc4]

2005-02-13 Thread Luca
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > this is hopefully the last -rc kernel before the real 2.6.11, so please > give it a whirl, and complain loudly about anything broken. The following patch against 2.6.11-rc4 fixes this compile time warning: fs/cifs/cifssmb.c: In function

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

2005-02-13 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 13:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > yeah - it's "M" already in fs/proc/array.c, but i missed the sched.c > case. > You also missed the kernel/rt.c case :-) -- Steve Index: kernel/rt.c === --- kernel/rt.c

Re: [Problem] slow write to dvd-ram since 2.6.7-bk8

2005-02-13 Thread Wakko Warner
Droebbel wrote: > On recent kernels, writing to DVD-RAM is much slower than to be > expected. A 3x Writer should do about 1.9MB/s including automatic > verify. This is what I get with 2.6.7 up to bk7. However, from 2.6.7-bk8 > to 2.6.10 write speed is as low as 600 to 1000 kB/s. The drive's head >

[PATCH] uml: support a separate build tree; support USER_OBJS dependencies

2005-02-13 Thread Vadim Abrossimov
1. To support a separate build tree for the um/i386 architecture the following changes have been done: - fix makefiles to generate new files and to create symlinks in the '' only - in particular, to solve the issue of 'arch/um/include/sysdep-', the same technique as for 'include/asm' has been

[Problem] slow write to dvd-ram since 2.6.7-bk8

2005-02-13 Thread Droebbel
On recent kernels, writing to DVD-RAM is much slower than to be expected. A 3x Writer should do about 1.9MB/s including automatic verify. This is what I get with 2.6.7 up to bk7. However, from 2.6.7-bk8 to 2.6.10 write speed is as low as 600 to 1000 kB/s. The drive's head jumps a lot more with

Re: Oops with oprofile + RT preempt 2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-01

2005-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Philippe Elie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > oprofile_ops.cpu_type == NULL, this has been fixed 3 weeks ago, can > you retry with -rc4 ? i've uploaded an -rc4 port of the -RT tree half an hour ago (-39-00). Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-13 Thread Francois Romieu
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > this is hopefully the last -rc kernel before the real 2.6.11, so please > give it a whirl, and complain loudly about anything broken. - dscc4 (patch in Jeff's -netdev) Apart the fact that the driver crashes on module insertion and is unusable,

Re: Oops with oprofile + RT preempt 2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-01

2005-02-13 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 14:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > PS. Ingo: Any plans to move the RT tree to -mm again (would save me > > time patching; does keep me practised though)? > > not at the moment - but you might want to make your port available

Re: Oops with oprofile + RT preempt 2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-01

2005-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS. Ingo: Any plans to move the RT tree to -mm again (would save me > time patching; does keep me practised though)? not at the moment - but you might want to make your port available to others? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Oops with oprofile + RT preempt 2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-01

2005-02-13 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 01:07 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > Are there any known incompatibilities with oprofile and the RT preempt patch? non so far for me, I use that combo quite a lot at work. However I do use the -mm series which might contain oprofile updates not found in plain -rc. Kind regards,

Re: Oops with oprofile + RT preempt 2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-01

2005-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any known incompatibilities with oprofile and the RT preempt > patch? not that i know of. Does the same thing work fine with !PREEMPT_RT? (or the patch unapplied?) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Oops with oprofile + RT preempt 2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-01

2005-02-13 Thread Philippe Elie
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 at 01:07 +, Lee Revell wrote: > Are there any known incompatibilities with oprofile and the RT preempt patch? > > Lee > > Oops: [#1] > PREEMPT > alloc > CPU:0 > EIP:0060:[oprofilefs_str_to_user+21/64]Not tainted VLI > EFLAGS: 00010246

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-13 Thread Enrico Bartky
Hello, It is possible to include the SIS5595 chip driver to the final release? EnricoB - 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 Please read the FAQ at

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

2005-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo, > > Here's a trivial patch to help others from freaking out when they see > on a show_trace that most of their processes are TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. thanks, applied it to -39-00. > - static const char *stat_nam[] = { "R", "S", "D", "T",

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:05:00AM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > > This > > > sequence does not always work and there is not something like a "magic > > > knock sequence". > > > > You mean that the only needed bit is setting the resolution to '7'? > > The lifebook touchscreen has some

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 10:39:46AM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > Am Samstag, den 12.02.2005, 12:46 -0500 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:01 +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > > > > Second thing is that I am not shure that it is a good idea to integrate > > > the lbtouch-support into

SiS drm broken during 2.6.9-rc1-bk1

2005-02-13 Thread Dave Airlie
I've just conducted a binary search to see when the SIS drm stopped working... and it was 2.6.9-rc1-bk1 from looking at it the new virtual memory layout is the most likely patch to have broken things... I haven't confirmed it is this particular patch yet, tomorrow I'll get some time to do it ..

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-13 Thread Kenan Esau
Am Samstag, den 12.02.2005, 12:46 -0500 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:01 +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > > Second thing is that I am not shure that it is a good idea to integrate > > the lbtouch-support into the psmouse-driver since there is no real way > > of deciding if the

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-13 Thread Kenan Esau
Am Samstag, den 12.02.2005, 19:34 +0100 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 11.02.2005, 21:10 +0100 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: > > > Hi! [...] > > As far as I can see the > > init-sequence is the one from Haralds xfree

Re: [PATCH] Enable I2C_PIIX4 for 64-bit platforms

2005-02-13 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Maciej, > Is there any specific reason for the PIIX4 SMBus driver to be > disabled on 64-bit platforms? No idea. > If not, then please apply the following change. > The MIPS Technologies Malta development board has the 82371EB chip > and supports 64-bit configurations. I've verified the

Re: How to disable slow agpgart in kernel config?

2005-02-13 Thread Marcus Hartig
Dave Jones wrote: Was there any differnces in the devices at 00:00.0 and 00:01.0 ? (host & pci bridges) Only the Host bridge line c0: With AGPGART: 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e1 (rev a1) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0300

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:49:10AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Friday 11 February 2005 15:10, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > +   if (set_properties) { > > +   psmouse->vendor = "Fujitsu Lifebook"; > > +   psmouse->name = "TouchScreen"; > > +   } > > + > > +   

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2005-02-13 Thread Daniel Dickman
For the m32r architecture, is there a reason not to use the generic bug.h definition? Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc4/include/asm-m32r/bug.h 2004-12-24 16:34:01.0 -0500 +++ linux/include/asm-m32r/bug.h2005-02-13 03:39:39.775236000 -0500

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-02-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 07:16:59PM -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > Sorry for the long delay in replying; the HiNote needed some effort to get > the thing up and running again. [Various bits of hardware are broken; > the power switch, floppy, and CD-ROM are busted/flakey.] I've now got >

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-02-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 07:16:59PM -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: Sorry for the long delay in replying; the HiNote needed some effort to get the thing up and running again. [Various bits of hardware are broken; the power switch, floppy, and CD-ROM are busted/flakey.] I've now got Fedora

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2005-02-13 Thread Daniel Dickman
For the m32r architecture, is there a reason not to use the generic bug.h definition? Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc4/include/asm-m32r/bug.h 2004-12-24 16:34:01.0 -0500 +++ linux/include/asm-m32r/bug.h2005-02-13 03:39:39.775236000 -0500 @@

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:49:10AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 15:10, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: +   if (set_properties) { +   psmouse-vendor = Fujitsu Lifebook; +   psmouse-name = TouchScreen; +   } + +   

Re: How to disable slow agpgart in kernel config?

2005-02-13 Thread Marcus Hartig
Dave Jones wrote: Was there any differnces in the devices at 00:00.0 and 00:01.0 ? (host pci bridges) Only the Host bridge line c0: With AGPGART: 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e1 (rev a1) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0300

Re: [PATCH] Enable I2C_PIIX4 for 64-bit platforms

2005-02-13 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Maciej, Is there any specific reason for the PIIX4 SMBus driver to be disabled on 64-bit platforms? No idea. If not, then please apply the following change. The MIPS Technologies Malta development board has the 82371EB chip and supports 64-bit configurations. I've verified the driver

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-13 Thread Kenan Esau
Am Samstag, den 12.02.2005, 19:34 +0100 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: Am Freitag, den 11.02.2005, 21:10 +0100 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: Hi! [...] As far as I can see the init-sequence is the one from Haralds xfree 3.3.6-driver. There

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-13 Thread Kenan Esau
Am Samstag, den 12.02.2005, 12:46 -0500 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:01 +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: Second thing is that I am not shure that it is a good idea to integrate the lbtouch-support into the psmouse-driver since there is no real way of deciding if the device

SiS drm broken during 2.6.9-rc1-bk1

2005-02-13 Thread Dave Airlie
I've just conducted a binary search to see when the SIS drm stopped working... and it was 2.6.9-rc1-bk1 from looking at it the new virtual memory layout is the most likely patch to have broken things... I haven't confirmed it is this particular patch yet, tomorrow I'll get some time to do it ..

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 10:39:46AM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: Am Samstag, den 12.02.2005, 12:46 -0500 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:01 +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: Second thing is that I am not shure that it is a good idea to integrate the lbtouch-support into the

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:05:00AM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: This sequence does not always work and there is not something like a magic knock sequence. You mean that the only needed bit is setting the resolution to '7'? The lifebook touchscreen has some extensions to the standard

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

2005-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo, Here's a trivial patch to help others from freaking out when they see on a show_trace that most of their processes are TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. thanks, applied it to -39-00. - static const char *stat_nam[] = { R, S, D, T, t, Z, X }; +

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