PCMCIA breaks suspend-to-(disk|ram) with 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Sebastian Kügler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, 2.6.10 and earlier worked fine for me, apart from the occasional failure I can somewhat live with, but 2.6.11 seems to have horribly broken the combination between suspend (disk|ram) and PCMCIA. 2.6.9 and earlier is very flaky WRT S3, S4 via

Re: [PATCH] Resend: Determine SCx200 CB address at run-time

2005-03-02 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 19:12 +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: The current SCx200 drivers use a fixed base address of 0x9000 for the Configuration Block, but some systems (at least the Soekris net4801) uses a base address of 0x6000. This patch first tries the fixed address then - if no

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5? autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2

2005-03-02 Thread Christophe Lucas
Kristian Sørensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 19:42, Jeff Dike wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hey! Thanks - that fixed the problem! :-D Didn't you say this this setup worked with 2.6.10? That's why I didn't suggest staring at /etc/inittab. Yes - it works

2.6.11-rc5-mm1 reiser4,USB,crpyto: Something BAD happend

2005-03-02 Thread Alexander Gran
Hi, i''ve got an external USB 2.0 HDD. First 120GB Partition is AES encrypted reiser4. I just got LOADS of errors. syslogd is still writing them to disk. I have no idea whats happening here. reiser4 paniced, usb told me ehci_hcd :00:1d.7: devpath 4 ep2out 3strikes and SCSI emulation had

[PATCH 2.6] Trivial indentation fix in i2c/chips/Kconfig

2005-03-02 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Greg, Quoting myself: (...) I also think I see an indentation issue on the tristate line, seemingly copied from the SENSORS_DS1621 section which would need to be fixed as well. Here is the trivial patch fixing that, if you want to apply it. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.11: touchpad unresponsive

2005-03-02 Thread Miguelanxo Otero Salgueiro
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:55:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just compiled 2.6.11 from 2.6.10 config using 'make oldconfig', activate new options to default values (i.e. set main kernel lock preemtive to YES). Booting X in new kernel makes my touchpad

[PATCH 2.6] Change of i2c co-maintainer

2005-03-02 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Greg, all, Since I am working more actively than Philip (or anyone else, for that matter) on the i2c subsystem these days, it would probably make sense that I am listed as the co-maintainer instead of him. Please apply, thanks. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [patch ide-dev 8/9] make ide_task_ioctl() use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:08:56 -0500, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Yes but it seems that you've assumed that ioctl == flagged taskfile and fs/internal == normal taskfile which is _not_ what I aim for. I want fully-flagged

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-02 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:49:45AM -0800, Linus Torvalds was heard to remark: The new API is what _allows_ a driver to care. It doesn't handle DMA, but I think that's because nobody knows how to handle it (ie it's probably hw-dependent and all existign implementations would thus be

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-02 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Wednesday, March 2, 2005 10:22 am, Linas Vepstas wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:49:45AM -0800, Linus Torvalds was heard to remark: The new API is what _allows_ a driver to care. It doesn't handle DMA, but I think that's because nobody knows how to handle it (ie it's probably

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
n Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:08:51PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 07:03, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:15:42AM -, Mark Yeatman wrote: Hi Never had to log a bug before, hope this is correctly done. Thanks Mark Detail [1.]

Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc

2005-03-02 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Mauricio Lin wrote: Does anyone know if the place I put pte_unmap is logical and safe after several pte increments? The place is logical and safe, but it's still not quite right. You should have found several examples of loops having the same problem, and what do they do?

2.6.11-rc5-mm1 nfs oddity, file creation = no such file

2005-03-02 Thread Helge Hafting
I observed an oddity on a nfs-mounted fs while using 2.6.11-rc5-mm1. I tried to save a file from xfig, and got an error message about a nonexisting file. Now apps may have their own bugs, so I retried in the shell: $ cat newfile newfile: No such file or directory $ Eh - of course it didn't

Re: [2.6.11-rc4-mm1 patch] fix buggy IEEE80211_CRYPT_* selects

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:43:04AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: + select CRYPTO select CRYPTO_AES ---help--- Include software based cipher suites in support of IEEE 802.11i (aka TGi, WPA, WPA2, WPA-PSK, etc.) for use with CCMP enabled networks. @@ -54,10

[patch - 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] genalloc - general purpose allocator

2005-03-02 Thread Jes Sorensen
Hi, This patch implements a general purpose allocator which can be used by device drivers to manage special purpose memory. In particular it's used to manage uncached memory on ia64 for the mspec driver (patch to follow), but it is in no way ia64 specific. The allocator is based on the allocator

Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

2005-03-02 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:59:00PM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: The failure to invoke the -init operator appears to be the bug. The centaur code definitely wants the mcr init function to be called. Yes, I expected that to be the answer. Therefore #if 0 instead of deleting. But if calling

Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

2005-03-02 Thread Nuno Monteiro
On 2005.03.02 08:02, Dave Jones wrote: The Winchips never really sold that well, and stopped being produced when IDT sold off Centaur. It was a niche processor in 1997. In 2005, I'll be surprised if there are that many of them still working. Mine lost its magic smoke for no reason around ~2002.

2.6.11: iostat values broken ?

2005-03-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
I just upgrades one of our newsservers from 2.6.9 to 2.6.11. I use iostat -k -x 2 to see live how busy the disks are. But I don't believe that Linux optimizes things so much that a disk can be 1849.55% busy :) (you'll have to stretch out your xterm to be able to read this): Device:rrqm/s

[patch - 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] mspec ia64 memory special driver

2005-03-02 Thread Jes Sorensen
Hi This is the memory special driver for cached, uncached and 'fetchop' (SGI SN2 specific) memory mappings, formerly known as fetchop. The driver is mostly used by parallel appplictions. This patch relies on the PG_uncached support patch (already in 2.6.11-rc5) and the generic allocator patch

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-02 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:13:05PM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto was heard to remark: [ .. iochk_clear() and iochk_read() ...] And then, I don't think it need to have pci ... limitation of this API's target. It would not be match if there are a recoverable device over some PCI to XXX bridge, or if

Re: [patch - 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] genalloc - general purpose allocator

2005-03-02 Thread David Mosberger
At the risk of asking the obvious: what's preventing genalloc to be implemented in terms of mempool? --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH: 2.6.11-rc5] i2c chips: add adt7461 support to lm90 driver

2005-03-02 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi James, Add ADT7461 (temperature sensor) support to LM90 driver. Signed-off-by: James Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied, thanks. I had Greg drop this patch because it doesn't seem to be correct to me. The patch assumes that the ADT7461 is 100% compatible with the ADM1032. The

Re: [PATCH 2.6] Change of i2c co-maintainer

2005-03-02 Thread Philip Edelbrock
Agreed. Thanks for stepping up Jean! Phil Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Greg, all, Since I am working more actively than Philip (or anyone else, for that matter) on the i2c subsystem these days, it would probably make sense that I am listed as the co-maintainer instead of him. Please apply, thanks.

Re: user space program from keyboard driver

2005-03-02 Thread Helge Hafting
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:38:01PM +0530, Payasam Manohar wrote: Hai thank u for ur information. If possible can u please give some reference for the above task of creating a daemon and waking up in demand. Is it possible to call a daemon from keyboard driver on pressing certain key,

Re: 2.6.11: iostat values broken, or IDE siimage driver ?

2005-03-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgrades one of our newsservers from 2.6.9 to 2.6.11. I use iostat -k -x 2 to see live how busy the disks are. But I don't believe that Linux optimizes things so much that a disk can be 1849.55% busy :) The

Documentation for krefs

2005-03-02 Thread Corey Minyard
Greg, Here is the documentation for krefs, with the kref_checked stuff removed and a few other things cleaned up. -Corey Add some documentation for krefs. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1/Documentation/kref.txt

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-02 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:41:06AM -0800, Jesse Barnes was heard to remark: On Wednesday, March 2, 2005 10:22 am, Linas Vepstas wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:49:45AM -0800, Linus Torvalds was heard to remark: The new API is what _allows_ a driver to care. It doesn't handle DMA, but

2.6.11: suspending laptop makes system randomly unstable

2005-03-02 Thread Miguelanxo Otero Salgueiro
I just compiled 2.6.11 from a 2.6.10 configuration for a desktop machine (with kernel preemption activated). Doing a make oldconfig bring some new options. I selected the default value (for my system) for them, so I keep configuring make great kernel lock preemtive to true (complete kernel

[PATCH] Add a non-blocking interface to the I2C code, part 1

2005-03-02 Thread Corey Minyard
This is the next try at adding the non-blocking interface to the I2C code, broken into finer patches and a few problems fixed from the previous release. The IPMI SMBus driver needs a non-blocking interface; it needs to

[PATCH] Add a non-blocking interface to the I2C code, part 2

2005-03-02 Thread Corey Minyard
See part 1 for details on what this does... This patch adds an operation queue type and converts over the passing around of data to use the operation queue. The op queue entry will be used for queueing in the non-blocking case. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index:

[PATCH] Add a non-blocking interface to the I2C code, part3

2005-03-02 Thread Corey Minyard
See part 1 for details on what this does... This patch adds handling of the op q to the I2C main code in preparation for the non-blocking changes. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c

[PATCH] Add a non-blocking interface to the I2C code, part 4

2005-03-02 Thread Corey Minyard
See part 1 for details on what this does... Add a timer to the I2C layer. This doesn't do much until the non-blocking code shows up. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c

[PATCH] Add a non-blocking interface to the I2C code, part 5

2005-03-02 Thread Corey Minyard
See part 1 for details on what this does... This patch adds a non-blocking interface to the I2C code. This is needed by some RTC drivers on the I2C bus and is needed by the IPMI code so it can do things at panic time. The non-blocking interface requires changes to the driver below it. The

[PATCH] Add a non-blocking interface to the I2C code, part 6

2005-03-02 Thread Corey Minyard
See part 1 for details on what this does... This adds back in the i2c_smbus_read_block_data() function which is needed by the IPMI SMB driver (coming soon). Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-02 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:27:27AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt was heard to remark: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:33 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: The current proposal (and prototype) has a master recovery thread to handle the coordinated reset of the pci controller. This master recovery

bouncing keys and skipping sound with 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Jan Niehusmann
Hello, the problem with bouncing keys I reported with 2.6.11-rc5 is still present in 2.6.11. Additionally, I noticed that audio has short outages every few seconds, which sound like latency problems would do. And I saw with 'top' that often, when the sound skips, the kacpid process shows up

[PATCH] Add a non-blocking interface to the I2C code, part 7

2005-03-02 Thread Corey Minyard
See part 1 for details on what this does... This patch modifies the I801 SMBus driver to use the non-blocking interface. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c ===

[PATCH] Minor cleanups to the IPMI driver

2005-03-02 Thread Corey Minyard
This patch cleans up the DMI handling so that multiple interfaces can be reported from the DMI tables and so that the DMI slave address can be transferred up to the upper layer. It also adds an option to specify the slave address as an init parm and removes some unnecessary initializers. This

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] [PATCH] extend the limits for command line

2005-03-02 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 04 November 2004 15:34, Blaisorblade wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2004 08:08, Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE wrote: Hello! (I resend this because I get no feedback.) Sorry, miss of time. I'm doing it now... I'll post it soon for merging. The crash fixed by Jeff Dike in his patch

Re: [request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have any objections to merging FUSE in mainline kernel? I was planning on sending FUSE into Linus in a week or two. That and cpusets are the notable features which are 2.6.12 candidates. - crashdump seems permanently not-quite-ready - perfctr

Re: [SATA] libata-dev queue updated

2005-03-02 Thread Joerg Sommrey
Jeff Garzik wrote: BK users: bk pull bk://gkernel.bkbits.net/libata-dev-2.6 Patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.11-rc5-bk4-libata-dev1.patch.bz2 Still not usable here. The same errors as before when backing up: Mar 2 21:09:50 bear kernel: ata1:

Re: [2.6.11-rc4-mm1 patch] fix buggy IEEE80211_CRYPT_* selects

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:43:04AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: + select CRYPTO select CRYPTO_AES ---help--- Include software based cipher suites in support of IEEE 802.11i (aka TGi, WPA, WPA2,

Re[03]: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread John L. Males
Hi Marcello, ** Reply Seperator ** On (Wed) 2005-03-02 11:34:41 -0300 Marcelo Tosatti wrote in Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29 Date: Wed, 2

Re: Tracing memory leaks (slabs) in 2.6.9+ kernels?

2005-03-02 Thread Manfred Spraul
Andrew Morton wrote: OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: + slab_bufctl(slabp)[objnr] = (unsigned long)caller; Umm... this patch looks strange.. slab_bufctl() returns kmem_bufctl_t *, but kmem_bufctl_t is unsigned short. Good point.

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.11: usbnet broken

2005-03-02 Thread David Brownell
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 9:07 am, Holger Klawitter wrote: Hi there, in 2.6.11 the usbnet module is not being loaded for my Zaurus SL-C860 (Vendor ID = 044d, Product ID = 9031), which used to work in 2.6.10. (as stated in previous post, rc4 and rc5 were also broken). Hmm, I don't think

Re: [2.6.11-rc4-mm1 patch] fix buggy IEEE80211_CRYPT_* selects

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:43:04AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: + select CRYPTO select CRYPTO_AES ---help--- Include software based cipher suites in support of IEEE 802.11i (aka TGi, WPA, WPA2,

Static with esound (esd) and via82cxxx_audio on 2.4.29.

2005-03-02 Thread Philippe Troin
Running Linux 2.4.29 #1 SMP Mon Feb 21 02:11:56 PST 2005 i686 unknown on an Asus K8W SE Deluxe, bios 1005 with an embedded via82cxxx audio controller: 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.:

Re: Re[03]: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread John L. Males
Marcelo, Sorry gents, seems the LKML used to handel the RE numbering in long past when I last mailed to LKML, bit not now, so resending this eMail to ensure goes back to orignal thread so all the eMail discussion is in one eMail thread. My applogies if this caused confusion on the LKML.

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Kai Makisara
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:15:42AM -, Mark Yeatman wrote: Hi Never had to log a bug before, hope this is correctly done. Thanks Mark Detail [1.] One line summary of the problem: SCSI tape drive is refusing to

Re: [2.6.11-rc4-mm1 patch] fix buggy IEEE80211_CRYPT_* selects

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thing is, CRYPTO_AES on only selectable on x86. You're thinking about CRYPTO_AES_586. But looking at crypto/Kconfig, the dependencies are a bit weird: config CRYPTO_AES tristate AES cipher algorithms depends on CRYPTO !(X86

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Kai Makisara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: v2.6 also contains the same problem BTW. Try this: --- a/drivers/scsi/st.c.orig 2005-03-02 09:02:13.637158144 -0300 +++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c2005-03-02 09:02:20.208159200 -0300 @@ -3778,7 +3778,6 @@ read:

Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150

2005-03-02 Thread Joshua Hudson
No obvous reason. Works fine with kernel 2.6.10 Result of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02) 00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O Control Registers (rev 02) 00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Configuration

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread John L. Males
Sorry gents, Let me correct this one more time. Regards, John L. Males Willowdale, Ontario Canada 02 March 2005 16:26 ** Reply Seperator ** On (Wed) 2005-03-02 16:15:07 -0500 John L. Males wrote in Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: John L. Males

Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

2005-03-02 Thread Ondrej Zary
Dave Jones wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:59:00PM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: The failure to invoke the -init operator appears to be the bug. The centaur code definitely wants the mcr init function to be called. Yes, I expected that to be the answer. Therefore #if 0 instead of deleting.

Re: ext3 journal commit performance

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, what you are proposing is, I think, 1) write the data 2) write the journal 3) wait on the data write 4) wait on the journal write 5) write the commit block 6) wait on the commit block - To

Re: Documentation for krefs

2005-03-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Corey, Here is the documentation for krefs, with the kref_checked stuff removed and a few other things cleaned up. Great, more documentation. :-) A few minor points... +To use a kref, add a one to your data structures like: s/a one/one/ +You must initialize the kref after you

Re: Fw: Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:57:03AM +0100, Alexander Gran wrote: Am Dienstag, 1. März 2005 11:48 schrieb Andrew Morton: Alex, please use mailing lists... sorry, I was used to have reply-to set to the mailing list ;) double-checking next time.. Dominik, do we really always want to drag

Re: kernel BUG at drivers/serial/8250.c:1256!

2005-03-02 Thread Dominik Brodowski
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:37:20PM +, Russell King wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:09:46AM +0100, Karol Kozimor wrote: I've finally got around to test latest kernels and managed to find a bug in the serial subsystem, which happens during suspend. Yes, serial_cs is claiming that we

Re: Strange crashes of kernel v2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Steffen Michalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded from linux kernel v2.6.10 to v2.6.11. Some programs like evolution 2.0 and leafnode2 crash the whole system immediatedly now. I would like to provide some further information if i could gather them. We'd need to see an oops

Keyboard broken on Inspiron 5150 with 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread David Johnson
Hi all, I've just booted 2.6.11 and the keyboard on my Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop doesn't work at all. I've not tried the -rc versions, but it works fine with 2.6.10. Unfortunately I don't have access to a spare keyboard or to the system over the network at the moment, so I can't really give

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:17:19PM +0200, Kai Makisara wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:15:42AM -, Mark Yeatman wrote: Hi Never had to log a bug before, hope this is correctly done. Thanks Mark Detail

[PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information

2005-03-02 Thread David Howells
The attached patch does two things: (1) It gets rid of backing_dev_info::memory_backed and replaces it with a pair of boolean values: (*) dirty_memory_acct True if the pages associated with this backing device should be tracked by dirty page accounting.

Re: Strange crashes of kernel v2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Alexander Nyberg
I recently upgraded from linux kernel v2.6.10 to v2.6.11. Some programs like evolution 2.0 and leafnode2 crash the whole system immediatedly now. You mean when you run evolution the box hangs up completely? (you can't kill X, switch to another console etc.) If that is the case, we need the

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1 nfs oddity, file creation = no such file

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I observed an oddity on a nfs-mounted fs while using 2.6.11-rc5-mm1. Could you try this please? --- 25/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c~nfsacl-acl-umask-handling-workaround-in-nfs-client-fix 2005-03-02 08:49:59.0 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c 2005-03-02

[PATCH 2/2] BDI: Improve nommu mmap support

2005-03-02 Thread David Howells
The attached patch makes use of patch #1 to improve nommu mmap support; particularly in terms on supporting private mappings. It does this by examining the device capability mask now in the backing_dev_info structure. Private mappings will now be backed by the underlying device directly if

RAID1 sync crash with 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Harry Edmon
I boot the system up with one disk in a two disk mirror set. When I add the second disk with mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdb1 md0_resync gets a kernel crash with 2.6.11-rc5-mm1. This also occurs with 2.6.11-rc4-mm1, but not with 2.6.11-rc5. I have attached the config file for 2.6.11-rc5. Here is

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Andrew Morton wrote: (what's a BSF?) Backward space count files (man mt). -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Custom power states for non-ACPI systems

2005-03-02 Thread Todd Poynor
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Advertise custom sets of system power states for non-ACPI systems. Currently, /sys/power/state shows and accepts a static set of choices that are not necessarily meaningful on all platforms (for example, suspend-to-disk is an option even on diskless embedded systems, and

Re: 2.6.11: iostat values broken, or IDE siimage driver ?

2005-03-02 Thread Rick Lindsley
Mike -- where did you get your iostat from? There's a couple of different flavors out there and it may not make a difference but just in case ... Rick - 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: 2.6.11: touchpad unresponsive

2005-03-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:51:09 +0100, Miguelanxo Otero Salgueiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:55:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just compiled 2.6.11 from 2.6.10 config using 'make oldconfig', activate new options to default

Re: BIOS overwritten during resume (was: Re: Asus L5D resume on battery power)

2005-03-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! It sounds to me like we run at 2GHz from batteries at resume time, and that causes bad things (tm), [-- snip --] It seems that we write to the BIOS while moving the image, at least on my box, which is quite not correct, IMO. ... At the same time, from powernow-k8, I got this:

Re: Documentation for krefs

2005-03-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:30:06 +, Ralph Corderoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +This way, it doesn't matter what order the two threads handle the +data, the put handles knowing when the data is free and releasing it. s/put/kref_put()/ What about s/is free/is not referenced anymore/ --

Re: [2.6.11-rc4-mm1 patch] fix buggy IEEE80211_CRYPT_* selects

2005-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:12:04PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:43:04AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: + select CRYPTO select CRYPTO_AES ---help--- Include software based cipher suites in support of IEEE 802.11i

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Custom power states for non-ACPI systems

2005-03-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! If OMAP has big sleep and deep sleep, why not simply map them to standby and suspend-to-ram? In fact that's more or less what happens (or will happen once drivers like USB stop looking for PM_SUSPEND_MEM, etc.). There are other platforms with more than 2 sleep states (say, XScale

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Kai Makisara
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:17:19PM +0200, Kai Makisara wrote: ... BTW, this fix by Solar Designer introduces a bug to 2.4.29: a tape driver is supposed to return ENOMEM in the case that was changed to return EIO ;-( Reverted. Thanks. ...

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Kai Makisara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: f seek with tape is changed back to returning success, this would enable correct tar --verify at the beginning of the tape. However, I am not sure what happens if we are not at the beginning. I will investigate this and suggest a long term fix to the

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] mips: fixed do_syscall_trace

2005-03-02 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
This patch had fixed an argument of audit_syscall_entry. This patch is only for 2.6.11-rc5-mm1. CC arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.o arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c: In function 'do_syscall_trace': arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c:310: warning: implicit declaration of function 'audit_syscall_entry'

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread John L. Males
Marcelo, My couple cents worth: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:17:19PM +0200, Kai Makisara wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:15:42AM -, Mark Yeatman wrote: Hi Never had to log a bug before, hope this is correctly done.

Re: [2.6.11-rc4-mm1 patch] fix buggy IEEE80211_CRYPT_* selects

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would be better to just do: config CRYPTO_AES select CRYPTO_AES_586 if (X86 !X86_64) select CRYPTO_AES_OTHER if !(X86 !X86_64) and hide CRYPTO_AES_586 and CRYPTO_AES_OTHER from the outside world.

Re: [request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:17:13PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: Hi Andrew! Do you have any objections to merging FUSE in mainline kernel? It's been in -mm for the 2.6.11 cycle, and the same code was released a month ago as FUSE-2.2. So it should have received a fair amount of testing,

RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
This is an idea that has been brewing for some time: Andrew has mentioned it a couple of times, I've talked to some people about it, and today Davem sent a suggestion along similar lines to me for 2.6.12. Namely that we could adopt the even/odd numbering scheme that we used to do on a minor

Re: [PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information

2005-03-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Why not make these bitfields as well? Side note: bitfields aren't exactly wonderful. They tend to generate worse code, and they make it much harder to work with combinations of flags (both testing and initializing). They also have architecture-specific

p5ad2 motherboard sensors work

2005-03-02 Thread Christopher Rice
Your patch allows finally for me to be able to monitor all my temps in my computer with an offset of 6. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/26/65 Thanks very much let me know if you need any other information. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

SVGATextMode on 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Alan Curry
With 2.6.11, I can no longer change the cursor with SVGATextMode. Previously, a block cursor could be selected by echo Cursor 0-31 /etc/TextConfig ; SVGATextMode and the cursor would be a block. On all consoles. Forever. To accomplish the same thing using the softcursor escape sequences, I

Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

2005-03-02 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:21:06PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:45:43PM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2005-03-02 at 08:02, Dave Jones wrote: If there are any of them still being used out there, I'd be even more surprised if they're running 2.6. Then

Re: [2.6.11-rc4-mm1 patch] fix buggy IEEE80211_CRYPT_* selects

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thing is, CRYPTO_AES on only selectable on x86. You're thinking about CRYPTO_AES_586. But looking at crypto/Kconfig, the dependencies are a bit weird: config CRYPTO_AES tristate AES cipher algorithms depends on CRYPTO

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:02 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:27:27AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt was heard to remark: That's a style issue. Propose an API, I'll code it. We can have the master recovery thread be a state machine, and so every device driver gets

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
One issue with that is how to notify drivers that they need to make this call. In may cases, DMA completion will be signalled by an interrupt, but if the DMA failed, that interrupt may never happen, which means the call to pci_unmap or the above function from the interrupt handler may

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:22 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:49:45AM -0800, Linus Torvalds was heard to remark: The new API is what _allows_ a driver to care. It doesn't handle DMA, but I think that's because nobody knows how to handle it (ie it's probably

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 13:03 -0500, linux-os wrote: event-dev = dev; event-reset_state = rets[0]; event-time_unavail = rets[2]; /* We may be called in an interrupt context */ spin_lock_irqsave(eeh_eventlist_lock, flags); ^^ list_add(event-list,

Re: [2.6.11-rc4-mm1 patch] fix buggy IEEE80211_CRYPT_* selects

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:41:50PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thing is, CRYPTO_AES on only selectable on x86. You're thinking about CRYPTO_AES_586. But looking at crypto/Kconfig, the dependencies are a bit weird:

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
__Stable__ would be a good thing. The entire 2.6 development has been a disaster from a stability viewpoint. I have to maintain a huge tree of patches in order to ship appliance builds due to the lack of stability for 2.6. I think that the even number releases will take longer but it's worth

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason I put a shorter timeframe on the all-even kernel is because I don't want developers to be too itchy and sitting on stuff for too long if they did something slightly bigger. If they're feeling itchy they should dig in and help fix the bugs in

Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

2005-03-02 Thread Jindrich Makovicka
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! In `subj` kernel, machine no longer powers down at the end of swsusp. 2.6.11-rc5-pavel works ok, as does 2.6.11-bk. For me, power down stopped working since the introduction of softlockup detection. After disabling CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP, powerdown works fine. --

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2005-03-02T14:21:38, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We'd still do the -rcX candidates as we go along in either case, so as a user you wouldn't even _need_ to know, but the numbering would be a rough guide to intentions. Ie I'd expect that distributions would always try to base

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Greg KH
/me kills my patchbomb script for now On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:21:38PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: - 2.6.even: even at all levels, aim for having had minimally intrusive patches leading up to it (timeframe: a week or two) with the odd numbers going like: - 2.6.odd: still a

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:21:38PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: In other words, we'd have an increasing level of instability with an odd release number, depending on how long-term the instability is. - 2.6.even: even at all levels, aim for having had minimally intrusive patches leading

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] mips: update CMU

2005-03-02 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
This patch updates cmu.c to get the resource by standard method. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urN -X dontdiff a-orig/arch/mips/pci/pci-vr41xx.c a/arch/mips/pci/pci-vr41xx.c --- a-orig/arch/mips/pci/pci-vr41xx.c Sun Feb 13 12:08:05 2005 +++

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-02 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:21 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: It seems like a sensible approach, and it's not like the 2.4.x vs 2.5.x kind of even/odd thing didn't _work_, the problems really were an issue of too big granularity making it hard for user and developers alike. So I see this as a tweak

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc5-mm1] mips: add __init

2005-03-02 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
This patch adds __init for the function used only for initialization. This patch is only for 2.6.11-rc5-mm1. 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 ---

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