Re: The never ending hpusbscsi storry

2005-03-04 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Samstag, 5. März 2005 00:28 schrieb Rene Rebe: > Don't ever use hpusbscsi. I though I already told all vedors it is that > broken that they should never ever ship it. It is the first thing that > will be removed in Linux 2.7. > > If it would be me it would be removed from _all kernels right

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:28:02PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:36:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel history which simply > > > should not have been there. >

Re: strace on cat /proc/my_file gives results by calling read twice why?

2005-03-04 Thread Alan Curry
cranium2003 writes the following: > >when i strace cat /proc/my_file i found message >printing twice >Reading a from a /proc file >Reading a from a /proc file > Why that happening? The first read returns some data and returns the number of bytes, and the second one indicates that

Re: Logitech MX1000 Horizontal Scrolling

2005-03-04 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:50:12AM +0100, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > On ven, 2005-02-04 at 20:54 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > Please try if 2.6.11-rc3 is any better. > > Oddly, my horizontal scroll worked fine as extra buttons under 2.6.10. > 2.6.11-rc3 causes the scroll wheel to appear under

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread James Bourne
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:51:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > > is this critical? > > > > Doubt it, unless the succeeding patches have a dependency on it. But the > > other patches have not been tested

strace on cat /proc/my_file gives results by calling read twice why?

2005-03-04 Thread cranium2003
hello, I have a /proc file kernel module with its proc read function as static char mybuf[1024]; ssize_t my_file_read(struct file *filp, char *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { printk("Reading a from a /proc file\n"); static int b_read = 0; int len = strlen(mybuf); if

which file functions can be used on /proc file?

2005-03-04 Thread cranium2003
hello, i found that in struct proc_dir_entry struct file_operations * proc_fops; is defined. and struct file_operations has defined read, write, poll,llseek,ioctl,flush,release,lock etc functions. so can all these functions be used on any /proc entry in usermode as well as in kenrel mode?

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread James Bourne
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > We have all these problems precisely because _nobody_ is saying "I'm > > only going to accept bug fixes". We _need_ some amount of release > > engineering. Right now we basically have none. > > I

[PATCH] oss/sscape: fix section references

2005-03-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
oss/sscape: fix initdata reference used in exit: Error: ./sound/oss/sscape.o .exit.text refers to 007d R_X86_64_PC32 .init.data+0x0003 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diffstat:= sound/oss/sscape.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1

Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree

2005-03-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Shawn Starr wrote: How does this fit into Rusty's trivial patch bot? This process will fold that into a formal method now? Shawn. Nope, no comparison or interaction really. x.y (linux-release) isn't meant for trivial patches at all, whereas trivial isn't meant for critical patches either.

[PATCH] oss/nm256: fix section references

2005-03-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
oss/nm256_audio: fix init text section reference: Error: ./sound/oss/nm256_audio.o .text refers to 1847 R_X86_64_PC32 .init.text+0x0018 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diffstat:= sound/oss/nm256_audio.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] end-of-proces handling for acct-csa

2005-03-04 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: > Is it possible to merge BSD and CSA? I mean with CSA, there is a part > that does per-process accounting. For exemple in the > linux-2.6.9.acct_mm.patch the two functions update_mem_hiwater() and > csa_update_integrals() update fields in the

[PATCH] oss/cs4281: fix initdata section references

2005-03-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
oss/cs4281: fix initdata section references: Error: ./sound/oss/cs4281/cs4281.o .text refers to 6dae R_X86_64_32S .init.data+0x0004 Error: ./sound/oss/cs4281/cs4281.o .text refers to 6db6 R_X86_64_32S .init.data Error: ./sound/oss/cs4281/cs4281m.o

[PATCH] oss/cmpci: fix initdata section references

2005-03-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
oss/cmpci: fix initdata section reference: Error: ./sound/oss/cmpci.o .text refers to 418e R_X86_64_32S .init.data+0x0004 Error: ./sound/oss/cmpci.o .text refers to 4196 R_X86_64_32S .init.data Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PATCH] oss/es1370: fix initdata section references

2005-03-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
oss/es1370: fix initdata section reference: Error: ./sound/oss/es1370.o .text refers to 42bd R_X86_64_32S .init.data+0x0024 Error: ./sound/oss/es1370.o .text refers to 42c5 R_X86_64_32S .init.data+0x0020 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap

[PATCH] oss/esssolo1: fix initdata section references

2005-03-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
oss/esssolo1: fix initdata section reference: Error: ./sound/oss/esssolo1.o .text refers to 0bab R_X86_64_32S .init.data+0x0004 Error: ./sound/oss/esssolo1.o .text refers to 0bb2 R_X86_64_32S .init.data Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL

Re: [2.6 patch] unexport complete_all

2005-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:08:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Did you just blindly grep the userspace tarball? > > There is no kernel code in there. It's all in linux-2.6.*-autofsng-*.patch. Sorry, my bad. I couldn't connect to your FTP server this morning (I don't know why) and I

Anybody? 2.6.11 (stable and -rc) ACPI breaks USB

2005-03-04 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
[ I posted it before but nobody anwsered... ] Hi, I just installed 2.6.11 and I was hit by the same bug (or feature?) I found in -rcs. Basically my USB will work only if acpi=off was passed to the kernel. It looks like without acpi=off it will assign IRQ 10 and with acpi=off it will assign

Re: radeonfb blanks my monitor

2005-03-04 Thread Jean Delvare
> > Frédéric, can you check in /etc/modprobe.conf if you have a > > line like: options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 If you do, please > > comment it out and see if it changes anything. > > Yes, I had, but commenting it out didn't change anything. I can confirm that. Adding bit_test=1 here did NOT

[PATCH] oss/pss: fix section references

2005-03-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
oss/pss: fix initdata reference used in exit: Error: ./sound/oss/pss.o .exit.text refers to 003f R_X86_64_PC32 .init.data+0x0003 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diffstat:= sound/oss/pss.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Shawn Starr
Sounds great, I can be a QA resource for what machines I have. How do people get involved in QAing these releases? What other help? Shawn. > List: linux-kernel > Subject:Linux 2.6.11.1 > From: Greg KH > Date: 2005-03-04 17:53:02 > Message-ID: <20050304175302.GA29289 ()

Re: [PATCH][0/3] swsusp: use non-contiguous memory

2005-03-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > The following set of patches is designed to fix a problem in the current > implementation of swsusp in mainline kernels. Namely, swsusp uses > an array of page backup entries (aka pagedir) to store pointers to memory > pages that must be saved during suspend and restored during resume. >

[PATCH] i2c-core.c: make some code static

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2096, 2005/03/02 12:12:54-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] i2c-core.c: make some code static This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 79

[PATCH] Remove pci_dev->slot_name

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.1998.11.7, 2005/02/07 14:37:01-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Remove pci_dev->slot_name This is a pointer to dev.bus_id, which is properly accessed through the pci_name() function. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCH] new driver for ITM Touch touchscreen

2005-03-04 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote: > OK, I'll try to find some better documentation about input devices, any > tips/pointers would be nice. I'm completly new to kernel drivers, I'm used to > writing drivers in embedded systems. > > The driver is made in the

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

2005-03-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 23:57 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > What prevents driver from being run on another CPU, maybe just doing > mdelay() between hardware accesses? Almost all drivers that I know have some sort of locking. Nothing nasty about it. Besides, you can't expect everything to be as

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-04 Thread James Bruce
As a final update, I added the third card to another machine and that doesn't work either. So after trying 3 kernels on two machines with either one or two cards, and trying the ~120 different card options for bttv to no avail, I'll just guess this card isn't actually supported right now.

Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree

2005-03-04 Thread Shawn Starr
How does this fit into Rusty's trivial patch bot? This process will fold that into a formal method now? Shawn. > List: linux-kernel > Subject:[RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree > From: Greg KH > Date: 2005-03-04 22:21:46 > Message-ID:

[PATCH] I2C: minor I2C cleanups

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2110, 2005/03/02 15:03:00-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: minor I2C cleanups This is one in a series of patches for adding a non-blocking interface to the I2C driver for supporting the IPMI SMBus driver. This patch is a simply some minor cleanups and is in addition to the

Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 23:08 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > Anything else anyone can think of? Any objections to any of these? > > I based them off of Linus's original list. > > Must already be in Linus tree (i.e. 2.6.X+1)? No, it's cleaner in bitkeeper terms for the patches to

[PATCH] initialize a spin lock in CPM2 uart driver

2005-03-04 Thread Kumar Gala
Static initialization of spin locks that are otherwise accessed prior to initialization. Signed-off-by: Jaka Mocnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -Nru a/drivers/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_core.c b/drivers/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_core.c ---

[PATCH] I2C: Trivial indentation fix in i2c/chips/Kconfig

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2116, 2005/03/02 16:13:45-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: Trivial indentation fix in i2c/chips/Kconfig 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

[PATCH] PCI: fix pci_remove_legacy_files() crash

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.1998.11.11, 2005/02/07 16:20:26-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] PCI: fix pci_remove_legacy_files() crash The legacy_io which is the member of pci_bus struct might be NULL. It should be checked. This patch checks 'b->legacy_io', NULL or not. Signed-off-by: MUNEDA Takahiro <[EMAIL

[PATCH] I2C: Kill i2c_client.id (2/5)

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2084, 2005/03/02 11:52:15-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: Kill i2c_client.id (2/5) (2/5) Stop using i2c_client.id in media/video drivers. Affected drivers: * adv7170 * adv7175 * bt819 * bt856 * bttv * cx88 * ovcamchip * saa5246a * saa5249 * saa7110 * saa7111 * saa7114 *

[PATCH] initialize a spin lock in gianfar driver

2005-03-04 Thread Kumar Gala
Initialize the mdio_lock spin lock in mii_info struct, which is otherwise accessed prior to initialization. Signed-off-by: Jaka Mocnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -Nru a/drivers/net/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/gianfar.c --- a/drivers/net/gianfar.c

[PATCH] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.1998.11.15, 2005/02/08 12:23:18-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] PCI: Dynids - passing driver data Currently, code exists in the pci layer to allow userspace to specify driver data when adding a pci dynamic id from sysfs. However, this data is never used and there exists no way in

[PATCH] w1: get rid of the potential problems with atomic operations.

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2085, 2005/03/02 16:59:41-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] w1: get rid of the potential problems with atomic operations. Get rid of the potential problems with atomic operations. According to upcoming atomic_ops.txt by David Miller and Anton Blanchard some archs may reoder atomic

[PATCH] I2C: saa7146 build fix

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2112, 2005/03/02 15:03:32-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: saa7146 build fix include/media/saa7146.h:160: parse error before `*' include/media/saa7146.h:160: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg

[PATCH] I2C: improve debugging output

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2102, 2005/03/02 12:18:03-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: improve debugging output Rework the pca_xfer() function to always print the number of successfully completed transfers in a series when debugging, even when exiting with an error. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <[EMAIL

[PATCH] w1: dscore cleanups. 2/2

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2081, 2005/03/02 16:58:36-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] w1: dscore cleanups. 2/2 Trivial cleanups, mostly static/non static, removed unneded exports. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/w1/dscore.c |

Re: [ patch 5/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-04 Thread Wen Xiong
Jeff Garzik wrote: Wen Xiong wrote: +/* Our "in use" variables, to enforce 1 open only */ +static int jsm_mgmt_in_use[MAXMGMTDEVICES]; Eliminate MAXMGMTDEVICES + +/* + * jsm_mgmt_open() + * + * Open the mgmt/downld/dpa device + */ +int jsm_mgmt_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) +{ +

Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree

2005-03-04 Thread Ian Pilcher
Greg KH wrote: Anything else anyone can think of? Any objections to any of these? I based them off of Linus's original list. Must already be in Linus tree (i.e. 2.6.X+1)? -- Ian Pilcher

[PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.1998.11.27, 2005/02/25 15:48:28-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk One more Asus laptop requiring the SMBus quirk (W1N model). Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/pci/quirks.c |

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:48:20PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:53 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > --- > > > > I've released the 2.6.11.1 patch: > > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/v2.6.11/patch-2.6.11.1.gz > > > > With a detailed changelog at: >

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-04 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > [...] So ld looks into the lib .a archive, determines that none of > > the symbols in that object file are needed to resolve a reference and > > drops the entire .o file. > Silly question: > What's the advantage of lib-y compared to obj-y? Basically

Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: adds the S_PRIVATE flag and adds use to security

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Jeffrey Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This patch adds an S_PRIVATE flag to inode->i_flags to mark an inode as > filesystem-internal. As such, it should be excepted from the security > infrastructure to allow the filesystem to perform its own access control. OK, thanks. I'll assume

[PATCH] PCI: allow x86_64 to do pci express

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.1998.11.19, 2005/02/17 15:06:16-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] PCI: allow x86_64 to do pci express On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:47:01AM +0100, Piotr Kaczuba wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:18:43AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Piotr Kaczuba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Rene Herman wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: I've long since decided that there's no point to making "-pre". What's the difference between a "-pre" and a daily -bk snapshot? Really? The fact that not a script, but Linus Torvalds, decides that the tree is in a state he likes to

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi Pavel et al. On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 04:50, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:04:10AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I don't understand how this can be affected by the modularness of the > > kernel. Can you explain a little more? > > > > Would it not be simpler to just add

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 08:43, Pavel Machek wrote: > > You guys are reinventing the wheel a lot at the moment and I'm in the > > middle of doing it for x86_64 lowlevel code :> Can we see if we can work > > a little more closely - perhaps we can get some shared code going that > > will allow us

[patch 4/5] audit mips fix

2005-03-04 Thread akpm
From: Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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' arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c:310: error: 'struct pt_regs' has no

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:15:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. I > > > was > > > planning on sending them in for 2.6.12 when that was going to be > > > errata-only. > > > >

Suggestions for patch

2005-03-04 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, I have a suggestion for the openbsd net security patch. In the function static int tcp_v4_get_port(struct sock *sk, unsigned short snum) there's the code that says: rover = tcp_port_rover; (like 224 on the version of tcp_ipv4.c patched with your patch for rc2 of 2.6.11) I would like

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:37:05PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >... > I used to do "-pre", a long time ago. Exactly because they were > synchronization points for developers. >... > So the point of -pre's are gone. Have people actually _looked_ at the -rc > releases? They are very much done when

Re: 2.6.11-ck1 (cfq-timeslice)

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Vincent Vanackere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Speaking of the cfq-timeslice scheduler, is there a version that > applies to recent -mm kernels ? Yes, what happened to that? > (I can't live without reiser4 any more...). Tell us more? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [ patch 7/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-04 Thread Wen Xiong
Christoph Hellwig wrote: +config SERIAL_JSM +tristate "Digi International NEO PCI Support" +select SERIAL_CORE shouldn't this depend on CONFIG_PCI? diff -Nuar linux-2.6.9.orig/drivers/serial/jsm/Makefile linux-2.6.9.new/drivers/serial/jsm/Makefile ---

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A few of us $suckers will be trying to maintain a 2.6.x.y set of releases that happen after 2.6.x is released. Just to test things out a bit... Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. I was planning on

[patch 1/5] cramfs: small stat(2) fix

2005-03-04 Thread akpm
From: Eric Lammerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When I stat(2) a device node on a cramfs, the st_blocks field is bogus (it's derived from the size field which in this case holds the major/minor numbers). This makes du(1) output completely wrong. Signed-off-by: Eric Lammerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

non-fatal oops with EIP at skb_release_data, available for debugging

2005-03-04 Thread Alessandro Suardi
This is my K7-800, 256MB RAM machine running as ed2k/bittorrent 24/7 box... metacity died, but the windows are still alive (and working) so if someone wants to get more info about it, just ping me... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.11-rc3-bk8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc

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

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.1998.11.18, 2005/02/17 15:05:53-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] PCI: Add PCI quirk for SMBus on the Toshiba Satellite A40 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

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:15:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. > > > > I was > > > > planning on sending them in for 2.6.12 when that

Re: slab corruption in skb allocs

2005-03-04 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:19:21PM +0100, Richard Fuchs wrote: > _correction_ to my previous mail, this does _not_ happen with the > eepro100 driver. (sorry for the confusion, i got the kernel images mixed > up with all the testing i've been doing.) > > could this affect the e1000 driver as

Re: [ patch 6/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-04 Thread Wen Xiong
Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:40:20PM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote: diff -Nuar linux-2.6.9.orig/drivers/serial/jsm/digi.h linux-2.6.9.new/drivers/serial/jsm/digi.h Oh, and please diff against at least the latest kernel release, 2.6.9 is old... + * $Id: digi.h,v 1.7 2004/09/23

PCI: remove pci_find_device usage from pci sysfs code.

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.1998.11.23, 2005/02/25 08:26:11-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PCI: remove pci_find_device usage from pci sysfs code. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -Nru

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > It might still be worth a try, especially since so many people are > > convinced this is the way to go (your fault or not is not the point). > > Making releases is actually a fair bit of work.

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:54:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:15:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into

Re: New ALPS code in -mm

2005-03-04 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:02:03PM +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:54:32 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Can you check with a current -mm kernel whether any of the issues is > > still there? Everything seems to work smoothly with my ALPS. > > > >

Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11

2005-03-04 Thread Timothy R. Chavez
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:37:24 -0500, Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Below is inotify, diffed against 2.6.11. > > I greatly reworked much of the data structures and their interactions, > to lay the groundwork for sanitizing the locking. I then, I hope, > sanitized the locking. It looks

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:34:22PM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: > From a purely process point of view, my concern would be making sure > that everything that goes into 2.6.X.Y (e.g. 2.6.11.1) makes it into > 2.6.X+1 (e.g. 2.6.12). It will be so. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: slab corruption in skb allocs

2005-03-04 Thread Richard Fuchs
Matt Mackall wrote: Doh. 'ethtool -k' is what's needed, sorry. doh myself. :) this won't be very helpful though, as i get the same on all machines (with both drivers): Offload parameters for eth0: Cannot get device rx csum settings: Operation not supported Cannot get device tx csum settings:

[PATCH] NFS can be selected without exportfs

2005-03-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. NFS depends on ExportFS, and could do with a SELECT in the Kconfig. Without it compilation fails. Quote from Peter: "I get an error while compiling, the same config worked for earlier releases for 2.6.11-rc2. applied patches: 2.6.11-rc3 swsusp2 2.1.6 for 2.6.11-rc3 OS: debian unstable gcc

2.6.11-rc4: Alps touchpad too slow

2005-03-04 Thread Andy Isaacson
My Vaio r505te comes up with an unusably slow touchpad if I allow the ALPS driver to drive it. It says > ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected > Disabling hardware tapping > input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio1 and then the trackpad operates at about 1/8 the speed I've gotten used

Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11

2005-03-04 Thread Robert Love
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 15:38 -0600, Timothy R. Chavez wrote: Hi, Mr. Chavez. > Are there plans of reworking the "generic" hooking infrastructure > (fsnotify.h) to be more like the security hooking framework (+ > stacking)? I think it'd be nice to be able to have a fs_notify struct > of function

Re: slab corruption in skb allocs

2005-03-04 Thread Richard Fuchs
_correction_ to my previous mail, this does _not_ happen with the eepro100 driver. (sorry for the confusion, i got the kernel images mixed up with all the testing i've been doing.) could this affect the e1000 driver as well? Matt Mackall wrote: Send the output of ethtool, please. box 1,

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:51:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > cramfs-small-stat2-fix.patch > > > setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve-oops-fix.patch > > > dv1394-ioctl-retval-fix.patch > > > ppc32-compilation-fixes-for-ebony-luan-and-ocotea.patch > > >

[PATCH] I2C: Kill i2c_client.id (3/5)

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2085, 2005/03/02 11:52:31-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: Kill i2c_client.id (3/5) (3/5) Stop using i2c_client.id in misc drivers. Affected drivers: * acorn/char/pcf8583 * acorn/char/i2c * i2c/i2c-dev * macintosh/therm_windtunnel * sound/oss/dmasound/dac3550a *

[PATCH] I2C: w83627hf needs i2c-isa

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2113, 2005/03/02 15:03:48-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: w83627hf needs i2c-isa The w83627hf driver is useless unless i2c-isa is present. All other drivers in this case do select I2C_ISA through Kconfig, so this one should as well do. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > cramfs-small-stat2-fix.patch > > setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve-oops-fix.patch > > dv1394-ioctl-retval-fix.patch > > ppc32-compilation-fixes-for-ebony-luan-and-ocotea.patch > > nfsd--sgi-921857-find-broken-with-nohide-on-nfsv3.patch > >

[BK PATCH] W1 patches for 2.6.11

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
Hi, Here are some W1 driver patches against the latest 2.6.11 tree. These have all been in the past few -mm releases. Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/w1-2.6 thanks, greg k-h drivers/w1/dscore.c| 27 ++- drivers/w1/dscore.h|

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > I don't understand how this can be affected by the modularness of the > > > kernel. Can you explain a little more? > > > > > > Would it not be simpler to just add "resume=03:02" to the boot command > > > line? > > > > In addition to what others have mentioned, there's also the

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > Ok, care to forward them on? > > > > Sure. How do they get to Linus? > > I'll just pull from the sucker-tree. > That tree has the not-for-linus raid6 fix and the not-for-linus i8042

[patch 2/5] setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve() oops fix

2005-03-04 Thread akpm
If you do 'echo 0 0 > /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio' the kernel gets a divide-by-zero. Prevent that, and fiddle with some whitespace too. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- 25-akpm/mm/page_alloc.c | 21 +++-- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6

[PATCH] pci/quirks.c: unhide SMBus device on Samsung P35 laptop

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.1998.11.20, 2005/02/17 15:06:37-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] pci/quirks.c: unhide SMBus device on Samsung P35 laptop this patch is needed to make the SMBus device on my Samsung P35 laptop visible. By default, it doesn't appear as a pci device. Patch tested, works perfectly for

useless check in port-allocation code?

2005-03-04 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, In the 2.6.11 code, I found this: static int tcp_v6_get_port(struct sock *sk, unsigned short snum) also in: static int tcp_v4_get_port(struct sock *sk, unsigned short snum) { ... if (snum == 0) { int low = sysctl_local_port_range[0]; int high =

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 March 2005 15:37, Linus Torvalds wrote: [...] >No. > >I used to do "-pre", a long time ago. Exactly because they were >synchronization points for developers. > >These days, that's pointless. We keep the tree in pretty good > working order (certainly as good as my -pre's ever were) >

[PATCH] I2C: add fscpos chip driver

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2080, 2005/03/02 11:04:17-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: add fscpos chip driver This patch against 2.6.11-rc1 contains a driver for fscpos sensors. Signed-off-by: Stefan Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:22:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > That's now eight architectures I'll compile-test mm kernels on. Cool, but please check whether this produces an error: echo "mov r0, #foo" | arm-linux-as -o /dev/null - you should get: {standard input}: Assembler messages:

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Ok, care to forward them on? > > Sure. How do they get to Linus? I'll just pull from the sucker-tree. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
"Richard Purdie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As an experiment I ran "bitbake meta-sdk" on my copy of openemedded. A while > later I have these in the deploy directory amongst other things. > > http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/arm-cross/binutils-cross-sdk-2.15.91.0.2-r5.tar.gz > > (3.8MB) >

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > wrt the nfsd patches, Neil said: > > The problem they fix is that currently: > Client A holds a lock > Client B tries to get the lock and blocks > Client A drops the lock > **Client B doesn't get the lock

Re: 2.6.11-mm1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Alexander Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fre 2005-03-04 klockan 03:32 -0800 skrev Andrew Morton: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm1/ > > > > > > - Added the new bk-audit tree. Contains updates to the kernel's audit > > feature.

[RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
Anything else anyone can think of? Any objections to any of these? I based them off of Linus's original list. thanks, greg k-h -- Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and what ones are not, into the "linux-release" tree. - It can not bigger than 100 lines, with context. - It

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 "nobh" support for ext3 writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > page reclaim can come in, grab the page lock and > whip the page off the mapping. No it can't - we hold an additional ref on the page, so reclaim will back off. Still, it feels a bit flakey. And we're not supposed to take lock_page() inside

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

2005-03-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 14:54 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > If there's no ->error method, at leat call ->remove so one device only > > > takes itself down. > > > > > > Does this make sense? > > > > This was my thought too last time we had this discussion. A completely > > asynchronous

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 04/08] ide: remove unused fields ide_drive_t->rq and ide_task_t->special

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
04_ide_remove_unused_fields.patch Remove unused fields ide_drive_t->rq and ide_task_t->special Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/ide/ide-tape.c |1 - include/linux/ide.h|2 -- 2 files changed, 3 deletions(-) Index:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 00/08] ide: taskfile cleanup

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
Oh, all the patches are against ide-dev-t + 9 recent patches + ide_dma_intr fix. -- tejun - 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

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 01/08] ide: add individual ATA_TFLAG_{OUT|IN}_* flags

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
01_ide_TFLAG_OUT_IN.patch This patch replaces ide_task_t->tf_{out|in}_flags handling with newly defined individual ATA_TFLAG_{OUT|IN}_* flags and helper functions ide_{load|read}_taskfile(). To ease transition of the IDE code, temporary flags

Re: Something is broken with SATA RAID ?

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
"J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One piece at last... > I have tried > - 2.6.11 > - 2.6.11 + libata-dev1 + netdev1 + shrinkers-at-tail + 1Gb-lowmem > > Bot work fine and survived several gigas dumped both through smb and afp. > Happy man ;). > > If there was something

Re: slab corruption in skb allocs

2005-03-04 Thread Richard Fuchs
Matt Mackall wrote: Which card/driver is this? Is this the same card that's showing ssh troubles? My theory about your ssh trouble only applies to cards with checksum offload. i got the same on all three machines i was testing with, with both the e100 and the eepro100 driver. one of those three

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:36:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel history which simply should not have been there. Is this really a big deal? If you are pushing linux-release to Linus/Andrew rapidly, quick fixes will land in linux-2.6

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