Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 11:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
I think you're assuming that 2.6.x.y will have larger scope than is
intended.
The examples I gave for remap_vm_area and exec are both from real world
gosh look I am root isn't that fun type security
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:15:04AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
...
So it's a sensible part of the completion API from a regularity-of-the-API
POV. We use it in the coredump code and I don't think we'd be likely to want
to rip it out.
...
Modular coredump code?
cu
Adrian
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:15:04 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew, what is the policy for adding exports for out of tree GPL code?
There isn't one. Such things cause way too much email.
Lack of policy causes the same
se go wrote:
Hello,
i got some problems concerning tcp realization in kernel (v 2.4).
i need to make some modifications to tcp to be able to transfer data within ACK segments...(initially their data field is empty)
I thought it is already here. That is, if the kernel have something
to send at the
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 12:57 +, Alan Cox wrote:
On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 00:50, Adrian Bunk wrote:
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.
Sure ? This used to be exported for loadable modules that wanted to get
the system default hostname string and for emulation layers like
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:40:30PM -, Richard Purdie wrote:
I've found the arm cross compiler generated from openembedded
(http://openembedded.org) to be very reliable. The big advantage in using oe
would be that it is in active use so it is always highly likely to generate
a working
Find attached the updated psmouse-resend patch for 2.6.11.
It fixes most of the lost-sync problems for the ps2 mouse but not all of
them. I might have picked the wrong struct members for v.2.6.11
Tnx Bi
Bennie Kahler-Venter
psmouse-resend-2_6_11-v1.patch.gz
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Would it not be simpler to just add resume=03:02 to the boot command line?
Some devices have random device numbers.
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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm1/
trivial patch for fscache menuconfig help documentation path
Signed-off-by: Aurélien Francillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- 2.6.11-mm1/fs/Kconfig~ 2005-03-04 14:32:34.0 +0100
+++
I downloaded new kernel 2.6.11, applied your's via82cxxx.c patch and
compiled it (.config was derived make oldconfig from 2.6.8 kernel from
Debian Sarge 3.1).
I created initrd.img with this settings:
/etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf
--- cut here ---
MODULES=dep
--- cut here ---
/etc/mkinitrd/modules
On Fri, Mar 04 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
I run vanilla kernels on all my boxes, workstations and
servers, since I don't really trust vendor kernels.
That's a strange statement, I don't think you are aware of
the level of testing that goes into a vendor kernel, at
least for the 'enterprise'
Aurélien Francillon wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm1/
(updated patch )
By the way is there something like the Trivial Patch Monkey for mm kernel ?
thanks
Aurel
trivial patch for fscache menuconfig help documentation
Hi.
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 22:04, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
IIRC kernel code/data is marked as PageReserved(), that's why we need
to save that :(. Not sure what to do with data e820 marked as
reserved...
Perhaps we need another page flag, like PG_readonly, and mark the pages
Oops - made a small mistake - new patch
Find attached the updated psmouse-resend patch for 2.6.11.
It fixes most of the lost-sync problems for the ps2 mouse but not all of
them. I might have picked the wrong struct members for v.2.6.11
Tnx Bi
Bennie Kahler-Venter
Hi,
2.6.11 still contain these warnings :
drivers/video/kyro/fbdev.c:597: warning: ignoring return value of
`copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
drivers/video/kyro/fbdev.c:607: warning: ignoring return value of
`copy_from_user', declared with attribute
Hi!
On Tue 01-03-05 17:14:19, Larry McVoy wrote:
A while back someone complained about the CVS exporter because it
sometimes groups a pile of BK changesets into one commit. That's true,
it does.
I've been running tests over the BK tree and I think we can do better.
Here's the scoop: when
Hi!
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
Hi!
Here are the patches for Secure Digital support that I've been
sitting on for a while. I tried to get some feedback on inclusion of
this previously but since I didn't get any I'll just submit the thing.
It was originally diffed against 2.6.10 but it applies to 2.6.11 just
fine (only
Hi.
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 00:15, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
Hi,
On Friday, 4 of March 2005 12:04, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
IIRC kernel code/data is marked as PageReserved(), that's why we need
to save that :(. Not sure what to do with data e820 marked as
reserved...
Added since 2.6.10-ck7:
+cfq-ts-21.diff
The latest version of Jens' cfq-timeslice i/o scheduler now heavily tested and
with full read i/o priority support
Speaking of the cfq-timeslice scheduler, is there a version that
applies to recent -mm kernels ?
(I cannot find anything more recent than
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:03:37 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 04 March 2005 12:30, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
I've ported the works from Chris Collins so the drivers compiles without
warnings and works (for me) with Linux 2.6.10 and 2.6.11.
Any comments on the
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Steven French wrote:
I had pushed some whitespace changes yesterday (vi must have gone
haywire somewhere a month or two ago to get the repeated tabs stuck on
those two line), not sure if I cought all of them in your patch but will
check.
I just checked 2.6.11, and
Hi Pierre,
Here are the patches for Secure Digital support that I've been sitting
on for a while. I tried to get some feedback on inclusion of this
previously but since I didn't get any I'll just submit the thing.
It was originally diffed against 2.6.10 but it applies to 2.6.11 just
fine
On Friday 04 March 2005 07:24, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:55:48PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
I've a new pcHDTV-3000 card, and I thought maybe it would
be a good idea to build the cx88 stuff in the DVB section
of a make xconfig.
It
Marcel Holtmann wrote:
Hi Pierre,
Here are the patches for Secure Digital support that I've been sitting
on for a while. I tried to get some feedback on inclusion of this
previously but since I didn't get any I'll just submit the thing.
It was originally diffed against 2.6.10 but it applies
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 call is probably needed in addition to Hidetoshi's proposed API,
since as you point
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protocol to be independent from time while debugging code...
Disable CONFIG_UML_REAL_TIME_CLOCK, and UML time will become virtual.
Jeff
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:44:30PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:01:19 +0100, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch contains cleanups including the following:
Are you cleaning up all of that annoying trailing whitespace too? It
is always giving me
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:22:35 +0200, Bennie Kahler-Venter
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Oops - made a small mistake - new patch
Find attached the updated psmouse-resend patch for 2.6.11.
It fixes most of the lost-sync problems for the ps2 mouse but not all of
them. I might have picked the wrong
I decided to write the following proposal after getting a headache
trying to explain the Linux versioning scheme to a friend of mine.
Only then did I find that the powers that be are talking about the same
thing. It's far from a complete engineering standard but it
makes sense to me.
Eugeny S. Mints wrote:
Esben Nielsen wrote:
As I read the code the driver task (A) should _not_ be removed from the
runqueue. It has to be waken up to call schedule_timeout() such it gets
back on the runqueue after 10 ms. If it is taken out of the runqueue at
line 76 it will stay off the runqueue
On Friday 04 March 2005 19:37, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:44:30PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:01:19 +0100, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch contains cleanups including the following:
Are you cleaning up all of that annoying trailing
Hi,
There is a memory in the autofs4_wait function, if multiple processes are
waiting on the same queue:
name = kmalloc(NAME_MAX + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name)
return -ENOMEM;
...
if ( !wq ) {
/* Create a new wait queue */
This is to announce that Herbert Xu is now taking over my role as
co-maintainer of the kernel crypto API.
I've not been able to devote enough time to the integration of
async/hardware support, and Herbert, who has been doing excellent work in
the networking code for some time, has now thankfully
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:52 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:03:37 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 04 March 2005 12:30, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
snip info about kref
As far as the driver goes:
- yes, it does need input_sync;
One problem
Hi Pierre,
lately I got a request for the support of a Bluetooth SD card. These are
using SDIO and I think at the moment only memory cards are handled. Do
you have any plans for SDIO support?
I would if I had some hardware to play with *hint* *hint* ;)
I don't have one of these cards
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:23:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
From: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some ACPI-related changes were recently made to i8042 discovery for ia64.
Unfortunately this broke a significant number of Dell laptops due to their
having incorrect BIOS tables.
So,
I'd love for the -mm tree to get more testing, but it doesn't.
So the question is how to hook up more customers for testing thing?
mm...maybe OSDL should provide special live mini-distro weekly, which
will run entirely from 256 MB USB flashdrive :)
Lot of automated testing, lot of nice and
Query: register vpllB
I have a question about your patch: you added chip-vpllB and
chip-vpllB2 (presumably taken from the X driver). Do you know their
purpose, and did you find them to be necessary or useful?
Possible patch to add supported cards
I discovered that since your patch, some
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Is whitespace (in any form) allowed in the compatible value?
Yes, whitespace is
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Build Tree: -mm
Compiler: gcc 3.4.1
Detailed results: http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/
Summary (delta from 2.6.11-rc5-mm1)
---
Defconfig (bzImage): -9 warnings
Allnoconfig (bzImage): no change
Allyesconfig (bzImage):
Hi Steve,
Back around the time of 2.6.10 I submitted a patch to fix the compile
warning about copy_to_user in fs/cifs/file.c. The patch generated some
comments and suggestions from several people and I subsequently cut a new
patch that took care of the issues raised. Allan Cox then Ack'ed
Make sure that scrubd_stop on startup is set to 2 and no zero in
mm/scrubd.c. The current patch on oss.sgi.com may have that set to zero.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Darren Williams wrote:
Hi Darren
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005, Darren Williams wrote:
Hi Christoph
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005, Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
A fix would be to restore the get_page() if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. Not
particularly glorious..
Here is the unglorious solution. It also requies that
CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS not be used together with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
(handled in the following
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:36:26AM +, Russell King wrote:
...
Anyway, going back to why -mm doesn't work:
arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0xb64): In function `$a':
: undefined reference to `rd_size'
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
So rd_size got deleted in -mm kernels
Fix register access typo in synclinkmp.c
that caused value to be written to wrong register.
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static int __init init_hermes(void)
{
return 0;
}
static void __exit exit_hermes(void)
{
}
module_init(init_hermes);
module_exit(exit_hermes);
That's it. As far as I can tell, gcc 4.0 semi-correctly determined
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:20:24 +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:52 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:03:37 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Friday 04 March 2005 12:30, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
snip
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:00 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
Why doesn't an EXPORT_SYMBOL create a reference?
It does: EXPORT_SYMBOL(x) drops the address of x, including
__attribute_used__, in the __ksymtab section.
However, if CONFIG_MODULES=n, it does nothing: perhaps that is what you
are seeing.
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:09:39AM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote:
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1-full/kernel/sched.c.old 2005-03-04
01:04:28.0 +0100
+++
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:02:36PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
Greg Sure, I have no problem accepting that into the pci core.
What would pci_irq_sync() do exactly?
Consolidate common code like this? :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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Greg Consolidate common code like this? :)
I don't see how one can do that. As I pointed out in my reply to
Jeff, it actually requires understanding how the driver uses the
different MSI-X vectors to know which vector we need to synchronize
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:40:08AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 03:09:39 -0500, Mike Waychison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jean Delvare wrote:
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.
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Pavel Machek wrote:
Duplicate remove killed, thanks. I do not think debugging print
requires that much care...
I think it does. I tried s4bios (firmware mode) on hp 4150 today and
wondered why it said mode set to firmware but in fact did not do it.
You'll get a complete report for this later
Andrew Morton wrote:
I don't understand how this can be affected by the modularness of the
kernel. Can you explain a little more?
normally, resume takes place _before_ the initramfs is entered. If your
swap device depends on a module that is loaded from initramfs, you are lost.
This patch
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Well, I would need the full log, and with radeonfb verbose debug enabled
in the config.
I'll later try as module with debug.
Here's:
/var/log/messages:
Mar 4 14:00:29 pervalidus kernel:
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On Friday 04 March 2005 22:26, Jesper Juhl wrote:
Hi,
2.6.11 still contain these warnings :
drivers/video/kyro/fbdev.c:597: warning: ignoring return value of
`copy_from_user', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
drivers/video/kyro/fbdev.c:607: warning: ignoring return value of
Russell King:
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:40:30PM -, Richard Purdie wrote:
I've found the arm cross compiler generated from openembedded
(http://openembedded.org) to be very reliable. The big advantage in using
oe
would be that it is in active use so it is always highly likely to
generate
a
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:03:29AM +0900, Hidetoshi Seto was heard to remark:
p.s. I would like to have iochk_read() take struct pci_dev * as an
argument. (I could store a pointer to pci_dev in the cookie but
that seems odd).
I'd like to store the pointer and handle all only with the
Changelog:
- Do not allow setting of CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC together with
CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS
- Keep mark_page_accessed in do_swap_page
The page fault handler attempts to use the page_table_lock only for short
time periods. It repeatedly drops and reacquires the lock. When the lock
is
Another! Sorry, you're way ahead of me...
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
A fix would be to restore the get_page() if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. Not
particularly glorious..
Here is the unglorious solution. It also requies that
Le Jeudi 3 Mars 2005 16:29, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 06:46:03PM +0100, Luca Risolia wrote:
Scrive Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I noticed the following regarding the drivers/usb/media/ov511.c driver:
^^^
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 resume=03:02 to the boot command line?
In addition to what others have mentioned,
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:10:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Joerg Sommrey wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:09:26PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Joerg Sommrey wrote:
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:43:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Joerg Sommrey wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Patch:
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:53:02AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch itself,
as it is small enough to do so.
Here it is
diff -Nru a/Makefile b/Makefile
--- a/Makefile 2005-03-04 09:27:15 -08:00
+++ b/Makefile 2005-03-04 09:27:15 -08:00
For those of you who haven't waded through the huge RFD: Kernel release
numbering thread on lkml to realize that we are now going to start
putting out 2.6.x.y releases, here's the summary:
A few of us $suckers will be trying to maintain a 2.6.x.y set of
releases that happen after
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Mar 04 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
The average user has learnt rc1 == pre1. I don't expect that it
matters much at all.
The average user and lkml reader, perhaps. But I don't understand
On Friday, March 4, 2005 5:54 am, 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 call is probably needed
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 00:13 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Lee Revell wrote:
If you want to complain, complain to the hardware manufacturers, who
make devices where bit $foo means $bar in one hardware revision, and
$baz in the next, and don't give us sufficient documentation to sort out
the
Joerg Sommrey wrote:
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:10:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Joerg Sommrey wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:09:26PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Joerg Sommrey wrote:
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:43:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Joerg Sommrey wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Patch:
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:33:33PM -, Richard Purdie wrote:
I'm in two minds though as generating
your own from openembedded isn't difficult. Writing instructions for setting
up oe to build it may be the best option.
Two things - are you sure that openembedded contains the patches to
fix
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:55:31AM +0100, Richard Fuchs wrote:
hello all!
the memory allocation debugger gives me the following messages under a
vanilla 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 kernel when doing
1) hdparm -d0 on my hard disk
2) tar c / /dev/null
3) sending lots of network traffic to
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 11:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
I think you're assuming that 2.6.x.y will have larger scope than is
intended.
The examples I gave for remap_vm_area and exec are both from real world
gosh look I am root isn't that fun type security
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Neil Brown wrote:
On Wednesday March 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A Linus based odd number
might be closer to that if we hope on people unwittingly running them.
^^^
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
In other words: I'm talking about scalability of development, not about
fixing every single serious bug. I think this one will catch the
embarrassing brown-paper-bag kinds of things, and maybe 90% of the duh,
we had this race forever, but we
Dave Jones wrote:
Which network drivers are in use on the box that gets the corruption ?
all three that i tested it on are using the e100 driver. the boxes with
pci id 8086:1039 and 8086:1229 are seeing corruptions, the one with pci
id 8086:2449 is not.
i will try again the eepro100 driver and
Russell King wrote:
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:33:33PM -, Richard Purdie wrote:
I'm in two minds though as generating
your own from openembedded isn't difficult. Writing instructions for setting
up oe to build it may be the best option.
Two things - are you sure that openembedded
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?
Several non-BK developers use the first -rc1 as a merge point.
Others simply trust that _Linus_ has a lot more smarts than an automated
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
Here is the unglorious solution. It also requies that
CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS not be used together with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
(handled in the following patch):
Nacked for the same reason as just given to earlier version. Ugly too.
Ok. Then we
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote:
Ok, based on consensus, I've applied this one too.
Btw, I don't think your process works. You never really gave people the
time to object. So for that reason you applied the first trivial raid6
thing, and it turned out to be wrong.
I think the patches need
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:27:37AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Btw, I also think that this means that the sucker-tree should never aim to
be a 2.6.x.y kind of release tree. If we do a 2.6.x.y release, the
sucker tree would be _included_ in that release (and it may indeed be all
of it -
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:57:38AM -0800, 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?
So when I do a release, it _is_ an -rc. The fact that people have
trouble understanding this is
On Gwe, 2005-03-04 at 18:18, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Alan, I think your problem is that you really think that the tree _I_ want
is what _you_ want.
No I think you just misunderstood the point I was trying to make. They
are different trees and the difference is what stops you just doing the
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 right, I am happy. Comments welcome.
I surely could of missed something. Maybe even
Or to put it more simply:
The people we want testing these kernels have been trained to expect
certain things from a Release Candidate.
These people don't have time to read LKML and understand Linus's
deviation from the norm.
Therefore, if you want them to test, follow their expectations.
As I
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:37:06 -0500, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:57:28PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from
/proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a
user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I'd like to set up is the reverse. The same way the wild kernels
tend to layer on top of my standard kernel, I'd like to have a lower
level, the anti-wild kernel. Something that is comprised of patches
that _everybody_ can agree on, and that
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:38:10AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote:
Ok, based on consensus, I've applied this one too.
Btw, I don't think your process works. You never really gave people the
time to object. So for that reason you applied the first
Around Fri 04 Mar 2005 11:54:18 + or thereabout, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:20:24 +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:52 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:03:37 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:23:17PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:00 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
Why doesn't an EXPORT_SYMBOL create a reference?
It does: EXPORT_SYMBOL(x) drops the address of x, including
__attribute_used__, in the __ksymtab section.
However, if
Andrew, Greg
Here is a patch for the new 2.6.11 release tree and for Linus.
Fix for trivial fix for 2.6.11 oprofile compilation on e500 based ppc.
Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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diff -Nru a/arch/ppc/oprofile/op_model_fsl_booke.c
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:57 -0800, 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?
-preX are milestones mainly for developers
When -preX is converted to -rc1 then it defines feature
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Mar 04 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
The average user has learnt rc1 == pre1. I don't expect that it
matters much at all.
The average user
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote:
Ah crap, I just called the first release of such a tree, 2.6.11.1.
I don't think any of us really _know_ where we are going, and we're all
just discussing our personal ideas of what should work.
As such, I think experimentation comes into it. Dammit, I
Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:27:37AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Btw, I also think that this means that the sucker-tree should never aim to
be a 2.6.x.y kind of release tree. If we do a 2.6.x.y release, the
sucker tree would be _included_ in that release (and it may indeed be all
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
Nacked for the same reason as just given to earlier version. Ugly too.
Ok. Then we could still get back the also ugly solution in the earlier
patchsets that acquired the spinlock separately before getting
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Rusty Russell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:00 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
Why doesn't an EXPORT_SYMBOL create a reference?
It does: EXPORT_SYMBOL(x) drops the address of x, including
__attribute_used__, in the __ksymtab section.
Well, the problem is that this is still
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