Re: [PATCH 2.6] Fix i2c messsage flags in video drivers

2005-03-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ronald, [Jean Delvare] It is possible that people are able to get their board to still work without my patch, if the chips were properly configured in the first place and they don't attempt to reconfigure them (like norm change). I don't know the chips well enough to tell how probable

Re: [PATCH 2.6] Fix i2c messsage flags in video drivers

2005-03-10 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi Jean, thanks for the reply. On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Jean Delvare wrote: I'm glad to learn you are testing things. Still the oops in saa7110 went unnoticed for the past 3 months, so I guess that either you don't have a DC10(+) in your test panel, or you did not test mm/rc kernels. I indeed

Re: [PATCH 2.6] Fix i2c messsage flags in video drivers

2005-03-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ronald, I indeed don't test RC/MM kernels. I'm fairly happy with the current driver status, so I'm not doing any active new development on it. I run standard Fedora kernels with CVS of the driver (which is the same as what's in 2.6.10). (...) My experience is not the same as yours, it

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] fix call kobject_get_path() with zero kobject argument in drivers/base/class.c

2005-03-10 Thread JustMan
The attached patch fix call kobject_get_path() with zero kobject argument. I'm sorry. My previous patch was incorrect. -- Regards, JustMan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[bk pull] drm tree for 2.6.12

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Airlie
Hi Linus, The latest DRM tree is ready (bit late but I got there..), it contains updated radeon driver, splitting of drm structure to allow for multi-head (no drivers just internal structure changes, credits updates, static function updates and pci ids update. The patch is up at

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 21:58, Kai Makisara wrote: While waiting for the application to be fixed, it was decided to restore the old behaviour of the tape drivers. Which means tar won't get fixed 8( Bet that's true. I don't think implementing proper

Re: [PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:06:15AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:18:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Greg KH wrote: ChangeSet 1.1998.11.27, 2005/02/25 15:48:28-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
critical user data. In other words, it should work correctly or not at all. At the least this should be a config option, like UNSAFE_TAPE_POSITIONING or some such. And show the option if the build includes BROKEN features. That should put the decision where it belongs and clarify the

[PATCH 2.6.11] fix: drivers/base/class.c

2005-03-10 Thread JustMan
fix: drivers/base/class.c Signed-off-by: Serge A. Suchkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uNrp linux/drivers/base/class.orig.c linux/drivers/base/class.c --- linux/drivers/base/class.orig.c 2005-03-10 12:19:00.0 +0300 +++ linux/drivers/base/class.c 2005-03-10 13:59:27.0 +0300 @@ -307,12

Re: inconsistent kallsyms data [2.6.11-mm2]

2005-03-10 Thread Paulo Marques
Paulo Marques wrote: [...] A simple and robust way is to do the sampling on a list of symbols sorted by symbol name. This way, even if the symbol positions that are given to scripts/kallsyms change, the symbols sampled will be the same. I'll do the patch to do this and send it ASAP. Ok, here it

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

2005-03-10 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:59:43PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Ok, we have it working here on a similar machine with 2.6.11 and failing in a similar way with bk which is why I asked ;) The bk problem is found fixed here tho. I'll send a patch later, it's a bug with ppc64 iounmap()

Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #3]

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The attached patch changes the key implementation in a number of ways: That worked. What's with the preempt_enable()/disable() added to __key_link()? It's not obvious what is being protected from what, and why. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

ITE8212

2005-03-10 Thread CaT
Well I got my ITE8212 today (only ordered it last night - whee) and here are the happy fun results. Basically the card shoved itself to the front of the queue, gave some weird errors on bootup and had no multisec set on the drives attached to it. I can boot the machine though and am using it right

[PATCH] AB-BA deadlock between uidhash_lock and tasklist_lock.

2005-03-10 Thread Robin Holt
We have uncovered a very difficult to trip AB-BA deadlock between the uidhash_lock and tasklist_lock. reparent_to_init() does write_lock_irq(tasklist_lock) then calls switch_uid() which calls free_uid() which grabs the uidhash_lock. Independent of that, we have seen a different cpu call free_uid

Re: [0/many] Acrypto - asynchronous crypto layer for linux kernel 2.6

2005-03-10 Thread Christophe Saout
Am Dienstag, den 08.03.2005, 00:08 -0500 schrieb Kyle Moffett: Did you include support for the new key/keyring infrastructure introduced a couple versions ago by David Howells? It allows userspace to create and manage various sorts of keys in kernelspace. If you create and register a

Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #3]

2005-03-10 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's with the preempt_enable()/disable() added to __key_link()? It's not obvious what is being protected from what, and why. Ummm... Yes... They're probably not necessary. A wmb() may be required after the klist-nkeys++ to commit to memory the fact

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:11, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:06:31PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:39:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: And to further test this whole -stable system, I've released 2.6.11.2. It contains one patch, which is already in the -bk

Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #3]

2005-03-10 Thread David Howells
David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's with the preempt_enable()/disable() added to __key_link()? It's not obvious what is being protected from what, and why. Ummm... Yes... They're probably not necessary. A wmb() may be required after the klist-nkeys++ to commit to memory the

Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #3]

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's with the preempt_enable()/disable() added to __key_link()? It's not obvious what is being protected from what, and why. Ummm... Yes... They're probably not necessary. A wmb() may be required after the

Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #3]

2005-03-10 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you want me to redo the patch? That, or a delta. At your convenience. A new patch is just as easy. There'll be one with you shortly. What's your feeling on the stability Well... it boots:-) That involves creating and destroying keyrings and

Re: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code: hotplug/461

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 13:55 +0100, Knut J Bjuland wrote: caller is arch_add_exec_range+0x49/0x6a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When booting linux 2.6.11 with preemetable enable I get BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible

Re: 2.6.x.y gatekeeper discipline

2005-03-10 Thread Brian Gerst
DHollenbeck wrote: Where do you see that patch as being applied in the new .y stable series? Chris I got that patch description from here: When you go to http://kernel.org, and click on the stand alone C to the right of 2.6.11.2 It is a hyperlink to:

[PATCH 2.6.11.2 1/1] PCI Allow OutOfRange PIRQ table address

2005-03-10 Thread jayalk
Hi Greg, PCI folk, In our hardware situation, the BIOS is unable to store or generate it's PIRQ table in the Fh-10h standard range. This patch adds a pci kernel parameter, pirqaddr to allow the bootloader (or BIOS based loader) to inform the kernel where the PIRQ table got stored. A

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.2 1/1] PCI Allow OutOfRange PIRQ table address

2005-03-10 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:29:35AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice work, I like it. You could make it even prettier: diff -uprN -X dontdiff linux-2.6.11.2-vanilla/arch/i386/pci/irq.c linux-2.6.11.2/arch/i386/pci/irq.c --- linux-2.6.11.2-vanilla/arch/i386/pci/irq.c2005-03-10

Re: [patch -mm series] ia64 specific /dev/mem handlers

2005-03-10 Thread Jes Sorensen
Andrew == Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Jes Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Convert /dev/mem read/write calls to use arch_translate_mem_ptr if available. Needed on ia64 for pages converted fo uncached mappings to avoid it being accessed in cached mode after the conversion

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The fact that not a script, but Linus Torvalds, decides that the tree is in a state he likes to share with others. You have been doing -pre's all this time, it's just that you are calling them -rc's. No. I used to do -pre, a long time ago. Exactly because they were

Re: dm-crypt vs. cryptoloop reminder

2005-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! 2.6.3-mm1 'dm-crypt vs. cryptoloop' discussion was some time ago, it is time to bring this up again: http://kerneltrap.org/node/2433 Are you a troll? This is not something to be quoted by anybody serious. Andrew referred to well-known weaknesses in cryptoloop, and when I

Re: [announce 7/7] fbsplash - documentation

2005-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! +The userspace helper + + +The userspace splash helper (by default: /sbin/splash_helper) is called by the +kernel whenever an important event occurs and the kernel needs some kind of +job to be carried out. Important events include console switches and graphic

Re: bk commits and dates

2005-03-10 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 01:13 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Speaking strictly in terms of implementation, David Woodhouse's bk-commits mailer scripts could probably easily be tweaked to -not- set an explicit Date header on the outgoing emails. It then becomes a matter of deciding whether this is

Re[2]: [leo@yuriev.ru: [PATCH] ethernet-bridge: update skb-priority in case forwarded frame has VLAN-header]

2005-03-10 Thread Leo Yuriev
From looking at the patch: j -- j + /* j +* We map VLAN_TCI priority (0..7) to skb-priority (0..15) j +* most similarly e.g. 0-0, 1-1, .., 7-7 j +*/ j + skb-priority = (vlan_TCI 13) 7; j -- j This is wrong.

[patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
Ported feature from grSecurity that makes possible to add an ipaddr entry in each /proc/pid (/proc/pid/ipaddr), where the task originating IP address is stored, and subsequently made available (readable) by the process itself and also the root user with CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE capability (that can be

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 15:16 +0100, Lorenzo Hernndez Garca-Hierro wrote: Ported feature from grSecurity that makes possible to add an ipaddr entry in each /proc/pid (/proc/pid/ipaddr), where the task originating IP address is stored, and subsequently made available (readable) by the process

Re: [PATCH] 0/2 Buddy allocator with placement policy (Version 9) + prezeroing (Version 4)

2005-03-10 Thread Mel Gorman
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Dave Hansen wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 19:39 +, Mel Gorman wrote: The placement policy patch should now be more Hotplug-friendly and I would like to hear from the Hotplug people if they have more requirements of this patch. It looks like most of what we need is

Re: [PATCH] Reduce cacheline bouncing in cpu_idle_wait

2005-03-10 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: Zwane Mwaikambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andi noted that during normal runtime cpu_idle_map is bounced around a lot, and occassionally at a higher frequency than the timer interrupt wakeup which we normally exit pm_idle from. So switch to a

Re: ITE8212

2005-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-03-10 at 12:28, CaT wrote: hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63, BUG hda: cache flushes not supported hda:hda: recal_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: recal_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jon Smirl
LABEL=/ / ext3defaults1 1 label / is on /dev/sda6 Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to new root Switchroot: mount failed 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 This is what

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-03-10 at 09:06, Tupshin Harper wrote: Alan...since you disagreed with the earlier characterization of what it would take to get into the mainline kernels, could you let us know what it would take in your opinion? FWIW, I'm happily using it with a -ac kernel. It needs some small

[patch 1/1] SELinux AVC audit log ipaddr field support (for task_struct-curr_ip)

2005-03-10 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
Provides support for a new field ipaddr within the SELinux AVC audit log, relying in task_struct-curr_ip (ipv4 only) provided by the task-curr_ip or grSecurity patch to be applied before.It was first implemented by Joshua Brindle (a.k.a Method) from the Hardened Gentoo project. An example of the

Re: oom with 2.6.11

2005-03-10 Thread Christian Kujau
ok, as promised, it the OOM happened again with the same plain 2.6.11, details here. http://nerdbynature.de/bits/sheep/2.6.11/oom/oom_2.6.11_2.txt the following is a quite long, but please read on (if anyone is reading at all :)) this time it happened at 08:01, and i could image some heavy

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

2005-03-10 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:17 +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: Heh, the devel version of sym2 (that isn't submitted yet because it depends on a few changes to the SPI transport that James hasn't integrated yet) would probably fix this as it doesn't call iounmap() until the driver exits. They're

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / $B5HF#1QL@(B
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:16:42 +0100), Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: Ported feature from grSecurity that makes possible to add an ipaddr entry in each /proc/pid (/proc/pid/ipaddr), where the task originating IP address is stored, and

Re: [patch 1/1] SELinux AVC audit log ipaddr field support (for task_struct-curr_ip)

2005-03-10 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:05 +0100, Lorenzo Hernndez Garca-Hierro wrote: Provides support for a new field ipaddr within the SELinux AVC audit log, relying in task_struct-curr_ip (ipv4 only) provided by the task-curr_ip or grSecurity patch to be applied before.It was first implemented by Joshua

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
El jue, 10-03-2005 a las 15:26 +0100, Arjan van de Ven escribió: a few questions 1) Why is this a config option; if it's useful it should just be always on really Just to be removed if it applies for mainline. 2) Can you explain briefly what this is useful for? For keeping track on the

Re: [patch 1/1] SELinux AVC audit log ipaddr field support (for task_struct-curr_ip)

2005-03-10 Thread Steve Grubb
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:16, Stephen Smalley wrote: (e.g. the exe= information currently generated by avc_audit could be done by audit_log_exit instead). I already have a patch that does that. It tells you what program is being run instead of /bin/bash. I'll send it in a day or two for

Re: [2.6 patch] OSS gameport fixes

2005-03-10 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:32:17 +0100, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch adds dummy gameport_register_port, gameport_unregister_port and gameport_set_phys functions to gameport.h for the case when a driver can't use gameport. This fixes the compilation of some OSS drivers with

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: LABEL=/ / ext3defaults1 1 label / is on /dev/sda6 Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 if 6 is the errno, it looks like it is trying to open a device that does not

minor 2.6.11-bk6 config issue or user error

2005-03-10 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Hi, I went from bk4 to bk6. After patching i just typed make to recompile (as I thought this would be enough). But it errored out because CONFIG_BASE_SMALL wasn't defined. So I did make menuconfig and saved my config again and now it compiles through. Is it needed to run make oldconfig or make

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:28 +0100, Lorenzo Hernndez Garca-Hierro wrote: 2) Can you explain briefly what this is useful for? For keeping track on the originating ip address of the task/process (the ipv4 address of the user that started the task/process). but tasks don't have an IP

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jon Smirl
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:31:51 +0100, Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: LABEL=/ / ext3defaults1 1 label / is on /dev/sda6 Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:31:51 +0100, Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: LABEL=/ / ext3defaults1 1 label / is on /dev/sda6 Creating root device

Re: [2.6 patch] OSS gameport fixes

2005-03-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:36:57AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:32:17 +0100, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch adds dummy gameport_register_port, gameport_unregister_port and gameport_set_phys functions to gameport.h for the case when a driver can't use

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jon Smirl
Here's what it is doing... looks like the first mount is failing echo Creating root device mkrootdev /dev/root umount /sys echo Mounting root filesystem mount -o defaults --ro -t ext3 /dev/root /sysroot mount -t tmpfs --bind /dev /sysroot/dev echo Switching to new root switchroot /sysroot umount

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
El jue, 10-03-2005 a las 16:38 +0100, Arjan van de Ven escribió: but tasks don't have an IP address. Hosts do. Hosts can have multiple IP addresses. Both ipv4 and ipv6. Users don't have IP addresses either (they do have user IDs so that link is clear). I think I'm missing something big

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: Here's what it is doing... looks like the first mount is failing echo Creating root device mkrootdev /dev/root umount /sys echo Mounting root filesystem mount -o defaults --ro -t ext3 /dev/root /sysroot mount -t tmpfs --bind /dev /sysroot/dev echo

Re: bk commits and dates

2005-03-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Now, if James trigger scripts set the date of the email by the date of the commit, that sounds like a misfeature, but you'd better talk to James, not me, since he's the one doing that part.. Hah ok. Which James ? I was thinking

Compile into static and dynamic problem

2005-03-10 Thread govind raj
Hai all, I recompiled kernel and copied to Compact Flash and also copy the library file from the samecompiled machine. now dhcpd I copied from the source machine to Compact flash .CF hard disk for into net4521. This is not working in the net4521 When I downloaded source code and compiled as

Re: [PATCH 2/2] readahead: improve sequential read detection

2005-03-10 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Ram wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 11:08, Oleg Nesterov wrote: out: - return newsize; + return ra-prev_page + 1; This change introduces one key behavioural change in page_cache_readahead(). Instead of returning the number-of-pages successfully read, it now returns the next-page-index

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:00 +0100, Lorenzo Hernndez Garca-Hierro wrote: it tries to fill the ipaddr member of the task_struct structure with the IP address associated to the user running @current task/process,if available. but... a use doesn't hane an IP. a host does. - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] new driver for ITM Touch touchscreen

2005-03-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:01:00PM +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote: I really don't think the controller can now anything about the size of the screen. I've attached version 1.2.1 of the driver, fixed some typo, code cleanup and discovered I used depricated functions so I moved to the

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jon Smirl
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:01:55 +0100, Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are the major/minor numbers of /dev/root? If I boot on a working system it is 8,5 mkrootdev is a nash command mkrootdev path Makes path a block inode for the device which should be mounted

Re: [Ipsec] Issue on input process of Linux native IPsec

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Dillow
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 02:37 -0800, Park Lee wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 at 16:15, David Dillow wrote: xfrm_lookup() is only called for outgoing packets, not for received packets. I don't think ping replies (ICMP echo replies) will ever have a non- NULL sk, as they are not associated

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Paul P Komkoff Jr
Replying to Arjan van de Ven: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:00 +0100, Lorenzo Hernndez Garca-Hierro wrote: it tries to fill the ipaddr member of the task_struct structure with the IP address associated to the user running @current task/process,if available. but... a use doesn't hane an IP. a

Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

2005-03-10 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:01:55 +0100, Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are the major/minor numbers of /dev/root? If I boot on a working system it is 8,5 I see no /dev/sda detected in your system from the dmesg. Ahh this is where it panics on

Re: make -j4 gets stuck w/ ccache over NFS - solved!

2005-03-10 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:47:37AM -0500, Mark M. Hoffman wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. It wasn't very important to me so I didn't make time to follow up on it. I was just playing w/ ccache at the time. Finally I noticed this patch from -mm1... and it solves the problem.

binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been looking at the UDI project[1] and thinking about binary drivers and the like, and wondering what most peoples' take on these are and what impact that UDI support would have on the kernel's development. I know the immediate first reactions

Re: [PATCH] new driver for ITM Touch touchscreen

2005-03-10 Thread Hans-Christian Egtvedt
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:18 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:01:00PM +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote: I really don't think the controller can now anything about the size of the screen. I've attached version 1.2.1 of the driver, fixed some typo, code cleanup

Re: [patch 1/1] /proc/$$/ipaddr and per-task networking bits

2005-03-10 Thread Joost Remijn
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:08 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:00 +0100, Lorenzo Hernndez Garca-Hierro wrote: it tries to fill the ipaddr member of the task_struct structure with the IP address associated to the user running @current task/process,if available. but...

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-03-10 at 12:10, Arjan van de Ven wrote: CONFIG_SECURITY_HOLES doesn't make sense. Better to just fix the security holes instead. In the case of st its merely broken. I reviewed the code again to double check for Marcelo. Still should be a ask your vendor to fix tar item. Alan -

Re: [PATCH] new driver for ITM Touch touchscreen

2005-03-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:41:42PM +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:18 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:01:00PM +0100, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote: I really don't think the controller can now anything about the size of the screen.

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:00:51PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Tuesday March 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here's a first cut at how this 2.6 -stable release process is going to work that Chris and I have come up with. Does anyone have any problems/issues/questions with this? One rule

Re: [PATCH] add timing information to printk messages

2005-03-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:50:52 PST, Tim Bird said: Tony Luck wrote: Setting CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y I see (the NUL pieces are actually each a single ASCII '\0' character): Tony, Can you try the patch below? (inspired by a patch from Tom Zanussi - gotta give credit where credit is due... :-)

Re: [PATCH] PPC64 NUMA memory fixup

2005-03-10 Thread mike kravetz
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:36:13AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: This patch causes the non-numa G5 to oops very early in boot in smp_call_function(). OK - Let me take a look. -- Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:28:39AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: I've been looking at the UDI project[1] and thinking about binary drivers and the like, and wondering what most peoples' take on these are and what impact that UDI support would have on the kernel's development. Please, the

Re: [PATCH] PCI: One more Asus SMBus quirk

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:54:57AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:06:15AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:18:16PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Greg KH wrote:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] fix: drivers/base/class.c

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:08:56PM +0300, JustMan wrote: fix: drivers/base/class.c fix how? What are you fixing? diff -uNrp linux/drivers/base/class.orig.c linux/drivers/base/class.c --- linux/drivers/base/class.orig.c 2005-03-10 12:19:00.0 +0300 +++ linux/drivers/base/class.c

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:28:39AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: I've been looking at the UDI project[1] and thinking about binary drivers and the like, and wondering what most peoples' take on these are and what impact that UDI support would have on the kernel's development. UDI is

x86-64 linux-2.6.11-mm2 - BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! (ohci_hub_resume)

2005-03-10 Thread Sam Elstob
Just booted 2.6.11-mm2 with a new .config and ran into this BUG(). Here is the snippet from dmesg. [ 25.088135] ohci_hcd :00:02.0: wakeup [ 25.113120] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! [ 25.113128] [ 25.113135] Modules linked in: ehci_hcd ohci_hcd usbcore i2c_nforce2 it87 eeprom

Re: [patch 4/5] audit mips fix

2005-03-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:16:57PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] @@ -307,7 +308,7 @@ asmlinkage void do_syscall_trace(struct { if (unlikely(current-audit_context)) { if

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 11:56 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: critical user data. In other words, it should work correctly or not at all. At the least this should be a config option, like UNSAFE_TAPE_POSITIONING or some such. And show the

Re: 2.6.11-mm1

2005-03-10 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:32:15AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: [snip] +fix-scripts-mkubootsh-to-return-status.patch kbuild fix Please drop this. The problem is that 'make uImage' was saying that it sucessfully built a uImage when it didn't. The reason we have a wrapper script around

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:28:39AM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: I've been looking at the UDI project[1] and thinking about binary drivers and the like, and wondering what most peoples' take on these are and what impact that UDI

Re: make -j4 gets stuck w/ ccache over NFS - solved!

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:47:37AM -0500, Mark M. Hoffman wrote: Finally I noticed this patch from -mm1... and it solves the problem. nfsd--lockd-dont-try-to-match-callback-requests-against-export-table.patch How I tested: I applied the first 12 patches in 2.6.11-mm1; the above mentioned

Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: critical user data. In other words, it should work correctly or not at all. At the least this should be a config option, like UNSAFE_TAPE_POSITIONING or some such. And show the option if the build includes BROKEN features. That should put

Re: minor 2.6.11-bk6 config issue or user error

2005-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:38, Prakash Punnoor wrote: Hi, I went from bk4 to bk6. After patching i just typed make to recompile (as I thought this would be enough). But it errored out because CONFIG_BASE_SMALL wasn't defined. So I did make menuconfig and saved my config again and now it

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64

2005-03-10 Thread Omkhar Arasaratnam
James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 12:17 +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: Heh, the devel version of sym2 (that isn't submitted yet because it depends on a few changes to the SPI transport that James hasn't integrated yet) would probably fix this as it doesn't call iounmap() until the

Re: [PATCH] ide: hdio.txt update

2005-03-10 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:16:38 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + [2] Both the input and output buffers are copied from the + user and written back to the user, even when not used. The + out_flags and in_flags are written back to the user after +

Re: [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver

2005-03-10 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:42:01 -0800, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ChangeSet 1.2035, 2005/03/09 10:12:19-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver snip +void tpm_time_expired(unsigned long ptr) +{ + int *exp = (int *) ptr; + *exp = 1; +} +

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:43 -0800, Greg KH wrote: That, and a zillion other specific wordings that people suggested fall under the: or some oh, that's not good issue rule. So just to be 100% clear, no sound with 2.6.N where the sound worked with 2.6.N-1 absolutely does qualify. Right?

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've done more thought, here's a small list of advantages on using binary drivers, specifically considering UDI. You can consider a different implementation for binary drivers as well, with most of the same advantages. - Smaller kernel tree The

Re: [PATCH] 0/2 Buddy allocator with placement policy (Version 9) + prezeroing (Version 4)

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 14:31 +, Mel Gorman wrote: There are 2 kinds of sections: user and kernel. The traditional ZONE_HIGHMEM is full of user sections (except for vmalloc). And PTEs if configured to be allocated from high memory. I have not double checked but I don't think they can

Re: binary drivers and development

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:19:39PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: Greg KH wrote: Please, the UDI stuff has been proven to be broken and wrong. If you want to work on it, feel free to do so, just don't expect for anyone to accept the UDI layer into the kernel mainline. 1. What's

Re: [PATCH] qtronix missing failure handling

2005-03-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 04:08:44PM +0100, Panagiotis Issaris wrote: Hi, The Qtronix keyboard driver doesn't handle the possible failure of memory allocation. Thanks, applied. Please copy Linux/MIPS-specific patches to me or [EMAIL PROTECTED]; it was more a coincidence that I noticed your

Re: 2.6.11-mm2 + Radeon crash

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:12 +0100, Christian Henz wrote: Hi, I wanted to try 2.6.11-mm2 for the low latency/realtime lsm stuff and I've run into a severe problem. There is absolutely no reason to use the -mm kernel anymore for low latency audio. The -mm kernels were never stable enough to

Re: [PATCH] 0/2 Buddy allocator with placement policy (Version 9) + prezeroing (Version 4)

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Jackson
Mel Gorman, responding to Dave Hansen The other thing is that we'll probably have to be a lot more strict about how the allocations fall back. Some users will probably prefer to kill an application rather than let a kernel allocation fall back into a user memory area. That will be a

[BK PATCHES] ide-2.6 update

2005-03-10 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi Linus, Please do a bk pull bk://bart.bkbits.net/ide-2.6 This will update the following files: drivers/ide/Kconfig|1 drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 58 drivers/ide/ide-default.c | 17 ++- drivers/ide/ide-disk.c | 213

Re: Average power consumption in S3?

2005-03-10 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Matthew Garrett wrote: Radeons don't actually power down in D3 unless some registers are set, and even then the kernel doesn't currently have any code that would put the Radeon in D3. If you're willing to test something, could you try the code at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/radeon/

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:27:23PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:43 -0800, Greg KH wrote: That, and a zillion other specific wordings that people suggested fall under the: or some oh, that's not good issue rule. So just to be 100% clear, no sound with 2.6.N

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Lee Revell wrote: So just to be 100% clear, no sound with 2.6.N where the sound worked with 2.6.N-1 absolutely does qualify. Right? If you can send in a patch that fixes it in an obvious way and in less than 100 lines of context diff, hell yes. Remember: all the other

[PATCH] printk-times bugfix for loglevel-only printks

2005-03-10 Thread Tim Bird
Linus, This patch fixes a bug with the recently added printk-times feature. In the case where a printk consists of only the log level (followed subsequently by printks with more text for the same line), the printk-times code doesn't correctly recognize the end of the string, and starts emitting

Re: 64-bit resources?

2005-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:46:10AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: Greg, I was wondering what the state of the change to 64-bit resources was? On hold till I get the time to fix all of the kernel tree up due to the changes required. Unless someone else wants to volunteer to do the work :) thanks,

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