Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:50 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I disagree. The driver will never know ... ? the driver has to know. Look at the 53c700 to see exactly how awful it is. This beast has byte and word registers. When used BE, all the byte registers alter

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 15:16 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: The IOC4 device that provides IDE, serial ports and external interrupts on Altix systems has a big endian register layour, and the PCI-X bridge in those Altix systems can do the swapping if a special bit is set. In older kernels

Re: [RESEND 1] 8250_hp300: unuse register_serial/unregister_serial

2005-04-04 Thread Kars de Jong
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 15:06 +0100, Russell King wrote: Thanks for testing. I've incorporated your changes. One question - do you need linux/serial.h included in there? Yes, because it contains the prototype for early_serial_setup(). It might be a good idea to use the

UPDATE: out of vmalloc space - but vmalloc parameter does not allow boot

2005-04-04 Thread Ranko Zivojnovic
(please do CC replies as I am still not on the list) As I am kind of pressured to resolve this issue, I've set up a test environment using VMWare in order to reproduce the problem and (un)fortunately the attempt was successful. I have noticed a few points that relate to the size of the physical

ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-04 Thread David Ford
It seems that 2.6.12-rc1 introduced an ALSA bug generating an oops for a null pointer. codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300] codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip:

Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset

2005-04-04 Thread Christopher Allen Wing
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Well, first step is to try w/o ACPI. ACPI is inherently fragile and bugs there can easily explain your timer problems. Either recompile with CONFIG_ACPI=n, or boot with acpi=off pci=noacpi. When I boot without ACPI (I used 'acpi=off pci=noacpi')

Re: Followup: PROBLEM: Kernel bug at tg3.c:2456

2005-04-04 Thread Sergio Chiesa
Ju, Seokmann wrote: Can you please specify megaraid driver version? the v2.4.29 bundled one, v2.10.3. I'm going to try the last one from your site, the 2.10.9 Usually there are no messages on screen, but the last time I get Kernel bug at tg3.c:2456!! on the sender. The skb pointer in the

[PATCH] meminfo: add Cached underflow check

2005-04-04 Thread Martin Hicks
Hi, This patch was generated against 2.6.12-rc1 Working on some code lately I've been getting huge values for Cached. The cause is that get_page_cache_size() is an approximate value, and for a sufficiently small returned value of get_page_cache_size() the value underflows. Signed-off-by:

Re: Oops with linux-2.4.29

2005-04-04 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Steffen, On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:24:49PM +0200, Steffen Moser wrote: Hi all, one of our file servers (SuSE Linux 7.2, running linux-2.4.29) oopsed some days ago - here is the bug report: [1.] One line summary of the problem: Kernel linux-2.4.29 oopses irregularly. The oopses

Re: UPDATE: out of vmalloc space - but vmalloc parameter does not allow boot

2005-04-04 Thread Roland Kuhn
Hi Ranko! On Apr 4, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Ranko Zivojnovic wrote: (please do CC replies as I am still not on the list) As I am kind of pressured to resolve this issue, I've set up a test environment using VMWare in order to reproduce the problem and (un)fortunately the attempt was successful. I have

Re: ChangeLog-2.4.30

2005-04-04 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
The files are there now, as they should. [EMAIL PROTECTED] marcelo]$ wget

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:26:58AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: Sven Luther writes: Hello, quick sumary Current linux kernel source hold undistributable non-free firmware blobs, and to consider them as mere agregation, a clear licence statement from the copyright holders of said

Re: clock runs at double speed on x86_64 system w/ATI RS200 chipset

2005-04-04 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Christopher Allen Wing writes: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Well, first step is to try w/o ACPI. ACPI is inherently fragile and bugs there can easily explain your timer problems. Either recompile with CONFIG_ACPI=n, or boot with acpi=off pci=noacpi. When

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 5/6]clean cpu state after hotremove CPU

2005-04-04 Thread Nathan Lynch
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:42:18PM +0800, Li Shaohua wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 13:28, Nathan Lynch wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:07:02AM +0800, Li Shaohua wrote: Clean up all CPU states including its runqueue and idle thread, so we can use boot time code without any changes.

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread David Vrabel
James Bottomley wrote: so can you provide an example of a BE bus (or device) used on a LE platform that would actually benefit from this abstraction? The Network Processing Engines in the Intel IXP425 are big-endian and its XScale core may be run in little-endian mode. There's a bunch of

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] mips: update VR41xx CPU-PCI bridge support

2005-04-04 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
This patch updates NEC VR4100 series CPU-PCI bridge support. This patch already had applied to Ralf's cvs. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urN -X dontdiff rc1-mm4-orig/arch/mips/pci/ops-vr41xx.c rc1-mm4/arch/mips/pci/ops-vr41xx.c ---

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, David Vrabel wrote: James Bottomley wrote: so can you provide an example of a BE bus (or device) used on a LE platform that would actually benefit from this abstraction? The Network Processing Engines in the Intel IXP425 are big-endian and its XScale core may be run in

Re: [ACPI] 2.6.12-rc1-mm[1-3]: ACPI battery monitor does not work

2005-04-04 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Monday, 4 of April 2005 11:34, Yu, Luming wrote: Please testing patch filed at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3851#c64 My testing results on toshiba satellite M20 is: /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0#time cat state present: yes capacity state: ok

i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Hello all A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then specifically i8042 timing issues. I refer you to http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/11 for more detail. It turns out that it was the case that the i8042 controller responds too late on commands, for example, we issue a

2.6.12-rc1-bk6 boot problem

2005-04-04 Thread kladit
Dual P4 (Tyan S2662/I7505) Booting of 2.6.12-rc1-bk6 stops after these lines .. .. Enabling IO-APIC IRQs .. TIMER; vector=0x31 oin1=2 pin2=-1 checking TSC synchronization across 4 CPUs: passed Brought up 4 CPUs 2.6.12-rc1 works. Please cc me, I am not subscribed. -- Klaus - To unsubscribe

Re: Software Suspend on Sony Vaio R505E

2005-04-04 Thread Aaron Gaudio
Ooops! I selected the wrong file to attach. Here is the proper syslog attachment... /var/log/messages: Apr 3 13:07:04 localhost kernel: .swsusp: Restoring Highmem Apr 3 13:07:04 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:02.0[A] - GSI 9 (level, low) - IRQ 9 Apr 3 13:07:06 localhost kernel:

Re: [RFC] PCI bridge driver rewrite

2005-04-04 Thread Nguyen, Tom L
On Thu Feb 24 2005 - 01:33:38 Adam Belay wrote: The basic flow of the new code is as follows: 1.) A standard driver core driver binds to a bridge device. 2.) When *probe is called it sets up the hardware and allocates a struct pci_bus. 3.) The struct pci_bus is filled with information about the

Re: Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in arm

2005-04-04 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:44:14PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in arm. I was not able to even compile it, but it should not cause any problems. Please apply, On testing this patch, it doesn't build. You need to include linux/pm.h into

Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests

2005-04-04 Thread Mingming Cao
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 18:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Mingming Cao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run into OOM problem again on 2.6.12-rc1. I run some(20) fsx tests on 2.6.12-rc1 kernel(and 2.6.11-mm4) on ext3 filesystem, after about 10 hours the system hit OOM, and OOM keep killing

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread David Vrabel
Richard B. Johnson wrote: But the Linux interface (on the CPU side of the PCI bus interface) doesn't care about the implimentation details in the XScale Core. That's why it's a complete subsystem, isolated from the ix86 by the PCI/Bus interface. Hmmm. *takes a long hard look at the IXP425

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi, On Apr 4, 2005 11:10 AM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then specifically i8042 timing issues. I refer you to http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/11 for more detail. ... I was under impression that usb-handoff

Assertion failure in journal_start_Rsmp_2519e07e()

2005-04-04 Thread Eric Desjardins
Hi, I'm having problem with my x86_64 workstation. I'm having about 5 kernels oops a day and usually I got that in the syslog: Apr 4 12:45:07 oshawa kernel: Assertion failure in journal_start_Rsmp_2519e07e() at transaction.c:249: handle-h_transaction-t_journal == journal I'm using: Linux

Re: Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in arm

2005-04-04 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:02:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Russell King wrote: Linus - is the pm.h included in sysdev.h in -rc2? Nope. Just includes kobject.h Oh dear - in that case, most of ARM will be broken in -rc2. ;(

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-bk6 boot problem

2005-04-04 Thread Michael Thonke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dual P4 (Tyan S2662/I7505) Booting of 2.6.12-rc1-bk6 stops after these lines .. .. Enabling IO-APIC IRQs .. TIMER; vector=0x31 oin1=2 pin2=-1 checking TSC synchronization across 4 CPUs: passed Brought up 4 CPUs 2.6.12-rc1 works. Please cc me, I am not subscribed.

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi, On Apr 4, 2005 11:10 AM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then specifically i8042 timing issues. I refer you to http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/11 for more detail. ... I was under

Re: ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel Drake
David Ford wrote: It seems that 2.6.12-rc1 introduced an ALSA bug generating an oops for a null pointer. codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300] codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address

Re: Assertion failure in journal_start_Rsmp_2519e07e()

2005-04-04 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:59 -0400, Eric Desjardins wrote: Hi, I'm having problem with my x86_64 workstation. I'm having about 5 kernels oops a day and usually I got that in the syslog: Apr 4 12:45:07 oshawa kernel: Assertion failure in journal_start_Rsmp_2519e07e() at transaction.c:249:

Re: [PATCH] configfs, a filesystem for userspace-driven kernel object configuration

2005-04-04 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 12:57 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: Folks, I humbly submit configfs. With configfs, a configfs config_item is created via an explicit userspace operation: mkdir(2). It is destroyed via rmdir(2). The attributes appear at mkdir(2) time, and can be read or modified via

Re: ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:08:43 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: David Ford wrote: It seems that 2.6.12-rc1 introduced an ALSA bug generating an oops for a null pointer. codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300] codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c Unable to

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Jackson
Ingo wrote: i've attached the latest snapshot. I ran your latest snapshot on 64 CPU (well, 62 - one node wasn't working) system. I made one change - chop the matrix lines at 8 terms. It's a hack - don't know if it's a good idea. But the long lines were hard to read (and would only get worse

Re: Assertion failure in journal_start_Rsmp_2519e07e()

2005-04-04 Thread Eric Desjardins
Thanks for the answer. I was just wandering if this was known. ... and yet getting in touch with my RH support person could be a complex corporate problem involving several flavors of action request... Thanks again, Eric On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 13:11, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-04

Re: ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 06:08:43PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: David Ford wrote: It seems that 2.6.12-rc1 introduced an ALSA bug generating an oops for a null pointer. codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300] codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c Unable

Re: linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4-RT-V0.7.42-08

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ingo, I need the following two patches to keep my system alive and avoid the BUGs in the log send to you earlier (private mail). hm, the second patch does not apply (and the merge didnt look trivial) - maybe it depends on some patch in -mm that

security issue: hard disk lock

2005-04-04 Thread Jonas Diemer
Hello! I don't know if you guys already know, there is a possible security risk with all modern desktop-pcs and ata hard drives. In short: Modern ata drives can be locked by password. This lock could be set by a malicous software. This security feature can be frozen, so no programs can set a

Re: setting cpu affinity-help

2005-04-04 Thread Arthur Othieno
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:46:12AM +0530, Arun Srinivas wrote: hi can someone show me an example usage of sched_setaffinity().I do not know how to set the affinity mask for a process.please. thanks arun http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6799 Section Affinity Masks Hope that helps,

[PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Hansen
With sparsemem being introduced, we need a central place for new memory-related .config options: mm/Kconfig. This allows us to remove many of the duplicated arch-specific options. The new option, CONFIG_FLATMEM, is there to enable us to detangle NUMA and DISCONTIGMEM. This is a requirement for

[PATCH 0/4] create mm/Kconfig to detangle NUMA/DISCONTIG

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Hansen
The end goal of these particular patches is to allow us to get some small bits of global mm/ code compiled for either NUMA or DISCONTIGMEM. Obviously, this alone doesn't justify messing with each architecture's Kconfig file. Think of the 4th patch as one example of how this new file can be

[PATCH 2/4] make each arch use mm/Kconfig

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Hansen
For all architectures, this just means that you'll see a Memory Model choice in your architecture menu. For those that implement DISCONTIGMEM, you may eventually want to make your ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE a def_bool y and make your users select DISCONTIGMEM right out of the new choice menu. The

[PATCH 3/4] update all defconfigs for ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Hansen
This will at least suppress one prompt that users would have received the first time they compile with the new DISCONTIG arch option. They'll still get the Memory Model prompt, but 99% of them will have the default work there. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:16:47PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: This is just the followup on said discussion, involving the larger LKML audience, in order to get this fixed for good. As said, it is just a mere technicality to get out of the muddy situation, all the people having contributed

[PATCH 4/4] Introduce new Kconfig option for NUMA or DISCONTIG

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Hansen
There is some confusion that arose when working on SPARSEMEM patch between what is needed for DISCONTIG vs. NUMA. Multiple pg_data_t's are needed for DISCONTIGMEM or NUMA, independently. All of the current NUMA implementations require an implementation of DISCONTIG. Because of this, quite a

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Apr 4, 2005 12:07 PM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi, On Apr 4, 2005 11:10 AM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then specifically i8042 timing issues. I refer you to

[patch 2/3] hd eliminate bad section references

2005-04-04 Thread maximilian attems
Fix hd section references: make parse_hd_setup() __init Error: ./drivers/ide/legacy/hd.o .text refers to 0943 R_386_PC32 .init.text Signed-off-by: maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-bk5/drivers/ide/legacy/hd.c.orig 2005-04-04 18:39:04.0 +0200 +++

[patch 3/3] efi eliminate bad section references

2005-04-04 Thread maximilian attems
Randy please double check especially this one. there may be a better solution. Fix efi section references: remove __initdata for struct efi efi_phys and struct efi_memory_map memmap Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/efi.o .text refers to 00d3 R_386_32 .init.data Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/efi.o

Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O

2005-04-04 Thread Trond Myklebust
m den 04.04.2005 Klokka 12:22 (-0400) skreiv Benjamin LaHaise: Your approach looks reasonable and simple enough. It'd be useful if I could visualize the caller side of things as in the NFS client stream as you mention - do you plan to post that soon ? I'm tempted to think about the

mmap() and ioctl()

2005-04-04 Thread Matthew Dharm
This probably is a silly question, but Is is possible to open a file, mmap() it into memory, then pass the address of that map via an ioctl() call to the kernel, which will copy_from_user() that data? Yeah, that's an odd concept, I know... I could always malloc() some memory, read the file

Re: ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-04 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 06:08:43PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: David Ford wrote: It seems that 2.6.12-rc1 introduced an ALSA bug generating an oops for a null pointer. codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300] codec_read 0:

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 08/13] scsi: move request preps in other places into prep_fn()

2005-04-04 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 14:25 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Ah.. with later requeue path consolidation patches, all requests get their sense buffer cleared during requeueing, which, IMHO, is more logical. Moving scsi_init_cmd_errh() should come after the patch. Sorry. :-) I'll make another take

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:16:47PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: This is just the followup on said discussion, involving the larger LKML audience, in order to get this fixed for good. As said, it is just a mere technicality to get out of

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:41 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: The Network Processing Engines in the Intel IXP425 are big-endian and its XScale core may be run in little-endian mode. There's a bunch of gotchas related to running in little-endian mode so you typically run the IXP425 in big-endian mode,

2.4.30: pwc pwc_isoc_handler() called with status -84

2005-04-04 Thread Gabor Z. Papp
I have a Philips 750 webcam camera, equipped with a Sony CCD sensor + TDA878. It was working fine with 2.4.29 and earlier kernels, often with 100-150 days uptime. As I upgraded to 2.4.30-rc kernels, started getting such error in my kernel log: pwc Too many ISOC errors, bailing out. pwc

Re: mmap() and ioctl()

2005-04-04 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Matthew Dharm wrote: This probably is a silly question, but Is is possible to open a file, mmap() it into memory, then pass the address of that map via an ioctl() call to the kernel, which will copy_from_user() that data? Yes. A user-mode pointer, passed via ioctl() is

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread David S. Miller
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:57:59 -0500 James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:41 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: The Network Processing Engines in the Intel IXP425 are big-endian and its XScale core may be run in little-endian mode. There's a bunch of gotchas related to

Re: [RFC 5/6]clean cpu state after hotremove CPU

2005-04-04 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Li Shaohua wrote: Clean up all CPU states including its runqueue and idle thread, so we can use boot time code without any changes. Note this makes /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpux/online unworkable. #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU #include asm/nmi.h + +#ifdef

mmap tricks and writing to files without reading first

2005-04-04 Thread linux
I've got a database-like application that logs transactions to a file. I mmap() pages of the log file and do minor commits as cheap memory writes, and then I periodically write(O_SYNC) the mmapped copy back to the file (on top if itself) to force the data to stable storage for a major commit.

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:16:47PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: This is just the followup on said discussion, involving the larger LKML audience, in order to get this fixed for good. As said, it is just a mere technicality to get out of

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved problem, or the ones discussing it. Actually, there are some legitimate problems with some of the files in the Linux source base. Last time this came up, the Acenic

Re: linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4-RT-V0.7.42-08

2005-04-04 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 19:40 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ingo, I need the following two patches to keep my system alive and avoid the BUGs in the log send to you earlier (private mail). hm, the second patch does not apply (and the merge

Re: mmap() and ioctl()

2005-04-04 Thread Matthew Dharm
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:02:26PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Matthew Dharm wrote: This probably is a silly question, but Is is possible to open a file, mmap() it into memory, then pass the address of that map via an ioctl() call to the kernel, which will

Re: security issue: hard disk lock

2005-04-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jonas Diemer: What do you think of this? I think that these days, the underlying assumption (software cannot destroy hardware, and if it can, we have a problem) is simply no longer valid. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Adelgace Si o Si !!!

2005-04-04 Thread Dieta Robermar.com.ar
Robertmar le entregara una guia de comida dieria por sesenta dias y sus puntos meridianos a travez de fotografias segun edad, sexo, peso y estructura fisica. PROMOCION EN ARGENTINA$ 20 otros paises u$ 20 Con este metodo bajara de peso asombrosamente en pocos dias, controlara su

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 0/6] S3 SMP support with physcial CPU hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
Hi Pavel! On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: The patches are against 2.6.11-rc1 with Zwane's CPU hotplug patch in -mm tree. Should I merge that thing into mainline? It seems that a few people are needing it. Perhaps we should address the MTRR issue first. I've

[PATCH] create a kstrdup library function

2005-04-04 Thread Paulo Marques
Hi, This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the local implementations in several places to use this function. This is just a cleanup to allow reusing the strdup code, and to prevent bugs in future duplications of strdup. Most of the changes come from the sound and net

Re: [PATCH] network configs: disconnect network options from drivers

2005-04-04 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:30:13PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Any comments on this new version? The new Networking menu looks unstructured. And the net/Kconfig file contains a lot of config snippets that does not belong there. So I took a stamp on it with focus on: - Move config bits to

RE: 2.6.11, USB: High latency?

2005-04-04 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, kus Kusche Klaus wrote: I asked our hardware team. The hardware has two devices which are in use and capable of busmaster/DMA transfers: The intel e100 ethernet controller and the intel PIIX4 USB controller. The IDE interface is also a busmaster, but there are only PIO

kernel.org replaced

2005-04-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Hello everyone, HP has most graciously donated a pair of DL585 quad Opteron servers with 24 GB of RAM and 10 TB of disk using a pair of MSA-30 arrays for each server. The first ones of these servers was officially put in service today; the next one will be put in service next week. Each server

Re: [patch 1/3] pnpbios eliminate bad section references

2005-04-04 Thread Randy.Dunlap
maximilian attems wrote: one of the last buildcheck errors on i386, thanks Randy again for double checking. Fix pnpbios section references: make dmi_system_id pnpbios_dmi_table __initdata Error: ./drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.o .data refers to 0100 R_386_32 .init.text Error:

Re: [RFC] : remove unreliable, unused and unmainained arch from kernel.

2005-04-04 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:03:16 -0500 (EST), linux-os wrote: This must be a joke. Where's the punch line? It's called a fish in Italian and French. -- Giuseppe Oblomov Bilotta They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin

[patch] inotify 0.22

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Love
Below, find inotify 0.22, against 2.6.12-rc1. This release introduces a conversion in our primary locking from spinlocks to semaphores. Semaphores are a more natural fit for our code, which synchronizes with user-space, thus we clean up a bit of code with a net reduction of 63 lines. Also, I

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it is probably stuck in some spinning yield loop, which was the reason I was writing this test to begin with! It's most likely also waiting for kjournald to do some work, and is starving it in a schedule or yield loop never actually going to

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 04, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, like they did with tg3 and others. This sucks, yes. -- ciao, Marco (@debian.org) signature.asc

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:21 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved problem, or the ones discussing it. [...] All i am asking is that *the copyright holders* of said firmware

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html Can you summarize the conclusion of the thread, or what you did get from it, please ? That

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:05:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 04, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, like they did with tg3 and others. Their

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:12:48PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:21 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved problem, or the ones discussing it.

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:05:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 04, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, like they did with tg3 and others. And

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html Can you summarize the conclusion of

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:05:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 04, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, like they did with tg3 and others. Nope,

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved problem, or the ones discussing it. Actually, there are some legitimate problems with some of the files in the Linux source base. Last time this

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ?

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Roland Dreier
Ian I think what Greg may have meant[0] was that if it bothers Ian you, then you should act by contacting the copyright holders Ian privately yourself in each case that you come across and Ian asking them if you may add a little comment etc, and then Ian submit patches once you

Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Mingming Cao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 18:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Mingming Cao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run into OOM problem again on 2.6.12-rc1. I run some(20) fsx tests on 2.6.12-rc1 kernel(and 2.6.11-mm4) on ext3 filesystem, after about 10 hours

Re: kernel.org replaced

2005-04-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
A few additional notes: - The IP addresses for kernel.org have changed. When the second server gets deployed next week, most of the kernel.org addresses, e.g. ftp.kernel.org, will be round-robins. The individual servers can be specified as ftp1.kernel.org and ftp2.kernel.org. - *** If

[PATCH 1/2] cifs: whitespace cleanups for fs/cifs/smberr.h part 1

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi Steve, moving right along with the fs/cifs/ cleanup, here's part 1 of a patch to beautify smberr.h a bit This patch is also available from http://www.linuxtux.org/~juhl/kernel_patches/fs_cifs_smberr-whitespace-1.patch Align numbers neatly and use tabs instead of spaces. Signed-off-by:

Re: PCI: increase the size of the pci.ids strings

2005-04-04 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:47:48 -0800, Greg KH wrote: -#define PCI_NAME_SIZE96 +#define PCI_NAME_SIZE255 #define PCI_NAME_HALF__stringify(43) /* less than half to handle slop */ Shouldn't PCI_NAME_HALF be changed too? To something like 109 or 113? -- Giuseppe Oblomov

Re: kernel.org replaced

2005-04-04 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On Apr 4, 2005 9:53 PM, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, HP has most graciously donated a pair of DL585 quad Opteron servers with 24 GB of RAM and 10 TB of disk using a pair of MSA-30 arrays for each server. The first ones of these servers was officially put in

Re: Oops in i810_audio (reply to herbert)

2005-04-04 Thread SuD (Alex)
I already tried my own version of the patch with a few printk. I can tell you that both probe functions in (ac97_codec.c:719) would report the device as modem. /* Check for an AC97 1.0 soft modem (ID1) */ codec-codec_read(codec, AC97_RESET) returned 0xd3a ... /* Check for an AC97 2.x soft

[PATCH 2/2] cifs: whitespace cleanups for fs/cifs/smberr.h part 2

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Steve, Here's the second part of the patch for smberr.h. This one break up the long comments. Applies on top of the previous one. Patch is also available from http://www.linuxtux.org/~juhl/kernel_patches/fs_cifs_smberr-whitespace-2.patch Break comment lines so they all fit on a 80 column

[patch] inotify 0.22 for 2.6.12-rc1-mm4

2005-04-04 Thread Robert Love
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:02 -0400, Robert Love wrote: Greetings, Mr Morton. Below, find inotify 0.22, against 2.6.12-rc1. This release introduces a conversion in our primary locking from spinlocks to semaphores. Semaphores are a more natural fit for our code, which synchronizes with

[PATCH 1/1] cifs: beautify fs/cifs/rfc1002pdu.h a little bit (whitespace changes only)

2005-04-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Beautify rfc1002pdu.h a bit. Whitespace changes only. Patch also available here: http://www.linuxtux.org/~juhl/kernel_patches/fs_cifs_rfc1002pdu.patch Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm4-orig/fs/cifs/rfc1002pdu.h 2005-03-02 08:38:08.0 +0100 +++

Re: kernel.org replaced

2005-04-04 Thread Brice Goglin
Alessandro Suardi a écrit : I don't know - 2.6.12-rc2 has been announced a few hours ago on http://www.kernel.org , still the patch isn't there.. It is now ! Brice - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests

2005-04-04 Thread Martin J. Bligh
I run into OOM problem again on 2.6.12-rc1. I run some(20) fsx tests on 2.6.12-rc1 kernel(and 2.6.11-mm4) on ext3 filesystem, after about 10 hours the system hit OOM, and OOM keep killing processes one by one. I could reproduce this problem very constantly on a 2 way PIII 700MHZ

Re: OOM problems on 2.6.12-rc1 with many fsx tests

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Martin J. Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run into OOM problem again on 2.6.12-rc1. I run some(20) fsx tests on 2.6.12-rc1 kernel(and 2.6.11-mm4) on ext3 filesystem, after about 10 hours the system hit OOM, and OOM keep killing processes one by one. I could reproduce this

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 12:07 PM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 11:10 AM, Jaco Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A while back there was quite a discussion on this issue and then specifically i8042 timing issues. I refer you to

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:00 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it is probably stuck in some spinning yield loop, which was the reason I was writing this test to begin with! It's most likely also waiting for kjournald to do some work, and is starving

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