Mildred Frisco (2nd request)

2005-04-05 Thread MildredFrisco
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Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread jamal
and, oh yeah - wheres the documentation Evgeniy? ;-> cheers, jamal On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:44, jamal wrote: > To be fair to Evgeniy I am not against the Konnector idea. I think that > it is a useful feature to have an easy to use messaging between > kernel-kernel and kernel-userspace. The fact

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

2005-04-05 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:39:02 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> One of the options is to even ship the firmware in the kernel tarbal but >> from a separate directory with a clear license clarification text in it. > > I think

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread jamal
To be fair to Evgeniy I am not against the Konnector idea. I think that it is a useful feature to have an easy to use messaging between kernel-kernel and kernel-userspace. The fact that he leveraged netlink instead of inventing things is a bonus. Having said that i have not seriously scrutinized

Re: [PATCH] no need to cast pointer to (void *) when passing it to kfree()

2005-04-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, David Howells wrote: > Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:04:58 +0100 > From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: linux-kernel > Subject: Re: [PATCH] no need to cast pointer to (void *) when passing it to > kfree() > > Jesper Juhl

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

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > One of the options is to even ship the firmware in the kernel tarbal but > from a separate directory with a clear license clarification text in it. I think that's what we should do. I currently don't have any firmware requiring

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:35:46PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > It's documented where the other filesystem entry points are documented. > > Which is? > > $ grep -r compat_ioctl Documentation > Documentation/filesystems/Locking: long (*compat_ioctl) (struct

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:51:57PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > Please make it a module option so it doesn't regress everyone for your > > specific needs. > > Sorry, I don't follow you. E.g. on my ia64 box CONFIG_COMPAT is set because I have support compiled in

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Mackerras
Christoph Hellwig writes: > - the magic CONFIG_COMPAT changes for SHM handles should only be done when >a module is set. CONFIG_COMPAT is set for mostly 64bit systems that can >run 32bit code and drm shouldn't behave differently just because we can >run 32bit code. Yes it should -

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Andrey Panin
On 095, 04 05, 2005 at 12:05:24AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: what useful this part of the patch is supposed to do ? Looks like the result of whitespace damage. --- linux-2.6.12-rc2/drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c 2005-03-02 01:09:19.0 -0800 +++ 25/drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:58:19PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > E.g. on my ia64 box CONFIG_COMPAT is set because I have support compiled > > in for running i386 apps. But I don't want dri to hand out 32bit handles > > everywhere just because of that, because I most certainly won't be

Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-04-05 Thread Jacek Luczak
Natanael Copa napisał(a): > On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 12:11 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > >>Didn't you ever look up what a ulimit is? > > > ofcourse i did. I just think that ulimit (or other userspace tools) > should be used to *raise* the limit if you need more. Not the reverse. > > >>If you

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Jindrich Makovicka
Andrew Morton wrote: [...] Does not compile on AthlonXP. For mmx_clear_page, only the prototype was changed, but the implementation is still the same. I guess that part of the patch slipped out somehow. -extern void mmx_clear_page(void *page); +extern void mmx_clear_page(void *page, int

Re: Crash during boot for 2.6.12-rc2.

2005-04-05 Thread James Morris
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > n Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > I got this on a dual P4 Xeon with HT. If anyone wants more > > information, > > > > let me know. > > > > > > > > > > .config, please.. > > >

Re: [PATCH] no need to cast pointer to (void *) when passing it to kfree()

2005-04-05 Thread David Howells
Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kfree() takes a void pointer argument, no need to cast. vma->vm_start is unsigned long (unless it's changed since last I looked): struct vm_area_struct { struct mm_struct * vm_mm; unsigned long vm_start;

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Airlie
> > E.g. on my ia64 box CONFIG_COMPAT is set because I have support compiled > in for running i386 apps. But I don't want dri to hand out 32bit handles > everywhere just because of that, because I most certainly won't be running > i386 OpenGL apps. > It doesn't actually matter what size the

power/video.txt: update documentation with more systems

2005-04-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This updates video.txt documentation with information about few more systems. Please apply, Pavel --- clean/Documentation/power/video.txt 2005-04-05 10:54:28.0 +0200 +++ linux/Documentation/power/video.txt 2005-04-05

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Mackerras
Christoph Hellwig writes: > E.g. on my ia64 box CONFIG_COMPAT is set because I have support compiled > in for running i386 apps. But I don't want dri to hand out 32bit handles > everywhere just because of that, because I most certainly won't be running > i386 OpenGL apps. The handle for a

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > Second step is to make the built-in firmware a > > > config option and then later on when the infrastructure matures for > > > firmware loading/providing firmware it can be removed from the driver > > > entirely. > > > > I

pktcddvd -> immediate crash

2005-04-05 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Hi all, I wonder whether anyone could use the pktcddvd device without killing random jobs (due to sudden out of memory or better memory leaks in pktcddvd) and finally a complete freeze of the machine ? To reproduce just create an udf filesystem on some dvdrw, mount it rw and copy some large file

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Mackerras
Christoph Hellwig writes: > It's documented where the other filesystem entry points are documented. Which is? $ grep -r compat_ioctl Documentation Documentation/filesystems/Locking: long (*compat_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Mackerras
Christoph Hellwig writes: > Please make it a module option so it doesn't regress everyone for your > specific needs. Sorry, I don't follow you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Ingo Molnar writes: > > * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > this fixed my crashes too. > > > > spoke too soon - they still trigger even with the patch applied. > > the patch below fixes the crash, it was related to CONFIG_PREEMPT. > > Ingo > > -- > fix entry.S

Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-04-05 Thread Natanael Copa
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 12:11 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > Didn't you ever look up what a ulimit is? ofcourse i did. I just think that ulimit (or other userspace tools) should be used to *raise* the limit if you need more. Not the reverse. > If you consider your distro's default ulimits

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:44:38PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > - the magic CONFIG_COMPAT changes for SHM handles should only be done when > >a module is set. CONFIG_COMPAT is set for mostly 64bit systems that can > >run 32bit code and drm shouldn't

Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

2005-04-05 Thread Ram
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 22:11, Al Viro wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:42:09PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:06:56PM +, Al Viro wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:02:13AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:18:51PM +, Al

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

2005-04-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > Second step is to make the built-in firmware a > > config option and then later on when the infrastructure matures for > > firmware loading/providing firmware it can be removed from the driver > > entirely. > > I think the infrasturcture is quite mature. We have a lot of drivers > that

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
Hello Jeff, ... If i can believe what i see in : http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/anno/drivers/net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]|src/|src/drivers|src/drivers/net|related/drivers/net/tg3.c|[EMAIL PROTECTED] (which may or may not be correct and complete, since i am not really familiar with bk and

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:30:47AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ > > > weren't going to do it, but

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

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:28:07AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > I think they will be accepted if they first introduce a transition > period where tg3 will do request_firmware() and only use the built-in > firmware if that fails. Fine with me. > Second step is to make the built-in firmware a

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:20 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Dave Airlie writes: > > > Paulus these look like your patches care to update them with the "new" > > method of doing stuff.. > > What are we going to do about the DRM CVS? Change it to the new way > and break everyone running 2.6.10 or

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

2005-04-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ > > weren't going to do it, but if you want to then go ahead. I think people > > are just fed up of

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

2005-04-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ > > weren't going to do it, but if you want to then go ahead. I think people > > are just fed up of

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Btw, some more comments on the 32bit compat code in drm: - instead of set_fs & co and passing kernel addresses to drm_ioctl please use compat_alloc_user_space() - this: +ifeq ($(CONFIG_COMPAT),y) +drm-objs+= drm_ioc32.o +radeon-objs += radeon_ioc32.o +endif should be written as

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

2005-04-05 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Esben Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now the question is, who will fix it? Preferably the maintainers, but I > > > don't know how much of a priority this is to them. I don't have the time > > > now to look at this and understand enough

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [RFC] Driver States

2005-04-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > You have a few things here that can easily conflict, and that will be > > developed at different paces. I like the direction that it's going, but > > how do you intend to do it gradually. I.e. what to do first? > > I think the first step would be for us to all agree on a design, whether

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Airlie
> > > Paulus these look like your patches care to update them with the "new" > > method of doing stuff.. > > What are we going to do about the DRM CVS? Change it to the new way > and break everyone running 2.6.10 or earlier, or leave it at the old > way that will work for people with distro

Re: [patch] inotify 0.22

2005-04-05 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:02 -0400, Robert Love wrote: Hi, > Below, find inotify 0.22, against 2.6.12-rc1. > Will this be included in mainline anytime soon? Kernel side seems to be working great, and I think all issues was addressed. The only real issues currently is with the gamin backend,

Re: [PATCH 00/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-05 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Jan, > > > > 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 ? > > > > >

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-05 Thread Renate Meijer
On Apr 4, 2005, at 11:49 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Apr 04, 2005, at 17:25, Richard B. Johnson wrote: I don't find stdint.h in the kernel source (up to 2.6.11). Is this going to be a new addition? Uhh, no. stdint.h is part of glibc, not the kernel. It would be very helpful to start using the

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Mackerras
Dave Airlie writes: > Paulus these look like your patches care to update them with the "new" > method of doing stuff.. What are we going to do about the DRM CVS? Change it to the new way and break everyone running 2.6.10 or earlier, or leave it at the old way that will work for people with

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:11:26PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > Those DRI callers aren't in mainline but introduced in bk-drm.patch, > > looks like the DRI folks need beating with a big stick.. > > Settle down Christoph, the compat_ioctl method is less than 3

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

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ > weren't going to do it, but if you want to then go ahead. I think people > are just fed up of people bringing up the issue and then failing to do > anything about

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Mackerras
Christoph Hellwig writes: > Those DRI callers aren't in mainline but introduced in bk-drm.patch, > looks like the DRI folks need beating with a big stick.. Settle down Christoph, the compat_ioctl method is less than 3 months old, has only been in one official 2.6.x release, and isn't documented

[IrDA] Oops with NULL deref in irda_device_set_media_busy

2005-04-05 Thread Michal Rokos
Hello, I've problems with IrDA - when debug is off, I'm getting oops for obvious reason... (I don't have a log, this is just rewrite from screen: EIP: irda_device_set_media_busy+0x15/0x40 [irda] ali_ircc_sir_receive+0x4a/0x70 ali_ircc_sir_interrupt+0x66/0x70 ali_ircc_interrupt+0x5e/0x80 . )

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Airlie
On Apr 5, 2005 5:44 PM, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:05:24AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > +officially-deprecate-register_ioctl32_conversion.patch > > > > deprecate a compat function (mainly affects DRI) > > Those DRI callers aren't in mainline but

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

2005-04-05 Thread Li Shaohua
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:33, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > > > > > I don't understand why this is needed at all. It looks like a fair > > > amount of code from do_exit is being duplicated here. > > Yes, exactly. Someone who understand do_exit please help clean up the > > code. I'd like to remove the

2.6.12-rc2 compile error in drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c

2005-04-05 Thread Ben Castricum
2.6.12-rc1 compiles and runs perfectly. gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) CC [M] drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.o In file included from drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c:63: include/linux/usb_cdc.h:117: field `bDetailData' has incomplete type make[3]: *** [drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.o] Error 1

Re: Overcommit_memory logic fails when swap is off

2005-04-05 Thread Martin Egholm Nielsen
Hello there, After 2½ year I stumbled over this thread: On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 13:23, Alan Cox wrote: 2.5 propses including the ability to set the %age between the 0% of mode 3, the 50 of mode 2 and upwards to things relevant in some embedded system cases. So for 2.6 you will be able to tune it in

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

2005-04-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 10:32 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:19:24AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:19 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > I am only saying that the tg3.c and other file are under the GPL, and > > > that the firmware included in it is

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 crash while mounting a reiserfs3 filesystem

2005-04-05 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Apr 3, 2005 11:56 PM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mathieu Bérard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I get a 100% reproductible oops while booting linux 2.6.12-rc1-mm4. > > (Everyting run smoothly using 2.6.11-mm1) > > It seems to be related with mounting a reiserfs3

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Tuesday, 5 of April 2005 09:05, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm1/ > > - x86 NMI handling seems to be bust in 2.6.12-rc2. Try using > `nmi_watchdog=0' if you experience weird crashes. > > - The possible

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-05 Thread Renate Meijer
On Apr 4, 2005, at 10:57 PM, Al Viro wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:30:52PM +0200, Renate Meijer wrote: When used improperly. The #define Al Viro objected to, is objectionable. It's highly misleading, as Mr. Viro pointed out. I fail to see where he made comments on stdint.h as such. Comments on

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Brice Goglin
Ingo Molnar a écrit : * Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Morton a écrit : ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm1/ Hi Andrew, printk timing seems broken. It always shows [ 0.00] on my Compaq Evo N600c. could you send the full

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Reuben Farrelly
Hi, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm1/ - x86 NMI handling seems to be bust in 2.6.12-rc2. Try using `nmi_watchdog=0' if you experience weird crashes. - The possible kernel-timer related hangs might possibly be fixed. We

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:19:24AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:19 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I am only saying that the tg3.c and other file are under the GPL, and > > that the firmware included in it is *NOT* intented to be under the > > GPL, so why not say it

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton a écrit : > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm1/ > > Hi Andrew, > > printk timing seems broken. > It always shows [ 0.00] on my Compaq Evo N600c. could you send the full bootlog

Re: [PATCH 00/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-05 Thread Kay Sievers
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:51 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Monday 04 April 2005 23:23, Jan Harkes 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

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton a écrit : > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm1/ > > Hi Andrew, > > printk timing seems broken. > It always shows [ 0.00] on my Compaq Evo N600c. What sort of CPU does that

Re: [PATCH] biarch compiler support for i386

2005-04-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Christoph Hellwig wrote: Given that the same logic applies to various other ports maybe it should go into a common Makefile fragment? Alas, the *details* are different for each architecture. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> bk-audit.patch This introduces various AUDIT_ARCH numerical constants, which is a blatantly stupid idea. We already have a way to uniquely identify architectures, and that's the ELF headers, no need for another parallel namespace. (btw, could you please add to all patches who's responsible

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

2005-04-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:19 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > I am only saying that the tg3.c and other file are under the GPL, and > that the firmware included in it is *NOT* intented to be under the > GPL, so why not say it explicitly ? I don't think anyone here has disagreed. What almost everyone

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (btw, could you please add to all patches who's responsible for them, > bk-audit.patch doesn't tell) It's supposed to, but if I have to fix rejects and refresh the patch, I lose that info. Right now, bk-audit stomps on bk-ia64, so we lost the

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Brice Goglin
Andrew Morton a écrit : ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm1/ - Nobody said anything about the PM resume and DRI behaviour in 2.6.12-rc1-mm4. So it's all perfect now? I'm sorry, I did not follow this "PM resume broken" thread. But, suspend to

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton a écrit : > > Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Andrew Morton a écrit : > >> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm1/ > >> > >> Hi Andrew, > >> > >> printk timing seems

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:34 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:10 -0400, Herbert Xu wrote: > > >In fact to this day I still don't understand what problems this thing is > >meant to solve. > > Hmm, what else can I add to my words? > May be checking the size of the code

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oleg Nesterov: > > o x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2) > > I don't even absolutely understand what this patch does :) > I only send a very minor fix on top of Stas Sergeev's patch. > I'm suspecting a problem in the reporting scripts. The

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Brice Goglin
Andrew Morton a écrit : Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Morton a écrit : > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm1/ Hi Andrew, printk timing seems broken. It always shows [ 0.00] on my Compaq Evo N600c. What sort of CPU does that

Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11

2005-04-05 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Hi, I am having a little trouble with inotify 0.22. Previous version worked w/o trouble (even with nvidia and nvsound loaded) with 2.6.12-rc1-kb2 and gamin Now I use 2.6.12-rc2 with inotify 0.22 and got this after a few minutes of uptime (compiling some stuff): Apr 5 09:40:43 tachyon Unable to

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > >+sched-remove-unnecessary-sched-domains.patch > >+sched-improve-pinned-task-handling-again.patch > [snip] > > > > CPU scheduler updates > > > > It is no problem that you picked these up for testing. But > don't merge them

Re: [PATCH]: Fix get_compat_sigevent()

2005-04-05 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:37:24 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:44:09 -0700 "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have no idea how a bug like this lasted so long. > > Probably because very few programs pass sigevents into the kernel ...

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this fixed my crashes too. > > spoke too soon - they still trigger even with the patch applied. the patch below fixes the crash, it was related to CONFIG_PREEMPT. Ingo -- fix entry.S crash with PREEMPT+PAGEALLOC Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Re: [RFC 1/6]SEP initialization rework

2005-04-05 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Li Shaohua wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 03:10, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Li Shaohua wrote: > > > > > linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c |6 ++ > > > linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c | 10 ++ >

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

2005-04-05 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Esben Nielsen wrote: > > I'm sure a lot of the yield() users could be converted to > > schedule_timeout(), some of the users i saw were for low memory conditions > > where we want other tasks to make progress and complete so that we a bit > > more free memory. > > > >

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Brice Goglin
Andrew Morton a écrit : ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc2/2.6.12-rc2-mm1/ Hi Andrew, printk timing seems broken. It always shows [ 0.00] on my Compaq Evo N600c. dmesg and config attached. - Nobody said anything about the PM resume and DRI behaviour in

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:05:24AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > +officially-deprecate-register_ioctl32_conversion.patch > > deprecate a compat function (mainly affects DRI) Those DRI callers aren't in mainline but introduced in bk-drm.patch, looks like the DRI folks need beating with a big

Re: [PATCH 0/4] cifs: cleanup asn1.c

2005-04-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:35:59 +0100 > From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Steve French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re:

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-05 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:40:39PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 04:10 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > SPARC64 can do it in the PTEs, but we just use raw physical > > > addresses in our I/O accessors, and in those load/store instructions > > > we can specify the

[BOOTMEM] bad physical address convertions.

2005-04-05 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Hi, I'm porting linux on an embedded system based on MIPS proc. I've encountered several problems and one of these is related to the physical memory which doesn't start to 0. This is actually not a big issue if code that makes physical address convertions uses the appropriate macros that do the

Re: [PATCH] biarch compiler support for i386

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:14:16PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > This allows the i386 architecture to be built on a system with a biarch > compiler that defaults to x86-64, merely by specifying ARCH=i386. > > As previously discussed, this uses the equivalent logic to the ppc port. Given that

Re: [PATCH 0/4] cifs: cleanup asn1.c

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:59:32PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > More fs/cifs/ cleanups for you. This time for asn1.c Btw, shouldn't asn1.c move to lib/? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH]: Fix get_compat_sigevent()

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:44:09 -0700 "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have no idea how a bug like this lasted so long. Probably because very few programs pass sigevents into the kernel ... > - memset(, 0, sizeof(*event)); > + memset(event, 0, sizeof(*event)); Blush :-)

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Akinobu Mita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > With nmi_watchdog=1, I got random Oopses (Unable to handle kernel > > paging request, not by the NMI oopser) from many processes. It is not > >

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:10 -0400, Herbert Xu wrote: >On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:03:16AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: >> >> I received comments and feature requests from Herbert Xu and Jamal Hadi >> Salim, >> almost all were successfully resolved. > >Please do not construe my involvement in

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: +sched-remove-unnecessary-sched-domains.patch +sched-improve-pinned-task-handling-again.patch [snip] CPU scheduler updates It is no problem that you picked these up for testing. But don't merge them yet, please. Suresh's underlying problem with the unnecessary sched domains

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:17:45PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > OK, I sent the patch off to Andrew. To complete the original problem, > the attached is the patch that uses it in the parisc lasi driver > (although, actually, it sets up 53c700 to work everywhere including BE > on a LE system). >

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-05 Thread Oleg Nesterov
> Oleg Nesterov: > o x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2) I don't even absolutely understand what this patch does :) I only send a very minor fix on top of Stas Sergeev's patch. Oleg. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs

2005-04-05 Thread Paul Jackson
Andi wrote: > There is already an arch neutral mechanism in sysfs, see > /sys/devices/system/node/node*/distance Excellent - thank-you. > But of course SLIT doesn't know anything about cache latencies. Of course. Though SLIT does know about basic node distances, which tend to correlate with

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Airlie
> > - Nobody said anything about the PM resume and DRI behaviour in > 2.6.12-rc1-mm4. So it's all perfect now? Well the DRI is, both reports of bugs have been fixed :-), the bug should be closed on bugs.kernel.org I think, and it looks rock solid on my box both FC3 and Debian sarge.. Dave. -

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Akinobu Mita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > With nmi_watchdog=1, I got random Oopses (Unable to handle kernel > paging request, not by the NMI oopser) from many processes. It is not > happend with -rc1. > > The following change fixes this problem.

[patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc2-V0.7.44-00

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
i have released the -V0.7.44-00 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ this is a merge of -43-08 to 2.6.12-rc2. http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:03:16AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > I received comments and feature requests from Herbert Xu and Jamal Hadi > Salim, > almost all were successfully resolved. Please do not construe my involvement in these threads as endorsement for this system. In fact to this

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have nmis enabled? yeah ... > call do_nmi > - jmp restore_all > + jmp restore_nocheck and i was about to take a closer look at the NMI path :-) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it could be the ESP-16-bit-corruption patch causing this, or it could > be an already existing latent bug getting triggered now: normally only > iret accesses the OLDSS, and we fix any iret faults up, but now that > we explicitly access %esp the esp

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:10 -0400, James Morris wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, James Morris wrote: > > > A few questions: > > Also, please allow cn_add_callback() allow it to be passed a NULL > callback function, so the caller doesn't pass in a dummy function and your > code doesn't waste time

Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the crashes below happen when PAGEALLOC is enabled. It's this > instruction: > > movb OLDSS(%esp), %ah > > OLDSS is 0x38, esp is f4f83fc8, OLDSS(%esp) is thus f4f84000, which > correctly creates the PAGEALLOC pagefault. esp is off by 4

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-05 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:05 -0400, James Morris wrote: > Evgeniy, > > Please send networking patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It was sent there two times. > Your connector code (under drivers/connector) is now in the -mm tree and > as far as I can tell, has not received any review from the

crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
the crashes below happen when PAGEALLOC is enabled. It's this instruction: movb OLDSS(%esp), %ah OLDSS is 0x38, esp is f4f83fc8, OLDSS(%esp) is thus f4f84000, which correctly creates the PAGEALLOC pagefault. esp is off by 4 bytes? it could be the ESP-16-bit-corruption patch causing

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs

2005-04-05 Thread Andi Kleen
Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We already expose the SLIT table node distances (using SN2 specific > /proc files today, others are working on an arch-neutral mechanism). There is already an arch neutral mechanism in sysfs, see /sys/devices/system/node/node*/distance That should be

Re: Crash during boot for 2.6.12-rc2.

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Morton
James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > n Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > I got this on a dual P4 Xeon with HT. If anyone wants more information, > > > let me know. > > > > > > > .config, please.. > > # > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit > # Linux

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