Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:33:29 -0700 David Mosberger wrote: | On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:19:28 -0700, Luck, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: | |I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. |Do you know what happened? | | Tony If BitKeeper were still in use, I'd have dropped

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Al Viro
thread_info, part 1: new helper - task_thread_info(task). On platforms that have thread_info allocated separately (i.e. in default case) it simply returns task-thread_info. m68k wants (and for good reasons) to embed its thread_info into task_struct. So it will (in later patch) have

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Al Viro
thread_info part 2: encapsulates the rest of arch-dependent operations with thread_info access. Two new helpers - setup_thread_info() and end_of_stack(). For normal case the former consists of copying thread_info of parent to new thread_info and the latter returns pointer immediately

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

2005-04-21 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:07:45PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: Troy Benjegerdes wrote: Someone (aka Tospin, infinicon, and Amasso) should probably post a patch adding '#define VM_REGISTERD 0x0100', and some extensions to something like 'madvise' to set pages to be registered. My preference

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 compile error in aic7xxx_osm.c

2005-04-21 Thread Steven Cole
Martin J. Bligh wrote: drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c: In function `ahc_linux_init': drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c:3608: parse error before `int' drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c:3609: `rc' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c:3609: (Each

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Al Viro
m68k thread_info - part 4 The rest: a) added embedded thread_info [m68k processor.h] b) added missing symbols in asm-offsets.c c) task_thread_info() and freinds in asm-m68k/thread_info.h d) made m68k thread_info.h included by m68k processor.h, not the other

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Al Viro
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:57:23PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: thread_info part 3: heads. headers, even... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: NForce4 ide problems?

2005-04-21 Thread ismail dönmez
Oh well, this was due to bad cabling after all. A 80-conductor cable fixed the issue.Thanks for heads up. Appreciated. Regards, ismail On 4/21/05, ismail dönmez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 4/20/05, Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to post that Oops message if you

[2.6.11.7 / CLPS711x/SkyMinder] module integration issue: keyboard driver _still_ not working after port from 2.4.27

2005-04-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hi, after some thought, i decided on friday to port all of the 2.4.27 code over to 2.6.11.7. bearing in mind that reading from /dev/input/evdev0 worked fine on 2.4.27 - and now also works fine under 2.6.11.7 - the exact same problem occurs on 2.6.11.7 as occurred under 2.4.27 - hanging of the

Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Stan Bubrouski
Luck, Tony wrote: Yeah, I'm facing the same issue. I started playing with git last night. Apart from disk-space usage, it's very nice, though I really hope someone puts together a web-interface on top of git soon so we can seek what changed when and by whom. Disk space issues? A complete git

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Luck, Tony
That said, is there any plan to change how this functions in the future to solve these problems? I.e. have it not use so much diskspace and thus use less bandwith. Am I misunderstanding in assuming that after say 1000 commits go into the tree it could end up several megs or gigs bigger? If

Hang when using a Matrox G550 with DVI

2005-04-21 Thread Shaun Jackman
When I have a DVI display plugged into my Matrox G550 video card the Linux kernel 2.6.11 hangs while booting. This can be worked around by disabling CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT and/or comment out call to store_edid in arch/i386/boot/video.S [1], or by unplugging the DVI display before the kernel boots and

Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Stan Bubrouski
Luck, Tony wrote: SNIP Only a new user would have to pull the whole history ... and for most uses it is sufficient to just pull the current top of the tree. Linus' own tree only has a history going back to 2.6.12.-rc2 (when he started using git). Someday there might be a server daemon that can

[PATCH 2.6.11] Documentation: remove super-{nr, max} from the Documentation to reflect fs/super.c

2005-04-21 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
The patch updates the documentation for /proc. super-nr and super-max have been dropped from the kernel since 2.4.9 due to minor numbering issues. This change was not documented in the documentation. --- linux-2.6.11/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 2005-04-14 17:56:00.00 +++

Re: [2.6.11.7 / CLPS711x/SkyMinder] module integration issue: keyboard driver _still_ not working after port from 2.4.27

2005-04-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
okay - i found this: http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2000/Mar/0093.html it talks about we must force people to choose between vgacon and fbcon. when that forcing decision was taken, was dual fbcon-and-serial-console usage taken into account? booting with . console=ttyCL1

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

2005-04-21 Thread Timur Tabi
Andy Isaacson wrote: If you take the hardline position that the app is the only thing that matters, your code is unlikely to get merged. Linux is a general-purpose OS. The problem is that our driver and library implement an API that we don't fully control. The API states that the application

[PATCH 2.6.11] Documentation: correct minor mistake and remove redundant info from SubmittingPatches

2005-04-21 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
The first fix is to reverse the order of the files being diffed. Since we make the change in $MYFILE (and not $MYFILE.orig}, the diff should have the .orig file first followed by $MYFILE (which has been modified). The second modification is to remove redundant text. The information about the

2.6.12-rc3 compile failure in tgafb.c

2005-04-21 Thread Tomi Lapinlampi
Hi, 2.6.12-rc3 compile fails in drivers/video/tgafb.c The system is an Alphastation 600 5/266, system variant Alcor, running Debian Sarge, gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8) Btw, the tgafb hasn't really worked on this hardware since 2.6.8.1. I'll be able to run more tests after this one

Re: [PATCH] generate hotplug events for cpu online

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! We already do kobject_hotplug for cpu offline; this adds a kobject_hotplug call for the online case. This is being requested by developers of an application which wants to be notified about both kinds of events. I'm afraid of bad interactions with swsusp/S3 on smp. We offline cpus

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! You should put this into .git/remotes linus rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git (git addremote is preferred for that :-) Oops :-). Well, not sure. I did git track linus git cancel but Makefile still contains -rc2.

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] Documentation: correct minor mistake and remove redundant info from SubmittingPatches

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:51:09 -0400 Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: | The first fix is to reverse the order of the files being diffed. Since | we make the change in $MYFILE (and not $MYFILE.orig}, the diff should | have the .orig file first followed by $MYFILE (which has been | modified). But the patch

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On 4/21/05, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Changes since 2.6.12-rc2: Benjamin Herrenschmidt: ... [PATCH] ppc32: Fix cpufreq problems this depends on two patches in -mm: add-suspend-method-to-cpufreq-core.patch Add suspend method to cpufreq core

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:00:09PM CEST, I got a letter where Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... Hi! Hi, Well, not sure. I did git track linus git cancel but Makefile still contains -rc2. (Is git cancel right way to check out the tree?)

[PATCH 2.6.11] Documentation [corrected]: remove redundant info from SubmittingPatches

2005-04-21 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
Since the Trivial Patch Monkey is mentioned both in steps 4. and 5., I removed it from step4 (Select e-mail destination), since it should go under 'Select your CC list'. --- linux-2.6.11/Documentation/SubmittingPatches.orig 2005-04-21 14:17:07.375698154 -0400 +++

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2005-04-21 Thread Info
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Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc3-V0.7.46-00

2005-04-21 Thread Daniel Walker
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 00:35, Ingo Molnar wrote: this is a merge to 2.6.12-rc3, plus the 'ping localhost' fix from [EMAIL PROTECTED] We had some discussion about this one, there just need to be a softirqd wakeup , the netif_rx_ni() call isn't really needed . How about removing the softirqd

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3: various swsusp problems

2005-04-21 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! there's some problems with swsusp in 2.6.12-rc3 (x86_64): Are they new or were they in -rc2, too? Fixed the rc2/rc3 IDE Oops myself today that prevented me to test rc2 earlier. It seems the IDE maintainer is currently not very responsive and I didn't have

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

2005-04-21 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:39:35PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote: Andy Isaacson wrote: If you take the hardline position that the app is the only thing that matters, your code is unlikely to get merged. Linux is a general-purpose OS. The problem is that our driver and library implement an API

a few dbench datapoints across various filesystems

2005-04-21 Thread Steve French
I ran some quick tests with dbench to see the effects of various performance improvements, and found the results interesting. Although dbench is too write oriented, and not particularly favorable to a few filesystems (who are otherwise good performers), dbench can still can be useful. System was

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

2005-04-21 Thread Timur Tabi
Andy Isaacson wrote: I'm familiar with MPI 1.0 and 2.0, but I haven't been following the development of modern messaging APIs, so I might not make sense here... Assuming that the app calls into the library on a fairly regular basis, Not really. The whole point is to have the adapter DMA the data

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

2005-04-21 Thread Chris Wright
* Timur Tabi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Andy Isaacson wrote: Do you guys simply raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to allow apps to lock their pages? Or are you doing something more nasty? A little more nasty. I raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK in the driver to unlimited and also set cap_raise(IPC_LOCK). I do

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

2005-04-21 Thread Timur Tabi
Chris Wright wrote: FYI, that will not work on all 2.6 kernels. Specifically anything that's not using capabilities. It works with every kernel I've tried. I'm sure there are plenty of kernel configuration options that will break our driver. But as long as all the distros our customers use

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

2005-04-21 Thread Chris Wright
* Timur Tabi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It works with every kernel I've tried. I'm sure there are plenty of kernel configuration options that will break our driver. But as long as all the distros our customers use work, as well as reasonably-configured custom kernels, we're happy. Hey,

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

2005-04-21 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:25 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: * Timur Tabi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It works with every kernel I've tried. I'm sure there are plenty of kernel configuration options that will break our driver. But as long as all the distros our customers use work, as well as

[PATCH 2.6.11] [corrected] Documentation: remove super-{nr, max} to reflect fs/super.c

2005-04-21 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
The patch updates the documentation for /proc. super-nr and super-max have been dropped from the kernel since 2.4.9 due to minor numbering issues. This change was not documented in the documentation. The original patch submitted just a while ago had the files reversed. Sorry about that. ---

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 compile failure in tgafb.c

2005-04-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:50:34PM +0300, Tomi Lapinlampi wrote: Hi, 2.6.12-rc3 compile fails in drivers/video/tgafb.c The system is an Alphastation 600 5/266, system variant Alcor, running Debian Sarge, gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8) Btw, the tgafb hasn't really worked on this

Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: remove NULL checks prior to kfree in ieee1394, kfree handles null pointers fine.

2005-04-21 Thread Jody McIntyre
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 05:55:19PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: This patch removes redundant NULL pointer checks before kfree() in all of drivers/ieee1394/ Thanks, applied to our SVN and queued for 2.6.13. Jody Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/pcilynx.c: remove dead options

2005-04-21 Thread Jody McIntyre
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 10:14:24PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: The options CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX_LOCALRAM and CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX_PORTS are not available for some time. Is this patch for removing them and the code behind them correct, or is a future usage planned? I don't see a use

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_transactions.c: possible cleanups

2005-04-21 Thread Jody McIntyre
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:45:23AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - #if 0 the following unused global functions: - hpsb_lock - hpsb_send_gasp - ieee1394_transactions.h: remove the stale hpsb_lock64 prototype I also removed the EXPORT_SYMBOL

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] aoe [1/6]: improve allowed interfaces configuration

2005-04-21 Thread Domen Puncer
On 21/04/05 09:36 -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed L Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... + /sys/module/aoe/parameters/aoe_iflist instead of ^^^ Why does the module name need to be part of the

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3: various swsusp problems

2005-04-21 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Are they new or were they in -rc2, too? Some further backtracking: The nic problem is already present in 2.6.12-rc1. The pcmcia hang problem is not present in 2.6.12-rc1. -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from

[RFC][PATCH] i386: fix hpet for systems that don't support legacy replacement (v. A0)

2005-04-21 Thread john stultz
All, Currently the i386 HPET code assumes the entire HPET implementation from the spec is present. This breaks on boxes that do not implement the optional legacy timer replacement functionality portion of the spec. This patch, which is very similar to my x86-64 patch for the same issue,

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! It seems that someone should write Kernel hacker's guide to git... Documentation/git.txt seems like good place. I guess I'll do it. just plain vanilla without rm -rf? git cancel will give you plain last commit. If you need plain vanilla, the hard way now is to just do

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:38:11PM CEST, I got a letter where Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... Hi! It seems that someone should write Kernel hacker's guide to git... Documentation/git.txt seems like good place. I guess I'll do it. I've also started writing some

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread tony . luck
Adding linux-kernel to Cc: list, as I'm sure Linus wants to hear from all maintainers, not just those that hang out on the linux-ia64 list. On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: Btw, just in case it wasn't obvious anyway: I based pretty much _all_ of the git design on three basic goals:

[PATCH linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3] smc91c92_cs: Reduce stack usage in smc91c92_event()

2005-04-21 Thread Yum Rayan
This patch reduces the stack usage of the function smc91c92_event() in smc91c92_cs driver from 3540 to 132. Currently this is the highest stack user in linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3. I used a patched version of gcc 3.4.3 on i386 with -fno-unit-at-a-time disabled. The patch has only been compile tested. It

RE: 2.6.10-ac10 oops in journal_commit_transaction

2005-04-21 Thread Zou, Nanhai
Hi Alan, We have seen the same oops on the same point. Can you point to me the URL where the patch is? I am not sure which patch should I get. Thanks Zou Nan hai -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Cox Sent: Monday, March

[PATCH linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3] serial_cs: Reduce stack usage in serial_event()

2005-04-21 Thread Yum Rayan
This patch reduces the stack usage of the function serial_event() in serial_cs from 2212 to 228. I used a patched version of gcc 3.4.3 on i386 with -fno-unit-at-a-time disabled. This patch is only compile tested. It would be nice to get feedback from someone that owns the hardware and would like

[ANNOUNCE] SCSI repository move from BK to git

2005-04-21 Thread James Bottomley
This is more or less forced by the fact that the 2.6.12-rc3 is now git based. So as of now I won't be updating linux-scsi.bkbits.net Hopefully I've set up broadly similar functionality on www.parisc- linux.org (with thanks to Dann Frazier and Paul Bame, the parisc-linux web admins). To view the

netdev watchdog

2005-04-21 Thread Shaun Jackman
Upon booting my system, the boot fails and the following message is displayed repeatedly: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status eb01. diagnostics: net 0cfa media 88c0 dma 003a fifo eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked

SUGGESTION: Kernel

2005-04-21 Thread John Mac Donald
i would like to suggest a graphical way to setup and install the kernel and kernel components, this would make it easier for idiots like myself to install the kernel with more ease and could solve this issue of 'bloating'. Making a graphical kernel installer could make it easier for people to

lirc and Linux 2.6.11

2005-04-21 Thread Shaun Jackman
I was using lirc 0.7.0 with Linux 2.6.8.1. Upon upgrading to Linux 2.6.11, I recompiled the lirc 0.7.0 hauppauge (lirc_i2c) modules for the new kernel. This did not work. I then tried compiling the lirc 0.7.1 modules for the new kernel. This didn't work either. The error message lircd gives is...

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't quite see how to manage multiple heads in git. I notice that in your tree on kernel.org that .git/HEAD is a symlink to heads/master ... perhaps that is a clue. It's mainly a clue to bad practice, in my opinion. I personally like the

Re: netdev watchdog

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:21:30 -0700 Shaun Jackman wrote: | Upon booting my system, the boot fails and the following message is | displayed repeatedly: | | NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out | eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status eb01. | diagnostics: net 0cfa media 88c0 dma

Re: SUGGESTION: Kernel

2005-04-21 Thread James Purser
There is always make gconfig, this is presents a GUI for you. However keep in mind that compiling your own kernel is never going to be an idiot proof activity, instead it is something that is going to require a little bit of knowledge about how the kernel works and how the compile process works.

Re: 2.6.10-ac10 oops in journal_commit_transaction

2005-04-21 Thread Chris Wright
* Zou, Nanhai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: We have seen the same oops on the same point. Can you point to me the URL where the patch is? I am not sure which patch should I get. I believe it's fixed in 2.6.11-ac, and we fixed it in the current stable 2.6.11.7 tree. The following patch is

[PATCH] x86_64: i8259.c trivial iso99 structure initialization

2005-04-21 Thread Alexander Nyberg
Trivial iso99 structure initialization Index: test/arch/x86_64/kernel/i8259.c === --- test.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/i8259.c2005-04-20 22:29:02.0 +0200 +++ test/arch/x86_64/kernel/i8259.c 2005-04-22

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:55:43PM CEST, I got a letter where [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... I can't quite see how to manage multiple heads in git. I notice that in your tree on kernel.org that .git/HEAD is a symlink to heads/master ... perhaps that is a clue. I'd like to

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread tony . luck
It's mainly a clue to bad practice, in my opinion. I personally like the one repository, one head approach, and if you want multiple heads you just do multiple repositories (and you can then mix just the object database - set your SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORY environment variable to point to the

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 12:29:07AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't quite see how to manage multiple heads in git. I notice that in your tree on kernel.org that .git/HEAD is a

too many LATEST-IS-* on kernel.org?

2005-04-21 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
In http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ I see LATEST-IS-2.6.11-rc5 24-Feb-2005 08:580 LATEST-IS-2.6.12-rc1 17-Mar-2005 18:410 LATEST-IS-2.6.12-rc2 04-Apr-2005 09:410 LATEST-IS-2.6.12-rc3

from line script for git commits

2005-04-21 Thread James Cloos
I've been using a script grabbed from here for some time to alter the From: line on mail sent to bk-head-commits and bk-24-commits to show the author's name and email rather than LKML's address. Below is my script for doing the same with git commit emails. -JimC set-git-from.pl Description:

[PATCH] fix subarch breakage in amd dual core updates

2005-04-21 Thread James Bottomley
The patch to arch/i386/kernel/cpu/amd.c relies on the variable cpu_core_id which is defined in i386/kernel/smpboot.c. This means it is only present if CONFIG_X86_SMP is defined, not CONFIG_SMP (alternative SMP harnesses won't have it, which is why it breaks voyager). Signed-off-by: James

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to have one shared objects database which I keep locally and mirror publicly at kernel.org/pub/scm/... Ahh, ok. That's easy. Just set up one repository. Then, make SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORY point to that repository, and everybody will

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! You should put this into .git/remotes linus rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git (git addremote is preferred for that :-) Nice, so I now have my own -git tree, with two changes in it... Is there way to say git diff -r origin: but dump

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: Is there way to say git diff -r origin: but dump it patch-by-patch with some usable headers? In my git version there is a command called git-export for exactly this. I don't know if Pasky included that in his trees, but if not, you can just get my

[patch] oneshot for inotify.

2005-04-21 Thread Robert Love
The Samba guys want dnotify-like oneshot/multishot support. That is not hard to add, so the following patch adds oneshot support to inotify. If IN_ONESHOT is set on a watch, the watch is automatically removed after the first event. Default behavior remains multishot. Best, Robert Love

Re: SATA/ATAPI

2005-04-21 Thread Brian Jackson
Just to check, you do have scsi cdrom support enabled right? On 4/21/05, Tais M. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I know there has been some talking about SATA/ATAPI being experimental and might not work at all under kernel-2.6.x. One of my linux boxes has a Plextor DVD-RW drive with a

Re: x86_64: Bug in new out of line put_user()

2005-04-21 Thread Nicolas Boichat
Hello Alexander, I have other kind of problems with this patch... With 2.6.12-rc2 + your patch, when I run OpenOffice (a 32-bit application), I get this in dmesg : Unable to handle kernel paging request at 2d9280b0 RIP: 801f5d70{__put_user_4+32} PGD 0 Oops: 0002 [1] SMP CPU 0

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2 1/10] tg3: add basic bcm5752 support

2005-04-21 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:38:43 -0400 John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Track-down all references to ASIC_REV_5750 and mirror them with references to the newly defined ASIC_REV_5752. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] You don't actually add the ASIC_REV_5752 definition

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2 2/10] tg3: add bcm5752 to tg3_pci_tbl

2005-04-21 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:38:44 -0400 John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add hard-coded definition of bcm5752 PCI ID to tg3_pci_tbl. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Next patch will change entry to use pci_ids.h-based definition. Applied, thanks. - To unsubscribe

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2 3/10] tg3: add bcm5752 entry to pci_ids.h

2005-04-21 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:38:44 -0400 John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add proper entry for bcm5752 PCI ID to pci_ids.h, and use it in tg3. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I did this separately in case patches like this (i.e. new PCI IDs) need to come from more

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2 5/10] tg3: define TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag

2005-04-21 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:38:45 -0400 John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Define TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag and set it in tg3_get_invariants for ASIC_REV_5750 or ASIC_REV_5752. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2 4/10] tg3: use TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS instead of multi-way if's

2005-04-21 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:38:44 -0400 John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Replace a number of three-way if statements checking for 5705, 5750, and 5752 to reference the equivalent TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag instead. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied. - To unsubscribe

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2 6/10] tg3: use new TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag

2005-04-21 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:38:45 -0400 John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Replace a number of two-way if statements checking for 5750, and/or 5752 to reference the newly-defined TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag instead. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied. - To unsubscribe

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2 8/10] tg3: use TG3_FLG2_57{05,50}_PLUS flags in tg3_get_invariants

2005-04-21 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:38:45 -0400 John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rewrite checks in tg3_get_invariants to use TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS and TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flags. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2 9/10] tg3: check TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS flag to set TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag

2005-04-21 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:38:46 -0400 John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use check of TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS in tg3_get_invariants to set TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2 10/10] tg3: add support for bcm5752 rev a1

2005-04-21 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:38:46 -0400 John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Replace existing ASIC_REV_5752 definition with ASIC_REV_5752_A0, and add definition for ASIC_REV_5752_A1. Then, add ASIC_REV_5752_A1 to check for setting TG3_FLG2_5750_PLUS in tg3_get_invariants. Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH] generate hotplug events for cpu online

2005-04-21 Thread Nathan Lynch
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:46:56PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! We already do kobject_hotplug for cpu offline; this adds a kobject_hotplug call for the online case. This is being requested by developers of an application which wants to be notified about both kinds of events. I'm

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 cpufreq compile error on ppc32

2005-04-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 09:26 +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: Hi guys, One of Ben's patches (ppc32: Fix cpufreq problems) went in 2.6.12- rc3, but it depended on another patch that's still in -mm only: add-suspend-method-to-cpufreq-core.patch In addition to this, there's a third patch in -mm

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:19:47AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... So in the long run this issue goes away - we'll just have synchronization tools that won't get any unnecessary pollution. But in the short run I actually check my git

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:22:01AM CEST, I got a letter where Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... Hi! Hi, You should put this into .git/remotes linus rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git (git addremote is

Re: x86_64: Bug in new out of line put_user()

2005-04-21 Thread Brian Gerst
Alexander Nyberg wrote: The new out of line put_user() assembly on x86_64 changes %rcx without telling GCC about it causing things like: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4515 See to it that %rcx is not changed (made it consistent with get_user()). Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg [EMAIL

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Why? Because I'm still using the stupid get all objects thing when I pull. one could do a symlink/hardlink parallel tree for a specific snapshot with GIT tools, and then only poll that with git-unaware copy tools. I guess this would make sense for the

Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc2 7/10] tg3: more use of TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag

2005-04-21 Thread David S. Miller
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:38:45 -0400 John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rewrite of a couple of troublesome multi-way if statements to use TG3_FLG2_5705_PLUS flag. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-21 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:33:42PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: Compile error on x86_64: CC [M] drivers/usb/image/microtek.o drivers/usb/image/microtek.c: In function `mts_scsi_abort': drivers/usb/image/microtek.c:338: error: `FAILURE' undeclared (first use in this function) Patch to

Re: lirc and Linux 2.6.11

2005-04-21 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:26:37PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: I was using lirc 0.7.0 with Linux 2.6.8.1. Upon upgrading to Linux 2.6.11, I recompiled the lirc 0.7.0 hauppauge (lirc_i2c) modules for the new kernel. This did not work. I then tried compiling the lirc 0.7.1 modules for the new

Re: [RFC/PATCH] unregister_node() for hotplug use

2005-04-21 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 12:30:09AM +0900, Keiichiro Tokunaga wrote: +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG +void unregister_node(struct node *node) +{ + sysdev_remove_file(node-sysdev, attr_cpumap); + sysdev_remove_file(node-sysdev, attr_meminfo); + sysdev_remove_file(node-sysdev,

sync_page() smp_mb() comment

2005-04-21 Thread William Lee Irwin III
The smp_mb() is becaus sync_page() doesn't have PG_locked while it accesses page_mapping(page). The comments in the patch (the entire patch is the addition of this comment) try to explain further how and why smp_mb() is used. mm/filemap.c: 93595c327bbdc43fcea91b513fd750d1a73edfec ---

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3:microtek.c:338: error: for each function it appears in.

2005-04-21 Thread Bob Gill
OK. I downloaded, patched and started the build. Basically everything stops when I get a microtek.c:338: error: `FAILURE' undeclared error (the build keeps trying, but no modules get created). I suspect others may have the same problem, but feel free to e-mail me for more information (and you

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:01:13AM CEST, I got a letter where [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... But now I need a way to indicate to consumers of the public shared object data base which HEAD to use. Perhaps I should just say merge 821376bf15e692941f9235f13a14987009fd0b10 from

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just added to git-pasky a possibility to refer to branches inside of repositories by a fragment identifier: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git#testing will refer to your testing branch in that repository. Can we

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 03:48:35AM CEST, I got a letter where Inaky Perez-Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just added to git-pasky a possibility to refer to branches inside of repositories by a fragment identifier:

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remember that it's an URL (so you can't use '%'), and '#' is the canonical URL fragment identifier delimiter. (And fragments are perfect for this kind of thing, if you look at the RFC, BTW.) Ouch, true--rule out %... Still, why would you escape it? My

x86-64 dual core mapping

2005-04-21 Thread YhLu
Andi, I tried 2.6.12-rc3 with dual way dual cpus. It seems right mapping should be CPU 0(2) - Node 0 - Core 0 CPU 1(2) - Node 0 - Core 1 CPU 2(2) - Node 1 - Core 0 CPU 3(2) - Node 1 - Core 1 instead of CPU 0(2) - Node 0 - Core 0 CPU 1(2) - Node 0 - Core 0 CPU 2(2) - Node 1 - Core 1 CPU 3(2) -

Re: [RFC/PATCH] unregister_node() for hotplug use

2005-04-21 Thread Keiichiro Tokunaga
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:39:20 -0700 Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 12:30:09AM +0900, Keiichiro Tokunaga wrote: +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG +void unregister_node(struct node *node) +{ + sysdev_remove_file(node-sysdev, attr_cpumap); + sysdev_remove_file(node-sysdev, attr_meminfo);

Linux Kernel

2005-04-21 Thread Marcondes Monteiro de Arau
Hi! I'm university student in Brazil and would like to know if during the process of compilation of the kernel of the linux the tecnology of cluster is used. Marcondes -- ___ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows

Re: [PATCH] Bad rounding in timeval_to_jiffies [was: Re: Odd Timer behavior in 2.6 vs 2.4 (1 extra tick)]

2005-04-21 Thread Edgar Toernig
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Chris Friesen wrote: Does mainline have a high precision monotonic wallclock that is not affected by time-of-day changes? Something like nano/mico seconds since boot? On newer kernels with the posix timers (I think 2.6 - not sure though) there's

Re: ia64 git pull

2005-04-21 Thread David A. Wheeler
Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Still, why would you escape it? My shell will not take # as a comment start if it is immediately after an alphanumeric character. I guess there MIGHT be some command shell implementation that stupidly _DID_ accept # as a comment character, even immediately

Re: Git-commits mailing list feed.

2005-04-21 Thread Jan Dittmer
David Woodhouse wrote: As of some time in the fairly near future, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list will be carrying real commits from Linus' live git repository, instead of just testing patches. Have fun. What about the daily snapshots? Is there any eta when they'll be back? -- Jan - To

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