[RFC][PATCH 6/6] new timeofday i386 specific timesources

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, This patch implements the time sources shared between i386 acpi_pm, cyclone, hpet, pit, tsc and tsc-interp). The patch should apply on top of the timeofday-arch-i386-part4 patch. The patch should be fairly straight forward, only adding the new timesources. thanks -john

[RFC][PATCH 4/6] new timeofday i386 arch specific changes, part 3 (v.B4)

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, The conversion of i386 to use the new timeofday subsystem has been split into 4 parts. This patch, the third of four, reworks some of the code in the new tsc.c file. Additionally it adds some new interfaces and hooks to use these new interfaces appropriately. This patch also

[RFC][PATCH 5/6] new timeofday i386 arch specific changes, part 4 (v. B4)

2005-07-15 Thread john stultz
All, The conversion of i386 to use the new timeofday subsystem has been split into 4 parts. This patch, the final of four, converts the i386 arch to use the new timeofday subsystem and removes the old timers/timer_opts infrastructure. It applies on top of my timeofday-arch-i386-part3

Re: [rfc patch 2/2] direct-io: remove address alignment check

2005-07-15 Thread Tejun Heo
Badari Pulavarty wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 17:23 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Badari Pulavarty wrote: ... I don't know why you wanna relax the alignment requirement, but wouldn't it be easier to just write/use block-aligned allocator for such buffers? It will even make the program more

Re: [PATCH] mb_cache_shrink() frees unexpected caches

2005-07-15 Thread Akinobu Mita
2005-07-16 (Sat) 03:44 +0200 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: Removing the cache parameter from mb_cache_shrink would break when more than one mb_cache is used per filesystem, correct. Leaving the parameter in and adding your patch is more future proof, so I'm fine with it. Are you actually using

Re: 2.6.12 vs. /sbin/cardmgr

2005-07-15 Thread Bob Tracy
Dominik Brodowski wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:37:22PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Dominik Brodowski wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12:17AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: (/sbin/cardmgr chewing up lots of CPU cycles with 2.6.12 kernel) Please post the output of lspci and lsmod as I'd

Re: [11/11] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes

2005-07-15 Thread Andi Kleen
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:17:44PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:53:33AM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote: That said, I will be testing this patch a bit further Thanks. Let me know if you see any issues. myself, and because it does address a real memory leak

Linux 2.6.12.3

2005-07-15 Thread Greg KH
We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.12.3 kernel. The diffstat and short summary of the fixes are below. I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between 2.6.12.2 and 2.6.12.3, as it is small enough to do so. The updated 2.6.12.y git tree can be

Re: Linux 2.6.12.3

2005-07-15 Thread Greg KH
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 12 -EXTRAVERSION = .2 +EXTRAVERSION = .3 NAME=Woozy Numbat # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c b/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c --- a/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c +++

oz6812, yenta_socket and madwifi

2005-07-15 Thread Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho
Hi, for some time I was unable to use Atheros based cards on my notebook (O2Micro oz6812 Cardbus controller) because of lots of rx packets getting dropped by frame errors. running ping I got this: (~1m from access point) PING 192.168.67.1 (192.168.67.1): 56 data

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-15 Thread Eric St-Laurent
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 12:58 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote: But If I understand Linus's points he wants jiffies to remain a memory fetch, and make sure it doesn't turn into a singing dancing christmas tree. It seems it relatively easy to support dynamic tick, the ARM architecture has it. But with

Re: [stable] Re: [11/11] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes

2005-07-15 Thread Chris Wright
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:17:44PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:53:33AM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote: That said, I will be testing this patch a bit further Thanks. Let me know if you see any issues. myself, and

[PATCH] Support UML and make O= when building Debian packages

2005-07-15 Thread Ryan Anderson
Support UML builds and make O= when building Debian packages. Sam, I'm pretty sure I've sent this before, but it seems to have been dropped. I've been using this for a while to build my personal kernels, and haven't had any problems. This is a combination of old patches. Signed-Off-By: Ryan

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