Re: [PATCH] 8/8 Create MMU 2/3 level accessors in the sub-arch layer (i386)

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
Andrew Morton wrote: Zachary Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I said ugly ones specificly. There's been some nice previous ones, but most in this series (all the move of stuff to subarches) are rather horrible and lack lots of explanation. All of my previous patches have

Re: [PATCH] 5/8 Move descriptor table management into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
Chris Wright wrote: * Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This change encapsulates descriptor and task register management. These will need some merging together, will take a stab tomorrow. --- linux-2.6.12-xen0-arch.orig/include/asm-i386/desc.h +++

Re: [PATCH] ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU avoids dead code in __do_IRQ()

2005-08-07 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi Karsten, On Sunday 07 August 2005 12:25, Karsten Wiese wrote: With my proposal the #if defined(ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU) #endif lets readers of __do_IRQ() immediately grasp: this block might not be compiled / depends an ARCH And you'll get compile error's using

Re: Getting rid of SHMMAX/SHMALL ?

2005-08-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-08-04 at 15:48 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Matti Aarnio wrote: SHM resources are non-swappable, thus I would not by default let user programs go and allocate very much SHM spaces at all. No, SHM resources are swappable. Large limits as oracle needs still

Re: overcommit verses MAP_NORESERVE

2005-08-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-08-06 at 20:52 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: Why does overcommit in mode 2 (OVERCOMMIT_NEVER) explicitly force MAP_NORESERVE mappings to reserve memory? My understanding is that MAP_NORESERVE is a way for apps to state that they are aware that the memory allocated may not exist

Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

2005-08-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-08-03 at 16:33 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: http://redhat.com/~teigland/gfs2/20050801/gfs2-full.patch http://redhat.com/~teigland/gfs2/20050801/broken-out/ I would suggest to not merge this before not all the code has not been reviewed by some experienced linux developer from

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Andi Kleen
Erick Turnquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm running an Athlon64 X2 4400+ (a dual core model) with an nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra on a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard and getting nasty messages like these in my dmesg: warning: many lost ticks. Your time source seems to be instable or

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread christos gentsis
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 16:02 +0900, Chris White wrote: [Pre Note: please CC me all responses, thanks] Currently, I have a Logitech Quickcam Express webcamera. Unfortunately, it seems to have issues getting assigned an address. I quote the following from dmesg: usb 1-1.1: new full speed

Re: [PATCH] ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU avoids dead code in __do_IRQ()

2005-08-07 Thread Karsten Wiese
Am Sonntag, 7. August 2005 13:07 schrieb Ingo Oeser: Last argument: Many kernel developers -- including Linus -- don't like #if in C files and prefer them in headers. Their reasons might be similiar to my own. What about writing if(CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU(desc-status)) {

[PATCH] tpm_infineon: Bugfix in PNPACPI-handling

2005-08-07 Thread Marcel Selhorst
Dear all, Changelog: This patch corrects the PNP-handling inside the tpm-driver and some minor coding style bugs. Note: the pci-device and pnp-device mixture is currently necessary, since the used tpm-interface requires a pci-dev in order to register the driver. This will be fixed within the

Re: assertion (cnt = tp-packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 02:06:53PM +0200, John B?ckstrand wrote: Yes, I have no other patches in, so if it was not in -RC5, I was not running it. OK having looked at it briefly I have a hunch that it may be the fackets_out issue (when the effective MSS is reduced tcp_tso_acked may increase

[PATCH] x86_64 Avoid some atomic operations during address space destruction

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
This turned out to be a huge win on 32-bit i386 in PAE mode, but it is likely not as significant on x86_64; I don't know because I haven't actually measured the cost. I don't have 64-bit hardware that I have the luxury of rebooting right now, so this patch is untested, but if someone wants to

[PATCH] net/ipv4 debug cleanup, kernel 2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
Here's a small patch to cleanup NETDEBUG() use in net/ipv4/ for Linux kernel 2.6.13-rc5. Also weird use of indentation is changed in some places. Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff -urp linux-2.6.13-rc5-org/net/ipv4/icmp.c linux-2.6.13-rc5/net/ipv4/icmp.c ---

[patch resend] w100fb: Update corgi platform code to match new driver

2005-08-07 Thread Richard Purdie
This patch moves the platform specific Sharp SL-C7x0 LCD code from the w100fb driver into a more appropriate place and updates the Corgi code to match the new w100fb driver. It also updates the corgi touchscreen code to match the new simplified interface available from w100fb. Signed-off-by:

FYI: device_suspend(...) in kernel_power_off().

2005-08-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Early in the 2.6.13 process my kexec related patches were introduced into the reboot path, and under the rule you touch it you fix it it I have been involved in tracking quite a few regressions on the reboot path. Recently with Benjamin Herrenschmidt's removal of device_suppend(PMSG_SUPPEND)

Re: [patch] fix warning in sa1100fb.c

2005-08-07 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 04:35:51PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Fix compile-time warning in sa1100fb.c I think it makes sense to change this to an inline function. Thanks for pointing this out. -- Russell King Linux kernel2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6

Re: assertion (cnt = tp-packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread John Bäckstrand
Someone asked if I could try to trigger this assertion again, and I'm afraid I probably cannot, I didnt do anything special at the time. But I've got something even better for you all, got a BUG from something tcp-related. Mind you, I am trying to find a possibly hardware-related issue here,

[PATCH] mips: moreover remove vr4181

2005-08-07 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
Hi, We also need this patch for removing mips vr4181. Please apply. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urN -X dontdiff mm1-orig/arch/mips/Makefile mm1/arch/mips/Makefile --- mm1-orig/arch/mips/Makefile 2005-08-07 22:15:17.0 +0900 +++ mm1/arch/mips/Makefile

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-08-07 Thread Richard Purdie
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 08:17 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Richard Purdie wrote: We know the the failure case can be identified by the cmpxchg_fail_flag_update condition being met. Can you provide me with a patch to dump useful debugging information when that occurs?

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 7, 2005, at 03:51:07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 19:38 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 00:03 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: My CRT is out of sync after radeonfb from 2.6.13-rc5 is initialized.

Re: 2.6.11-rc5 and 2.6.12: cannot transmit anything - more info

2005-08-07 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Thursday 04 August 2005 23:45, Tommy Christensen wrote: Denis Vlasenko wrote: Hi, As reported earlier, sometimes my home box don't want to send anything. # ip r 1.1.5.5 dev tun0 proto kernel scope link src 1.1.5.6 1.1.4.0/24 dev if proto kernel scope link src 1.1.4.6

Re: [patch] fix ucb1x00 support on collie

2005-08-07 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 04:42:45PM +0100, Russell King wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 03:46:17PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Collie is slightly strange; it does not seem to have proper ucb1x00 ID. With this patch, basic ucb support seems to work and I can get interrupts from battery. Out

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Parag Warudkar
No way to fix this, but you can work around it with very new kernels by compiling with a lower HZ than 1000. John Stultz's timeofday patches seem to fix this lost ticks issue. You might want to try them. (I too, routinely get lost ticks - rip is at acpi_processor_idle messages which

RE: As of 2.6.13-rc1 Fusion-MPT very slow

2005-08-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 05:59 +, Holger Kiehl wrote: Thanks, removing those it compiles fine. This patch also solves my problem, here the output of dmesg: Well ... the transport class was supposed to help diagnose the problem rather than fix it. However, what it shows is that the original

Re: Fw: Re: Elitegroup K7S5A + usb_storage problem

2005-08-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Martin Maurer wrote: Hi Pete, when using ub with your patch i get a lot further: the device is detected and uba+uba1 entries appear. I can mount the device correctly. Copying the files down and comparing them with the originals gives correct results. but: when i

Re: Fw: Re: Elitegroup K7S5A + usb_storage problem

2005-08-07 Thread martin . maurer
Hi Alan, no. the stick doesn't have a write protection switch. Once when i tried to copy a file to the mp3 player i got a new file there on remount, but it consisted of incorrect data. (so writing seemed to be possible and just went wrong) (in that case the fat seemed to be damaged after i had

[-mm patch] more vr4181 removal

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:42:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: ... +mips-remove-vr4181-support.patch ... MIPS stuff ... Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/mips/Kconfig| 12 +--- arch/mips/Makefile |7

Re: [PATCH] 6700/6702PXH quirk

2005-08-07 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Saturday 06 August 2005 18:57, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 09:50:13AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:34:55PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: FWIW, compilers generate AWFUL code for bitfields. Bitfields are really tough to do optimally, whereas bit

any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

2005-08-07 Thread Raymond Lai
Hi all, I remember there's a kernel pcmcia bug preventing the development for the Audigy2 pcmcia notebook sound card driver. See http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Creative_Labs#matrix Is there any new updates on the situation? Has the bug been fixed? or anyone

[-mm patch] drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c: fix compilation

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:42:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: ... git-netdev-upstream.patch ... Subsystem trees ... gcc 4.0 correctly rejects this code: -- snip -- ... CC drivers/net/phy/phy_device.o drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c:659: error:

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
I'm having a similar issue with my shiny new 17 Powerbook G4. The radeon chip works fine with framebuffer in 2.6.12.4 _with_ PREEMPT, but not in 2.6.13-rc5 _with_ PREEMPT (configs are virtually identical). I'll try your idea this afternoon when I get the chance. Note that PREEMPT is known

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 02:29:16PM +, Parag Warudkar wrote: No way to fix this, but you can work around it with very new kernels by compiling with a lower HZ than 1000. John Stultz's timeofday patches seem to fix this lost ticks issue. You might want to try them. (I too, routinely

Re: assertion (cnt = tp-packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
David S. Miller wrote: I suspect this is a side effect of some changes Herbert Xu and myself did to fix some other bugs. I think I crossed this bug independently today. I did some testing, and got kernel panics when uploading files with ftp on a gigabit lan. The error happens always at

Re: [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc 3.2

2005-08-07 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Monday 01 August 2005 01:36, David S. Miller wrote: From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 00:26:07 +0200 - my impression is that the older compilers are only rarely used, so miscompilations of a driver with an old gcc might not be detected for a longer amount

Re: assertion (cnt = tp-packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hang on a second, the original poster mentioned rc5. Is this really pristine rc5 with the one netpoll patch? If so then it can't be the patches we're talking about because they only went in days later. I produced a similar panic on rc2 and later (which

Re: assertion (cnt = tp-packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
Heikki Orsila wrote: There were big changes in tcp_output.c between rc1 and rc2, and the bug is triggered when using e1000 with rc2 or later. And because the bug does not happen on skge (new sk98 driver) it makes me guess it's a race condition of sorts.. I am surprised this bug wasn't

2.6.13-rc5-mm1: oops when starting nscd on AMD64

2005-08-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, I get the following Oops after trying to start nscd from YaST on an Athlon64-based box (compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y): Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0008 RIP: 801664d8{kmem_cache_alloc+232} PGD 1501a067 PUD 1501b067 PMD 0 Oops: [1]

DMA problem with kernel 2.6.10

2005-08-07 Thread andrea gelmini
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out the reason of my laptop problem. I beg your help to find the right way to debug it (I mean, I don't want to flood the mailing list with useless details, and so on). Well, let's try... Hardware: Toshiba

Re: [PATCH] tpm_infineon: Bugfix in PNPACPI-handling

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Marcel Selhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch corrects the PNP-handling inside the tpm-driver and some minor coding style bugs. But the patch adds lots of new coding style bugs! ... @@ -356,24 +356,26 @@ static const struct pnp_device_id tpm_pn {IFX0102, 0}, {, 0}

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5

2005-08-07 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:12:21PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: Respin of the dynamic ticks patch for i386 by Tony Lindgen and Tuukka Tikkanen with further code cleanups. Are were there yet? Con, I am afraid until SMP correctness is resolved, then this is not in a position to go in

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Erick Turnquist
It's most likely bad SMM code in the BIOS that blocks the CPU too long and is triggered in idle. Might a BIOS flash help, or is this something that's there to stay? No way to fix this, but you can work around it with very new kernels by compiling with a lower HZ than 1000. Actually, it was

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-07 Thread Danny ter Haar
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.13-rc5 seemed to kill a scsi disk (sdb) for me, where 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 have no problems with the same disk. Sort of same with me: 2.6.12-mm1 runs for _weeks_ where others keep crashing: The latest -git kernel (or

Re: Oops in 2.6.13-rc5-git-current (0d317fb72fe3cf0f611608cf3a3015bbe6cd2a66)

2005-08-07 Thread Alexander Nyberg
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 11:56:30PM -0400 Ryan Anderson wrote: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b printing eip: c0188d15 *pde = Oops: [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async ppp_generic slhc radeon esp6 ah6 wp512

2.6.13-rc4-mm1: iptables DROP crashes the computer

2005-08-07 Thread Espen Fjellvær Olsen
After execing iptables -A INPUT -j DROP my computer crashes hard. It dosent hang immediately, but after a couple of seconds. The machine is an amd64, running a clean x86_64 environment. uname -a: Linux gentoo 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 4 01:01:44 CEST 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor

Re: assertion (cnt = tp-packets_out) failed

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
John Bäckstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone asked if I could try to trigger this assertion again, and I'm afraid I probably cannot, I didnt do anything special at the time. But I've got something even better for you all, got a BUG from something tcp-related. Mind you, I am trying

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: iptables DROP crashes the computer

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:12:00PM +0200, Espen Fjellvær Olsen wrote: After execing iptables -A INPUT -j DROP my computer crashes hard. It dosent hang immediately, but after a couple of seconds. The machine is an amd64, running a clean x86_64 environment. uname -a: Linux gentoo 2.6.13-rc4-mm1

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-07 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Aug 7, 2005, at 03:51:07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Ah ! Interesting... I don't see why PREEMPT would affect radeonfb though ... Can you try something like wrapper radeon_write_mode() with preempt_disable()/preempt_enable() and tell me if it

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: oops when starting nscd on AMD64

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following Oops after trying to start nscd from YaST on an Athlon64-based box (compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y): Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0008 RIP: 801664d8{kmem_cache_alloc+232}

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: iptables DROP crashes the computer

2005-08-07 Thread Espen Fjellvær Olsen
On 07/08/05, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:12:00PM +0200, Espen Fjellvær Olsen wrote: After execing iptables -A INPUT -j DROP my computer crashes hard. It dosent hang immediately, but after a couple of seconds. The machine is an amd64, running a clean

Re: any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Raymond Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I remember there's a kernel pcmcia bug preventing the development for the Audigy2 pcmcia notebook sound card driver. See http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Creative_Labs#matrix Is there any new updates on the

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Tim Hockin
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:36:01PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Erick Turnquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm running an Athlon64 X2 4400+ (a dual core model) with an nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra on a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard and getting nasty messages like these in my dmesg:

VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise)

2005-08-07 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Hello, In january of this year I mentioned a problem with the Linux kernel driver for VIA Rhine ethernet chips. (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/15/47) In the mean time this bug was reproduced quite a number of times on my Fedora Core 3 (then)/4 (now) box (a VIA CL6000). An alternative driver by

Re: Oops in 2.6.13-rc5-git-current (0d317fb72fe3cf0f611608cf3a3015bbe6cd2a66)

2005-08-07 Thread Ryan Anderson
(Snipping the oops down a bit in size) On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:08:05PM +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 11:56:30PM -0400 Ryan Anderson wrote: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b EIP is at inotify_inode_queue_event+0x55/0x150 Call

EXPORT_SYMBOL generates is deprecated noise

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays: drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated (declared at drivers/serial/8250.c:2607) Which is just: EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_serial); Sorry, but that's just compile-time noise, not anything useful. Warning on real usages of

Re: Fw: Re: Elitegroup K7S5A + usb_storage problem

2005-08-07 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alan, no. the stick doesn't have a write protection switch. Once when i tried to copy a file to the mp3 player i got a new file there on remount, but it consisted of incorrect data. (so writing seemed to be possible and just went wrong)

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates is deprecated noise

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays: drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated (declared at drivers/serial/8250.c:2607) Which is just: EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_serial); Sorry, but that's

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates is deprecated noise

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--Martin J. Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 11:07:59 -0700): I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays: drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated (declared at drivers/serial/8250.c:2607) Which is just:

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: iptables DROP crashes the computer

2005-08-07 Thread Patrick McHardy
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:12:00PM +0200, Espen Fjellvær Olsen wrote: After execing iptables -A INPUT -j DROP my computer crashes hard. It dosent hang immediately, but after a couple of seconds. The machine is an amd64, running a clean x86_64 environment. uname -a: Linux

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:43 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Raymond Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I remember there's a kernel pcmcia bug preventing the development for the Audigy2 pcmcia notebook sound card driver. See

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Erick Turnquist
Some BIOSes do not lock SMM, and you *could* turn it off at the chipset level. I don't see anything about SMM in my BIOS configuration even with the advanced options enabled... Turning it off at the chipset level sounds like a hardware hack - is it? The gettimeofday patch for 2.6.13-rc3 won't

Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. There are other fixes too, a number of them reverting (at least for now) patches that people had problems

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:36 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Erick Turnquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm running an Athlon64 X2 4400+ (a dual core model) with an nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra on a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard and getting nasty messages like these in my dmesg: warning:

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1

2005-08-07 Thread Avuton Olrich
On 8/7/05, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc5/2.6.13-rc5-mm1/ I probably don't need/want phy stuff anyhow, but when I tried it: Problem: drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_start_machine': : undefined reference to

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 07 Aug 2005 12:36, christos gentsis wrote: [snip] I searched up google a bit and recieved some warnings about acpi causing problems, so I disabled that, but was still unsucessful in getting that to work. Please let me know if any other information is required. Thanks ahead of

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! If we are going back to needing helper scripts then I should just remove the entire sysfs graphics interface and switch back to using ioctls and a helper app. Of could no one can ever find the helper app or remember how it works. I thought one of the main reasons behind the

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Could you tell me why you don't just fail the operation if malformed input is supplied? Leading/trailing white space should be allowed. For example echo appends '\n' unless you know to use -n. It is easier to fix the kernel than to teach everyone to use -n. Please,

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates is deprecated noise

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 20:23:12 +0200): On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays: drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated (declared at

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-07 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 07 Aug 2005 19:54, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Sunday 07 Aug 2005 12:36, christos gentsis wrote: [snip] I searched up google a bit and recieved some warnings about acpi causing problems, so I disabled that, but was still unsucessful in getting that to work. Please let

Re: FYI: device_suspend(...) in kernel_power_off().

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! There as been a fair amount of consensus that calling device_suspend(...) in the reboot path was inappropriate now, because the device suspend code was too immature. With this latest piece of evidence it seems to me that introducing device_suspend(...) in kernel_power_off, kernel_halt,

[PATCH] get rid of warning in aic7770.c:aic7770_config()

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
Get rid of unused variable warning: drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770.c: In function `aic7770_config': drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770.c:129: warning: unused variable `l' Not used anywhere in the function, even under ifdef. Delete. diff -aurpN -X /home/fletch/.diff.exclude

Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386 Encapsulate copying of pgd entries

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This helps complete the encapsulation of updates to page tables (or pages about to become page tables) into accessor functions rather than using memcpy() to duplicate them. This is both generally good for consistency and also necessary for running in a hypervisor which requires explicit

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates is deprecated noise

2005-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:55:16AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: --Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 20:23:12 +0200): On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays:

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates is deprecated noise

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
If it's going to spout crap when I'm not even using the deprecated function, it's worse than useless, I'm afraid. ... It's reminding us that we are still offering a deprecated function. ;-) Might be useful as an option. But not to irritate every poor sod who does a kernel compile, ever.

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates is deprecated noise

2005-08-07 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays: drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated (declared at drivers/serial/8250.c:2607) Which is just: EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_serial); Sorry, but that's

[WATCHDOG] i8xx_tco.c - patch to arm watchdog only when started (Kernel Bug 4251)

2005-08-07 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
support for the ICH4-M, ICH6, ICH6R, ICH6-M, ICH6W and ICH6RW * chipsets. Also added support for the undocumented ICH7 chipset. + * 20050807 Wim Van Sebroeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] + * 0.08 Make sure that the watchdog is only armed when started. + * (Kernel Bug 4251

[PATCH] remove warning about e1000_suspend

2005-08-07 Thread Martin J. Bligh
e1000_suspend is only used under #ifdef CONFIG_PM. Move the declaration of it to be the same way, just like e1000_resume, otherwise gcc whines on compile. I offer as evidence: static struct pci_driver e1000_driver = { .name = e1000_driver_name, .id_table

Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386 Encapsulate copying of pgd entries

2005-08-07 Thread Zachary Amsden
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! This helps complete the encapsulation of updates to page tables (or pages about to become page tables) into accessor functions rather than using memcpy() to duplicate them. This is both generally good for consistency and also necessary for running in a hypervisor

Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) supported? TIA, Lee - 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 Please read the FAQ at

Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386 Encapsulate copying of pgd entries

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Since most hypervisors will likely provide a suspend/resume mechanism that is external to the guest, most of this is a moot point anyways. Ok. But I wondered if you thought the pgd_clone() accessor would make this cleaner or if it is just most confusing: #ifdef

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) supported? Wow, Google has really declined in quality. I got zero hits for Linksys WUSB 54G linux. Then I found this page on my own. (from

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: It's most likely bad SMM code in the BIOS that blocks the CPU too long and is triggered in idle. You can verify that by using idle=poll (not recommended for production, just for testing) and see if it goes away. WTF, since when do *desktops* use

Re: Oops in 2.6.13-rc5-git-current (0d317fb72fe3cf0f611608cf3a3015bbe6cd2a66)

2005-08-07 Thread Alexander Nyberg
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b printing eip: c0188d15 *pde = Oops: [#1] PREEMPT CPU:0 EIP:0060:[inotify_inode_queue_event+85/336]Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.13-rc5-g0d317fb7) EIP is at

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-07 Thread Tim Hockin
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 02:46:50PM -0400, Erick Turnquist wrote: Some BIOSes do not lock SMM, and you *could* turn it off at the chipset level. I don't see anything about SMM in my BIOS configuration even with the advanced options enabled... Turning it off at the chipset level sounds like

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-08-07 Thread Jon Smirl
On 8/7/05, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Could you tell me why you don't just fail the operation if malformed input is supplied? Leading/trailing white space should be allowed. For example echo appends '\n' unless you know to use -n. It is easier to fix the

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
Linus Torvalds wrote: In general, anybody who has reported regressions since 2.6.12, please re-test with -rc6 and report back ... Herbert Xu: tcp: fix TSO cwnd caching bug The tcp_output panic bug seems to be fixed. I'm referring to: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/7/63 -- Heikki

synchronize_rcu vs. rcu_barrier

2005-08-07 Thread Keenan Pepper
What's the difference between synchronize_rcu() and rcu_barrier() (new function used only by reiser4 code)? From the scant documentation it seems like they do the same thing. Keenan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. There are other fixes too, a number of them

Re: Fw: Re: Elitegroup K7S5A + usb_storage problem

2005-08-07 Thread Martin Maurer
On Sunday, 7. August 2005 20:08, Alan Stern wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alan, no. the stick doesn't have a write protection switch. Once when i tried to copy a file to the mp3 player i got a new file there on remount, but it consisted of incorrect data. (so

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: It looks like CONFIG_4KSTACKS has gone away (IOW 8K stacks are no longer an option). But now I get this ominous warning when I compile ndiswrapper: It's still there, and it (still) depends on DEBUG_KERNEL. Nothing should have changed afaik..

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:50 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: It looks like CONFIG_4KSTACKS has gone away (IOW 8K stacks are no longer an option). But now I get this ominous warning when I compile ndiswrapper: It's still there, and it (still)

Re: Fw: Elitegroup K7S5A + usb_storage problem

2005-08-07 Thread Pete Zaitcev
when i delete the files which are on the stick and do an umount/mount cycle, the files are there again. [... other mail ...] I did the usbmon thing (hopefully correctly). Attached is the output. Yes, that was perfect, thanks a lot. Unfortunately, I do not see a lot of interesting things.

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

2005-08-07 Thread Raymond Lai
Thanks, Lee. That's the bug I'm referring to. It would be great if laptop users can enjoy the higher sound quality the Audigy2 pcmcia sound card offers, which is way better than the builtin onboard sound. Raymond On 8/7/05, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:43

Re: Fw: Re: Elitegroup K7S5A + usb_storage problem

2005-08-07 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 22:47:40 +0200, Martin Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity, if you plug the player into a Windows system without installing any special drivers first, will Windows be able to read and write files okay? If it can, a USB packet trace may give Pete a clue

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! It is not a work around. These are text attributes meant for human use. Humans have a hard time cleaning up things they can't see. And the failure mode for this is awful, your attribute won't set but everything on the screen looks fine. Kernel is not a place to be user

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: oops when starting nscd on AMD64

2005-08-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 7 of August 2005 19:23, Andrew Morton wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following Oops after trying to start nscd from YaST on an Athlon64-based box (compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y): Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at

Re: FYI: device_suspend(...) in kernel_power_off().

2005-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! There as been a fair amount of consensus that calling device_suspend(...) in the reboot path was inappropriate now, because the device suspend code was too immature. With this latest piece of evidence it seems to me that introducing device_suspend(...) in kernel_power_off,

Re: sluggish/very slow usb mouse on hp nx6110 notebook = acpi problem

2005-08-07 Thread Alexander Nyberg
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 08:56:51PM +0200 JG wrote: hm, i currently have acpi=off noacpi noapic reboot=b as kernel parameter. if i remove the acpi stuff and enable acpi, the usb mouse works fine.. but after some time (5-10min) the kacpid process goes havoc and eats all cpu and the whole

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Dumitru Ciobarcianu
În data de Du, 07-08-2005 la 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds a scris: Luming Yu: [ACPI] revert Embedded Controller to polling-mode by default (ala 2.6.12) [ACPI] CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY is now n by default IMHO you really need then to make acpi_specific_hotkey the default or at least mention it in

Re: lockups with netconsole on e1000 on media insertion

2005-08-07 Thread John Bäckstrand
Steven Rostedt wrote: I don't have the card, so I can't test it. But if this works (after removing the previous patch) then this is the better solution. I can confirm that this alone does not work for the simple unplug/re-plug cycle I described, it still locks up hard. Tried this alone on

Re: oops with 2.6.13-rc5 on webserver with raid

2005-08-07 Thread Alexander Nyberg
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:52:15AM +0200 Martin Braun wrote: Hi, I've been trying to upgrade kernel to 2.6.13-rc5. The server boots normally w/o errors, but after while (from 5 minutes up to 2 hours) the Kernel hangs (no keyboard input possible). As I am a newbie I cannot figure out who

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