Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-15 Thread Jeffrey V. Merkey
Pavel Machek wrote: On Tue 12-12-06 23:45:27, Olivier Galibert wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:44:18AM -0700, Andrew Robinson wrote: When I said hibernate, I did mention it was to disk, not to ram. Suspend to disk is not trustable on Linux, and does not look like it will be

Re: Mach-O binary format support and Darwin syscall personality [Was: uts banner changes]

2006-12-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > So I guess all I have to do is: > (A) Write a bunch of new syscall handlers taking > arguments of the same types as the Darwin syscall > handlers, > (B) Figure out how to switch tables depending on the > "syscall personality" of "current" > (C) Figure out how to set the

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-15 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 12-12-06 23:45:27, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:44:18AM -0700, Andrew Robinson wrote: > > When I said hibernate, I did mention it was to disk, not to ram. > > Suspend to disk is not trustable on Linux, and does not look like it > will be any time soon. Suspend to

[PATCH] fix to usbfs_snoop logging of user defined control urbs

2006-12-15 Thread Chris Frey
Hi Greg KH, According to a Linux Journal article, you were the original author of the usbfs_snoop patch, so I'm sending this patch to you. When sending CONTROL URB's using the usual CONTROL ioctl, logging works fine, but when sending them via SUBMITURB, like VMWare does, the control fields are

Doubled stack dumps during locking testsuite

2006-12-15 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Hi Ingo, I built a parisc kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS enabled recently, and got some interesting results: double unlock: ok | ok |failed|WARNING at /home/willy/merge-2.6/kernel/mutex-debug.c:83 debug_mutex_unlock() Backtrace: [<40144b38>]

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-15 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:55:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, karderio wrote: > > > > As it stands, I believe the licence of the Linux kernel does impose > > certain restrictions and come with certain obligations > > Absolutely. And they boil down to something very

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread thunder7
From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:48:44PM -0500 > The "Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1" sub-thread that had Jens and Alistair John > Strachan replying seemed to implicate some core block layer badness. > The original problem (not mounting my raid6 partition) is observable

Re: 2.6.18.5 usb/sysfs bug.

2006-12-15 Thread Chuck Ebbert
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:37:15 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > Can you enable CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and send the log info that happens right > > before this oops? > > Gah, and here it is, actually attached this time. > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

Re: Change in multiple NFS mount behavior in 2.6.19?

2006-12-15 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 23:46:28 -0500 Mike Accetta wrote: > After upgrading an NFS client from 2.6.18 to 2.6.19 (and also with > 2.6.19.1) we see a change in behavior of multiple NFS mounts against the > same server (running 2.4.20 in this case). With 2.6.18 we could mount > different pieces of

Change in multiple NFS mount behavior in 2.6.19?

2006-12-15 Thread Mike Accetta
After upgrading an NFS client from 2.6.18 to 2.6.19 (and also with 2.6.19.1) we see a change in behavior of multiple NFS mounts against the same server (running 2.4.20 in this case). With 2.6.18 we could mount different pieces of the same remote file system with distinct read-only and

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-15 Thread Dave Airlie
On 12/16/06, jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Alexey Dobriyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:58PM +, James Porter wrote: >> I think some kernel developers take to much responsibility, is there a >> bug in a >> binary driver? Send it upstream and explain to the

[GIT PULL] please pull infiniband.git

2006-12-15 Thread Roland Dreier
Linus, please pull from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus This tree is also available from kernel.org mirrors at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus A couple of fixes for semi-nasty bugs on 32-bit

Inspiron 6000 power problem saga - other people's experiences?

2006-12-15 Thread Michael (Micksa) Slade
Regarding: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7393 No closer to a solution yet. I'm worried about this problem because the laptop is getting hotter than it's designed for and it is likely shortening its life. To aid in tracking it down, I could use reports of this problem

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-15 Thread jdow
From: "Alexey Dobriyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:58PM +, James Porter wrote: I think some kernel developers take to much responsibility, is there a bug in a binary driver? Send it upstream and explain to the user that it's a closed source driver and is up to said

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-15 Thread jdow
From: "Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> blather and idiotic hogwash. "Information" doesn't want to be free, nor is it somethign you should fight for or necessarily even encourage. As a pedant that is the one item I have to pick you up on Linus. Information wants to be free, the natural efficient

Re: 2.6.18.5 usb/sysfs bug.

2006-12-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:47:50PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:37:15 -0500, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Linux version 2.6.18-1.2864.fc6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1 > > 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)) #1 SMP Fri Dec 15 13:14:58 EST 2006 > >

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, karderio wrote: > > As it stands, I believe the licence of the Linux kernel does impose > certain restrictions and come with certain obligations Absolutely. And they boil down to something very simple: "Derived works have to be under the same license" where the

Merge Blackfin-uClinux tree with latest Linus GIT tree including "LOG2.H" patch failed

2006-12-15 Thread Bryan Wu
Dear David and Forks: I am a developer of Blackfin uClinux (blackfin.uclinux.org). After git clone the latest Linus GIT tree and quilt the blackfin-uclinux patch list, I met some problems related with your log2.h patches when I try to compile the kernel. The compile log is listed as below:

Re: [patch] include linux/types.h in a bunch of header files for usage with install_headers

2006-12-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:08:50PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 12/12/06, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:03:50PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> there are a plethora of headers that cannot be included straight due > >> to the usage of __ types (like

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-15 Thread karderio
Re :o) On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 16:24 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, karderio wrote: > > > > If the "free software community" has the clout to twist vendor's arms to > > get them release driver source, then I'm all for it. > > I don't care what you're for, or what your

[patch] include linux/types.h in a bunch of header files for usage with install_headers

2006-12-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 12/12/06, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:03:50PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > there are a plethora of headers that cannot be included straight due > to the usage of __ types (like __u32) without first including > linux/types.h ... so the question is,

Re: r8169 on n2100 (was Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions))

2006-12-15 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 01:54:39AM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > > No, that wouldn't make sense, that's like making a workaround depend on > > arch == i386. > > > > I'm thinking that we should somehow enable this option on the n2100 > > built-in r8169 ports by default only. Since the n2100

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-15 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:58PM +, James Porter wrote: For what it's worth, I don't see any problem with binary drivers from hardware manufacturers. Binary drivers from hardware manufacturers are crap. Learn it by heart. That's your personal opinion! A lot

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Alan wrote: > > blather and idiotic hogwash. "Information" doesn't want to be free, nor is > > it somethign you should fight for or necessarily even encourage. > > As a pedant that is the one item I have to pick you up on Linus. > Information wants to be free, the natural

Re: 2.6.18.5 usb/sysfs bug.

2006-12-15 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:37:15 -0500, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linux version 2.6.18-1.2864.fc6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1 > 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)) #1 SMP Fri Dec 15 13:14:58 EST 2006 > Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 profile=1 vga=791 >

[PATCH 1/5] Char: isicom, fix locking in isr

2006-12-15 Thread Jiri Slaby
isicom, fix locking in isr 2 spin_unlocks are omitted in the interrupt handler. Put them there to fix up deadlocking on UP. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit f2d37e8d3de070f8cda48a454f7b991d29b310be tree 23027dcdc3215fbb488577edb9610322956edb0b parent

[PATCH 3/5] Char: isicom, augment card_reset

2006-12-15 Thread Jiri Slaby
isicom, augment card_reset - add 0xee to signatures - change long delays to sleeps - make one sleep shorter not to wait 3s - portcount == 16 is also correct Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 405c17b09b010b41f6ec2388a11777e4048c7976 tree

[PATCH 4/5] Char: isicom, check card state in isr

2006-12-15 Thread Jiri Slaby
isicom, check card state in isr Check if the card really interrupted us by reading its IO space and eventualy return IRQ_NONE. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 601667e4ee38183358ea8f7980537bb8c09d8728 tree ccb1c085309ad35178f8d741e7c074308ae277ee parent

[PATCH 2/5] Char: isicom, fix probe race

2006-12-15 Thread Jiri Slaby
isicom, fix probe race Fix two race conditions in the probe function with mutex. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit e7087b32ad4b5ee1240fa7f9ba46a9b4566fe424 tree 28bc5ad2a47c03e1b7a09fce22afbe7000955e97 parent f2d37e8d3de070f8cda48a454f7b991d29b310be author Jiri Slaby

[PATCH 5/5] Char: isicom, support higher rates

2006-12-15 Thread Jiri Slaby
isicom, support higher rates Add support for higher baud rates (coming from original isi driver). Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 8b380d8b1c3ff7d09d68d467d2f135774cab4086 tree d1e9332d7dc76c5f1d80f936bca71312d0bcb07b parent 601667e4ee38183358ea8f7980537bb8c09d8728

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-15 Thread Nikolai Joukov
> >The idea behind the cloneset is that most of the blocks (or files) > >do not change in either source or target. This being the case its only > necessary > >to update the changed elements. This means updates are incremental. Once > >the system has figured out what it needs to update its usable

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-15 Thread Alan
> blather and idiotic hogwash. "Information" doesn't want to be free, nor is > it somethign you should fight for or necessarily even encourage. As a pedant that is the one item I have to pick you up on Linus. Information wants to be free, the natural efficient economic state of information is

Re: Nasty warnings on arm (+ one compile problem -- INIT_WORK related)

2006-12-15 Thread Al Viro
> Plus compile error. It should be some search I should do, but > which one? > > drivers/video/sa1100fb.c:1447:49: macro "INIT_WORK" passed 3 > arguments, but takes just 2 > drivers/video/sa1100fb.c: In function `sa1100fb_init_fbinfo': > drivers/video/sa1100fb.c:1447: error: `INIT_WORK'

Re: Nasty warnings on arm (+ one compile problem -- INIT_WORK related)

2006-12-15 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:58:18AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > I get nasty warning for each file compiled: > > CC drivers/video/sa1100fb.o > In file included from include/asm/bitops.h:23, > from include/linux/bitops.h:9, > from

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-15 Thread Nikolai Joukov
> > We have designed a new stackable file system that we called RAIF: > > Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems. > > > > Similar to Unionfs, RAIF is a fan-out file system and can be mounted over > > many different disk-based, memory, network, and distributed file systems. > > RAIF can use the

Re: r8169 on n2100 (was Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions))

2006-12-15 Thread Francois Romieu
Lennert Buytenhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > No, that wouldn't make sense, that's like making a workaround depend on > arch == i386. > > I'm thinking that we should somehow enable this option on the n2100 > built-in r8169 ports by default only. Since the n2100 also has a mini-PCI > slot, and

[PATCH][RFC] consolidate line discipline number definitions

2006-12-15 Thread Tilman Schmidt
The line discipline code numbers N_* are currently defined separately for each architecture in include/asm-${arch}/termios.h which is in turn included by include/linux/termios.h via the symlink include/asm. I don't see any reason why these definitions need to be architecture specific. They are

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, karderio wrote: > > If the "free software community" has the clout to twist vendor's arms to > get them release driver source, then I'm all for it. I don't care what you're for, or what your imaginary "free software community" is for. We're "open source", and we're not a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-15 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Nikolai Joukov wrote: We have designed a new stackable file system that we called RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems. Similar to Unionfs, RAIF is a fan-out file system and can be mounted over many different disk-based, memory, network, and distributed file

Re: WARNING (1) at .../arch/i386/mm/highmem.c:49 [Was: 2.6.20-rc1-mm1]

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:25:43 +0059 Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Temporarily at > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-rc1-mm1/ > > > > Will appear later at > > > > > >

Re: realtime-preempt and arm

2006-12-15 Thread Robert Crocombe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r 2.6.19.1-rt15_00 And I'm totally thrilled since this is the first -rt kernel that I've tried and been able to boot since .16-rt29. Yay! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zcat /proc/config.gz | egrep "HZ.*=y" CONFIG_HZ_1000=y 100 revs; min: 5008 max: 5034 avg: 5015 100 revs;

2.6.20-rc1-mm1: unused sysrq_timer_list_show()

2006-12-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:59:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.19-mm1: >... > +debugging-feature-proc-timer_list.patch > > Refreshed, refactored dynticks/hrtimer queue. >... I'd assume sysrq_timer_list_show() wasn't intended to be unused? cu Adrian -- "Is

Re: OOPS: deref 0x14 at pdc_port_start+0x82 [Was: 2.6.20-rc1-mm1]

2006-12-15 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:24:12 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:45:55 +0059 >Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Andrew Morton wrote: >> > Temporarily at >> > >> >http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-rc1-mm1/ >> > >> > Will appear later at >> > >> > >> >

Nasty warnings on arm (+ one compile problem -- INIT_WORK related)

2006-12-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I get nasty warning for each file compiled: CC drivers/video/sa1100fb.o In file included from include/asm/bitops.h:23, from include/linux/bitops.h:9, from include/linux/thread_info.h:20, from include/linux/preempt.h:9,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2006-12-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 15 December 2006 15:11, Nikolai Joukov wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:47, Nikolai Joukov wrote: > > > We have designed a new stackable file system that we called RAIF: > > > Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems > > > > Do you have a function similar to an an EMC

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-15 Thread karderio
Hi :o) Linus Torvalds wrote : > The silly thing is, the people who tend to push most for this are the > exact SAME people who say that the RIAA etc should not be able to tell > people what to do with the music copyrights that they own, and that the > DMCA is bad because it puts technical

Re: OOPS: deref 0x14 at pdc_port_start+0x82 [Was: 2.6.20-rc1-mm1]

2006-12-15 Thread Jiri Slaby
Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Applying the trivial patch below on top of 2.6.20-rc1-mm1 should Yup, Jeff fwd me this yet and it works. thanks, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey

Re: 2.6.19-git19: lockdep messages on console

2006-12-15 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On 12/15/06, Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12-12-2006 20:49, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > Very shortly after boot on my K7-800 running up-to-date FC6 > and 2.6.19-git19; didn't happen in 2.6.19-vanilla: ... > [ 134.915521] INFO: trying to register non-static key. > [ 134.915890]

minix 3 released under BSD-like license

2006-12-15 Thread David Nicol
http://www.minix3.org/ maybe this development will spur an open device driver standard, or adoption of wrappers for the unified BSD driver standard into other frameworks -- He thought he could organize freedom how naive and controlling of him - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 23:24, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 > >> Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you

WARNING (1) at .../arch/i386/mm/highmem.c:49 [Was: 2.6.20-rc1-mm1]

2006-12-15 Thread Jiri Slaby
Andrew Morton wrote: > Temporarily at > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-rc1-mm1/ > > Will appear later at > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc1/2.6.20-rc1-mm1/ Ok, after fixing sata_promise, I got this 7 times: [ 30.957539]

Re: lots of code could be simplified by using ARRAY_SIZE()

2006-12-15 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Even sizeof a / sizeof *a > > > > may happen. > > yes, sadly, there are a number of those as well. back to the drawing > board. It might be interesting to grep for anything that divides two sizeofs

Re: Task watchers v2

2006-12-15 Thread Matt Helsley
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 09:34 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:07:55PM -0800, Matt Helsley wrote: > > Associate function calls with significant events in a task's lifetime much > > like > > we handle kernel and module init/exit functions. This creates a table for > >

Re: [panic] aacraid on 2.4.33.4 w/ PERC 3/Di

2006-12-15 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hello Mark, On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:20:24PM -0500, Mark Drago wrote: > Hello, > > I have been seeing some kernel panics on a Dell PowerEdge 2650 with a > PERC 3/Di raid controller doing RAID 1. I have now seen the panics > occur on multiple PE2650s. The panic seems to occur during periods

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: > > > > > > Why can't we just use atomic_t for this? > > > > > > Well, others have answered that ("wrong sizes"), but I'm wavering on using > > atomic_long_t. I have to admit that

Re: OOPS: deref 0x14 at pdc_port_start+0x82 [Was: 2.6.20-rc1-mm1]

2006-12-15 Thread Jiri Slaby
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:45:55 +0059 > Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Andrew Morton wrote: >>> Temporarily at >>> >>> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-rc1-mm1/ >>> >>> Will appear later at >>> >>> >>>

generic_file_buffered_write and O_SYNC

2006-12-15 Thread Nate Diller
So I'm trying to get an understanding of the interactions between the various aio_read/aio_write paths, and I ran across this gem at the end of generic_file_buffered_write: /* * For now, when the user asks for O_SYNC, we'll actually give O_DSYNC */ if (likely(status

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 23:19, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Alan wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:27 -0800 > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 > >> Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:39, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub them.

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time > > and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub them. > > > > I'll

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:27 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub

Re: Task watchers v2

2006-12-15 Thread Matt Helsley
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 09:34 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:07:55PM -0800, Matt Helsley wrote: > > Associate function calls with significant events in a task's lifetime much > > like > > we handle kernel and module init/exit functions. This creates a table for > >

Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps

2006-12-15 Thread Michal Sabala
On 2006/12/15 at 15:44:14 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 15:06 -0600, Michal Sabala wrote: > > Could this be related to the fact that the nfs mmaped file is unlinked > > before it is ummaped? The .nfsXXX file disappears from the NFS > > server as soon as

Re: [PATCH/v2] CodingStyle updates

2006-12-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 15 2006 21:27, Jörn Engel wrote: >On Fri, 15 December 2006 22:01:10 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Dec 15 2006 15:56, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> > >> > outside the loop? If not then it is better to keep style consistent >> > and not use condensed form in loops either. >> >> Don't you

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-15 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:58PM +, James Porter wrote: > I think some kernel developers take to much responsibility, is there a bug in > a > binary driver? Send it upstream and explain to the user that it's a closed > source driver and is up to said company to fix it. > > For what it's

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 15 2006 21:59, Alan wrote: > >> I personally like nvidia's products, they have spent a lot of money in R >> One >> example is SLI, if their spec was open what would stop ATI from stealing >> their > >3DFx invented SLI many years ago. The SLI programming information for the >3DFx cards is

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 23:06, Alan wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:27 -0800 > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single >

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Alan
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:27 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time > > and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:49, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > The other box is mine and it works just fine with 2.6.20-rc1. > > > >> I think something bad happened in sata land just recently. > > > > Yup. Please see, for example: > > > >

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
The "Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1" sub-thread that had Jens and Alistair John Strachan replying seemed to implicate some core block layer badness. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: The other box is mine and it works just fine with 2.6.20-rc1. I think something bad happened in sata land just recently. Yup. Please see, for example: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=116621656432500=2 It looks like the breakage is in sata, in the

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-15 Thread Alan
> I personally like nvidia's products, they have spent a lot of money in R > One > example is SLI, if their spec was open what would stop ATI from stealing their 3DFx invented SLI many years ago. The SLI programming information for the 3DFx cards is public. Nvidia are a bit late to the party

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time > > and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub them. > > > > I'll

Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps

2006-12-15 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 15:06 -0600, Michal Sabala wrote: > On 2006/12/15 at 13:44:44 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:50 -0600, Michal Sabala wrote: > > > On 2006/12/15 at 10:24:15 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 20:30

Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps

2006-12-15 Thread Michal Sabala
On 2006/12/15 at 15:12:06 Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > > > I do not have any indication that it is the server not responding. Other > > applications which have NFS files open are continuing to work while in > > this case XFree86 blocks. > > just a strange question, but which

Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:35:00 -0600 Michal Sabala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006/12/15 at 14:42:08 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:50:30 -0600 > > Michal Sabala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 2006/12/15 at 10:24:15 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time > and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub them. > > I'll then do a rc1-mm2 without them. hm, this is looking like a lot of work

Re: 2.6.18.5 usb/sysfs bug.

2006-12-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:53:44AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 12:50:27PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > Happens during every boot, though bootup continues afterwards. > > Can you enable CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and send the log info that happens right > before this

Re: 2.6.18.5 usb/sysfs bug.

2006-12-15 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:53:44AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 12:50:27PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > Happens during every boot, though bootup continues afterwards. > > Can you enable CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and send the log info that happens right > before this

Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps

2006-12-15 Thread Michal Sabala
On 2006/12/15 at 14:42:08 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:50:30 -0600 > Michal Sabala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 2006/12/15 at 10:24:15 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 20:30 -0600, Michal Sabala wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH/v2] CodingStyle updates

2006-12-15 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 15 December 2006 22:01:10 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 15 2006 15:56, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > Would you write: > > > > i+=2; > > > > outside the loop? If not then it is better to keep style consistent > > and not use condensed form in loops either. > > Don't you all

Binary Drivers

2006-12-15 Thread James Porter
I think some kernel developers take to much responsibility, is there a bug in a binary driver? Send it upstream and explain to the user that it's a closed source driver and is up to said company to fix it. For what it's worth, I don't see any problem with binary drivers from hardware

Re: [PATCH/v2] CodingStyle updates

2006-12-15 Thread Randy Dunlap
Jörn Engel wrote: On Fri, 15 December 2006 21:10:14 +, Jörn Engel wrote: Like so? I manually edited the patch and weakened a few of the space rules, basically the ones in dispute in this thread. Btw, this doesn't apply to my git tree at all (just pulled): Hunk #1 FAILED at 35. Hunk #2

[PATCH 2/2] cciss: fix XFER_READ/XFER_WRITE in do_cciss_request

2006-12-15 Thread Mike Miller (OS Dev)
Patch 2 of 2 This patch fixes a stupid bug. Sometime during the 2tb enhancement I ended up replacing the macros XFER_READ and XFER_WRITE with h->cciss_read and h->cciss_write respectively. It seemed to work somehow at least on x86_64 and ia64. I don't know how. But people started complaining

Re: [S390] Fix reboot hang on LPARs

2006-12-15 Thread Heiko Carstens
> +static int pgm_check_occured; > + > +static void cio_reset_pgm_check_handler(void) > +{ > + pgm_check_occured = 1; > +} > + > +static int stsch_reset(struct subchannel_id schid, volatile struct schib > *addr) > +{ > + int rc; > + > + pgm_check_occured = 0; > +

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
I don't think it's in -rc1, please see below. On Friday, 15 December 2006 21:50, Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday December 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:20:57PM +1100 > > > i.e. current -mm is good for 2.6.20 (though I have a

Re: [PATCH/v2] CodingStyle updates

2006-12-15 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 15 December 2006 12:26:59 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > then send patches :) Like so? I manually edited the patch and weakened a few of the space rules, basically the ones in dispute in this thread. From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add some kernel coding style comments, mostly

Re: [PATCH/v2] CodingStyle updates

2006-12-15 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 15 December 2006 21:10:14 +, Jörn Engel wrote: > > Like so? I manually edited the patch and weakened a few of the space > rules, basically the ones in dispute in this thread. Btw, this doesn't apply to my git tree at all (just pulled): Hunk #1 FAILED at 35. Hunk #2 FAILED at 94.

Re: r8169 on n2100 (was Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions))

2006-12-15 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:03:29PM +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:15:22PM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > > > > Is there a way we can have this done by default on the n2100? I guess > > > that since it's a PCI device, there isn't much hope for that..? > > > > Do

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 December 2006 22:05, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:50:01 +1100 > Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Friday December 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > From: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:20:57PM +1100 > > > > i.e.

Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps

2006-12-15 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > I do not have any indication that it is the server not responding. Other > applications which have NFS files open are continuing to work while in > this case XFree86 blocks. just a strange question, but which video driver do you use in X? maybe that one is blocking say the pci bus or

Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps

2006-12-15 Thread Michal Sabala
On 2006/12/15 at 13:44:44 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:50 -0600, Michal Sabala wrote: > > On 2006/12/15 at 10:24:15 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 20:30 -0600, Michal Sabala wrote: > > > > > > > > `cat

[PATCH 1/2] cciss: set default raid level when reading geometry fails

2006-12-15 Thread Mike Miller (OS Dev)
PATCH 1 of 2 This patch sets a default raid level on a volume that either does not support reading the geometry or reports an invalid geometry for whatever reason. We were always setting some values for heads and sectors but never set a raid level. This caused lots of problems on some buggy

Re: [PATCH/v2] CodingStyle updates

2006-12-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 15 2006 15:56, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 12/15/06, Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, 15 December 2006 09:00:37 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:07:17 +0100 Pavel Machek wrote: >> > >> > > Not in simple cases. >> > > >> > > 3*i + 2*j should be writen

Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:50:01 +1100 Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday December 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:20:57PM +1100 > > > i.e. current -mm is good for 2.6.20 (though I have a few other little > > >

Re: 2.6.20-rc1-mm1

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:39:36 +0100 Damien Wyart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With this new kernel, I notice two messages I do not have with > 2.6.19-rc6-mm2 : > > Dec 15 20:00:47 brouette kernel: Filesystem "sdb9": Disabling barriers,trial > barrier write failed > Dec 15 20:00:47 brouette

Re: r8169 on n2100 (was Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions))

2006-12-15 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:15:22PM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > > Is there a way we can have this done by default on the n2100? I guess > > that since it's a PCI device, there isn't much hope for that..? > > Do you mean an automagically tuned default value based on CONFIG_ARM ? No, that

[PATCHSET] Various sas_ata feature additions and EH fixes

2006-12-15 Thread Darrick J. Wong
Hi again, As a companion to today's libsas roll-up, this is the queue of patches for the SATL connector between SAS and ATA. For patches not specifically focusing on SAS ATA, please refer to my previous email (or the patches themselves). Each patch has its own preamble description, but I'd like

Re: [PATCH] smc911x: fix netpoll compilation faliure

2006-12-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:13:28 +0300 Vitaly Wool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > the trivial patch below fixes the compilation failure for smc911x.c when > NET_POLL_CONTROLLER is set. > > drivers/net/smc911x.c |2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >

Re: [PATCH/v2] CodingStyle updates

2006-12-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 12/15/06, Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 15 December 2006 09:00:37 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:07:17 +0100 Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Not in simple cases. > > > > 3*i + 2*j should be writen like that. Not like > > (3 * i) + (2 * j) > > I would

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