Regression between 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc1: NCQ problem with ahci and Hitachi drive

2007-03-04 Thread Mathieu Bérard
Hello, I have and laptop with an ICH6M SATA Controller and an Hitachi hard drive. While it worked well using the ahci module and with NCQ enabled using Linux 2.6.20, it does not work anymore (hang at boot) with 2.6.21-rc* My drive is among those that were recently blacklisted (see lkml post

[-mm patch] drivers/cpuidle/: make code static

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:00:26AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.20-mm2: ... git-acpi.patch ... git trees ... This patch makes the following needlessly global code static: - driver.c: __cpuidle_find_driver() - governor.c: __cpuidle_find_governor() - ladder.c: struct

[4/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.21-rc2 compared to 2.6.20 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm

[3/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.21-rc2 compared to 2.6.20 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm

Re: Regression between 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc1: NCQ problem with ahci and Hitachi drive

2007-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Mathieu. Mathieu Bérard wrote: Hello, I have and laptop with an ICH6M SATA Controller and an Hitachi hard drive. While it worked well using the ahci module and with NCQ enabled using Linux 2.6.20, it does not work anymore (hang at boot) with 2.6.21-rc* My drive is among those that

Re: [PATCH] ext3: dirindex error pointer issues

2007-03-04 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Mar 04, 2007 17:18 +0300, Dmitriy Monakhov wrote: - ext3_dx_find_entry() exit with out setting proper error pointer - do_split() exit with out setting proper error pointer it is realy painful because many callers contain folowing code: de = do_split(handle,dir, bh, frame,

Re: [6/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:07:25PM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 02:50:45 +0100 Subject: sparc64 compile error due to GENERIC_ISA_DMA removal References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8097 Submitter : Horst H. von

Re: [6/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread David Miller
From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 03:26:02 +0100 On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:07:25PM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 02:50:45 +0100 Subject: sparc64 compile error due to GENERIC_ISA_DMA removal

[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.0.3

2007-03-04 Thread Junio C Hamano
The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.0.3 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.5.0.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball) git-htmldocs-1.5.0.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.5.0.3.tar.{gz,bz2}

[PATCH/RFC] implement __attribute_discard_text/data__ and use it to leave out PM functions if !CONFIG_PM

2007-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, all. This patch is the result from the following discussion. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/16475 The problem is that CONFIG_PM affects a lot of low level drivers and scattering CONFIG_PM all over the place is too ugly. This patch... * implements __attribute_discard_text__

Re: CK804 SATA Errors (still got them)

2007-03-04 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:25, Robert Hancock wrote: Alistair John Strachan wrote: Can you try reverting commit 721449bf0d51213fe3abf0ac3e3561ef9ea7827a (link below) and see what effect that has? http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commi t;h

Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1 -- kernel/sched.c:3384: error: 'struct rq' has no member named 'in_nohz_recently'

2007-03-04 Thread Miles Lane
Ah, I see this was already reported. Sorry. My query at marc.theaimsgroup.com didn't find the previous report. I just stumbled onto it while browsing for other information. Miles - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [rfc][patch] dynamic resizing dentry hash using RCU

2007-03-04 Thread David Miller
From: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:37:43 +0100 So I introduce a new method for resizing hash tables with RCU, and apply that to the dentry hash. Thanks for doing this work Nick. I'm going to take your ideas and apply them to an ipv4 routing cache dynamic growth

2.6.21-rc2-mm1 -- WARNING: pcmcia_access_configuration_register [drivers/ssb/ssb.ko] undefined!

2007-03-04 Thread Miles Lane
WARNING: pcmcia_access_configuration_register [drivers/ssb/ssb.ko] undefined! WARNING: pccard_parse_tuple [drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-mac80211.ko] undefined! WARNING: pcmcia_register_driver [drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-mac80211.ko] undefined! WARNING:

Re: [patch] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console.

2007-03-04 Thread Paul Mackerras
Gerd Hoffmann writes: This patch fixes the console selection code to *not* consider a boot console a full-featured one, so the first non-boot console registering will become the default console instead. This way the unregister call for the boot console in the register_console() function

Re: [rfc][patch] dynamic resizing dentry hash using RCU

2007-03-04 Thread Nick Piggin
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:11:42PM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:37:43 +0100 So I introduce a new method for resizing hash tables with RCU, and apply that to the dentry hash. Thanks for doing this work Nick. I'm going to take

[BUG} usb regression in 2.6.21-rc2-git3

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Lord
Adrian Bunk wrote: This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.21-rc2 compared to 2.6.20 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. Here's another one for Greg: I have a Targus USB 1.1 dock, basically a hub with built-in serial, parallel, PS/2 KB, PS/2 Mouse, and extra USB ports. Simply

Re: [IPW3945] Can't load microcode

2007-03-04 Thread Lee Revell
On 3/4/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection driver for Linux,

[BUG] sdhci regression in 2.6.21-rc2

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Lord
Another regression, for Pierre Ossman this time. My syslog gets spammed like this (below) on suspend/resume (to RAM) cycles. Worked fine, without all of the noise, in all previous kernels up to 2.6.20+. Mar 4 23:28:45 silvy logger: suspending Mar 4 23:29:09 silvy kernel: Stopping tasks ...

Re: [rfc][patch] dynamic resizing dentry hash using RCU

2007-03-04 Thread David Miller
From: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 05:27:24 +0100 Sounds great, I would be happy to help review it. If we can create a bit of common infrastructure, the dcache conversion might become a bit more palatable and we could look at other things like the inode hash as well.

Re: [rfc][patch] dynamic resizing dentry hash using RCU

2007-03-04 Thread Nick Piggin
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:27:24AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:11:42PM -0800, David Miller wrote: One minor nit: +struct dentry_hash { + unsigned int shift; + unsigned long mask; + struct hlist_head *table; +}; I don't see any reason to make

Re: [BUG} usb regression in 2.6.21-rc2-git3

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Here's another one for Greg: I have a Targus USB 1.1 dock, basically a hub with built-in serial, parallel, PS/2 KB, PS/2 Mouse, and extra USB ports. Simply connecting, and then disconnecting it causes an oops with 2.6.21-rc2: .. Same behaviour with a second, different USB

Re: [patch] sched: optimize siblings status check logic in wake_idle()

2007-03-04 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:35:34AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:23:32PM -0800, Suresh B wrote: When a logical cpu 'x' already has more than one process running, then most likely the siblings of that cpu 'x' must be busy. Otherwise the idle siblings would have

Re: [patch] sched: optimize siblings status check logic in wake_idle()

2007-03-04 Thread Nick Piggin
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:13:09PM -0800, Suresh B wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:35:34AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:23:32PM -0800, Suresh B wrote: When a logical cpu 'x' already has more than one process running, then most likely the siblings of that cpu

Re: [patch] sched: optimize siblings status check logic in wake_idle()

2007-03-04 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:58:31AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:13:09PM -0800, Suresh B wrote: On a 16 node system, we have seen ~1.25% perf improvement on a database workload when we completely short circuited wake_idle(). This patch is trying to comeup with a

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v3

2007-03-04 Thread Magnus Naeslund(k)
Kirk Kuchov wrote: [snip] This is a stupid comparaison. By your logic we should also have /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr. Well, as a matter of fact (on my system): # ls -l /dev/std* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 1 2006 /dev/stderr - fd/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 1 2006

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v3

2007-03-04 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 3/4/07, Kyle Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, even this far into 2.6, Linus' patch from 2003 still (mostly) applies; the maintenance cost for this kind of code is virtually zilch. If it matters that much to you clean it up and make it apply; add an alarmfd() syscall (another 100 lines

Re: [BUG] sdhci regression in 2.6.21-rc2

2007-03-04 Thread Pierre Ossman
Mark Lord wrote: Another regression, for Pierre Ossman this time. My syslog gets spammed like this (below) on suspend/resume (to RAM) cycles. Worked fine, without all of the noise, in all previous kernels up to 2.6.20+. This looks like a PCI configuration issue. Can you bisect which

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-04 Thread Jörn Engel
On Sun, 4 March 2007 14:38:13 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: When you do it like this, who can the kernel/filesystem *guarantee* that when the data is written there actually is room on the harddrive? What you described seems like using truncate/ftruncate to increase the file's size. That is

Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

2007-03-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:11:17PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: glibc cannot ever be smart enough because a file system driver will always know better and be able to do things in a much more optimized way. Please read the thread again. That is not what anyone proposed. The issues

Re: [6/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread David Miller
From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 03:26:02 +0100 On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:07:25PM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 02:50:45 +0100 Subject: sparc64 compile error due to GENERIC_ISA_DMA removal

Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

2007-03-04 Thread Matt Mackall
Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly related problems: a) NetworkManager seems oblivious to the existence of my IPW2200 b) Manual iwconfig waits for 60s and then reports: Error for wireless request Set Encode (8B2A) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation

Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

2007-03-04 Thread Johannes Berg
[adding linux-wireless to CC] On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 16:08 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly related problems: I don't think they are related actually. a) NetworkManager seems oblivious to the existence of my IPW2200 This is due

Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

2007-03-04 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:39:24AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: [adding linux-wireless to CC] On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 16:08 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly related problems: I don't think they are related actually. a)

Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

2007-03-04 Thread Ian McDonald
On 3/5/07, Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is due to the recent sysfs restructuring I think. IIRC the fix is to upgrade hal to a current git version. If that's the cause, the fix is to back out whatever was done to break userspace. Breaking userspace is not ok. Upgrading from 2.6.x

Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

2007-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 18:25:50 -0600 Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:39:24AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: [adding linux-wireless to CC] On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 16:08 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two

Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:45:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 18:25:50 -0600 Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:39:24AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: [adding linux-wireless to CC] On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 16:08 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:

Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

2007-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:08:57PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly related problems: a) NetworkManager seems oblivious to the existence of my IPW2200 b) Manual iwconfig waits for 60s and then reports: Error for wireless

Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

2007-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:25:50PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:39:24AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: [adding linux-wireless to CC] On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 16:08 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly

[-mm patch] drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:make 3 functions static

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static: - bond_mode_name() - bond_sethwaddr() - bond_mii_monitor() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |7 --- drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h |3 --- 2 files changed, 4

[2.6 patch] make drivers/net/s2io.c:vlan_strip_flag static

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global vlan_strip_flag static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/drivers/net/s2io.c.old 2007-03-04 21:37:59.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/drivers/net/s2io.c 2007-03-04 21:38:14.0 +0100 @@ -316,7

[1/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.21-rc2 compared to 2.6.20 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/qla3xxx.c: make 2 functions static

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes two needlessly global functions static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/drivers/net/qla3xxx.c.old 2007-03-04 21:41:27.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/drivers/net/qla3xxx.c 2007-03-04 21:41:39.0 +0100 @@ -1797,14

Re: [1/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 02:50:31 +0100 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.21-rc2 compared to 2.6.20 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. We seem to have broken an unusually large amount of stuff this time. partial post-mortem: - The ACPICA merge

Re: [1/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:50:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: Subject: kref refcounting breakage References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/2/67 Submitter : Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Handled-By : Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status : unknown I'm working on tracking this down

Re: [1/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Lord
Adrian Bunk wrote: Subject: Bluetooth RFComm locks up the machine (device_move() related) References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/64 Submitter : Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused-By : Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] commit c1a3313698895d8ad4760f98642007bf236af2e8

Re: [1/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:01:33PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: Subject: Bluetooth RFComm locks up the machine (device_move() related) References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/64 Submitter : Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused-By : Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[6/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.21-rc2 compared to 2.6.20 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm

Re: [6/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread David Miller
From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 02:50:45 +0100 Subject: sparc64 compile error due to GENERIC_ISA_DMA removal References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8097 Submitter : Horst H. von Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused-By : David S. Miller [EMAIL

Re: [6/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:50:45AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: Subject: usb-serial broken (ftdi serial device shows up as ttyUSB140 instead of ttyUSB0) Submitter : Craig Schlenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caused-By : Oliver Neukum [EMAIL PROTECTED] commit

[-mm patch] make drivers/char/drm/drm_vm.c:drm_io_prot() static

2007-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:00:26AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.20-mm2: ... git-drm.patch ... git trees ... This patch makes the needlessly global drm_io_prot() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ---

Re: [3/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-04 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:50:36AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.21-rc2 compared to 2.6.20 that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree. Subject: kernels fail to boot with drives on ATIIXP controller References :

Re: [PATA] Failed to set xfermode on LITE-ON LTR-48246S

2007-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: Hello! As reported by John Williams and others like in http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg03088.html I too have a problem with 2.6.20.1 using ata_piix not detecting the CD-ROM any more. Applying the patch from

Re: sata_sil problems with recent kernels

2007-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
Dale Blount wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 13:54 -0500, Dale Blount wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 12:00 -0500, Dale Blount wrote: Hi, Excuse me if this has been covered or fixed, I couldn't find anything in the archives. I upgraded from 2.6.11.7 to 2.6.20.1 today and found all the drives

Re: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
[cc'ing Eric D. Mudama. Hi!] Paul Rolland wrote: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0xffe0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: (spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0xffe0 FIS=004040a1:0010) ata1.00: cmd 60/02:28:52:ec:c4/00:00:0e:00:00/40 tag 5 cdb 0x0 data 1024 in res

Re: [git patches] libata fixes

2007-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Paul Rolland wrote: Hello, Applied this on top of 2.6.21-rc1 and your previous patch (see my previous mail). Still booting, no more the weird error I've reported minutes ago. pata_jmicron still unable to detect my DVD-RW : scsi8 : pata_jmicron ata9.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/66

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-03-04 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:52 +, Andrew Nelless wrote: On Mon, February 26, 2007 11:09 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: Not sure if the timer override workaround for nvidia chipsets is the culprit, but if you want, you can choose to revert that to the previous behavior (which is

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-03-04 Thread Robert Hancock
Chip Coldwell wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 07:31, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:52:32PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I agree,... it seems drastic, but this is the only really secure solution. I'd like to here from

Re: [PATCH -mm 1/5] Blackfin: blackfin architecture patch update

2007-03-04 Thread Aubrey Li
On 3/4/07, Arnd Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2007 05:14:40 Wu, Bryan wrote: Here is the update version of blackfin-arch.patch in -mm tree. simply add support to utrace and it was tested on blackfin STAMP board as well as other following patches. Wow, this has come a

Re: [RFC] hwbkpt: Hardware breakpoints (was Kwatch)

2007-03-04 Thread Roland McGrath
Thanks, Alan. Great work. I have some suggestions for changes. I pretty much copied the existing code for handling vm86 mode and single-step exceptions, without fully understanding it. The code doesn't virtualize the BS (single-step) flag in DR6 for userspace. It

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [-mm patch] drivers/media/video/ivtv/: possible cleanups

2007-03-04 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Monday 05 March 2007 02:49, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:00:26AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.20-mm2: ... git-dvb.patch ... git trees ... This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - every file should #include the headers

[PATCH -mm] Blackfin: blackfin utrace patch

2007-03-04 Thread Wu, Bryan
Hi folks, As utrace is very promising in the -mm tree, a simple support is added to blackfin architecture. I send this patch out just for review and it is only a start point, we will make it fully work in the future. Now after applying this patch, the blackfin-arch can be compile in the

Re: [PATCH] highres: Do not run the TIMER_SOFTIRQ after switching to highres mode

2007-03-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Gleixner wrote: The question is, how the tick timer gets enqueued in the softirq queue. Can you isolate the codepath, where this happens ? The TIMER_SOFTIRQ runs the hrtimers during bootup until a usable clocksource and clock event

Re: [PATCH -mm 1/5] Blackfin: blackfin architecture patch update

2007-03-04 Thread Wu, Bryan
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 17:30 -0500, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2007 05:14:40 Wu, Bryan wrote: Here is the update version of blackfin-arch.patch in -mm tree. simply add support to utrace and it was tested on blackfin STAMP board as well as other following patches. Wow, this

Re: [patch] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console.

2007-03-04 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Paul Mackerras wrote: Gerd Hoffmann writes: This patch fixes the console selection code to *not* consider a boot console a full-featured one, so the first non-boot console registering will become the default console instead. This way the unregister call for the boot console in the

Re: [PATCH] highres: Do not run the TIMER_SOFTIRQ after switching to highres mode

2007-03-04 Thread Andres Salomon
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Gleixner wrote: The question is, how the tick timer gets enqueued in the softirq queue. Can you isolate the codepath, where this happens ? The TIMER_SOFTIRQ runs the hrtimers during bootup until a usable clocksource and

Re: [PATCH] ext3: dirindex error pointer issues

2007-03-04 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
Andreas Dilger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mar 04, 2007 17:18 +0300, Dmitriy Monakhov wrote: - ext3_dx_find_entry() exit with out setting proper error pointer - do_split() exit with out setting proper error pointer it is realy painful because many callers contain folowing code:

[PATCH] usb/hid:Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 Driver 0.5.0

2007-03-04 Thread Li Yu
Changelogs: 1. Port to HID simple driver layer 0.5.0. It can be applied on 2.6.21 at least. Signed-off-by: Liyu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.18/drivers/usb/input.orig/usbnek4k.c 1970-01-01 08:00:00.0 +0800 +++ linux-2.6.18/drivers/usb/input/usbnek4k.c 2006-10-12

[PATCH] usb/hid:The HID Simple Driver Patches 0.5.0 (all-in-one)

2007-03-04 Thread Li Yu
This patch set include follow patches: 1. [PATCH] usb/hid: The HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0 (core) 2. [PATCH] usb/hid:Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 Driver 0.5.0 3. Some related kbuild changes. The code base is 2.6.21-rc2 Signed-off-by: Liyu

[PATCH] usb/hid:The HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0 (core)

2007-03-04 Thread Li Yu
Changelogs (since 0.4.1): 1. port to 2.6.21. 2. One bugfix. The code base is 2.6.21-rc2. Signed-off-by: Liyu [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Naurp linux-2.6.21-rc2.orig/include/linux/hid.h linux-2.6.21-rc2/include/linux/hid.h --- linux-2.6.21-rc2.orig/include/linux/hid.h 2007-03-05

[DOC] The documentation for HID Simple Driver Interface 0.5.0

2007-03-04 Thread Li Yu
== HID device simple driver interface == Note If you just begin to study from writing input device driver, please see the input-programming.txt, I am afraid this is not you want, do

Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

2007-03-04 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:16:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:08:57PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly related problems: a) NetworkManager seems oblivious to the existence of my IPW2200 b) Manual

Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

2007-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:42:29AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:16:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:08:57PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless for me. Two seemingly related problems: a)

Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

2007-03-04 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:02:48PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:42:29AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:16:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:08:57PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: Recent kernels are having troubles with wireless

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