Re: 2.6.25-rc1 regression - IBM ACPI backlight

2008-02-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > as of 2.6.25-rc1, there is no more /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video1 which > controlled LVDS backlight on Lenovo ThinkPad T61. There is still acpi_video0 > which seems to have sane values but echo N > brightness has no effect at all. > > thinkpad_acpi

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Russell, On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:14:05 + Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:57:16PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > We need to ask Linus to promise that he will pull the stable branch from > > linux-next first in the merge window. For that to happen,

Re: vmsplice exploits, stack protector and Makefiles

2008-02-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 13 2008 17:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 13 Feb 2008 at 8:29, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> Is it signed-off-by: pageexec ? > >no it isn't, on purpose as i won't give out my real name that the >DCO requires. But could still add "Brought-to-attention-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or something like

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
> To make it clear: Even aside from the buffer in 2.6's pl2303.c, there's > a race: An in-flight write URB can fill all hardware buffers, making > unsafe what previously appeared to be a safe write. I think it's > essential to delay submission of the URB on a stop-transmit condition. Hardware

Re: [PATCH] ide-floppy: merge callbacks

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:04:23PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > commit d1f1f84f413ab00cb2fec48170d022fcd900e214 > > > Author: Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >

Re: [discuss] pci_get_device_reverse(), why does Calgary need this?

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How does the patch below look? I didn't want to remove the whole config > > option, as there is more to the logic than just the "reverse order" > > stuff there. > > I think you miss Documentation -

Re: Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread Mika Lawando
Jasper Bryant-Greene schrieb: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 10:30 +0100, rzryyvzy wrote: /dev/null is often very useful, specially if programs force to save data in some file. But some programs like to creates different temporary file names, so /dev/null could no more work. What is with a

Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > [Added Bart to CC] > > > Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov: > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > > > Hi, > > >

Re: Is there a

2008-02-14 Thread Mika Lawando
Tom Van Looy schrieb: You can create a symlink to /dev/null and name it whatever you want? $ ln -s /dev/null tempfile $ echo blablabla > tempfile $ wc tempfile 0 tempfile The problem is, what do you do if the filename would be: tempfile. where is replaced by the unix timestamp. I mean how

Re: sysfs: duplicate filename 'card0' can not be created

2008-02-14 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:05:44 +, Luciano Rocha wrote: > > [1 ] > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:09:21PM +, Luciano Rocha wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:21:38PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > At Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:05:27 +, > > > Luciano Rocha wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > >

Re: [PATCH 11/11] ata: fix sparse warnings in pata_legacy.c

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:14:32 -0800 Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's use ld for legacy_data instead of shadowing these static > int variables. NAK - I purposefully used names that indicate what device the private data is being used for in order to make it clear. Changing qdi and

Re: [PATCH 05/11] ata: replace macro with static inline in libata.h

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:14:18 -0800 Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Avoid a metric ton of sparse warnings like: > drivers/ata/pata_ali.c:176:14: warning: symbol '__x' shadows an earlier one > drivers/ata/pata_ali.c:176:14: originally declared here NAK that appears to be a sparse bug.

latest git pull (96b5a46..e760e71) kbuild failure

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Galbraith
With CONFIG_MARKERS set, modpost griped about unknown option -- K. -Mike -- 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] x86: EFI runtime code mapping enhancement

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
> For EFI runtime service in virtual mode, using direct mapping is mainly > for kexec, where EFI runtime memory area need to be mapped at same > virtual address across kexec. I see. I didn't consider this aspect. > - Use direct mapping of kernel, clean NX bit from kernel page table >

Re: [BUG] Problem with recording on hda-intel (sata_sil or hda-intel bug) - HP nx6325

2008-02-14 Thread Grzegorz Chwesewicz
Thursday 14 of February 2008 03:57:39 Bill Davidsen napisał(a): > Grzegorz Chwesewicz wrote: > > Hi. > > Problem description: > > > > I have a problem with recording on HP nx6325 notebook (hda-intel with > > AD1981HD codec). Playback works fine, but after 5-10 min. of recording > > microphone

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:02:11 -0800 Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:15:37AM +1030, David Newall wrote: > > Consider a USB-attached serial port that is set to do RTS/CTS (or > > DSR/DTR) handshaking: What stops the kernel sending more data to it when > > the remote

[PATCH] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems

2008-02-14 Thread Boaz Harrosh
This is a bugfix for the 2.6.24.x stable releases. gdth_exit would first remove all cards then stop the timer and would not sync with the timer function. This caused a crash in gdth_timer() when module was unloaded. So del_timer_sync the timer before we delete the cards. also the reboot

[PATCH] Fix direct mapping correctly in ioremap

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Fix direct mapping correctly in ioremap [This fixes the general ioremap bug I mentioned earlier. It was fortunately easier to fix that I thought first.] set_memory_*/cpa is not currently able to resolve ioremap addresses to their direct mapping aliases. However uncached ioremap still needs to

Re: "mount: could not find filesystem" - aacraid? (was: Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot)

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > > >> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > >>> Hi, >

Re: [PATCH 7/8] Do not recompute msgmni anymore if explicitely set by user

2008-02-14 Thread Nadia Derbey
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:15:00 +0100 Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:32:31 +0100 Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it builds fine, modulo some changes in ipv4 and ipv6 (see attached patch - didn't find it in

"mount: could not find filesystem" - aacraid? (was: Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot)

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Thursday 14 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > >> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On Monday 11 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Nish

2.6.24.2 won't compile UML

2008-02-14 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello Jeff, hello everybody else, I'm trying to compile an UML binary from 2.6.24. make ARCH=um O=... bzImage gives make -C linux-2.6.24.2/ O=output_path/build ARCH=um bzImage make[1]: Entering directory `output_path/linux-2.6.24.2' GEN output_path/build/Makefile

Re: Question on timekeeping subsystem

2008-02-14 Thread Francis Moreau
Hello Roman, On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > These mails should help to understand, what this code does: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/4/61 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/3/205 > Indeed ! They look interesting after a quick look but I haven't

Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] x86: use ELF format in compressed images.

2008-02-14 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 20:54 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the > opportunity to extract the ELF file. Right, Xen currently can't boot bzImage (it needs the ELF image) so you still can't use the same kernel image on Xen as

Re: [stable 2.6.24] WARNING: at kernel/time/clockevents.c

2008-02-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > futex_lock_pi is called with an absolute timeout, which is based on > CLOCK_REALTIME. Nothing wrong with that, but the clockevents WARN_ON > might trap over a false positive, when the expiry value is less than > base->offset. This was

Re: vmsplice exploits, stack protector and Makefiles

2008-02-14 Thread pageexec
On 14 Feb 2008 at 8:30, Ingo Molnar wrote: > --- linux-x86.q.orig/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c > +++ linux-x86.q/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c > @@ -166,6 +166,15 @@ static inline void play_dead(void) > void cpu_idle(void) > { > current_thread_info()->status |= TS_POLLING; > + > +#ifdef

Re: Regression in latest sched-git

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Hi Dhaval, How does this patch (on top of todays sched-devel.git) work for you? It keeps my laptop nice and spiffy when I run let i=0; while [ $i -lt 100 ]; do let i+=1; while :; do :; done & done under a third user (nobody). This generates huge latencies for the nobody user (up to 1.6s) but

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
David wrote: > So let's say, like my first example from the previous email, that you have > MPOL_INTERLEAVE | MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES over nodes 3-4 and your cpuset's > mems is only nodes 5-7. This would interleave over no nodes. Correct? Given what I said yesterday, that would be a correct

Re: gfs2_fh_to_parent() array overflow

2008-02-14 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 23:31 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:11:21AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:00 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:26:26PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > The Coverity

Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash

2008-02-14 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Wed, Feb 13 2008 at 19:36 +0200, James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> --- >> From: Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [PATCH] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems >> >> gdth_exit would first remove all cards then stop the timer >> and would not sync with the timer function.

2.6.25-rc1 regression - IBM ACPI backlight

2008-02-14 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
Hello, as of 2.6.25-rc1, there is no more /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video1 which controlled LVDS backlight on Lenovo ThinkPad T61. There is still acpi_video0 which seems to have sane values but echo N > brightness has no effect at all. thinkpad_acpi module reports that ACPI controlled backlight

Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot

2008-02-14 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > >> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On Monday 11 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
Paul, responding (incorrectly) to David: > > So, for example, if the task is bound by mems 1-3, and it asks for > > MPOL_INTERLEAVE over 2-4, then initially the mempolicy is only effected > > over node 3 and if it's later expanded to mems 1-8, then the mempolicy is > > effected over nodes 3-5,

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thomas Gleixner (1): > x86: EFI: fix use of unitialized variable and the cache logic Your honor, I would like to register a differing opinion... I submitted that fix originally in a different form, but it got finally stripped down to this.

Re: cris/arch-v10/lib/memset.c compile error

2008-02-14 Thread Jesper Nilsson
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:57:03PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Trying to compile a cris defconfig with an svn gcc (that will become > gcc 4.3) fails with the following error: Ah, yes. Cast doesn't return an lvalue. I've also seen this (as a warning) when running with sparse with the 3.2.1 gcc.

Re: earlier ctrl-alt-del

2008-02-14 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Nick Levinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suggestion: ctrl-alt-del should be a working command > earlier in the bootup process, so that reboots won't > take so long because we have to wait. For example, I > sometimes have to change something in BIOS and then >

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
A few more review comments on details of this patch set ... = In mempolicy.h, the lines: /* * The lower MPOL_FLAG_SHIFT bits of the policy mode represent the MPOL_* * constants defined in enum mempolicy_mode. The upper bits represent * optional set_mempolicy()

Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-14 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > [Added Bart to CC] > > > Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov: > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > > > Hi, > >

Re: sysfs: duplicate filename 'card0' can not be created

2008-02-14 Thread Luciano Rocha
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:09:21PM +, Luciano Rocha wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:21:38PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:05:27 +, > > Luciano Rocha wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is this known? I got the error while connecting usb headphones, running >

Re: bug in checkpatch (on pointers to typedefs?)

2008-02-14 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:43:58PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Feb 10 2008 15:33, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > >Checkpatch in current mainline outputs following errors: > > > >$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -q --file ./fs/udf/misc.c > >ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV) > >#205:

[PATCH 2.6.24-rt1] timer:fix build warning in timer.c

2008-02-14 Thread Shi Weihua
Fix the following compile warning without CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT: kernel/timer.c:937: warning: ‘count_active_rt_tasks’ defined but not used Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -urpN linux-2.6.24-rt1.orig/kernel/timer.c linux-2.6.24-rt1/kernel/timer.c ---

Re: + elf-loader-crash-while-zero-filling-bss.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-14 Thread Abel Bernabeu
2008/2/13, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:15:06AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Subject: Elf loader crash while zero-filling .bss > > From: "Abel Bernabeu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I've finally found a solution for the crash in load_binary_elf I >

Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc1-git1 softlockup while bootup on powerpc

2008-02-14 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> While booting with the 2.6.25-rc1-git1 kernel on the powerbox the >> softlockup is seen, with following trace. > >> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s! [insmod:377] >> TASK = c0077cb2f0e0[377] 'insmod' THREAD:

Re: udf regression: broken directory handling

2008-02-14 Thread Jan Kara
On Wed 13-02-08 23:36:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 12 of February 2008, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:39:17PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > > On Mon 11-02-08 20:13:20, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:09:10PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > > >

Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot

2008-02-14 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: >> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Monday 11 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On 2/7/08, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This could be done fairly trivially with FUSE, and IMHO is a good use > for FUSE because since you're just throwing most data away, performance > is not a concern. Q.: how much work would fuse have to do until the user file system server could

Re: Is there a

2008-02-14 Thread Tom Van Looy
You can create a symlink to /dev/null and name it whatever you want? $ ln -s /dev/null tempfile $ echo blablabla > tempfile $ wc tempfile 0 tempfile >- Oorspronkelijk bericht - >Van: rzryyvzy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Verzonden: donderdag, februari 14, 2008 10:30 AM >Aan:

Re: [patch 1/2] x86: apic: Export symbols for extended interrupt LVT functions

2008-02-14 Thread Robert Richter
On 13.02.08 14:32:56, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:19:36 +0100 (CET) > "Robert Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c |2 ++ > > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > >

Re: [PATCH] Use ELF_CORE_EFLAGS for kcore ELF header flags.

2008-02-14 Thread Edgar E. Iglesias
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:36:36PM -0500, Yoshinori Sato wrote: > At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:34:23 +0100, > Edgar E. Iglesias wrote: > > > > ELF_CORE_EFLAGS is already used by the binfmt_elf coredumper to set correct > > arch specific ELF header flags on coredumps. Use it for kcore aswell. > > This

Re: Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 10:30 +0100, rzryyvzy wrote: > /dev/null is often very useful, specially if programs force to save data in > some file. But some programs like to creates different temporary file names, > so /dev/null could no more work. > > What is with a "/dev/null"-directory? > I mean a

Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread rzryyvzy
Hello Linux Kernel Hackers, /dev/null is often very useful, specially if programs force to save data in some file. But some programs like to creates different temporary file names, so /dev/null could no more work. What is with a "/dev/null"-directory? I mean a "blackhole pseudo directory"

Re: KVM: Export include/linux/kvm.h only if $ARCH actually supports KVM

2008-02-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:43:49AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Olaf Hering wrote: Currently, make headers_check barfs due to , which includes, not existing. Rather than add a zillion s, export kvm.h only if the arch actually supports it. This makes

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread David Newall
Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:15:37AM +1030, David Newall wrote: > >> Consider a USB-attached serial port that is set to do RTS/CTS (or >> DSR/DTR) handshaking: What stops the kernel sending more data to it when >> the remote end lowers CTS (or DTR)? >> > > The tty layer

[PATCH 1/1] Input/Touchscreen Driver: add support AD7877 touchscreen driver

2008-02-14 Thread Bryan Wu
From: Michael Hennerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [try #3] Changlog (Add feedback from Dmitry Torokhov): - Change handling of spi_sync / spi_async return value handling - Remove depreciated dev->power.power_state - Fix error return path in ad7877_probe - delete pending kernel timer - Some minor

Re: [PATCH] Use ELF_CORE_EFLAGS for kcore ELF header flags.

2008-02-14 Thread Edgar E. Iglesias
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:40:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:34:23 +0100 > "Edgar E. Iglesias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ELF_CORE_EFLAGS is already used by the binfmt_elf coredumper to set correct > > arch specific ELF header flags on coredumps. Use it for kcore

Re: distributed module configuration [Was: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))]

2008-02-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Wednesday 13. February 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > config foo > > tristate "do you want foo?" > > depends on USB && BAR > > module > > obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o > > foo-y := file1.o file2.o > > help > > foo will

Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: export gpl (un)register_memory_notifier

2008-02-14 Thread Christoph Raisch
Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13.02.2008 18:05:00: > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:17 +0100, Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: > > Constraints imposed by HW / FW: > > - eHEA has own MMU > > - eHEA Memory Regions (MRs) are used by the eHEA MMU to translate virtual > > addresses to absolute

Re: [RFC v2 5/5] Atmel MCI: Driver for Atmel on-chip MMC controllers

2008-02-14 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:55:54 -0700 "Dan Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, the other two possibilities are: > > 1/ Spin/sleep until a descriptor shows up Won't work since the transfer hasn't been started yet, so it will spin indefinitely. I guess we could return, send the command and

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Please always CC linux-fsdevel on VFS patches! > From: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Add a new mount() flag, MS_BIND_FLAGS. > > MS_BIND_FLAGS indicates that a bind mount should take its per-mount flags > from the arguments passed to mount() rather than from the source > mountpoint. This

Re: Driver removals

2008-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:26:26PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >... > In general, if a driver works and is being used, until it *needs* > attention I see no reason to replace it. I don't agree that "it forces > people to try the new driver" is a valid reason, being unmaintained is > only a

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-14 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:57:16PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > We need to ask Linus to promise that he will pull the stable branch from > linux-next first in the merge window. For that to happen, I would expect > that Linus would also review and sign off (or ack) these commits to the >

[GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-14 Thread Len Brown
Hi Linus, please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release This batch... fixes two suspend regressions tidies up the recently updated cpuidle code, including adding documentation. and some other fluff. This will update the files shown below.

Re: stuck with 2.6.23.14 on x86_64

2008-02-14 Thread Fabio Coatti
Alle giovedì 14 febbraio 2008, Len Brown ha scritto: > > > > > > You're not supposed to have CONFIG_PM unset and CONFIG_ACPI set at the > > > same time. The oldconfig generation must have gone wrong at one point. > > > > Maybe it's not supposed to have this situation, but maybe you should tell >

Re: stuck with 2.6.23.14 on x86_64

2008-02-14 Thread Fabio Coatti
Alle giovedì 14 febbraio 2008, Len Brown ha scritto: You're not supposed to have CONFIG_PM unset and CONFIG_ACPI set at the same time. The oldconfig generation must have gone wrong at one point. Maybe it's not supposed to have this situation, but maybe you should tell this to the

[GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.25-rc1

2008-02-14 Thread Len Brown
Hi Linus, please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release This batch... fixes two suspend regressions tidies up the recently updated cpuidle code, including adding documentation. and some other fluff. This will update the files shown below.

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-14 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:57:16PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: We need to ask Linus to promise that he will pull the stable branch from linux-next first in the merge window. For that to happen, I would expect that Linus would also review and sign off (or ack) these commits to the

Re: Driver removals

2008-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:26:26PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... In general, if a driver works and is being used, until it *needs* attention I see no reason to replace it. I don't agree that it forces people to try the new driver is a valid reason, being unmaintained is only a problem

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Please always CC linux-fsdevel on VFS patches! From: Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add a new mount() flag, MS_BIND_FLAGS. MS_BIND_FLAGS indicates that a bind mount should take its per-mount flags from the arguments passed to mount() rather than from the source mountpoint. This is

Re: [RFC v2 5/5] Atmel MCI: Driver for Atmel on-chip MMC controllers

2008-02-14 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:55:54 -0700 Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the other two possibilities are: 1/ Spin/sleep until a descriptor shows up Won't work since the transfer hasn't been started yet, so it will spin indefinitely. I guess we could return, send the command and use a

Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: export gpl (un)register_memory_notifier

2008-02-14 Thread Christoph Raisch
Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 13.02.2008 18:05:00: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:17 +0100, Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: Constraints imposed by HW / FW: - eHEA has own MMU - eHEA Memory Regions (MRs) are used by the eHEA MMU to translate virtual addresses to absolute addresses (like

Re: distributed module configuration [Was: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))]

2008-02-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Roman Zippel wrote: On Wednesday 13. February 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: config foo tristate do you want foo? depends on USB BAR module obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o foo-y := file1.o file2.o help foo will allow you to explode

Re: [PATCH] Use ELF_CORE_EFLAGS for kcore ELF header flags.

2008-02-14 Thread Edgar E. Iglesias
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:40:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:34:23 +0100 Edgar E. Iglesias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ELF_CORE_EFLAGS is already used by the binfmt_elf coredumper to set correct arch specific ELF header flags on coredumps. Use it for kcore aswell.

[PATCH 1/1] Input/Touchscreen Driver: add support AD7877 touchscreen driver

2008-02-14 Thread Bryan Wu
From: Michael Hennerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [try #3] Changlog (Add feedback from Dmitry Torokhov): - Change handling of spi_sync / spi_async return value handling - Remove depreciated dev-power.power_state - Fix error return path in ad7877_probe - delete pending kernel timer - Some minor

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread David Newall
Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:15:37AM +1030, David Newall wrote: Consider a USB-attached serial port that is set to do RTS/CTS (or DSR/DTR) handshaking: What stops the kernel sending more data to it when the remote end lowers CTS (or DTR)? The tty layer should look at

Re: KVM: Export include/linux/kvm.h only if $ARCH actually supports KVM

2008-02-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:43:49AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Olaf Hering wrote: Currently, make headers_check barfs due to asm/kvm.h, which linux/kvm.h includes, not existing. Rather than add a zillion asm/kvm.hs, export kvm.h only if the arch actually supports

Is there a blackhole /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread rzryyvzy
Hello Linux Kernel Hackers, /dev/null is often very useful, specially if programs force to save data in some file. But some programs like to creates different temporary file names, so /dev/null could no more work. What is with a /dev/null-directory? I mean a blackhole pseudo directory

Re: Is there a blackhole /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 10:30 +0100, rzryyvzy wrote: /dev/null is often very useful, specially if programs force to save data in some file. But some programs like to creates different temporary file names, so /dev/null could no more work. What is with a /dev/null-directory? I mean a

Re: Is there a

2008-02-14 Thread Tom Van Looy
You can create a symlink to /dev/null and name it whatever you want? $ ln -s /dev/null tempfile $ echo blablabla tempfile $ wc tempfile 0 tempfile - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: rzryyvzy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: donderdag, februari 14, 2008 10:30 AM Aan:

Re: Is there a blackhole /dev/null directory?

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Jasper Bryant-Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This could be done fairly trivially with FUSE, and IMHO is a good use for FUSE because since you're just throwing most data away, performance is not a concern. Q.: how much work would fuse have to do until the user file system server could decide

Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot

2008-02-14 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Hi, On Monday 11 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 2/7/08, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 February

Re: udf regression: broken directory handling

2008-02-14 Thread Jan Kara
On Wed 13-02-08 23:36:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Tuesday, 12 of February 2008, Marcin Slusarz wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:39:17PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: On Mon 11-02-08 20:13:20, Marcin Slusarz wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:09:10PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: Hi,

Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc1-git1 softlockup while bootup on powerpc

2008-02-14 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While booting with the 2.6.25-rc1-git1 kernel on the powerbox the softlockup is seen, with following trace. BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s! [insmod:377] TASK = c0077cb2f0e0[377] 'insmod' THREAD: c0077cb28000

Re: + elf-loader-crash-while-zero-filling-bss.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-14 Thread Abel Bernabeu
2008/2/13, Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:15:06AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Elf loader crash while zero-filling .bss From: Abel Bernabeu [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've finally found a solution for the crash in load_binary_elf I reported last

[PATCH 2.6.24-rt1] timer:fix build warning in timer.c

2008-02-14 Thread Shi Weihua
Fix the following compile warning without CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT: kernel/timer.c:937: warning: ‘count_active_rt_tasks’ defined but not used Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff -urpN linux-2.6.24-rt1.orig/kernel/timer.c linux-2.6.24-rt1/kernel/timer.c ---

Re: bug in checkpatch (on pointers to typedefs?)

2008-02-14 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:43:58PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Feb 10 2008 15:33, Marcin Slusarz wrote: Checkpatch in current mainline outputs following errors: $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -q --file ./fs/udf/misc.c ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV) #205: FILE:

Re: sysfs: duplicate filename 'card0' can not be created

2008-02-14 Thread Luciano Rocha
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:09:21PM +, Luciano Rocha wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:21:38PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:05:27 +, Luciano Rocha wrote: Hello, Is this known? I got the error while connecting usb headphones, running vanilla 2.6.24.

Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-14 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:37:50AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: [Added Bart to CC] Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 schrieb Borislav Petkov: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: Hi, I suffer

Re: [PATCH] Use ELF_CORE_EFLAGS for kcore ELF header flags.

2008-02-14 Thread Edgar E. Iglesias
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:36:36PM -0500, Yoshinori Sato wrote: At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:34:23 +0100, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote: ELF_CORE_EFLAGS is already used by the binfmt_elf coredumper to set correct arch specific ELF header flags on coredumps. Use it for kcore aswell. This corrects

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
A few more review comments on details of this patch set ... = In mempolicy.h, the lines: /* * The lower MPOL_FLAG_SHIFT bits of the policy mode represent the MPOL_* * constants defined in enum mempolicy_mode. The upper bits represent * optional set_mempolicy()

Re: [patch 1/2] x86: apic: Export symbols for extended interrupt LVT functions

2008-02-14 Thread Robert Richter
On 13.02.08 14:32:56, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:19:36 +0100 (CET) Robert Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed-off-by: Robert Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: earlier ctrl-alt-del

2008-02-14 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Nick Levinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suggestion: ctrl-alt-del should be a working command earlier in the bootup process, so that reboots won't take so long because we have to wait. For example, I sometimes have to change something in BIOS and then must

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Gleixner (1): x86: EFI: fix use of unitialized variable and the cache logic Your honor, I would like to register a differing opinion... I submitted that fix originally in a different form, but it got finally stripped down to this. However in

Re: cris/arch-v10/lib/memset.c compile error

2008-02-14 Thread Jesper Nilsson
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:57:03PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Trying to compile a cris defconfig with an svn gcc (that will become gcc 4.3) fails with the following error: Ah, yes. Cast doesn't return an lvalue. I've also seen this (as a warning) when running with sparse with the 3.2.1 gcc.

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
Paul, responding (incorrectly) to David: So, for example, if the task is bound by mems 1-3, and it asks for MPOL_INTERLEAVE over 2-4, then initially the mempolicy is only effected over node 3 and if it's later expanded to mems 1-8, then the mempolicy is effected over nodes 3-5, right?

Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot

2008-02-14 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Kamalesh Babulal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Hi, On Monday 11 February 2008, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Nish Aravamudan

2.6.25-rc1 regression - IBM ACPI backlight

2008-02-14 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
Hello, as of 2.6.25-rc1, there is no more /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video1 which controlled LVDS backlight on Lenovo ThinkPad T61. There is still acpi_video0 which seems to have sane values but echo N brightness has no effect at all. thinkpad_acpi module reports that ACPI controlled backlight

Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash

2008-02-14 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Wed, Feb 13 2008 at 19:36 +0200, James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip --- From: Boaz Harrosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems gdth_exit would first remove all cards then stop the timer and would not sync with the timer function. This caused

Re: gfs2_fh_to_parent() array overflow

2008-02-14 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 23:31 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:11:21AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: Hi, On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:00 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:26:26PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: The Coverity checker spotted the

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
David wrote: So let's say, like my first example from the previous email, that you have MPOL_INTERLEAVE | MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES over nodes 3-4 and your cpuset's mems is only nodes 5-7. This would interleave over no nodes. Correct? Given what I said yesterday, that would be a correct

Re: Regression in latest sched-git

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Hi Dhaval, How does this patch (on top of todays sched-devel.git) work for you? It keeps my laptop nice and spiffy when I run let i=0; while [ $i -lt 100 ]; do let i+=1; while :; do :; done done under a third user (nobody). This generates huge latencies for the nobody user (up to 1.6s) but

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