Re: Driver removals

2008-02-15 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:52:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:08:13 EST, Bill Davidsen said: > > > can never make you see why technological extortion is evil. People have > > always moved to new drivers without pushing because they were *better*, > > guess that

Re: Driver removals

2008-02-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:08:13PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >... > If you don't see an ethical problem in removing a working driver which > is not taking support resources, in order to force people to test and > debug a driver they don't now and never would need, so that it might in >

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:31:29 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 05:11:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It would be nice if an initial patch which introduces the new > > > functionality you need for r/o bind mounts could get introduced into > > >

aacraid: Host adapter reset request. SCSI hang ?

2008-02-15 Thread Omar Kilani
Hi there, We're having issues with our Adaptec RAID controller and I was wondering if anyone would be able to advise on how to go about resolving them. :) The system: RHEL 5.1 x86_64 Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 aacraid 1.1-5[2437]-mh4 (The default module shipped with the RHEL kernel) The

Re: [PATCH 5/6] h8300 IRQ handling update

2008-02-15 Thread Yoshinori Sato
Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:13:58 -0500, Yoshinori Sato wrote: > > - add missing file and declare. > - remove unused file and macros. > - some cleanup. > > arch/h8300/kernel/irq.c |4 +- > arch/h8300/platform/h8300h/Makefile |2

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 05:11:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It would be nice if an initial patch which introduces the new > > functionality you need for r/o bind mounts could get introduced into > > mainline *first*, and then people could add patches that call > > mnt_want_write(), et. al

Re: [PATCH 4/6] h8300 CONFIG_KALLSYMS fix

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:13:47 -0500 Yoshinori Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please comment "C_SYMBOL_PREFIX". > > Makefile |3 ++- > arch/h8300/Kconfig |4 > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index c162370..745e31f

Re: [PATCH 3/6] h8300 setup.c initrd support fix

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:13:37 -0500 Yoshinori Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > initrd setting fix. > > arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c |5 +++-- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c b/arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c > index b1f25c2..75712ec

Re: [RFC] Best method to control a "transmit-only" mode on fiber NICs (specifically sky2)

2008-02-15 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Kyle Moffett wrote: Hi, The company I'm working for has an unusual fiber NIC configuration that we use for one of our network appliances. We connect only a single fiber from the TX port on one NIC to the RX port on another NIC, providing a physically-one-way path for enhanced security.

Re: [PATCH 6/6] h8300 defconfig update

2008-02-15 Thread Yoshinori Sato
Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:14:03 -0500, Yoshinori Sato wrote: > > defconfig update. > This update is depend CONFIG_KALLSYMS fix. > > arch/h8300/defconfig | 263 ++--- > 1 files changed, 140

Re: [PATCH 4/6] h8300 CONFIG_KALLSYMS fix

2008-02-15 Thread Yoshinori Sato
Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:13:47 -0500, Yoshinori Sato wrote: > > Please comment "C_SYMBOL_PREFIX". > > Makefile |3 ++- > arch/h8300/Kconfig |4 > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile

Re: [PATCH 2/6] h8300 uaccess.h update

2008-02-15 Thread Yoshinori Sato
Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:13:27 -0500, Yoshinori Sato wrote: > > get_user const *ptr access fix. > > include/asm-h8300/uaccess.h |4 ++-- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/asm-h8300/uaccess.h

Re: [PATCH 3/6] h8300 setup.c initrd support fix

2008-02-15 Thread Yoshinori Sato
Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:13:37 -0500, Yoshinori Sato wrote: > > initrd setting fix. > > arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c |5 +++-- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c

Re: [PATCH 1/6] h8300 signal.c typo fix.

2008-02-15 Thread Yoshinori Sato
Sorry. I forget Signed-off. Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:12:58 -0500, Yoshinori Sato wrote: > > typo fix. > > arch/h8300/kernel/signal.c |4 ++-- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/h8300/kernel/signal.c

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-15 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 02:23 +0100, Gabriel C wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > Hi , > > >> I'd not really done any real wor under 2.6.25 yet, but now while > >> running > >> a kernel compile with -j4 (single processor, dual core Pentium D), I see > >> this behavior. The mouse

[PATCH 6/6] h8300 defconfig update

2008-02-15 Thread Yoshinori Sato
defconfig update. This update is depend CONFIG_KALLSYMS fix. arch/h8300/defconfig | 263 ++--- 1 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/h8300/defconfig b/arch/h8300/defconfig index 8f1ec32..8901cdb 100644 ---

[PATCH 5/6] h8300 IRQ handling update

2008-02-15 Thread Yoshinori Sato
- add missing file and declare. - remove unused file and macros. - some cleanup. arch/h8300/kernel/irq.c |4 +- arch/h8300/platform/h8300h/Makefile |2 +- arch/h8300/platform/h8300h/irq.c| 82 ++ arch/h8300/platform/h8s/ints.c | 304

[PATCH 3/6] h8300 setup.c initrd support fix

2008-02-15 Thread Yoshinori Sato
initrd setting fix. arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c |5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c b/arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c index b1f25c2..75712ec 100644 --- a/arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ extern

[PATCH 4/6] h8300 CONFIG_KALLSYMS fix

2008-02-15 Thread Yoshinori Sato
Please comment "C_SYMBOL_PREFIX". Makefile |3 ++- arch/h8300/Kconfig |4 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index c162370..745e31f 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -751,7 +751,8 @@ endef # Generate .S file with all

[PATCH 2/6] h8300 uaccess.h update

2008-02-15 Thread Yoshinori Sato
get_user const *ptr access fix. include/asm-h8300/uaccess.h |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/asm-h8300/uaccess.h b/include/asm-h8300/uaccess.h index ebe58c6..a22350e 100644 --- a/include/asm-h8300/uaccess.h +++ b/include/asm-h8300/uaccess.h @@

[PATCH 1/6] h8300 signal.c typo fix.

2008-02-15 Thread Yoshinori Sato
typo fix. arch/h8300/kernel/signal.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/h8300/kernel/signal.c b/arch/h8300/kernel/signal.c index 62ea12d..cf3472f 100644 --- a/arch/h8300/kernel/signal.c +++ b/arch/h8300/kernel/signal.c @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static void

[BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc2 - Regression from 2.6.24-rc1-git1 softlockup while bootup on powerpc

2008-02-15 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Hi, The softlockup is seen from 2.6.25-rc1-git{1,3} and is visible in the 2.6.24-rc2 kernel, While booting up with the 2.6.25-rc1-git{1,3} and 2.6.25-rc2 kernel(s) on the powerbox Loading st.ko module BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s! [insmod:379] NIP: c01b0620 LR:

Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: validate against acpi motherboard resources

2008-02-15 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: many fixes and cleanups] > >> Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: more iommu sg merging fallout

2008-02-15 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
Sorry for the late response, On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:40:36 -0800 (PST) David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:38:01 +0900 > > > Great, thanks! SPARC IOMMUs use bitmap for the free area management > > like POWER IOMMUs so it

Re: PCI Bursting with PIO

2008-02-15 Thread Robert Hancock
Dan Gora wrote: Hi, I am trying to optimize a driver for a slave only PCI device and am having a lot of trouble getting any kind of PCI burst transactions in either the read or the write direction. Using bcopy/memcpy or even a hand-crafted while (len) { *pdst++ = *psrc++} (with pdst and psrc

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Scaling msgmni to the amount of lowmem

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:16:47 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [PATCH 01/08] > > This patch computes msg_ctlmni to make it scale with the amount of lowmem. > msg_ctlmni is now set to make the message queues occupy 1/32 of the available > lowmem. > > Some cleaning has also been done for the

Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: validate against acpi motherboard resources

2008-02-15 Thread Robert Hancock
Andi Kleen wrote: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: many fixes and cleanups] Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tested-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iirc it really was Tested-and-didnt-pass-test-by:

[BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc2 - Kernel Ooops while running dbench

2008-02-15 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Hi, The 2.6.25-rc2 kernel oopses while running dbench on ext3 filesystem mounted with mount -o data=writeback,nobh option on the x86_64 box BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at IP: [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x3a/0x6c PGD 1f6860067 PUD 1f5d64067 PMD 0 Oops:

Re: [PATCH] ufs: [bl]e*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:41:44 +0100 Roel Kluin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you may also want these: > --- > [bl]e_add_cpu conversion in return > > Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > diff --git a/fs/ufs/swab.h b/fs/ufs/swab.h > index 1683d2b..a1e3000 100644 > ---

Re: pci_device_id definition cleanups

2008-02-15 Thread Olof Johansson
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:23:36AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:21:40AM +0100, Jonas Bonn wrote: > > I've done some work on cleaning up the definitions of pci_device_id to > > make them "static const" (where possible) and to make sure they go into > > __devinitconst.

Re: 2.6.24-git16 Oops @ sysfs_move_dir w/ btdelconn

2008-02-15 Thread Barnaby
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Barnaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Answers at the bottom.. > > > > > > > > On 2/13/08, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 8, 2008 12:57 AM, Barnaby <[EMAIL

common watchdog interface: handling of suspend/resume

2008-02-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
i'm not sure if it is possible to integrate this into the common code (be great if we could), but we should codify the expected behavior for the suspend/resume functions. from looking at the 8 that implement the pm functions, they seem to all do: suspend(): turn off the watchdog resume(): turn on

Re: [PATCH] (02/15/08 Linus git) Smack unlabeled outgoing ambient packets - v4

2008-02-15 Thread Casey Schaufler
--- Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 15 February 2008 6:24:25 pm Casey Schaufler wrote: > > From: Casey Schaufler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets > > by specifying an "ambient" label that is applied to incoming > >

Re: [PATCH] correct inconsistent ntp interval/tick_length usage

2008-02-15 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, john stultz wrote: > Oh! So your issue is that since time_freq is stored in ppm, or in effect > a usecs per sec offset, when we add it to something other then 1 second > we mis-apply what NTP tells us to. Is that right? Pretty much everything is centered around that

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] CGroup API: More structured API for CGroups control files

2008-02-15 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:44:18 -0800 Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This set of patches makes the Control Groups API more structured and > self-describing. > > 1) Allows control files to be associated with data types such as > "u64", "string", "map", etc. These types show up in a new

[PATCH] udf: fix sparse warning in namei.c

2008-02-15 Thread Harvey Harrison
Let's use bsize instead. fs/udf/namei.c:960:12: warning: symbol 'elen' shadows an earlier one fs/udf/namei.c:937:15: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/udf/namei.c |8 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 vdso_install breaks user "make install"

2008-02-15 Thread Rene Herman
On 16-02-08 04:42, Roland McGrath wrote: Perhaps it makes more sense to have vdso_install be a dependency of modules_install rather than install, since they both put things in /lib/modules. Would work for me -- modules_install ofcourse runs as root. The installed vdso images are potentially

[PATCH 1/2] Preempt realtime Oops syslog

2008-02-15 Thread Min Zhang
Add bust_spinlocks when kernel die from do_trap to flush Oops dump to syslog immediatly. Oops is missing from syslog if it is from non-preemptible section, because on PREEMPT_RT kernel, Oops printk doesn't wake up klogd from non-preemptible context; see release_console_sem in kernel/printk.c.

[PATCH 2/2] Preempt realtime printk syslog

2008-02-15 Thread Min Zhang
Add 50s timeout in do_syslog to poll printk from non-preemptible section. printk is missing from syslog if from non-preemptible section, because on PREEMPT_RT kernels, printk doesn't wake up syslogd from non-preemptible section; see release_console_sem in kernel/printk.c. Tested by printk in

Re: 2.6.25-rc2 vdso_install breaks user "make install"

2008-02-15 Thread Roland McGrath
Perhaps it makes more sense to have vdso_install be a dependency of modules_install rather than install, since they both put things in /lib/modules. The installed vdso images are potentially useful for a kernel when you aren't bothering to build or install any modules, but those images are only

[RFC] Best method to control a "transmit-only" mode on fiber NICs (specifically sky2)

2008-02-15 Thread Kyle Moffett
Hi, The company I'm working for has an unusual fiber NIC configuration that we use for one of our network appliances. We connect only a single fiber from the TX port on one NIC to the RX port on another NIC, providing a physically-one-way path for enhanced security. Unfortunately this doesn't

Re: [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem)

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:49:04 -0800 Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These special additional callbacks are required because XPmem (and likely > other mechanisms) do use their own rmap (multiple processes on a series > of remote Linux instances may be accessing the memory of a

Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:49:01 -0800 Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The invalidation of address ranges in a mm_struct needs to be > performed when pages are removed or permissions etc change. hm. Do they? Why? If I'm in the process of zero-copy writing a hunk of memory out to

Re: [patch 3/6] mmu_notifier: invalidate_page callbacks

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:49:02 -0800 Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Two callbacks to remove individual pages as done in rmap code > > invalidate_page() > > Called from the inner loop of rmap walks to invalidate pages. > > age_page() > > Called for the determination

Re: [PATCH] do_signal_stop: use signal_group_exit()

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
ug. On about the fourth boot with the current -mm lineup I hit: : security: permission sendto in class node not defined in policy : security: permission dccp_recv in class netif not defined in policy : security: permission dccp_send in class netif not defined in policy : security:

Re: [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:49:00 -0800 Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MMU notifiers are used for hardware and software that establishes > external references to pages managed by the Linux kernel. These are > page table entriews or tlb entries or something else that allows > hardware

Re: include/linux/pcounter.h

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
- First up, why was this added at all? We have percpu_counter.h which has several years development invested in it. afaict it would suit the present applications of pcounters. If some deficiency in percpu_counters has been identified, is it possible to correct that deficiency rather

[PATCH 2/2 v2] SCSI/gdth: convert to PCI hotplug API

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Version 2: - rediff'd against latest kernel (fix akpm-noticed conflicts) - remove PCI device sort, which greatly simplifies PCI probe, permitting direct, per-HBA function calls rather than an indirect route to the same end result. - remove need for pcistr[] Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[PATCH 1/2] SCSI/gdth: PCI probe cleanups, prep for PCI hotplug API conversion

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
- Reduce uses of gdth_pci_str::pdev, preferring a local variable (or function arg) 'pdev' instead. - Reduce uses of gdth_pcistr array, preferring local variable (or function arg) 'pcistr' instead. - Eliminate lone use of gdth_pci_str::irq, using equivalent pdev->irq instead - Eliminate

[PATCH] lockd: fix sparse warning in svcshare.c

2008-02-15 Thread Harvey Harrison
fs/lockd/svcshare.c:74:50: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/lockd/svcshare.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/lockd/svcshare.c b/fs/lockd/svcshare.c index 068886d..c42fcf0 100644 ---

2.6.25-rc2 vdso_install breaks user "make install"

2008-02-15 Thread Rene Herman
Good day. I have a ~/bin/installkernel which installs the kernel when I as user do a make install at the end of compilation but 2.6.25-rc2 seems to break this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/linux/local$ make V=1 install make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=arch/x86/vdso vdso_install mkdir: cannot

Re: [PATCHv2] autofs4: fix sparse warning in root.c

2008-02-15 Thread Ian Kent
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:51 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote: > fs/autofs4/root.c:536:23: warning: symbol 'ino' shadows an earlier one > fs/autofs4/root.c:510:22: originally declared here > > There is no need to redeclare, we are at the end of the loop and in > the next iteration of the loop, ino

[PATCH 3/4] jffs2: fix sparse warning in write.c

2008-02-15 Thread Harvey Harrison
fs/jffs2/write.c:585:28: warning: symbol 'fd' shadows an earlier one fs/jffs2/write.c:536:27: originally declared here No need to redeclare fd, use the original one, after this point, fd is always reassigned before it used again. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[PATCH 2/4] jffs2: fix sparse warning in nodemgmt.c

2008-02-15 Thread Harvey Harrison
fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c:60:8: warning: symbol 'ret' shadows an earlier one fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c:45:6: originally declared here Use a different var (gc) in the inner loop to test the condition. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c |8 1 files

[PATCH 4/4] jffs2: fix sparse warnings in gc.c

2008-02-15 Thread Harvey Harrison
fs/jffs2/gc.c:1147:29: warning: symbol 'jeb' shadows an earlier one fs/jffs2/gc.c:1084:89: originally declared here fs/jffs2/gc.c:1197:29: warning: symbol 'jeb' shadows an earlier one fs/jffs2/gc.c:1084:89: originally declared here Add an sb_ prefix to the inner jeb variables as they are taken

[PATCH 1/4] jffs2: include function prototype for jffs2_ioctl

2008-02-15 Thread Harvey Harrison
fs/jffs2/ioctl.c:14:5: warning: symbol 'jffs2_ioctl' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/jffs2/ioctl.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/jffs2/ioctl.c b/fs/jffs2/ioctl.c index f4d525b..e217721

Re: [PATCH] (02/15/08 Linus git) Smack unlabeled outgoing ambient packets - v4

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Moore
On Friday 15 February 2008 6:24:25 pm Casey Schaufler wrote: > From: Casey Schaufler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets > by specifying an "ambient" label that is applied to incoming > unlabeled packets. Because the other end of the connection > may

Re: [PATCH] Remove the new perl dependency from build.

2008-02-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rob Landley wrote: Removed the special case "canned" logic from the perl script (it always requires Math::bigint when it runs now). Moved the list of canned values into kernel/Makefile. (It's already a selection menu in kconfig, so you can't just feed arbitrary values into it anyway. If you

Re: [PATCHv2] autofs4: fix sparse warning in root.c

2008-02-15 Thread Harvey Harrison
fs/autofs4/root.c:536:23: warning: symbol 'ino' shadows an earlier one fs/autofs4/root.c:510:22: originally declared here There is no need to redeclare, we are at the end of the loop and in the next iteration of the loop, ino will be reset. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [PATCH] autofs4: fix sparse warning in root.c

2008-02-15 Thread Ian Kent
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 17:49 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote: > fs/autofs4/root.c:536:23: warning: symbol 'ino' shadows an earlier one > fs/autofs4/root.c:510:22: originally declared here > > There is no need to redeclare, we are at the end of the loop and in > the next iteration of the loop, ino

Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression

2008-02-15 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Joel Becker wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 06:50:52PM +1100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: I'm seeing the same problem, with no messages at all from xen other than "domain crashed, restart disabled" in xend.log. I got a different commit in my bisect,

[RFC-PATCH] cifs: remove GLOBAL_EXTERN macro

2008-02-15 Thread Harvey Harrison
Just use extern, saves a lot of sparse warnings. fs/cifs/cifsglob.h:603:33: warning: symbol 'GlobalUidList' was not declared. Should it be static? fs/cifs/cifsglob.h:606:32: warning: symbol 'GlobalSMBSessionList' was not declared. Should it be static? fs/cifs/cifsglob.h:607:32: warning: symbol

Re: pci_device_id definition cleanups

2008-02-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:21:40AM +0100, Jonas Bonn wrote: > I've done some work on cleaning up the definitions of pci_device_id to > make them "static const" (where possible) and to make sure they go into > __devinitconst. There are about 350 changes of the type shown in the > diff at the end

[PATCH] Remove the new perl dependency from build.

2008-02-15 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remove perl dependency introduced in 2.6.25-rc1, by shipping kernel/timeconst.h with all the "canned" values so perl is only used to regenerate it if that file is deleted. Removed the special case "canned" logic from the perl script (it always requires

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 15 of February 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, > this kernel is a winner. > > Just to show how _much_ of a winner it is, it's been awarded a coveted > "weasel" series name, which should tell you just how good it's going to > be. It's a name revered in Linux kernel history, and

[GIT PATCH 0/2] ocfs2: Fix endian bug in o2dlm negotiation

2008-02-15 Thread Joel Becker
These patches fix up two outstanding issues from commit d24fbcda0c4988322949df3d759f1cfb32b32953 (ocfs2: Negotiate locking protocol versions). The first patch cleans up the comparison functions based on Andrew's review. The second fixes a byte-order bug in heterogeneous clusters. I've tested

[PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Clean up locking protocol negotiation.

2008-02-15 Thread Joel Becker
The comparison functions for protocol negotiation (introduced in commit d24fbcda0c4988322949df3d759f1cfb32b32953) were confusing. Separate out the comparison and value update parts. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c | 102

[PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: Fix endian bug in o2dlm protocol negotiation.

2008-02-15 Thread Joel Becker
struct dlm_query_join_packet is made up of four one-byte fields. They are effectively in big-endian order already. However, little-endian machines swap them before putting the packet on the wire (because query_join's response is a status, and that status is treated as a u32 on the wire). Thus,

[PATCH 3/3][RFC] Introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW representaiton of time

2008-02-15 Thread John Stultz
In talking with Josip Loncaric, and his work on clock synchronization (see btime.sf.net), he mentioned that for really close synchronization, it is useful to have access to "hardware time", that is a notion of time that is not in any way adjusted by the clock slewing done to keep close time sync.

Re: Driver removals

2008-02-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:08:13 EST, Bill Davidsen said: > can never make you see why technological extortion is evil. People have > always moved to new drivers without pushing because they were *better*, > guess that model is dead. And the drivers get better because the Code Fairy comes and

[PATCH] autofs4: fix sparse warning in root.c

2008-02-15 Thread Harvey Harrison
fs/autofs4/root.c:536:23: warning: symbol 'ino' shadows an earlier one fs/autofs4/root.c:510:22: originally declared here There is no need to redeclare, we are at the end of the loop and in the next iteration of the loop, ino will be reset. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[RFC v3 PATCH] RTTIME watchdog timer proc interface

2008-02-15 Thread Hiroshi Shimamoto
From: Hiroshi Shimamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Introduce new proc interface for RTTIME watchdog. It makes administrator able to set RTTIME watchdog to existing real-time applications without impact. It's useful we don't want to change software stack, but use RTTIME watchdog for that software. New

[PATCH 2/3] Fixup ntp interval len merges

2008-02-15 Thread John Stultz
My first version of the ntp_interval/tick_length inconsistent usage patch was recently merged as bbe4d18ac2e058c56adb0cd71f49d9ed3216a405 http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bbe4d18ac2e058c56adb0cd71f49d9ed3216a405 While the fix did greatly

[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Dave Hansen
Linus, We've been causing Ted a lot of pain having to keep different copies of his patches for mainline and for -mm since -mm has these functions and mainline doesn't. I'm pretty darn sure at that these are the right API and we just need another run in -mm to make sure that the reset of the

[PATCH 1/3] split clocksource mult into mult and mult_adj

2008-02-15 Thread John Stultz
The clocksource frequency is represented by clocksource->mult/2^(clocksource->shift). Currently, when NTP makes adjustments to the clock frequency, they are made directly to the mult value. This has the drawback that once changed, we cannot know what the orignal mult value was, or how much

Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove rcu_assign_pointer(NULL) penalty with type/macro safety

2008-02-15 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:40:24PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:00:24 -0800 > "Paul E. McKenney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > This is an updated version of the patch posted last November: > > > >

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-15 Thread Gabriel C
Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! Hi , >> I'd not really done any real wor under 2.6.25 yet, but now while running >> a kernel compile with -j4 (single processor, dual core Pentium D), I see >> this behavior. The mouse cursor moves a bit jerky and I sometimes get key >> presses repeated. > > I

Re: [PATCH] libata: Add MMIO support to pata_sil680

2008-02-15 Thread Tim Ellis
On 15 Feb 2008, at 21:45, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 15:53 +, Alan Cox wrote: That's strange though. Somebody with knowledge of that HW (or specs) who can spot something ? Could it be an issue with timing ? I don't have HW access to this machine. If somebody

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:00:30 -0500 Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:49:39PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:32 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > > > > > This patch adds

Re: [PATCH 00/14] [ISDN] HiSax hotplug conversion

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:04:04 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a refresh of an on-going work-in-progress: convert the last > remaining users of pci_find_device() to the ISA/PCI/etc. hotplug APIs > now in standard use. After SCSI's gdth, ISDN's HiSax suite of drivers > are

[PATCH] acpi: sparse fix, replace macro with static function

2008-02-15 Thread Harvey Harrison
replace acpi_util_eval_error macro with static function. Avoid these sparse warnings due to using buffer within the macro. drivers/acpi/utils.c:273:3: warning: symbol 'buffer' shadows an earlier one drivers/acpi/utils.c:259:21: originally declared here drivers/acpi/utils.c:279:3: warning: symbol

Re: Driver removals

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:07:41PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: 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.

Re: pci_device_id definition cleanups

2008-02-15 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:55:07PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:21:40AM +0100, Jonas Bonn wrote: >>> I've done some work on cleaning up the definitions of pci_device_id to >>> make them "static const" (where possible) and to make sure they go into >>>

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:49:39PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:32 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > > > This patch adds two function mnt_want_write() and mnt_drop_write(). > > > These are used like a lock

[PATCH] (02/15/08 Linus git) Smack unlabeled outgoing ambient packets - v4

2008-02-15 Thread Casey Schaufler
From: Casey Schaufler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets by specifying an "ambient" label that is applied to incoming unlabeled packets. Because the other end of the connection may dislike IP options, and ssh is one know application that behaves thus,

Re: pci_device_id definition cleanups

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:21:40AM +0100, Jonas Bonn wrote: I've done some work on cleaning up the definitions of pci_device_id to make them "static const" (where possible) and to make sure they go into __devinitconst. There are about 350 changes of the type shown in the diff at

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Holvenstot
Frans & Pavel; I too saw the random key repeats you are seeing with 2.6.25-rc1 - however, I saw it (or something very much like the problem you are reporting - I am not smart enough to determine if the root cause is the same) with 2.6.25-git15 A number of corrispondents on this list offered

Re: [git patches] net driver fixes

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Miller wrote: From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:03:14 -0500 Please pull from 'upstream-davem' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-davem Pulled and pushed out. As I mentioned to John Linville just now, I'm

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:32 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > This patch adds two function mnt_want_write() and mnt_drop_write(). > > These are used like a lock pair around and fs operations that might > > cause a write to the

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

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:31:36 + Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so would a stupid `for i in arch/arm/configs/*' script be sufficient > > coverage? > > It will certainly improve the situation significantly, and pick up > on some non-ARM problems like (badge4_defconfig, since

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

2008-02-15 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:21:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:09:43 + > Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For reference, even _I_ don't build test the entire set of ARM defconfigs - > > at about 7 minutes a build, 75 defconfigs, that's about 9 hours... I

Kernel oops with bluetooth usb dongle

2008-02-15 Thread Quel Qun
Hi, Since the rc's of 2.6.24, my machine crashes when I try to use the USB dongle. No other activity seems to create a crash. The system is stable with 2.6.23.1. It is a Dell Dimension 8400 updated daily to mandriva cooker. I am not subscribed to this list, so please CC me if there is any

Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove rcu_assign_pointer(NULL) penalty with type/macro safety

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:00:24 -0800 "Paul E. McKenney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > This is an updated version of the patch posted last November: > > http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20071201.003721.cd6ff17c.en.html > > This new version permits arguments with side effects,

Re: [PATCH 07/30] r/o bind mounts: stub functions

2008-02-15 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:37:30PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > This patch adds two function mnt_want_write() and mnt_drop_write(). > These are used like a lock pair around and fs operations that might > cause a write to the filesystem. Argh, is there some reason why this couldn't have gotten

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

2008-02-15 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:21:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:09:43 + > Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For reference, even _I_ don't build test the entire set of ARM defconfigs - > > at about 7 minutes a build, 75 defconfigs, that's about 9 hours... I

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

2008-02-15 Thread Randy Dunlap
Russell King wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 03:47:24PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:37:32 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: I wonder why I didn't see any of this - I build arm allmodconfig at least once a week, usually more frequently. Basically, you don't build any of the PXA

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

2008-02-15 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 03:47:24PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:37:32 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > > I wonder why I didn't see any of this - I build arm allmodconfig at least > > once a week, usually more frequently. Basically, you don't build any of the PXA platforms,

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

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:09:43 + Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For reference, even _I_ don't build test the entire set of ARM defconfigs - > at about 7 minutes a build, 75 defconfigs, that's about 9 hours... I > just build those which are important to myself, hope that the others

Re: pci_device_id definition cleanups

2008-02-15 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:21:40AM +0100, Jonas Bonn wrote: > I've done some work on cleaning up the definitions of pci_device_id to > make them "static const" (where possible) and to make sure they go into > __devinitconst. There are about 350 changes of the type shown in the > diff at the end

Re: [git patches] net driver fixes

2008-02-15 Thread David Miller
From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:03:14 -0500 > Please pull from 'upstream-davem' branch of > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git > upstream-davem Pulled and pushed out. As I mentioned to John Linville just now, I'm going to try and

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