Re: 2.6.12-rc3 fails compile -- aic7xxx_osm.c

2005-04-20 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:08:27PM -0400, Pete Clements wrote: > FYI: [snip] In case anyone hits this problem but misses my post to the main "Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3" thread, the fix is here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi=111391769011616=2 -Barry K. Nathan <

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-20 Thread Barry K. Nathan
-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix microtek.c compile failure http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel=111391865311903=2 Another LKML poster (who I added to CC on this message) already hit the aic7xxx compile failure with 2.6.12-rc3... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-20 Thread Barry K. Nathan
-usb-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix microtek.c compile failure http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-develm=111391865311903w=2 Another LKML poster (who I added to CC on this message) already hit the aic7xxx compile failure with 2.6.12-rc3... -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 fails compile -- aic7xxx_osm.c

2005-04-20 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:08:27PM -0400, Pete Clements wrote: FYI: [snip] In case anyone hits this problem but misses my post to the main Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3 thread, the fix is here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsim=111391769011616w=2 -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PATCH] fix aic7xxx_osm.c compile failure (gcc 2.95.x only)

2005-04-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
. I've compile-tested this but I haven't actually run it. Signed-off-by: Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-9d469ee9f21c680c41dbffe5b0f36ab5010ca8b1-bkn2/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c 2005-04-19 00:46:11.666064007 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.

[PATCH] fix ultrastor.c compile error

2005-04-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
I can execute this code. Signed-off-by: Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-9d469ee9f21c680c41dbffe5b0f36ab5010ca8b1-bkn1/drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c 2005-04-19 00:46:13.689904927 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc2-9d469ee9f21c680c41dbffe5b0f36ab5010ca8b1-bkn2/driver

[PATCH] fix microtek.c compile failure

2005-04-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
] Error 2 make: *** [drivers] Error 2 This patch fixes the compile error. I don't have this hardware so I don't think I can actually run this code, however. Signed-off-by: Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-9d469ee9f21c680c41dbffe5b0f36ab5010ca8b1/drivers/usb/image/micr

[PATCH] fix microtek.c compile failure

2005-04-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
] Error 2 make: *** [drivers] Error 2 This patch fixes the compile error. I don't have this hardware so I don't think I can actually run this code, however. Signed-off-by: Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-9d469ee9f21c680c41dbffe5b0f36ab5010ca8b1/drivers/usb/image/microtek.c

[PATCH] fix ultrastor.c compile error

2005-04-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
I can execute this code. Signed-off-by: Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-9d469ee9f21c680c41dbffe5b0f36ab5010ca8b1-bkn1/drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c 2005-04-19 00:46:13.689904927 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc2-9d469ee9f21c680c41dbffe5b0f36ab5010ca8b1-bkn2/drivers/scsi

[PATCH] fix aic7xxx_osm.c compile failure (gcc 2.95.x only)

2005-04-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
. I've compile-tested this but I haven't actually run it. Signed-off-by: Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.12-rc2-9d469ee9f21c680c41dbffe5b0f36ab5010ca8b1-bkn2/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c 2005-04-19 00:46:11.666064007 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc2

Re: [xfs-masters] swsusp vs. xfs [was Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]

2005-04-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
his patch helped. I can confirm, the 2nd patch worked and the 1st one didn't. (This is against 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 with sched-x86-patch-name-is-way-too-long.patch backed out. ;) ) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&

Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)

2005-04-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
rror does not make sense to me. I didn't understand it either, at first, but then I read this: http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/henson/henson_html/node9.html Whether this is serious enough to actually worry about is another question... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
cheme would be needed as a safety net in case root forgets to do the checkin. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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

Re: [rfc] git: combo-blobs

2005-04-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
hink you forgot about reiserfs/reiser4 tails. (At least, I *think* reiser4 has tails. I know reiserfs 3.x does.) BTW, I happen to agree completely with Linus on this issue, but I still figured I'd mention this for the sake of completeness. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe fr

Re: [rfc] git: combo-blobs

2005-04-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
/reiser4 tails. (At least, I *think* reiser4 has tails. I know reiserfs 3.x does.) BTW, I happen to agree completely with Linus on this issue, but I still figured I'd mention this for the sake of completeness. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: more git updates..

2005-04-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
root forgets to do the checkin. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 http://www.tux.org

Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)

2005-04-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
to me. I didn't understand it either, at first, but then I read this: http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/henson/henson_html/node9.html Whether this is serious enough to actually worry about is another question... -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
ful with a serial console... Failing that, I'll try a camcorder or digital camera and transcribe from that. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at h

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
day, but it's possible that I won't be able to get to it until next Friday or Saturday. > I do not why it interferes, but I've seen that before on suse > kernels... Have you seen it without the resume-from-initrd patch too, or only with that patch? -Barry K. Nathan <[EMA

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
(Sorry I took so long to respond. I was busy with tons of stuff offline...) On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:33:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Do you have XFS compiled in, by chance? Yes. > You are not actually resuming from initrd, right? That is correct. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
(Sorry I took so long to respond. I was busy with tons of stuff offline...) On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:33:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Do you have XFS compiled in, by chance? Yes. You are not actually resuming from initrd, right? That is correct. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
, but it's possible that I won't be able to get to it until next Friday or Saturday. I do not why it interferes, but I've seen that before on suse kernels... Have you seen it without the resume-from-initrd patch too, or only with that patch? -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-10 Thread Barry K. Nathan
that, I'll try a camcorder or digital camera and transcribe from that. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:06:14PM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > > > BTW, there's another strange thing that's introduced by 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: > > > With that kernel, suspend is also ridiculously slow (speed is comparable > > > to the slow resume with the aforementio

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:06:14PM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: BTW, there's another strange thing that's introduced by 2.6.11-rc2-mm1: With that kernel, suspend is also ridiculously slow (speed is comparable to the slow resume with the aforementioned patch). 2.6.11-rc2 does not have

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:27:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Barry K. Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, I've narrowed the problem down to one patch. In 2.6.11-mm3, the > > problem goes away if I remove this patch: > > swsusp-enable-resu

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
6.12-rc2-mm1, this computer happens to hit the bug where all the printk timestamps are 000.000 (don't take the # of digits too literally). Probably unrelated, but I may as well mention it. (System is an Athlon XP 2200+ with SiS chipset. I can't remember which model of SiS chipset.) -Bar

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
r one or two more iterations of (psuedo-)binary search, it should be much smaller. I'm planning to go as far as I can before going to bed tonight. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
, it should be much smaller. I'm planning to go as far as I can before going to bed tonight. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
, this computer happens to hit the bug where all the printk timestamps are 000.000 (don't take the # of digits too literally). Probably unrelated, but I may as well mention it. (System is an Athlon XP 2200+ with SiS chipset. I can't remember which model of SiS chipset.) -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:27:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I've narrowed the problem down to one patch. In 2.6.11-mm3, the problem goes away if I remove this patch: swsusp-enable-resume-from-initrd.patch That really helps, thanks

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:14:45AM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > 2.6.11-bk9 works (actually it takes under 2 seconds, not 5-10). > 2.6.11-bk10 has the weird slowdown. > > I'll see if I can isolate it any further. 2.6.11-mm2 works, but 2.6.11-mm3 has the ridiculously slow resumes.

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 06:44:08AM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > swsusp: reading slkf;jalksfsadflkjas;dlfasdfkl (12345 pages): 34% > [sorry, I just got up so my short-term memory isn't working that well > yet] > > takes 10-30 minutes (depending on whether it's closer to 11000 p

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Barry K. Nathan
issues, and under 2.6.12-rc1-mm4, ieee1394/sbp2 can at least stay up indefinitely as long as I don't suspend -- that's a tremendous improvement over 2.6.11. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:14:45AM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: 2.6.11-bk9 works (actually it takes under 2 seconds, not 5-10). 2.6.11-bk10 has the weird slowdown. I'll see if I can isolate it any further. 2.6.11-mm2 works, but 2.6.11-mm3 has the ridiculously slow resumes. Later today I'll

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Barry K. Nathan
, and under 2.6.12-rc1-mm4, ieee1394/sbp2 can at least stay up indefinitely as long as I don't suspend -- that's a tremendous improvement over 2.6.11. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

2005-04-05 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 06:44:08AM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: swsusp: reading slkf;jalksfsadflkjas;dlfasdfkl (12345 pages): 34% [sorry, I just got up so my short-term memory isn't working that well yet] takes 10-30 minutes (depending on whether it's closer to 11000 pages or 2) rather

Re: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x in kernel 2.6.12-rc1-bk6

2005-04-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
runs without any problems. [snip] I was having the same problem on a system of mine too, but it went away after I disabled CONFIG_DEVFS_FS. You didn't include enough of your .config for me to be able to tell if that is at all relevant in your case however. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x in kernel 2.6.12-rc1-bk6

2005-04-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
problems. [snip] I was having the same problem on a system of mine too, but it went away after I disabled CONFIG_DEVFS_FS. You didn't include enough of your .config for me to be able to tell if that is at all relevant in your case however. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from

Re: Aligning file system data

2005-03-29 Thread Barry K. Nathan
ngle ATA command unless it supports LBA48.) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Aligning file system data

2005-03-29 Thread Barry K. Nathan
it supports LBA48.) -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: BK snapshots removed from kernel.org?

2005-03-27 Thread Barry K. Nathan
t once before; this time I think it happened when the fixes from 2.6.11.6 were merged into Linus's BK tree. You can still get to the snapshots using this URL, but as I said, the scripts are confused right now: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/ -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL

Re: BK snapshots removed from kernel.org?

2005-03-27 Thread Barry K. Nathan
; this time I think it happened when the fixes from 2.6.11.6 were merged into Linus's BK tree. You can still get to the snapshots using this URL, but as I said, the scripts are confused right now: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/ -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm3

2005-03-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:21:54AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > More fixlets derived from the Coverity tool (does this thing have a name?) AFAICT the name of the tool is "Coverity Prevent". (But I'm not absolutely 100% sure.) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm3

2005-03-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:21:54AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: More fixlets derived from the Coverity tool (does this thing have a name?) AFAICT the name of the tool is Coverity Prevent. (But I'm not absolutely 100% sure.) -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: 2.6.11-mm4

2005-03-17 Thread Barry K. Nathan
he parallel port support is compiled in (as opposed to being a module). And if you do the above, make sure to have lots of paper handy. Also, this trick probably won't work with all printers, but it stands a good chance of working. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: 2.6.11-mm4

2005-03-17 Thread Barry K. Nathan
in (as opposed to being a module). And if you do the above, make sure to have lots of paper handy. Also, this trick probably won't work with all printers, but it stands a good chance of working. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: huge filesystems

2005-03-15 Thread Barry K. Nathan
expansion and file system sizes up to 8TB are now supported." http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/features/ -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

Re: huge filesystems

2005-03-15 Thread Barry K. Nathan
supported. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/features/ -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

Re: 2.6.11-mm3

2005-03-13 Thread Barry K. Nathan
q-O, on hardware that previously didn't work. Now it works. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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.h

Re: 2.6.11-mm3

2005-03-13 Thread Barry K. Nathan
that previously didn't work. Now it works. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 http

Re: spin_lock error in arch/i386/kernel/time.c on APM resume

2005-03-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
(I haven't been reading LKML closely enough to say that with 100% certainty, however.) Summary: kernel-2.6.9-1.724_FC3 breaks APM suspend on Thinkpad https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=144415 -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: spin_lock error in arch/i386/kernel/time.c on APM resume

2005-03-12 Thread Barry K. Nathan
haven't been reading LKML closely enough to say that with 100% certainty, however.) Summary: kernel-2.6.9-1.724_FC3 breaks APM suspend on Thinkpad https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=144415 -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [Bug 4298] swsusp fails to suspend if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is also enabled

2005-03-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
atch. It's a definite improvement over the existing code, and it could be a long while until I have a boot-time message patch that is both functional and clean enough to be incorporated into mainline. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [Bug 4298] swsusp fails to suspend if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is also enabled

2005-03-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
e we should be disabling swsusp altogether at boot in that case, if that's not unreasonably hard to implement. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majo

Re: [Bug 4298] swsusp fails to suspend if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is also enabled

2005-03-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
altogether at boot in that case, if that's not unreasonably hard to implement. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

Re: [Bug 4298] swsusp fails to suspend if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is also enabled

2005-03-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
the existing code, and it could be a long while until I have a boot-time message patch that is both functional and clean enough to be incorporated into mainline. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[PATCH] kconfig: DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and SOFTWARE_SUSPEND are incompatible on i386

2005-03-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is missing in that case. I have tested this patch against oldconfig and menuconfig on 2.6.11-bk2. Signed-off-by: Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-bk2/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug2004-12-24 13:34:45.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.11-bk2-bkn2/arch/i386/Kconfig

[PATCH] kconfig: DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and SOFTWARE_SUSPEND are incompatible on i386

2005-03-06 Thread Barry K. Nathan
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is missing in that case. I have tested this patch against oldconfig and menuconfig on 2.6.11-bk2. Signed-off-by: Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-bk2/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug2004-12-24 13:34:45.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.11-bk2-bkn2/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
best thing would be for the script to revert to the current ("-bk") naming scheme once -rc1 is out. Otherwise it would need to do, say, 2.6.12-rc2-pre1 instead of 2.6.12-rc1-bk1, and while that seems natural to me, I don't know how the rest of the planet's human population would react... -

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as well. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
as well. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
it would need to do, say, 2.6.12-rc2-pre1 instead of 2.6.12-rc1-bk1, and while that seems natural to me, I don't know how the rest of the planet's human population would react... -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Barry K. Nathan
6.22 | ES | S| S ... e.g. if odd/even causes too many long releases or other problems like that, then something like the middle column (every Nth release is extra-stable, for N >= 3) could be tried. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Barry K. Nathan
the bits are also magical, insofar as they get treated differently (e.g. RHEL kernels always get backports whereas Fedora ones often get updated altogether). If the bits weren't magical then I think people would simply run Fedora Core instead of creating RHEL rebuild projects. -Barry K. Natha

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Barry K. Nathan
but it's really the same concept. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Barry K. Nathan
/g. Perhaps the alpha/beta distinction won't *really* mean anything, but it might have a subliminal effect on everyone. :) Anyway, if the alpha/beta distinction is overengineering, it's easily removed (see the beginning of this paragraph). Whether with alpha/beta or just plain pre, this seems more

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Barry K. Nathan
distinction is overengineering, it's easily removed (see the beginning of this paragraph). Whether with alpha/beta or just plain pre, this seems more robust to me than the other suggestions so far. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Barry K. Nathan
really the same concept. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Barry K. Nathan
are also magical, insofar as they get treated differently (e.g. RHEL kernels always get backports whereas Fedora ones often get updated altogether). If the bits weren't magical then I think people would simply run Fedora Core instead of creating RHEL rebuild projects. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-03 Thread Barry K. Nathan
| S ... e.g. if odd/even causes too many long releases or other problems like that, then something like the middle column (every Nth release is extra-stable, for N = 3) could be tried. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: swsusp logic error?

2005-02-27 Thread Barry K. Nathan
in suspending the machine. Since the problem is gone now, I think I have better uses for my time than figuring out when the problem started and when it was fixed, but I just wanted to mention that in fact there are problems in earlier 2.6.11-rc releases that seem to be fixed later on. -Bar

Re: swsusp logic error?

2005-02-27 Thread Barry K. Nathan
figuring out when the problem started and when it was fixed, but I just wanted to mention that in fact there are problems in earlier 2.6.11-rc releases that seem to be fixed later on. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Xterm Hangs - Possible scheduler defect?

2005-02-24 Thread Barry K. Nathan
d to be able to take SMP systems down, if the # of SCHED_FIFO tasks is less than the # of CPU's. I imagine someone has thought about this in the past and answered the question one way or another, but I don't happen to know the answer. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Xterm Hangs - Possible scheduler defect?

2005-02-24 Thread Barry K. Nathan
is less than the # of CPU's. I imagine someone has thought about this in the past and answered the question one way or another, but I don't happen to know the answer. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

2005-02-22 Thread Barry K. Nathan
could try an OHCI controller (e.g. some USB PCI cards) and see if that makes any difference. (I remember reading something about OHCI being more efficient than UHCI in some cases, although I don't remember the details now.) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this

Re: OT: Why is usb data many times the cpu hog that firewire is?

2005-02-22 Thread Barry K. Nathan
PCI cards) and see if that makes any difference. (I remember reading something about OHCI being more efficient than UHCI in some cases, although I don't remember the details now.) -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-09 Thread Barry K. Nathan
absorb this and fix it up for real, please? I forgot to mention, this patch is known to break Alt-SysRq-O on at least some systems. See here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0501.3/0869.html -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-09 Thread Barry K. Nathan
t;needs some work before it goes into a mainline kernel". AFAICT it's more of a proof-of-concept, just to see if Eric's on the right track... This is the motivation behind the patch: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=110665405402747=2 -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To u

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-09 Thread Barry K. Nathan
it's more of a proof-of-concept, just to see if Eric's on the right track... This is the motivation behind the patch: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=110665405402747w=2 -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-09 Thread Barry K. Nathan
, please? I forgot to mention, this patch is known to break Alt-SysRq-O on at least some systems. See here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0501.3/0869.html -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Post install 2.4.29 causes many apps to seg fault.

2005-02-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
that still segfault or freeze with a vanilla kernel (note that, for all I know, rpm itself could be one of these!) I hope this helps... -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Post install 2.4.29 causes many apps to seg fault.

2005-02-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
know, rpm itself could be one of these!) I hope this helps... -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-26 Thread Barry K. Nathan
that's just a guess. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-26 Thread Barry K. Nathan
just a guess. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 07:12:55PM +, Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote: > This acpi_power_off issue ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/11/88 ) still > happens. http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4041 Look at that bug report (especially toward the bottom) for the latest information. -B

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
ly > the proper position in the call chain instead of use a proper > hook. But I can't quickly find an existing hook in the proper > location. I had to fix a couple of typos ("apci" and "offf") to get it to compile. Once I did that, the patch made shutdown wor

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
r so (unfortunately it didn't occur to me to keep an exact count). > Well if you can help me track this down I would appreciate it. > > Do you think you would have time to try some test patches? Yes, I should have time to test patches. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To u

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:14:06AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Barry K. Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:35:00AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > So I will ask again, as I did when Andrew first pointed this i

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
; the system. This may be a foolish question, but, are there possibly any code paths in the *BIOS* that could care? -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
be a foolish question, but, are there possibly any code paths in the *BIOS* that could care? -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:14:06AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:35:00AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: So I will ask again, as I did when Andrew first pointed this in my direction. What code path in the kernel

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
patches. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
in the call chain instead of use a proper hook. But I can't quickly find an existing hook in the proper location. I had to fix a couple of typos (apci and offf) to get it to compile. Once I did that, the patch made shutdown work again. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1

2005-01-25 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 07:12:55PM +, Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote: This acpi_power_off issue ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/11/88 ) still happens. http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4041 Look at that bug report (especially toward the bottom) for the latest information. -Barry K

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:06:10PM +, Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > > >This isn't new to 2.6.11-rc1-mm1, but it has the infamous (to Fedora > >users) "ACPI

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-19 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:06:10PM +, Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Barry K. Nathan wrote: This isn't new to 2.6.11-rc1-mm1, but it has the infamous (to Fedora users) ACPI shutdown bug -- poweroff hangs instead

Re: processes stuck in D state

2001-04-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
3-pre4, and it did not have this problem. In my case, it's usually mozilla (I'm seeing this with the daily snapshots, but not with mozilla-0.8.1, at least not yet), but at least once I saw it with freeamp (2.1rc5) too. -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: processes stuck in D state

2001-04-07 Thread Barry K. Nathan
, and it did not have this problem. In my case, it's usually mozilla (I'm seeing this with the daily snapshots, but not with mozilla-0.8.1, at least not yet), but at least once I saw it with freeamp (2.1rc5) too. -Barry K. Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: loop-6 patch and 2.4.2

2001-02-23 Thread Barry K. Nathan
DW<0:57 [loop0] 116 ?DW<0:58 [loop2] 2816 pts/4S 0:00 fgrep loop Since I have 3 image files mounted, that means my Inspiron 5000e has a load of 3 when it's idle... ;) -Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

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