Re: [2.6.25-rc1] Strange regression with CONFIG_HZ_300=y

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Piel
Carlos R. Mafra wrote: I apologize in advance if I am crazy about this, but I noticed a strange regression wrt 2.6.24 in cpufreq (I think) in 2.6.25-rc1, which goes away if I revert the following commit: commit bdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 Author: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] Strange regression with CONFIG_HZ_300=y

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Piel
Carlos R. Mafra wrote: I apologize in advance if I am crazy about this, but I noticed a strange regression wrt 2.6.24 in cpufreq (I think) in 2.6.25-rc1, which goes away if I revert the following commit: commit bdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 Author: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs

2008-02-10 Thread Eric Piel
(adding some CC's) Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:12:26AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Folks, moving this call around hidden behing in completely unreviewed acpi junk is not acceptable. Either populate_rootfs _is_ safe to be called earlier and then we should do it

Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs

2008-02-10 Thread Eric Piel
(adding some CC's) Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:12:26AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Folks, moving this call around hidden behing in completely unreviewed acpi junk is not acceptable. Either populate_rootfs _is_ safe to be called earlier and then we should do it

Re: Kernel panic at boot with ondemand governor as default (2.6.24-rc2)

2007-11-15 Thread Eric Piel
2007年11月12日 16:23, Thomas Renninger wrote/a écrit: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:02 +0100, Eric Piel wrote: : Another way would be to reorganise the initialisation code so that workqueue is initialised before the cpufreq framework is started, do you think it's possible? Making all this work

Re: Kernel panic at boot with ondemand governor as default (2.6.24-rc2)

2007-11-15 Thread Eric Piel
2007年11月12日 16:23, Thomas Renninger wrote/a écrit: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:02 +0100, Eric Piel wrote: : Another way would be to reorganise the initialisation code so that workqueue is initialised before the cpufreq framework is started, do you think it's possible? Making all this work

Re: Kernel panic at boot with ondemand governor as default (2.6.24-rc2)

2007-11-12 Thread Eric Piel
2007年11月12日 21:26, Dave Jones wrote/a écrit: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:23:09PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:02 +0100, Eric Piel wrote: : > > Yes, it works if I compile speedstep-ich as module. I've put the module > > in initramfs and as so

Re: Kernel panic at boot with ondemand governor as default (2.6.24-rc2)

2007-11-12 Thread Eric Piel
11/12/2007 10:16 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote/a écrit: On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 20:10 +0100, Eric Piel wrote: Hello, I've tried kernel 2.6.24-rc2 and I have a problem with the new option for setting up the cpufreq ondemand governor as default: a kernel panic happens early at boot time. If I boot

Re: Kernel panic at boot with ondemand governor as default (2.6.24-rc2)

2007-11-12 Thread Eric Piel
11/12/2007 10:16 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote/a écrit: On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 20:10 +0100, Eric Piel wrote: Hello, I've tried kernel 2.6.24-rc2 and I have a problem with the new option for setting up the cpufreq ondemand governor as default: a kernel panic happens early at boot time. If I boot

Re: Kernel panic at boot with ondemand governor as default (2.6.24-rc2)

2007-11-12 Thread Eric Piel
2007年11月12日 21:26, Dave Jones wrote/a écrit: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:23:09PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:02 +0100, Eric Piel wrote: : Yes, it works if I compile speedstep-ich as module. I've put the module in initramfs and as soon it is loaded

Re: Kernel panic at boot with ondemand governor as default (2.6.24-rc2)

2007-11-11 Thread Eric Piel
2007年11月11日 23:45, Arjan van de Ven wrote/a écrit: On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:10:23 +0100 Eric Piel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I've tried kernel 2.6.24-rc2 and I have a problem with the new option for setting up the cpufreq ondemand governor as default: a kernel panic happens

Re: Kernel panic at boot with ondemand governor as default (2.6.24-rc2)

2007-11-11 Thread Eric Piel
2007年11月11日 23:45, Arjan van de Ven wrote/a écrit: On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:10:23 +0100 Eric Piel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've tried kernel 2.6.24-rc2 and I have a problem with the new option for setting up the cpufreq ondemand governor as default: a kernel panic happens early at boot

[PATCH 1/2] wriston_btns: Add acerhk laptop database

2007-03-13 Thread Eric Piel
, in order to avoid hunting information in the acerhk for a second time. Eric From: Eric Piel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wriston_btns: Add acerhk laptop database acerhk supports already a lot of laptops. Lets import its database so that everyone can benefit of the work of Olaf Tauber. Only the "

[PATCH 2/2] wistron_btns: Generic keymap

2007-03-13 Thread Eric Piel
a non-supported laptop will have a quick and dirty way to use the multimedia keys. Eric From: Eric Piel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wistron_btns: Generic keymap It turns out that the mapping of the wistron code is always the same, the main difference being some keys which may not exist and leds

[PATCH 0/2] wistron_btns: More keymaps

2007-03-13 Thread Eric Piel
Hello, As a sequel to my patch "Wistron button support for TravelMate 610" of last week, here is a bigger addition of keymaps for the wistron_btns. Patch 1 adds all the database of acerhk which fits this driver (about 25 more laptops). Patch 2 adds a generic map that should fit most users

[PATCH 0/2] wistron_btns: More keymaps

2007-03-13 Thread Eric Piel
Hello, As a sequel to my patch Wistron button support for TravelMate 610 of last week, here is a bigger addition of keymaps for the wistron_btns. Patch 1 adds all the database of acerhk which fits this driver (about 25 more laptops). Patch 2 adds a generic map that should fit most users but

[PATCH 2/2] wistron_btns: Generic keymap

2007-03-13 Thread Eric Piel
a non-supported laptop will have a quick and dirty way to use the multimedia keys. Eric From: Eric Piel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wistron_btns: Generic keymap It turns out that the mapping of the wistron code is always the same, the main difference being some keys which may not exist and leds which might

[PATCH 1/2] wriston_btns: Add acerhk laptop database

2007-03-13 Thread Eric Piel
to avoid hunting information in the acerhk for a second time. Eric From: Eric Piel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wriston_btns: Add acerhk laptop database acerhk supports already a lot of laptops. Lets import its database so that everyone can benefit of the work of Olaf Tauber. Only the tm_new laptops were

[PATCH] Wistron button support for TravelMate 610

2007-03-05 Thread Eric Piel
can test it) but if you like it, I would like to try to add all the database of keyboards available in acerhk (that Olaf has written). See you, Eric --- From: Eric Piel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TM610 support for wistron_btns. Adds support for Acer TravelMate 610 to wistron_btns, coming fro

[PATCH] Wistron button support for TravelMate 610

2007-03-05 Thread Eric Piel
can test it) but if you like it, I would like to try to add all the database of keyboards available in acerhk (that Olaf has written). See you, Eric --- From: Eric Piel [EMAIL PROTECTED] TM610 support for wistron_btns. Adds support for Acer TravelMate 610 to wistron_btns, coming from info

Re: 2.6.20-rc7 regression on intel-agp

2007-02-04 Thread Eric Piel
04.02.2007 18:18, Dave Jones wrote/a écrit: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 04:51:38PM +0100, Eric Piel wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a regression in 2.6.20-rc7 (-rc6 was fine) due to commit > 4b95320fc4d21b0ff2f8604305dd6c851aff6096 ([AGPGART] intel_agp: restore > graphics dev

Re: 2.6.20-rc7 regression on intel-agp

2007-02-04 Thread Eric Piel
04.02.2007 18:18, Dave Jones wrote/a écrit: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 04:51:38PM +0100, Eric Piel wrote: Hello, I've got a regression in 2.6.20-rc7 (-rc6 was fine) due to commit 4b95320fc4d21b0ff2f8604305dd6c851aff6096 ([AGPGART] intel_agp: restore graphics device's pci space early

Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression

2007-01-30 Thread Eric Piel
01/30/2007 07:47 PM, Oliver Neukum wrote/a écrit: Am Dienstag, 30. Januar 2007 19:43 schrieb Eric Piel: I have been using this interface for a _long_ time (before june 2005, cf http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel=111869558800526=2) and for different things than power saving: I can

Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression

2007-01-30 Thread Eric Piel
01/27/2007 02:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote/a écrit: Hi! In 2.6.19, support for splitting driver suspend and resume callbacks into interrupt and non-interrupt contexts was added. Unfortunately, this broke /sys/device/.../power/state support for all devices. In the long run, this should be

Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression

2007-01-30 Thread Eric Piel
01/27/2007 02:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote/a écrit: Hi! In 2.6.19, support for splitting driver suspend and resume callbacks into interrupt and non-interrupt contexts was added. Unfortunately, this broke /sys/device/.../power/state support for all devices. In the long run, this should be

Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression

2007-01-30 Thread Eric Piel
01/30/2007 07:47 PM, Oliver Neukum wrote/a écrit: Am Dienstag, 30. Januar 2007 19:43 schrieb Eric Piel: I have been using this interface for a _long_ time (before june 2005, cf http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-develm=111869558800526w=2) and for different things than power saving: I

Re: [RFC] Fair-user scheduler

2007-01-26 Thread Eric Piel
01/26/2007 03:09 PM, Kirill Korotaev wrote/a écrit: Srivatsa, Current Linux CPU scheduler doesnt recognize process aggregates while allocating bandwidth. As a result of this, an user could simply spawn large number of processes and get more bandwidth than others. Here's a patch that

Re: [RFC] Fair-user scheduler

2007-01-26 Thread Eric Piel
01/26/2007 03:09 PM, Kirill Korotaev wrote/a écrit: Srivatsa, Current Linux CPU scheduler doesnt recognize process aggregates while allocating bandwidth. As a result of this, an user could simply spawn large number of processes and get more bandwidth than others. Here's a patch that

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled eepro100 removal

2007-01-02 Thread Eric Piel
02.01.2007 22:57, Adrian Bunk wrote/a écrit: This patch contains the scheduled removal of the eepro100 driver. Hi, I've been using e100 for years with no problem, however more by curiosity than necessity I'd like to know how will be handled the devices which are (supposedly) supported by

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled eepro100 removal

2007-01-02 Thread Eric Piel
02.01.2007 22:57, Adrian Bunk wrote/a écrit: This patch contains the scheduled removal of the eepro100 driver. Hi, I've been using e100 for years with no problem, however more by curiosity than necessity I'd like to know how will be handled the devices which are (supposedly) supported by

Re: O2micro smartcard reader driver.

2006-12-12 Thread Eric Piel
28.11.2006 12:49, Oliver Neukum wrote/a écrit: Latest version I've published is there: http://pieleric.free.fr/o2scr/ case OZSCR_OPEN: /* Request ICC */ dprintk("OZSCR_OPEN\n"); ATRLength = ATR_SIZE; pRdrExt->IOBase = (PSCR_REGISTERS *) dev->io_base;

Re: O2micro smartcard reader driver.

2006-12-12 Thread Eric Piel
28.11.2006 12:49, Oliver Neukum wrote/a écrit: Latest version I've published is there: http://pieleric.free.fr/o2scr/ case OZSCR_OPEN: /* Request ICC */ dprintk(OZSCR_OPEN\n); ATRLength = ATR_SIZE; pRdrExt-IOBase = (PSCR_REGISTERS *) dev-io_base;

Re: noexec=on doesn't work

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Piel
12/09/2006 09:03 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote/a écrit: On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 02:34:47PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: I have filed this as a distro bug with Ubuntu; it may be their issue, I haven't dug deep enough to find out. I am posting this here to disperse the information breadth-first

Re: noexec=on doesn't work

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Piel
12/09/2006 09:03 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote/a écrit: On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 02:34:47PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: I have filed this as a distro bug with Ubuntu; it may be their issue, I haven't dug deep enough to find out. I am posting this here to disperse the information breadth-first

Re: O2micro smartcard reader driver.

2006-11-28 Thread Eric Piel
11/27/2006 06:28 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote/a écrit: Hi, I found a thread (about one month old) about an OZ711Mx (O2micro mmc card reader) driver, but unfortunately it uses some closed-source code.[1] :( But I found no thread about the kernel driver for the O2micro PCMCIA smartcard reader.

Re: O2micro smartcard reader driver.

2006-11-28 Thread Eric Piel
11/27/2006 06:28 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote/a écrit: Hi, I found a thread (about one month old) about an OZ711Mx (O2micro mmc card reader) driver, but unfortunately it uses some closed-source code.[1] :( But I found no thread about the kernel driver for the O2micro PCMCIA smartcard reader.

Re: [PATCH] bogus #if (acpi/blacklist)

2005-09-09 Thread Eric Piel
09/09/2005 06:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote/a écrit: Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urN RC13-git8-base/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c current/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c --- RC13-git8-base/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c 2005-09-08 23:42:49.0 -0400 +++

Re: [PATCH] bogus #if (acpi/blacklist)

2005-09-09 Thread Eric Piel
09/09/2005 06:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote/a écrit: Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urN RC13-git8-base/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c current/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c --- RC13-git8-base/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c 2005-09-08 23:42:49.0 -0400 +++

Re: [DRIVER] Where is the PSX Gamepad Driver in 2.6.13-rc3?

2005-09-08 Thread Eric Piel
09/08/2005 04:38 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote/a écrit: On 9/8/05, Christoph Litters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have an adapter usb to psx i have tried it with 2.6.9 and it works perfectly with the kernel driver. with 2.6.12 i cant get it to work and with 2.6.13-rc3 i havent seen any

Re: [DRIVER] Where is the PSX Gamepad Driver in 2.6.13-rc3?

2005-09-08 Thread Eric Piel
09/08/2005 04:38 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote/a écrit: On 9/8/05, Christoph Litters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have an adapter usb to psx i have tried it with 2.6.9 and it works perfectly with the kernel driver. with 2.6.12 i cant get it to work and with 2.6.13-rc3 i havent seen any

Re: 'virtual HW' into kernel (SystemC)

2005-09-07 Thread Eric Piel
09/07/2005 01:40 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote/a écrit: Màrius Montón wrote: : At this point, we plan to develop a pci device driver to act as a bridge between kernel PCI subsystem and SystemC simulator (in user space). No need for a set of tools. As long as your SystemC simulator simulates an

Re: 'virtual HW' into kernel (SystemC)

2005-09-07 Thread Eric Piel
09/07/2005 01:40 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote/a écrit: Màrius Montón wrote: : At this point, we plan to develop a pci device driver to act as a bridge between kernel PCI subsystem and SystemC simulator (in user space). No need for a set of tools. As long as your SystemC simulator simulates an

Re: Where do packets sent to 255.255.255.255 go?

2005-08-25 Thread Eric Piel
25.08.2005 03:02, Daniel Brockman wrote/a écrit: Hi list, If I understand correctly, packets sent to the all-ones broadcast address only go out through a single interface. Hello, I have some blur memories about this kind of issue, so my answer my be wrong on some points... My question is

Re: Where do packets sent to 255.255.255.255 go?

2005-08-25 Thread Eric Piel
25.08.2005 03:02, Daniel Brockman wrote/a écrit: Hi list, If I understand correctly, packets sent to the all-ones broadcast address only go out through a single interface. Hello, I have some blur memories about this kind of issue, so my answer my be wrong on some points... My question is

Re: Linux under 8MB

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Piel
19.08.2005 00:11, Imanpreet Arora wrote/a écrit: Hi all, For the last couple of days, I have been trying to set up linux kernel under 8MB. So far I have set up a linux 2.4.31, which just works under 8MB. However, I would be grateful if someone could help with the following queries

Re: VIA USB Controller - (Wrong ID) ??

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Piel
Hello, 19.08.2005 20:53, Jesper Juhl wrote/a écrit: I've just noticed that my USB controller(s) show up as having "Wrong ID" and now I'm wondering what exactely that means and what I can do about it (kernel 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 in case it matters). Is it a wrong PCI ID? If so, how's the controller

Re: VIA USB Controller - (Wrong ID) ??

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Piel
Hello, 19.08.2005 20:53, Jesper Juhl wrote/a écrit: I've just noticed that my USB controller(s) show up as having Wrong ID and now I'm wondering what exactely that means and what I can do about it (kernel 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 in case it matters). Is it a wrong PCI ID? If so, how's the controller

Re: Linux under 8MB

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Piel
19.08.2005 00:11, Imanpreet Arora wrote/a écrit: Hi all, For the last couple of days, I have been trying to set up linux kernel under 8MB. So far I have set up a linux 2.4.31, which just works under 8MB. However, I would be grateful if someone could help with the following queries

Re: Help Me Please

2005-07-28 Thread Eric Piel
07/28/2005 03:53 PM, gabri wrote/a écrit: I have a laptop. Is amd mobile SEMPRON but when I ejecute cpufreq say this: analyzing CPU 0: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU I remcompiled a lot of kernel" 2.6.12.3 2.6.8 etc" witch support for cpu scaling but when i am triying

Re: Help Me Please

2005-07-28 Thread Eric Piel
07/28/2005 03:53 PM, gabri wrote/a écrit: I have a laptop. Is amd mobile SEMPRON but when I ejecute cpufreq say this: analyzing CPU 0: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU I remcompiled a lot of kernel 2.6.12.3 2.6.8 etc witch support for cpu scaling but when i am triying load

Re: Kernel header policy

2005-07-12 Thread Eric Piel
12.07.2005 20:38, Jim Nance wrote/a écrit: Perhaps a little history would help. In the beginning, the kernel was written with the intention that userland would be including the headers. And libc did include the kernel headers. This did provide an effective way to get new kernel features to

Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-12 Thread Eric Piel
07/12/2005 01:11 PM, Ken Moffat wrote/a écrit: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: I was going to say that niceness didn't affect what I was doing, but I've just rerun it [ in 2.6.11.9 ] and I see that tar and bzip2 show up with a niceness of 10. I'm starting to feel a bit out of my depth

Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-12 Thread Eric Piel
11.07.2005 23:55, Con Kolivas wrote/a écrit: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:45, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: Hi, I've been using the ondemand governor on athlon64 winchesters for a few weeks. I've just noticed that in 2.6.12 the frequency is not increasing under load,

Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-12 Thread Eric Piel
11.07.2005 23:55, Con Kolivas wrote/a écrit: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:45, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: Hi, I've been using the ondemand governor on athlon64 winchesters for a few weeks. I've just noticed that in 2.6.12 the frequency is not increasing under load,

Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-12 Thread Eric Piel
07/12/2005 01:11 PM, Ken Moffat wrote/a écrit: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: I was going to say that niceness didn't affect what I was doing, but I've just rerun it [ in 2.6.11.9 ] and I see that tar and bzip2 show up with a niceness of 10. I'm starting to feel a bit out of my depth

Re: Kernel header policy

2005-07-12 Thread Eric Piel
12.07.2005 20:38, Jim Nance wrote/a écrit: Perhaps a little history would help. In the beginning, the kernel was written with the intention that userland would be including the headers. And libc did include the kernel headers. This did provide an effective way to get new kernel features to

Re: Disturbing wide variation in execution time

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Piel
(please do not top-post) 07.07.2005 10:03, Sheo Shanker Prasad wrote/a écrit: Dear David, The program is an atmospheric chemistry-transport modeling code that computes the distributions of atmospheric species (e.g., ozone) as a function of latitude and altitude and how that changes with

Re: Disturbing wide variation in execution time

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Piel
(please do not top-post) 07.07.2005 10:03, Sheo Shanker Prasad wrote/a écrit: Dear David, The program is an atmospheric chemistry-transport modeling code that computes the distributions of atmospheric species (e.g., ozone) as a function of latitude and altitude and how that changes with

Re: cpufreq on-demand governor up_treshold?

2005-03-14 Thread Eric Piel
Jan De Luyck a écrit : Hello lists, (please cc me from cpufreq list) I've since yesterday started using the ondemand governor. Seems to work fine, tho I can't seem to find a reason why it keeps scaling my processor speed upwards tho the processor use never exceeds 30% (been watching top -d 1).

Re: cpufreq on-demand governor up_treshold?

2005-03-14 Thread Eric Piel
Jan De Luyck a écrit : Hello lists, (please cc me from cpufreq list) I've since yesterday started using the ondemand governor. Seems to work fine, tho I can't seem to find a reason why it keeps scaling my processor speed upwards tho the processor use never exceeds 30% (been watching top -d 1).

[PATCH] hot-swapping support for PSX controllers

2005-02-05 Thread Eric Piel
intregrated in the vanilla kernel. It's Peter's version modified to apply cleanly against 2.6.11-rc3 plus a fix in the comment. Please apply, Eric -- Fixes hotplug support for PSX controllers and some mis-sized arrays. Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Peter Nelson &

[PATCH] hot-swapping support for PSX controllers

2005-02-05 Thread Eric Piel
intregrated in the vanilla kernel. It's Peter's version modified to apply cleanly against 2.6.11-rc3 plus a fix in the comment. Please apply, Eric -- Fixes hotplug support for PSX controllers and some mis-sized arrays. Signed-off-by: Eric Piel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Peter Nelson [EMAIL