Re: Linux 3.19-rc1 - merge window closed

2014-12-22 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 12:43:10 -0800, you wrote: >On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:11:39 -0800 "Nicholas A. Bellinger" > wrote: > >> Just hit the following build failure with CONFIG_AUDIT=y: >> >> arch/x86/ia32/audit.c: In function ‘ia32_classify_syscall’: >> arch/x86/ia32/audit.c:38:7: error:

Re: Linux 3.19-rc1 - merge window closed

2014-12-22 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 12:43:10 -0800, you wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:11:39 -0800 Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: Just hit the following build failure with CONFIG_AUDIT=y: arch/x86/ia32/audit.c: In function ‘ia32_classify_syscall’: arch/x86/ia32/audit.c:38:7: error:

3.7.5: Kernel panic on halt

2013-02-04 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, I was running machine overnight on 12V battery test, with this simple kernel compile loop: grant@itxmini:~/linux/linux-3.7.5a$ while :; do make clean; make -j5; done Today it was time to shutdown the box ('halt' command) and recharge the battery. Snapshot of screen:

3.7.5: Kernel panic on halt

2013-02-04 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, I was running machine overnight on 12V battery test, with this simple kernel compile loop: grant@itxmini:~/linux/linux-3.7.5a$ while :; do make clean; make -j5; done Today it was time to shutdown the box ('halt' command) and recharge the battery. Snapshot of screen:

Re: RAID extremely slow

2012-07-27 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:45:18 -0700, you wrote: >On 07/27/2012 12:08 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> Have you set the io scheduler to deadline on all members of the array? >> That's kind of "job one" on older kernels. >> > >I have not, thanks for the tip, I'll look into that now. Plus I disable the

Re: RAID extremely slow

2012-07-27 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:45:18 -0700, you wrote: On 07/27/2012 12:08 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Have you set the io scheduler to deadline on all members of the array? That's kind of job one on older kernels. I have not, thanks for the tip, I'll look into that now. Plus I disable the on-drive

Re: Intel DP965LT Mainboard running?

2007-03-30 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:31:38 +0200, Oliver Joa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >does anyone have a running Intel DP965LT Mainboard? I can not get this >Board running. You can see the Problems in the Thread "Corrupt >XFS-Filesystems on new Hardware and Kernel". Please can you give me a

Re: Intel DP965LT Mainboard running?

2007-03-30 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:31:38 +0200, Oliver Joa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does anyone have a running Intel DP965LT Mainboard? I can not get this Board running. You can see the Problems in the Thread Corrupt XFS-Filesystems on new Hardware and Kernel. Please can you give me a running

Re: Linux 2.4.34.1

2007-02-03 Thread Grant Coady
ecommended for >users of smbfs with unix extension, since a security fix in 2.4.34 >broke symlinks. Special thanks to Dann Frazier, Santiago Garcia >and Grant Coady who did the boring work of tracking and fixing the >problem. > >The files are located at the usual places. Pl

Re: Linux 2.4.34.1

2007-02-03 Thread Grant Coady
with unix extension, since a security fix in 2.4.34 broke symlinks. Special thanks to Dann Frazier, Santiago Garcia and Grant Coady who did the boring work of tracking and fixing the problem. The files are located at the usual places. Please give it some time to sync between the servers

[RFC PATCH] 20-rc6-mm3: kernel/params.c: compile fail when CONFIG_SYSFS not set

2007-01-31 Thread Grant Coady
: *** [kernel] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- params.c |4 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm3/kernel/params.c2007-01-30 16:25:34.0 +1100 +++ linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm3c/kernel/params.c 2007-02-01 07:25:09.0

[RFC PATCH] 20-rc6-mm3: kernel/params.c: compile fail when CONFIG_SYSFS not set

2007-01-31 Thread Grant Coady
: *** [kernel] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Grant Coady [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- params.c |4 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm3/kernel/params.c2007-01-30 16:25:34.0 +1100 +++ linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm3c/kernel/params.c 2007-02-01 07:25:09.0 +1100

[PATCH] -mm3: include/linux/blkdev.h double def'd -> compile fail

2007-01-30 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, Random .config: 20-rc6-mm3a/002 found the following boo-boo... From: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Defining protos twice caused: In file included from kernel/sched.c:39: include/linux/blkdev.h:928: error: redefinition of 'blk_replug_current_nested' include/linux/blkdev

[PATCH] -mm3: include/linux/blkdev.h double def'd - compile fail

2007-01-30 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, Random .config: 20-rc6-mm3a/002 found the following boo-boo... From: Grant Coady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Defining protos twice caused: In file included from kernel/sched.c:39: include/linux/blkdev.h:928: error: redefinition of 'blk_replug_current_nested' include/linux/blkdev.h:907: error

[PATCH] -mm2: typo in ipc/ipc_sysctl.c -> compile failure

2007-01-29 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, Dunno who does IPC so hoping you do ;) (ref.config: 20-rc6-mm2b/048) Cheers, Grant. From: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix typos causing compile failure when CONFIG_PROC_FS not set in ipc/ipc_sysctl.c, compile tested. ipc/ipc_sysctl.c:107: error: `proc_ipc_doulongvec_

[PATCH] -mm2: typo in ipc/ipc_sysctl.c - compile failure

2007-01-29 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, Dunno who does IPC so hoping you do ;) (ref.config: 20-rc6-mm2b/048) Cheers, Grant. From: Grant Coady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fix typos causing compile failure when CONFIG_PROC_FS not set in ipc/ipc_sysctl.c, compile tested. ipc/ipc_sysctl.c:107: error: `proc_ipc_doulongvec_minmax

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-27 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:55:19 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello Santiago, > >On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:00:30AM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have discovered a problem with the changes applied to smbfs in 2.4.34 and >> in the security backports like

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-27 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:55:19 +0100, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Santiago, On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:00:30AM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: Hi! I have discovered a problem with the changes applied to smbfs in 2.4.34 and in the security backports like last Debian's

kernel.org: missing version in latest 2.6 snapshot

2007-01-25 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, This is odd: Index of /pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots NameLast modified Size Parent Directory - incr/ 13-Dec-2006 22:45- old/26-Sep-2006 07:41-

kernel.org: missing version in latest 2.6 snapshot

2007-01-25 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, This is odd: Index of /pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots NameLast modified Size Parent Directory - incr/ 13-Dec-2006 22:45- old/26-Sep-2006 07:41-

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-23 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:12:57 -0700, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Users have reported a symlink issue with my recent smbfs backport. >Turns out my backport overlooked a second 2.6 patch w/ the fix: > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/?PAGE=cset=419e7b76CdrmRG_NZ8LKj9DUUBGu1w >

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-23 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:19:37 -0700, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:03:21AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> Hi Grant ! >> >> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:52:44AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: >> > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-23 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:19:37 -0700, dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:03:21AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: Hi Grant ! On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:52:44AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -0700, dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-23 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:12:57 -0700, dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Users have reported a symlink issue with my recent smbfs backport. Turns out my backport overlooked a second 2.6 patch w/ the fix: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/?PAGE=csetREV=419e7b76CdrmRG_NZ8LKj9DUUBGu1w This

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-22 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:36:30 +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > As you can see I now can see the symbolic links perfectly and they work as >> > expected. >> > >> > In fact, this patch is working so well that it poses a security risk, as >> > now >> > the devices on

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-22 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:18:16 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Grant, just to be sure, are you really certain that you tried the fixed kernel >? >It is possible that you booted a wrong kernel during one of your tests. I'm >intrigued by the fact that it changed nothing for you and

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-22 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:18:16 +0100, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant, just to be sure, are you really certain that you tried the fixed kernel ? It is possible that you booted a wrong kernel during one of your tests. I'm intrigued by the fact that it changed nothing for you and that

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-22 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:36:30 +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you can see I now can see the symbolic links perfectly and they work as expected. In fact, this patch is working so well that it poses a security risk, as now the devices on my /mnt/dev

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -0700, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:00:40PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: >Ah, think I see the problem now: > >--- kernel-source-2.4.27.orig/fs/smbfs/proc.c 2007-01-19 17:53:57.247695476 >-0700 >+++

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:03:21 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Grant ! > >On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:52:44AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -0700, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >On Thu, Jan

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:21:16 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Grant ! > >On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:09:57AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: >(...) >> >} else { >> >- mnt->file_mode = mnt-

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Grant Coady
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:03:21 +0100, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Grant ! On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:52:44AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -0700, dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:00:40PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: Ah

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:21:16 +0100, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Grant ! On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:09:57AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: (...) } else { - mnt-file_mode = mnt-dir_mode = S_IRWXU | S_IRGRP | S_IXGRP | - S_IROTH

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-21 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -0700, dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:00:40PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: Ah, think I see the problem now: --- kernel-source-2.4.27.orig/fs/smbfs/proc.c 2007-01-19 17:53:57.247695476 -0700 +++ kernel-source-2.4.27/fs/smbfs/proc.c

PATCH net-Kconfig-pocket_adapter-ISA-to-PARPORT

2005-09-09 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Jeff, This patch changes pocket and parallel adaptors to depend on PARPORT instead of ISA in order to get the option in newer SuperIO based systems. Tested on x86 (AMD K7). Also applies to 2.6.13-git8 cleanly. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Kconfig |8 -

Re: 2.6.13-mm2

2005-09-09 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Andrew, Marko, On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 02:43:36 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 05:30:42 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >> >ftp://ftp.k

Re: 2.6.13-mm2

2005-09-09 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Andrew, Marko, On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 02:43:36 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Coady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 05:30:42 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm2/ Hi

PATCH net-Kconfig-pocket_adapter-ISA-to-PARPORT

2005-09-09 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Jeff, This patch changes pocket and parallel adaptors to depend on PARPORT instead of ISA in order to get the option in newer SuperIO based systems. Tested on x86 (AMD K7). Also applies to 2.6.13-git8 cleanly. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Kconfig |8 1

Re: 2.6.13-mm2

2005-09-08 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 05:30:42 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm2/ Hi Andrew, After this error: CC drivers/parport/parport_pc.o drivers/parport/parport_pc.c:2511: error: via_686a_data causes a

Re: 2.6.13-mm2

2005-09-08 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 05:30:42 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm2/ Hi Andrew, After this error: CC drivers/parport/parport_pc.o drivers/parport/parport_pc.c:2511: error: via_686a_data causes a

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Genesys USB 2.0 enclosures

2005-09-04 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 14:04:46 -0700, Matthew Dharm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:53:19PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: >> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Jan De Luyck wrote: >> >> > I've posted in the past about problems with these enclosures - increasing >> > the >> > delay seems to fix

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Genesys USB 2.0 enclosures

2005-09-04 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 14:04:46 -0700, Matthew Dharm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:53:19PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Jan De Luyck wrote: I've posted in the past about problems with these enclosures - increasing the delay seems to fix it, albeit

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm2

2005-09-01 Thread Grant . Coady
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:03:38 +0200, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Jean, >Hi Grant, > >> adm9240 i2c still broken, spamming debug with: >> (...) >> Aug 23 18:48:40 peetoo kernel: [ 1591.151834] i2c_adapter i2c-0: Transaction >> (pre): CNT=08, CMD=2c, ADD=5a, DAT0=00, DAT1=00 >> Aug

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm2

2005-09-01 Thread Grant . Coady
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:03:38 +0200, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jean, Hi Grant, adm9240 i2c still broken, spamming debug with: (...) Aug 23 18:48:40 peetoo kernel: [ 1591.151834] i2c_adapter i2c-0: Transaction (pre): CNT=08, CMD=2c, ADD=5a, DAT0=00, DAT1=00 Aug 23 18:48:40

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm2

2005-08-23 Thread Grant . Coady
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:30:21 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc6/2.6.13-rc6-mm2/ > >- Various updates. Nothing terribly noteworthy. adm9240 i2c still broken, spamming debug with: Aug 23 18:48:40 peetoo

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm2

2005-08-23 Thread Grant . Coady
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:30:21 -0700, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc6/2.6.13-rc6-mm2/ - Various updates. Nothing terribly noteworthy. adm9240 i2c still broken, spamming debug with: Aug 23 18:48:40 peetoo kernel: [

2.6.12.5 ATAPI Iomega Zip100 problem, more info, solved?

2005-08-15 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Some more info on removable media oddness. I use both vfat and ext2 format zip disk. Two mountpoints: /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zipvfatnoauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/zip2 ext2noauto,user 0 0 Odd behaviour: $ mount

2.6.12.5 ATAPI Iomega Zip100 problem, more info, solved?

2005-08-15 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Some more info on removable media oddness. I use both vfat and ext2 format zip disk. Two mountpoints: /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zipvfatnoauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/zip2 ext2noauto,user 0 0 Odd behaviour: $ mount

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-14 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:12:55 +1000, Roger Luethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ #define APC_BPORT_REG 0x30 #define APC_REGMASK0x01 -define APC_BPMASK 0x03 +#define APC_BPMASK 0x03 Color me skeptical. I've seen some weird bit flips and

Resolved?: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-14 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:43:31 +1000, Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, Problem was dataloss on extracting kernel source, sometimes only one character changed. Details on http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/boxen/sempro/ Not the NIC, not reiserfs, not the kernel config, no

Resolved?: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-14 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:43:31 +1000, Grant Coady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Problem was dataloss on extracting kernel source, sometimes only one character changed. Details on http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/boxen/sempro/ Not the NIC, not reiserfs, not the kernel config, not even

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-14 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:12:55 +1000, Roger Luethi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ #define APC_BPORT_REG 0x30 #define APC_REGMASK0x01 -define APC_BPMASK 0x03 +#define APC_BPMASK 0x03 Color me skeptical. I've seen some weird bit flips and data

Re: [PATCH,RFC] quirks for VIA VT8237 southbridge

2005-08-13 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:41:33 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Grant Coady wrote: >> I'm tracking a dataloss on box with this chip, finding it difficult >> to nail a configuration that reliably produces dataloss, sometimes >> only one bit (e.g. 'c' -

Re: [PATCH,RFC] quirks for VIA VT8237 southbridge

2005-08-13 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:10:38 +0200, Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >this fixes the 'doubled ioapic level interrupt rate' issue I've been >seeing on a K8T800/AMD64 mainboard. >It also switches off quirk_via_irq() for the VT8237 southbridge. I'm tracking a dataloss on box with

Re: [PATCH,RFC] quirks for VIA VT8237 southbridge

2005-08-13 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:10:38 +0200, Karsten Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, this fixes the 'doubled ioapic level interrupt rate' issue I've been seeing on a K8T800/AMD64 mainboard. It also switches off quirk_via_irq() for the VT8237 southbridge. I'm tracking a dataloss on box with this chip,

Re: [PATCH,RFC] quirks for VIA VT8237 southbridge

2005-08-13 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:41:33 -0400, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Coady wrote: I'm tracking a dataloss on box with this chip, finding it difficult to nail a configuration that reliably produces dataloss, sometimes only one bit (e.g. 'c' -- 'C') of unpacking kernel source tree

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-12 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:21:30 +1000, Masoud Sharbiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you turn on UDP checksums and try again? That would isolate the fault between the network or SATA. It is the second tarball extraction from cache that suffers data corruption, not a network error. I am in

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-12 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:43:42 +0400, "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How to test and isolate this error is in NIC driver, SATA driver or >> filesystem? >> > >Could it be that tarbal on NFS server changed? >It is not very likely that error in kernel drivers fixed typos in

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-12 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:43:42 +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to test and isolate this error is in NIC driver, SATA driver or filesystem? Could it be that tarbal on NFS server changed? It is not very likely that error in kernel drivers fixed typos in source code.

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-12 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:21:30 +1000, Masoud Sharbiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you turn on UDP checksums and try again? That would isolate the fault between the network or SATA. It is the second tarball extraction from cache that suffers data corruption, not a network error. I am in

Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-11 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Situation is dataloss with no errors logged. Test: unpack 2.6.12 tarball from NFS mount source, diff against previous attempt: $ diff -Nrup linux-2.6.12.old linux-2.6.12 Binary files linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h and linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h differ diff

Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-11 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Situation is dataloss with no errors logged. Test: unpack 2.6.12 tarball from NFS mount source, diff against previous attempt: $ diff -Nrup linux-2.6.12.old linux-2.6.12 Binary files linux-2.6.12.old/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h and linux-2.6.12/include/asm-sparc/a.out.h differ diff

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-03 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Jesper, On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 23:28:06 +0200, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I like it, just a little concerned about confusing new user with too many alternative patching methods up front... >+ This (as usual with Linux and other UNIX like operating systems) can be >+done in several

Re: 2.6.13-rc5 randconfig kernel build errors

2005-08-03 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Adrian, On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:20:50 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> After 300 random builds, add one more error: >> drivers/acpi/osl.c:261: error: `AmlCode' undeclared (first use in this >> function) >> drivers/acpi/osl.c:61:10: empty file name in #include > >Please

Re: 2.6.13-rc5 randconfig kernel build errors

2005-08-03 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:58:59 +1000, Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Greetings, > >Preliminary results, better sample (some hundreds) in a day or so. After 300 random builds, add one more error: drivers/acpi/osl.c:261: error: `AmlCode' undeclared (first use in this functio

Re: 2.6.13-rc5 randconfig kernel build errors

2005-08-03 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:58:59 +1000, Grant Coady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Preliminary results, better sample (some hundreds) in a day or so. After 300 random builds, add one more error: drivers/acpi/osl.c:261: error: `AmlCode' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/acpi/osl.c

Re: 2.6.13-rc5 randconfig kernel build errors

2005-08-03 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Adrian, On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:20:50 +0200, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After 300 random builds, add one more error: drivers/acpi/osl.c:261: error: `AmlCode' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/acpi/osl.c:61:10: empty file name in #include Please exclude builds with

Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees

2005-08-03 Thread Grant Coady
Hi Jesper, On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 23:28:06 +0200, Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like it, just a little concerned about confusing new user with too many alternative patching methods up front... + This (as usual with Linux and other UNIX like operating systems) can be +done in several

2.6.13-rc5 randconfig kernel build errors

2005-08-02 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Preliminary results, better sample (some hundreds) in a day or so. 2.6.13-rc5 ~~ Done processing 70 random builds, from which: ### 6 .configs produced errors ### 4 .configs produced undefs ### 29 .configs produced warnings # zcat result-report-error-abbrev.gz|cut -d:

2.6.13-rc5 randconfig kernel build errors

2005-08-02 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Preliminary results, better sample (some hundreds) in a day or so. 2.6.13-rc5 ~~ Done processing 70 random builds, from which: ### 6 .configs produced errors ### 4 .configs produced undefs ### 29 .configs produced warnings # zcat result-report-error-abbrev.gz|cut -d:

Report: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: only 8 errors for 752 randconfig builds

2005-08-01 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Automating random config kernel build testing, for 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: Done processing 752 random builds, from which: ### 8 .configs produced errors ### 11 .configs produced undefs ### 52 .configs produced warnings Abbreviated errors (first 2 lines/error): [EMAIL

Report: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: only 8 errors for 752 randconfig builds

2005-08-01 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Automating random config kernel build testing, for 2.6.13-rc4-mm1: Done processing 752 random builds, from which: ### 8 .configs produced errors ### 11 .configs produced undefs ### 52 .configs produced warnings Abbreviated errors (first 2 lines/error): [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.13 ub 2/3: Fold one line

2005-07-31 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:37:43 -0400, Yani Ioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 7/31/05, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Evidently, Yani Ioannou's display is wider than mine. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (Thinkpad) ;-). The changes were done by a script I >wrote which wasn't checking if the

Re: 2.6.13 ub 2/3: Fold one line

2005-07-31 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 09:37:43 -0400, Yani Ioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/31/05, Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evidently, Yani Ioannou's display is wider than mine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thinkpad) ;-). The changes were done by a script I wrote which wasn't checking if the 80 chars

[PATCH] 2.6: fix PCI_DEVIEC_ID_APPLE_UNI_N_ATA spelling

2005-07-30 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Patch to fix PCI_DEVIEC_ID_APPLE_UNI_N_ATA spelling. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c |2 +- include/linux/pci_ids.h |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -X dontdiff -Nrup linux-2.6.13-rc4-git2/drive

Re: Heads up for distro folks: PCMCIA hotplug differences (Re: -rc4: arm broken?)

2005-07-30 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:36:28 +0100, Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Let me qualify that, because it's not 100% fine due to the changes in >PCMCIA land. > >Since PCMCIA cards are detected and drivers bound at boot time, we no Without an unbind/eject option? Implies reboot to remove a

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc4 1/1] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH7R

2005-07-30 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:21:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[speaking to the audience] I wouldn't mind if someone did a pass >through pci_ids.h and removed all the constants that are not being used. > If constants are not being used, it's IMHO more appropriate to store >that

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc4 1/1] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH7R

2005-07-30 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:21:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [speaking to the audience] I wouldn't mind if someone did a pass through pci_ids.h and removed all the constants that are not being used. If constants are not being used, it's IMHO more appropriate to store that info

Re: Heads up for distro folks: PCMCIA hotplug differences (Re: -rc4: arm broken?)

2005-07-30 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:36:28 +0100, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me qualify that, because it's not 100% fine due to the changes in PCMCIA land. Since PCMCIA cards are detected and drivers bound at boot time, we no Without an unbind/eject option? Implies reboot to remove a

[PATCH] 2.6: fix PCI_DEVIEC_ID_APPLE_UNI_N_ATA spelling

2005-07-30 Thread Grant Coady
Greetings, Patch to fix PCI_DEVIEC_ID_APPLE_UNI_N_ATA spelling. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c |2 +- include/linux/pci_ids.h |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -X dontdiff -Nrup linux-2.6.13-rc4-git2/drivers/ide

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc4 1/1] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH7R

2005-07-29 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:52:39 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >However you did your search, you did it wrong. The very first two >entries I tried had zero uses: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6]$ grepsrc ICH7_22 >./include/linux/pci_ids.h:#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ICH7_22 0x27e0

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc4 1/1] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH7R

2005-07-29 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:21:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[speaking to the audience] I wouldn't mind if someone did a pass >through pci_ids.h and removed all the constants that are not being used. Only these seem not referenced by source: PCI_CLASS_SYSTEM_PCI_HOTPLUG

Re: Obsolete files in 2.6 tree

2005-07-29 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:40:46 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: drivers/media/video/zr36120.c drivers/media/video/zr36120_i2c.c drivers/media/video/zr36120_mem.c >> >> >> Being discussed on the V4L list > It seems that nobody are interested on maintaining

Re: Obsolete files in 2.6 tree

2005-07-29 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:40:46 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drivers/media/video/zr36120.c drivers/media/video/zr36120_i2c.c drivers/media/video/zr36120_mem.c Being discussed on the V4L list It seems that nobody are interested on maintaining it. No answer from

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc4 1/1] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH7R

2005-07-29 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:21:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [speaking to the audience] I wouldn't mind if someone did a pass through pci_ids.h and removed all the constants that are not being used. Only these seem not referenced by source: PCI_CLASS_SYSTEM_PCI_HOTPLUG

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc4 1/1] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH7R

2005-07-29 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:52:39 -0400, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However you did your search, you did it wrong. The very first two entries I tried had zero uses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6]$ grepsrc ICH7_22 ./include/linux/pci_ids.h:#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ICH7_22 0x27e0 [EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:22:25 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Breaks Toshiba laptop: hard lockup --> what is on screen is same as >> working dmesg up to point: "host/uhci.c: detected 2 port" >> >> Same .config as for 2.4.31-hf3 or 2.4.32-pre1 >>

2.4.32-pre2: uhci.c: ff80: host controller halted. very bad

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, More info on Toshiba laptop lockup with 2.4.32-pre2: /var/log/syslog: Jul 28 22:59:33 tosh kernel: Linux version 2.4.32-pre2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5) #4 Thu Jul 28 22:57:05 EST 2005 Jul 28 22:59:33 tosh kernel: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable)

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:05:12 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Here goes another -pre, after a long period. Breaks Toshiba laptop: hard lockup --> what is on screen is same as working dmesg up to point: "host/uhci.c: detected 2 port" Same .config as for 2.4.31-hf3 or

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:05:12 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here goes another -pre, after a long period. Breaks Toshiba laptop: hard lockup -- what is on screen is same as working dmesg up to point: host/uhci.c: detected 2 port Same .config as for 2.4.31-hf3 or 2.4.32-pre1

2.4.32-pre2: uhci.c: ff80: host controller halted. very bad

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
Hi there, More info on Toshiba laptop lockup with 2.4.32-pre2: /var/log/syslog: Jul 28 22:59:33 tosh kernel: Linux version 2.4.32-pre2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5) #4 Thu Jul 28 22:57:05 EST 2005 Jul 28 22:59:33 tosh kernel: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable)

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Grant Coady
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:22:25 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Breaks Toshiba laptop: hard lockup -- what is on screen is same as working dmesg up to point: host/uhci.c: detected 2 port Same .config as for 2.4.31-hf3 or 2.4.32-pre1 http://scatter.mine.nu/test/linux-2.4/tosh/

Re: xor as a lazy comparison

2005-07-27 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:58:48 -0400, "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I think the XOR thread was started by somebody as a ruse or >a joke. XOR will always destroy the value of an operand. You missed the part where somebody checked assembler output and found compiler

Re: xor as a lazy comparison

2005-07-27 Thread Grant Coady
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:58:48 -0400, linux-os \(Dick Johnson\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the XOR thread was started by somebody as a ruse or a joke. XOR will always destroy the value of an operand. You missed the part where somebody checked assembler output and found compiler optimised

Re: Weird USB errors on HD

2005-07-26 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:34:10 -0600, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Karim Yaghmour wrote: >> That being said, shouldn't there be a way for the kernel to refuse to >> use this hd if it's not getting enough power. I don't know enough about >> USB to say, but isn't there something more

Re: [SOLVED ?] VIA KT400 + Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + ehci_hcd = IRQ trouble

2005-07-26 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:39:26 +0200, Michel Bouissou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yes, but it doesn't tell us why kernels 2.4x felt perfectly happy with the old >BIOS... You turned off 4k stacks? I have a Via KM400 chipset box locked up a few times, once under 2.4.31-hf2 after 4.5 hours

Re: [SOLVED ?] VIA KT400 + Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + ehci_hcd = IRQ trouble

2005-07-26 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:39:26 +0200, Michel Bouissou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but it doesn't tell us why kernels 2.4x felt perfectly happy with the old BIOS... You turned off 4k stacks? I have a Via KM400 chipset box locked up a few times, once under 2.4.31-hf2 after 4.5 hours compiling

Re: Weird USB errors on HD

2005-07-26 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:34:10 -0600, Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karim Yaghmour wrote: That being said, shouldn't there be a way for the kernel to refuse to use this hd if it's not getting enough power. I don't know enough about USB to say, but isn't there something more elegant

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 test: finding compile errors with make randconfig

2005-07-25 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:27:22 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You should edit init/Kconfig to disallow CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=n, since >any errors you see with CONFIG_BROKEN=y aren't interesting. Straight over the top of my head yesterday :) Is the following what you had in mind?

Re: 2.6.13-rc3 test: finding compile errors with make randconfig

2005-07-25 Thread Grant Coady
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:27:22 +0200, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should edit init/Kconfig to disallow CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=n, since any errors you see with CONFIG_BROKEN=y aren't interesting. Straight over the top of my head yesterday :) Is the following what you had in mind?

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