Compiling Linux kernel into a build directory

2021-04-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, Currently, when one builds the linux kernel, it places .o files all over the source code tree. Is there a way to have the linux kernel build, but place all the .o files into a separate build folder? Similar to how cmake or ninja work when building C source code. One possible advantage of

SO_REUSEADDR compatibility problems

2020-12-03 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, The use case I am struggling with is the use of a Windows program running in wine that is sending and receiving UDP packets. This particular windows program uses SO_REUSEADDR socket option and opens two sockets. Lets call the first one socket A, and the second one Socket B. The SO_REUSEADDR

Re: Let's talk about the elephant in the room - the Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure

2019-08-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 07:47, Daniel Drake wrote: > > Hi, > > And if there is a meaningful way to make the kernel behave better, that would > obviously be of huge value too. > > Thanks > Daniel Hi, Is there a way for an application to be told that there is a memory pressure situation? For

Re: Let's talk about the elephant in the room - the Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure

2019-08-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 02:09, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > > 80% of the last 10 seconds spent in full stall would definitely be a > problem. If the system was already low on memory (which it probably > is, or we would not be reclaiming so hard and registering such a big > stall) then oom-killer

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
The real problem with any new system, is the hardware is designed and then it is a challenge for the software developer to get the software to boot on the new hardware. The nirvana here would be to take the original hardware circuit diagram, and process it to automatically create a config file.

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-06 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
The real problem with any new system, is the hardware is designed and then it is a challenge for the software developer to get the software to boot on the new hardware. The nirvana here would be to take the original hardware circuit diagram, and process it to automatically create a config file.

Re: resume fails to light display on Macbook Pro Retina on 3.8-rc1

2013-02-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 28 February 2013 00:02, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:27:30PM +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> On 26 February 2013 18:11, James Courtier-Dutton >> wrote: >> > On 26 February 2013 17:35, Greg KH wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 201

Re: resume fails to light display on Macbook Pro Retina on 3.8-rc1

2013-02-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 26 February 2013 18:11, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > On 26 February 2013 17:35, Greg KH wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 07:45:45PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 02:32:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: >>> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 04:06

Re: [GIT PULL] Load keys from signed PE binaries

2013-02-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 27 February 2013 11:27, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 27.02.2013 11:17, schrieb James Courtier-Dutton: > > >> 3) Trust based on date. I trust everything from X that I put on my >> system 2 weeks ago, but one week ago X got hacked, so don't trust >> anything new from t

Re: [GIT PULL] Load keys from signed PE binaries

2013-02-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 27 February 2013 09:35, ownssh wrote: > David Howells redhat.com> writes: > >> >> >> Florian Weimer deneb.enyo.de> wrote: >> >> > Seriously, folks, can we go back one step and discuss what problem you >> > are trying to solve? Is it about allowing third-party kernel modules >> > in an

Re: [GIT PULL] Load keys from signed PE binaries

2013-02-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 27 February 2013 09:35, ownssh own...@gmail.com wrote: David Howells dhowells at redhat.com writes: Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de wrote: Seriously, folks, can we go back one step and discuss what problem you are trying to solve? Is it about allowing third-party kernel modules

Re: [GIT PULL] Load keys from signed PE binaries

2013-02-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 27 February 2013 11:27, Alexander Holler hol...@ahsoftware.de wrote: Am 27.02.2013 11:17, schrieb James Courtier-Dutton: 3) Trust based on date. I trust everything from X that I put on my system 2 weeks ago, but one week ago X got hacked, so don't trust anything new from them until

Re: resume fails to light display on Macbook Pro Retina on 3.8-rc1

2013-02-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 26 February 2013 18:11, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 February 2013 17:35, Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 07:45:45PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 02:32:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 04:06

Re: resume fails to light display on Macbook Pro Retina on 3.8-rc1

2013-02-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 28 February 2013 00:02, Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:27:30PM +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: On 26 February 2013 18:11, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 February 2013 17:35, Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote

Re: resume fails to light display on Macbook Pro Retina on 3.8-rc1

2013-02-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 26 February 2013 17:35, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 07:45:45PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 02:32:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: >> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 04:06:02PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: >> > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Greg KH >> > > wrote: >> > >

Re: resume fails to light display on Macbook Pro Retina on 3.8-rc1

2013-02-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 26 February 2013 17:35, Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 07:45:45PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 02:32:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 04:06:02PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Greg KH

Re: Comparing linux kernel trees.

2013-01-20 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 20 January 2013 13:27, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> I have been given a linux kernel sources tar file. >> It contains a modified version of the linux kernel. >> It is just source files, without any "git" history. >&g

Re: Comparing linux kernel trees.

2013-01-20 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 20 January 2013 13:27, Clemens Ladisch clem...@ladisch.de wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I have been given a linux kernel sources tar file. It contains a modified version of the linux kernel. It is just source files, without any git history. What I would like to do is compare

Re: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support

2012-11-08 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, The basis for any secure boot is a way to detect that the system has been tampered with or not. "Tamper Evidence". There are two main vectors for a system to be tampered with. Someone local to the machine and remote users who can access the machine across a network interface. (this includes

Re: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support

2012-11-08 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, The basis for any secure boot is a way to detect that the system has been tampered with or not. Tamper Evidence. There are two main vectors for a system to be tampered with. Someone local to the machine and remote users who can access the machine across a network interface. (this includes the

Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Better handling of insane CMOS values

2012-07-31 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 31 July 2012 07:35, John Stultz wrote: > So CAI Qian noticed recent boot trouble on a machine that had its CMOS > clock configured for the year 8200. > See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/29/188 > > While running with a crazy CMOS clock isn't advised, and a simple > "don't do that" might be

Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Better handling of insane CMOS values

2012-07-31 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 31 July 2012 07:35, John Stultz john.stu...@linaro.org wrote: So CAI Qian noticed recent boot trouble on a machine that had its CMOS clock configured for the year 8200. See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/29/188 While running with a crazy CMOS clock isn't advised, and a simple don't do that

Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels

2007-12-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
J.A. Magallón wrote: I need to get rid of -mregparm=3 on gcc's command line. It is completely incompatible with the standard calling conventions used in all our assembly-language files in our drivers. We make very high-speed number-crunching drivers that munge high-speed data into images. We

Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels

2007-12-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
J.A. Magallón wrote: I need to get rid of -mregparm=3 on gcc's command line. It is completely incompatible with the standard calling conventions used in all our assembly-language files in our drivers. We make very high-speed number-crunching drivers that munge high-speed data into images. We

Re: Coding Style: indenting with tabs vs. spaces

2007-11-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
DervishD wrote: Bonjour Xavier :) * Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 13:04 +0100, DervishD a écrit : * Benny Halevy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: I would like to hear peoples opinion about the indentation convention described below that

Re: Coding Style: indenting with tabs vs. spaces

2007-11-11 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
DervishD wrote: Bonjour Xavier :) * Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 13:04 +0100, DervishD a écrit : * Benny Halevy [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: I would like to hear peoples opinion about the indentation convention described below that I

Re: file system for solid state disks

2007-08-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Daniel J Blueman wrote: On 23 Aug, 07:00, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 23 2007 01:01, Richard Ballantyne wrote: What file system that is already in the linux kernel do people recommend I use for my laptop that now contains a solid state disk? If I had to

Re: file system for solid state disks

2007-08-23 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Daniel J Blueman wrote: On 23 Aug, 07:00, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 23 2007 01:01, Richard Ballantyne wrote: What file system that is already in the linux kernel do people recommend I use for my laptop that now contains a solid state disk? If I had to

Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt

2007-08-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Chris Wright wrote: > * James Courtier-Dutton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> If one could directly expose a device to the guest, this feature could >> be extremely useful for me. >> Is it possible? How would it manage to handle the DMA bus mastering? > > Yes it's poss

Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt

2007-08-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Zachary Amsden wrote: >> This patch provides hypercalls for the i386 port I/O instructions, >> which vastly helps guests which use native-style drivers. For certain >> VMI workloads, this provides a performance boost of up to 30%. We >> expect KVM and lguest to be

Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt

2007-08-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Zachary Amsden wrote: This patch provides hypercalls for the i386 port I/O instructions, which vastly helps guests which use native-style drivers. For certain VMI workloads, this provides a performance boost of up to 30%. We expect KVM and lguest to be able to

Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt

2007-08-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Chris Wright wrote: * James Courtier-Dutton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If one could directly expose a device to the guest, this feature could be extremely useful for me. Is it possible? How would it manage to handle the DMA bus mastering? Yes it's possible (Xen supports pci pass through

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:21:03 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Any ideas? BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0009 83 ca 10 or $0x10,%edx 3b

Re: Oops in 2.6.19.1

2006-12-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:21:03 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: Any ideas? BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0009 83 ca 10 or $0x10,%edx 3b

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-24 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Greg KH wrote: Numerous kernel developers feel that loading non-GPL drivers into the kernel violates the license of the kernel and their copyright. Because of this, a one year notice for everyone to address any non-GPL compatible modules has been

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-24 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Greg KH wrote: Numerous kernel developers feel that loading non-GPL drivers into the kernel violates the license of the kernel and their copyright. Because of this, a one year notice for everyone to address any non-GPL compatible modules has been

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Ben Collins wrote: Here's the list of proprietary drivers that are in Ubuntu's restricted modules package: madwifi (closed hal implementation, being replaced in openhal) fritz ati nvidia ltmodem (does that even still work?) ipw3945d (not a kernel

Re: Executability of the stack

2006-12-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:26 +0100, Franck Pommereau wrote: Dear Linux developers, I recently discovered that the Linux kernel on 32 bits x86 processors reports the stack as being non-executable while it is actually executable (because located in the same memory

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Duncan Sands wrote: I'm really not convinced about the user-mode thing unless somebody can show me a good reason for it. Not just some "wouldn't it be nice" kind of thing. A real, honest-to-goodness reason that we actually _want_ to see used. Qemu? It would be nice if emulators could

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Duncan Sands wrote: I'm really not convinced about the user-mode thing unless somebody can show me a good reason for it. Not just some wouldn't it be nice kind of thing. A real, honest-to-goodness reason that we actually _want_ to see used. Qemu? It would be nice if emulators could directly

Re: Executability of the stack

2006-12-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:26 +0100, Franck Pommereau wrote: Dear Linux developers, I recently discovered that the Linux kernel on 32 bits x86 processors reports the stack as being non-executable while it is actually executable (because located in the same memory

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Ben Collins wrote: Here's the list of proprietary drivers that are in Ubuntu's restricted modules package: madwifi (closed hal implementation, being replaced in openhal) fritz ati nvidia ltmodem (does that even still work?) ipw3945d (not a kernel

Re: Overriding X on panic

2006-11-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Alan wrote: On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:54:53 -0500 Casey Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Linus did say that he would do anything within reason to help desktop linux forward, and frankly a big step forward would be to get error messages to the user. What might be some safe options for overriding,

Re: Overriding X on panic

2006-11-26 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Alan wrote: On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:54:53 -0500 Casey Dahlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus did say that he would do anything within reason to help desktop linux forward, and frankly a big step forward would be to get error messages to the user. What might be some safe options for overriding,

Re: snd-emu10k1 broken in 2.6.13

2005-09-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
dragoran wrote: Niko Nitsche wrote: dragoran wrote: Hello. I am running FC4 and compiled a vanilla linux 2.6.13. After booting the kernel I see an error messages that says that it was unable to load snd-emu10k1 (see dmesg). In dmesg I got this: Sep 4 10:09:47 chello062178124144 kernel:

Re: snd-emu10k1 broken in 2.6.13

2005-09-04 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
dragoran wrote: Niko Nitsche wrote: dragoran wrote: Hello. I am running FC4 and compiled a vanilla linux 2.6.13. After booting the kernel I see an error messages that says that it was unable to load snd-emu10k1 (see dmesg). In dmesg I got this: Sep 4 10:09:47 chello062178124144 kernel:

Re: SysFS, module names and .name

2005-09-03 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:17:57AM +0200, iSteve wrote: Yes, I am rather interested -- could you please provide details about this method? For PCI drivers, just add the line: .owner = THIS_MODULE, to their struct pci_driver definition and you will get the symlink

Re: SysFS, module names and .name

2005-09-03 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:17:57AM +0200, iSteve wrote: Yes, I am rather interested -- could you please provide details about this method? For PCI drivers, just add the line: .owner = THIS_MODULE, to their struct pci_driver definition and you will get the symlink

Re: Linux 2.6 context switching and posix threads performance question

2005-08-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Mateusz Berezecki wrote: Hello List Readers, I would really appreciate any comment on the overall performance of task switching with 25 000 threads running on the Linux system. I was asked to work on some software which spawns 25 000 threads and I am really worried if it will ever work on 2 CPU

Re: USB EHCI Problem with Low Speed Devices on kernel 2.6.11+

2005-08-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Dominik Wezel wrote: Problem === When turning on the laptop and during POST and GrUB loading, all ports on the hub are enabled. During the USB initialization phase, when the hub is detected, shortly all ports become disabled, then turn on again (uhci_hcd detects the lo-speed ports).

Re: USB EHCI Problem with Low Speed Devices on kernel 2.6.11+

2005-08-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Dominik Wezel wrote: Problem === When turning on the laptop and during POST and GrUB loading, all ports on the hub are enabled. During the USB initialization phase, when the hub is detected, shortly all ports become disabled, then turn on again (uhci_hcd detects the lo-speed ports).

Re: Linux 2.6 context switching and posix threads performance question

2005-08-28 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Mateusz Berezecki wrote: Hello List Readers, I would really appreciate any comment on the overall performance of task switching with 25 000 threads running on the Linux system. I was asked to work on some software which spawns 25 000 threads and I am really worried if it will ever work on 2 CPU

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Takashi Iwai wrote: At Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:08:07 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 08:48 +0200, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: So, there is no project about this yet No, not yet. The ALSA team has a contact at Creative, I guess the next step is to ask them. Maybe James knows at

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Takashi Iwai wrote: At Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:08:07 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 08:48 +0200, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: So, there is no project about this yet No, not yet. The ALSA team has a contact at Creative, I guess the next step is to ask them. Maybe James knows at

Re: Bug in pcmcia-core

2005-08-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Adam Belay wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:37:30PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, I have tried conacting the mailing list for the PCMCIA subsystem in Linux, but no-one seems to respond. PCMCIA SUBSYSTEM L: http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia S

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

2005-08-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Anyone wishing to help fix this, please see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5057 Takashi Iwai wrote: At Tue, 09 Aug 2005 02:54:49 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: [added James to cc:] On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:40 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:43, Andrew

Re: Bug in pcmcia-core

2005-08-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Adam Belay wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:37:30PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, I have tried conacting the mailing list for the PCMCIA subsystem in Linux, but no-one seems to respond. PCMCIA SUBSYSTEM L: http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia S

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

2005-08-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Anyone wishing to help fix this, please see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5057 Takashi Iwai wrote: At Tue, 09 Aug 2005 02:54:49 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: [added James to cc:] On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:40 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:43, Andrew

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-08-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thorsten Knabe wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Andrew Haninger wrote: Thorsten: Please remember to include the list(s) when emailing those links/numbers. I'd like to be able to watch it, too, and add any information that I can, rather than entering a duplicate bug. Hello. I have taken a closer

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-08-02 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Thorsten Knabe wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Andrew Haninger wrote: Thorsten: Please remember to include the list(s) when emailing those links/numbers. I'd like to be able to watch it, too, and add any information that I can, rather than entering a duplicate bug. Hello. I have taken a closer

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-31 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- I've Cc'ed the people listed in MAINTAINERS as being responsible for one or more of these drivers, and I've also

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1

2005-07-31 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:04:59PM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc4/2.6.13-rc4-mm1/ Why was the KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro removed from include/linux/version.h? The removal breaks external drivers

Re: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1

2005-07-31 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:04:59PM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc4/2.6.13-rc4-mm1/ Why was the KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro removed from include/linux/version.h? The removal breaks external drivers

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-31 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I've Cc'ed the people listed in MAINTAINERS as being responsible for one or more of these drivers, and I've also

2.6.13-rc2-mm2 slab.c problem. Fails to boot.

2005-07-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
I have a problem with slab.c where it fails to boot the kernel. The first call to kmem_cache_create():about line 1063: using the INDEX_AC parameter succeeds and exits via the kcc:left_over route. The second call to kmem_cache_create():about line 1069: using the INDEX_L3 parameter fails and exits

2.6.13-rc2-mm2 slab.c problem. Fails to boot.

2005-07-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
I have a problem with slab.c where it fails to boot the kernel. The first call to kmem_cache_create():about line 1063: using the INDEX_AC parameter succeeds and exits via the kcc:left_over route. The second call to kmem_cache_create():about line 1069: using the INDEX_L3 parameter fails and exits

Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7

2005-04-18 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Chris Friesen wrote: > Chris Wedgwood wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:19:57PM +0900, Takashi Ikebe wrote: >> >> >>> From our experience, sometimes patches became to dozens to hundreds >>> at one patching, and in this case GDB based approach cause target >>> process's availability descent.

Re: [PATCH x86_64] Live Patching Function on 2.6.11.7

2005-04-18 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Chris Friesen wrote: Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:19:57PM +0900, Takashi Ikebe wrote: From our experience, sometimes patches became to dozens to hundreds at one patching, and in this case GDB based approach cause target process's availability descent. could you

Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.

2005-03-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Mark Fortescue wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing a "Proprietry" driver module for a "Proprietry" PCI card and > I have found that I can't use SYSFS on Linux-2.6.10. > > Why ?. > > I am not modifing the Kernel/SYSFS code so I should be able, to use all > the SYSFS/internal kernel function calls

Re: Can't use SYSFS for Proprietry driver modules !!!.

2005-03-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Mark Fortescue wrote: Hi, I am writing a Proprietry driver module for a Proprietry PCI card and I have found that I can't use SYSFS on Linux-2.6.10. Why ?. I am not modifing the Kernel/SYSFS code so I should be able, to use all the SYSFS/internal kernel function calls without

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11-rc[234] setfont fails on i810 after resume from ACPI-S3

2005-02-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Any thoughts on this one? We should come back from resume in 30-row mode, shouldn't we? Well, current state of video resume is "we are happy to see anything at all". HW info Using vga=0xf07, default8x16 font, display has 30 lines On powerup from S3 console has only 25

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11-rc[234] setfont fails on i810 after resume from ACPI-S3

2005-02-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Any thoughts on this one? We should come back from resume in 30-row mode, shouldn't we? Well, current state of video resume is "we are happy to see anything at all". HW info Using vga=0xf07, default8x16 font, display has 30 lines On powerup from S3 console has only 25

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11-rc[234] setfont fails on i810 after resume from ACPI-S3

2005-02-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Any thoughts on this one? We should come back from resume in 30-row mode, shouldn't we? Well, current state of video resume is we are happy to see anything at all. HW info Using vga=0xf07, default8x16 font, display has 30 lines On powerup from S3 console has only 25

Re: [BUG] 2.6.11-rc[234] setfont fails on i810 after resume from ACPI-S3

2005-02-21 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Any thoughts on this one? We should come back from resume in 30-row mode, shouldn't we? Well, current state of video resume is we are happy to see anything at all. HW info Using vga=0xf07, default8x16 font, display has 30 lines On powerup from S3 console has only 25