Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
ttp://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/1/175 Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 14 +- 1 file changed, 5 inse

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
is not defined CONFIG_SECURITY=y will activate it. This makes it a bit easier to do (cat original-config myconfig myconfig2 ... .config) and run menuconfig as expected. Posted at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/25/81 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/1/175 Signed-off-by: Jan

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

2007-10-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 18 2007 17:21, Jaroslav Sykora wrote: Hello, Let's say we have an archive file hello.zip with a hello world program source code. We want to do this: cat hello.zip^/hello.c gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello etc.. The '^' is an escape character and it tells the computer

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

2007-10-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 18 2007 19:07, Jaroslav Sykora wrote: On Oct 18 2007 17:21, Jaroslav Sykora wrote: Hello, Let's say we have an archive file hello.zip with a hello world program source code. We want to do this: cat hello.zip^/hello.c gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello etc.. The '^'

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

2007-10-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 18 2007 22:10, Jaroslav Sykora wrote: A minor implementation problem with chrooted environment is that the FUSE VFS server must be run with root privileges to allow setuid programs on the mounted filesystems. But it's certainly doable. You would not want user-supplied filesystems to

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

2007-10-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 19 2007 05:32, David Newall wrote: The claim is wrong. UNIX systems have traditionally allowed the superuser to create hard links to directories. See link(2) for 2.10BSD http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=linksektion=2manpath=2.10+BSD. Having got that wrong throws doubt on

Re: your mail

2007-10-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 17 2007 16:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:30:24 + >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: ^^ > >subscribe linux-alpha ^ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH] vc bell config

2007-10-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
;> as sysfs parameters for default pitch and duration. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >There are more parameters that should be set during reset... like >cursor size and color, palette, What about /sys/.../string_to_interpret >_on

Re: Community research

2007-10-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 17 2007 15:13, Kristoffer Ericson wrote: >> >> 536 total / 472 from Hungary / 4 United States / 1 Ukraine / 1 UK / 1 >> Turkey / 2 Sweden / 4 Slovakia / 1 Singapore / 2 Serbia / 2 Russia / 7 > >sweden only 2? And how did Hungary get so many developers? Supposedly gave the link to all

Re: Community research

2007-10-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 17 2007 15:13, Kristoffer Ericson wrote: 536 total / 472 from Hungary / 4 United States / 1 Ukraine / 1 UK / 1 Turkey / 2 Sweden / 4 Slovakia / 1 Singapore / 2 Serbia / 2 Russia / 7 sweden only 2? And how did Hungary get so many developers? Supposedly gave the link to all friends

Re: [PATCH] vc bell config

2007-10-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are more parameters that should be set during reset... like cursor size and color, palette, What about /sys/.../string_to_interpret _on_reset ? On reset(1), cursor size, palette, and bell parameters _do_ get reset to the defaults. Some

Re: your mail

2007-10-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 17 2007 16:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:30:24 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ^^ subscribe linux-alpha ^ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 16:23, Rik van Riel wrote: >> >base function: >> >Starting from a stock distro (FC, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE...) and put down a >> >kernel.org tree and automatically create a .config with all the >> >drivers needed for the platform I'm building on. >> >> Too easy. Since opensuse's udev

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote: > >base function: >Starting from a stock distro (FC, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE...) and put down a >kernel.org tree and automatically create a .config with all the drivers >needed for the platform I'm building on. Too easy. Since opensuse's udev loads most of the

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi Sam, On Oct 16 2007 06:29, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:44:08PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> Allow config variables in .config to override earlier ones in the same >> file. In other words, >> >> # CONFIG_SECURITY is not

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 14:19, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >Sizes in Kb again: > >32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z >33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma > >P.S. sorting files by extension in tarball generally helps, but in case >of Linux kernel, they are all C code anyway, so no measurable gain there. Extension is not

Re: [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 18:26, Nick Piggin wrote: >> >> It also does not seem needed, since it did not exist before. >> >> It should go, you can set the variable with brd.rd_nr=XXX (same >> >> goes for ramdisk_size). >> > >> >But only if it's a module? >> >> Attributes always work. Try

Re: [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 18:07, Nick Piggin wrote: >Changed. But it will hopefully just completely replace rd.c, >so I will probably just rename it to rd.c at some point (and >change .config options to stay compatible). Unless someone >sees a problem with that? I do not see a problem with keeping brd

Re: [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 17:47, Nick Piggin wrote: > >Here's a quick first hack... Inline patches preferred ;-) >+config BLK_DEV_BRD >+ tristate "RAM block device support" >+ ---help--- >+This is a new based block driver that replaces BLK_DEV_RAM. based on what? -^ >+

Re: [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 17:47, Nick Piggin wrote: Here's a quick first hack... Inline patches preferred ;-) +config BLK_DEV_BRD + tristate RAM block device support + ---help--- +This is a new based block driver that replaces BLK_DEV_RAM. based on what? -^ +To

Re: [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 18:07, Nick Piggin wrote: Changed. But it will hopefully just completely replace rd.c, so I will probably just rename it to rd.c at some point (and change .config options to stay compatible). Unless someone sees a problem with that? I do not see a problem with keeping brd either.

Re: [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 18:26, Nick Piggin wrote: It also does not seem needed, since it did not exist before. It should go, you can set the variable with brd.rd_nr=XXX (same goes for ramdisk_size). But only if it's a module? Attributes always work. Try

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 14:19, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Sizes in Kb again: 32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma P.S. sorting files by extension in tarball generally helps, but in case of Linux kernel, they are all C code anyway, so no measurable gain there. Extension is not all so

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi Sam, On Oct 16 2007 06:29, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:44:08PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Allow config variables in .config to override earlier ones in the same file. In other words, # CONFIG_SECURITY is not defined CONFIG_SECURITY=y will activate

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote: base function: Starting from a stock distro (FC, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE...) and put down a kernel.org tree and automatically create a .config with all the drivers needed for the platform I'm building on. Too easy. Since opensuse's udev loads most of the modules

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 16 2007 16:23, Rik van Riel wrote: base function: Starting from a stock distro (FC, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE...) and put down a kernel.org tree and automatically create a .config with all the drivers needed for the platform I'm building on. Too easy. Since opensuse's udev loads most of the

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 15 2007 18:36, Philippe Elie wrote: >> >> Isn't make -j 2 or more implemented by running multiple make in sub-dirs ? >> Parallel make is more and more used even on cheap hardware. > >Errm, I misread what you said, it can be a single Makefile in each sub-dirs Even now, make -j8 really

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-10-15 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 15 2007 18:36, Philippe Elie wrote: Isn't make -j 2 or more implemented by running multiple make in sub-dirs ? Parallel make is more and more used even on cheap hardware. Errm, I misread what you said, it can be a single Makefile in each sub-dirs Even now, make -j8 really pays off on

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 16:58, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > compress: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 10544 war 20 0 700m 681m 1632 S 141 20.7 1:41.46 7z Just how you can utilize a CPU to 141% remains a mystery.. [ to be noted this is sqrt(2)*100 ] - To

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 15:53, Justin Piszcz wrote: >> >> What's with all these odd formats, and where is .zip? :) >> Somehow... have you tried lrzip? > $ apt-cache search lrzip > $ > > I tried most of the main ones in the standard testing distribution within > Debian. Debian is not a solution to

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 15:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > It turns out the one I did not test, was actually the best: > > Used: 7z -mx=9 a linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z linux-2.6.16.17.tar > > $ du -sk * | sort -n > 32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z > 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma > 33760 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar >

Re: System.map

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 19:07, Philip wrote: > >I want to write a script, which shows the name of the relevant >kernel module for each listed pci device shown by 'lspci -m'. It's >easy to find out the name of the corresponding module, if the driver >has been compiled as a loadable kernel module: The file

Re: wierd file perms

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 09:27, Mark Lord wrote: > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >> On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > I was surprised and did an ls -l on the files and guess what I found: >> > >> > total 0 >> > ?- ? ? ? ?? fcntl.c >> >

Re: wierd file perms

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 14:30, Bauke Jan Douma wrote: >> On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > I was surprised and did an ls -l on the files and guess what I found: >> > >> > total 0 >> > ?- ? ? ? ?? fcntl.c >> > ?- ? ? ? ?

Re: wierd file perms

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 14:30, Bauke Jan Douma wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was surprised and did an ls -l on the files and guess what I found: total 0 ?- ? ? ? ?? fcntl.c ?- ? ? ? ?? fifo.c

Re: wierd file perms

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 09:27, Mark Lord wrote: Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was surprised and did an ls -l on the files and guess what I found: total 0 ?- ? ? ? ?? fcntl.c ?- ? ? ? ?

Re: System.map

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 19:07, Philip wrote: I want to write a script, which shows the name of the relevant kernel module for each listed pci device shown by 'lspci -m'. It's easy to find out the name of the corresponding module, if the driver has been compiled as a loadable kernel module: The file

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 15:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: It turns out the one I did not test, was actually the best: Used: 7z -mx=9 a linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z linux-2.6.16.17.tar $ du -sk * | sort -n 32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma 33760 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar 38064

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 15:53, Justin Piszcz wrote: What's with all these odd formats, and where is .zip? :) Somehow... have you tried lrzip? $ apt-cache search lrzip $ I tried most of the main ones in the standard testing distribution within Debian. Debian is not a solution to everything.

Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

2007-10-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 14 2007 16:58, Justin Piszcz wrote: compress: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 10544 war 20 0 700m 681m 1632 S 141 20.7 1:41.46 7z Just how you can utilize a CPU to 141% remains a mystery.. [ to be noted this is sqrt(2)*100 ] - To

Re: regression(?): starting with 2.6.21 sending packets became broken.

2007-10-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 13 2007 19:59, David wrote: >Try > >echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling > >I bet you have broken router(s) between your machine and the problem >site(s). There is an xt_TCPOPTSTRIP module in the works that allows you to strip Window Scaling only on the connections you want

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 13 2007 09:25, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Oct 13 2007 16:01, Stefan Richter wrote: >> > > .config:176:warning: override: reassigning to symbol PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY >> > > .config:176:warning: override: PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY turns sta

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 13 2007 16:01, Stefan Richter wrote: >> >> .config:176:warning: override: reassigning to symbol PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY >> .config:176:warning: override: PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY turns state choice > >Try to make it a single warning. Patches welcome. Even without the patch, i.e. original kconfig

Re: checkpatch: ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch

2007-10-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 13 2007 14:47, Adrian Bunk wrote: >On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:28:00PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> scripts/checkpatch.pl doesn't seem to like this patch: >> >> $ scripts/checkpatch.pl m68k-export-asm-cachectl-h.diff >> ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch >>...

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 13 2007 10:16, Stefan Richter wrote: warning("override: %s turns state choice", sym->name); >>> >>>What does that warning message mean? I can't decipher it. >> >> It is when the value of a "choice" kconfig object is changed, for example >> this .config excerpt: >> >>

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 13 2007 10:16, Stefan Richter wrote: warning(override: %s turns state choice, sym-name); What does that warning message mean? I can't decipher it. It is when the value of a choice kconfig object is changed, for example this .config excerpt: CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y #

Re: checkpatch: ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch

2007-10-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 13 2007 14:47, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:28:00PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: scripts/checkpatch.pl doesn't seem to like this patch: $ scripts/checkpatch.pl m68k-export-asm-cachectl-h.diff ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch ... ---

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 13 2007 16:01, Stefan Richter wrote: .config:176:warning: override: reassigning to symbol PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY .config:176:warning: override: PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY turns state choice Try to make it a single warning. Patches welcome. Even without the patch, i.e. original kconfig behavior,

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 13 2007 09:25, Randy Dunlap wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 13 2007 16:01, Stefan Richter wrote: .config:176:warning: override: reassigning to symbol PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY .config:176:warning: override: PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY turns state choice .config:176:warning: override

Re: regression(?): starting with 2.6.21 sending packets became broken.

2007-10-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 13 2007 19:59, David wrote: Try echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling I bet you have broken router(s) between your machine and the problem site(s). There is an xt_TCPOPTSTRIP module in the works that allows you to strip Window Scaling only on the connections you want (rather

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 12 2007 15:57, Randy Dunlap wrote: >On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:44:08 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> warning("override: %s turns state choice", sym->name); > >What does that warning message mean? I can't decipher it. It is when the value of a &qu

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 12 2007 14:49, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> Allow config variables in .config to override earlier ones in the same >> file. In other words, >> >> # CONFIG_SECURITY is not defined >> CONFIG_SECURITY=y >> >> will

[PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
fig as expected. Previously sent: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/25/81 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/1/175 Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Off-Topic: Patent infringement cases filed in U.S.

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 12 2007 18:25, Renato S. Yamane wrote: > > "IP Innovation LLC has just filed a patent infringement claim against Red Hat > and Novell. It was filed October 9, case no. 2:2007cv00447, IP Innovation, LLC > et al v. Red Hat Inc. et al, in Texas": I think the number of news sites like

Re: oops on rmmod asus_acpi

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, I am wondering about asus_acpi-fix-oops-on-non-asus-machines.patch , which is still neither in mainline git nor in Len's acpi git tree ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/30/29 ). Any plans? thanks, Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 12 2007 15:48, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >The netlink based iptables successor I'm currently working on allows to >dynamically create tables with user-specified priorities and "built-in" >chains. The only built-in tables will be those that need extra >processing (mangle/nat). So it should

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 12 2007 16:30, Al Boldi wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Oct 12 2007 00:31, Al Boldi wrote: >> >With the existence of the mangle table, how useful is the filter table? >> >> A similar discussion was back in March 2007. >> http://marc.info/?l=netfi

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 12 2007 00:31, Al Boldi wrote: > >With the existence of the mangle table, how useful is the filter table? A similar discussion was back in March 2007. http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel=117394977210823=2 http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel=117400063907706=2 in the end, my proposal was

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 12 2007 16:30, Al Boldi wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 12 2007 00:31, Al Boldi wrote: With the existence of the mangle table, how useful is the filter table? A similar discussion was back in March 2007. http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-develm=117394977210823w=2 http://marc.info/?l

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 12 2007 00:31, Al Boldi wrote: With the existence of the mangle table, how useful is the filter table? A similar discussion was back in March 2007. http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-develm=117394977210823w=2 http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-develm=117400063907706w=2 in the end, my proposal was

Re: [RFD] iptables: mangle table obsoletes filter table

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 12 2007 15:48, Patrick McHardy wrote: The netlink based iptables successor I'm currently working on allows to dynamically create tables with user-specified priorities and built-in chains. The only built-in tables will be those that need extra processing (mangle/nat). So it should be

Re: oops on rmmod asus_acpi

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, I am wondering about asus_acpi-fix-oops-on-non-asus-machines.patch , which is still neither in mainline git nor in Len's acpi git tree ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/30/29 ). Any plans? thanks, Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

[PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
as expected. Previously sent: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/25/81 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/1/175 Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- scripts/kconfig/confdata.c

Re: Off-Topic: Patent infringement cases filed in U.S.

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 12 2007 18:25, Renato S. Yamane wrote: IP Innovation LLC has just filed a patent infringement claim against Red Hat and Novell. It was filed October 9, case no. 2:2007cv00447, IP Innovation, LLC et al v. Red Hat Inc. et al, in Texas: I think the number of news sites like

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 12 2007 14:49, Randy Dunlap wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: Allow config variables in .config to override earlier ones in the same file. In other words, # CONFIG_SECURITY is not defined CONFIG_SECURITY=y will activate it. This makes it a bit easier to do (cat original-config

Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

2007-10-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 12 2007 15:57, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:44:08 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: warning(override: %s turns state choice, sym-name); What does that warning message mean? I can't decipher it. It is when the value of a choice kconfig object is changed, for example

Re: TPM driver changes to support multiple locality

2007-10-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 11 2007 11:54, Randy Dunlap wrote: >On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:33:35 -0700 Agarwal, Lomesh wrote: > >> Below is the patch for TPM driver. >> Comments/suggestions? > >Observe/use kernel coding style. >Run the patch thru scripts/checkpatch.pl and check its suggestions. >Use "diffstat -p1 -w70"

Re: Getting problem while building kernel module

2007-10-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 11 2007 15:53, mahamuni ashish wrote: >-- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] device_driver]# make > >gcc -O2 -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -isystem >/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686/include -c >-o ins.o ins.c Time to read Documentation/kbuild/. - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Help with rtc to hpet conversion of OSGPS driver

2007-10-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 11 2007 08:51, Rick Niles wrote: > > Maybe I'm way off here, but that seems to be the function to register a RTC > hardware chip with the kernel. I want to use a real-time clock interrupt to > wake up my driver and service the GPS correlator, about every 500ms. Please > let me know if

Re: Help with rtc to hpet conversion of OSGPS driver

2007-10-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 11 2007 08:01, Rick Niles wrote: > > I've been trying to make the driver work with > Fedora 7 and the 2.6.22 kernel, but the rtc_register() and other RTC functions > seems to have been removed. grep -r rtc_device_register drivers/rtc/ Does that help? > I see they've been replaced by the

Re: Help with rtc to hpet conversion of OSGPS driver

2007-10-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 11 2007 08:01, Rick Niles wrote: I've been trying to make the driver work with Fedora 7 and the 2.6.22 kernel, but the rtc_register() and other RTC functions seems to have been removed. grep -r rtc_device_register drivers/rtc/ Does that help? I see they've been replaced by the

Re: Help with rtc to hpet conversion of OSGPS driver

2007-10-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 11 2007 08:51, Rick Niles wrote: Maybe I'm way off here, but that seems to be the function to register a RTC hardware chip with the kernel. I want to use a real-time clock interrupt to wake up my driver and service the GPS correlator, about every 500ms. Please let me know if I'm

Re: Getting problem while building kernel module

2007-10-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 11 2007 15:53, mahamuni ashish wrote: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] device_driver]# make gcc -O2 -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -isystem /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686/include -c -o ins.o ins.c Time to read Documentation/kbuild/. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: TPM driver changes to support multiple locality

2007-10-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 11 2007 11:54, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:33:35 -0700 Agarwal, Lomesh wrote: Below is the patch for TPM driver. Comments/suggestions? Observe/use kernel coding style. Run the patch thru scripts/checkpatch.pl and check its suggestions. Use diffstat -p1 -w70 and put that

Re: [OT] Argument with an OS professor over profile=3

2007-10-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 11 2007 00:13, Russ Dill wrote: > >/* only text is profiled */ >> prof_len = (unsigned *) &_etext - (unsigned *) &_stext; Uh, that's some evil pointer arithmetic :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Linux 2.6.23

2007-10-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 10 2007 14:36, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >> >> --- linux-2.6.23/include/linux/mm.h.vanilla >> >> +++ linux-2.6.23/include/linux/mm.h >> > >> >> +struct super_block; >> >> extern void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *); >> >> void drop_pagecache(void); >> >> void drop_slab(void); >> >>

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix typo in SubmitChecklist.

2007-10-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 8 2007 14:55, James Bowes wrote: > 20: Check that it all passes `make headers_check'. > > 21: Has been checked with injection of at least slab and page-allocation >-fauilures. See Documentation/fault-injection/. >+failures. See Documentation/fault-injection/. It was a fault

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix typo in SubmitChecklist.

2007-10-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 8 2007 14:55, James Bowes wrote: 20: Check that it all passes `make headers_check'. 21: Has been checked with injection of at least slab and page-allocation -fauilures. See Documentation/fault-injection/. +failures. See Documentation/fault-injection/. It was a fault

Re: Linux 2.6.23

2007-10-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 10 2007 14:36, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: --- linux-2.6.23/include/linux/mm.h.vanilla +++ linux-2.6.23/include/linux/mm.h +struct super_block; extern void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *); void drop_pagecache(void); void drop_slab(void); You probably end up fixing

Re: [OT] Argument with an OS professor over profile=3

2007-10-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 11 2007 00:13, Russ Dill wrote: /* only text is profiled */ prof_len = (unsigned *) _etext - (unsigned *) _stext; Uh, that's some evil pointer arithmetic :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: irq0 stops working

2007-10-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 9 2007 09:26, Vasily Averin wrote: > >On one of our servers timer interrupts (i.e irq0) are stops working. As result >any kernel timers do not triggers and tasks waiting some signals from timers >hangs forever. What kernel.. and tried CONFIG_NO_HZ=n? - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Colored kernel output (run3)

2007-10-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 9 2007 07:12, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: >> >> References: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/1/162 >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/5/199 > >This is quite a long thread :-) It was a patch series after all. But as Greg puts it, be persistent. >> +config VT_PRINTK_COLOR >> +hex "Colored

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight

2007-10-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 8 2007 19:37, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >snip... > >Or maybe we need something much less formal that explain the purpose of the >four tags we use: At least formal try: >Signed-of-by: * Used by original submitter(s). * Also used by maintainers to track the patch's path (ATM, does not imply

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight

2007-10-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 8 2007 19:37, Sam Ravnborg wrote: snip... Or maybe we need something much less formal that explain the purpose of the four tags we use: At least formal try: Signed-of-by: * Used by original submitter(s). * Also used by maintainers to track the patch's path (ATM, does not imply I have

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Colored kernel output (run3)

2007-10-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 9 2007 07:12, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: References: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/1/162 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/5/199 This is quite a long thread :-) It was a patch series after all. But as Greg puts it, be persistent. +config VT_PRINTK_COLOR +hex Colored kernel

Re: irq0 stops working

2007-10-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 9 2007 09:26, Vasily Averin wrote: On one of our servers timer interrupts (i.e irq0) are stops working. As result any kernel timers do not triggers and tasks waiting some signals from timers hangs forever. What kernel.. and tried CONFIG_NO_HZ=n? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: NAK nettiquete (was Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)"

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 7 2007 17:23, Alan Cox wrote: > >>>- If you want to do "pretty" boot up you do it in X or frame buffer >>>(which is going to get easier and easier with the X shift to kernel side >>>video support) >> >> fb is slow. Feels like a 9600bps serial line. > >So fix your fb. There is enough

Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)" + "`Subject:' usage"

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 8 2007 01:02, Oleg Verych wrote: > >If you are not going to see OOPes of new kernels running old distros, ask >any perl hacker (as they lovely mentioned in lkml) to hack for you >something like: > >sed -u -e ' >/^<1/s_^_'$COLOR1'_ >/^<2/s_^_'$COLOR2'_ >/^<3/s_^_'$COLOR3'_

Re: syntax highlighting, emacs ([PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2))

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 8 2007 00:18, Oleg Verych wrote: > >Kind of funny thing with it. One for shell in `mcedit` is much nicer, but >`emacs` is more powerful as editor(R). But both have highlighting >problems with non trivial scripts (quoiting, data here, etc). I don't >know if it will ever be fixed :). No, it

Re: tty UI (Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2))

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 7 2007 22:50, Oleg Verych wrote: > >In fact mc config (ini) section is a better way. Yes, for the default colors. But /usr/share/mc/syntax/ specifies more of them. >I use default blue (which is very annoying) If blue were annoying, it would not be the default Windows background (since

Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)" + "`Subject:' usage"

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 7 2007 21:27, Rene Herman wrote: > > I saw you remark on FB console in a reply to Alan just now and I > quite agree with you. The (current) FB console is slow and I'll add > "dumb" myself. When you have a 1280x1024 screen available, you get > to do cool things like put up nice little

Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)" + "`Subject:' usage"

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 7 2007 22:00, Rene Herman wrote: > On 10/07/2007 09:56 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> Some is good, as long as it is not excessive. While I could imagine that >> Knoppix will abuse the feature and use vt.printk_color=9,9,9,9,11,10,12, this >> is not what serious pe

Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)" + "`Subject:' usage"

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 7 2007 21:13, Willy Tarreau wrote: >There are two distinct populations : > - those [...] >who would never have imagined that pressing Escape >during the boot of windows 3.1/95 provided them with the full text >messages. This is news to me. DOS always showed messages, and

Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)" + "`Subject:' usage"

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 7 2007 20:47, Rene Herman wrote: > >> > Coloring isn't useful. If it was, it would be implemented ~16 years >> > ago. >> >> Congratulations, this is the most stupid argument i've ever read on lkml. > > "Ay. World is finished. Everyone can go home and watch Friends reruns now." > > But

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Colored kernel output (run3)

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 7 2007 18:59, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> > vmlinux: >> > textdata bss dec hex filename >> > 7732358 1157269 401408 9291035 8dc51b vmlinux.before >> > 7732374 1157269 401408 9291051 8dc52b vmlinux.after >> > >> >16 bytes, or 0.0002% of the total text size. So there's

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Colored kernel output (run3)

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 7 2007 18:44, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> This patch makes it possible to give kernel messages a selectable >> color. It can be chosen at compile time, overridden at boot time, and >> changed at run time. > >here's some (good) text footprint data: > >with the feature disabled (which is the

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Colored kernel output (run3)

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 7 2007 18:38, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >minor fix: i had to use the slightly modified patch below instead of the >one you posted, so that the second patch applies fine. What is it that you changed? The printk patches are right at the front, so there should not be any fuzz or offsets (might

Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)" + "`Subject:' usage"

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 7 2007 13:10, Oleg Verych wrote: >This `scrollback' is usual late boot / console one. If fact useful, >until first tty switch or if `screen` cannot be used. But for some >reason if scrolling region (DECSTBM) is less than whole screen, nothing >works. Actually, scrolling begins to work

Re: NAK nettiquete (was Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)"

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 7 2007 16:12, Alan Cox wrote: > >- We run on a lot more than VGA PC consoles >- We have serial consoles (which may or may not be VT132/ANSI compliant) Yes, and the serial driver does not usually pass on vc->vc_color to the real hardware. If it did, it would have to transform it back into

Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output

2007-10-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 6 2007 20:50, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> >>> I start my root xterm in white on blue for identification, so color coding >>> sounds like a great idea to me. >> >> This has nothing to do with xterms, this is "VGA color console" only. >> xterm config is in

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