Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:20:06 -0500 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yuck. And, Linus is just being silly. Wait a year then turn on MMCONFIG :) It took PCI MSI a while to mature, but is finally getting

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:30:58 +0100 Martin Mares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Just make it so. The name is fine, the concept is unavoidable. The people who complain are whiners that haven't ever had to deal with the fact that there are broken machines around. I

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:20:06 -0500 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: Hi, Linus really wants the extended (4Kb) PCI configuration space (using MCFG acpi table etc) to be opt-in, since there's many issues with it and most drivers don't even

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: The problem is that it isn't enough that it works on common machines with good hardware. The problem is that we end up chasing insane bugs, wasting peoples valuable time and effort, on those *few* - out of *millions* - of machines that then surprisingly don't work. And

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Regardless of whether a driver is loaded or not, you may NEED to see extended capabilities. The system may NEED to see those capabilities just to parse them for sane operation. And that's just not true. I don't know why you even

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik wrote: Maybe that day will never come, but it is nonetheless quite possible without today's PCI Express spec for this to happen. er, s/without/within/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: My core assertion: the present situation -- turning off MMCONFIG aggressively -- is greatly preferable to adding pci_enable_mmconfig_accesses(pdev). Well, you do realize that right now we have to have _users_ just doing pci

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: I want to limit that downside. Right now, the easiest way to limit it seems to be to say that those (very very few) drivers that actually care could enable it. That way, we automatically limit it to only those machines that have hardware that cares. Then let's do it

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: But regardless of problems, enabling should be done globally, not per device... I'm ok with trying the globally idea, but it has to be globally but only if absolutely required. And quite frankly, how do you tell whether it's

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: And yes, if you want the capability following to notice automatically when capabilities really do go into the 0x100+ range, that's fine. I suspect Yes, we /must/ do this checking, if we don't already. Hell no. If the user asked

Re: [patch] Make MMCONFIG space (extended PCI config space) a driver opt-in issue

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Loic Prylli wrote: Supporting extended-conf-space is independant of the issue of using mmconf for legacy conf-space. True. There is no real reason to use the same method to access both. I have seen several arguments used that were implying that, and they all seem really bogus to me. Not

Re: [git patches] net driver fixes

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Al Viro wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 12:33:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: A couple [minorly] notable wireless bug fixes, and plenty of viro fixes for obscure issues :) Heh... FWIW, forcedeth patch (sent your way about two weeks ago) also belongs in the same set. If you need a resend

Re: [PATCH 1/2 2.6.25] cxgb3 - parity initialization for T3C adapters.

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add parity initialization for T3C adapters. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied 1-2 to #upstream -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[git patches] net driver fixes

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
A couple serious fixes (wireless, e100, sky2) and a bevy of minor ones. Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: MAINTAINERS|6 ++

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
In 2.6.24, we turned on ACPI support in libata. This is needed in order to support suspend/resume and BIOS passworded drives, but it inevitably brought with it a host of new regressions -- which is what happens anytime you blindly accept ATA commands the BIOS has decided to toss your way. :)

Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: improve warnings about Highpoint RocketRAID 23xx cards

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mark Lord wrote: Improve the existing boot/load time warnings from sata_mv for Highpoint RocketRAID 23xx cards, based on new knowledge about where the BIOS likes to overwrite sectors with metadata. Harmless to us, but very useful for end users. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [PATCH/RFC] [POWERPC] Add fixed-phy support for fs_enet

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jochen Friedrich wrote: This patch adds support to use the fixed-link property of an ethernet node to fs_enet for the CONFIG_PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING case. Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c |9 - 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+),

Re: [PATCH][NETDEV]: remove netif_running() check from myri10ge_poll()

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Gallatin wrote: Remove the bogus netif_running() check from myri10ge_poll(). This eliminates any chance that myri10ge_poll() can trigger an oops by calling netif_rx_complete() and returning with work_done == budget. Signed-off-by: Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> holding onto this

Re: [PATCH][NETDEV]: remove netif_running() check from myri10ge_poll()

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Gallatin wrote: Remove the bogus netif_running() check from myri10ge_poll(). This eliminates any chance that myri10ge_poll() can trigger an oops by calling netif_rx_complete() and returning with work_done == budget. Signed-off-by: Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] holding onto this

Re: [PATCH/RFC] [POWERPC] Add fixed-phy support for fs_enet

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jochen Friedrich wrote: This patch adds support to use the fixed-link property of an ethernet node to fs_enet for the CONFIG_PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING case. Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c |9 - 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1

Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: improve warnings about Highpoint RocketRAID 23xx cards

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mark Lord wrote: Improve the existing boot/load time warnings from sata_mv for Highpoint RocketRAID 23xx cards, based on new knowledge about where the BIOS likes to overwrite sectors with metadata. Harmless to us, but very useful for end users. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
In 2.6.24, we turned on ACPI support in libata. This is needed in order to support suspend/resume and BIOS passworded drives, but it inevitably brought with it a host of new regressions -- which is what happens anytime you blindly accept ATA commands the BIOS has decided to toss your way. :)

[git patches] net driver fixes

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
A couple serious fixes (wireless, e100, sky2) and a bevy of minor ones. Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: MAINTAINERS|6 ++

Re: [PATCH 1/2 2.6.25] cxgb3 - parity initialization for T3C adapters.

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add parity initialization for T3C adapters. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] applied 1-2 to #upstream -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [patch 01/10] e1000e: make E1000E default to the same kconfig setting as E1000

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:39:26PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... So I think the breakage that occurs is mitigated by two factors: 1) kernel hackers that do their own configs are expected to be able to

Re: [patch 01/10] e1000e: make E1000E default to the same kconfig setting as E1000

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make E1000E default to the same kconfig setting as E1000. So people's machiens don't stop working when they use oldconfig. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/s2io.c section fixes

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: Code used by the non-__devinit s2io_open() mustn't be __devinit. This patch fixes the following section mismatch with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n: <-- snip --> ... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x6f6e3e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.20:s2io_test_intr (between 's2io_open'

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/sis190.c section fix

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch fixes the following section mismatch with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n: <-- snip --> ... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text.20+0x4cb25): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:sis190_mii_remove (between 'sis190_init_one' and 'read_eeprom') ... <-- snip --> Signed-off-by:

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/sis190.c section fix

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch fixes the following section mismatch with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n: -- snip -- ... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text.20+0x4cb25): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:sis190_mii_remove (between 'sis190_init_one' and 'read_eeprom') ... -- snip -- Signed-off-by:

Re: [patch 01/10] e1000e: make E1000E default to the same kconfig setting as E1000

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make E1000E default to the same kconfig setting as E1000. So people's machiens don't stop working when they use oldconfig. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Auke Kok [EMAIL

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/s2io.c section fixes

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: Code used by the non-__devinit s2io_open() mustn't be __devinit. This patch fixes the following section mismatch with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n: -- snip -- ... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x6f6e3e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.20:s2io_test_intr (between 's2io_open' and

Re: [patch 01/10] e1000e: make E1000E default to the same kconfig setting as E1000

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:39:26PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... So I think the breakage that occurs is mitigated by two factors: 1) kernel hackers that do their own configs are expected to be able to figure

Re: sata_mv hotplug flaky?

2007-12-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Orion Poplawski wrote: Not sure what the latest status of sata_mv hotplug should be, but it seems close. I'm currently running 2.6.24-0.81.rc4.git7.fc9 with a MV88SX5081. Pulled a couple drives and re-added. One device got re-added, but the other did not. It seems like I got the system to

Re: sata_mv hotplug flaky?

2007-12-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Orion Poplawski wrote: Not sure what the latest status of sata_mv hotplug should be, but it seems close. I'm currently running 2.6.24-0.81.rc4.git7.fc9 with a MV88SX5081. Pulled a couple drives and re-added. One device got re-added, but the other did not. It seems like I got the system to

Re: entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?)

2007-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Theodore Tso wrote: I think the userspace config problems were mainly due to the fact that there wasn't a single official userspace utility package for the random number package. Comments in drivers/char/random.c for how to set up /etc/init.d/random is Just Not Enough. Absolutely. If we

Re: entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?)

2007-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matt Mackall wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:36:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: As an aside... Speaking as the maintainer rng-tools, which is the home of the hardware RNG entropy gathering daemon... I wish somebody (not me) would take rngd and several other projects, and combine them

entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?)

2007-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
As an aside... Speaking as the maintainer rng-tools, which is the home of the hardware RNG entropy gathering daemon... I wish somebody (not me) would take rngd and several other projects, and combine them into a single actively maintained "entropy gathering" package. IMO entropy gathering

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:33:57AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: Huh? What's the concern? All you are submitting is a list of hardware devices in your system. That's hardly anything sensitive We actually had a very vocal minority about all of that which ended up putting

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:33:57AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: Huh? What's the concern? All you are submitting is a list of hardware devices in your system. That's hardly anything sensitive We actually had a very vocal minority about all of that which ended up putting

entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?)

2007-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
As an aside... Speaking as the maintainer rng-tools, which is the home of the hardware RNG entropy gathering daemon... I wish somebody (not me) would take rngd and several other projects, and combine them into a single actively maintained entropy gathering package. IMO entropy gathering

Re: entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?)

2007-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matt Mackall wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:36:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: As an aside... Speaking as the maintainer rng-tools, which is the home of the hardware RNG entropy gathering daemon... I wish somebody (not me) would take rngd and several other projects, and combine them

Re: entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?)

2007-12-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Theodore Tso wrote: I think the userspace config problems were mainly due to the fact that there wasn't a single official userspace utility package for the random number package. Comments in drivers/char/random.c for how to set up /etc/init.d/random is Just Not Enough. Absolutely. If we

Re: [PATCH 2/2] cxgb3 - Parity initialization for T3C adapters

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add parity initialization for T3C adapters. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/adapter.h |1 drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Notable: kill spurious NCQ completion detection libata disabling command queueing (aka NCQ) based on some hueristics for detection device brokenness that ultimately turned out to be broken. Remove the broken hueristic and turn NCQ back on for all the wrongfully maligned hard drives.

[git patches] net driver fixes

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nothing remarkable. Mainly bonding fixes and bringing ibm_newemac up to snuff. Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 29

Re: [PATCH 2/2] cxgb3 - Parity initialization for T3C adapters

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add parity initialization for T3C adapters. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/adapter.h |1 drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c| 82 drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c | 15

Re: [PATCH 1/2] cxgb3 - T3C support update

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Update GPIO mapping for T3C. Update xgmac for T3C support. Fix typo in mtu table. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied #upstream-fixes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: [PATCH 2/2] cxgb3 - Parity initialization for T3C adapters

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add parity initialization for T3C adapters. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/cxgb3/adapter.h |1 drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c| 82

[git patches] net driver fixes

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nothing remarkable. Mainly bonding fixes and bringing ibm_newemac up to snuff. Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 29

Re: [PATCH 2/2] cxgb3 - Parity initialization for T3C adapters

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add parity initialization for T3C adapters. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/cxgb3/adapter.h |1 drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c| 82 drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c | 15 ++

Re: [PATCH 1/2] cxgb3 - T3C support update

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Update GPIO mapping for T3C. Update xgmac for T3C support. Fix typo in mtu table. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] applied #upstream-fixes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-12-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Notable: kill spurious NCQ completion detection libata disabling command queueing (aka NCQ) based on some hueristics for detection device brokenness that ultimately turned out to be broken. Remove the broken hueristic and turn NCQ back on for all the wrongfully maligned hard drives.

Re: Failure with SATA DVD-RW

2007-12-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tom Lanyon wrote: Hi list, Just built a new machine with a Pioneer SATA DVD drive and linux distro install CDs are not recognising it. The drive is connected to the ICH9R southbridge of an Intel P35 chipset motherboard. I can boot from the CD/DVD so the drive itself is working, but the kernel

Re: Failure with SATA DVD-RW

2007-12-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tom Lanyon wrote: Hi list, Just built a new machine with a Pioneer SATA DVD drive and linux distro install CDs are not recognising it. The drive is connected to the ICH9R southbridge of an Intel P35 chipset motherboard. I can boot from the CD/DVD so the drive itself is working, but the kernel

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: fix ADMA ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in ADMA mode on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting the 64-bit DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are allocated so that they don't get allocated above 4GB and break

Re: solid state drive access and context switching

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: For things like SATA based devices they aren't that fast yet. You forget the Gigabyte i-RAM. For others: the i-RAM is a SATA-based device that plugs into a PCI slot on your motherboard (for power), providing RAM+battery backup as fast as your SATA bus and DIMMs will go.

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: drivers/ata/ahci.c |4 drivers/ata/pata_amd.c |5 +++-- drivers/ata/pata_via.c |4 ++-- drivers/ata/sata_mv.c |

[git patches] net driver fixes

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Fixes several ugly bugs... Please pull from 'upstream-fixes' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-fixes to receive the following updates: drivers/net/fec_mpc52xx.c|4 ++-- drivers/net/gianfar.c|2 +-

Re: [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layer functionality

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Vitaly Bordug wrote: With that patch fixed.c now fully emulates MDIO bus, thus no need to duplicate PHY layer functionality. That, in turn, drastically simplifies the code, and drops down line count. As an additional bonus, now there is no need to register MDIO bus for each PHY, all emulated

Re: [PATCH] cxgb - revert file mode changes.

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> revert inavertant file mode changes Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c |0 drivers/net/chelsio/pm3393.c |0 drivers/net/chelsio/sge.c|0 drivers/net/chelsio/sge.h|

Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
ion. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tested-by: "Thomas Lindroth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &l

Re: [PATCH] ahci: add the Device IDs of MCP79 AHCI controller to ahci.c

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
peerchen wrote: Add the device IDs of legacy mode of MCP79 AHCI controller to ahci.c The patch base on kernel 2.6.24-rc3 Signed-off-by: Peer Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied #upstream-fixes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: don't use legacy DMA in ADMA mode (v3)

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: We need to run any DMA command with result taskfile requested in ADMA mode when the port is in ADMA mode, otherwise it may try to use the legacy DMA engine in ADMA mode which is not allowed. Enforce this with BUG_ON() since data corruption could potentially result if this

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: That said, none of the changes are really _exciting_ or really scary. And we should have fixed a number of regressions, although more certainly remain. Any reason for this: mode change 100644 => 100755

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: That said, none of the changes are really _exciting_ or really scary. And we should have fixed a number of regressions, although more certainly remain. Any reason for this: mode change 100644 = 100755

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: don't use legacy DMA in ADMA mode (v3)

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: We need to run any DMA command with result taskfile requested in ADMA mode when the port is in ADMA mode, otherwise it may try to use the legacy DMA engine in ADMA mode which is not allowed. Enforce this with BUG_ON() since data corruption could potentially result if this

Re: [PATCH] ahci: add the Device IDs of MCP79 AHCI controller to ahci.c

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
peerchen wrote: Add the device IDs of legacy mode of MCP79 AHCI controller to ahci.c The patch base on kernel 2.6.24-rc3 Signed-off-by: Peer Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] applied #upstream-fixes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
-by: Thomas Lindroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] applied #upstream-fixes -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: [PATCH] cxgb - revert file mode changes.

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] revert inavertant file mode changes Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c |0 drivers/net/chelsio/pm3393.c |0 drivers/net/chelsio/sge.c|0 drivers/net/chelsio/sge.h|0

Re: [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layer functionality

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Vitaly Bordug wrote: With that patch fixed.c now fully emulates MDIO bus, thus no need to duplicate PHY layer functionality. That, in turn, drastically simplifies the code, and drops down line count. As an additional bonus, now there is no need to register MDIO bus for each PHY, all emulated

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: drivers/ata/ahci.c |4 drivers/ata/pata_amd.c |5 +++-- drivers/ata/pata_via.c |4 ++-- drivers/ata/sata_mv.c |

[git patches] net driver fixes

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Fixes several ugly bugs... Please pull from 'upstream-fixes' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-fixes to receive the following updates: drivers/net/fec_mpc52xx.c|4 ++-- drivers/net/gianfar.c|2 +-

Re: solid state drive access and context switching

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: For things like SATA based devices they aren't that fast yet. You forget the Gigabyte i-RAM. For others: the i-RAM is a SATA-based device that plugs into a PCI slot on your motherboard (for power), providing RAM+battery backup as fast as your SATA bus and DIMMs will go.

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: fix ADMA ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in ADMA mode on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting the 64-bit DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are allocated so that they don't get allocated above 4GB and break

Re: Is BIO_RW_FAILFAST really usable?

2007-12-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Neil Brown wrote: I've been looking at use BIO_RW_FAILFAST in md/raid to improve handling of some error cases. This is particularly significant for the DASD driver (s390 specific). I believe it uses optic fibre to connect to the drives. When one of these paths is unplugged, IO requests will

Re: Is BIO_RW_FAILFAST really usable?

2007-12-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
Neil Brown wrote: I've been looking at use BIO_RW_FAILFAST in md/raid to improve handling of some error cases. This is particularly significant for the DASD driver (s390 specific). I believe it uses optic fibre to connect to the drives. When one of these paths is unplugged, IO requests will

Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
ot;Thomas Lindroth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: REGRESSION: 2.6.24: false double-clicks from USB mouse

2007-12-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: I've only just recently tried running 2.6.24 on my main machine. And it appears that I'll have to go back to 2.6.23, because the USB mouse is not working correctly. Single-clicking on things with 2.6.24 very frequently gives a

Re: REGRESSION: 2.6.24: false double-clicks from USB mouse

2007-12-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: I've only just recently tried running 2.6.24 on my main machine. And it appears that I'll have to go back to 2.6.23, because the USB mouse is not working correctly. Single-clicking on things with 2.6.24 very frequently gives a double-click.

Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
] Acked-by: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll add this to the queue. Sorry for missing it. Jeff -- To unsubscribe

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: drivers/ata/ata_piix.c| 28 +++ drivers/ata/libata-core.c |8 +++-- drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 42

Re: [patch] ata: ahci: Enclosure Management via LED rev2

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: Enclosure Management via LED This patch implements Enclosure Management via the LED protocol as specified in AHCI specification. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This revision makes the change to the comment requested by Mark Lord,

Re: [PATCH] libata: Fix early use of port printk. (Was Re: ata4294967295: failed to start port (errno=-19))

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:34:11 +0200 (EET) Meelis Roos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you stick a stack trace in at that point ? That would help diagnose it a great deal quicker. Finally done - found out hard way that BUG() is too bad and dump_st5ack() suits me better. Thanks.

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Set proper ATA UDMA mode for bf548 according to system clock.

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
sonic zhang wrote: UDMA Mode - Frequency compatibility UDMA5 - 100 MB/s - SCLK = 133 MHz UDMA4 - 66 MB/s- SCLK >= 80 MHz UDMA3 - 44.4 MB/s - SCLK >= 50 MHz UDMA2 - 33 MB/s- SCLK >= 40 MHz Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ata/pata_bf54x.c |7

Re: [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layer functionality

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Vitaly Bordug wrote: With that patch fixed.c now fully emulates MDIO bus, thus no need to duplicate PHY layer functionality. That, in turn, drastically simplifies the code, and drops down line count. As an additional bonus, now there is no need to register MDIO bus for each PHY, all emulated

Re: [PATCH 1/3] cxgb - fix T2 GSO

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The patch ensures that a GSO skb has enough headroom to push an encapsulating cpl_tx_pkt_lso header. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- applied 1-3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 1/3] cxgb - fix T2 GSO

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Divy Le Ray wrote: From: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] The patch ensures that a GSO skb has enough headroom to push an encapsulating cpl_tx_pkt_lso header. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- applied 1-3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [PATCH 1/3] [NET] phy/fixed.c: rework to not duplicate PHY layer functionality

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Vitaly Bordug wrote: With that patch fixed.c now fully emulates MDIO bus, thus no need to duplicate PHY layer functionality. That, in turn, drastically simplifies the code, and drops down line count. As an additional bonus, now there is no need to register MDIO bus for each PHY, all emulated

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Set proper ATA UDMA mode for bf548 according to system clock.

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
sonic zhang wrote: UDMA Mode - Frequency compatibility UDMA5 - 100 MB/s - SCLK = 133 MHz UDMA4 - 66 MB/s- SCLK = 80 MHz UDMA3 - 44.4 MB/s - SCLK = 50 MHz UDMA2 - 33 MB/s- SCLK = 40 MHz Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ata/pata_bf54x.c |7 +++ 1

Re: [PATCH] libata: Fix early use of port printk. (Was Re: ata4294967295: failed to start port (errno=-19))

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:34:11 +0200 (EET) Meelis Roos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you stick a stack trace in at that point ? That would help diagnose it a great deal quicker. Finally done - found out hard way that BUG() is too bad and dump_st5ack() suits me better. Thanks.

Re: [patch] ata: ahci: Enclosure Management via LED rev2

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: Enclosure Management via LED This patch implements Enclosure Management via the LED protocol as specified in AHCI specification. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This revision makes the change to the comment requested by Mark Lord,

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-12-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: drivers/ata/ata_piix.c| 28 +++ drivers/ata/libata-core.c |8 +++-- drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 42

Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card

2007-11-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Sterba wrote: Hi, I'm submitting driver for IPWireless PC Card, used for 4G internet connection. The driver has been in -mm series as ipwireless_cs.git tree for some time, is actively used and there are currently no outstanding bugs. I'd like to let the driver pass through LKML and then

Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card

2007-11-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Sterba wrote: Hi, I'm submitting driver for IPWireless PC Card, used for 4G internet connection. The driver has been in -mm series as ipwireless_cs.git tree for some time, is actively used and there are currently no outstanding bugs. I'd like to let the driver pass through LKML and then

Re: laptop reboots right after hibernation

2007-11-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tejun Heo wrote: 2. Filter out certain commands from ACPI. I definitely don't like BIOS locking up random features via _GTF commands. It makes debugging difficult. I agree. Take a look at what Alan has been doing for the "trusted" command stuff. At the very least we should definitely blare

Re: laptop reboots right after hibernation

2007-11-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Tejun Heo wrote: 2. Filter out certain commands from ACPI. I definitely don't like BIOS locking up random features via _GTF commands. It makes debugging difficult. I agree. Take a look at what Alan has been doing for the trusted command stuff. At the very least we should definitely blare a

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-11-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
ATA_HORKAGE_STUCK_ERR for ATAPI tape drives Gabriel C (1): pata_sis.c: Add Packard Bell EasyNote K5305 to laptops Jeff Garzik (1): pata_ali: trim trailing whitespace (fix checkpatch complaints) Mark Lord (1): libata-scsi: be tolerant of 12-byte ATAPI commands in 16-byte CDBs

[git patches] net driver fixes

2007-11-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
|2 +- include/linux/pci_ids.h|4 16 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-) Ayaz Abdulla (2): forcedeth: new mcp79 pci ids forcedeth boot delay fix Benjamin Herrenschmidt (1): ibm_newemac: Fix possible lockup on close Jeff Garzik (1): dmfe

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Return proper ATA INT status in pata_bf54x driver.

2007-11-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
sonic zhang wrote: INT status can be OR. Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ata/pata_bf54x.c |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) applied - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [PATCH] [libata] Return proper ATA INT status in pata_bf54x driver.

2007-11-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
sonic zhang wrote: INT status can be OR. Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ata/pata_bf54x.c |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) applied - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

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