newlist: public malware discussion [Re: Out of tree module using LSM]

2007-12-03 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 23:45 +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Jon Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:11 -0800, Ray Lee wrote: > >> On Nov 29, 2007 10:56 AM, Jon Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:4

newlist: public malware discussion [Re: Out of tree module using LSM]

2007-12-03 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 23:45 +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:11 -0800, Ray Lee wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 10:56 AM, Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:40 -0800, Ray Lee wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 9:36 AM, Alan

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:45 +, Alan Cox wrote: > > Jargon File in all its glory. And if you still think you could look for > > patterns, how about executable code that self-modifies in random ways > > but when executed as a whole actually has the functionality of fetchmail > > embedded within

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:56 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:45:51 EST, Jon Masters said: > > Ah, but I could write a sequence of pages that on their own looked > > garbage, but in reality, when executed would print out a copy of the > > Jargon

Re: Peculiar out-of-sync boot log lines

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 19:37 +, Nick Warne wrote: > Hi all, > > 2.6.23.9 > > I have noticed after applying Bart's patch to word93 blacklist my new > DVD drive: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/23/475 > > I see now in logs (look at the hdd line: > > [dmesg] > hdc: 39876480 sectors (20416

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:11 -0800, Ray Lee wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 10:56 AM, Jon Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:40 -0800, Ray Lee wrote: > > > On Nov 29, 2007 9:36 AM, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:40 -0800, Ray Lee wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 9:36 AM, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > closed. But more importantly further access to it can be blocked until > > > appropriate actions are taken which also applies with your example, no? Is > > > > That bit is hard-

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:19 -0700, Justin Banks wrote: > Ray Lee wrote > > On Nov 29, 2007 9:45 AM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Perhaps if you looked at this outside of a file-server scenario, the > > > > problem would be clearer? Anti-malware companies want to check > > > >

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:47 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:36:12AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:07 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > The easiest way is as Al described above, just have the userspace > > > program t

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:07 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > The easiest way is as Al described above, just have the userspace > program that wrote the file to disk, check it then. But the problem is that this isn't just Samba, this is a countless myriad of different applications. And if one of them

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:12 +1100, James Morris wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > So as there is no question the current code does some ugly things it is > > even more true that we would be even more happy to use an official API. > > How about becoming involved in

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:12 +1100, James Morris wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So as there is no question the current code does some ugly things it is even more true that we would be even more happy to use an official API. How about becoming involved in creating

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:07 -0800, Greg KH wrote: The easiest way is as Al described above, just have the userspace program that wrote the file to disk, check it then. But the problem is that this isn't just Samba, this is a countless myriad of different applications. And if one of them

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:47 -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:36:12AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:07 -0800, Greg KH wrote: The easiest way is as Al described above, just have the userspace program that wrote the file to disk, check

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:19 -0700, Justin Banks wrote: Ray Lee wrote On Nov 29, 2007 9:45 AM, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps if you looked at this outside of a file-server scenario, the problem would be clearer? Anti-malware companies want to check anything written to

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:40 -0800, Ray Lee wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 9:36 AM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: closed. But more importantly further access to it can be blocked until appropriate actions are taken which also applies with your example, no? Is That bit is hard- very hard.

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:11 -0800, Ray Lee wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 10:56 AM, Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:40 -0800, Ray Lee wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 9:36 AM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: closed. But more importantly further access to it can be blocked

Re: Peculiar out-of-sync boot log lines

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 19:37 +, Nick Warne wrote: Hi all, 2.6.23.9 I have noticed after applying Bart's patch to word93 blacklist my new DVD drive: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/23/475 I see now in logs (look at the hdd line: [dmesg] hdc: 39876480 sectors (20416 MB) w/2048KiB

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:56 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:45:51 EST, Jon Masters said: Ah, but I could write a sequence of pages that on their own looked garbage, but in reality, when executed would print out a copy of the Jargon File in all its glory. And if you

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:45 +, Alan Cox wrote: Jargon File in all its glory. And if you still think you could look for patterns, how about executable code that self-modifies in random ways but when executed as a whole actually has the functionality of fetchmail embedded within it? How

Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.

2007-11-27 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 15:49 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Monday 26 November 2007 17:15:44 Roland Dreier wrote: > > It seems pretty > > clear to me that having a mechanism that requires modules to make > > explicit which (semi-)internal APIs makes reviewing easier > > Perhaps you've got

Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.

2007-11-27 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 15:49 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: On Monday 26 November 2007 17:15:44 Roland Dreier wrote: It seems pretty clear to me that having a mechanism that requires modules to make explicit which (semi-)internal APIs makes reviewing easier Perhaps you've got lots of

Re: [BUG on PREEMPT_RT, 2.6.23.1-rt5] in rt-mutex code and signals

2007-11-18 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 09:55 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > Sure, you want to split the list? I'm happy to grab a few of these too. Let me know if either of you or Ingo is working on the whole lot and about to dump it on us ;-) Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [BUG on PREEMPT_RT, 2.6.23.1-rt5] in rt-mutex code and signals

2007-11-18 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 09:55 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: Sure, you want to split the list? I'm happy to grab a few of these too. Let me know if either of you or Ingo is working on the whole lot and about to dump it on us ;-) Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] New RT Task Balancing -v3

2007-11-17 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 01:21 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Comments welcomed! Looks very cool. I was a little apprehensive about the active synchronous migration/moving runqueues but you seem to have more than proved your point :-) Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] New RT Task Balancing -v3

2007-11-17 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 01:21 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: Comments welcomed! Looks very cool. I was a little apprehensive about the active synchronous migration/moving runqueues but you seem to have more than proved your point :-) Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] module loader should not complain about unknown symbol

2007-11-12 Thread Jon Masters
Rusty, I read your previous email and thought I'd play with it...and then by the time I got around to having some time tonight you'd already done it. You're a machine :-) We actually have some other stuff failing at work due to this exact bug so I will test against RHEL5 tomorrow also. Jon. -

Re: [rfc][patch] remove nopage

2007-11-12 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 03:17 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 02:56 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > This is a patch to remove 'nopage' from the tree. > > Interesting, but why now? What precipitated this? Actually reading said patch and thinking helps. I'll go

Re: [rfc][patch] remove nopage

2007-11-12 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 02:56 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > This is a patch to remove 'nopage' from the tree. Interesting, but why now? What precipitated this? Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [rfc][patch] remove nopage

2007-11-12 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 02:56 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: This is a patch to remove 'nopage' from the tree. Interesting, but why now? What precipitated this? Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [rfc][patch] remove nopage

2007-11-12 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 03:17 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 02:56 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: This is a patch to remove 'nopage' from the tree. Interesting, but why now? What precipitated this? Actually reading said patch and thinking helps. I'll go hide back under my rock

Re: [PATCH] module loader should not complain about unknown symbol

2007-11-12 Thread Jon Masters
Rusty, I read your previous email and thought I'd play with it...and then by the time I got around to having some time tonight you'd already done it. You're a machine :-) We actually have some other stuff failing at work due to this exact bug so I will test against RHEL5 tomorrow also. Jon. -

Re: [PATCH 4/6] scsi: megaraid_sas - call cmd completion from reset

2007-11-11 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 04:35 -0500, bo yang wrote: > Driver will call cmd completion routine from Reset path without waiting for > cmd completion from isr context. Thanks. I'm going to take a look at this, as well as the other recent 2 patches for a couple of test kernels we have that are based

Re: [PATCH 4/6] scsi: megaraid_sas - call cmd completion from reset

2007-11-11 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 04:35 -0500, bo yang wrote: Driver will call cmd completion routine from Reset path without waiting for cmd completion from isr context. Thanks. I'm going to take a look at this, as well as the other recent 2 patches for a couple of test kernels we have that are based on

Re: Module init call vs symbols exporting race?

2007-11-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 13:10 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007 21:01:30 Jan Glauber wrote: > > Hi Rusty, > > > > I've seen a symbol-resolving race on s390. The qeth module uses symbols > > from qdio and although the loading order seems correct and the qdio > > symbols

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:26 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It's full of such *riveting* entries like: > > James Bottomley: > x86: voyager: fix bogus conversion to per_cpu for boot_cpu_info Nobody just happens upon a Voyager quote like that, it takes (at least some) skill to

Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:26 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: It's full of such *riveting* entries like: James Bottomley: x86: voyager: fix bogus conversion to per_cpu for boot_cpu_info Nobody just happens upon a Voyager quote like that, it takes (at least some) skill to find,

Re: Module init call vs symbols exporting race?

2007-11-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 13:10 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2007 21:01:30 Jan Glauber wrote: Hi Rusty, I've seen a symbol-resolving race on s390. The qeth module uses symbols from qdio and although the loading order seems correct and the qdio symbols should be

SCO files for bankruptcy

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Masters
Hey, I wouldn't normally post news stories...but in case anyone is living under a rock, not reading Slashdot, LWN, or one of a bazillion other news sites that are *bound* to cover this at some point about now... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070914152904577 Have an awesome weekend,

SCO files for bankruptcy

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Masters
Hey, I wouldn't normally post news stories...but in case anyone is living under a rock, not reading Slashdot, LWN, or one of a bazillion other news sites that are *bound* to cover this at some point about now... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070914152904577 Have an awesome weekend,

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-06 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 08:55 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:39:11PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:27 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > > > > Now, I suppose its possible that I've not been looking at the right > > > sou

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 08:41 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:26 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 16:30 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > > > > 2nd of two patches. This patch enhances modprobe to operate like rmmod > > > in

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:27 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > Now, I suppose its possible that I've not been looking at the right source > tree > when doing my work. I've based my modprobe patch on this git tree: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kyle/module-init-tools.git;a=summary > If

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 06:51 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:27 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:41:37AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > You have this backwards: O_NONBLOCK is the default. That seems to be > > > what everyone wants, although I

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 16:30 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > 2nd of two patches. This patch enhances modprobe to operate like rmmod > in non-blocking mode. It also adds a -w option to allow for explicit blocking > operation. As I suspected, this patch isn't in the tree. I am going to commit

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:27 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > Now, I suppose its possible that I've not been looking at the right source > tree > when doing my work. I've based my modprobe patch on this git tree: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kyle/module-init-tools.git;a=summary > If

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 03:41 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 13:08 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 02:13:26AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 17:22 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > > > But I'm wondering, wouldn't module refcounting

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 03:41 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 13:08 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 02:13:26AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 17:22 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: But I'm wondering, wouldn't module refcounting alone fix

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:27 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: Now, I suppose its possible that I've not been looking at the right source tree when doing my work. I've based my modprobe patch on this git tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kyle/module-init-tools.git;a=summary If theres

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 16:30 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: 2nd of two patches. This patch enhances modprobe to operate like rmmod in non-blocking mode. It also adds a -w option to allow for explicit blocking operation. As I suspected, this patch isn't in the tree. I am going to commit it

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 06:51 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:27 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:41:37AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: You have this backwards: O_NONBLOCK is the default. That seems to be what everyone wants, although I implemented

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:27 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: Now, I suppose its possible that I've not been looking at the right source tree when doing my work. I've based my modprobe patch on this git tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kyle/module-init-tools.git;a=summary If theres

Re: Size of kernel modules

2007-06-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 15:59 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jun 9 2007 08:08, Jon Masters wrote: > > > >So I missed half of this conversation - you're saying that on a > >CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, you have such large .ko module files that depmod > >segfaults? Can I get

Re: Size of kernel modules

2007-06-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 09:55 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jun 8 2007 08:40, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> > >> If you disable CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, things should go back to normal > >> sizes for you. > > > >grow so much compared to *which other modules*? the ones that came > >with your distro?

Re: Size of kernel modules

2007-06-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 09:55 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jun 8 2007 08:40, Robert P. J. Day wrote: If you disable CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, things should go back to normal sizes for you. grow so much compared to *which other modules*? the ones that came with your distro? if that's the

Re: Size of kernel modules

2007-06-09 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 15:59 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jun 9 2007 08:08, Jon Masters wrote: So I missed half of this conversation - you're saying that on a CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, you have such large .ko module files that depmod segfaults? Can I get a core dump or any further information

Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03

2007-06-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:16 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > So, we had some ISO8859-1 and some UTF-8 in there already. (And as for > MODULE_AUTHOR, it should stay there - 'fix' modinfo instead.) Ok. Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03

2007-06-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:16 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: So, we had some ISO8859-1 and some UTF-8 in there already. (And as for MODULE_AUTHOR, it should stay there - 'fix' modinfo instead.) Ok. Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03

2007-06-07 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 02:04 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The difference is that "ls" expects and handles such issues while > "lsmod" (and most likely also other userspace working with kernel > output) does not yet handle it resulting in problems if bytes are > wrongly interpreted as control

Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03

2007-06-07 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 02:04 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: The difference is that ls expects and handles such issues while lsmod (and most likely also other userspace working with kernel output) does not yet handle it resulting in problems if bytes are wrongly interpreted as control codes. I'm

Re: [RFC] - LXR on kernel.org ? was: Re: What tools to use?

2007-05-14 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 21:44 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-11 10:06:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > On 10/05/07, Shahbaz Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > why not adding a link to every kernel an kernel.org kernel, > >

Re: [RFC] - LXR on kernel.org ? was: Re: What tools to use?

2007-05-14 Thread Jon Masters
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 21:44 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 10:06:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesper Juhl jesper.juhl () gmail ! com wrote: On 10/05/07, Shahbaz Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why not adding a link to every kernel an kernel.org

Re: [mit-devel] Re: module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available

2007-03-22 Thread Jon Masters
Jon Masters wrote: Sergey Vlasov wrote: Has a final decision about generated files been made? I don't see any updates in the git repo, and man pages are still broken I'm doing some patching this afternoon anyway, and it's on my todo. I pushed up v3.3-pre11 just now. If all goes to plan

Re: [mit-devel] Re: module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available

2007-03-22 Thread Jon Masters
Jon Masters wrote: Sergey Vlasov wrote: Has a final decision about generated files been made? I don't see any updates in the git repo, and man pages are still broken I'm doing some patching this afternoon anyway, and it's on my todo. I pushed up v3.3-pre11 just now. If all goes to plan

Re: [mit-devel] Re: module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available

2007-03-20 Thread Jon Masters
Sergey Vlasov wrote: Has a final decision about generated files been made? I don't see any updates in the git repo, and man pages are still broken I'm doing some patching this afternoon anyway, and it's on my todo. Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [mit-devel] Re: module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available

2007-03-20 Thread Jon Masters
Sergey Vlasov wrote: Has a final decision about generated files been made? I don't see any updates in the git repo, and man pages are still broken I'm doing some patching this afternoon anyway, and it's on my todo. Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Loading both the pata_atiixp and the ahci driver causes problems

2007-03-17 Thread Jon Masters
Tejun Heo wrote: Please take a look at the JMB quirk in drivers/pci/quirks.c in the latest libata-dev#upstream tree for details. For interest, I will, thanks for the info. Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Loading both the pata_atiixp and the ahci driver causes problems

2007-03-17 Thread Jon Masters
Tejun Heo wrote: Jon Masters wrote: Chuck Ebbert wrote: If you try to load both the pata_atiixp and the ahci driver (for the same ATI SB600 adapter), very strange things happen. The AHCI driver churns for three minutes or so, spewing messages like this, then nothing works: <6>ata3: SAT

Re: Loading both the pata_atiixp and the ahci driver causes problems

2007-03-17 Thread Jon Masters
Tejun Heo wrote: Jon Masters wrote: Chuck Ebbert wrote: If you try to load both the pata_atiixp and the ahci driver (for the same ATI SB600 adapter), very strange things happen. The AHCI driver churns for three minutes or so, spewing messages like this, then nothing works: 6ata3: SATA link

Re: Loading both the pata_atiixp and the ahci driver causes problems

2007-03-17 Thread Jon Masters
Tejun Heo wrote: Please take a look at the JMB quirk in drivers/pci/quirks.c in the latest libata-dev#upstream tree for details. For interest, I will, thanks for the info. Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Loading both the pata_atiixp and the ahci driver causes problems

2007-03-15 Thread Jon Masters
Chuck Ebbert wrote: If you try to load both the pata_atiixp and the ahci driver (for the same ATI SB600 adapter), very strange things happen. The AHCI driver churns for three minutes or so, spewing messages like this, then nothing works: <6>ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl

Re: Loading both the pata_atiixp and the ahci driver causes problems

2007-03-15 Thread Jon Masters
Chuck Ebbert wrote: If you try to load both the pata_atiixp and the ahci driver (for the same ATI SB600 adapter), very strange things happen. The AHCI driver churns for three minutes or so, spewing messages like this, then nothing works: 6ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)

Re: module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available

2007-02-24 Thread Jon Masters
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Out of the box perhaps if it is the .tar.bz2 archive, but the same does not always hold for CVS repos, much less SVNs [random guess on svn]. He who pulls from a developer tree mostly knows to run 'autogen.sh' or 'autoreconf -fi' beforehand. You know what, you're right of

Re: module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available

2007-02-24 Thread Jon Masters
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Out of the box perhaps if it is the .tar.bz2 archive, but the same does not always hold for CVS repos, much less SVNs [random guess on svn]. He who pulls from a developer tree mostly knows to run 'autogen.sh' or 'autoreconf -fi' beforehand. You know what, you're right of

Re: module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available

2007-02-23 Thread Jon Masters
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:52:20 -0500 Jon Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Sergey Vlasov wrote: | | > I see that you have merged some patches which change depmod.8. | > However, this file is generated from doc/depmod.sgml, which was not

Re: module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available

2007-02-23 Thread Jon Masters
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:52:20 -0500 Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Sergey Vlasov wrote: | | I see that you have merged some patches which change depmod.8. | However, this file is generated from doc/depmod.sgml, which was not | changed appropriately

Re: module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available

2007-02-22 Thread Jon Masters
Sergey Vlasov wrote: I see that you have merged some patches which change depmod.8. However, this file is generated from doc/depmod.sgml, which was not changed appropriately. Ah. A valid point - Luiz, do you want to redo your patch or I can take a look at the SGML source myself. Jon. - To

Re: module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available

2007-02-22 Thread Jon Masters
Sergey Vlasov wrote: I see that you have merged some patches which change depmod.8. However, this file is generated from doc/depmod.sgml, which was not changed appropriately. Ah. A valid point - Luiz, do you want to redo your patch or I can take a look at the SGML source myself. Jon. - To

module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available

2007-02-21 Thread Jon Masters
Yo, After some delay[0] I have uploaded a new version of module-init-tools to http://www.kerneltools.org/ This release mostly has a bunch of build fixes, some memory leakage cleanups that will benefit systems that actually run out of memory (embedded, etc.) and various other things in the

module-init-tools-3.3-pre10 available

2007-02-21 Thread Jon Masters
Yo, After some delay[0] I have uploaded a new version of module-init-tools to http://www.kerneltools.org/ This release mostly has a bunch of build fixes, some memory leakage cleanups that will benefit systems that actually run out of memory (embedded, etc.) and various other things in the

Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick

2007-02-03 Thread Jon Masters
Alan wrote: On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:47:36 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 3 2007 10:31, David Schwartz wrote: The way out of the GPL problem is to make clear that it is *not* a copyright enforcement scheme So why do we have EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL then, if Because if

Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick

2007-02-03 Thread Jon Masters
Alan wrote: On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:47:36 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 3 2007 10:31, David Schwartz wrote: The way out of the GPL problem is to make clear that it is *not* a copyright enforcement scheme So why do we have EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL then, if Because if you

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Masters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "With 100 million computers in use today, we should expect roughly 6 million single bit errors per year. Computer hardware and software companies must receive thousands of "side effect" bug reports and support calls due to memory errors alone. The costs of NOT including

Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Masters
Arjan van de Ven wrote: But you're right, the MODULE_LICENSE tag really does imply that licenses other than the GPL are ok. yup.. BSD licensed modules are clearly ok as well.. So I guess we're going to go with Jan's change then. I just wanted to discuss this briefly since I'm very keen for

Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Masters
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Proposed patch to prohibit loading modules that use early C string termination ("GPL\0 for nothing, folks!") to trick the kernel believing it is loading a GPL driver. Ok. I totally dig the *idea* here - I mean, this issue has been ongoing for a long time now. But I'd

Re: New module-init-tools pre-release (v3.3-pre6)

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Masters
Andrew Morton wrote: No, I was thinking of a record which explicitly mentions module-init-tools. It's not a part of the kernel, but it is closely connected to it, and this is useful information to have in ./MAINTAINERS. Ah, now that makes more sense. I was thinking you were thinking of an

Re: New module-init-tools pre-release (v3.3-pre6)

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:17:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:28:59 -0500 Jon Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I took over upstream maintainership of the module-init-tools package > > from Rusty at the end of last year. > Cool.

[PATCH] Update MAINTAINERS file entry for module-init-tools

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Masters
Jon Masters has taken over upstream maintainership of module-init-tools from Rusty, update MAINTAINERS file to reflect this change and to provide information about the location of new releases and the mailing list. Signed-off-by: Jon Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- MAINTAINERS |7

[PATCH] Update MAINTAINERS file entry for module-init-tools

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Masters
Jon Masters has taken over upstream maintainership of module-init-tools from Rusty, update MAINTAINERS file to reflect this change and to provide information about the location of new releases and the mailing list. Signed-off-by: Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- MAINTAINERS |7 --- 1

Re: New module-init-tools pre-release (v3.3-pre6)

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:17:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:28:59 -0500 Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took over upstream maintainership of the module-init-tools package from Rusty at the end of last year. Cool. A patch to the kernel's ./MAINTAINERS would

Re: New module-init-tools pre-release (v3.3-pre6)

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Masters
Andrew Morton wrote: No, I was thinking of a record which explicitly mentions module-init-tools. It's not a part of the kernel, but it is closely connected to it, and this is useful information to have in ./MAINTAINERS. Ah, now that makes more sense. I was thinking you were thinking of an

Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Masters
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Proposed patch to prohibit loading modules that use early C string termination (GPL\0 for nothing, folks!) to trick the kernel believing it is loading a GPL driver. Ok. I totally dig the *idea* here - I mean, this issue has been ongoing for a long time now. But I'd

Re: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Masters
Arjan van de Ven wrote: But you're right, the MODULE_LICENSE tag really does imply that licenses other than the GPL are ok. yup.. BSD licensed modules are clearly ok as well.. So I guess we're going to go with Jan's change then. I just wanted to discuss this briefly since I'm very keen for

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-02-01 Thread Jon Masters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With 100 million computers in use today, we should expect roughly 6 million single bit errors per year. Computer hardware and software companies must receive thousands of side effect bug reports and support calls due to memory errors alone. The costs of NOT including

New module-init-tools pre-release (v3.3-pre6)

2007-01-31 Thread Jon Masters
Yo, I took over upstream maintainership of the module-init-tools package from Rusty at the end of last year. At this point, there's a public wiki, new pre-release, bugzilla and all that jazz up and running: http://www.kerneltools.org/ has links to the latest release. There's a mailing list,

New module-init-tools pre-release (v3.3-pre6)

2007-01-31 Thread Jon Masters
Yo, I took over upstream maintainership of the module-init-tools package from Rusty at the end of last year. At this point, there's a public wiki, new pre-release, bugzilla and all that jazz up and running: http://www.kerneltools.org/ has links to the latest release. There's a mailing list,

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Apr 7, 2005 6:54 PM, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I propose that everybody who is interested, pick one of the above projects > and join it, to help get it to the point of being able to losslessly import > the version graph. Given the importance, I think that _all_ viable >

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Apr 7, 2005 6:54 PM, Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I propose that everybody who is interested, pick one of the above projects and join it, to help get it to the point of being able to losslessly import the version graph. Given the importance, I think that _all_ viable

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Jon Masters
On Apr 6, 2005 4:42 PM, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as a number of people are already aware (and in some > cases have been aware over the last several weeks), we've > been trying to work out a conflict over BK usage over the last > month or two (and it feels like longer ;). That

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-06 Thread Jon Masters
On Apr 6, 2005 4:42 PM, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as a number of people are already aware (and in some cases have been aware over the last several weeks), we've been trying to work out a conflict over BK usage over the last month or two (and it feels like longer ;). That hasn't

<    3   4   5   6   7   8   9   >