Re: 2.6.20-rc3 regression: suspend to RAM broken on Mac mini Core Duo

2007-01-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 16:17 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote: > No information about the device/driver that refuses to resume. You should be able to identify the problematic driver by removing each driver manually before suspending. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: No sound in KDE with intel hda since 2.6.20-rc1

2007-01-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 19:19 +, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:11, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Friday 29 December 2006 06:25, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > Virtual MIDI Card 1 > > > > > > Compile this feature out, I bet things start working again. > >

Re: [2.6.19] Scheduler starvation of audio?

2007-01-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 11:25 -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > Hello, > > If any of you have used a Commodore 64 emulator in Linux (such as vice) > noticed when using audio there is severe starvation while other activities of > the system are going on. i.e. moving a window in X or starting another >

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

2006-12-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:02 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 14 2006 10:56, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > > > >A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells > >100 pieces per year, only in Germany and only with Windows drivers. He would > >now like to make his cards wo

Re: [patch 1/4] - Potential performance bottleneck for Linxu TCP

2006-11-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 09:33 +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 07:56:58PM -0600, Wenji Wu wrote: > > Yes, when CONFIG_PREEMPT is disabled, the "problem" won't happen. That is > > why I put "for 2.6 desktop, low-latency desktop" in the uploaded paper. > > This "problem" happ

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt5

2006-11-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:53 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I know you've pushed > me to move to PAM telling me realtime-lsm wasn't going to work in the > future. I really just wanted to know that PAM was now a requirement > instead of only best practice. I said it was not guaranteed to work. It sho

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns

2006-11-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:58 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > Hi, I'm trying out the latest -rt patch and getting alsa xruns when > using jackd and jack clients. This is a sample from the output of > qjackctl / jackd (jack 0.102.25, qjackctl 0.2.21): Any improvement if you disable high res ti

Re: Scenario passes on 2.6.15.26 but fails on 2.6.11.4-20a kernel

2006-11-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 18:21 +0300, realales wrote: > Also I analyzed XTEST sources without any success. > I know that this is unlikely the right place to ask this but could > someone please point me on the right way to move further?! Or may it > be already a know problem for somebody? Sounds lik

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt5

2006-11-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 06:06 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Ingo, >I started building the new kernels a few days ago with your > 2.6.19-rc6-rt0 announcement. The kernels have built fine but so far I > am unable to build the realtime-lsm package against them so no reason > to reboot. > >I know

Re: Siemens SX1: sound cleanups

2006-11-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 12:49 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > +int set_mixer_volume(int mixer_vol) > { > - int retVal; > + /* FIXME: Alsa has mixer_vol in 0-100 range, while SX1 needs > 0-9 range */ Untrue. ALSA uses whatever range you define in the info callback for the mixer element. I

Re: Sluggish system responsiveness on I/O

2006-11-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 08:51 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > That makes sense, I/O tasks don't generally hold the cpu for extended > periods, whereas a cpu bound task does. So what can we do about I/O intensive tasks that also want a lot of CPU, for example, the bloatier Gnome/KDE apps? Evolution i

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt0, -rt YUM repository

2006-11-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:17 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > thanks, please do that. Right now i have no open boot-crash regression > left that i can reproduce. Possibly old news, but with 2.6.18-rt7 this user gets an Oops in read_hpet() if high res timers are enabled. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthr

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt0, -rt YUM repository

2006-11-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 23:07 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] Should we start a known regression list? > > please resend the bugs that still trigger for you with 2.6.19-rt0. I'm working with the developers of the 64Studio distro who are attempting

Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

2005-09-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 15:19 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 at 23:38:10 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 18:58 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > I just bought a new notebook. > > >

RE: kbuild & C++

2005-09-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 12:17 +0200, Budde, Marco wrote: > Well, it is not the first driver I am writing for Linux. > So yes, I do know, what is part of a Linux driver and > what is not. It should be fairly obvious. Windows drivers do all kinds of crap that just obviously doesn't belong in the kern

Re: Kernel 2.6.13 is hiding devices from /dev [Was Why is the kernel hiding drbd devices?}

2005-09-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 00:45 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >What is drbd? An out of tree driver? Did it work with 2.6.13-rcX? If > > Yes, it implements RAID 1 across two computers over a network link in > realtime. Generally, you combine with a program called heartbeat to > implement high-av

Re: Kernel profiles anyone?

2005-09-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 21:35 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Are there any recent kernel profiles? I think from an acedemic > perspective it'd be nice to see some graphs and numbers nobody > understands showing where the longest running code p

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 21:59 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > There are only two stacks involved, the normal kernel stack and your new > > ndis > > stack. You save ESP of the kernel stack at the base of the ndis stack. > > When > > the Windows code calls your api, you get t

Re: Kernel 2.6.13 is hiding devices from /dev [Was Why is the kernel hiding drbd devices?}

2005-09-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:13 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > The kernel module drbd (version 0.7.13) can no longer find its > devices (e.g., /dev/drbd0, /dev/drbd1) in kernel 2.6.13. The version > of udev I am using 065/068 didn't make a difference. It works fine > with kernel 2.6.12.5 and 2.6.12

Re: [PATCH] PCI: Unhide SMBus on Compaq Evo N620c

2005-09-06 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 13:39 -0700, Rumen Ivanov Zarev wrote: > Trivial patch against 2.6.13 to unhide SMBus on Compaq Evo N620c laptop using > Intel 82855PM chipset. > + } else if (unlikely(dev->subsystem_vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_COMPAQ)) { Should unlikely() be used for cases where the conditi

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 09:36 +0200, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 02:39 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > >>4Kb kernel stacks are the future on i386, and it seems the pro

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 02:39 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 4Kb kernel stacks are the future on i386, and it seems the problems it > initially caused are now sorted out. > > Does anyone knows about any currently unsolved problems? ndiswrapper - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

2005-09-03 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 18:58 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > I just bought a new notebook. I'd return it if I were you. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Fix lost tick calculation in timer_pm.c

2005-09-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 01:15 -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > > Are lost ticks really that common? If so, any idea what's disabling > > > >interrupts for so long (or if it's a hardware issue)? And if not, it > >seems like you'd nee

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Fix lost tick calculation in timer_pm.c

2005-09-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 14:18 +1000, Peter Williams wrote: > In my experience, turning off DMA for IDE disks is a pretty good way to > generate lost ticks :-) For this to "work" you have to unset "unmask IRQ" with hdparm, right? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Updated dynamic tick patches - Fix lost tick calculation in timer_pm.c

2005-09-02 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:42 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > With this patch, time had kept up really well on one particular > machine (Intel 4way Pentium 3 box) overnight, while > on another newer machine (Intel 4way Xeon with HT) it didnt do so > well (time sped up after 3 or 4 hours). Hence I

Re: jack, PREEMPT_DESKTOP, delayed interrupts?

2005-08-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 19:03 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > Hi, I'm starting to look at a strange problem. The configuration is: > hardware: AMD X2 4400+ dual core, NForce3 chipset, Midiman 66 soundcard > software: 2.6.13 smp + patch-2.6.13-rt1, PREEMPT_DESKTOP > jack 0.100.4, curr

Re: 2.6.13-rc7-rt4, fails to build

2005-08-29 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:15 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 01:35, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm getting a build error for 2.6.13-rc7-rt4 with PREEMPT_DESKTOP for > > > i386: > > > > hm, cannot reproduce thi

Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?

2005-08-29 Thread Lee Revell
The controversy over the introduction of CONFIG_HZ demonstrated the urgency of getting a dynamic tick solution merged before 2.6.14. Anyone care to give a status report? Con, do you feel that the last version you posted is ready to go in? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: 2.6.13 new option timer frequency

2005-08-29 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 12:48 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > I built and installed 2.6.13 today, and oldconfig revealed the new option > > for > > timer frequency. > > > > I searched the LKML on this, but all I found is the technical stuff - not > > really any layman solutions. > > I wrote a

Re: Oops in 2.6.13 (was Linux 2.6.13 )

2005-08-29 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 14:23 -0400, Masoud Sharbiani wrote: > Sadly, with 2.6.13 (as in with 2.6.13-rc7), it crashes on boot, on a > dual P3 machine > It works just fine when compiled UP. > This bug did NOT exist on 2.6.13-rc6 version. Did you discover this bug with 2.6.13-rc7 before 2.6.13 was re

Re: 2.6.13 new option timer frequency

2005-08-29 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:57 +0100, Nick Warne wrote: > Hi all, > > I built and installed 2.6.13 today, and oldconfig revealed the new option for > timer frequency. > > I searched the LKML on this, but all I found is the technical stuff - not > really any layman solutions. > > Two n00b question

Re: Surround via SPDIF with ALSA/emu10k1?

2005-08-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 17:17 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > As for volume settings, I always try to keep the sound card mixers at > around 75 to 80% since it seems most amplifiers and mixer do distort a > bit when you max them out. Why would you want them all at 100% > anyhow, then you might as w

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 14:28 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > - you're very interesting in real-time patches. linux should > clearly have all real-time stuff merged. second to your interest > in realtime is probably something like selinux Please don't lump the -rt kernel people in with the

Re: kernel compile error in bootsplash.c

2005-08-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 20:48 +0200, J. B. wrote: > if got it from > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.10.tar.bz2 > and applied some patches "some patches" could be anything. Please don't waste our time with bug reports for randomly patched kernels. Lee - To unsubscribe from t

Re: Surround via SPDIF with ALSA/emu10k1?

2005-08-27 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 20:18 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > I have now been told that SPDIF cannot support more than 2 channels > except with AC3 compression. Given the fact that we can send 580MBit/s > over USB2.0 I would not have even remotely considered this to be the > problem and find it an

Re: Petition for gas grices

2005-08-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:44 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:20 -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > > Todd Bailey wrote: > > > > > I'm all for this but I think there is little uncle George can do. > > > > Was it necessary to cc this to

Re: Petition for gas grices

2005-08-25 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:20 -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > Todd Bailey wrote: > > > I'm all for this but I think there is little uncle George can do. > > Was it necessary to cc this to everybody in the world? God, I can't believe this epidemic of bitching about gas prices has invaded LKML of all

Re: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...)

2005-08-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 11:50 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:21 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > My suggestion was, and still is: Never mind, I misread the original post. This workaround is probably OK if you only do the reset when this error condition arises.

CFQ + 2.6.13-rc4-RT-V0.7.52-02 = BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled

2005-08-24 Thread Lee Revell
Just found this in dmesg. BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled: libc6.postinst/0x2000/13229 caller is ___down_mutex+0xe9/0x1a0 [] schedule+0x59/0xf0 (8) [] ___down_mutex+0xe9/0x1a0 (28) [] cfq_exit_single_io_context+0x22/0xa0 (84) [] cfq_exit_io_context+0x3a/0x50 (16) [] exit_io_context+0x6

Re: some missing spin_unlocks

2005-08-24 Thread Lee Revell
[added alsa-devel to cc:] On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 15:26 -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: > I think these are all real bugs. > > sound/synth/emux/emux_synth.c snd_emux_note_on, line 101 > snd_assert will return without unlocking emu->voice_lock (line 89) This one is probably a real bug. Lee - To unsubs

Re: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...)

2005-08-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:21 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > My suggestion was, and still is: > > >Since it happens less than once a day, why not just add a code > >to reset the NIC completely in this case, like it is > >typically done in tx_timeout handlers of many NICs, and forget about > it? > >

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

2005-08-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:48 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I don't mind if the fancy DSP algorithms and EAX is windows only Actually the emu10k1 DSP code to implement EAX 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x is known. Someone could easily implement it on Linux, it's just never happened. Lee - To unsubscribe fro

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

2005-08-23 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 21:41 +0100, Peter Zubaj wrote: > This is too expensive card to be only able use it as simple card. > My advice buy something else. > I don't think fight with creative can bring anything good to linux. > Leave Creative as is. There is plenty of other hardware from other > manu

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

2005-08-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:38 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > We are not going to get any support from Creative for the X-Fi chip. > We do not get support from Creative for any Creative chip that has a > DSP in it. Well, except for the emu10k1 driver that Creative wrote and released years ago

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:38 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > > Robert Hancock wrote: > > > I fail to see how sched_yield is going to be very helpful in this > > > situation. Since that call can sleep from a range of time ranging > > > from zero to a long time, it's going to give unp

Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

2005-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:38 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: > But I also found that I needed to add a new > yield(), to work around yet another unexpected issue on this system - > we have a number of threads waiting on a condition variable, and the > thread holding the mutex signals the var, unlocks the

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] i386: semaphore ownership tracking

2005-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 03:07 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 at 20:02:27 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > This patch enables tracking semaphore ownership. > > > > Why? I can't think of any bug in recent years which needed this

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 10:31 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > It's an X problem and it's being fixed. Get over it, we're not tuning > the scheduler for a broken app. > You're right, this problem seems much, much better in Xorg 6.8.2. I think the Damage extension might be responsible. There's definite

Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 08:48 +0200, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: > So, there is no project about this yet No, not yet. The ALSA team has a contact at Creative, I guess the next step is to ask them. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message t

Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 18:52 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > If this is the long awaited emu10k3, then there's a good chance we can > support it. But we'll need at the very least a hardware sample from > Creative. OK, it's the ca20k1 (!). So it's likely to be as d

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 10:31 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:13, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > I agree that tweaking the scheduler is probably pointless, as long as X > > is burning gazillions of CPU cycles redrawing things that don't need to > > be

Re: Atheros and rt2x00 driver

2005-08-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 19:11 +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Ralink Tech (www.ralink.com.tw) took a design decision to incorporate > the firmware into an EEPROM on-board, allowing their driver to be > GPL'd Binary only firmware and firmware loading is perfectly compatible with the GPL, as long as

Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

2005-08-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:55 +0200, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: > Hi all, > > I did try to look for Alsa drivers for the new X-Fi chip from Creatives > (http://www.tomshardware.com/consumer/20050818/), but I didn't find any. > > I there something running around this chip ? Or no plan yet ? Are these e

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 14:36 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:41 pm, Peter Williams wrote: > > Maybe we could use interbench to find a nice value for X that doesn't > > destroy Audio and Video? The results that I just posted for > > spa_no_frills with X reniced to -10 suggest that

Re: [RFC] IPV4 long lasting timer function

2005-08-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 22:59 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Hi, > > while tracking down some timer related ugliness I stumbled over the > timer driven function rt_secret_rebuild(), which does a loop over > rt_has_mask (1024 in my case) entries and possibly some subsequent > variable sized loops in

Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 05:09 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > here are interbench v0.29 resoults: The X test under simulated "Compile" load looks most interesting. Most of the schedulers do quite poorly on this test - only Zaphod with default max_ia_bonus and max_tpt_bonus manages to delive

cpuinfo(1)

2005-08-18 Thread Lee Revell
What ever happened with cpuinfo(1)? This thread: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:_uCmn69gfyoJ:lists.debian.org/lsb-discuss/2002/01/msg00084.html+cpuinfo&hl=en ended inconclusively. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process (update)

2005-08-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 01:29 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 19:16 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > A search for a 200MB file tells you it's available on 2000 hosts, all of > > whom are on dialup. > > What about the real world ? > OK that was a poorly c

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process (update)

2005-08-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 00:13 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 14:17 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > Maybe the distros need to just increase the default FD limit to 1024. I > > hit this constantly with gtk-gnutella, if try to download a file that's > > availab

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process (update)

2005-08-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 18:19 +0200, Wieland Gmeiner wrote: > As an example: It seems to be a common problem with numerous services > to run out of available file descriptors. There are several > workarounds to this problem, the most common seems to be increasing > the systemwide max number of filede

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 00:27 +0900, Akira Tsukamoto wrote: > My computer with Athlon K7 was faster with manually prefetching, > but I did not know it is already becoming obsolete. > Don't listen to people who tell you $FOO hardware is obsolete, they have a very narrow view. "Obsolete" is meaningl

Re: openafs is really faster on linux-2.4. than 2.6

2005-08-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 14:48 +0200, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote: > I think the problem here is outside afs. Does not matter. If you want people to give a shit about openafs then GET IT MERGED. Why is that so hard to understand? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Re: [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks

2005-08-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 20:59 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: > The only limitation would be that when the > speaker driver is enabled in the config, > the ability to manually select the CONFIG_HZ > will be lost, but maybe it is not that bad > at all CONFIG_HZ is just a short term hack to placate people

Re: [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks

2005-08-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 21:41 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: > I guess now I realized how you (and Nish) > assume I could use it: is it that I > should set CONFIG_HZ to the value I > need at compile-time, and just remove > all the timer reprogramming from the > driver in a hope the dynamic-tick patch > w

Re: [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks

2005-08-17 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 20:21 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: > perhaps allowing a single higher frequency, or allowing just any > frequency, is pretty much the same task, and doesn't > look achievable within the currently existing > timer API anyway Lots of things aren't doable with the current timer AP

Re: [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks

2005-08-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 00:21 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: > 1. It needs the higher interrupt frequency. > Since there seem to be no API to change > the timer frequency at runtime, the driver > does this itself. Now I have googled out > the thread Wow, your driver implements bass and treble controls

Re: [PATCH] input-driver-yealink-P1K-usb-phone

2005-08-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:53 +0200, Henk wrote: > Ehm, I did not know there was still an OSS usb driver. Thankfully it's going away real soon. It failed to depend on OSS, didn't have decent help text, and doesn't live under Sound so lots of people got them confused. Most ALSA based distros failed

Re: [PATCH] input-driver-yealink-P1K-usb-phone

2005-08-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:21 +0200, Henk wrote: > - audio playbackvia generic usb audio diver > - audio record via generic usb audio diver There is no such thing. Do you mean the obsolete OSS usb-audio driver, or snd-usb-audio? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

2005-08-16 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:25 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > We are currently almost there with hdaps. We are thinking how we should > make things and have made most of the decesions. We still need help from > anyone that might know about this. Please, if you can think of anything, >

Re: Preemptive patch for 2.4.25

2005-08-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 13:25 +1000, Dmytro Bablinyuk wrote: > I hope this is the right place to ask. My apologise if it's wrong. > I have found 2.4.25-low-latency.patch.gz for the 2.4.25 kernel but I > couldn't find preemptible patch for this version of kernel. > I found preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.23-p

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 13:13 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote: > Seems like lots of Europeans might want a bigger > charset, not to mention Asians, Hindus, and whomever else. For strings, of course. But there's no need for UTF-8 operators. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:19 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > And those of us who are Mac OS X oriented have patched our console and > X keycodes to match the mac way of generating symbols: > > Alt-\= « > Alt-Shift-\ = » > Alt-Shift-+ = ± > My point exactly, it's idiotic for Perl6 to use th

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 19:49 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:42:52PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:35 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote: > > > Thats great for the perl6 people. > > > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 19:49 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:42:52PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:35 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote: > > > Thats great for the perl6 people. > > > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:35 -0700, Stephen Pollei wrote: > Thats great for the perl6 people. > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S03.html says they are going > to be using « and » as operators... Is Larry smoking crack? That's one of the worst ideas I've heard in a long time. There's no e

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

2005-08-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:28 +1200, Ryan Brown wrote: > is there a patch available for -rc6? > Not yet. Whatever you see here: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ is the latest version. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2)

2005-08-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:49 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:13:51PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > > > support the

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 23:07 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Very nice to see this going in (via) the RT patch. > Also, does not compile for me with ACPI PM timer selected: CC arch/i386/kernel/timers/hrtimer_pm.o In file included from include/asm/hrtime.h:220, from i

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 12:59 +1000, roucaries bastien wrote: > They post on this list 1 year and a half ago no answer. > I guess everyone on LKML has day jobs now, no one has time for fun stuff like reverse engineering drivers anymore... :-( Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 13:00 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i have released the -53-01 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be > downloaded from: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > > there are two new features in this release, which justified the jump > from .52 to .53: > > - the

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 09:52 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > they are much less likely to participate in any kind of reverse > engineering effort, even if it's just testing a new driver. I think anyone launching a reverse engineering effort should announce the project to LKML! When I set out to add

Re: [RFC,PATCH] Use RCU to protect tasklist for unicast signals

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 11:56 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > For the record, some shortcomings of this patch: > > > > o Needs lots more testing on more architectures. > > > > o Needs performance and stress testing. > > > > o Needs testing in Ingo's PREEMPT_RT environment. > > cool patch! I h

Re: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 17:17 +0200, Michael Thonke wrote: > *frustrated* Hey I don't like it any more than you do. But Nvidia is an IP company and they act like one. Most of us would probably do the exact same thing in their position, AKA whatever the lawyers tell them ;-) Lee - To unsubscribe

Re: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 09:09 +0200, Gábor Lénárt wrote: > I want to buy a new system including > motherboard with some Athlon64 CPU. I was told that nforce4 chipset is > the "right" choice. However I'm using *only* Linux Who told you that? Some Windows user? It's common knowledge that Nvidia is

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 19:39 -0700, john stultz wrote: > Ah, I've got a patch on my laptop that takes that down to ~2% or less. > I didn't include it in this patch set but I'll work to get it > integrated before the next release. Sorry about that. > > If you have any suggestions for further perform

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-10 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 19:13 -0700, john stultz wrote: > All, > Here's the next rev in my rework of the current timekeeping subsystem. > No major changes, only some cleanups and further splitting the larger > patches into smaller ones. Last I heard this made gettimeofday() 20% slower on x86.

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2)

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:49 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I'd deprecate them without moving them. > OK, I think that will still be slightly confusing becuase it comes before Sound in the kernel config, but maybe the deprecated part will make people think twice. I think we should at least label the

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2)

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > support the same hardware) for removal. > > Scheduling the via82cxxx driver for removal was ACK'ed by Jeff Garzik. > Someone on linux-audio-user just pointed out that the

Re: oops in VMWARE vmnet, on 2.6.12.x

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:44 +0200, Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote: > I know that in general no one here is interested in vmware affairs, but in > hope that VMware folks are reading this list too, here's the oops: > It's the newest vmware5 for linux from vmware.com > > ksymoops 2.4.9 on i686 2.6.

Re: Soft lockup in e100 driver ?

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:36 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > Running very recent Fedora Core Development kernel I can following > soft-oops.. ( 2.6.12-1.1455_FC5smp ) > > > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex > BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! Could this be a false positive

Re: VGER news

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:12 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > We did system switchover last weekend, and nobody reacted trulu > adversely.Probably nobody noticed it either. :-) It's definitely faster. Lately I have had a few replies to list messages where the reply hit LKML several minutes befo

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940U2W "Data Parity Error Dectected" messages

2005-08-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:19 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > I recently installed a SCSI tape drive and Adaptec AHA-2940U2W SCSI > controller into my server to run backups. > > Since then, the driver issues these warnings on a semi-regular basis > while the drive is busy: > > Aug 9 17:00:26 anu ke

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

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
[added James to cc:] On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:40 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:43, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Raymond Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I remember there's a kernel pcmcia bug preventing the development for > > > the Audigy2 p

RE: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:56 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > Again, the point is that ndiswrapper is a great project, but people > uses it for the leftovers! We *shouldn't* buy leftovers or from Manuf > that don't care about Linux. If you are always speccing out new systems then of course, but in

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 20:24 +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 20:13 +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > > > >>I gave up on my laptop's built in Inprocomm IPN 2220 quite some time ago > >>(one more reason not to like

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 20:13 +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > I gave up on my laptop's built in Inprocomm IPN 2220 quite some time ago > (one more reason not to like Cisco). In the rare cases I do really need > wlan there is http://zd1211.sourceforge.net/ Any idea how much hardware is out there th

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 14:01 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Some BIOSes do not lock SMM, and you *could* turn it off at the chipset > > level. > > Doing so would be wasteful though. Both AMD and Intel CPUs need SMM code > for the deeper C* sleep states. > Wouldn't it be useful for !CONFIG_PM? Many

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 22:50 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > It doesn't actually say it works on Linux. Perhaps you wanted > mysticgooglepsychic.com? ;-) > > I don't think it is reasonable to expect google to know what ndiswrapper > is ... or perhaps it just has a taste filter installed? ;-) Tr

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:31 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On Monday 08 August 2005 03:39, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) > > > supported?

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