Re: 2.6.23-rc1 regression: hwmon/w83627ehf: wrong fan speed

2007-08-10 Thread Stefan Richter
4) ALARM Aux Fan: 0 RPM (min = 10546 RPM, div = 128) ALARM fan5:0 RPM (min = 10546 RPM, div = 128) ALARM Sys Temp:+45 C (high =-5 C, hyst = -34 C) ALARM CPU Temp: +39.5 C (high = +80.0 C, hyst = +75.0 C) AUX Temp: +44.5 C (high = +80.0 C, hyst = +75.0 C

Re: 2.6.23-rc1 regression: hwmon/w83627ehf: wrong fan speed

2007-08-10 Thread Stefan Richter
ted by Leon Moonen # This is for an Asus P5P800, voltages for A8V-E SE. Should I hardwire correct dividers or pulse per rev in sensors.conf or is the driver supposed to work the correct dividers out --- like it did before 2.6.23-rc? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- -=-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To un

Re: Documentation files in html format?

2007-08-10 Thread Stefan Richter
#x27;ve got a hunch that the most suitable format for Linux kernel documentation, after careful consideration of what we want from it and how we author and maintain it, will turn out to be... ...plaintext. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- -=-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: Documentation files in html format?

2007-08-09 Thread Stefan Richter
nslation issues? > * even more style issues Indeed. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- -=--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/maj

Re: [PATCH] fix crash in sbp2_remove_device() when dma_set_mask() fails

2007-08-06 Thread Stefan Richter
Olaf Hering wrote: > Fix crash in sbp2_remove_device() when dma_set_mask() fails. Thanks for finding this. I will examine the allocation and deallocation paths once more with your fix side by side later today, then move it upstream. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- --=== http://arcgraph

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping"

2007-08-06 Thread Stefan Richter
EE 1394 application-layer software has this requirement. (Well, debugging and forensic tools rely on that mode too, notably BenH's firescope, but this software runs remote, hence it's a different beast from sbp2.) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- --=== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To uns

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping"

2007-08-06 Thread Stefan Richter
Robert Hancock wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> So that's the story why that dma_set_mask went into sbp2: Sbp2 wants >> mappings in a _subset_ of the OHCI-1394 controllers DMA range. >> >> Anyway. For now I will simply go with what 2.6.23-rc has and what >>

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping"

2007-08-06 Thread Stefan Richter
range. Anyway. For now I will simply go with what 2.6.23-rc has and what 2.6.21 had: No dma_set_mask anywhere in the 1394 subsystem. We can revisit this whenever an actual need arises. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- --==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.6.23-rc1 regression: hwmon/w83627ehf: wrong fan speed

2007-08-05 Thread Stefan Richter
> This patch forces the driver to read the fan divider values during early > init. > Otherwise, a call to store_fan_min() could access uninitialized variables. Alas not; there is no change. (I applied on vanilla 2.6.23-rc2 and rebooted.) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- --=-=

Re: 2.6.23-rc1 regression: hwmon/w83627ehf: wrong fan speed

2007-08-05 Thread Stefan Richter
Use this command: > > $ git bisect start v2.6.23-rc2 v2.6.22-rc5 drivers/hwmon/w83627ehf.c > > Doing it this way will force you to reboot between tests; I think we would > need that anyway. I'll try to reserve the time for that on some evening next week. Thanks, -- Stefa

Re: 2.6.23-rc1 regression: hwmon/w83627ehf: wrong fan speed

2007-08-05 Thread Stefan Richter
fan speeds. PS: The actual behavior under 2.6.22-rc5 is that the CPU fan speed is displayed correctly from the start, while the case fan speed is initially shown as 0 but jumps to the correct speed after ksensors' first display update. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- --=-= http://ar

2.6.23-rc1 regression: hwmon/w83627ehf: wrong fan speed

2007-08-05 Thread Stefan Richter
s an MSI 945GT Speedster-A4R, userland is Gentoo's lm_sensors-2.10.1 and ksensors-0.7.3. Booting back into 2.6.22-rc5 (which seems identical with 2.6.22 as far as w83627ehf is concerned) brings back the correct fan speeds. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- --=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsub

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping"

2007-08-05 Thread Stefan Richter
ing in dmesg when that happens ? There was nothing in Olaf's report, except for trouble in sbp2 _after_ the failure. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/344 (I don't have a PMac.) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- --=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

2007-08-04 Thread Stefan Richter
an use plaintext viewers which implement this, or utilities or browser plugins which follow URLs in the clipboard.) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- --=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping"

2007-08-04 Thread Stefan Richter
(Adding Cc: linuxppc-dev, olh) Robert Hancock wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 20:30:36 +0200 (CEST) >> From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping" >> >> Revert com

[PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping"

2007-08-04 Thread Stefan Richter
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 20:30:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping" Revert commit 0555659d63c285ceb7ead3115532e1b71b0f27a7 from 2.6.22-rc1. The dma_set_mask call somehow failed on a PowerMac G5, PPC64:

[PATCH 2.6.22.y] firewire: fw-sbp2: set correct maximum payload (fixes CardBus adapters)

2007-08-04 Thread Stefan Richter
d card and a VIA based card. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Backport of commit 25659f7183376c6b37661da6141d5eaa21479061. drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c|5 - drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h |2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Ind

Re: renaming kernel devices [was: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering]

2007-08-04 Thread Stefan Richter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: >> There is a variety of possible naming schemes: >> >> - Naming by order of discovery. >> - Naming by vendor/model name strings. >> - Naming by universally unique identifier. >> - Namin

Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?

2007-08-03 Thread Stefan Richter
like an overly /obvious/ language feature to me. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- ---== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/majo

Re: renaming kernel devices [was: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering]

2007-08-03 Thread Stefan Richter
he Linux OS. There is only the most primitive naming scheme implemented in the kernel because naming policy, like most other kinds of policy, is better left to userland. The kernel is a too restricted framework to implement such things. The kernel lacks runtime-configuration files, scripting inte

Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?

2007-08-02 Thread Stefan Richter
Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:51:16AM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: >> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: >> >>> Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: >>>> with >>>> >>>>char c[4] = "012345"; >>>&

(off-topic) Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?

2007-08-02 Thread Stefan Richter
'3'}. C99 says char c[4] = "0123"; is a perfect way to say char c[4] = {'0', '1', '2', '3'};. Do you want gcc to choose otherwise and ban the former of the two idioms? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- ---== http://arcgraph.de

Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?

2007-08-02 Thread Stefan Richter
Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > with > > char c[4] = "012345"; > > the compiler warns, but actually allocates a 6-byte long array... Off-topic here, but: sizeof c / sizeof *c == 4. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- ---== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe

Re: gcc fixed size char array initialization bug - known?

2007-08-02 Thread Stefan Richter
with a string literal now, and the resulting array will contain a non-zero member as last element, and I mean it". And since there is no such annotation possible, gcc does not warn and demand that you annotate the perfectly valid and 100% spec-compliant construct char a[4] = "1234&

[GIT PULL] FireWire fixes

2007-08-02 Thread Stefan Richter
Linus, please pull from the for-linus branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git for-linus to receive the following fixes for the new and old 1394 subsystems: Stefan Richter (5): ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping"

Re: 2.6.22: oops in sbp2_remove_device

2007-08-01 Thread Stefan Richter
Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Revert commit 0555659d63c285ceb7ead3115532e1b71b0f27a7 from 2.6.22-rc1. > This change fixes the oops, and I can access the drive again. Did it oops always or only sometimes? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--

Re: 2.6.22: oops in sbp2_remove_device

2007-08-01 Thread Stefan Richter
.driver_probe_device+0x13c/0x200 I have now idea why dma_set_mask failed, nor do I see where the subsequent oops came from. From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping" Revert commit 0555659d63c285ceb7ead3115532e1b7

Re: [Patch 14/16] Remove needless kmalloc casts in the zd1211rw drivers.

2007-07-31 Thread Stefan Richter
;> dev_dbg_f(zd_chip_dev(chip), >> Also, why is there this cast right before that? zd_addr_t *a16 = (zd_addr_t *)NULL; -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- = http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in th

Re: [Patch 01/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the cris arch.

2007-07-31 Thread Stefan Richter
al variable of the same name. Maybe you could submit another cleanup patch for that too while you are at it? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- = http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [Patch 05/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the drivers subdirectory.

2007-07-31 Thread Stefan Richter
uldn't leave inexplicable linebreaks and other whitespace strangeness behind. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== =--- = http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info a

Re: [patch 00/26] 2.6.21.7 -stable review

2007-07-31 Thread Stefan Richter
Greg KH wrote: > Rolled up patch is at: > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-testing/patch-2.6.21.7-rc1.gz ^^ stable-review -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== = http://arcgraph

Re: nvidia installer DIW with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Stefan Richter
h=bde271c001ba33ef1f61dd0f563f74d319cd1f0e;hp=c3feeaab387537ef00aa2085b4f54f6d7e4abca0 -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== ===-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at htt

Reporting bugs (was Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-28 Thread Stefan Richter
ion about bugzilla.kernel.org, to those who don't know already: By far not all maintainers and developers use bugzilla. I don't know for which subsystems it makes sense to file a report in bugzilla. I think your best bet is to report at the mailinglists listed in linux/MAINTAINERS. -- S

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-28 Thread Stefan Richter
s and a lot of development branches. Some are located at git.kernel.org. Among else, this gives you a predictable release rythm and very timely updated stable branches. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== ===-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: [2.6 patch] SOFTWARE_SUSPEND: handle HOTPLUG_CPU automatically

2007-07-28 Thread Stefan Richter
ould give you "trying to assign nonexistent symbol SUSPEND_POSSIBLE" > kconfig warnings on architectures without SUSPEND_POSSIBLE. Unless /all/ architectures define it, of course. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== ===-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: [2.6 patch] let SUSPEND select HOTPLUG_CPU

2007-07-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 12:47:37AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Yes, that's the price to pay if you want to select something that in >> turn depends on a number of other things. > > Yes, but a good user interface is worth it. That's right

Re: [2.6 patch] let SUSPEND select HOTPLUG_CPU

2007-07-27 Thread Stefan Richter
E_SUSPEND > + select HOTPLUG_CPU > + default y Yes, that's the price to pay if you want to select something that in turn depends on a number of other things. Wait, doesn't HOTPLUG_CPU also depend on EXPERIMENTAL? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== ===-- http://arcgra

Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: proscribe do-while without braces.

2007-07-27 Thread Stefan Richter
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:41:01 +0200 Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> SubmitChecklist already tells us to check with sparse before submission. > > rofl. First we have to talk everyone into checking their stuff with gcc. Ah, I forgot ---

Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: proscribe do-while without braces.

2007-07-27 Thread Stefan Richter
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:42:58 +0200 Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Besides, how about reorienting the CodingStyle text to the essential? ... > If sparse has gone and added a warning for this then it is more than > nitpicking. Reducing the a

Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: proscribe do-while without braces.

2007-07-26 Thread Stefan Richter
nd more being buried in dry nitpicking.) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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-info.html

[PATCH] firewire: fw-ohci: dma_free_coherent needs IRQs enabled

2007-07-25 Thread Stefan Richter
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c | 24 +++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Index: linux/drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c === --- linux.orig/d

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-25 Thread Stefan Richter
to do with this issue. Hence it would be practical to test the patches on 2.6.22, but if you prefer you could also test them on 2.6.23-*. Thanks, -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== ==--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: [patch 2.6.23-rc1] dma_free_coherent() needs irqs enabled (sigh)

2007-07-25 Thread Stefan Richter
dates the x86 and swiotlb versions to > include the relevant warnings. (I already observed that it trips on the > bus_reset_tasklet of the new firewire_ohci driver.) Also in ohci_set_config_rom(). -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== ==--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-24 Thread Stefan Richter
the attached patches, one patch at a time? They apply to 2.6.22. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== ==--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ firewire: fw-sbp2: default to 128k transfers because that's what the old sbp2 driver does per default, to avoid trouble with buggy devices. A test on a 1394b hardware

Re: [PATCH 3/10] try parent numa_node at first before using default v2

2007-07-24 Thread Stefan Richter
your patch _does not_ do. Don't even describe _how_ your patch does what it does (unless it's obfuscated, but then that would be a bad patch anyway). Just describe _why_ it does something. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== ==--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-23 Thread Stefan Richter
test this again on the smaller machines. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== =-=== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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-info.h

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-23 Thread Stefan Richter
Andreas Messer wrote: > On Monday, 23. Juli 2007 01:34 Stefan Richter wrote: >> Are you sure the FireWire controller is from VIA? Check with lscpi. >> The NVidia nForce2 chipset has an own FireWire controller, and that one >> is only "supported" by a gross hac

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-23 Thread Stefan Richter
y should be added soon.) I always only test vanilla kernels (with ieee1394/firewire patches). I wanted to start testing -rt kernels because they are known to make bugs of the old ieee1394 drivers more visible, but simply didn't find the time to do such tests yet. -- Stefan Richter -=-

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-22 Thread Stefan Richter
irewire-ohci. There is even a bug report in Red Hat's bugzilla where fw-ohci hung up when trying to initialize an nForce2 chip. > Software: > Kernel Vanilla 2.6.22, gcc 4.1.2. > > On another PC same problem, but replugging one or two times get the thing > working.

Re: [DRIVER SUBMISSION] DRBD wants to go mainline

2007-07-22 Thread Stefan Richter
elements. Comment on the Why if it isn't obvious. It shouldn't be necessary to comment on the How, because that should be coded in an obvious way in the first place. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: what does select statement mean in Kconfig file?

2007-07-21 Thread Stefan Richter
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The latter is sometimes hard or impossible to satisfy. Therefore the >> select statement should be used with care, i.e. only for library-type >> helper code which itself shouldn't depend

Re: what does select statement mean in Kconfig file?

2007-07-21 Thread Stefan Richter
he select statement should be used with care, i.e. only for library-type helper code which itself shouldn't depend on further options. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

[PATCH] ieee1394: sbp2: more correct Kconfig dependencies

2007-07-21 Thread Stefan Richter
Make the option SBP2_PHYS_DMA available on all architectures where it compiles. This includes x86-64 where I runtime-tested it successfully. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS is nice. Thanks Stephen. --- a/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/ie

CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS: what about bus_to_virt?

2007-07-21 Thread Stefan Richter
Is it sensible and safe to let a driver which uses bus_to_virt (but not virt_to_bus) depend on CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS? Thanks, -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [RFC 1/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Define it

2007-07-20 Thread Stefan Richter
f the code that uses the config option has a lot of flexibility, In other words, nobody will ever know what this config option really does. > at least until we start enforcing standards. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== =-=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [RFC 1/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Define it

2007-07-20 Thread Stefan Richter
>>> +config STABLE >>> + bool "Stable kernel" PS: Imagine the headlines at Slashdot, CNET et al when this gets in. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== =-=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&qu

Re: [RFC 1/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Define it

2007-07-20 Thread Stefan Richter
t; help If the kernel is configured as a test build, various checks useful for testing of pre-releases will be activated. If unsure, say N. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== =-=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: 2.6.22-git* regression: Kconfig prompts without help text

2007-07-19 Thread Stefan Richter
If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. > From a quick look at drivers/macintosh/Kconfig, all of the entries are for > m68k > and PPC Macs only. The only thing that depends on X86 is the main menu... There is one entry for all sorts of Macs, MAC_EMUMOU

Re: does CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS have any value anymore?

2007-07-19 Thread Stefan Richter
API" Who:Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== =--== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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.o

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-07-19 Thread Stefan Richter
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i *did* submit a preliminary patch once upon a time, and it > (predictably) went nowhere. A patch which pulls the word "experimental" into prompts or adds a dedicated directive for tagging of options? Can't find it in archive

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-07-19 Thread Stefan Richter
observed that feature requests don't set anything in motion until a first patch is sent. Even a patch that is far from perfect can get things going really quickly. (If the requested feature makes sense to other people.) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== =--== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To uns

[PATCH 2.6.22.y] firewire: fix memory leak of fw_request instances

2007-07-19 Thread Stefan Richter
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:15:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: firewire: fix memory leak of fw_request instances Found and debugged by Jay Fenlason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The bug was especially noticeable with direct I/O over fw-sbp2. Signed-off-by: St

[PATCH 2.6.22.y] fw-ohci: fix "scheduling while atomic"

2007-07-19 Thread Stefan Richter
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:25:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: firewire: fw-ohci: fix "scheduling while atomic" context_stop is called by bus_reset_tasklet, among else. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Fixes http

[GIT PULL] FireWire updates (repost)

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Richter
subsystem. drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c|3 ++- drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c| 16 +++- drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c |9 +++-- drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h |4 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) Stefan Richter (5

Re: [GIT PULL] FireWire updates

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Richter
t to new SCSI data buffer accessors PS: Kudos to Jay Fenlason for doing the difficult and time-consuming parts of it, the memleak debugging. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== =--== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: 2.6.22-git* regression: Kconfig prompts without help text

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Richter
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jul 16 2007 20:49, Stefan Richter wrote: >> >>It is an error to add visible Kconfig options without help text. Among >>them are the new "menuconfig" options. Jan obviously never uses "make >>oldconfig". > > Untrue

Re: how about bringing Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt up to date?

2007-07-17 Thread Stefan Richter
Jean Delvare wrote: > This one took more time than expected, These words sound strangely familiar, as if I often said them myself. Can't be. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== =---= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: how about bringing Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt up to date?

2007-07-16 Thread Stefan Richter
en: December 2006 -Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== = http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: how about bringing Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt up to date?

2007-07-16 Thread Stefan Richter
What: drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE When: options in 2.6.23, code in 2.6.25 Note 2: Current linux-2.6.22-git* has SOUND_BT878 and SOUND_CS4232 depending on OSS_OBSOLETE. What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace When: 2.6.21 -- Stefan Richt

2.6.22-git* regression: Kconfig prompts without help text

2007-07-16 Thread Stefan Richter
A'...'endif # A' will be invisible and disabled. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== = http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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

Re: Ask for help, about the trivial patches.

2007-07-16 Thread Stefan Richter
; in a strict sense. Bug fixes should usually go through maintainers. But for fixes which are obvious == easy to verify, [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes sense as a central point for submitters to turn to, to lower the barrier for submission. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== = http://arcgraph.de/s

Re: irq 9: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)

2007-07-15 Thread Stefan Richter
;d be happy to post further details or run tests, if anyone > is interested. > > ...Akkana I am not aware of anything that a PCI driver like ohci1394 could do about it. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but this is between the BIOS and low-level code for the x86 PC plat

Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

2007-07-13 Thread Stefan Richter
Alan Cox wrote: > The English versions need a last updated too, that way we would know when > they are past their best before date (as most of them are) I've got the impression that whenever I saw a "last updated:" note in a documentation, this note was out of dat

Re: [PATCH 1/5] try parent numa_node at first before using default

2007-07-12 Thread Stefan Richter
Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:47:52 +0200, > Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Also keep in mind that either device_move() should update the numa_node, >> or the subsystems which call device_move() should explicitly update it >> on their

Re: [PATCH 1/5] try parent numa_node at first before using default

2007-07-11 Thread Stefan Richter
Yinghai Lu wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> Yinghai Lu wrote: >>> original default is -1, and this patch just try to use parent's node as >>> default. >> >> But in many cases, the patch does so at a time when the parent is not >> yet known. > t

Re: [PATCH 1/5] try parent numa_node at first before using default

2007-07-11 Thread Stefan Richter
Yinghai Lu wrote: > original default is -1, and this patch just try to use parent's node as > default. But in many cases, the patch does so at a time when the parent is not yet known. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== -==-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: [PATCH 1/5] try parent numa_node at first before using default

2007-07-11 Thread Stefan Richter
I wrote: > - device_move() should update the device.node. device.numa_node of course. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== -=-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majo

Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-11 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: >> > http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_22 > But when you anyway publish release notes for your subsystem, also > pasting them to the Wiki shouldn't be much extra work. I will do so from now on. Until now I was too lazy to create an account there

Re: [PATCH 1/5] try parent numa_node at first before using default

2007-07-11 Thread Stefan Richter
ivers/input/gameport/gameport.c:: gameport_init_port() which sets the parent device *after* the call to device_initialize(). - device_move() should update the device.node. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== -=-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-10 Thread Stefan Richter
Already available: > http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_22 And of course there are several journalists who cover such matters. I'm also sure that some subprojects issue their own release notes; e.g. the linux1394 project does. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== -=-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -

Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-10 Thread Stefan Richter
1394 drivers enabled and the new ones disabled. >Or if you didn't, try it. Or actually disable one driver or subsystem in each test boot. (Also parport, USB...) -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== -=-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Make profiling uniformly non-menu and non-EXPERIMENTAL.

2007-07-09 Thread Stefan Richter
automatically loose "experimental" status. It does when it has been extensively and successfully debugged, verified and tested, and no reservations regarding run-time stability or userspace interface stability remain. Is this true for these profiling options? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -==

[GIT PULL] FireWire updates

2007-07-09 Thread Stefan Richter
Fix write() for 32bit userland on 64bit kernel ieee1394: raw1394: Add ioctl() for 32bit userland on 64bit kernel Stefan Richter (25): ieee1394: ohci1394: remove dead CONFIG variable ieee1394: add comments in struct hpsb_packet ieee1394: raw1394: Add ioctl() for 32bit userla

[RFC PATCH resend] ieee1394: remove old isochronous ABI

2007-07-08 Thread Stefan Richter
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:31:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [RFC PATCH] ieee1394: remove old isochronous ABI Based on patch "the scheduled removal of RAW1394_REQ_ISO_{SEND,LISTEN}" from Adrian Bunk, November 20 2006. This patch also remove

Re: cdparanoia not setting count and/or reply_len properly

2007-07-08 Thread Stefan Richter
ing for > information: why is this warning happening? naugthy cdparanoia? naughty > kernel? I'm a bit confused and I want to use my external DVD drive for > ripping from time to time, to "exercise" it... > > Thanks a lot in advance :) > &

Re: [PATCH] I386: Deactivate the test for the dead CONFIG_BALANCED_IRQ_DEBUG variable.

2007-07-06 Thread Stefan Richter
On 6 Jul, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> > --- a/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c >> > +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c >> > @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static void set_ioapic_affinity_irq(unsig

Re: [PATCH] I386: Deactivate the test for the dead CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE variable.

2007-07-06 Thread Stefan Richter
ic_pte(struct page *page, enum km_type type) This misnamed CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE (it's not a Kconfig variable) has about 120 lines debug code dangling on it. So, replacing it by #if 0 will hopefully motivate a kind janitor to send a removal patch for that debug code eventually. I don't

Re: [PATCH] I386: Deactivate the test for the dead CONFIG_BALANCED_IRQ_DEBUG variable.

2007-07-06 Thread Stefan Richter
ed in compiling their kernel with -DCONFIG_BALANCED_IRQ_DEBUG injected via the commandline. But we'll hear from them if that's the case. On the other hand, these debug macros seem to be very old. I'll have a closer look with qgit/git-blame later today. Maybe it's time to remo

Re: dead(?) i386-related CONFIG variables

2007-07-06 Thread Stefan Richter
l.h. This is an option similar to other CONFIG_SERIAL_ options in numerous places. Serial drivers are orphaned, aren't they? > feel free to take this as seriously as you want. :-) > > rday -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=== --==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list

[PATCH] ieee1394: raw1394: fix a 32/64-bits compat fix

2007-07-04 Thread Stefan Richter
I was told that only i386 aligns 64 bit integers at 4 bytes boundaries while all other architectures (32 bit architectures with 64 bit siblings) align it on 8 bytes boundaries. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c |6 +- 1 file chan

Re: [PATCH 2/4] net: use numa_node in net_devcice->dev instead of parent

2007-07-04 Thread Stefan Richter
its on top of ohci1394 = PCI driver for FireWire controllers.) I guess it should be the lowlevel's pci_dev.dev, unless the midlayer cares to set set_dev_node(&midlayer_dev.dev, dev_to_node(midlayer_dev.dev.parent)); And either way, for full effect of NUMA awareness in the highlevel network dr

Re: [linux-kernel]Why there are so many struct rw_semaphore being defined?

2007-07-04 Thread Stefan Richter
architectures > have version optimized to their features. ...but of course we generally include linux/rwsem.h instead of architecture-specific header files. linux/rwsem.h will transparently pull in the optimized variants for us. (It's evident from the source.) -- Stefan Richter -=-

ping: [GIT PULL] ieee1394 fixes

2007-07-02 Thread Stefan Richter
On 29 Jun, Stefan Richter wrote: > Linus, please pull from the for-linus branch at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git > for-linus > > to receive the following updates. > > Stefan Richter (2): > firewire: fix as

[GIT PULL] ieee1394 fixes

2007-06-29 Thread Stefan Richter
Linus, please pull from the for-linus branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git for-linus to receive the following updates. Stefan Richter (2): firewire: fix async reception on big endian machines firewire: add Kconfig help on building

Re: [PATCH update] Documentation/HOWTO: update URLs of git trees

2007-06-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:45:58 +0200 (CEST) Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> - Other git kernel trees can be found listed at http://kernel.org/git > > rofl. You want git trees? I got git trees: Well, the HOWTO has a target audienc

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues

2007-06-25 Thread Stefan Richter
can be set, and your handler should > probably be SCHED_FIFO. Does this cooperate nicely with a SCHED_FIFO thread of a userspace data acquisition program or audio server or the like? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -==- ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

[RFC patch] firewire: add Kconfig help on building both stacks

2007-06-25 Thread Stefan Richter
Alas that won't work so good, because nobody reads help texts. I thought about adding some crude multiple choice selection (build the old stack, build the new stack, build both stacks). It's possible, but it would introduce awkward dummy config variables. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richt

Re: [PATCH] driver core: multithreaded probing - more parallelism control

2007-06-24 Thread Stefan Richter
ubsystem, and work on the new firewire subsystem will be focused on stabilization and feature completion in the short to mid term. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -==- ==--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

2007-06-22 Thread Stefan Richter
o so. Everybody is allowed to submit. But there is a certain degree of both persistence and adaptability required to get one's first submissions upstream. However, these qualities are also required to fix difficult bugs. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -==- =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -

Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

2007-06-21 Thread Stefan Richter
Zoltán HUBERT wrote: > So I feel that a turning-point is coming where a really > really really (x 15) stable and reliable kernel is NEEDED. Not satisfied with 2.6.16.y or one of the "enterprise" distro kernels? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -==- =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/

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