Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver.

2005-08-30 Thread Yani Ioannou
Please refer to my IDE freeze patch last week: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/25/140 It provides userspace with a method to freeze the queue and park the head (through sysfs), along with a timeout to unfreeze, and works quite well. It is in the process of being moved to the block layer however so

Re: [PATCH] IPMI: driver model and sysfs support

2005-08-30 Thread Yani Ioannou
On 8/30/05, Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is very good. I believe the structure is correct, but I'm not a > sysfs expert. > > There are a few things we need to deal with, though. > > * There are some significant changes to versioning in the > driver that are in the mm tree

[PATCH] IPMI: driver model and sysfs support

2005-08-30 Thread Yani Ioannou
sted the patch on two systems of mine with a single bmc, it should however also work for a machine with multiple bmcs using the guid/product+device id to differentiate. Thanks, Yani Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c | 28 +++ driver

[PATCH] IPMI: driver model and sysfs support

2005-08-30 Thread Yani Ioannou
however also work for a machine with multiple bmcs using the guid/product+device id to differentiate. Thanks, Yani Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c | 28 +++ drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c| 11 - drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_sm.c

Re: [PATCH] IPMI: driver model and sysfs support

2005-08-30 Thread Yani Ioannou
On 8/30/05, Corey Minyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very good. I believe the structure is correct, but I'm not a sysfs expert. There are a few things we need to deal with, though. * There are some significant changes to versioning in the driver that are in the mm tree right now

Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver.

2005-08-30 Thread Yani Ioannou
Please refer to my IDE freeze patch last week: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/25/140 It provides userspace with a method to freeze the queue and park the head (through sysfs), along with a timeout to unfreeze, and works quite well. It is in the process of being moved to the block layer however so

Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver.

2005-08-28 Thread Yani Ioannou
On 8/26/05, Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/26/05, Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:27 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > > What this completion is used for? I don't see any other references to it. > > > > It was the start of the release()

Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver.

2005-08-28 Thread Yani Ioannou
On 8/26/05, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/26/05, Robert Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:27 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: What this completion is used for? I don't see any other references to it. It was the start of the release() routine, but I

Re: PATCH: ide: ide-disk freeze support for hdaps

2005-08-27 Thread Yani Ioannou
Hi Pavel, On 8/27/05, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, with my power-managment hat on: > > we probably want "freeze" functionality to be generic; it makes sense > for other devices, too. > > "My battery is so low I can not use wifi any more" => userspace > freezes wifi. > >

Re: PATCH: ide: ide-disk freeze support for hdaps

2005-08-27 Thread Yani Ioannou
Hi Pavel, On 8/27/05, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, with my power-managment hat on: we probably want freeze functionality to be generic; it makes sense for other devices, too. My battery is so low I can not use wifi any more = userspace freezes wifi. Now, having this

Re: PATCH: ide: ide-disk freeze support for hdaps

2005-08-25 Thread Yani Ioannou
Hi Bartlomiej, Thank you for your feedback :), as this is my first dabble in ide/block drivers I certainly need it! On 8/25/05, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +config IDEDISK_FREEZE > > Is there any advantage of having it as a config option? The main reasons I added the

PATCH: ide: ide-disk freeze support for hdaps

2005-08-25 Thread Yani Ioannou
is experimental... Thanks, Yani Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ide/Kconfig| 18 + drivers/ide/ide-disk.c | 163 drivers/ide/ide-io.c | 13 3 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) di

PATCH: ide: ide-disk freeze support for hdaps

2005-08-25 Thread Yani Ioannou
... Thanks, Yani Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ide/Kconfig| 18 + drivers/ide/ide-disk.c | 163 drivers/ide/ide-io.c | 13 3 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ide

Re: PATCH: ide: ide-disk freeze support for hdaps

2005-08-25 Thread Yani Ioannou
Hi Bartlomiej, Thank you for your feedback :), as this is my first dabble in ide/block drivers I certainly need it! On 8/25/05, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +config IDEDISK_FREEZE Is there any advantage of having it as a config option? The main reasons I added the

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

2005-08-16 Thread Yani Ioannou
On 8/16/05, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 22:07 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 16 2005, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > > If I were in your position, I would just implement this for ide (pata, > > not sata) right now, since that is what you

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

2005-08-16 Thread Yani Ioannou
On 8/16/05, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 22:07 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Aug 16 2005, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: If I were in your position, I would just implement this for ide (pata, not sata) right now, since that is what you need to

Re: IBM HDAPS, I need a tip.

2005-08-01 Thread Yani Ioannou
On 8/1/05, Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 04:07 -0400, Yani Ioannou wrote: > > Well don't forget there is a bios 'calibration' routine that you will > > see on start up (especially if you are on a moving vehicle/train). > > I've never s

Re: IBM HDAPS, I need a tip.

2005-08-01 Thread Yani Ioannou
Well don't forget there is a bios 'calibration' routine that you will see on start up (especially if you are on a moving vehicle/train). What is this calibration used for, and does it provide calibration information to the windows driver? Could we use it somehow to help solve this problem? Yani

Re: IBM HDAPS, I need a tip.

2005-08-01 Thread Yani Ioannou
Well don't forget there is a bios 'calibration' routine that you will see on start up (especially if you are on a moving vehicle/train). What is this calibration used for, and does it provide calibration information to the windows driver? Could we use it somehow to help solve this problem? Yani

Re: IBM HDAPS, I need a tip.

2005-08-01 Thread Yani Ioannou
On 8/1/05, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 04:07 -0400, Yani Ioannou wrote: Well don't forget there is a bios 'calibration' routine that you will see on start up (especially if you are on a moving vehicle/train). I've never seen that. Could you please elaborate

Re: 2.6.13 ub 2/3: Fold one line

2005-07-31 Thread Yani Ioannou
On 7/31/05, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evidently, Yani Ioannou's display is wider than mine. [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (Thinkpad) ;-). The changes were done by a script I wrote which wasn't checking if the 80 chars limit was surpassed. Yani - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.6.13 ub 2/3: Fold one line

2005-07-31 Thread Yani Ioannou
On 7/31/05, Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evidently, Yani Ioannou's display is wider than mine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thinkpad) ;-). The changes were done by a script I wrote which wasn't checking if the 80 chars limit was surpassed. Yani - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line