Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

2005-02-07 Thread Pozsár Balázs
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:48:00AM +, Nuno Monteiro wrote: On 2005.02.07 00:42, Pozsár Balázs wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:36:10AM +, Al Viro wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:21:08AM +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:06:59AM +, Christoph Hellwig

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: softlockup and suspend/resume

2005-02-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ah, ok. Could you try my patch and add touch_softlockup_watchdog() to the resume code (before interrupts are re-enabled)? I did: --- /home/rafael/tmp/kernel/testing/linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm1/kernel/power/swsusp.c 2005-02-05

Re: [WATCHDOG] support of motherboards with ICH6

2005-02-07 Thread P.O. Gaillard
Hi, I am replying to myself so that people googling for similar problems can find the answer. Supermicro says that the internal driver of the southbridge (and also the W83627HF chip) are not useable because the necessary support hardware is missing. They say that the P8SCi board has a working

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Tom Rini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:03:47AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the -V0.7.38-01 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ I thought I saw you say x64

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Building with: # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set CONFIG_PREEMPT_DESKTOP=y # CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is not set CC kernel/sched.o kernel/sched.c:314:1: warning: _finish_arch_switch redefined

Re: ext3 extended attributes refcounting wrong?

2005-02-07 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 19:49, Mikael Pettersson wrote: That leaves either the FC2 or FC3 installer kernels: one of them must have created the xattrs. An FC3 install with SELinux would certainly create xattrs. Everywhere. --Stephen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc2-V0.7.37-02

2005-02-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: hm - i had a fix in this area in the -V0.7 series. Then i thought this is a performance fix only and dropped it eventually, but could you give it a go - does it fix the deadlock?

IO port conflict between timer watchdog on PCISA-C800EV board ?

2005-02-07 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Hi All, i wrote a driver for the watchdog timer provided by a small form factor board from IEI ( the PCISA-C800EV : http://www.iei.com.tw/en/product_IPC.asp?model=PCISA-C800 ). This board has a Via Apollo PLE133 ( VT8601A and VT82C686B ) chipset. The watchdog uses two registers at addresses 0x43

oops in 2.6.8.1

2005-02-07 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- (BHash: SHA1 (B (Bhi, (B (Btoday, just 30min ago I found this in my messages file: (B (BThe box is a Debian/Testing with a self compiled 2.6.8.1 (B (Bramen:~# lsmod (BModule Size Used by (Bloop 13704 4 (Bntfs

Re: [patch] ns558 bug

2005-02-07 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:00:54PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote: Hi, this patch is based on http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2962 patch from adam belay. It solve a oops when pnp_register_driver(ns558_pnp_driver) failed. Please apply this patch. Thanks; applied. -- Vojtech

Re: oops in 2.6.8.1

2005-02-07 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- (BHash: SHA1 (B (BOn 02/07/2005 06:50 PM, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: (B hi, (B (B today, just 30min ago I found this in my messages file: (B (B The box is a Debian/Testing with a self compiled 2.6.8.1 (B (BI forgot one thing: (B (Bthe CPU is a Xeon

Re: [2.6 patch] input: make some code static

2005-02-07 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:56:45PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:39:55 +0100, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Hi Adrian, I merged your patch into my tree and it is ready for Vojtech to pull from. Yes,

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-07 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 11:44:05AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Here is a patch that exposes the IBM TrackPoint's extended properties as well as scroll wheel emulation. I would appreciate comments and suggestions to make this more acceptable. Perhaps this should be done in

Re: How to read file in kernel module?

2005-02-07 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi, I have written one /proc file creation kernel module. This module creates /proc/file and defied operations on it. Also i have written user program that will read write to /proc files from user space. Now what i want is to use same bufproc_read bufproc_write functions

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-07 Thread Helge Hafting
Jon Smirl wrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:48:43 +0100, Stefan Dsinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reset code of radeon card seems to be easy to reverse engineer. I have started an attempt and I have 50-60% of my radeon M9 reset code implemented in a 32 bit C program. I had to stop due to school

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 : Fix hang on unload

2005-02-07 Thread hugang
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:41:15PM -0500, Parag Warudkar wrote: I was seeing rmmod getting stuck consistently in D state while removing raw1394. Looking at raw1394.c:cleanup_raw1394 - the order of doing things seemed incorrect to me after comparing other places in raw1394.c which do the same

Re: [rfc][patch] ide: fix unneeded LBA48 taskfile registers access

2005-02-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
FWIW, there are two limitations of libata in this area: 1) ISTR some PATA vendor-specific commands have a very specific set of input and output registers to use, and input/output sets of registers may differ from each other. 2) libata is lazy, and just reads registers in groups: the

Re: [rfc][patch] ide: fix unneeded LBA48 taskfile registers access

2005-02-07 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Monday 07 February 2005 05:47, Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Bartlomiej. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [ against ide-dev-2.6 tree, boot tested on LBA48 drive ] This small patch fixes unneeded writes/reads to LBA48 taskfile registers on LBA48 capable disks for following cases: *

Re: Generating NLS modules

2005-02-07 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:10:38AM -0500, Pavel Fedin wrote: Nobody answered so i repeat the question. I think i found a way to make use of NLS table for HFS filesystem and i'm going to try to implement it. But first i need to create NLS module for codepage 10007 (Mac cyrillic). In the

Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

2005-02-07 Thread Jan Kasprzak
: I've been running 2.6.11-rc1 on my dual opteron Fedora Core 3 box for a week : now, and I think there is a memory leak somewhere. I am measuring the : size of active and inactive pages (from /proc/meminfo), and it seems : that the count of sum (active+inactive) pages is decreasing. Please : take

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order allocations on resume [update 2]

2005-02-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Monday, 31 of January 2005 00:19, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, The following patch is (yet) an(other) attempt to eliminate the need for using higher order memory allocations on resume. It accomplishes this by replacing the array of page backup entries with a list, so it is only

Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

2005-02-07 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:00:30PM +0100, Jan Kasprzak wrote: Well, with Linus' patch to fs/pipe.c the situation seems to improve a bit, but some leak is still there (look at the monthly graph at the above URL). The server has been running 2.6.11-rc2 + patch to fs/pipe.c for last 8 days.

Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

2005-02-07 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:53:00PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: Yeah, but the link order could be changed... Patch inlined. And just what does the link order (or changes thereof) have to do with that? because some distributions (eg gentoo) make a symlink to /proc/filesystems

Re: out-of-line x86 put_user() implementation

2005-02-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I no longer use x86 as my main machine, so this patch is totally untested. I've compiled it to see that things look somewhat sane, but that doesn't mean much. If I forgot some register or screwed something else up, this will result in a totally

Re: ARM undefined symbols. Again.

2005-02-07 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:17:53PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:43:26PM +, Russell King wrote: Sam, Where did the hacks go which detect the silent failure of the ARM binutils? They weant away because it caused lots of troubles with sparc and um. Can you use

[BUG] linux-2.6.11-rc3 probably in ACPI battery procfs ...

2005-02-07 Thread aurelien francillon
hi, since just before linux-2.6.11-rc3 ( i think it's rc2-bk10 ) there seems to have a bug in the acpi part of the proc file system : reading /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info takes a very long time and locks up the computer, time gives: cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info 0.00s user 6.76s system

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1

2005-02-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inotify.patch inotify Also ioctl is not an acceptable interface for adding new core functionality. seconded. Robert? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] twiddler compile fix.

2005-02-07 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 10:07:48PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi, Somehow this part of one of the earlier patches was lost... -- Dmitry === [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-02-06 20:25:21-05:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] Linux joydev joystick disconnect patch 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-07 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:21:13PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Opening braces should go on the same line as the statement (if (...) {).   How about this patch? Looks fine now. Hmm, wait a sec... Don't we also need kill_fasync calls in disconnect routines as well? This should do it:

Re: Sabotaged PaXtest (was: Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer)

2005-02-07 Thread pageexec
From http://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/pax.txt: The goal of the PaX project is to research various defense mechanisms against the exploitation of software bugs that give an attacker arbitrary read/write access to the attacked task's address space. Could you please explain how PaX

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 - broken bttv ?

2005-02-07 Thread Paulo Marques
jjluza wrote: Eyal Lebedinsky wrote I am having bttv problems with vanilla -rc3. Does it work for you? I don't know, as I said I didn't test kernel between 2.6.10 and 2.6.11-rc3-mm1. Sorry. If I have time enough later, I can test 2.6.11-rc3. Since I don't really know if it's the good place to

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 - broken bttv ?

2005-02-07 Thread Paulo Marques
Paulo Marques wrote: jjluza wrote: Eyal Lebedinsky wrote I am having bttv problems with vanilla -rc3. Does it work for you? I don't know, as I said I didn't test kernel between 2.6.10 and 2.6.11-rc3-mm1. Sorry. If I have time enough later, I can test 2.6.11-rc3. Since I don't really know if it's

Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have a DVD where I have three files on it, (1.7gb,1.7gb,900mb). On W2K, when I try to copy the second file, I get a BadCRC error message. Under Linux, I copy up to about 860MB (watched via pipebench) and then it freezes the machine, I cannot ping or get to it or do anything on the console;

Re: cpufreq problem wrt suspend/resume on Athlon64 [update]

2005-02-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Friday, 4 of February 2005 00:15, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday, 3 of February 2005 15:22, Pavel Machek wrote: [-- snip --] I'm currently thinking that the proper approach may be to add a -suspend() routine to struct cpufreq_driver and call the driver-specific -suspend()

Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

2005-02-07 Thread Pozsár Balázs
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:29:14PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: and (ii) sometimes several types would succeed (e.g. msdos/vfat) and the user can override the kernel order. But we are talking about the default order. By the way, it is best to consider the kernel order as undefined. But it

BK-kernel-tools/shortlog update

2005-02-07 Thread Matthias Andree
Hello Linus, you can either use bk receive to patch with this mail, or you can Pull from: bk://krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/BK-kernel-tools or in cases of dire need, you can apply the patch below. BK: Parent repository is http://bktools.bkbits.net/bktools Patch description: [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: softlockup and suspend/resume

2005-02-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 7 of February 2005 09:57, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ah, ok. Could you try my patch and add touch_softlockup_watchdog() to the resume code (before interrupts are re-enabled)? I did: ---

Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

2005-02-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-02-07 09:47:09, schrieb Pozsár Balázs: See? I _have_ that patch applied, that's why it tried vfat and not msdos first. With this, you will nerver mount a Filesystem msdos. Because vfat IS msdos + lfn. You can attach to ALL msdos media lfn and you will have vfat. Granted, I could

Re: How to read file in kernel module?

2005-02-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-02-07 07:38:36, schrieb Arjan van de Ven: the answer really is that you should not read files from kernel modules; /proc or otherwise. I think, he mean something like echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Where you can (de)activate Kernel functions. Greetings Michelle --

Re: Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread linux-os
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Justin Piszcz wrote: I have a DVD where I have three files on it, (1.7gb,1.7gb,900mb). On W2K, when I try to copy the second file, I get a BadCRC error message. Under Linux, I copy up to about 860MB (watched via pipebench) and then it freezes the machine, I cannot ping or get

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 16:02 +, Alan Cox wrote: Some systems (intel notably) appear to expect you to use the bios save/restore video state not re-POST. This works well in many cases, but there are some machines that freeze if you attempt to make a VBE state save call. Sadly, I don't have

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc3-mm1] mips: add unknown page size string

2005-02-07 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
This patch had fixed the following warning. arch/mips/lib-32/dump_tlb.c: In function 'dump_tlb': arch/mips/lib-32/dump_tlb.c:69: warning: control may reach end of non-void function 'msk2str' being inlined This patch adds return value, when page size is not match. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi

Re: Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 07 fvrier 2005 08:05 -0500, linux-os a crit : Main Question Why does Linux 'freeze up' when W2K gives a BadCRC error msg (never freezes)? Of course it should not. However, there were many incomplete changes made in 2.6.nn and some may involve problems with locking, etc. I

Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

2005-02-07 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07.02.2005 20:29, Andries Brouwer wrote: Making a symlink /etc/filesystems - /proc/filesystems is meaningless. well to be honest, I didn't even know Gentoo makes a symlink here, but I'll definitly will make bug entry for that. Perhaps its a

Re: move-accounting-function-calls-out-of-critical-vm-code-paths.patch

2005-02-07 Thread Jay Lan
Andrew Morton wrote: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope that Roland's changes for higher resolution of cputime would make that possible. But this is Jay's thing not mine. I just want to make sure that the CSA patches does not get in the way of our attempts to improve the performance

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Some systems (intel notably) appear to expect you to use the bios save/restore video state not re-POST. This works well in many cases, but there are some machines that freeze if you attempt to make a VBE state save call. Sadly, I don't have any access to an affected machine, so it's

Re: Re: Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
Yeah, I can try 2.4.29 later tonight; also, the DVD is not scratched, just formatted with Joilet/ISO instead of UDF (which is what should be used on DVDs). However, dd if=/dev/hdh of=file.img Even with bs=1 for 1 byte at a time, there seems to be no way to get the data off,

Re: [WATCHDOG] support of motherboards with ICH6]

2005-02-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:00:03AM +0100, P.O. Gaillard wrote: Hi, I am replying to myself so that people googling for similar problems can find the answer. Supermicro says that the internal driver of the southbridge (and also the W83627HF chip) are not useable because the necessary

Re: [PATCH] Linux joydev joystick disconnect patch 2.6.11-rc2

2005-02-07 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:20:33 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:21:13PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Opening braces should go on the same line as the statement (if (...) {). How about this patch? Looks fine now. Hmm, wait a sec... Don't we

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The problem with the radeon reset code is that there are many, many variations of the radeon chips, including different steppings of the same part. The ROM is matched to the paticular bugs of the chip. From what I know ATI doesn't even have a universal radeon reset program. Maybe

Re: Sabotaged PaXtest (was: Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer)

2005-02-07 Thread pageexec
still wrong. What you get this way is a nice, complicated NOP. not only a nop but also a likely crash given that i didn't adjust the declaration of some_function appropriately ;-). let's cater for less complexity too with the following payload (of the 'many other ways' kind): [field1 and other

[RFC][PATCH 2.6.11-rc3-mm1] Relay Fork Module

2005-02-07 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
Hello, This module sends a signal to one or several processes (in user space) when a fork occurs in the kernel. It relays information about forks (parent and child pid) to a user space application. The relay fork module adds a hook in the do_fork() routine that can be used by other

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-07 Thread Paulo Marques
Adam Sulmicki wrote: hi all, I would like point to work done by Li-Ta Lo. It allows you to completely initalize the VGA BIOS w/out using PC BIOS at all. http://www.clustermatic.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2005-January/010236.html unforunatelly the information the web is somewhat

Re: [PATCH] Re: msdos/vfat defaults are annoying

2005-02-07 Thread Nuno Monteiro
On 2005.02.07 08:47, Pozsár Balázs wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:48:00AM +, Nuno Monteiro wrote: But the contents of /proc/filesystems comes from the kernel. And the order of filesystems comes from the link order. Yes, but /proc/filesystems is only processed after two other checks have

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order allocations on resume [update 2]

2005-02-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The following patch is (yet) an(other) attempt to eliminate the need for using higher order memory allocations on resume.  It accomplishes this by replacing the array of page backup entries with a list, so it is only necessary to allocate individual memory pages. This

Re: How to read file in kernel module?

2005-02-07 Thread Olaf Dietsche
linux lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now what i want is to use same bufproc_read bufproc_write functions defined in /proc file handling kernel module to be used in another kernel module to read that /proc/file in kernel module.The second kernel module only used to read /proc file in

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-07 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Paulo Marques schrieb: Adam Sulmicki wrote: hi all, I would like point to work done by Li-Ta Lo. It allows you to completely initalize the VGA BIOS w/out using PC BIOS at all. http://www.clustermatic.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2005-January/010236.html unforunatelly

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-07 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:03:56AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Tom Rini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:03:47AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the -V0.7.38-01 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place:

Re: Re: Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 07 fvrier 2005 09:17 -0500, Justin Piszcz a crit : Yeah, I can try 2.4.29 later tonight; also, the DVD is not scratched, just formatted with Joilet/ISO instead of UDF (which is what should be used on DVDs). However, dd if=/dev/hdh of=file.img Even with bs=1 for 1 byte

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc3-mm1] pcmcia: update vrc4171_card

2005-02-07 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
This patch updates vrc4171 pcmcia driver. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urN -X dontdiff a-orig/arch/mips/vr41xx/common/Makefile a/arch/mips/vr41xx/common/Makefile --- a-orig/arch/mips/vr41xx/common/Makefile Thu Feb 3 10:55:52 2005 +++

Re: question on symbol exports

2005-02-07 Thread Chris Friesen
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: It turns out that to call ptep_clear_flush_dirty() on ppc64 from a module I needed to export the following symbols: __flush_tlb_pending ppc64_tlb_batch hpte_update Any reason why you need to call that from a module ? Is the module GPL'd ? I explained this at the

Re: Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread linux-os
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Xavier Bestel wrote: Le lundi 07 fÿÿvrier 2005 ÿÿ 08:05 -0500, linux-os a ÿÿcrit : Main Question Why does Linux 'freeze up' when W2K gives a BadCRC error msg (never freezes)? Of course it should not. However, there were many incomplete changes made in 2.6.nn and some may

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order allocations on resume [update 2]

2005-02-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Monday, 7 of February 2005 15:27, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! The following patch is (yet) an(other) attempt to eliminate the need for using higher order memory allocations on resume. It accomplishes this by replacing the array of page backup entries with a list, so it is

Re: [WATCHDOG] support of motherboards with ICH6]

2005-02-07 Thread P
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:00:03AM +0100, P.O. Gaillard wrote: Hi, I am replying to myself so that people googling for similar problems can find the answer. Supermicro says that the internal driver of the southbridge (and also the W83627HF chip) are not useable because

Re: [WATCHDOG] support of motherboards with ICH6]

2005-02-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:48:49PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:00:03AM +0100, P.O. Gaillard wrote: Hi, I am replying to myself so that people googling for similar problems can find the answer. Supermicro says that the internal

Re: [WATCHDOG] support of motherboards with ICH6

2005-02-07 Thread P.O. Gaillard
Pasi Kärkkäinen Hi! I have P8SCi motherboard, and I just tried the watchdog with Linux 2.6.10. I loaded w83627hf_wdt driver, and the watchdog was detected: WDT driver for the Winbond(TM) W83627HF Super I/O chip initialising. w83627hf WDT: initialized. timeout=60 sec (nowayout=0) But it is not

Real-Time Preemption and UML?

2005-02-07 Thread Esben Nielsen
Hi, I am trying to compile and run UM-Linux with PREEMPT_REALTIME. I managed to get it to compile but it wont start - it simply stops somewhere in start_kernel() :-( Have anyone else looked at it? It doesn't sound like it makes much sense to have PREEMPT_REALTIME for UML but I thought it was a

BIOS Bug

2005-02-07 Thread Enrico Bartky
Hello, on my notebook, when I plugged in my USB keyboard the kernel doesnt boot correctly, ... ... BIOS hangoff failed ( 112, 1010001 ) continuing after BIOS bug irq 192, pci mem 0xfebff000 new usb device registered, assigned bus number 1 ... then the notebook hangs. If I boot without the

Re: [WATCHDOG] support of motherboards with ICH6

2005-02-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:01:02PM +0100, P.O. Gaillard wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen Hi! I have P8SCi motherboard, and I just tried the watchdog with Linux 2.6.10. I loaded w83627hf_wdt driver, and the watchdog was detected: WDT driver for the Winbond(TM) W83627HF Super I/O chip initialising.

Re: Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread David Gmez
Hi Justin ;), On Feb 07 at 07:32:48, Justin Piszcz wrote: Main Question Why does Linux 'freeze up' when W2K gives a BadCRC error msg (never freezes)? I don't know, but i can reproduce it too. I complained several months ago about the problem (in 2.6.7/2.6.8 time) but nobody seemed to care

Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

2005-02-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Jan Kasprzak wrote: The server has been running 2.6.11-rc2 + patch to fs/pipe.c for last 8 days. # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 4045168 kB Cached:2861648 kB LowFree: 59396 kB Mapped: 206540 kB Slab: 861176 kB Ok, pretty much

Re: [PATCH] hid-core: Configurable USB HID Mouse Interrupt Polling Interval

2005-02-07 Thread Mikkel Krautz
Here's an updated version of kernel-parameters.txt: Signed-off-by: Mikkel Krautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- clean/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ dirty/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ SWSUSP Software suspension is enabled. TS Appropriate

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-07 Thread Paulo Marques
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: Paulo Marques schrieb: [...] It seems to me that x86 emulation in the kernel is the way to go because: [...] 3 - it's always there and can be executed at *any* time: booting, returning from suspend, etc. Also it would allow the VESA framebuffer driver to change

linux-2.6.11-rc3: XFS internal error xfs_da_do_buf(1) at line 2176 of file fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c.

2005-02-07 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
I'm sorry for this truncated report... but it's all I've got. If you need .config or system configuration, etc. let me know and I'll send'em ASAP. I don't believe this is hardware related; ide-smart shows all fine. From dmesg: xfs_da_do_buf: bno 8388608 dir: inode 117526252 Filesystem hda4:

Re: [PATCH] hid-core: Configurable USB HID Mouse Interrupt Polling Interval

2005-02-07 Thread Mikkel Krautz
And, here's an updated version of hid-core.c: Signed-off-by: Mikkel Krautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- clean/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c +++ dirty/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c @@ -37,13 +37,20 @@ * Version Information */ -#define DRIVER_VERSION v2.0 +#define DRIVER_VERSION v2.01 #define

[ATTN: Dmitry Torokhov] About the trackpad and 2.6.11-rc[23] but not -rc1

2005-02-07 Thread Joseph Pingenot
Hi. Sorry; I accidentally deleted my email and your response, Dmitry. :/ Anyhow, here is /proc/bus/input/devices $ cat /proc/bus/input/devices I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41 N: Name=AT Translated Set 2 keyboard P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0 H: Handlers=kbd event0 B:

Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

2005-02-07 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Linus Torvalds wrote: : Jan - can you give Jens a bit of an idea of what drivers and/or schedulers : you're using? I have a Tyan S2882 dual Opteron, network is on-board tg3, there are 8 P-ATA HDDs hooked on 3ware 7506-8 controller (no HW RAID there, but the drives are partitioned and

Re: [PATCH] Altix : ioc4 serial driver support

2005-02-07 Thread Patrick Gefre
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:36:15PM -0600, Patrick Gefre wrote: Please kill ioc4_ide_init as it's completely unused and make ioc4_serial_init a normal module_init() handler in ioc4_serial, there's no need to call them from the generic driver. I want ioc4_serial_init

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! 3 - it's always there and can be executed at *any* time: booting, returning from suspend, etc. Also it would allow the VESA framebuffer driver to change graphics mode at any time (for instance). OK, and what would force you to do the above in the kernel? If the code lives in

Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-07 Thread Chris Friesen
Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:50 -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: It's not like somebody will have some innate commercial advantage over you because they have your driver source code. For a hardware vendor that's not a very compelling argument. Especially compared to what their IP lawyers

Re: linux-2.6.11-rc3: XFS internal error xfs_da_do_buf(1) at line 2176 of file fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c.

2005-02-07 Thread Anders Saaby
Is this system running SMP og UP? On Monday 07 February 2005 16:38, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote: I'm sorry for this truncated report... but it's all I've got. If you need .config or system configuration, etc. let me know and I'll send'em ASAP. I don't believe this is hardware related;

Re: [PATCH] hid-core: Configurable USB HID Mouse Interrupt Polling Interval

2005-02-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Mikkel Krautz wrote: And, here's an updated version of hid-core.c: Signed-off-by: Mikkel Krautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- clean/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c +++ dirty/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c @@ -37,13 +37,20 @@ * Version Information */ -#define DRIVER_VERSION v2.0 +#define

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-07 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 09:01, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! 3 - it's always there and can be executed at *any* time: booting, returning from suspend, etc. Also it would allow the VESA framebuffer driver to change graphics mode at any time (for instance). OK, and what would force you to

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order allocations on resume [update 2]

2005-02-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! The (updated) patch follows. Okay, few comments... Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Nru linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm1-orig/arch/i386/power/swsusp.S linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm1/arch/i386/power/swsusp.S --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm1-orig/arch/i386/power/swsusp.S2004-12-24

Re: [PATCH] Altix : ioc4 serial driver support

2005-02-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:58:33AM -0600, Patrick Gefre wrote: Latest version with review mods: ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sn2/sn2-update/033-ioc4-support - still not __iomem annotations. - still a -remove method more comments (mostly nipicks I missed last time, nothing too exciting):

Re: Real-Time Preemption and UML?

2005-02-07 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, I am trying to compile and run UM-Linux with PREEMPT_REALTIME. I managed to get it to compile but it wont start - it simply stops somewhere in start_kernel() :-( I've never played with preemption on UML. No doubt it needs some work...

Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

2005-02-07 Thread axboe
Linus Torvalds wrote: : Jan - can you give Jens a bit of an idea of what drivers and/or schedulers : you're using? I have a Tyan S2882 dual Opteron, network is on-board tg3, there are 8 P-ATA HDDs hooked on 3ware 7506-8 controller (no HW RAID there, but the drives are partitioned and

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-07 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 07:27, Paulo Marques wrote: I still don't have hard numbers from the work Li-Ta Lo is doing (I'm CC'ing him on this thread to see if he can shed some light here), but I guess that you could have the complete emulator for about 50kB of code. The difference between the

Re: [PATCH] hid-core: Configurable USB HID Mouse Interrupt Polling Interval

2005-02-07 Thread Mikkel Krautz
Randy.Dunlap wrote: Why is it writable by root? IOW, will writing a new value to it change the operational value dynamically? Yes, sort of. It requires a re-plug of the mouse, though. :) Also, from the kernel-parameters.txt patch: (a) which (b) drop one of the ats... either one. Oops,

Re: Suggestion for CD filesystem for Backups

2005-02-07 Thread Ali Bayazit
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 17:16 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: On Iau, 2004-09-23 at 00:04, Judith und Mirko Kloppstech wrote: Why not write a file system on top of ISO9660 which uses the rest of the CD to write error correction. If a sector becomes unreadable, the error correction saves the data.

Re: IO port conflict between timer watchdog on PCISA-C800EV board ?

2005-02-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: Hi All, i wrote a driver for the watchdog timer provided by a small form factor board from IEI ( the PCISA-C800EV : http://www.iei.com.tw/en/product_IPC.asp?model=PCISA-C800 ). This board has a Via Apollo PLE133 ( VT8601A and VT82C686B ) chipset. The watchdog uses

Re: [ATTN: Dmitry Torokhov] About the trackpad and 2.6.11-rc[23] but not -rc1

2005-02-07 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:43:27 -0600, Joseph Pingenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Sorry; I accidentally deleted my email and your response, Dmitry. :/ Anyhow, here is /proc/bus/input/devices $ cat /proc/bus/input/devices I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41 N: Name=AT

Re: How to read file in kernel module?

2005-02-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 07:38:36 +0100, Arjan van de Ven said: On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 22:17 -0800, linux lover wrote: Now what i want is to use same bufproc_read bufproc_write functions defined in /proc file handling kernel module to be used in another kernel module to read that /proc/file

Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-07 Thread linux-os
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Chris Friesen wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:50 -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: It's not like somebody will have some innate commercial advantage over you because they have your driver source code. For a hardware vendor that's not a very compelling argument.

Re: IO port conflict between timer watchdog on PCISA-C800EV board ?

2005-02-07 Thread linux-os
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: Hi All, i wrote a driver for the watchdog timer provided by a small form factor board from IEI ( the PCISA-C800EV : http://www.iei.com.tw/en/product_IPC.asp?model=PCISA-C800 ). This board has a Via Apollo PLE133 ( VT8601A and

Re: [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: remove incorrect rpaphp firmware dependency

2005-02-07 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 08:41 +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: remove incorrect rpaphp firmware dependency The RPA PCI Hotplug module incorrectly uses a certain firmware property when determining the hotplug capabilities of a slot.

Re: linux-2.6.11-rc3: XFS internal error xfs_da_do_buf(1) at line 2176 of file fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c.

2005-02-07 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
Anders Saaby wrote: Is this system running SMP og UP? On Monday 07 February 2005 16:38, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote: I'm sorry for this truncated report... but it's all I've got. If you need .config or system configuration, etc. let me know and I'll send'em ASAP. I don't believe this is

Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Chris Friesen wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:50 -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: It's not like somebody will have some innate commercial advantage over you because they have your driver source code. For a hardware vendor that's not a very compelling argument. Especially compared to

VIA VT6410 IDE support for 2.6.11-rc3/via82cxxx

2005-02-07 Thread Mathias Kretschmer
Mathias Kretschmer wrote: Mathias Kretschmer wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Mathias Kretschmer wrote: hi, I found an older version of this patch (against 2.4.22) on some website. After a little bit of editing it applied cleanly to 2.4.27 (and now 2.4.28). It works fine for me on a ASUS P4P800-Deluxe

Re: [PATCH] hid-core: Configurable USB HID Mouse Interrupt Polling Interval

2005-02-07 Thread Domen Puncer
On 07/02/05 07:59 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Mikkel Krautz wrote: And, here's an updated version of hid-core.c: Signed-off-by: Mikkel Krautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- clean/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c +++ dirty/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c ... + +static unsigned int

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