Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Latest ext3 patches (extents, mballoc, delayed allocation)

2005-02-15 Thread Sonny Rao
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:40:21PM +0300, Alex Tomas wrote: Good day all, I've updated the patchset against 2.6.10. A bunch of bugs have been fixed and mballoc now behaves smarter a bit. Extents and mballoc patches collects some stats they print upon umount. NOTE: they must not be used

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Latest ext3 patches (extents, mballoc, delayed allocation)

2005-02-15 Thread Alex Tomas
Sonny Rao (SR) writes: SR Alex, small buglet, If the FIBMAP-ioctl get's called on a file with SR delayed allocation, you need to flush it (or at least allocate) before SR returning the mappings. This doesn't seem to work properly at SR present. good catch. thanks. - To unsubscribe

Re: strange bug with realtek 8169 card

2005-02-15 Thread Francois Romieu
Alexandre [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] Or any idea why the problem occurs and how to correct this (if it is possbile)? Upgrade the compiler if you use gcc 2.95.x. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-15 Thread Paolo Ciarrocchi
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:45:20 -0500, Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:21 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: Lee I don't see why so much effort goes into improving boot time Lee on the kernel side when the most obvious user space problem Lee is ignored.

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-15 Thread Paolo Ciarrocchi
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:32:22 +0100, Gábor Lénárt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:45:39PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: last thing that gets run. There is just no reason for this. We should start X and initialize the display and get the login prompt up there ASAP, and let

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Kyle Moffett wrote: On Feb 14, 2005, at 20:17, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:16 -0800, Tim Bird wrote: Lee Revell wrote: But, I was referring more to things like GDM not being started until all the other init scripts are done. Why not start it first, and let the network initialize

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-15 Thread Kenan Esau
Am Freitag, den 11.02.2005, 21:10 +0100 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: Hi! I've reimplemented the Lifebook touchscreen driver using libps2 and input, to make it short and fitting into the kernel drivers. Please comment on code and test for functionality! PS.: The driver should register two

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread James Bruce
I agree with this 100%, and this is exactly the same conclusion we came to in our research lab. Tom Felker wrote: I really think the fewer restrictions you put on BK's use, the less likely it will be copied. When the open source community copies something, it's not out of a desire to screw

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-15 Thread Ray Bryant
Paul Jackson wrote: Ray wrote: [Thus the disclaimer in the overview note that we have figured all the interaction with memory policy stuff yet.] Does the same disclaimer apply to cpusets? Unless it causes some undo pain, I would think that page migration should _not_ violate a tasks cpuset. I

Re: seccomp for 2.6.11-rc1-bk8

2005-02-15 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:34:24AM +, David Wagner wrote: What if 6 months from now we discover that we really should have enabled one more syscall in seccomp to accomodate other applications? This is why there's a seccomp mode number, and you've to choose it, I only implemented mode 0 so

Re: [OT] speeding boot process

2005-02-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:34 +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: [...] So... why is Gentoo the only distro the uses parallel execution of init scripts ? Because no other distro bothered to implement it. Apart from that we as quite far off-topic for LKML since this has nothing to do with kernel. The

seccomp for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-15 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Hello, This is the latest version against 2.6.11-rc4: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.6/2.6.11-rc4/seccomp I'd need it merged into mainline at some point, unless anybody has strong arguments against it. All I can guarantee here, is that I'll back it out

Dummy vt for XFree86 ?

2005-02-15 Thread xerces8
Hi! Is there a way to prevent VT switching for XFree86 ? I have two gfx cards and want to start an X server on the secondary card, while leaving the VTs on the primary card active. So I need XFree86 not to allocate and cause a switch to a new VT. Since I know of no way to make XFree86 do that,

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:55 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: [...] The init-script dependencies are specifies already - at least on debian. These are not dependencies but only the sequence of startup (and it is not only Debian but also Fedora/RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake and probably all except Gentoo).

[PATCH] ext3: Fix sparse -Wbitwise warnings.

2005-02-15 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/ext3/resize.c| 20 ++-- fs/ext3/super.c |8 include/linux/ext3_fs.h |2 +- 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) Index: linux-warnings/include/linux/ext3_fs.h

Re: [PATCH] Consolidate compat_sys_waitid

2005-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:01:49PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: +asmlinkage long compat_sys_waitid(u32 which, u32 pid, + struct compat_siginfo __user *uinfo, u32 options, + struct compat_rusage __user *uru) +{ + siginfo_t info; + struct rusage ru; +

UDP and e1000 : Simple test, little bugs.

2005-02-15 Thread Vincent Roqueta
Hello all, I am working on NFS interoperabiity and I experiment some problems with UDP. The problem appear between the linux 2.6.10rc1 and 2.6.10rc2, and is still present in the last kernel (2.6.11rc3) With NFSv3: Client send a 32k file splited into 22 IP fragments. The problem is the server

Unspecified remote crash in the IP forwarding path (2.6 only)

2005-02-15 Thread Florian Weimer
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-82-1 mentions a remote crash in the IP forwarding path. Quote from the Ubuntu security advisory (apparently, no CVE name has been assigned so far): | http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2005-01/msg01036.html: | | David Coulson noticed a design flaw in the

Re: UDP and e1000 : Simple test, little bugs.

2005-02-15 Thread Vincent Roqueta
Network card is the intel e1000 ethernet card. I tried with rxpolling turned on and off. Bug doesnot appear in loopback. Compiling with the linux 2.6.10rc1 e1000 driver does not change anything. That may not come from the driver. Vincent ROQUETA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: SiS drm broken during 2.6.9-rc1-bk1

2005-02-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Dave Airlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: layout is the most likely patch to have broken things... I haven't confirmed it is this particular patch yet, tomorrow I'll get some time to do it .. okay running client applications using setarch -L i386 glxgears makes them work.. I'll

Re: fix iounmap and a pageattr memleak (x86 and x86-64)

2005-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:15:54AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Hello, the fix for this bug in 2.6.11-rc3 for this bug is wrong, I thought I Can you describe what exactly is wrong? -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: queue_work from interrupt Real time preemption2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-03

2005-02-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mark Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 February 2005 13:24, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:40 -0800, Mark Gross wrote: I'm working on a tweak to the preepmtive soft IRQ implementation using work queues and I'm having problems with a BUG assert when trying to

Re: fix iounmap and a pageattr memleak (x86 and x86-64)

2005-02-15 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:39:15AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:15:54AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Hello, the fix for this bug in 2.6.11-rc3 for this bug is wrong, I thought I Can you describe what exactly is wrong? the wrong thing is that if I change the

Re: Pty is losing bytes

2005-02-15 Thread Andreas Schwab
Alex Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Problem does not exist on 2.6.8.1. Yes, it is a pretty recent regression, reproducable since 2.6.10. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7

Re: fix iounmap and a pageattr memleak (x86 and x86-64)

2005-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:48:27AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:39:15AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:15:54AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Hello, the fix for this bug in 2.6.11-rc3 for this bug is wrong, I thought I Can you

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

2005-02-15 Thread Robin Holt
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:22:54PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:01 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:50:42AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 07:52 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: The node mask is a list of allowed. This is intended to be

About kernel startup

2005-02-15 Thread mike
Dear All When i start the non- compressed kernel, it can print out Linux version 2.4.18-rmk4, and when i bootup the compressed kernel , uncompressed linux .. is displayed. Both situation will reboot the machine and come back to the bootloader. Do anybody know what is the problem? Do i set

Re: Pty is losing bytes

2005-02-15 Thread Jan De Luyck
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 11:48, Andreas Schwab wrote: Alex Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Problem does not exist on 2.6.8.1. Yes, it is a pretty recent regression, reproducable since 2.6.10. Confirmed against 2.6.11-rc4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ./a.out laptop-mode.txt | diff

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-15 Thread Robin Holt
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:29:45PM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote: which is what you are asking for, I think. The library's job (in addition to suspending all of the processes in the list for the duration of the migration operation, plus do some other things that are specific to sn2 hardware) would

Re: [PATCH] Consolidate compat_sys_waitid

2005-02-15 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Andi, On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:51:53 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think this will work for sparc64/s390/UML etc. They cannot access kernel data inside KERNEL_DS. You would need to use compat_alloc_user_space() for ru .. and, presumably, for info as well. Interestingly,

Re: [PATCH] Consolidate compat_sys_waitid

2005-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:06:14PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi Andi, On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:51:53 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think this will work for sparc64/s390/UML etc. They cannot access kernel data inside KERNEL_DS. You would need to use

Re: fix iounmap and a pageattr memleak (x86 and x86-64)

2005-02-15 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:51:52AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Ok, so it is merely a cosmetic issue. In practice it's solved, I didn't mean we had a bug still, I'm just suggesting to fix it in a diffeerent way. It's not just for cosmetic reasons that I suggest to change this. My point is that the

Re: About kernel startup

2005-02-15 Thread Catalin Marinas
mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i start the non- compressed kernel, it can print out Linux version 2.4.18-rmk4, and when i bootup the compressed kernel , uncompressed linux .. is displayed. Both situation will reboot the machine and come back to the bootloader. Do anybody know what

Re: aacraid fails under kernel 2.6

2005-02-15 Thread Jonathan Knight
On Gwe, 2005-02-11 at 14:28, Jonathan Knight wrote: Fedora 2.6.10 or the base 2.6.10. The base 2.6.10 is missing at least one aacraid fix. Fedora. We checked that it had a fix in that you'd posted about on this list. -- __[EMAIL PROTECTED]Jonathan Knight, /

Re: RTC Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-02-15 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 07:45:11PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Hi, Having CONFIG_RTC=y, I tried on x86 the rtctest program found in linux-2.6.10/Documentation/rtc.txt. However, it failed at: ioctl(fd, RTC_UIE_ON, 0); with: ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device

[BUG] 2.6.11-rc[234] setfont fails on i810 after resume from ACPI-S3

2005-02-15 Thread mhf
HW info Using vga=0xf07, default8x16 font, display has 30 lines On powerup from S3 console has only 25 lines but still scrolls at 30 lines. Setfont historically fixes it. Tested with 2.6.10, 2.6.11-rc1: OK Tested with 2.6.11-rc2-Vanilla and 2.6.11-rc[234]+swsusp2. When using setfont, screen

[BUG] 2.6.11-rc[234] setfont fails on i810 after resume from ACPI-S3

2005-02-15 Thread mhf
HW info Hardware Celeron 433 with i810 chipset: :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory C= ontroller Hub] (rev 03) =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Subsystem: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory = Controller Hub] =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
(1) You really don't want to migrate the code pages of shared libraries that are mapped into the process address space. This causes a useless shuffling of pages which really doesn't help system performance. On the other hand, if a shared library is some private thing

[PATCH] procfs: Fix sparse warnings

2005-02-15 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-warnings/fs/proc/base.c === --- linux-warnings/fs/proc/base.c (revision 25) +++ linux-warnings/fs/proc/base.c (revision 29) @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ .open

Re: [PATCH] procfs: Fix sparse warnings

2005-02-15 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:55:55PM +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: [snip] Let's hold this kind of stuff until 2.6.11, OK? Al, sitting on more than a megabyte of such patches... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

What is the purpose of GPIO pins.

2005-02-15 Thread krishna
Hi all, Can any one tell me the purpose GPIO pin serves. How are GPIO pins better than dedicated pins, considering hardware design view and for programming view. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: X86_64 kernel support MAX memory.

2005-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 07:32:42PM -0800, YhLu wrote: Andi, How much is max RAM 2.6.11 x86_64 support on AMD64? 64G or 128G? 46bits in theory (64TB), however current CPUs only support upto 40bits (AMD) or 36bits (Intel). There is some other code that is also limited to 40bits right now like

Re: [ACPI] Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-15 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Monday 14 Feb 2005 21:11, Pavel Machek wrote: Table of known working systems: Model hack (or how to do it) [...] HP NC6000 s3_bios (2) The above report is incorrect. On 2.6.11-rc4, even with the s3_bios option, the

Re: [PATCH] procfs: Fix sparse warnings

2005-02-15 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 13:59, Al Viro wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:55:55PM +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: Let's hold this kind of stuff until 2.6.11, OK? Al, sitting on more than a megabyte of such patches... Could you send diffstat or something? I did make allyesconfig with

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview II

2005-02-15 Thread Andi Kleen
[Sorry, didn't answer to everything in your mail the first time. See previous mail for beginning] On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:29:45PM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote: migrating, and figure out from that what portions of which pid's address spaces need to migrated so that we satisfy the constraints

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread kernel
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 11:00, Larry McVoy wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:03:45AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: Can you see Ford Motors telling someone that you can't go work for GM if you drive a Ford? Actually, when I worked at Goodyear their policy was all execs/management had to drive

Re: What is the purpose of GPIO pins.

2005-02-15 Thread linux-os
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, krishna wrote: Hi all, Can any one tell me the purpose GPIO pin serves. How are GPIO pins better than dedicated pins, considering hardware design view and for programming view. Do you mean General Purpose I/O bits on a chip? ^ ^ ^ ^ If so, it is

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-15 Thread Robin Holt
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:53:03PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: (2) You really only want to migrate pages once. If a file is mapped into several of the pid's that are being migrated, then you want to figure this out and issue one call to have it moved wrt one of the pid's.

Re: What is the purpose of GPIO pins.

2005-02-15 Thread krishna
Hi, NO, Sorry I wasn't clear. I am asking about GPIO controllers used in HandHeld Devices. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya linux-os wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, krishna wrote: Hi all, Can any one tell me the purpose GPIO pin serves. How are GPIO pins better than dedicated pins, considering

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread kernel
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:56, Larry McVoy wrote: All we are trying to do is 1. Provide the open source community with a useful tool. 2. Prevent that from turning into the open source community creating a clone of our tool. lol I agree that this sucks, having a

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Monday 14 February 2005 21:40, Larry McVoy wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:13:14PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote: The way some people are reading the license the price is even higher, they think it is a forever tainted license as it stands today. I've had specific requests to clarify

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread linux-os
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, kernel wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:56, Larry McVoy wrote: All we are trying to do is 1. Provide the open source community with a useful tool. 2. Prevent that from turning into the open source community creating a clone of our tool. lol I agree that this

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 22:14 -0500, Vincent C Jones wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On my Thinkpad T30 with a Radeon Mobility M7 LW, I get interesting console video corruption if I start GDM, switch back to text mode, then stop it again. X is Xfree86 from Debian/unstable or X.org

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On my Thinkpad X31 with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY I see a major regression going from 2.6.11-rc3 to rc4. With rc-4, the frame buffer console (using video=radeonfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) comes up as 640x480 expanded to 1024x768. The inability of ACPI suspend to turn off the backlight also returns.

Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-15 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: (1) systems where video state is preserved over S3. (2) systems where it is possible to call video bios during S3 resume. Unfortunately, it is not correct to call video BIOS at that point, but it happens to work on some machines. Use

sigwait() and 2.6

2005-02-15 Thread Yves Crespin
Hi, Going on a 2.6 kernel, I have a trouble with sigwait() When I send a kill to this program, the exit code is 143 (signal 15 and core)! Is there a workaround ? Thanks, Yves gcc -g -Wall -D_REENTRANT=1 -D_THREAD_SAFE=1 s.c -lpthread -o s /= début du code =/ #include unistd.h #include

Re: Fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in i8042.c

2005-02-15 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:55:57AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t in i8042.c. Please apply, I have this change in my tree already. Pavel --- clean-mm/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c 2005-02-15

Re: fix iounmap and a pageattr memleak (x86 and x86-64)

2005-02-15 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:51:52AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: It's not just for cosmetic reasons that I suggest to change this. My point is that the _real_ reason why we had the bug in the first place is that people forgets that p-size includes the

Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-15 Thread Karol Kozimor
Thus wrote Norbert Preining: vga=normal plus boot-radeon (webpage(5)) works to get text console back. But switching to X freezes the computer completely. X from debian sid. XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 20041215174925 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Release Date: 15 August 2003 Get

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-15 Thread Helge Hafting
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:55 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: [...] The init-script dependencies are specifies already - at least on debian. These are not dependencies but only the sequence of startup (and it is not only Debian but also Fedora/RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake and

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread Tristan Wibberley
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:46:04 +, Tristan Wibberley wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:54:14 +0100, Juergen Stuber wrote: g BK, I can immediately start working on another SCM but I can't go back to BK immediately IMHO, it should be the other way around, and more like two years. Hmm, I

Re: [ACPI] Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-15 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 12:12, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Monday 14 Feb 2005 21:11, Pavel Machek wrote: Table of known working systems: Model hack (or how to do it) [...] HP NC6000 s3_bios (2) The above report is incorrect. On

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-15 Thread Paulo Marques
Helge Hafting wrote: Now that is a really good idea. Init could simply run make -j init2 to enter runlevel 2. A suitable makefile would list all dependencies, and of course the targets needed for init2, init3 and so on. It might not be that much work either. Parallel make exists already, and

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread Helge Hafting
linux-os wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, kernel wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:56, Larry McVoy wrote: All we are trying to do is 1. Provide the open source community with a useful tool. 2. Prevent that from turning into the open source community creating a clone of our tool. lol I

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-15 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:57:59AM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: Am Freitag, den 11.02.2005, 21:10 +0100 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: Here are my changes. I have tested everything on my lifebook B2175 and it works fine for me. I have used DMI for probing. Does anyone have an Idea what devices we have

Re: Dummy vt for XFree86 ?

2005-02-15 Thread Helge Hafting
xerces8 wrote: Hi! Is there a way to prevent VT switching for XFree86 ? I have two gfx cards and want to start an X server on the secondary card, while leaving the VTs on the primary card active. So I need XFree86 not to allocate and cause a switch to a new VT. Since I know of no way to make

Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

2005-02-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:20 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:55 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: [...] These are not dependencies but only the sequence of startup (and it is not only Debian but also Fedora/RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake and probably all except

What is the purpose of a GPIO controller

2005-02-15 Thread krishna
Hi, Can any one tell me what is the purpose of GPIO controllers. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya - 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 Please read the

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 14, 2005, Gerold Jury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if they really need the more powerful features. Or we could donate some on a case by case basis. If the hackers who are using BK can reach agreement that it would be better if the BK they had didn't move forward unless they got

Message incompatible avec le système de messagerie

2005-02-15 Thread Service de messagerie
Le message émis par linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org est incompatible avec le système de messagerie, il a été supprimé. Certains éléments contenus dans ce message ayant pour objet : Re: Your archive sont susceptibles d'être dangereux pour le destinataire : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - To unsubscribe

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 15, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry McVoy) wrote: The people we spoke with were far more interested in the ability to move people onto BK when they needed to. They can always pay for the non-free license to get that, I suppose. -- Alexandre Oliva

Re: Thinkpad R40 freezes after swsusp resume

2005-02-15 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 07:32:41PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Try also acpi=off. i was hoping for a test that's a bit more granular. might it be possible to disable suspect bits of the acpi code instead of all of it? i'm open to applying and testing patches. Well, you'd have to

Re: [RCF/RFT] Fix race timer race in gameport-based joystick drivers

2005-02-15 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:42:31AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi, There seems to be a race WRT to timer handling in all gameport-based joystick drivers. open() and close() methods are used to start and stop polling timers on demand but counter and the timer itself is not protected in any

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 15, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry McVoy) wrote: For those who don't know, bk changes -v is output in time sorted order of changesets with the changeset comments then each file's comments like the output below. as Roman/Pavel/et al have pointed out sometimes the commits in the CVS

Re: Dummy vt for XFree86 ?

2005-02-15 Thread xerces8
From: Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] The keyboard is very much the issue - your typing either goes into No, it isn't. I have the keyboard under control. Forget that keyboards even exist ;-) Trust me. I know the ruby patch, but I'm trying to make this work with an unpatched kernel. And the VT

Re: What is the purpose of a GPIO controller

2005-02-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 19:19 +0530, krishna wrote: Can any one tell me what is the purpose of GPIO controllers. I'm not sure what question you are asking... GPIO controllers are clearly for the purpose of controlling GPIO pins. GPIO stands for general purpose i/o, so they are used for all

Re: [PATCH] ext3: Fix sparse -Wbitwise warnings.

2005-02-15 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 10:46, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: - if ((ret = EXT3_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, - ~EXT3_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_SUPP))) { + if ((ret = le32_to_cpu(EXT3_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, +

Re: PATCH 2.6.11-rc4]: IBM TrackPoint configuration support

2005-02-15 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:31:01PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 19:32, Stephen Evanchik wrote: Here is the latest IBM TrackPoint patch. I believe I made all of the necessary changes in this release including the removal of the middle-to-scroll functionality. One

Re: What is the Purpose of GPIO Controller.

2005-02-15 Thread krishna
Hi Ian, Thank you very much. My doubt is, I have a board here where all lines to the peripherals are highly multiplexed and I had to configure these lines. Now my Wireless Ethernet Driver has a conflict with the audiocodec driver. What I mean is, if I load the WLAN driver and try

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:43:08 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:57:59AM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: +static struct dmi_system_id lifebook_dmi_table[] = { + { + .ident = Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook B-Sereis, + .matches = { +

Re: [RCF/RFT] Fix race timer race in gameport-based joystick drivers

2005-02-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:05:01 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:42:31AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi, There seems to be a race WRT to timer handling in all gameport-based joystick drivers. open() and close() methods are used to start and stop

ACPI lockup 2.6.10

2005-02-15 Thread Elmer Joandi
My laptop, intel Centrino M based, all intel chips except graphics. After opening laptop, I have to push power button, then it goes: Back to C! Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2055 in_atomic():0,irqs_disabled():1 __might_sleep __kmalloc acpi_os_allocate

Oops in 2.6.10-ac12 in kjournald (journal_commit_transaction)

2005-02-15 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
Today our mailserver froze after just one day of uptime. I was able to capture the Oops on the screen using my digital camera: http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/bugreport/ Keywords: EIP is at journal_commit_transaction, process kjournald # mount /dev/cciss/c0d0p6 on / type ext3

Re: [RCF/RFT] Fix race timer race in gameport-based joystick drivers

2005-02-15 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:51:52AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:05:01 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:42:31AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi, There seems to be a race WRT to timer handling in all gameport-based

Re: [ACPI] [PATCH] Panasonic ACPI driver

2005-02-15 Thread Len Brown
We should not include this driver in the kernel. Rather than adding additional platform-specific drivers, we should be migrating away from those that we already have to simpler generic drivers for video and hot-keys -- where the platform-dependent (naming) is done in user-space where it is more

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Jackson
Robin wrote: for the second process and then from node 8 to node 4 for the second. for the second ... for the second I couldn't make sense of this statement. Should one of those seconds be a first; what word(s) are elided after the second second? -- I won't rest till it's

Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels

2005-02-15 Thread Vincent C Jones
On my Thinkpad X31 with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY I see a major regression going from 2.6.11-rc3 to rc4. With rc-4, the frame buffer console (using video=radeonfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) comes up as 640x480 expanded to 1024x768. The inability of ACPI suspend to turn off the backlight also returns.

Nforce2 - usb 2.0 bug

2005-02-15 Thread Paolo
Hi all. Asking on Irc (thanx riel!), they suggested to write a sort of bug-report. I'm using a motherboard Asus A7N8X-Deluxe and the usb modules can't work with USB 2.0 devices (while 1.1 work with no problems). The hardware tested is perfectly working on other computers, but with this

Re: What is the Purpose of GPIO Controller.

2005-02-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 19:57 +0530, krishna wrote: Form your mail I understand GPIO controller serves some Hardware designers purpose. But what _purpose_ is it serving a _programmer_. All a gpio controller does is allows the programmer to configure a line as an input or an output, and then

Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-15 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Lee Revell wrote: That init scripts with no interdependencies are run sequentially rather than in parallel. There was an article from IBM a while back with a neat hack that used a parallel make to fire off groups of init scripts in parallel. I would expect more interest in this from the

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Jackson
Would it work to have the migration system call take exactly two node numbers, the old and the new? Have it migrate all pages in the address space specified that are on the old node to the new node. Leave any other pages alone. For one thing, this avoids passing a long list of nodes, for an

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread Anton Ertl
Alexandre Oliva writes: They can always pay for the non-free license to get that, I suppose. As far as I understand it, there are only non-free licences for Bitkeeper. For one you pay with money, for the other with freedom. While I am posting in this thread, I have a few questions to Larry

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Jackson
Ray wrote: The exact ordering of when a task is moved to a new cpuset and when the migration occurs doesn't matter, AFAIK, if we accept the notion that a migrated task is in suspended state until after everything associated with it (including the new cpuset definition) is done. The existance

Re: 2.6-bk: cpu hotplug + preempt = smp_processor_id warnings galore

2005-02-15 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Nathan Lynch wrote: It looks as if we need to explicitly bind worker threads to a newly onlined cpu. This gets rid of the smp_processor_id warnings from cache_reap. Adding a little more instrumentation to the debug smp_processor_id showed that new worker threads were

Re: [ACPI] [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

2005-02-15 Thread Len Brown
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:18, Stelian Pop wrote:, PS: I am also going to submit a bugzilla RFE for the acpi people, I have been told they are more receptive to that. I guess that refers to me:-) E-mail is fine, but the unfortunate reality is that due to simple volume, it is lossy. The

Re: [ACPI] [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

2005-02-15 Thread Stelian Pop
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:30:49AM -0500, Len Brown wrote: On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:18, Stelian Pop wrote:, PS: I am also going to submit a bugzilla RFE for the acpi people, I have been told they are more receptive to that. I guess that refers to me:-) Hey, you *are* more receptive

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Jackson
Robin wrote: Given that the first user of this may place in onto a 256 node system, the chances that they use the same node in the source and destination node array are very good. Am I parsing this sentence correctly when I read it as stating that we need to handle the case where the source

Re: [ACPI] Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 13:12 +0100, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: I beg to differ: it works for me on 2.6.11-rc3 (even with the swsusp2 patch). However, I need to use acpi_sleep=s3_bios, and I can't use radeonfb or it will lock up on resume. Could you grab dmidecode from

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Jackson
Robin wrote: Requiring that the process is stopped will somewhat limit the use of this API outside of the HPC space where so much control can be had over the processes. Good point. Hopefully we can find a way to design this system call so that it does not require suspension. Some uses of it

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Jackson
Robin wrote: Then how do you handle overlapping nodes. If I am doing a 5-4, 4-3, 3-2, 2-1 shift ... Then do the shifts in the other order, first 2-1, then 3-2, ... So now you ask, what if you are doing a rotation? Use a temporary node: 2-tmp, 3-2, ..., N-(N-1), tmp-N. So now you ask, what

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