Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-18 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:05:44PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: That's not how others are reading it and when we requested clarification from the legal firm we use for contracts (FenwickWest if you care) they said that it could well be interpreted that if you use BK you are giving up your right

[PATCH] add I/O error uevent for block devices

2005-02-18 Thread Kay Sievers
For HAL we want to get notified about I/O errors of block devices. This is especially useful for devices we are unable to poll and therefore can't know if something goes wrong here. Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers [EMAIL PROTECTED] = fs/buffer.c

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

2005-02-18 Thread Ray Bryant
Andi Kleen wrote: [Sorry for the late answer.] No problem, remember, I'm supposed to be on vacation, anyway. :-) Let's start off with at least one thing we can agree on. If xattrs are already part of XFS, then it seems reasonable to use an extended attribute to mark certain files as

BUG: stallion module cannot register it's ISR in a 2.6.10 kernel on a FC3 system

2005-02-18 Thread Burn Alting
Here is the bug report. Stallion was purchased by Lantronix and they don't really care about this bug. [1.] One line summary of the problem: Stallion 4 port IO card fails when modprobe'd into kernel [2.] Full description of the problem/report: Under Fedora Core 3 using a

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-18 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:03:45AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: were employed by bitmover, or signed an NDA to look at the code. But just the act of using it is ridicules. Can you see Ford Motors telling someone that you can't go work for GM if you drive a Ford? Your point makes sense to me

pty_chars_in_buffer NULL pointer (kernel oops)

2005-02-18 Thread nuclearcat
Dear, linux-kernel. Is discussed at http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/12508/thread bug fixed in 2.4.x tree? Cause seems i have downloaded 2.4.29, and it is not fixed (still my kernel on vpn server crashing almost at start), i have grepped fast pre and bk patches, but didnt found any

Re: Swsusp, resume and kernel versions

2005-02-18 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Nigel Cunningham wrote: If the mistakenly booted kernel isn't suspend enabled, however, you need a more generic method of removing the image, such as mkswapping the storage device. This is what I was speaking of. The following code is used in the SUSE bootscripts to do exactly this:

Re: [darcs-users] Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-18 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:24:53PM -0800, Tupshin Harper wrote: small to medium sized ones). Last I checked, Arch was still too slow in some areas, though that might have changed in recent months. Also, many IMHO someone needs to rewrite ARCH using the RCS or SCCS format for the backend and a

[2.6 patch] obey HOSTLOADLIBES_programname for single-file compilation

2005-02-18 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Single-file HOSTCC calls added the libraries from $(HOSTLOADLIBES), but not from $(HOSTLOADLIBES_programname). Multi-file HOSTCC calls do both. This patch fixes that inconsistency. Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Nru a/scripts/Makefile.host b/scripts/Makefile.host ---

[2.6 patch] CREDITS Update

2005-02-18 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Small CREDITS update for Mattihas Urlichs. Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Nru a/CREDITS b/CREDITS --- a/CREDITS 2005-02-18 10:06:04 +01:00 +++ b/CREDITS 2005-02-18 10:06:04 +01:00 @@ -3336,10 +3336,11 @@ S: USA N: Matthias Urlichs -E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -E: [EMAIL

[2.6 patch] bksend example script fix

2005-02-18 Thread Matthias Urlichs
The bksend example script doesn't work if PAGER (used by bk changes) is set to something which doesn't fallback to plain stdout if its output isn't a tty. Fixed by forcing PAGER to be /bin/cat. Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Nru a/Documentation/BK-usage/bksend

[TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

2005-02-18 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Hi, Looking at TTY code, I noticed a weird test done in opost_bock located in n_tty.c file. I don't understand why the following test is done at the start of the function: if (nr sizeof(buf)) nr = sizeof(buf); Actually it limits the size of processing blocks to 4 bytes and I can't find a

Kernel modules query

2005-02-18 Thread linux lover
Hello, I want to know can a variable be exported by a linux kernel modules? How can i make a variable getting assigned in kernel module available to other kernel modules? regards, linux.lover. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: [PATCH] add I/O error uevent for block devices

2005-02-18 Thread Andrew Morton
Kay Sievers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For HAL we want to get notified about I/O errors of block devices. This is especially useful for devices we are unable to poll and therefore can't know if something goes wrong here. Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Kay

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Sparse Memory Handling (hot-add foundation)

2005-02-18 Thread Andi Kleen
Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The attached patch, largely written by Andy Whitcroft, implements a feature which is similar to DISCONTIGMEM, but has some added features. Instead of splitting up the mem_map for each NUMA node, this splits it up into areas that represent fixed blocks of

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

2005-02-18 Thread Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare)
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:58:05PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:42:21 +0100, Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare) said: Have you tested the ISO on some *OTHER* hardware? The impression I got was that the cd was *burned* right by ide-cd, but when

Re: Swsusp, resume and kernel versions

2005-02-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi Stefan. For Suspend2, we also put a device id in the space, so there's only room for one character, which is a lower or upper case Z. (We also validate the device ID, so a random Z won't cause an oops). Thanks for the code. With your/Suse's permission, I'll ask Bernard (cc'd) to include the

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

2005-02-18 Thread Norbert Preining
On Don, 17 Feb 2005, Stefan Dösinger wrote: Ok, I installed xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk, xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk and compiled linux-2.6.11-rc4 and drm modules from drm-trunk-module-src, all from http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ But I had no success whatsoever. With this (Xorg server, current

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Re: [darcs-users] Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-18 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:09:00AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: darcs scares me a bit because it's in haskell, I don't believe very much in functional languages for compute intensive stuff, ram utilization skyrockets sometime (I wouldn't like to need 1G of ram to manage the tree). AFAICS,

Re: Swsusp, resume and kernel versions

2005-02-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Just remember you're doing the mkswap if you decide to rearrange your partitions at all, or code a script smart enough to grep your swap partitions out of your fstab. It could be a workaround. Still it will cause loss of unsaved work if I happen to load wrong kernel.

Re: Swsusp, resume and kernel versions

2005-02-18 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Nigel Cunningham wrote: Hi Stefan. For Suspend2, we also put a device id in the space, so there's only room for one character, which is a lower or upper case Z. (We also validate the device ID, so a random Z won't cause an oops). Thanks for the code. With your/Suse's permission, I'll ask

Realtime preempt

2005-02-18 Thread Sven Dietrich
Ingo, this patch turns off the preemptable BKL when either PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY or PREEMPT_NONE is selected. Signed-off-by: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.10-vaio/lib/Kconfig.RT === ---

Re: [Oops] 2.6.10: PREEMPT SMP

2005-02-18 Thread Klaus Steinberger
David Howells wrote: Hmmm... I see it involves the key stuff I wrote. Did you find out something about this bug? I did get the same crash on a heavily loaded NFS and Samba Server running Fedora Core 2 with kernel-2.6.10-1.12_FC2. Here the OOPS: Feb 18 09:58:08 mllrd02 kernel: Unable to

Re: [darcs-users] Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-18 Thread Erik Bågfors
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:09:00 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:24:53PM -0800, Tupshin Harper wrote: small to medium sized ones). Last I checked, Arch was still too slow in some areas, though that might have changed in recent months. Also, many IMHO

Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings

2005-02-18 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:56:03PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:45:50 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't the size be obtained like any other BAR ? yes, but cards that don't fully decode their ROM address space can waste memory in copy_rom. For

[PATCH] __be'ify include/linux/cdrom.h

2005-02-18 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
Fix sparse warnings in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c and drivers/block/pktcdvd.c Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-warnings/include/linux/cdrom.h === --- linux-warnings/include/linux/cdrom.h(revision 21)

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! In 2.6, drivers/input/power.c would only have been built if CONFIG_INPUT_POWER was enabled - but it is nowhere possible to enable this option. That was written a long time ago before the new power management went in. On PDA's there is a power button and suspend button. So

Re: Swsusp, resume and kernel versions

2005-02-18 Thread Bernard Blackham
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:24:09PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: If you want to be 100% safe, add support to LILO/GRUB: just do not allow selecting wrong kernel if last action was suspend. Bootloader knows, it seen the command lines. That's a very good point/solution indeed. The hibernate script

[PATCH] __be'ify include/linux/nbd.h

2005-02-18 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
Fix sparse warnings in drivers/block/nbd.c Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-warnings/include/linux/nbd.h === --- linux-warnings/include/linux/nbd.h (revision 22) +++ linux-warnings/include/linux/nbd.h

Re: [PATCH] add I/O error uevent for block devices

2005-02-18 Thread Kay Sievers
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 01:46:21AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Kay Sievers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For HAL we want to get notified about I/O errors of block devices. This is especially useful for devices we are unable to poll and therefore can't know if something goes wrong here. -

Re: [darcs-users] Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-18 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:53:09PM +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote: RCS/SCCS format doesn't make much sence for a changeset oriented SCM. The advantage it will provide is that it'll be compact and a backup will compress at best too. Small compressed tarballs compress very badly instead, it wouldn't be

bio refcount problem

2005-02-18 Thread Philip R Auld
Hi, I think there are some potential issues with the reference counting of bios as used in 2.6.10. The __make_request function which is the default block device routine accesses the bio structure after issuing the call to add_request. This means that the bio could have completed before

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

2005-02-18 Thread Andi Kleen
[Enjoy your vacation] On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:38:42AM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote: Let's start off with at least one thing we can agree on. If xattrs are already part of XFS, then it seems reasonable to use an extended attribute to mark certain files as non-migratable. (Some further

Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

2005-02-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:13 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:41:00 +0100, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:56 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: Hello! I'm writing a module under a proprietary license. I decided to use sysfs to do

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Richard Purdie
In 2.6, drivers/input/power.c would only have been built if CONFIG_INPUT_POWER was enabled - but it is nowhere possible to enable this option. That was written a long time ago before the new power management went in. On PDA's there is a power button and suspend button. So this was a

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! CONFIG_INPUT_POWER was enabled - but it is nowhere possible to enable this option. That was written a long time ago before the new power management went in. On PDA's there is a power button and suspend button. So this was a hook so that the input layer could detect the

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Oliver Neukum
It has quite a lot of #ifdefs for CONFIG_APM/CONFIG_ARM/CONFIG_ACPI, and it will not work on i386/APM, anyway. I still believe right solution is to add input interface to ACPI. /proc/acpi/events needs to die, being replaced by input subsystem. But aren't there power events (battery low, etc)

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

2005-02-18 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fre, 18 Feb 2005, Norbert Preining wrote: I tried: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 + Xorg + DRI disabled and this works. I cannot enable dri/drm with the cvs version of the drm modules, because the drm modules do not compile for -mm kernels, since there is the patch for multiple agp bridges

gpio api

2005-02-18 Thread Jamey Hicks
GPIO API Motivation: On many of the little Linux devices I've seen, there are multiple chips providing GPIO and in many cases GPIO pins from one chip are used to control unrelated functions. The first approach I took to solving this problem was to implement a per-function framework. I wrote the

Re: bio refcount problem

2005-02-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Feb 18 2005, Philip R Auld wrote: Hi, I think there are some potential issues with the reference counting of bios as used in 2.6.10. The __make_request function which is the default block device routine accesses the bio structure after issuing the call to add_request. This

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Richard Purdie
Pavel Machek: It has quite a lot of #ifdefs for CONFIG_APM/CONFIG_ARM/CONFIG_ACPI, and it will not work on i386/APM, anyway. I still believe right solution is to add input interface to ACPI. /proc/acpi/events needs to die, being replaced by input subsystem. I'm not too familiar with ACPI so I

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:26:51 +0100, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! CONFIG_INPUT_POWER was enabled - but it is nowhere possible to enable this option. That was written a long time ago before the new power management went in. On PDA's there is a power button and

initialize_acct_integrals

2005-02-18 Thread Jay Lan
Hi Andrew, The new move-accounting-function-calls-out-of-critical-vm-code-paths patch in 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 was different from the code i tested. In particular, it mistakenly dropped the accounting routine calls in fs/exec.c. The calls in do_execve() are needed to properly initialize accounting

Re: bio refcount problem

2005-02-18 Thread Philip R Auld
Hi, Rumor has it that on Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:59:32PM +0100 Jens Axboe said: On Fri, Feb 18 2005, Philip R Auld wrote: ... Or make all users of submit_bio take and release and extra reference like submit_bh. The queue lock is still held at that point, so the driver hasn't had a

compiling two modules from separate directories out of kernel tree

2005-02-18 Thread Olivier Smeesters
Dear all, I'm currently developping two kernel modules that I'm compiling outside of the kernel tree. One is a device driver and one is a pseudo-network device driver (encapsulating network packets). The output of the encapsulator is supposed to go to the device driver. For this reason, the

Re: gpio api

2005-02-18 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 18 February 2005 08:46:08 -0500, Jamey Hicks wrote: GPIO Client Driver API The first two calls are analogous to request_irq/free_irq, so that driver can ensure that they have exclusive access to a GPIO and can specify asynchronous or synchronous access. I have run into problems

Re: bio refcount problem

2005-02-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Feb 18 2005, Philip R Auld wrote: Hi, Rumor has it that on Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:59:32PM +0100 Jens Axboe said: On Fri, Feb 18 2005, Philip R Auld wrote: ... Or make all users of submit_bio take and release and extra reference like submit_bh. The queue lock is still

Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

2005-02-18 Thread Paul Fulghum
Franck Bui-Huu wrote: Looking at TTY code, I noticed a weird test done in opost_bock located in n_tty.c file. I don't understand why the following test is done at the start of the function: if (nr sizeof(buf)) nr = sizeof(buf); Actually it limits the size of processing blocks to 4 bytes

Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

2005-02-18 Thread Paulo Marques
Paul Fulghum wrote: Franck Bui-Huu wrote: Looking at TTY code, I noticed a weird test done in opost_bock located in n_tty.c file. I don't understand why the following test is done at the start of the function: if (nr sizeof(buf)) nr = sizeof(buf); Actually it limits the size of processing

Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

2005-02-18 Thread Paul Fulghum
Paulo Marques wrote: Paul Fulghum wrote: No, it limits the size to 80 bytes, which is the size of buf. sizeof returns the size of the char array buf[80] (standard C) Looking at the code, I think Franck is right. buf is a const unsigned char * for which sizeof(buf) is the size of a pointer. What

Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

2005-02-18 Thread linux-os
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Paulo Marques wrote: Franck Bui-Huu wrote: Looking at TTY code, I noticed a weird test done in opost_bock located in n_tty.c file. I don't understand why the following test is done at the start of the function: if (nr sizeof(buf)) nr = sizeof(buf); Actually it limits

Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

2005-02-18 Thread Paulo Marques
Paul Fulghum wrote: Paulo Marques wrote: Paul Fulghum wrote: No, it limits the size to 80 bytes, which is the size of buf. sizeof returns the size of the char array buf[80] (standard C) Looking at the code, I think Franck is right. buf is a const unsigned char * for which sizeof(buf) is the size

Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

2005-02-18 Thread linux-os
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Paul Fulghum wrote: Paulo Marques wrote: Paul Fulghum wrote: No, it limits the size to 80 bytes, which is the size of buf. sizeof returns the size of the char array buf[80] (standard C) Looking at the code, I think Franck is right. buf is a const unsigned char * for which

Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

2005-02-18 Thread Paulo Marques
linux-os wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Paul Fulghum wrote: Paulo Marques wrote: Paul Fulghum wrote: No, it limits the size to 80 bytes, which is the size of buf. sizeof returns the size of the char array buf[80] (standard C) Looking at the code, I think Franck is right. buf is a const unsigned

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Sparse Memory Handling (hot-add foundation)

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 21:16 -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:03:53PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: The attached patch Just tried to compile this and noticed that there is no definition of valid_section_nr(), referenced in sparse_init. What's your .config? I didn't

Re: [PATCH] ohci1394: dma_pool_destroy while in_atomic() irqs_disabled()

2005-02-18 Thread Dan Dennedy
I have tested the patches (including for allocation), and it is working great, but should I only commit for now the deallocation patch? Hmm.. which is worse the debug or the 200K waste? On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 22:54 -0500, Parag Warudkar wrote: Jody, This happens every time you connect a device

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Sparse Memory Handling (hot-add foundation)

2005-02-18 Thread Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 11:04 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The attached patch, largely written by Andy Whitcroft, implements a feature which is similar to DISCONTIGMEM, but has some added features. Instead of splitting up the mem_map for each NUMA node,

Re: [PATCH] ohci1394: dma_pool_destroy while in_atomic() irqs_disabled()

2005-02-18 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Friday 18 February 2005 10:32 am, Dan Dennedy wrote: I have tested the patches (including for allocation), and it is working great, but should I only commit for now the deallocation patch? Hmm.. which is worse the debug or the 200K waste? Thanks for following it up. IMHO, we should commit

Re: [uml-devel] [BUG: UML 2.6.11-rc4-bk-latest] sleeping function called from invalid context and segmentation fault

2005-02-18 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 19:35 +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: On Monday 14 February 2005 12:48, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Hi, I get a few Debug messages of the form from UML: Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/asm/arch/semaphore.h:107 in_atomic():0,

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! It has quite a lot of #ifdefs for CONFIG_APM/CONFIG_ARM/CONFIG_ACPI, and it will not work on i386/APM, anyway. I still believe right solution is to add input interface to ACPI. /proc/acpi/events needs to die, being replaced by input subsystem. But aren't there power events (battery

Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

2005-02-18 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Ahaa! That's how the bug got introduced. It used to be an array and then it got changed to a pointer! linux-2.4.26 also shows a local array. Yes, just looked at the revision history in linux.bkbits.net and Linus just fixed this 67 hours ago... So we're too late :) ok, maybe next time :)

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

2005-02-18 Thread Paul Jackson
Andi - what does this line mean: + node mask length. I guess its the names of the parameters in a proposed migration system call. Length of what, mask of what, what's the node mean, huh? -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux

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

2005-02-18 Thread Paul Jackson
Andi wrote: I don't like old_node* very much because it's imho unreliable (because you can usually never fully know on which nodes the old process was and there can be good reasons to just migrate everything) That's one way that the arrays of old and new nodes pays off. You can list any old

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

2005-02-18 Thread Paul Jackson
Andi wrote: e.g. job runs threads on nodes 0,1,2,3 and you want it to move to nodes 4,5,6,7 with all memory staying staying in the same distance from the new CPUs as it were from the old CPUs, right? It explains why you want old_node, you would do (assuming node mask arguments) Yup -

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-18 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:52:20AM -0500, Sean wrote: There are ways that the tools could coexist and work together better than they do today. If people would stop acting like BK was in jeopardy of being taken away from them and realize that others just want the ability to use their tools of

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

2005-02-18 Thread Paul Jackson
Andi wrote: Problem is what happens when some memory is in some other node due to memory pressure fallbacks. Your scheme would not migrate this memory at all. The arrays of old and new nodes handle this fine. Include that 'other node' in the array of old nodes, and the corresponding new node,

Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

2005-02-18 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Second point, a lot of serial drivers call in their interrupt handler tty_flip_buffer_push function. This function must no be called in interrupt context. Why is it done anyway ? Calling tty_flip_buffer_push() is fine from interrupt as long as tty-low_latency is not set. It just queues work for

Re: Pty is losing bytes

2005-02-18 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:45:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Theodore Ts'o wrote: Yes, but then when the buffer is full, and we return the we'll take anything return value, the code that was getting confused with the incorrect receive_room value will still be

Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

2005-02-18 Thread Paul Fulghum
Franck Bui-Huu wrote: I was looking at driver for 8250 in 8250.c file and at the end of receive_chars interrupt handler, it calls tty_flip_buffer_push even if tty-low_latency is set since no such test is done before the call... Yes this is a known problem. In the case of SMP kernel and

Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-18 Thread Robert Love
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 13:47 -0500, Robert Love wrote: Attached, find a patch against 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 of the latest inotify. Updated patch, fixes a bug. Robert Love inotify, bitches Signed-off-by: Robert Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] arch/sparc64/Kconfig | 13 drivers/char/Kconfig

Re: [PATCH] quiet non-x86 option ROM warnings

2005-02-18 Thread Jon Smirl
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:09:14 +0100, Gabriel Paubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example if it declares 128k, compare the two halves, reduce to 64k if equal. Lather, rinse, repeat. It's equivalent to reading the BAR declared size twice in the worst case, so it's not that bad

Re: 2.6.10-ac12 + kernbench == oom-killer: (OSDL)

2005-02-18 Thread Cliff White
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:57:07PM -0800, cliff white wrote: Running 2.6.10-ac10 on the STP 1-CPU machines, we don't seem to be able to complete a kernbench run without hitting the OOM-killer. ( kernbench is multiple ker nel compiles, of course ) Machine is 800 mhz PIII with 1GB

RE: Kernel modules query

2005-02-18 Thread Aleksey Gorelov
Hi -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of linux lover Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 1:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Kernel modules query Hello, I want to know can a variable be exported by a linux

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:01:53PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: It has quite a lot of #ifdefs for CONFIG_APM/CONFIG_ARM/CONFIG_ACPI, and it will not work on i386/APM, anyway. I still believe right solution is to add input interface to ACPI. /proc/acpi/events needs to die, being replaced

use of TASK_SIZE to determine user/kernel

2005-02-18 Thread Kumar Gala
We are looking at a 32-bit architecture implementation were we can have distinct address spaces for user and kernel, thus allowing 4G's for each. In doing this we have come across the use of TASK_SIZE to determine if an address is user vs kernel (example mm/memory.c). I'm wondering is it

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Freitag, 18. Februar 2005 18:00 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:01:53PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: It has quite a lot of #ifdefs for CONFIG_APM/CONFIG_ARM/CONFIG_ACPI, and it will not work on i386/APM, anyway. I still believe right solution is to add input

Sis760 chipset support

2005-02-18 Thread Marc Cramdal
Hello, I can't make agpgart working (even when trying the agp_try_unsupported) option. I have an AMD64 3000+ with a Sis760 chipset and agp doesn't seem to be supported : I only get this with dmesg : Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones. That's all... So, is Sis760 chipset supported

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

2005-02-18 Thread Ray Bryant
Here's an interface proposal that may be a middle ground and should satisfy both small and large system requirements: The system call interface would be: page_migrate(pid, va_start, va_end, count, old_node_list, new_node_list); (e. g. same as before, but please keep reading): The following

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

2005-02-18 Thread Ray Bryant
Andi Kleen wrote: You and Robin mentioned some problems with double migration with that, but it's still not completely clear to me what problem you're solving here. Perhaps that needs to be reexamined. There is one other case where Robin and I have talked about double migration. That is the case

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

2005-02-18 Thread Ray Bryant
Andi, et al: I see that several messages have been sent in the interim. I apologize for being out of sync, but today is my last day to go skiing and it is gorgeous outside. I'll try to catch up and digest everthing later. -- --- Ray Bryant 512-453-9679

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: intel8x0 alsa outputs no sound

2005-02-18 Thread Tomas Szepe
Try muting the headphone jack sense control with alsamixer. I had the same problem with rc2 on my t41p, and that solved it. This doesn't help on a T40p, I'm afraid. No sound in 2.6.11-rc3 with snd-intel8x0.ko, worked all ok in 2.6.10. Ok, the problem seems to be gone in 2.6.11-rc4. --

Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-18 Thread Al Viro
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:40:59AM -0500, Robert Love wrote: inotify, bitches /me does pick a random function, find a race again. +/* + * inode_add_watch - add a watch to the given inode + * + * Callers must hold dev-lock, because we call inode_find_dev(). + */ +static int

Re: Bogus REPORT_LUNS responses breaks SCSI LUN detection

2005-02-18 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:51:00PM -0500, Kurt Garloff wrote: SuSE 9.1 Vendor: easyRAID Model: X16 Rev: 0001 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 scsi: host 0 channel 0 id 5 lun 0x6500737952414944 has a LUN larger than currently supported. Looks like random garbage. I read e

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: Am Freitag, 18. Februar 2005 18:00 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:01:53PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: It has quite a lot of #ifdefs for CONFIG_APM/CONFIG_ARM/CONFIG_ACPI, and it will not work on

Re: [darcs-users] Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-18 Thread Dustin Sallings
On Feb 18, 2005, at 1:09, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: darcs scares me a bit because it's in haskell, I don't believe very much in functional languages for compute intensive stuff, ram utilization It doesn't sound like you've programmed in functional languages all that much. While I don't have any

[PATCH] relayfs redux, part 5

2005-02-18 Thread Tom Zanussi
Hi, Here's the latest version of relayfs, with changes incorporating the previous round of suggestions. Thanks to Pekka Enberg and Maneesh Soni for commenting on the previous patch. Since there weren't any complaints about the API last time, I went ahead and did some SMP testing (see below) and

Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-18 Thread Robert Love
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 17:24 +, Al Viro wrote: Fix the damn locking, already. Fast as I can. Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

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

2005-02-18 Thread Stefan Dsinger
Am Freitag, 18. Februar 2005 14:38 schrieb Norbert Preining: On Fre, 18 Feb 2005, Norbert Preining wrote: I tried: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 + Xorg + DRI disabled and this works. I cannot enable dri/drm with the cvs version of the drm modules, because the drm modules do not compile for -mm

Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Just in case someone is interested, this is bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4, taken from suse kernel. I'll probably try to modify it to work with radeonfb. Any ideas why bootsplash needs to hack into vesafb? It only uses vesafb_ops to test against them before some kind of free...

RE: Problems with dma_mmap_writecombine on mach-pxa

2005-02-18 Thread Frank Buss
Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we map the whole lot in one go, if you get one page, there's no reason why you shouldn't get the lot. This is why I'm wondering if it has something to do with your other modifications. your patch works, thanks, but only for the problem with the

FROM ROBERT FONGA

2005-02-18 Thread r_fonga
ROBERT FONGA ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE EMAIL:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cher Monsieur, Permettez-moi de vous informer de mon désir de rentre dans le rapport d'affaires avec vous. Je sais que ce courrier peut venir à vous comme par surprise, puisque nous ne nous connaissons pas avant ou nous ne nous

Re: Bogus REPORT_LUNS responses breaks SCSI LUN detection

2005-02-18 Thread Joe Krahn
Andries Brouwer wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:51:00PM -0500, Kurt Garloff wrote: SuSE 9.1 Vendor: easyRAID Model: X16 Rev: 0001 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 scsi: host 0 channel 0 id 5 lun 0x6500737952414944 has a LUN larger than currently supported. Looks like random garbage.

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:00:36 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:01:53PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: It has quite a lot of #ifdefs for CONFIG_APM/CONFIG_ARM/CONFIG_ACPI, and it will not work on i386/APM, anyway. I still believe right solution is

[PATCH] 2.6.10 patch to export kallsyms_lookup_name()

2005-02-18 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Hi, Trivial patch to export kallsyms_lookup_name() for kprobe/jprobe module use. Please apply. (BTW, I personally don't care if it should be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL or EXPORT_SYMBOL). Thanks, Badari --- linux-2.6.10.org/kernel/kallsyms.c 2005-02-18 11:18:54.004259856 -0800 +++

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-18 Thread Sean
On Fri, February 18, 2005 11:27 am, Theodore Ts'o said: If you truly believe that BK would be able to add the value that it does to the kernel development process by using some other SCM as the master SCM, with BK being underneath, as you proposed earlier, then you do not understand why BK is

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

2005-02-18 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Stellian, All right, here is a third version of the driver, which adds the 'brightness_default' entry and rewrites a big part of the code in a more extensible way. Tested, works for me (debug mode not tested). Thanks, -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-18 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 01:19:08PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:00:36 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:01:53PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: It has quite a lot of #ifdefs for CONFIG_APM/CONFIG_ARM/CONFIG_ACPI, and it

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.10 patch to export kallsyms_lookup_name()

2005-02-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:29:08AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: Hi, Trivial patch to export kallsyms_lookup_name() for kprobe/jprobe module use. Please apply. (BTW, I personally don't care if it should be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL or EXPORT_SYMBOL). Certainly should be _GPL. And where's

eepro100 or e100

2005-02-18 Thread Maciej Soltysiak
Hello, Can anyone shed some light upon the state of development of these drivers? I mean: the set of supported both NIC and kernel features. Are both drivers supported by their authors, etc. Looking for answers that would lead to a conclusion which to use. Regards, Maciej - To unsubscribe

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