Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.]

2005-02-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Does a patch like this (instead of your version) work for you? It removes > the Intel quirk entirely, and replaces it with the "if there's no > resource, use the parent resource as the default fallback" code. Here's a very very slightly changed

Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.]

2005-02-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > + /* the 2448 bridge is not transparent */ > + dev->device != 0x2448) Btw, I've got a laptop with the exact same bridge chip PCI ID (well, mine is "rev 83", while yours claims to be "rev 81"), and mine definitely _is_ transparent.

Re: Getting the page size of currently running kernel

2005-02-19 Thread Scott Bronson
On Saturday 19 February 2005 19:28, Roland Dreier wrote: > I'm not sure exactly how to call it from perl, but from C one can use > sysconf(3) like: > > page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE); > > (one can also use getpagesize(2) to do exactly the same thing) And I was going nuts looking all over

Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.]

2005-02-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 18:10 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I _think_ it's the code in arch/i386/pci/fixup.c that does this. See the > > > > static void __devinit pci_fixup_transparent_bridge(struct pci_dev *dev) > > > > thing, and try to

Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.]

2005-02-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 18:10 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I _think_ it's the code in arch/i386/pci/fixup.c that does this. See the > > static void __devinit pci_fixup_transparent_bridge(struct pci_dev *dev) > > thing, and try to disable it. Maybe that rule is wrong, and triggers much >

Re: Getting the page size of currently running kernel

2005-02-19 Thread Roland Dreier
Scott> Is there any way to get a running kernel to tell you the Scott> size of its pages? Why: I'm writing a quick Perl hack to Scott> monitor the memory usage of the TCP stack over time. Easy Scott> enough: /proc/net/sockstat gives the current value of Scott>

Re: Getting the page size of currently running kernel

2005-02-19 Thread Jan Knutar
On Sunday 20 February 2005 05:01, Scott Bronson wrote: > Is there any way to get a running kernel to tell you the size of its pages? > > Why: I'm writing a quick Perl hack to monitor the memory usage of the TCP > stack over time. Easy enough: /proc/net/sockstat gives the current value of >

Re: updated list of unused kernel exports posted

2005-02-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 22:14 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > +try_acquire_console_sem This is used by radeonfb and aty128fb at least... though only on ppc for now... It could be used later in fbdev's for "optisation". Basically, a trylock semantic on the console semaphore, allows you to try to

Getting the page size of currently running kernel

2005-02-19 Thread Scott Bronson
Is there any way to get a running kernel to tell you the size of its pages? Why: I'm writing a quick Perl hack to monitor the memory usage of the TCP stack over time. Easy enough: /proc/net/sockstat gives the current value of tcp_memory_allocated. But how do I convert this into bytes? I

Re: slab corruption on 2.6.10-rc4-bk7

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 02:41:47PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > (This has actually been there for a while, but I only > > noticed it in dmesg this morning). > > During boot on a dual em64t I see .. > > > > scsi2 : ata_piix > > isa bounce pool size:

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/typhoon: make a firmware image static

2005-02-19 Thread David Dillow
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 09:43 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch makes a nedlessly global firmware image static. Doh! ACK. -- David Dillow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

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

2005-02-19 Thread Jim Crilly
Helge Hafting wrote: No problem with the remote server, it does not depend on the local boot process. The mail program connects directly to the remote server, all you need is the network and it comes up so fast, it will come up way before X in a parallel boot. Depends on the implementation and

Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.]

2005-02-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Here's the scoop: > > cat /proc/iomem: Ok. This one does not show device 00:1e.0 _at_all_. It had: I/O behind bridge: 3000-6fff Memory behind bridge: c200-cfff Prefetchable memory behind bridge:

Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.]

2005-02-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 16:59 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The parent bridge has IO port mappings at 3000-6fff, and IO memory > mappings at c200-cfff and f000-f7ff. The cardbus stuff > _should_ all be behind those regions, but instead they are at 3fefb000 and >

Re: IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.]

2005-02-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > :00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81) (prog-if 00 > [Normal decode]) > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- > Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+

IBM Thinkpad G41 PCMCIA problems [Was: Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.]

2005-02-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
Sorry for the repost, but I figured I might get the attention of someone that has an IBM Thinkpad G41 with the updated subject. -- Hi everyone, I've been banging my head on this one a couple of days with no luck. I have a IBM Thinkpad G41 with a pentium4M with

Re: I wrote a kernel tool for monitoring / web page

2005-02-19 Thread sylvanino b
hi, sorry, the host had poor advertisement. I opened a SF project and am waiting for its validation. In the meantimes, I changed host, this one has no ad: http://slvn.free.fr/kernelanalyzer/index.php I'm going to put more explanation on the site too. sylvain On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:17:18

Re: updated list of unused kernel exports posted

2005-02-19 Thread Joel Becker
bio_map_user bio_unmap_user Used by Oracle's GPL ASMLib driver. dcache_readdir simple_commit_write simple_getattr simple_link simple_prepare_write simple_readpage simple_rename simple_sync_file Used By OCFS2. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #198 "Feed a stranger's expired

Re: I wrote a kernel tool for monitoring / web page

2005-02-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 16:04 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > > > For some reason all i ever get to see is the front page.. Any link just > > leads to an empty page like this [screenshot]: > > That's also what I saw with firefox, but konqueror worked OK. > I saw it at first with Firefox but then

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

2005-02-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 15:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > I have not tried "data=journal". As previously stated "data=writeback" > works perfectly - I ran JACK overnight while stressing the fs and did > not get one xrun. "data=journal" has the same good performance as "data=writeback". Only the

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-19 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

Re: I wrote a kernel tool for monitoring / web page

2005-02-19 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Florian Schmidt wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 02:33:00 +0100 sylvanino b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Sorry, it's meant to run on linux. Actually, patch provided is for linux 2.6.9 + kdb 4.4 I have uploaded a new tarball and updated the webpage. should be ok, Sylvain For some reason all i ever

Re: updated list of unused kernel exports posted

2005-02-19 Thread Joel Becker
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:14:33PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > +get_sb_pseudo Used by Oracle's GPL ASMLib driver, and I think by some OCFS2 stuff as well. Joel -- "If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not to kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt"

Re: I wrote a kernel tool for monitoring / web page

2005-02-19 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 02:33:00 +0100 sylvanino b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry, it's meant to run on linux. > Actually, patch provided is for linux 2.6.9 + kdb 4.4 > > > I have uploaded a new tarball and updated the webpage. > should be ok, > > Sylvain For some reason all i ever

[PATCH] radeonfb: Workaround memory corruption accel problem

2005-02-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi ! A conflict between X and radeonfb can cause system memory corruption when switching console from X (note that this is not realted to the recent radeonfb patches, the problem has been there forever as far as I can tell). This patch works around it in radeonfb by making sure the "offsets"

Re: Current bk on ppc32: kernel text corruption

2005-02-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 18:09 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Ok, we may not be over with memory corruption bugs yet. ppc64 now seem > stable running LTP overnight, but my laptop has a page of kernel .text > replaced with zero's as soon as I launch X (and just X, no need to launc > the whole

[PATCH] Symlink /sys/class/block to /sys/block

2005-02-19 Thread Malcolm Rowe
Greg, Following the discussion in [1], the attached patch creates /sys/class/block as a symlink to /sys/block. The patch applies to 2.6.11-rc4-bk7. Please cc: me on any replies - I'm not subscribed to the mailing list. [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=110506536315986 Regards, Malcolm

Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 02:14:34AM +0100, Michal Januszewski wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:52:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > 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 > >

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

2005-02-19 Thread Jody McIntyre
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:36:05AM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > Those allocations could be from _using_ a dma pool ... but they're > not from just creating one! > > The cost of creating the dma_pool is the cost of one small kmalloc() > plus (the expensive part) the /sys/devices/.../pools

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

2005-02-19 Thread Helge Hafting
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 12:56:25AM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > > > > > >Well, this will depend on your email server (pop? imap? other?) > >being up. Is it local on your machine, or external? Either way, > >being able to launch an email client (or some "new mail"

Re: slab corruption on 2.6.10-rc4-bk7

2005-02-19 Thread Andrew Morton
Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (This has actually been there for a while, but I only > noticed it in dmesg this morning). > During boot on a dual em64t I see .. > > scsi2 : ata_piix > isa bounce pool size: 16 pages > slab error in cache_free_debugcheck(): cache `size-2048': double

Re: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary addition operations from usb/core/hub.c

2005-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 07:03:27PM +, Telemaque Ndizihiwe wrote: > This Patch removes unnecessary addition operations from > usb/core/hub.c in kernel 2.6.10. > > usb_disable_endpoint(udev, 0 + USB_DIR_IN); //replaced by > usb_disable_endpoint(udev, USB_DIR_IN); > >

Re: [PATCH] i2c.h: Fix another gcc 4.0 compile failure

2005-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 08:58:48AM -0800, Mickey Stein wrote: > From: Mickey Stein > Versions: linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk7, gcc4 (GCC) 4.0.0 20050217 (latest fc > rawhide from 19Feb DL) > > gcc4 cvs seems to dislike "include/linux/i2c.h file": > > Error msg: include/linux/i2c.h:{55,194} error:

Re: 2.6.10: irq 12 nobody cared!

2005-02-19 Thread Rogério Brito
On Feb 17 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Does the box still work? It may well be that once all drivers have had a > chance to initialize their hardware properly, the problem is just gone, > and that the interim reports about not being able to handle the irq are > just temporary noise. I started

slab corruption on 2.6.10-rc4-bk7

2005-02-19 Thread Dave Jones
(This has actually been there for a while, but I only noticed it in dmesg this morning). During boot on a dual em64t I see .. scsi2 : ata_piix isa bounce pool size: 16 pages slab error in cache_free_debugcheck(): cache `size-2048': double free, or memory outside object was overwritten Call

Yenta TI: ... no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report.

2005-02-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
Hi everyone, I've been banging my head on this one a couple of days with no luck. I have a IBM Thinkpad G41 with a pentium4M with Hyperthreading. I can't get the PCMCIA working at all. I've tried turning off hyperthreading, I've tried with and without preempt, I've even added pci=noacpi. I've

Re: updated list of unused kernel exports posted

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:14:33PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >... > The following symbols are added to this list since the last posted list; > some of these will be of the "emerging functionality" type, others will > be now-redundant and should be investigated for removal; after all each >

Re: updated list of unused kernel exports posted

2005-02-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 22:14 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Hi, > > an updated list of currently unused-on-i386 kernel exports is now posted Russell asked me to clarify this: symbols on this list may well be used on other architectures than i386; before sending patches to remove them please use

updated list of unused kernel exports posted

2005-02-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Hi, an updated list of currently unused-on-i386 kernel exports is now posted at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/arjan/unused based on 2.6.11-rc4-bk7. Note 1) the URL of the location has changed; the previous URL led to several vendors of binary modules to contact my employer in the

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

2005-02-19 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 19 February 2005 12:50 pm, Parag Warudkar wrote: > On Saturday 19 February 2005 02:36 pm, David Brownell wrote: > > The cost of creating the dma_pool is the cost of one small kmalloc() > > plus (the expensive part) the /sys/devices/.../pools sysfs attribute > > is created along with

cfq: depth 4 reached, tagging now on

2005-02-19 Thread Lee Revell
Starting around 2.6.11-rc4 I get this printk during the boot process after kjournald starts, and again if I stress the filesystem. cfq: depth 4 reached, tagging now on Is this printk intentional? I am sure users will wonder about it, especially because (presumably) cfq turns tagging off at some

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

2005-02-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I believe power and suspend keys should definitely go through > > input. I'm not that sure about battery... Lid is somewhere in > > between... > > > > I think we need a generic way of delivering system status changes to > userspace. Something like acpid but bigger than that, something

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

2005-02-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > The question is how to unify it. > > > > > > Using power.c to simply pass power/sleep keys to the ACPI event pipe > > > could get the input subsystem out of the loop at least. Maybe we could > > > even pass sound keys to it. > > > > I do not think passing sound keys through acpi is

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Dynamically allocated pageflags.

2005-02-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > In Suspend2, I need the functional equivalent of pageflags, but don't > need them when Suspend isn't running. One of the outcomes of the last > submission of Suspend2 for review was that I changed the format in which > that data is stored, creating something I call dynamically allocated >

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

2005-02-19 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Saturday 19 February 2005 02:36 pm, David Brownell wrote: > The cost of creating the dma_pool is the cost of one small kmalloc() > plus (the expensive part) the /sys/devices/.../pools sysfs attribute > is created along with the first pool.  (Use that instead of slabinfo > for those pool

Re: intel8x0: no sound in 2.6.11 rc3 & 4 (fine with 2.6.10)

2005-02-19 Thread Lee Revell
Please cc: alsa-devel when reporting ALSA issues. Lee On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 13:11 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I have read a post in lkml.org that states that the problem experienced in > rc3 has gone (1). That is not the case for me. > > My audio device is > > :00:1f.5

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Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices

2005-02-19 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jon Smirl wrote: I didn't say make framebuffer depend on DRM, you can still unload DRM before suspend. It's the other way around DRM needs framebuffer. Only if you want to see the output, surely? I have an application which doesn't need a framebuffer (or more strictly, scan-out), but does use

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

2005-02-19 Thread David Brownell
> > Jody - Is the 200K waste for sure or do you want me to verify it by some > > means? ( Reason I am asking is firstly, Dave Brownell was quite sure it > > wasn't that costly and secondly, I am hoping it isn't.. ;) > > I'm not sure, but I looked through the code and it seems to allocate: > -

Re: cciss CSMI via sysfs for 2.6

2005-02-19 Thread Toon van der Pas
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:45:12AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > +static ssize_t cciss_phyinfo_show(struct device *dev, char *buf) > +{ > + ctlr_info_t *h = dev->driver_data; > + unsigned long flags; > + CommandList_struct *c; > + CSMI_SAS_PHY_INFO_BUFFER iocommand; > +

[PATCH] Remove unnecessary addition operations from usb/core/hub.c

2005-02-19 Thread Telemaque Ndizihiwe
This Patch removes unnecessary addition operations from usb/core/hub.c in kernel 2.6.10. usb_disable_endpoint(udev, 0 + USB_DIR_IN); //replaced by usb_disable_endpoint(udev, USB_DIR_IN); usb_disable_endpoint(udev, 0 + USB_DIR_OUT); //replaced by

IDE patch to fix Promise 202xx_new

2005-02-19 Thread David Coulson
I was having lots of DMA problems with a Promise 20269 PCI IDE controller under 2.6.11-rc4, which made it pretty useless. I found the following patch from almost two years ago, which when applied resolved the problems: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-19/1192.html Is there a

Re: [RFC] pdirops: tmpfs patch

2005-02-19 Thread Alex Tomas
Index: linux-2.6.10/mm/shmem.c === --- linux-2.6.10.orig/mm/shmem.c2005-01-28 19:32:16.0 +0300 +++ linux-2.6.10/mm/shmem.c 2005-02-19 20:05:32.642599576 +0300 @@ -1849,7 +1849,7 @@ #endif }; -static int

Re: [RFC] pdirops: vfs patch

2005-02-19 Thread Alex Tomas
fs/inode.c |1 fs/namei.c | 66 ++--- include/linux/fs.h | 11 3 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.10/fs/namei.c ===

[RFC] parallel directory operations

2005-02-19 Thread Alex Tomas
Good day Al and all could you review couple patches that implement $subj for vfs and tmpfs. In short the idea is that we can protect operations taking semaphore related for set of names. definitely, protection at vfs layer isn't enough and filesystem will need to protect their own structures by

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

2005-02-19 Thread Sergio Monteiro Basto
Well , In other computer with one fresh Core 3 installation, try set a prodvd.key on xcdroast, Fedora Core 3, doesn't had set hdc=ide-scsi , so I think that the recorder of dvds has worked in mode hdc=ide-cd, and stopped to function and to read any type of cd or dvd. So is it possible that ide-cd

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

2005-02-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 12:15:02PM -0500, David Roundy wrote: > The linux-2.5 tree right now (I'm re-doing the conversion, and am up to > October of last year, so far) is at 141M, if you don't count the pristine > cache or working directory. That's already compressed, so you don't get > any extra

Re: 2.4.29-pre1 OOPS early in boot with Intel ICH5 SATA controller

2005-02-19 Thread Alan J. Wylie
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:33:32 -0500, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> Is it possible for you to enable the following two #ifdefs in >>> include/linux/libata.h, and send me the output? >> >>> #define ATA_DEBUG /* debugging output */ #define ATA_VERBOSE_DEBUG >>> /* yet more debugging

Re: sata_sil data corruption

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
PALFFY Daniel wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a machine with a si3112a controller (lspci: 1095:3112 (rev 01) Subsystem: 1095:6112, cheap PCI card) and a ST3200822AS Rev: 3.01 disk and I see continuous silent data corruption while reading the disk. Writing seems to be ok. I have 2.6.10-ac1 built

Re: 2.4.29-pre1 OOPS early in boot with Intel ICH5 SATA controller

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan J. Wylie wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 06:09:26 -0500, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Is it possible for you to enable the following two #ifdefs in include/linux/libata.h, and send me the output? #define ATA_DEBUG/* debugging output */ #define ATA_VERBOSE_DEBUG/*

Re: [ANNOUNCE] yaird, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts

2005-02-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
it looks like yaird does use pivot_root. however pivot_root and initramfs cause a kernel crash (once you unmount /initrd in the real system). use run-init from klibc instead and you are fine. Andreas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

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

2005-02-19 Thread David Roundy
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 05:42:13PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > But anyway the only thing I care about is that you import all dozen > thousands changesets of the 2.5 kernel into it, and you show it's > manageable with <1G of ram and that the backup size is not very far from > the 75M of CVS.

Re: [SATA] libata-dev queue updated

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andre Tomt wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Patch URL, BK URL, and changelog attached. Recent changes: * New sata_qstor driver. * Turn on ATAPI by default. * Change a couple unconditional use-the-hardware function calls to be callbacks instead. Should have been this way originally. * Most of C/H/S

[PATCH] i2c.h: Fix another gcc 4.0 compile failure

2005-02-19 Thread Mickey Stein
From: Mickey Stein Versions: linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk7, gcc4 (GCC) 4.0.0 20050217 (latest fc rawhide from 19Feb DL) gcc4 cvs seems to dislike "include/linux/i2c.h file": Error msg: include/linux/i2c.h:{55,194} error: array type has incomplete element type A. Daplas has recently done a

Re: [SATA] libata-dev queue updated

2005-02-19 Thread Andre Tomt
Jeff Garzik wrote: Patch URL, BK URL, and changelog attached. Recent changes: * New sata_qstor driver. * Turn on ATAPI by default. * Change a couple unconditional use-the-hardware function calls to be callbacks instead. Should have been this way originally. * Most of C/H/S support. * Fix bugs

Re: workqueue - process context

2005-02-19 Thread Rene Herman
Roland Dreier wrote: Rene> I have no idea about the module refcounting stuff. Is there Rene> a chance that create_workqueue() could increase a reference Rene> somewhere so that the module wouldn't be allowed to unload Rene> untill after a destroy_workqueue()? There's no point to

Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices

2005-02-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 10:56 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > I didn't say make framebuffer depend on DRM, you can still unload DRM > before suspend. It's the other way around DRM needs framebuffer. > Suspend/resume are part of this. In the current model there is no way > for the DRM driver to see the

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

2005-02-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 04:10:18AM -0500, Patrick McFarland wrote: > In the case of darcs, RCS/SCCS works exactly opposite of how darcs does. By > using it's super magical method, it represents how code is written and how it > changes (patch theory at its best). You can clearly see the direction

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: You are right. Kernel balancer doesn't move around the irqs, unless it has too many interrupts. The logic is moving around interrupts all the time will not be good on caches. So, there is a threshold above which the balancer start moving things around. You should see

Re: FAUmachine: Looking for a good documented DMA bus master capable PCI IDE Controller card

2005-02-19 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, > Hm, maybe you will have to implement some PCI add-on IDE controller, > AFAIR Silicon Image 680 datasheet is publicly available now. I just talked with a coworker who has experience with the above card. He told me that this IDE controller (hardware) has havy problems if you have havy

Re: workqueue - process context

2005-02-19 Thread Roland Dreier
Rene> I have no idea about the module refcounting stuff. Is there Rene> a chance that create_workqueue() could increase a reference Rene> somewhere so that the module wouldn't be allowed to unload Rene> untill after a destroy_workqueue()? There's no point to doing this, since it's

Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices

2005-02-19 Thread Jon Smirl
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:29:13 +, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For example I'm looking at making changes to DRM such that DRM will > > require the corresponding framebuffer driver to be loaded. If you back > > up further this is part of

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/smc-mca.c: cleanups

2005-02-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > > This comment is applicable to similar changes, also. Use 'const' > > > whenever possible. > > > > does that even have meaning in C? In C++ it does, but afaik in C it > > doesn't. > > Yes it does. Often the variables declared this way will go into the text > section which is marked

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/smc-mca.c: cleanups

2005-02-19 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:09:00AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 03:41 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This patch contains the following cleanups: > > > - make a needlessly global function static > > > - make three needlessly global structs static >

2.6.11-rc3-mm2: SMB: BUG: atomic counter underflow

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
I found the following in my logs: <-- snip --> Feb 19 15:46:05 r063144 kernel: smb_get_length: Invalid NBT packet, code=86 Feb 19 15:46:35 r063144 kernel: smb_add_request: request [d5242d40, mid=50934] timed out! Feb 19 15:46:35 r063144 kernel: BUG: atomic counter underflow at: Feb 19

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] drivers/pci/: possible cleanups

2005-02-19 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 12:54:19AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > - remove the following unused functions: > - pci.c: pci_find_ext_capability The pcie bridge driver ought to be using this. I haven't submitted that cleanup patch yet. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the

Re: possible leak in kernel 2.6.10-ac12

2005-02-19 Thread Parag Warudkar
On Saturday 19 February 2005 07:37 am, Pedro Venda wrote: > biovec-1          1989252 1989478     16  226    1 : tunables  120   60   >  0 : slabdata   8803   8803      0 bio               1989270 1989271     64 >   61    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata  32611  32611      0 You have bio

Re: workqueue - process context

2005-02-19 Thread Rene Herman
Roland Dreier wrote: Not destroying its workqueue is a bug in the module just like any other resource leak. It's analogous to a module allocating some memory with kmalloc() and not calling kfree() when it's unloaded. Except though that with kmalloc() it's indeed just a leak while in this case

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.9 Use skb_padto() in drivers/net/8390.c

2005-02-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2005-02-19 at 05:20, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > It means that padto has improved a lot (or the underlying allocators). > > It also still means the patch makes the code slower and introduces > > changes that have no benefit into the kernel, so while its good to see > > its not relevant its

Re: FAUmachine: Looking for a good documented DMA bus master capable PCI IDE Controller card

2005-02-19 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:26:07 +0100, Thomas Glanzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Bartlomiej, > > > In IDE you have 2 devices per port and usually 2 ports per PCI device. > > There are some controller cards with 4 ports but they don't have public > > available documentation etc. I really

Re: FAUmachine: Looking for a good documented DMA bus master capable PCI IDE Controller card

2005-02-19 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, to clear things up. We implemented the PIIX IDE controller as part of the Intel Southbridge 82371AB which is part of the South bridge and a *onboard* chip. This chip has only two IDE channels AFAIK. The best thing would be if there is a PCI card or another chipset which has a PIIX IDE

Sysfs, PCI-devices and power management

2005-02-19 Thread WareKala
Hi, I don't know if this is the "right place(TM)" to ask about this, and if it isn't, I apologize. But the fact is that I haven't found any help from anywhere else and I can't learn enough without asking. So, the situation is like this: I am using a laptop and want to minimize the power

RE: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
You are right. Kernel balancer doesn't move around the irqs, unless it has too many interrupts. The logic is moving around interrupts all the time will not be good on caches. So, there is a threshold above which the balancer start moving things around. You should see them moving around if you do

Re: FAUmachine: Looking for a good documented DMA bus master capable PCI IDE Controller card

2005-02-19 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Bartlomiej, > In IDE you have 2 devices per port and usually 2 ports per PCI device. > There are some controller cards with 4 ports but they don't have public > available documentation etc. I really wonder what are you trying to > achieve and why just can't you use more than 1 "virtual"

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

2005-02-19 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:54:41PM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > > > But this return code is _very_ unusual. 0xfc means 'basic assurance test > > > failure' and should be reported only as a response to the 0xff command. > > > > Kenan, can you check whether the 0xfc response is there even if you > >

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

2005-02-19 Thread Kenan Esau
Am Donnerstag, den 17.02.2005, 20:42 +0100 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:04:55PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > > drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: d4 -> i8042 (command) [78489009] > > > drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: 07 -> i8042 (parameter) [78489009] > > >

Re: possible leak in kernel 2.6.10-ac12

2005-02-19 Thread Pedro Venda
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Parag Warudkar wrote: | On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:28 pm, Pedro Venda wrote: | |>Having upgraded most of them to 2.6.10-ac12, one of them showed a linear |>growth of used memory over the last 7 days, after the first 2.6.10-ac12 |>boot. It came to

idr_remove

2005-02-19 Thread Russell Coker
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=109838483518162=2 I am getting messages "idr_remove called for id=0 which is not allocated" when SE Linux denies search access to /dev/pts. The attached file has some klogd output showing the situation, triggered in this case by installing a new

Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices

2005-02-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example I'm looking at making changes to DRM such that DRM will > require the corresponding framebuffer driver to be loaded. If you back > up further this is part of fixing X so that it won't mess with the > hardware from user space. Mode setting would

intel8x0: no sound in 2.6.11 rc3 & 4 (fine with 2.6.10)

2005-02-19 Thread uaca
Hello I have read a post in lkml.org that states that the problem experienced in rc3 has gone (1). That is not the case for me. My audio device is :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: IBM:

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 21:58 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi again. > > Didn't realise it was going to take nothing to install, so I've done it. > IRQs are running on cpu 1 now. Is there some documentation somewhere? > I'm wondering whether I can compile kirqd out. with irqbalance running yes

Re: FAUmachine: Looking for a good documented DMA bus master capable PCI IDE Controller card

2005-02-19 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:24:10 +0100, Thomas Glanzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > we just implemented the Intel PIIX DMA Bus Master capable IDE Controller > in FAUmachine. This improved the IO access to virtual IDE Devices using > DMA as transport mechanism a lot. > > But with the

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi again. Didn't realise it was going to take nothing to install, so I've done it. IRQs are running on cpu 1 now. Is there some documentation somewhere? I'm wondering whether I can compile kirqd out. Thanks and regards, Nigel On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:36, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat,

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi, On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:36, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:07 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi Jeff. > > > > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:52, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > What are the results of running irqbalanced? > > > > You mean the

FAUmachine: Looking for a good documented DMA bus master capable PCI IDE Controller card

2005-02-19 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, we just implemented the Intel PIIX DMA Bus Master capable IDE Controller in FAUmachine. This improved the IO access to virtual IDE Devices using DMA as transport mechanism a lot. But with the current simulation it is only possible to access 4 devices via DMA. Because of that I am looking

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

2005-02-19 Thread Sean
On Sat, February 19, 2005 4:10 am, Patrick McFarland said: > On Friday 18 February 2005 07:50 am, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >> 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

Re: I wrote a kernel tool for monitoring / web page

2005-02-19 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
sylvanino b wrote: Hi, I wrote a kernel tool for my personnal usage which goal is to keep a record of recent task preemptions and interruptions that appears under linux. Although the record is short (a few minutes only), It can help to analyse scheduling algorithm efficiency and also driver timing

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:02 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:44, Kwijibo wrote: > > My guess is that irqbalance is not running. > > No. It is. > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 301 0.0 0.0 00 ?

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 20:07 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi Jeff. > > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:52, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > What are the results of running irqbalanced? > > You mean the debugging output? I can reenable it and record the results > if that's what you

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