Re: Netfilter: TARPIT Target

2005-02-19 Thread Harald Welte
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:41:47AM -0500, Fao, Sean wrote: > I wanted to use the TARPIT target provided by Netfilter, but I am unable > to find the module in the kernel. Has it been removed or am I looking > in the wrong place? 1) it has never been in the mainstream kernel 2) the netfilter

2.6.11-rc3-mm2: lockup in sys_timer_settime

2005-02-19 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
When running a Posix conformance test (from posixtestsuite), the kernel locks up with: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0 Pid: 1873, comm: 10-1.test EIP: 0060:[] CPU: 0 EIP is at sys_timer_settime+0xfa+0x1f0 EFLAGS: 0282 Not tainted (2.6.11-rc3-mm2) EAX: 0282 EBX: 0001 ECX:

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/wireless/: possible cleanups

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL: - orinoco.c: orinoco_stop Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/wireless/airo.c | 65 ++--

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

2005-02-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:03 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > > > > Testing on an all SCSI 1.3Ghz Athlon XP system, I am seeing very long > latencies in the journalling code with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02.

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

2005-02-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
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 > > > > Since after moving the now-static stucts to smc-mca.c the file

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

2005-02-19 Thread Patrick McFarland
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 is that it'll be compact and a backup will > compress at best

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

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
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 Since after moving the now-static stucts to smc-mca.c the file

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
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 mean. >From memory though, it got to not_worth_the_effort via this code:

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

2005-02-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:53, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Nigel, > > On Saturday 19 February 2005 01:28, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 13:58, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > On Friday 18 February 2005 18:31, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > I believe power and

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

2005-02-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Testing on an all SCSI 1.3Ghz Athlon XP system, I am seeing very long > > latencies in the journalling code with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02. > > could you send me the full trace? just in case the system in question is still running - could you also do

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
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 ?SW 16:52 0:00 [kirqd] The debugging info reports that it doesn't

[SATA] libata-dev queue updated

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
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 in ADMA driver. *

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/tokenring/: make some code static

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c |2 +- drivers/net/tokenring/3c359_microcode.h |2 +- drivers/net/tokenring/ibmtr.c | 24

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/wan/: possible cleanups

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - #if 0 the following unused global function: - sdladrv.c: sdla_intde - remove the following unused global variable: - lmc_media.c: lmc_t1_cables - remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's: -

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

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a nedlessly global firmware image static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/typhoon-firmware.h.old 2005-02-16 18:56:23.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/typhoon-firmware.h2005-02-16

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/via-velocity.c: make a function static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global function static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/via-velocity.c.old2005-02-16 18:57:31.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/via-velocity.c2005-02-16 18:57:49.0

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/via-rhine.c: make a variable static

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/via-rhine.c.old 2005-02-16 18:56:59.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/via-rhine.c 2005-02-16 18:57:05.0

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

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the following cleanups: - make a needlessly global function static - make three needlessly global structs static Since after moving the now-static stucts to smc-mca.c the file smc-mca.h was empty except for two #define's, I've also killed the rest of

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/via-rhine.c: make a variable static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/via-rhine.c.old 2005-02-16 18:56:59.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/via-rhine.c 2005-02-16 18:57:05.0 +0100

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c: make a variable static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c.old 2005-02-16 18:54:52.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c 2005-02-16 18:55:02.0

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/tun.c: make 2 functions static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes two needlessly global functions static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tun.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/tun.c.old 2005-02-16 18:55:46.0 +0100 +++

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/tokenring/: make some code static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c |2 +- drivers/net/tokenring/3c359_microcode.h |2 +- drivers/net/tokenring/ibmtr.c | 24

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/shaper.c: make a variable static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 07:18:19PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >This patch contains the following cleanups: > >- remove an unused #define SHAPER_BANNER > >- remove the sh_debug flag > > > >Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > you are removing presumably-useful

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

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following cleanups: - make a needlessly global function static - make three needlessly global structs static Since after moving the now-static stucts to smc-mca.c the file smc-mca.h was empty except for two #define's, I've also killed the rest of smc-mca.h .

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/sunhme.c: make a struct static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global struct static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/sunhme.c.old 2005-02-16 18:48:13.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/sunhme.c 2005-02-16 19:04:48.0 +0100 @@ -175,13

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
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 ?SW 16:52 0:00 [kirqd] The debugging info reports that it doesn't think

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

2005-02-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Testing on an all SCSI 1.3Ghz Athlon XP system, I am seeing very long latencies in the journalling code with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02. could you send me the full trace? just in case the system in question is still running - could you also do a

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

2005-02-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:53, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi Nigel, On Saturday 19 February 2005 01:28, Nigel Cunningham wrote: Hi. On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 13:58, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Friday 18 February 2005 18:31, Pavel Machek wrote: I believe power and suspend keys should

Re: Should kirqd work on HT?

2005-02-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
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 mean. From memory though, it got to not_worth_the_effort via this code:

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

2005-02-19 Thread Patrick McFarland
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 is that it'll be compact and a backup will compress at best too.

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

2005-02-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:03 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ Testing on an all SCSI 1.3Ghz Athlon XP system, I am seeing very long latencies in the journalling code with 2.6.11-rc4-RT-V0.7.39-02. could you

2.6.11-rc3-mm2: lockup in sys_timer_settime

2005-02-19 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
When running a Posix conformance test (from posixtestsuite), the kernel locks up with: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0 Pid: 1873, comm: 10-1.test EIP: 0060:[c0126fda] CPU: 0 EIP is at sys_timer_settime+0xfa+0x1f0 EFLAGS: 0282 Not tainted (2.6.11-rc3-mm2) EAX: 0282 EBX: 0001

Re: Netfilter: TARPIT Target

2005-02-19 Thread Harald Welte
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:41:47AM -0500, Fao, Sean wrote: I wanted to use the TARPIT target provided by Netfilter, but I am unable to find the module in the kernel. Has it been removed or am I looking in the wrong place? 1) it has never been in the mainstream kernel 2) the netfilter

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 ?SW

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 mean. no

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: [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 is that

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: 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 debugging output? I can

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: 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 current

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 you

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: 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 come

idr_remove

2005-02-19 Thread Russell Coker
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=109838483518162w=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: 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 a

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] drivers/input/serio/i8042.c: fe

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 don't 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 PIIX

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

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 consumption

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

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 wonder what

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 still a

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: 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 leak.

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 blame

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 15:46:35

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 fixing X so

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: 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 load

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: [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: 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: 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 doing

[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: [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. The

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 message

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: 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

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

[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

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; +

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/sunhme.c: make a struct static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global struct static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/sunhme.c.old 2005-02-16 18:48:13.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/sunhme.c 2005-02-16 19:04:48.0 +0100 @@ -175,13

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

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following cleanups: - make a needlessly global function static - make three needlessly global structs static Since after moving the now-static stucts to smc-mca.c the file smc-mca.h was empty except for two #define's, I've also killed the rest of smc-mca.h .

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/shaper.c: make a variable static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 07:18:19PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the following cleanups: - remove an unused #define SHAPER_BANNER - remove the sh_debug flag Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] you are removing presumably-useful debug code; NAK.

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/tokenring/: make some code static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c |2 +- drivers/net/tokenring/3c359_microcode.h |2 +- drivers/net/tokenring/ibmtr.c | 24

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/tun.c: make 2 functions static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes two needlessly global functions static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/tun.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/tun.c.old 2005-02-16 18:55:46.0 +0100 +++

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c: make a variable static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c.old 2005-02-16 18:54:52.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c 2005-02-16 18:55:02.0

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/via-rhine.c: make a variable static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/via-rhine.c.old 2005-02-16 18:56:59.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/via-rhine.c 2005-02-16 18:57:05.0 +0100 @@

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

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the following cleanups: - make a needlessly global function static - make three needlessly global structs static Since after moving the now-static stucts to smc-mca.c the file smc-mca.h was empty except for two #define's, I've also killed the rest of

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/via-rhine.c: make a variable static

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/via-rhine.c.old 2005-02-16 18:56:59.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/via-rhine.c 2005-02-16 18:57:05.0

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/via-velocity.c: make a function static

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a needlessly global function static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/via-velocity.c.old2005-02-16 18:57:31.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/via-velocity.c2005-02-16 18:57:49.0

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

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes a nedlessly global firmware image static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/typhoon-firmware.h.old 2005-02-16 18:56:23.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2-full/drivers/net/typhoon-firmware.h2005-02-16

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/wan/: possible cleanups

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - #if 0 the following unused global function: - sdladrv.c: sdla_intde - remove the following unused global variable: - lmc_media.c: lmc_t1_cables - remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's: -

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/tokenring/: make some code static

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c |2 +- drivers/net/tokenring/3c359_microcode.h |2 +- drivers/net/tokenring/ibmtr.c | 24

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

2005-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
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 Since after moving the now-static stucts to smc-mca.c the file

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

2005-02-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
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 Since after moving the now-static stucts to smc-mca.c the file smc-mca.h was

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/wireless/: possible cleanups

2005-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL: - orinoco.c: orinoco_stop Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/wireless/airo.c | 65 ++--

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: - 16

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

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Linux-kernel, Get a new home

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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: [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: 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 good idea. acpid

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 not Yes, we

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: [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 the first

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

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