Re: [ patch 3/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-04 Thread Wen Xiong
Jeff Garzik wrote: Wen Xiong wrote: +static inline void neo_set_rts_flow_control(struct channel_t *ch) +{ +uchar ier = readb(ch-ch_neo_uart-ier); +uchar efr = readb(ch-ch_neo_uart-efr); Do not invent new types like ushort or uchar. For situations where specific size is required, use a

[BK PATCH] I2C patches for 2.6.11

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
Hi, Here is a I2C update for 2.6.11. It includes a number of fixes, and some new i2c drivers. All of these patches have been in the past few -mm releases. Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/i2c-2.6 Patches will be posted to linux-kernel and sensors as a follow-up

[PATCH] PCI Hotplug: Fix OSHP calls in shpchp and pciehp drivers

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.1998.11.17, 2005/02/17 15:05:32-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: Fix OSHP calls in shpchp and pciehp drivers Here is a patch to fix a problem in OSHP calls in shpchp and pciehp drivers that was detected in 2.6.11-rc3. In this kernel, calls to acpi_evaluate_object() to

[PATCH] I2C: Kill i2c_client.id (1/5)

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2083, 2005/03/02 11:51:51-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: Kill i2c_client.id (1/5) (1/5) Stop using i2c_client.id in i2c/chips drivers (mostly hardware monitoring drivers). Drivers affected: * adm1021 * adm1025 * adm1026 * adm1031 * ds1621 * fscher * gl518sm *

[PATCH] I2C: Enable I2C_PIIX4 for 64-bit platforms

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2103, 2005/03/02 12:18:19-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: Enable I2C_PIIX4 for 64-bit platforms Is there any specific reason for the PIIX4 SMBus driver to be disabled on 64-bit platforms? If not, then please apply the following change. The MIPS Technologies Malta development

[PATCH] I2C: add ST M41T00 I2C RTC chip driver

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2098, 2005/03/02 12:16:55-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: add ST M41T00 I2C RTC chip driver This patch adds support for the ST M41T00 I2C RTC chip. This rtc chip has no mechanism to freeze it's registers while being read; however, it will delay updating the external values of

[PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 nobh support for ext3 writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Hi Andrew, Here is the 2.6.11-mm1 patch to add nobh support to ext3 writeback mode. Can you please add this to -mm ? BTW, this patch depends on add-writepage patch, which is in -mm tree. Thanks, Badari diff -Naurp -Xdontdiff linux-2.6.11/fs/ext3/inode.c linux-2.6.11.new/fs/ext3/inode.c ---

Re: [ patch 1/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Thanks for making the updates. Please resubmit the entire series to LKML, so we can review it in total. Jeff - 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: 2.6.11-mm1

2005-03-04 Thread Alexander Nyberg
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm1/ - Added the new bk-audit tree. Contains updates to the kernel's audit feature. Maintained by David Woodhouse. - The Dell keyboard problems should be fixed. Testing needed. -

Re: Something is broken with SATA RAID ?

2005-03-04 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 03.03, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:39:41AM +, J.A. Magallon wrote: Hi... I posted this in other mail, but now I can confirm this. I have a box with a SATA RAID-5, and with 2.6.11-rc3-mm2+libata-dev1 works like a charm as a samba server, I dropped it 12Gb

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Ok, care to forward them on? Sure. How do they get to Linus? I'll just pull from the sucker-tree. That tree has

[PATCH] FUSE: inode leak fix

2005-03-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Hi Andrew! This patch fixes an inode leak in fuse_get_dentry(). With libfuse this practically never triggers, but a DoS exploit could be written. Please Apply. Thanks, Miklos Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -rup linux-2.6.11-mm1/fs/fuse/inode.c linux-fuse/fs/fuse/inode.c

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. ... nfsd--exportfs-reduce-stack-usage.patch ... Different people want different things with our 2.6.x.y. I would hope that criteria include (i) patch is obvious,

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 09:07, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! You guys are reinventing the wheel a lot at the moment and I'm in the middle of doing it for x86_64 lowlevel code : Can we see if we can work a little more closely - perhaps we can get some shared code going that will

Re: BIOS overwritten during resume (was: Re: Asus L5D resume on battery power)

2005-03-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Actually, take a look at Nigel's patch. He simply uses PageNosave instead of PageLocked -- that is cleaner. Yes. I thought about using PG_nosave in the begining, but there's a BUG_ON(PageReserved(page) PageNosave(page)); in swsusp.c:saveable() that I just didn't want to

size of /proc/kcore grows?

2005-03-04 Thread Christian
hi, i've just tried to search for something in the RAM, so i thougt /proc/kcore would be a good address to start. i really only wanted to grep for raw data throught it, i did not need any specific meta-data. ok, i checked: $ ls -lah /proc/kcore -r 1 root root 256M Mar 4 23:25

Re: SVGATextMode on 2.6.11

2005-03-04 Thread Alan Curry
I wrote: Was SVGATextMode's cursor-setting ability removed as a result of an intentional change, or might it get fixed? Or might CUR_DEFAULT become tunable? Maybe another control sequence could make the current cursor settings the default, like setterm -store does for foreground and background

Re: [ patch 4/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:08:17PM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote: +int get_jsm_board_number(void) +{ +struct list_head *tmp; +struct jsm_board *cur_board_entry; +int adapter_count = 0; +u64 lock_flags; + +spin_lock_irqsave(jsm_board_head_lock, lock_flags);

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Hmm, bitmaps? Okay, then low-level code needs to stay separate. (And thats bad, I wanted that one to be shared most). Mmm. As you might remember, I used extents from 1.0 to save space. The feedback from the last submission to LKML about getting rid of the page_alloc.c hooks made me

[PATCH] w1: replace obsoleted *sleep_on*

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
ChangeSet 1.2084, 2005/03/02 16:59:25-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] w1: replace obsoleted *sleep_on* Remove obsoleded *sleep_on*. Since they are used only to wait for a given flags and awakening only happens on signals, we can just replace them with msleep_interruptible. Signed-off-by:

[patch 3/5] ppc32: Compilation fixes for Ebony, Luan and Ocotea

2005-03-04 Thread akpm
From: Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] this patch fixes the problem, that the current kernel (linux-2.6.11-rc5) could not be compiled, when support for early boot texts over serial port (CONFIG_SERIAL_TEXT_DEBUG=y) is active. Signed-off-by: Gerhard Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Matt

Re: [PATCH] I2C: Fix some gcc 4.0 compile failures and warnings

2005-03-04 Thread Mickey Stein
Greg KH wrote: ChangeSet 1.2108, 2005/03/02 15:02:27-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] I2C: Fix some gcc 4.0 compile failures and warnings gcc 4.0.x cvs seems to dislike include/linux/i2c.h file and others due to a current gcc 4.0.x change having to do with array declarations. Example error msg:

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 ext3 writepages support for writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, Here is the 2.6.11-mm1 patch for adding writepages support for ext3 writeback mode. Could you include it in -mm tree ? spose so. Does it work? Do you have any benchmarking results handy? +static int +ext3_writeback_writepages(struct

Re: [PATCH] convert pci_dev-slot_name usage to pci_name()

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:00:29PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Greg KH wrote: ChangeSet 1.1998.11.6, 2005/02/07 14:36:14-08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] convert pci_dev-slot_name usage to pci_name() Prepare for removal of pci_dev-slot_name Can you split this up and send me the

Re: [SATA] libata-dev queue updated

2005-03-04 Thread Joerg Sommrey
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:43:38PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Joerg Sommrey wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:07:16PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Joerg Sommrey wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:10:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Joerg Sommrey wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:09:26PM

[PATCH] FUSE: use after free fix

2005-03-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Hi Andrew! I should have known that bragging about the stability of FUSE will get me into trouble. This patch fixes a use after free bug, which could in theory cause memory corruption. It was actually found with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC by Magnus Johansson. Please apply. Thanks, Miklos

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:59:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Ok, care to forward them on? Sure. How do they get to Linus? I'll just

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Hmm, before we go async way (nasty locking, no?) could driver simply ask did something bad happen while I was sleeping? at begining of each function? For DMA problems, driver probably has its own, timer-based, something is wrong timer, anyway, no? No, there is no nasty

[PATCH][Trivial] Kconfig help text update for config FB_NVIDIA

2005-03-04 Thread Jesper Juhl
Tiny trivial patch to fix up the help text for config FB_NVIDIA, cut against 2.6.11-mm1 Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11-mm1-orig/drivers/video/Kconfig 2005-03-05 00:39:33.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-mm1/drivers/video/Kconfig 2005-03-05

[PATCH 2.6 IrDA] support NSC PC8738x

2005-03-04 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
ir261_nsc_38x.diff : ~~ Original patch from Steffen Pingel o [FEATURE] support NSC PC8738x chipset (IBM x40 ...) Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -u -p linux/drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.d0.c linux/drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.c ---

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 nobh support for ext3 writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:23, Andrew Morton wrote: Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @@ -1646,13 +1659,34 @@ static int ext3_block_truncate_page(hand unsigned blocksize, iblock, length, pos; struct inode *inode = mapping-host; struct buffer_head *bh; - int err;

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:07:23PM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: Here's an idea which might just be too simple, but here it is anyway: Modifiy the bk snapshot scripts to name the 2.6.x series snapshots as -PREy instead of -BKy. That way, the general population of users will see the -bk

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 nobh support for ext3 writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @@ -1646,13 +1659,34 @@ static int ext3_block_truncate_page(hand unsigned blocksize, iblock, length, pos; struct inode *inode = mapping-host; struct buffer_head *bh; - int err; + int err = 0; void *kaddr;

[PATCH 2.6 IrDA] arbitrary lsap connect

2005-03-04 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
ir261_connect_lsap-2.diff : ~ Original patch from Iavor Fetvadjie o [FEATURE] allow IrDA socket to connect on arbitrary LSAPs Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -u -p linux/net/irda/af_irda.d0.c linux/net/irda/af_irda.c ---

[PATCH 2.6 IrDA] cleanup obsolete construct in IrCOMM

2005-03-04 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
ir261_ircomm_write_cleanup.diff : ~~~ o [FEATURE] cleanup some construct obsoleted by Linus's patch Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -u -p linux/net/irda/ircomm/ircomm_tty.d0.c linux/net/irda/ircomm/ircomm_tty.c ---

[PATCH 2.6 IrDA] Mark exit code properly in VIA driver

2005-03-04 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
irXXX_via_devexit.diff : ~~ Patch from Randy Dunlap o [CORRECT] Mark exit code properly in VIA driver Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Naurp

[PATCH 2.6 IrDA] remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's from irport.c

2005-03-04 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
irXXX_irport_exports.diff : ~ Patch from Adrian Bunk o [FEATURE] make needlessly global code static o [FEATURE] remove unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's from irport.c Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 nobh support for ext3 writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:31, Andrew Morton wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: page reclaim can come in, grab the page lock and whip the page off the mapping. No it can't - we hold an additional ref on the page, so reclaim will back off. Still, it feels a bit flakey. And

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 nobh support for ext3 writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's all this doing? (It needs comments please - it's very unobvious). All its trying to do is - to make sure the page is uptodate so that it can zero out the portion thats needed. OK. I can do getblock() and ll_rw_block(READ) instead. I was

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:36:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel history which simply should not have been there. Is this really a big deal? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 nobh support for ext3 writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:45, Andrew Morton wrote: Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's all this doing? (It needs comments please - it's very unobvious). All its trying to do is - to make sure the page is uptodate so that it can zero out the portion thats needed. OK.

[PATCH] pci_ids.h correction for Intel ICH7M - 2.6.11

2005-03-04 Thread Jason Gaston
This patch corrects the ICH7M LPC controller DID in pci_ids.h from x27B1 to x27B9.  This patch was build against 2.6.11. If acceptable, please apply. Thanks, Jason Gaston Signed-off-by:  Jason Gaston [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.11/include/linux/pci_ids.h.orig 2005-03-04

Re: [MC] [CHECKER] Do ext2, jfs and reiserfs respect mount -o sync/dirsync option?

2005-03-04 Thread Junfeng Yang
From a quick parse, ext2 seems to be full of MS_SYNCHRONOUS holes, and there might be some O_SYNC ones there as well. I should be able to easily add O_SYNC check to FiSC. Several questions: 1. Does O_SYNC apply to directory as well? 2. For the same file, if I open twice, once with O_SYNC and

Re: BIOS overwritten during resume (was: Re: Asus L5D resume on battery power)

2005-03-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 10:26, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Yes. I thought about using PG_nosave in the begining, but there's a BUG_ON(PageReserved(page) PageNosave(page)); in swsusp.c:saveable() that I just didn't want to trigger. It seems to me, though, that we don't need it any more,

Re: BIOS overwritten during resume (was: Re: Asus L5D resume on battery power)

2005-03-04 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Friday, 4 of March 2005 21:11, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! IIRC kernel code/data is marked as PageReserved(), that's why we need to save that :(. Not sure what to do with data e820 marked as reserved... Perhaps we need another page flag, like PG_readonly, and mark

Re: BIOS overwritten during resume (was: Re: Asus L5D resume on battery power)

2005-03-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 10:41, Pavel Machek wrote: non-RAM areas with PG_nosave, at least for sanity reasons (eg to be sure that we do not break things by dumping stuff to where we should not write to). I'm not sure if it is not better to save restore non-RAM areas, but it probably

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 09:55, Pavel Machek wrote: All that to say Bitmaps were a definite win!. Perhaps I can sell you on the advantages of using them : Not sure, if one bit goes wrong you put everything in the wrong places :-). Linklist seems just okay to me, no 4K allocations. I'm

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 nobh support for ext3 writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 16:45, Andrew Morton wrote: Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's all this doing? (It needs comments please - it's very unobvious). All its trying to do is - to make sure the page is uptodate so that it can zero out the portion thats needed. OK.

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [2.6 patch] make savagefb one module

2005-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:17:17AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch links all selected files under drivers/video/savagefb/ into one module. This required a renaming of savagefb.c to savagefb_driver.c . As a side effect, the

Re: BIOS overwritten during resume (was: Re: Asus L5D resume on battery power)

2005-03-04 Thread Bernard Blackham
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:37:29AM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 10:26, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Yes, I think I'll just port the Nigel's patch to x86-64. BTW, it's striking that we found similar solutions independently (I didn't know the Nigel's patch before :-)).

[PATCH 2.6 IrDA] stir4200 turnaround calculation fix

2005-03-04 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
ir261_stir_turn.diff : Patch from John K. Luebs o [CORRECT] Proper turnaround computations in the stir4200 driver o [CORRECT] Take care of Tx packet without IrDA metadata (speed) Signed-off-by: John K. Luebs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Jean

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:36:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel history which simply should not have been there. Is this really a big deal? Once? No. If it ends up being par for the course, it's bad.

Re: nothing in /proc/fs/nfs/exports ?

2005-03-04 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 03.04, Trond Myklebust wrote: fr den 04.03.2005 Klokka 11:58 (+) skreiv J.A. Magallon: = /proc/fs/nfs/exports # Version 1.1 # Path Client(Flags) # IPs Nothing in xtab ? Nothing in /proc ? Why ? man exportfs. Read all about the 2.6 kernel's new mechanism for

The never ending hpusbscsi storry

2005-03-04 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, Matthias Kindtner wrote: scanimage -L scanimage: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/sane/libsane-avision.so.1: undefined symbol: sanei_usb_set_timeout With the latest backed you need to update include/sane/sanei_usb.h and sanei/sanei_usb.c from my SVN repository (will go into SANE CVS in the

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the list of things which we might choose to put into 2.6.11.2. I was planning on sending them in for 2.6.12 when that was going to be errata-only. Ok, care to forward them on? Sure. How do they get to Linus? linux-release team

Re: slab corruption in skb allocs

2005-03-04 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:52:38PM +0100, Richard Fuchs wrote: Matt Mackall wrote: Doh. 'ethtool -k' is what's needed, sorry. doh myself. :) this won't be very helpful though, as i get the same on all machines (with both drivers): Offload parameters for eth0: Cannot get device rx csum

[PATCH 2.6 IrDA] irda-usb sysfs support

2005-03-04 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
ir261_irda-usb_sysfs-kill_urb-2.diff : o [CORRECT] Forgot to convert a few usb_unlink_urb() in usb_kill_urb() Patch from John K. Luebs o [FEATURE] Proper sysfs support Signed-off-by: John K. Luebs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 08/08] ide: remove REQ_DRIVE_CMD handling

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
08_ide_remove_REQ_DRIVE_CMD.patch Remove REQ_DRIVE_CMD handling. ide_init_drive_cmd() now defaults to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE (now the only drive command :-). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c |1 drivers/ide/ide-disk.c|1

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 05/08] ide: use ide_task_t-tf.protocol instead of ide_task_t-data_phase

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
05_ide_use_protocol.patch Remove ide_task_t-{data_phase,command_type,prehandler,rq} and use tf-protocol instead. Now the protocol value wholey defines how to drive a taskfile except for NODATA cases where a caller can optionally specify handler (for special

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 nobh support for ext3 writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iblock = index (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - inode-i_sb-s_blocksize_bits); It would still be nice to add a comment in here... + if (test_opt(inode-i_sb, NOBH) !page_has_buffers(page)) { + if (!PageUptodate(page)) { +

Re: 2.6.11-mm1

2005-03-04 Thread Alexander Nyberg
fre 2005-03-04 klockan 03:32 -0800 skrev Andrew Morton: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm1/ - Added the new bk-audit tree. Contains updates to the kernel's audit feature. Maintained by David Woodhouse. - The Dell keyboard problems should

[PATCH 2.6 IrDA] fix IrNET poll with empty disco log

2005-03-04 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
ir261_irnet_poll_fix-2.diff : ~~~ o [CORRECT] poll would improperly exit when the discovery log was empty Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -u -p linux/net/irda/irnet/irnet_irda.j1.c linux/net/irda/irnet/irnet_irda.c ---

IrDA patches for 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-04 Thread Jean Tourrilhes
Hi David, More trivial fixes in various places of the IrDA stack and driver, no biggies. Freshly tested on 2.6.11, most have been on my web pages for a while. This should go in 2.6.12-rc1. Thanks ! Jean

Re: [RFC] ext3/jbd race: releasing in-use journal_heads

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Stephen C. Tweedie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the past few months there has been a slow but steady trickle of reports of oopses in kjournald. Yes, really tenuous stuff. Very glad if this is the fix! Recently I got a couple of reports that were repeatable enough to rerun with extra

Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

2005-03-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! You guys are reinventing the wheel a lot at the moment and I'm in the middle of doing it for x86_64 lowlevel code : Can we see if we can work a little more closely - perhaps we can get some shared code going that will allow us to handle these issues without stepping on each

Re: Re: 2.6.11 ps/2 mouse is dead

2005-03-04 Thread Leonid Petrov
Dmitry, On Friday 04 March 2005 00:52, Leonid Petrov wrote: I upgraded from 2.6.10 to 2.6.11 using make oldconfig and my Logitech ps/2 mouse is dead. cat /dev/input/mice shows nothing. Nothing suspicios in /var/log/messages The same mousce works fine with 2.6.10 Does it work with

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Tim Bird
Matt Mackall wrote: One last plea for the 2.4 scheme: I think naming the interim releases -pre/-rc has done this admirably for 2.4. I agree. This makes more sense to me than some implicit understanding about the parity of the revision. rc is easy to understand, and '-pre' is easy to

[2.6 patch] remove drivers/char/tpqic02.c

2005-03-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
Since at about half a year, this driver was no longer selectable via Kconfig. Since it seems noone missed this driver, therefore this patch removes it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 5 Feb 2005 - 25 Feb 2005 drivers/char/Makefile |1

[PATCH] Toshiba ACPI failure handling

2005-03-04 Thread Panagiotis Issaris
Hi, Adds the missing failure handling for a kmalloc in the Toshiba ACPI driver. Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -pruN linux-2.6.11-orig/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.c linux-2.6.11-pi/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.c --- linux-2.6.11-orig/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.c

Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] ext3/jbd race: releasing in-use journal_heads

2005-03-04 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Stephen, I looked at few journalling bugs recently on RHEL4 testing here. I am wondering if your patch fixes this following BUG also ? I never got to bottom of some of these journal panics - since they are not easily reproducible + I don't understand journal code well enough :( Assertion

[PATCH] FUSE: use generic_file_llseek

2005-03-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Hi Andrew! This patch adds generic_file_llseek to fuse_file_operations and fuse_dir_operations, replacing the implicit default_llseek. Please Apply. Thanks, Miklos Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -rup linux-2.6.11-mm1/fs/fuse/dir.c linux-fuse/fs/fuse/dir.c ---

Re: [PATCH] I2C: Fix some gcc 4.0 compile failures and warnings

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:55:11PM -0800, Mickey Stein wrote: I was just scanning this email and it looks like you possibly grabbed the first of my patches with a typo because this last little bit I corrected in a prior email to you. It got into the *mm* tree ok. So I'm not sure where

Re: [MC] [CHECKER] Do ext2, jfs and reiserfs respect mount -o sync/dirsync option?

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Junfeng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a quick parse, ext2 seems to be full of MS_SYNCHRONOUS holes, and there might be some O_SYNC ones there as well. I should be able to easily add O_SYNC check to FiSC. Several questions: 1. Does O_SYNC apply to directory as well? Only if you can

[PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 ext3 writepages support for writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Badari Pulavarty
Hi Andrew, Here is the 2.6.11-mm1 patch for adding writepages support for ext3 writeback mode. Could you include it in -mm tree ? Thanks, Badari diff -Naurp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.11/fs/ext3/inode.c linux-2.6.11.new/fs/ext3/inode.c --- linux-2.6.11/fs/ext3/inode.c 2005-03-01 23:38:13.0

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 02/08] ide: convert __ide_do_rw_disk() to use ide_load_taskfile()

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
02_ide_use_load_taskfile_in_do_rw_disk.patch Reimplements __ide_do_rw_disk() using ide_load_taskfile(). While at it, clean up the function a little bit. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ide-disk.c | 163 -

Fwd: non-fatal oops with EIP at skb_release_data, available for debugging

2005-03-04 Thread Alessandro Suardi
Hmm, doesn't seem this ever made the lkml, no idea why... CC'ing netdev in case someone can spot anything interesting The machine (running FC3) is still up and running after the oops. -- Forwarded message -- From: Alessandro Suardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 00/08] ide: taskfile cleanup

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Bartlomiej. Hello, Jeff. These eight patches * define ATA_TFLAG_{OUT|IN}_* flags * unify/generalize taskfile transport * cleanup ide driver accordingly For behavior changes by #03. I don't think defining a special flag to handle the TASKFILE case is necessary. The change isn't

[PATCH] ata_piix.c: check PCI sub-class code before AHCI disabling

2005-03-04 Thread Greg Felix
This patch adds functionality to check the PCI sub-class code of an AHCI capable device before disabling AHCI. It fixes a bug where an ICH7 sata controller is being setup by the BIOS as sub-class 1 (ide) and the AHCI control registers weren't being initialized, thus causing an IO error in

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-04 Thread Pavel Machek
On So 05-03-05 10:03:37, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 23:57 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: What prevents driver from being run on another CPU, maybe just doing mdelay() between hardware accesses? Almost all drivers that I know have some sort of locking. Nothing nasty

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 00:18 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: On So 05-03-05 10:03:37, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 23:57 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: What prevents driver from being run on another CPU, maybe just doing mdelay() between hardware accesses? Almost all

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 ext3 writepages support for writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 15:43, Andrew Morton wrote: Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, Here is the 2.6.11-mm1 patch for adding writepages support for ext3 writeback mode. Could you include it in -mm tree ? spose so. Does it work? Do you have any benchmarking

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 07/08] ide: reimplement ide_cmd_ioctl() using taskfile

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
07_ide_taskfile_cmd_ioctl.patch Reimplement ide_cmd_ioctl() using taskfile. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c | 105 + include/linux/ide.h|8 --- 2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 53

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 06/08] ide: convert set_xfer_rate() to use taskfile ioctl

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
06_ide_taskfile_set_xfer_rate.patch Convert set_xfer_rate() to use taskfile ioctl. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ide.c | 15 --- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-taskfile-ng/drivers/ide/ide.c

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:48:08PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:22:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: That's now eight architectures I'll compile-test mm kernels on. Cool, but please check whether this produces an error:

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:22:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: That's now eight architectures I'll compile-test mm kernels on. Cool, but please check whether this produces an error: echo mov r0, #foo | arm-linux-as -o /dev/null - you should get:

Re: [SATA] libata-dev queue updated

2005-03-04 Thread Joerg Sommrey
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:06:23PM +0100, Joerg Sommrey wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:43:38PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Joerg Sommrey wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:07:16PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Joerg Sommrey wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:10:14AM -0500, Jeff Garzik

Re: slab corruption in skb allocs

2005-03-04 Thread Richard Fuchs
Matt Mackall wrote: Which card/driver is this? Is this the same card that's showing ssh troubles? My theory about your ssh trouble only applies to cards with checksum offload. i got the same on all three machines i was testing with, with both the e100 and the eepro100 driver. one of those three

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:36:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: But we end up with a cset in the permanent kernel history which simply should not have been there. Is this really a big deal? If you are pushing linux-release to Linus/Andrew rapidly, quick fixes will land in linux-2.6

Re: Something is broken with SATA RAID ?

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
J.A. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One piece at last... I have tried - 2.6.11 - 2.6.11 + libata-dev1 + netdev1 + shrinkers-at-tail + 1Gb-lowmem Bot work fine and survived several gigas dumped both through smb and afp. Happy man ;). If there was something strange, it must be

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 nobh support for ext3 writeback mode

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: page reclaim can come in, grab the page lock and whip the page off the mapping. No it can't - we hold an additional ref on the page, so reclaim will back off. Still, it feels a bit flakey. And we're not supposed to take lock_page() inside journal_start,

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 03/08] ide: remove flagged_taskfile() and unify taskfile paths

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
03_ide_remove_flagged_taskfile.patch This patch removes flagged_taskfile(). All taskfile command issuing goes through do_rw_taskfile(). do_rw_taskfile() doesn't modify mangle with load flags anymore. It's now caller's responsibility to set appropriate flags.

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 01/08] ide: add individual ATA_TFLAG_{OUT|IN}_* flags

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
01_ide_TFLAG_OUT_IN.patch This patch replaces ide_task_t-tf_{out|in}_flags handling with newly defined individual ATA_TFLAG_{OUT|IN}_* flags and helper functions ide_{load|read}_taskfile(). To ease transition of the IDE code, temporary flags

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 00/08] ide: taskfile cleanup

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
Oh, all the patches are against ide-dev-t + 9 recent patches + ide_dma_intr fix. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 04/08] ide: remove unused fields ide_drive_t-rq and ide_task_t-special

2005-03-04 Thread Tejun Heo
04_ide_remove_unused_fields.patch Remove unused fields ide_drive_t-rq and ide_task_t-special Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] drivers/ide/ide-tape.c |1 - include/linux/ide.h|2 -- 2 files changed, 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-taskfile-ng/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c

Re: [PATCH/RFC] I/O-check interface for driver's error handling

2005-03-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 14:54 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! If there's no -error method, at leat call -remove so one device only takes itself down. Does this make sense? This was my thought too last time we had this discussion. A completely asynchronous call is probably

Re: 2.6.11-mm1

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Alexander Nyberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fre 2005-03-04 klockan 03:32 -0800 skrev Andrew Morton: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm1/ - Added the new bk-audit tree. Contains updates to the kernel's audit feature. Maintained by David

[RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree

2005-03-04 Thread Greg KH
Anything else anyone can think of? Any objections to any of these? I based them off of Linus's original list. thanks, greg k-h -- Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and what ones are not, into the linux-release tree. - It can not bigger than 100 lines, with context. - It must

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Richard Purdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an experiment I ran bitbake meta-sdk on my copy of openemedded. A while later I have these in the deploy directory amongst other things. http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/arm-cross/binutils-cross-sdk-2.15.91.0.2-r5.tar.gz (3.8MB)

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: wrt the nfsd patches, Neil said: The problem they fix is that currently: Client A holds a lock Client B tries to get the lock and blocks Client A drops the lock **Client B doesn't get the lock immediately,

Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

2005-03-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Ok, care to forward them on? Sure. How do they get to Linus? I'll just pull from the sucker-tree. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

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