INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

2005-03-24 Thread Bernhard Schauer
Hi all! Kernel 2.6.11.5 issue: Passing .cpio.gz image with loadlin and initrd= kernel parameter. While booting, the checking if image is initramfs... it isn't (junk in compressed archive) message is shown. To create the cpio.gz file I issued find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 ../initram.gz.

Re: USB problems 2.6.10

2005-03-24 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 08:00:46AM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote: Please keep me CCd. I have a system that I just updated to 2.6 and USB fails to work after some time (~6-8 hours) giving me the irq 11:nobody cared message. This system is a supermicro p3tdde (via chipset) I have ACPI and

[PATCH] usbnet.c, buf.overrun crash-bugfix, Kernel 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-24 Thread Jakemuksen spammiosote
Atleast versions 2.6.5 - 2.6.12-rc1 crash if an USB device using usbnet sends oversized packet. Such packets occur most likely with broken device. Here's a patch that throws away such packet, to keep the machine from crashing. Hopefully this doesn't leave memory unreleased. If it does, it's

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-mm2] update VR41xx RTC support

2005-03-24 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
This patch updates NEC VR4100 series RTC support. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urN -X dontdiff rc1-mm2-orig/arch/mips/vr41xx/common/Makefile rc1-mm2/arch/mips/vr41xx/common/Makefile --- rc1-mm2-orig/arch/mips/vr41xx/common/Makefile Fri Mar 25 00:42:00 2005

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 04:30:32AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Well, let's cut through the B.S. ;-) * Even when the SATA core is updated to support NCQ, nForce will not support it under Linux. No hardware info. Hmm, either that or someone will figure it out anyhow, like they did with

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:00:46AM +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Previews/nvnforce4/3.html You're right there - some semi-hardware support combined with drivers apparently result in lower CPU usage that software firewalls. Apparently. Actually,

Re: sched.c function

2005-03-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 13:06 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: i want to distinguish between thread and process and after distinguishing between user thread and kernel thread I think there are only kernel threads. Um... what? I don't know about you but I run lots of multithreaded user space

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Raphael Jacquot
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Until the OS loads network drivers AND configures IP support AND starts accepting packets in, there is nothing for the firewall to do. Certainly on Linux I can make sure iptables is populated (or least has a sane policy set) before I bring up networking. In other words:

fork()

2005-03-24 Thread redoubtable
Hey, I read a document on securityfocus about fork bombinb a linux system. Although they didn't speak about the effectiveness of resource limits I guess that should be discussed because it's possible to make a linux machine extremely slow (compared to FreeBSD for instance) even with well

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2

2005-03-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 04:41 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: -mm kernels now aggregate Linus's tree and 34 subsystem trees. Usually they are pulled 3-4 hours before the release of the -mm kernel. Andrew, Do you notify the subsystem maintainers ahead of time so that critical fixes can be

Re: [PATCH] ppc32/64: Map prefetchable PCI without guarded bit

2005-03-24 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:24 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: While experimenting with framebuffer access performances, we noticed a very significant improvement in write access to it when not setting the guarded bit on the MMU mappings. This bit basically says that reads and writes

Re: [PATCH] ppc32/64: Map prefetchable PCI without guarded bit

2005-03-24 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:54 am, Jesse Barnes wrote: On Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:24 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: While experimenting with framebuffer access performances, we noticed a very significant improvement in write access to it when not setting the guarded bit on the MMU

Re: [PATCH] usbnet.c, buf.overrun crash-bugfix, Kernel 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-24 Thread David Brownell
On Thursday 24 March 2005 8:05 am, Jakemuksen spammiosote wrote: Atleast versions 2.6.5 - 2.6.12-rc1 crash if an USB device using usbnet sends oversized packet. Such packets occur most likely with broken device. Care to mention what device(s) you saw this with? And what HCD? -

Re: swsusp 'disk' fails in bk-current - intel_agp at fault?

2005-03-24 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Andy Isaacson wrote: Dmesg is attached; hardware is a Vaio r505te. Unfortunately, the deadlock (?) is nondeterministic; it *sometimes* suspends successfully, maybe one time out of 10. And thinking back, I *sometimes* saw failures to suspend with 2.6.11-rc3, maybe one failure out of 20

Re: [BUG] Lockup using ALi SATA controller (sata_uli)

2005-03-24 Thread Markus Dahms
Hello Andrew Morton, I have a reproducable lockup of my system using an ALi SATA controller and writing some 100 MB to the attached disk. ... Do you have some hints? As a test you might like to try an uniprocessor kernel - we do have a deadlock on the sata error recovery paths at

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [5/12]: don't try to free null bufpool

2005-03-24 Thread ecashin
Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 07:17 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't try to free null bufpool in linux there is a rule that all memory free routines are supposed to also accept NULL as argument, so I think this patch is not needed (and even wrong)

Re: Latency tests with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 17:12 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: Now the longest latency I see with dbench 16 and PREEMPT_DESKTOP is 591us in the ext3 reservation code. Trace is attached (compressed) in case anyone is interested. But I do not consider anything under a millisecond to be a problem with

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11] aoe [5/12]: don't try to free null bufpool

2005-03-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 09:04 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 07:17 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't try to free null bufpool in linux there is a rule that all memory free routines are supposed to also accept NULL as

Re: vfat broken in 2.6.10?

2005-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:20, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: John Richard Moser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears dosfsck may not be working quite right. I've taken this into account, hence the second pass after each fsck. This is either a dosfsck issue, a usb-storage issue for the PNY compact

Re: drm bugs hopefully fixed but there might still be one..

2005-03-24 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:33 am, Dave Airlie wrote: Hi Andrew, Dave, I've put a couple of patches into my drm-2.6 tree that hopefully fix up the multi-bridge on i915 and the XFree86 4.3 issue.. Andrew can you drop the two patches in your tree.. the one from Brice and the one I attached

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

2005-03-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but i think i like the 'partial owner' (or rather 'owner pending') technique a bit better, because it controls concurrency explicitly, and it would thus e.g. allow another trick: when a new owner 'steals' a lock from another in-flight task, then

Re: Squashfs without ./..

2005-03-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Tom Vier wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:31:24PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Which scripts use that? As stated, these two directory entries exist when you stat() them, they just do not show up in readdir(), and I bet few programs care for . and .. when doing

Re: [OT] Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Asfand Yar Qazi
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:33:03AM +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: No, but I do need NCQ Perhaps a stupid question... but: Why do you _need_ NCQ? If you need it that badly (not sure why anyone would), you could always get SCSI or a 3ware controller. For the novelty value.

Re: PCI interrupt problem: e1000 Super-Micro X6DVA motherboard

2005-03-24 Thread Ben Greear
Daniel Egger wrote: The card is still in the system and running, so if someone wants me to run to more tests or diagnostic, please be my guest. What does: ethtool -t eth0 show? Ben -- Ben Greear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com - To unsubscribe from this

Re: swsusp 'disk' fails in bk-current - intel_agp at fault?

2005-03-24 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:27:15PM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: Andy Isaacson wrote: Dmesg is attached; hardware is a Vaio r505te. Unfortunately, the deadlock (?) is nondeterministic; it *sometimes* suspends successfully, maybe one time out of 10. And thinking back, I *sometimes* saw

[PATCH] FUSE: trivial cleanups

2005-03-24 Thread Miklos Szeredi
This removes check for non-null inode before calling iput(), and uses iov_length() to calculate number of bytes in iovec. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev.c | 30 +- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff -ru

Re: [PATCH] usbnet.c, buf.overrun crash-bugfix, Kernel 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-24 Thread Jakemuksen spammiosote
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, David Brownell wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 8:05 am, Jakemuksen spammiosote wrote: Atleast versions 2.6.5 - 2.6.12-rc1 crash if an USB device using usbnet sends oversized packet. Such packets occur most likely with broken Care to mention what device(s) you saw this with?

Re: fork()

2005-03-24 Thread Triffid Hunter
you can limit the max number of processes by putting the following into /etc/security/limits.conf (on my distro, and quite a number of others according to google too) * hardnproc max # processes you can also limit quite a number of other things in this file, and other files in that

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-07

2005-03-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On an SMP machine, there may even be a chance of a lower priority process that gets it. That would be possible if the low priority process on the other CPU tries to grab the lock just after it was released but before the just woken up high priorty

Re: [PATCH] usbnet.c, buf.overrun crash-bugfix, Kernel 2.6.12-rc1

2005-03-24 Thread David Brownell
On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:13 am, Jakemuksen spammiosote wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, David Brownell wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2005 8:05 am, Jakemuksen spammiosote wrote: + if (unlikely((skb-tail + urb-actual_length) skb-end)) { This logic looks wrong. If that ever happens,

Re: [PATCH] ppc32/64: Map prefetchable PCI without guarded bit

2005-03-24 Thread Segher Boessenkool
While experimenting with framebuffer access performances, we noticed a very significant improvement in write access to it when not setting the guarded bit on the MMU mappings. This bit basically says that reads and writes won't have side effects (it allows speculation). Unless the data is already

Re: [ACPI] Re: Fw: Anybody? 2.6.11 (stable and -rc) ACPI breaks USB

2005-03-24 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 13:40 -0500, Len Brown wrote: But checking skip_ioapic_setup in the non-ACPI case isn't quite right. This is set for noapic. But it is not set in the PIC-mode case where the kernel supports IOAPIC but the hardware does not -- in that case the quirk would erroneously

[PATCH] FUSE: comments for dev.c

2005-03-24 Thread Miklos Szeredi
This adds lots of documentation to dev.c. This file is raised from least documented to most documented status. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev.c | 246 ++ 1 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Re: drm bugs hopefully fixed but there might still be one..

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:02:03AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: On Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:33 am, Dave Airlie wrote: Hi Andrew, Dave, I've put a couple of patches into my drm-2.6 tree that hopefully fix up the multi-bridge on i915 and the XFree86 4.3 issue.. Andrew can you drop

Re: PCI interrupt problem: e1000 Super-Micro X6DVA motherboard

2005-03-24 Thread Francois Romieu
Daniel Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [...] NFS machines on the Gbit network will resume operation) I popped in the chp RealTek card (which caused some slight problems like permanent hangs and bad performance before) and everything works like a charm. Of course, after throwing in some extra

Re: drm bugs hopefully fixed but there might still be one..

2005-03-24 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:18 am, Dave Jones wrote: I'm trying to get ahold of one--so hopefully I'll be able to test and fix this stuff up when I do. Aparently backing out the changes to via's tlb_flush routine fixed it for one VIA user. I've not had a chance to look into it just

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-mm2] x86_64: fix vsyscall.c syntax error

2005-03-24 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Compiling 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 on x86_64 with gcc-4.0 fails with: arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c:193: error: syntax error before 'vsyscall_sysctl_change' Fix: repair the syntax error Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm2/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c.~1~

Re: [PATCH] FUSE: comments for dev.c

2005-03-24 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Miklos Szeredi schrieb: This adds lots of documentation to dev.c. This file is raised from least documented to most documented status. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ . . . ] Put such a big dicumentation to the documentation folder not in the code. Matthias-Christian Ott - To

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Andi Kleen
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David McCullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); It neither applies correctly nor compiles in current kernels. 2.6.11 is very old in kernel time.

Re: vfat broken in 2.6.10?

2005-03-24 Thread John Richard Moser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: John Richard Moser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears dosfsck may not be working quite right. I've taken this into account, hence the second pass after each fsck. This is either a dosfsck issue, a usb-storage issue for

Interesting tidbit: NetMos 9835 card, IRQ, and ACPI

2005-03-24 Thread Michael Tokarev
Found an interesting issue here. HP ProLiant ML150 box (dual xeon 2.4GHz) with intel chipset (lspci output below) and NetMos PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller. Boot with no fancy options on kernel command line. # cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/:01:00.0/irq 11 # modprobe 8250 # setserial /dev/ttyS2

2.6.12-rc1-mm2 - ppc32 build fails.

2005-03-24 Thread cliff white
Error message: CC arch/ppc/kernel/setup.o In file included from arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c:43: include/asm/ppc_sys.h:29:2: #error need definition of ppc_sys_devices In file included from arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c:43: include/asm/ppc_sys.h:61: warning: parameter has incomplete type

Re: ext3 journalling BUG on full filesystem

2005-03-24 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:39, Jan Kara wrote: Actually the patch you atached showed in the end as not covering all the cases and so Stephen agreed to stay with the first try (attached) which should cover all known cases (although it's not so nice). Right. The later patch is getting

Re: read() on relayfs channel returns premature 0

2005-03-24 Thread Tom Zanussi
Kingsley Cheung writes: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:29:12AM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I understand that this is not the latest release of relayfs (there are the redux patches, which I have yet to try). Nonetheless I'd like [...] I've tested

Re: vfat broken in 2.6.10?

2005-03-24 Thread Bodo Eggert
John Richard Moser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would really, but I haven't mastered creating debian packages yet; on Gentoo I just wrote ebuilds whenever I wanted to test something, then uninstalled it if it broke. Maybe someone else can do it. . . .

Re: Interesting tidbit: NetMos 9835 card, IRQ, and ACPI

2005-03-24 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:02:05PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: Found an interesting issue here. HP ProLiant ML150 box (dual xeon 2.4GHz) with intel chipset (lspci output below) and NetMos PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller. Boot with no fancy options on kernel command line. # cat

Re: swsusp 'disk' fails in bk-current - intel_agp at fault?

2005-03-24 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:10:59 -0800, Andy Isaacson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I added i8042.noaux to my kernel command line, rebooted, insmodded intel_agp, started X, and verified no touchpad action. Then I suspended, and it worked fine. After restart, I suspended again - also fine. So

Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order

2005-03-24 Thread David Mosberger
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:28:08 +0100, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: stores in general for clearing pages? I checked and Itanium has always used non-temporal stores. So there will be no benefit for us from this Andi That is weird. I would actually try to switch to temporal Andi

Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order

2005-03-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, David Mosberger wrote: That's definitely the case. See my earlier post on this topic: http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/linux-ia64/0409/11012.html Unfortunately, nobody reported any results for larger machines and/or more interesting workloads, so the patch is in limbo

Re: [PATCH] add a clear_pages function to clear pages of higher order

2005-03-24 Thread David S. Miller
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:41:06 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it would be useful to have clear_page- Temporal. Only zaps one page and clear_pages - Zaps arbitrary order of page non-temporal Rework the clear_pages patch to do just that? Maybe

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Re: Squashfs without ./..

2005-03-24 Thread Tommy Reynolds
Uttered Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED], spake thus: There's probably a number of apps that skip the first two dirents, instead of checking for the dot dirs. Yep, check `-noleaf' in find(1) Then it is broken in several ways. First, file systems are not required to implement ..

Re: PCI interrupt problem: e1000 Super-Micro X6DVA motherboard

2005-03-24 Thread Ben Greear
Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:03:30PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: I have two 4-port e1000 NICs in the system, on a riser card. How is the riser card wired? F.e. does it have a single edge connector, and provides two PCI slots, or does it have a tiny additional edge connector

Re: vfat broken in 2.6.10?

2005-03-24 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
John Richard Moser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would really, but I haven't mastered creating debian packages yet; on Gentoo I just wrote ebuilds whenever I wanted to test something, then uninstalled it if it broke. Maybe someone else can do it. . . . dosfstools is simple, so you don't need

Re: ext3 journalling BUG on full filesystem

2005-03-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Stephen C. Tweedie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:39, Jan Kara wrote: Actually the patch you atached showed in the end as not covering all the cases and so Stephen agreed to stay with the first try (attached) which should cover all known cases (although

Re: read() on relayfs channel returns premature 0

2005-03-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
BTW, I just want to point out that there aren't any problems with read() in the version of relayfs included in the -mm tree (i.e. the 'redux' version), since of course it doesn't support read(). Hm? Relayfs does not support a `cat /dev/relay/AChannelName` anymore? I'll continue maintaining the

Re: Squashfs without ./..

2005-03-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
There's probably a number of apps that skip the first two dirents, instead of checking for the dot dirs. Yep, check `-noleaf' in find(1) Then it is broken in several ways. First, file systems are not required to implement .. (only . is magical, .. is a courtesy). Heh, what would happen

Re: Interesting tidbit: NetMos 9835 card, IRQ, and ACPI

2005-03-24 Thread Michael Tokarev
Russell King wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:02:05PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] # cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/:01:00.0/irq 11 # modprobe 8250 # setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 11 port 0xa400 autoconfig the serial port does not work: close'int the file after writing something stalls for a

Re: Squashfs without ./..

2005-03-24 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Tommy Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel Then it is broken in several ways. First, file systems are not required to implement .. (only . is magical, .. is a courtesy). Sez who? Realistically, most programs that

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2

2005-03-24 Thread Andrew Morton
Stefano Rivoir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 16:18, giovedì 24 marzo 2005, Brice Goglin ha scritto: Stefano Rivoir a écrit : Alle 13:41, giovedì 24 marzo 2005, Andrew Morton ha scritto: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc1/ 2. 6.12-rc1-mm2/ -

Re: drm bugs hopefully fixed but there might still be one..

2005-03-24 Thread Jean Delvare
Ho all, Aparently backing out the changes to via's tlb_flush routine fixed it for one VIA user. I've not had a chance to look into it just yet. Worse case we can just drop those changes for 2.6.12 I am that one. You mean these changes? --- a/drivers/char/agp/via-agp.c

Re: Squashfs without ./..

2005-03-24 Thread Kyle Moffett
Tommy Reynolds wrote: Then it is broken in several ways. First, file systems are not required to implement .. (only . is magical, .. is a courtesy). On Mar 24, 2005, at 14:59, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Doesn't have anything to do with sorting order or US-ASCII, it has to do with readdir order. If

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2

2005-03-24 Thread Andrew Morton
Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 04:41 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: -mm kernels now aggregate Linus's tree and 34 subsystem trees. Usually they are pulled 3-4 hours before the release of the -mm kernel. Andrew, Do you notify the subsystem maintainers

scsi device discovery/assignment

2005-03-24 Thread Ying Li
Hi, I was wondering if there is a dynamic way to discover/identify the set of, let say scsi hard drives in a Storage Device that uses FC, attached to a specific HBA card. Like know which dev in /dev is connected through the HBA. Thanks -Ying

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2

2005-03-24 Thread Brice Goglin
Andrew Morton a écrit : Stefano Rivoir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- linux-mm/include/linux/agp_backend.h.old2005-03-24 16:17:25.0 +0100 +++ linux-mm/include/linux/agp_backend.h2005-03-24 16:10:25.0 +0100 @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ extern int agp_bind_memory(struct agp_memory

Re: swsusp 'disk' fails in bk-current - intel_agp at fault?

2005-03-24 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:18:40PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:10:59 -0800, Andy Isaacson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I added i8042.noaux to my kernel command line, rebooted, insmodded intel_agp, started X, and verified no touchpad action. Then I suspended, and it

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 - ppc32 build fails.

2005-03-24 Thread Andrew Morton
cliff white [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error message: CC arch/ppc/kernel/setup.o In file included from arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c:43: include/asm/ppc_sys.h:29:2: #error need definition of ppc_sys_devices In file included from arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c:43: include/asm/ppc_sys.h:61:

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andi Kleen wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David McCullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); It neither applies correctly nor compiles in current kernels. 2.6.11 is very old in kernel time.

Re: Squashfs without ./..

2005-03-24 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Kyle Moffett wrote: IMHO, this is one of those cases where Be liberal in what you accept and strict in what you emit applies strongly. New filesystems should probably always emit . and .. in that order with sane behavior, and new programs should probably be able to handle it if they don't. I

Re: swsusp 'disk' fails in bk-current - intel_agp at fault?

2005-03-24 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Andy Isaacson wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:27:15PM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: Sysrq still prints stuff, so IRQs aren't locked. But most of the sysrq commands don't work... S and U don't seem to do anything (not too suprising I suppose) but B does reboot. sysrq-t will probably show a

drivers/acpi/video.c: null pointer dereference

2005-03-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
The Coverity checker found the following null pointer dereference in drivers/acpi/video.c: -- snip -- ... static int acpi_video_switch_output( ... { ... struct acpi_video_device *dev=NULL; ... list_for_each_safe(node, next, video-video_device_list) { struct

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: However, this doesn't answer my original question (which I suppose I should have made clearer): can I get SATA II NCQ support in Linux with an nForce 4 chipset? I answered this question already. The answer is no. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] Netmos parallel/serial/combo support

2005-03-24 Thread Michael Tokarev
[Hmm... Too large Cc list. Dunno which addresses should be keept...] Bjorn Helgaas wrote: Here's another iteration of my patch for better Netmos support. This is against 2.6.12-rc1-mm1. Kerry and Darac have sucessfully tested a similar patch with 9835 cards. I think we're ready for wider

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: hw_random.c already does it using userspace daemons, which is bad idea for very fast HW - like VIA xstore/xcrypt instructions. This is incorrect, because it implies that a user would want to use the 'xstore' feature at full speed -- which would dominate the CPU,

drivers/acpi/scan.c: inconsequent NULL handling

2005-03-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
The Coverity checker found the following: -- snip -- static int acpi_bus_match ( struct acpi_device *device, struct acpi_driver *driver) { if (driver driver-ops.match) return driver-ops.match(device, driver); return

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
David McCullough wrote: Jivin Jeff Garzik lays it down ... David McCullough wrote: Jivin Jeff Garzik lays it down ... On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:27:08PM +1000, David McCullough wrote: Hi all, Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: hw_random can not and will not support HIFN, freescale, ixp and great majority of the existing and future HW crypto devices. I mean that userspace daemon(or any other one) which want to contribute entropy should use crypto framwork to obtain all it's data, but not

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 23:23 +1000, David McCullough wrote: Jivin Jeff Garzik lays it down ... Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:27 +1000, David McCullough wrote: Hi all, Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
David McCullough wrote: Jivin Jeff Garzik lays it down ... Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:27 +1000, David McCullough wrote: Hi all, Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); so that true random number generator

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:48:18AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: If you want to add entropy to the kernel entropy pool from hardware RNG, you should use the userland daemon, which detects non-random (broken) hardware and provides throttling, so that RNG data collection does not

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Lennart Sorensen wrote: I think the r8139 has ruined realtek for me forever. I like the Marvell Yukon chip Asus includes on many boards (although some people have reported problems with some Asus boards using them with Linux). I won't disagree with your experiences. For me, outside of one brief

Re: [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver

2005-03-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:02:24PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Kylene Hall wrote: what is the purpose of this pci_dev_get/put? attempting to prevent hotplug or something? Seems that since there is a refernce to the device in the chip structure and I am making the file private data

Re: Fw: Re: drm bugs hopefully fixed but there might still be one..

2005-03-24 Thread Andrew Clayton
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 12:32 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ? Begin forwarded message: [snip] You mean these changes? --- a/drivers/char/agp/via-agp.c2005-03-24 10:33:45 -08:00 +++ b/drivers/char/agp/via-agp.c2005-03-24 10:33:45 -08:00 @@ -83,8 +83,10 @@

Re: swsusp 'disk' fails in bk-current - intel_agp at fault?

2005-03-24 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:20:40 -0800, Andy Isaacson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:18:40PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:10:59 -0800, Andy Isaacson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I added i8042.noaux to my kernel command line, rebooted, insmodded

Re: swsusp 'disk' fails in bk-current - intel_agp at fault?

2005-03-24 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:20:40 -0800, Andy Isaacson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:18:40PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:10:59 -0800, Andy Isaacson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I added i8042.noaux to my kernel command line, rebooted, insmodded

RE: re-inline sched functions

2005-03-24 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Ingo Molnar wrote on Friday, March 11, 2005 1:32 AM -static unsigned int task_timeslice(task_t *p) +static inline unsigned int task_timeslice(task_t *p) the patch looks good except this one - could you try to undo it and re-measure? task_timeslice() is not used in any true fastpath, if it

Re: Fw: Re: drm bugs hopefully fixed but there might still be one..

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:09:47PM +, Andrew Clayton wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 12:32 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ? Begin forwarded message: [snip] You mean these changes? --- a/drivers/char/agp/via-agp.c2005-03-24 10:33:45 -08:00 +++

Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11)

2005-03-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:25:40AM -0500, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: If your RNG were properly written, it shouldn't matter if the data you're pumping into /dev/random passed muster or not. If you're tracking entropy count, then that's a different story of course. We're talking about hardware

Re: ext3 journalling BUG on full filesystem

2005-03-24 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:38, Chris Wright wrote: OK, good to know. When I last checked you were working on a higher risk yet more complete fix, and I thought we'd wait for that one to stabilize. Looks like the one Jan attached is the better -stable candidate? Definitely; it's the one I

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/input/serio/libps2.c: ps2_command: add a missing check

2005-03-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:13:16AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 22:14, Adrian Bunk wrote: The Coverity checker noted that while all other uses of param in ps2_command() were guarded by a NULL check, this one wasn't. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Add TPM hardware enablement driver

2005-03-24 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 04:04:25PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:02:24PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Kylene Hall wrote: what is the purpose of this pci_dev_get/put? attempting to prevent hotplug or something? Seems that since there is a refernce

Re: ext3 journalling BUG on full filesystem

2005-03-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Stephen C. Tweedie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:38, Chris Wright wrote: OK, good to know. When I last checked you were working on a higher risk yet more complete fix, and I thought we'd wait for that one to stabilize. Looks like the one Jan attached is the better

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/input/serio/libps2.c: ps2_command: add a missing check

2005-03-24 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:26:02 +0100, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:13:16AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 22:14, Adrian Bunk wrote: The Coverity checker noted that while all other uses of param in ps2_command() were guarded by a

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 - ppc32 build fails.

2005-03-24 Thread cliff white
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:28:08 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cliff white [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error message: CC arch/ppc/kernel/setup.o In file included from arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c:43: include/asm/ppc_sys.h:29:2: #error need definition of ppc_sys_devices

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 (patch to fix build error In function `zft_init')

2005-03-24 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 08:55:13AM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: Steven Cole wrote: I'm getting the following build error with 2.6.12-rc1-mm2: CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x4323): In function `zft_init': : undefined

Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm2 (patch to fix build error In function `zft_init')

2005-03-24 Thread Andrew Morton
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I glanced at the code, and this little patch fixes the problem: Ick, sorry, that was my fault. I've applied this patch to my trees, thanks. Hm, I wonder how I missed this, I did do a 'make allmodconfig' build to try to catch this kind of stuff...

RE: [PATCH 0/5] timers: description

2005-03-24 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Oleg Nesterov wrote on Monday, March 21, 2005 6:19 AM These patches are updated version of 'del_timer_sync: proof of concept' 2 patches. Looks good performance wise. Took a quick micro benchmark measurement on a 16-node numa box (32-way). Results are pretty nice (to the expectation). Time to

Re: drm bugs hopefully fixed but there might still be one..

2005-03-24 Thread cliff white
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:33:02 + (GMT) Dave Airlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andrew, Dave, I've put a couple of patches into my drm-2.6 tree that hopefully fix up the multi-bridge on i915 and the XFree86 4.3 issue.. Andrew can you drop the two patches in your tree.. the one from Brice

[PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-mm2] relayfs: properly handle oversized events

2005-03-24 Thread Tom Zanussi
This patch fails writes larger than the sub-buffer size and prints a warning and stack trace when it happens. I chose this over BUG_ON() or silently failing since while it could probably be considered a bug for an application to let this happen, it's not fatal and the user would probably want to

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc1

2005-03-24 Thread Magnus Damm
Hello, On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:55:13 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here goes the first release candidate for v2.4.30. I'm a bit late, but here's a patch that fixes a module parameter description typo in eepro100. The problem was located in the 2.6 source and a fix should be

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