Re: [PATCH] Proper backlight selection for fbdev drivers

2006-12-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:59:01 + (GMT) James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this patch. This should fix any module/built-in dependencys. drivers/video/aty/atyfb_base.c: In function 'atyfb_blank': drivers/video/aty/atyfb_base.c:2817: warning: implicit declaration of function 'machine_is'

Re: BUG? atleast =2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-13 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 02:50 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:39:43 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: do you think it may be a bug in the kernel? the stuff with wine that gets thrown in the kernel messages? Let's just say the behavior has

Re: Support 2.4 modules features in 2.6

2006-12-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Really!! , Please let me know what is the procedure to build the modules after deleting kernel linux-2.6* you only need include/* for this in 2.6 you can't do this at all with 2.4 kernels, it needs the whole lot. (in both cases the code and headers are needed so that your module

Re: 2.6.18.4: flush_workqueue calls mutex_lock in interrupt environment

2006-12-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 08:25 +0100, xb wrote: Hi all, Running some IO stress tests on a 8*ways IA64 platform, we got: BUG: warning at kernel/mutex.c:132/__mutex_lock_common() message followed by: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00200200 oops

Re: [RFC 2.6.19 1/1] fbdev,mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver v2

2006-12-13 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
On 12/12/06, Jaya Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that PTEs set up by vmalloc are marked cacheable and via the above nopage end up as cacheable. I'm not doing DMA. So the accesses are through the cache so I don't think cache aliasing is an issue for this case. Please let me know if I

Re: [patch 03/13] io-accounting: write accounting

2006-12-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:45:50 -0800 Suleiman Souhlal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Accounting writes is fairly simple: whenever a process flips a page from clean to dirty, we accuse it of having caused a write to underlying

Re: [PATCH] Note subscribers only lists for input subsystem

2006-12-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:40:35PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On 12/12/06, Cal Peake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Dmitry in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/17/280, the input list is subscribers only. I'm assuming here that both are but a confirmation would be nice... :) From: Cal

[GIT PULL] hwmon updates for 2.6.20

2006-12-13 Thread Jean Delvare
Linus, Please pull the hwmon subsystem updates for Linux 2.6.20 from: git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6 hwmon-for-linus There are two new hardware monitoring drivers (for the Winbond W83793 and the Nat. Semi. PC87427), many improvements to the f71805f driver (including support for the

Fw: RFC [PATCH] 1/2 disable initramfs

2006-12-13 Thread Jean-Paul Saman
Al, Thank you for reviewing my other patch and telling me it was wrong. I am working for an embedded HW manufacturer doing linux kernel ports to their arm platforms. In an attempt to minimize the amount of code that needs to be loaded from flash in an embedded system I identified 60 Kbytes of

Re: [patch 03/13] io-accounting: write accounting

2006-12-13 Thread Suleiman Souhlal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Accounting writes is fairly simple: whenever a process flips a page from clean to dirty, we accuse it of having caused a write to underlying storage of PAGE_CACHE_SIZE bytes. On architectures where dirtying a page doesn't cause a

Re: Interphase Tachyon drivers missing.

2006-12-13 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to upgrade my kernel on a couple of boxes yesterday and noticed that the Interphase Tachyon chipset Fibre Channel driver was removed from the kernel. I think 2.6.1 was the last one it was still in. Was there a reason it was pulled? If not, do I have to

Re: [GIT PULL] i2c updates for 2.6.20

2006-12-13 Thread Jean Delvare
Linus, On 12/12/2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Jean Delvare wrote: Please pull the i2c subsystem updates for Linux 2.6.20 from branch i2c-for-linus of repository git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6 There are 3 new i2c bus drivers, one old broken bus driver

server don't accept ip-connections from linux

2006-12-13 Thread Dieter Ferdinand
hello, i have a big problem: some servers send a rst-packet or don't answer if i want to open a connection with them. this happens with the web-server with ip 15.200.6.123 and my smc- barricade router/printserver. if i make a connection from windows or linux with kernel 2.2, it works, with

Re: [RFC] HZ free ntp

2006-12-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* john stultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 15:33 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: i disagree with you and it's pretty low-impact anyway. There's still quite many HZ/tick assumptions all around the time code (NTP being one example),

Re: Possible memory leak in block/ll_rw_blk.c

2006-12-13 Thread Catalin Marinas
On 09/12/06, Catalin Marinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unreferenced object 0xdd9162b0 (size 64): [c018d46f] kmem_cache_alloc [c0170b2e] mempool_alloc_slab [c01709cb] mempool_alloc [c01b7baa] bio_alloc_bioset [c01b7d0e] bio_alloc [c01b83f8] bio_copy_user [c021a380] __blk_rq_map_user

Re: cfq performance gap

2006-12-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chen, Kenneth W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This rawio test plows through sequential I/O and modulo each small record over number of threads. So each thread appears to be non-contiguous within its own process context, overall request hitting the device are sequential. I

Re: [patch 03/13] io-accounting: write accounting

2006-12-13 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 00:59 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:45:50 -0800 Suleiman Souhlal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Accounting writes is fairly simple: whenever a process flips a page from clean to

Re: [patch 03/13] io-accounting: write accounting

2006-12-13 Thread Suleiman Souhlal
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:45:50 -0800 Suleiman Souhlal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Accounting writes is fairly simple: whenever a process flips a page from clean to dirty, we accuse it of having caused a write to

Re: server don't accept ip-connections from linux

2006-12-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: i check the packets with an analyser and make some test. if i disable ecn with echo 0x0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn it works, with ecn enabled, it don't work. this is a problem on the remote site (old firewall software), nothing we (linux kernel) can

Re: get device from file struct

2006-12-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
thanks for the reply, the block device can be determined with the major and minor numbers , what I would be more interested in is if one can get the net_device struct from the file struct Just how are you supposed to match files and network devices? -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this

Re: get device from file struct

2006-12-13 Thread Silviu Craciunas
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:59 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: thanks for the reply, the block device can be determined with the major and minor numbers , what I would be more interested in is if one can get the net_device struct from the file struct Just how are you supposed to match files and

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.19 0/6] proposal for dynamic configurable netconsole

2006-12-13 Thread Keiichi KII
Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:17:48PM +0900, Keiichi KII wrote: FYI, there's a robot named Dave Miller who will eventually notice your email and scold you for not cc:ing it to netdev, claiming that he doesn't read LKML. Thank you for your replies and reviews. When I

[PATCH 0/12] tty layer and misc struct pid conversions

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
The aim of this patch set is to start wrapping up the struct pid conversions. As such this patchset culminates with the removal of kill_pg, kill_pg_info, __kill_pg_info, do_each_task_pid, and while_each_task_pid. kill_proc, daemonize, and kernel_thread are still in my sights but there is still

Re: [patch 03/13] io-accounting: write accounting

2006-12-13 Thread Suleiman Souhlal
Suleiman Souhlal wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:45:50 -0800 Suleiman Souhlal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Accounting writes is fairly simple: whenever a process flips a page from clean to dirty, we accuse it

Re: get device from file struct

2006-12-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
thanks for the reply, the block device can be determined with the major and minor numbers , what I would be more interested in is if one can get the net_device struct from the file struct Just how are you supposed to match files and network devices? from the struct file you can get the

Re: BUG? atleast =2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-13 Thread Alan
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:50:01 -0500 Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:39:43 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: do you think it may be a bug in the kernel? the stuff with wine that gets thrown in the kernel messages? Let's just say

Re: SATA DMA problem (sata_uli)

2006-12-13 Thread Alan
I tracked it down to one of the drives being forced into PIO4 mode rather than UDMA mode; dmesg bits: ata4.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 586072368 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata4.00: ata4: dev 0 multi count 16 ata4.00: simplex DMA is claimed by other device, disabling DMA Your ULi controller

Re: [PATCH 000 of 14] knfsd: Assorted nfsd patches for 2.6.20 - prepare for IPv6 and more

2006-12-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday December 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NeilBrown wrote: Following are 14 patches for knfsd that are suitable for inclusion in 2.6.20. First 13 are from Chuck Lever and make preparations for IPv6 support (I think we've get them right this time). Last is from Peter

Re: Fw: RFC [PATCH] 1/2 disable initramfs

2006-12-13 Thread Al Boldi
Jean-Paul Saman wrote: Al, Thank you for reviewing my other patch and telling me it was wrong. I am working for an embedded HW manufacturer doing linux kernel ports to their arm platforms. In an attempt to minimize the amount of code that needs to be loaded from flash in an embedded system I

[PATCH 2/12] tty: Clarify disassociate_ctty

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
The code to look at tty_old_pgrp and send SIGHUP and SIGCONT when it is present only executes when disassociate_ctty is called from do_exit. Make this clear by adding an explict on_exit check, and explicitly setting tty_old_pgrp to 0. In addition fix the locking by reading tty_old_pgrp under the

[PATCH 7/12] pid: Use struct pid for talking about process groups in exit.c

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Modify has_stopped_jobs and will_become_orphan_pgrp to use struct pid based process groups.This reduces the number of hash tables looks ups and paves the way for multiple pid spaces. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/exit.c | 42

[PATCH 12/12] pid: Remove the now unused kill_pg kill_pg_info and __kill_pg_info

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Now that I have changed all of the in-tree users remove the old version of these functions. This should make it clear to any out of tree users that they should be using kill_pgrp kill_pgrp_info or __kill_pgrp_info instead. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCH 5/12] signal: Rewrite kill_something_info so it uses newer helpers.

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
The goal is to remove users of the old signal helper functions so they can be removed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/signal.c | 12 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index

[PATCH 6/12] pid: Make session_of_pgrp use struct pid instead of pid_t.

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
To properly implement a pid namespace I need to deal exclusively in terms of struct pid, because pid_t values become ambiguous. To this end session_of_pgrp is transformed to take and return a struct pid pointer. To avoid the need to worry about reference counting I now require my caller to hold

[PATCH 9/12] tty: Update the tty layer to work with struct pid.

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Of kernel subsystems that work with pids the tty layer is probably the largest consumer. But it has the nice virtue that the assiation with a session only lasts until the session leader exits. Which means that no reference counting is required. So using struct pid winds up being a simple

[PATCH 1/12] tty: Make __proc_set_tty static.

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Currently all users of __proc_set_tty are in tty_io.c so make the function static. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/char/tty_io.c |3 ++- include/linux/tty.h |1 - 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c

[PATCH 4/12] signal: Use kill_pgrp not kill_pg in the sunos compatibility code.

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
I am slowly moving to a model where all process killing is struct pid based instead of pid_t based. The sunos compatibility code is one of the last users of the old pid_t based kill_pg in the kernel. By being complete I allow for the future removal of kill_pg from the kernel, which will ensure

[PATCH 8/12] pid: Replace is_orphaned_pgrp with is_current_pgrp_orphaned

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Every call to is_orphaned_pgrp passed in process_group(current) which is racy with respect to another thread changing our process group. It didn't bite us because we were dealing with integers and the worse we would get would be a stale answer. In switching the checks to use struct pid to be a

[PATCH 3/12] tty: Fix the locking for signal-session in disassociate_ctty

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
commit 24ec839c431eb79bb8f6abc00c4e1eb3b8c4d517 while fixing the locking for signal-tty got the locking wrong for signal-session. This places our accesses of signal-session back under the tasklist_lock where they belong. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCH 10/12] pid: Replace do/while_each_task_pid with do/while_each_pid_task

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
There isn't any real advantage to this change except that it allows the old functions to be removed. Which is easier on maintenance and puts the code in a more uniform style. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/ioprio.c | 18 --

[PATCH 11/12] pid: Remove now unused do_each_task_pid and while_each_task_pid

2006-12-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Now that I have changed all of the users remove the old version of these functions. This should be a clear hint to any out of tree users that they should use do_each_pid_task and while_each_pid_task for new code. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/pid.h | 14

PROBLEM: PHY probe not working properly for ibm_emac (PPC4xx)

2006-12-13 Thread Hynek Petrak
[1.] One line summary of the problem: PHY probe not working properly for ibm_emac (PPC4xx) [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I have a system with AMCC PowerPC 405EP and PHY Intel LXT971A. Linux 2.6.18.3 is not able to detect the PHY ID correctly. The PHY ID detected is 0, but

Re: [PATCH] ata_piix: use piix_host_stop() in ich_pata_ops

2006-12-13 Thread Catalin Marinas
Tejun, On 11/12/06, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: piix_init_one() allocates host private data which should be freed by piix_host_stop(). ich_pata_ops wasn't converted to piix_host_stop() while merging, leaking 4 bytes on driver detach. Fix it. I tried your patch last night but the leak

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [linux-usb-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/2] x86_64 Early usb debug port support.

2006-12-13 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 12/12/06, Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/head.S b/arch/x86_64/kernel/head.S index 1e6f808..2f65469 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/head.S +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/head.S @@ -328,9 +328,9 @@ ENTRY(wakeup_level4_pgt) .align PAGE_SIZE

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [linux-usb-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/2] x86_64 Early usb debug port support.

2006-12-13 Thread Yinghai Lu
wakeup_level4_pgt need to be updated in addtion to boot_level4_pgt? also comment could be updated for good unstanding too. YH - 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: [patch 2/3] acpi: Add a docked sysfs file to the dock driver.

2006-12-13 Thread Kay Sievers
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 00:26 +0100, Stefan Schmidt wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:00, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: I did have different dock/undock events a few months ago - but after some discussion we scrapped them because Kay wants to avoid driver specific events. The change event

Re: [patch 2/3] acpi: Add a docked sysfs file to the dock driver.

2006-12-13 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:14, Kay Sievers wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 00:26 +0100, Stefan Schmidt wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:00, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: I did have different dock/undock events a few months ago - but after some discussion we scrapped them because

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Delete JFFS (version 1)

2006-12-13 Thread Jörn Engel
On Tue, 12 December 2006 14:49:04 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: It would be better to have a printk in the module init, since users with upstream builds won't see the config help. How many of those are there? This is not ext3, this is a flash filesystem. Users are either those doing the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-13 Thread Alan
Waste of space having a busproc routine. The maintainer removed all the usable hotplug support from old IDE so this might as well be dropped. I took over IDE when hotplug was already broken (late 2.5), moreover IDE hotplug support has been always a quick hack according to its original

tg3 + BCM5721 : eth1 detected yet 'No such device'

2006-12-13 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hello. I'm only able to use one of the two onboard Gig-eth NICs on this HP DL145 G2 with Debian etch (2.6.18-based) yet both are detected and shown by dmesg. The NIC marked as '2' on the back of the machine becomes eth0, whilst 'eth1' seems to vanish into the ether (if you'll excuse the pun).

Re: 2.6.19-mm1 (md/raid1 randomly drops partitions - possible sata_uli problem)

2006-12-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 13 December 2006 01:53, Neil Brown wrote: On Tuesday December 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So when md writes to write out the superblock, to gets EIO... Odd that you aren't getting errors for normal writes. What devices are the md/raid1 built on? Sata drives,

Re: Weird code in scripts/kconfig/Makefile

2006-12-13 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Pete Zaitcev wrote: In 2.6.19 (and Linus' curent tree), I found the following: libpath=$$dir/lib; lib=qt; osdir=; \ $(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory /dev/null 21 \ osdir=x$$($(HOSTCXX) -print-multi-os-directory); \

[PATCH] nfs: fix NR_FILE_DIRTY underflow

2006-12-13 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Still testing this patch, but it looks good so far. --- Just setting PG_dirty can cause NR_FILE_DIRTY to underflow which is bad (TM). Use set_page_dirty() which will do the right thing. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/nfs/file.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+),

Re: [PATCH, RFC/T] Fix handling of write failures to swap devices

2006-12-13 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 16:26 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: The attached (very untested, in need of splitting up) patch attempts to solve these problems. Note that it is probably not going to prevent your SIGBUS, so that will have to be found and fixed individually. In the meantime, I'll run this

Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix NR_FILE_DIRTY underflow

2006-12-13 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:12 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Still testing this patch, but it looks good so far. --- Just setting PG_dirty can cause NR_FILE_DIRTY to underflow which is bad (TM). Use set_page_dirty() which will do the right thing. Actually, I'd prefer to have it do the right

Re: Postgrey experiment at VGER

2006-12-13 Thread Dumitru Ciobarcianu
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 01:50 +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote: I do already see spammers smart enough to retry addresses from the zombie machine, but that share is now below 10% of all emails. My prediction for next 200 days is that most spammers get the clue, but it gives us perhaps 3 months of less

Re: get device from file struct

2006-12-13 Thread Silviu Craciunas
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:03 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: thanks for the reply, the block device can be determined with the major and minor numbers , what I would be more interested in is if one can get the net_device struct from the file struct Just how are you supposed to match files

Re: 2.6.18.4: flush_workqueue calls mutex_lock in interrupt environment

2006-12-13 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 09:02 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 08:25 +0100, xb wrote: Hi all, Running some IO stress tests on a 8*ways IA64 platform, we got: BUG: warning at kernel/mutex.c:132/__mutex_lock_common() message followed by: Unable to handle

Re: Postgrey experiment at VGER

2006-12-13 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:25 +0200, Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 01:50 +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote: I do already see spammers smart enough to retry addresses from the zombie machine, but that share is now below 10% of all emails. My prediction for next 200 days is that most

V4L2: __ucmpdi2 undefined on ppc

2006-12-13 Thread Meelis Roos
MODPOST 618 modules WARNING: __ucmpdi2 [drivers/media/video/v4l2-common.ko] undefined! This 32-bit ppc architecture, using gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21). .config below if important. __ucmpdi2 seems to be 64-bit comparision. gcc seems to use it for switch

[PATCH] kbuild: Replace remaining depends with depends on

2006-12-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Replace the very few remaining depends Kconfig directives with depends on. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Given the recent patch that was applied to make this transformation, might as well finish it off and deal with those last three cases. At this point, all

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Andrew Robinson wrote: When I said hibernate, I did mention it was to disk, not to ram. I woke my computer up from work remotely using wakeonlan. When the computer was responsive, I started getting I/O errors and when I saw my kernel log I saw file corruption problems with my /dev/sda2 device

drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib?000*: stack usage problems

2006-12-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
The following functions each allocate a 1.5 kB *_state struct on the stack: - dib7000m_i2c_enumeration() - dib7000p_i2c_enumeration() - dib3000mc_i2c_enumeration() Considering that the whole stack might be only 4 kB, functions shouldn't use 1.5 kB of the stack. cu Adrian -- Is there

[-mm patch] cleanup linux/byteorder/swabb.h

2006-12-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
- no longer a userspace header - add #include linux/types.h for in-kernel compilation Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/byteorder/Kbuild |1 - include/linux/byteorder/swabb.h | 13 - 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) ---

Re: 2.6.19-mm1: drivers/mtd/ubi/debug.c: unused variable

2006-12-13 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 21:46 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: It doesn't seem to be intended that in ubi_dbg_vprint_nolock() the variable caller is never assigned any value different from 0. thanks, fixed in our GIT tree. -- Best regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём) - To unsubscribe from

[2.6 patch] more ftape removal

2006-12-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes some more ftape code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/Kbuild |1 include/linux/mtio.h | 146 include/linux/qic117.h | 290 - 3 files changed, 437 deletions(-) ---

2.6.19-mm1: gotemp: memset(..., 0) error

2006-12-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
-- snip -- ... NOT FOR MAINLINE! This is for the driver tutorial I give. It will not be included in the mainline kernel tree ever. Use the ldusb driver that is already there instead for this device. This is only a teaching tool. ... + pkt = kmalloc(sizeof(*pkt), GFP_ATOMIC); +

Re: 2.6.19-mm1: missing MTD_UBI* help texts

2006-12-13 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 17:42 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: The MTD_UBI and the MTD_UBI_DEBUG_PARANOID_* options lack help texts. thanks, fixed in our GIT tree. -- Best regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

Meyer Sound GPL Violations

2006-12-13 Thread Juan Erbes
Yesterday I was in an audio seminar from Meyer Sound and the AES, and discovered an audio analizer that uses Linux OS, and I mean that it uses the fftw open source libraries. In the details of the product, not appear any word about gpl and linux. Please, investigate this case:

Re: V4L2: __ucmpdi2 undefined on ppc

2006-12-13 Thread Paweł Sikora
Meelis Roos napisał(a): MODPOST 618 modules WARNING: __ucmpdi2 [drivers/media/video/v4l2-common.ko] undefined! This 32-bit ppc architecture, using gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21). .config below if important. __ucmpdi2 seems to be 64-bit comparision. gcc seems to

Re: Kevent POSIX timers support.

2006-12-13 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hello. Please _NEVER_ drop Cc: list, since not everyone can be subscribed to linux-kernel@, fortunately I'm not for example. On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 06:51:47PM +0530, Tushar Adeshara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I think these four lines are not required. Irrespective of return value of

[PATCH] Add cscope generated files to .gitignore

2006-12-13 Thread Tobias Klauser
Ignore files generated by 'make cscope' Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- .gitignore |3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index e1d5c17..1586b9d 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -41,3 +41,6 @@ patches-*

Re: [RFC] HZ free ntp

2006-12-13 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, john stultz wrote: Basically INTERVAL_LENGTH_NSEC defines the NTP interval length that the time code will use to accumulate with. In this patch I've pushed it out to a full second, but it could be set via config (NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ for regular systems, something larger

Fwd: Meyer Sound GPL Violations

2006-12-13 Thread Juan Erbes
Yesterday I was in an audio seminar from Meyer Sound and the AES, and discovered an audio analizer that uses Linux OS, and I mean that it uses the fftw open source libraries. In the details of the product, not appear any word about gpl and linux. Please, investigate this case:

Re: VM_RESERVED vs vm_normal_page()

2006-12-13 Thread Robin Holt
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:37:57PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Hi folks ! What is the logic regarding VM_RESERVED, and more specifically, why is vm_normal_page() nor returning NULL for these ? Near as I could ever tell from the discussion on linux-mm, it is a page which should not

drivers/video/aty/radeon_backlight.c

2006-12-13 Thread James Cloos
Are there any dependencies in $subject which would preclude changing drivers/video/Kconfig with: config FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT bool Support for backlight control -depends on FB_RADEON PMAC_BACKLIGHT +depends on FB_RADEON select FB_BACKLIGHT default y

Re: [PATCH] psmouse split

2006-12-13 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 12/13/06, Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Hi Andres, [...] Unfortunately I do not think this is going to work well in in default case: 1. PS/2 probing order is important. You need to probe for intellimouse explorer last otherwise you might miss that

Re: Postgrey experiment at VGER

2006-12-13 Thread Al Boldi
Trond Myklebust wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:25 +0200, Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 01:50 +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote: I do already see spammers smart enough to retry addresses from the zombie machine, but that share is now below 10% of all emails. My prediction

[patch] Add allowed_affinity to the irq_desc to make it possible to have restricted irqs

2006-12-13 Thread Arjan van de Ven
[due to a broken libata in current -git I've not been able to test this patch enough] This patch adds an allowed_affinity mask to each interrupt, in addition to the existing actual affinity mask. In addition this new mask is exported to userspace in a similar way as the actual affinity is

Re: isochronous receives?

2006-12-13 Thread Robert Crocombe
On 11/29/06, Keith Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never resolved the problem. I turned on the excessive debugging output, but it didn't print out info about receiving packets or interrupts. My test app claimed there were no packets received although the bus analyzer showed lots of packets

Re: drivers/video/aty/radeon_backlight.c

2006-12-13 Thread Michael Hanselmann
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:46:24AM -0500, James Cloos wrote: Are there any dependencies in $subject which would preclude changing drivers/video/Kconfig with: Yes. or is radeon_backlight.c only functional when -DCONFIG_PMAC_BACKLIGHT, even though the pmac routines are all ifdef'ed? Did you

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Add MMC Password Protection (lock/unlock) support V8: mmc_key_retention.diff

2006-12-13 Thread Frank Seidel
Quoting Anderson Briglia [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] Hi, thats really cool stuff you're providing with your patches. :) I have some feedback or questions some parts here. But as i just started trying to get into kernelhacking you probably better don't take my notes to serious, please. Index:

[PATCH] update to fbdev-update-after-backlight-argument-change.patch

2006-12-13 Thread James Simmons
This patch contained code that needs to be in another patch. Please update this patch. diff --git a/drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c b/drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c index 3feddf8..2e976ff 100644 --- a/drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c +++ b/drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c @@ -1834,7 +1834,7 @@ static void

Re: + high-res-timers-utilize-tsc-clocksource-again.patch added to -mm tree

2006-12-13 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 08:46 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: What is this accomplishing? My TSC gets marked unstable, and it's not unstable, in addition I have HRT off .. The else clause above just doesn't seem right .. This was a mismerge. It's fixed by now. Thanks, tglx - To

Re: drivers/video/aty/radeon_backlight.c

2006-12-13 Thread James Cloos
Michael == Michael Hanselmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JimC Are there any dependencies in $subject which would preclude JimC changing drivers/video/Kconfig Michael Yes. Ok. Thanks. JimC is radeon_backlight.c only functional when -DCONFIG_PMAC_BACKLIGHT, JimC even though the pmac

[PATCH] updated proper-backlight-selection-for-fbdev-drivers.patch

2006-12-13 Thread James Simmons
Signed-Off-By: James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is the updated patch for proper backlight selection. diff --git a/drivers/video/Kconfig b/drivers/video/Kconfig index 4e83f01..39d8783 100644 --- a/drivers/video/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/video/Kconfig @@ -4,20 +4,9 @@ menu Graphics support

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] Proper backlight selection for fbdev drivers

2006-12-13 Thread James Simmons
The problem is the overlap of the patches fbdev-update-after-backlight-argument-change.diff proper-backlight-selection-forfbdev-drivers.patch The machine_is change is in the argument change patch. It should be in this patch. I can send updates of both patches. On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Andrew

Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

2006-12-13 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 15:03 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: Trond Myklebust wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:56 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: Note that these pages should be *really* rare. Definitely even for normal filesystems I think RMW would use too much bandwidth if it were required for any

[-mm patch] slm_set_taskperm(): remove horrible error handling code

2006-12-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
Error handling: Pass something you memset'ed to 0 to functions that never change it but dereference it in dprintk()'s. This patch removes this broken code - plain Oops'es aren't worse. As a bonus, this function no longer wastes more than 2 kB stack space. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL

Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

2006-12-13 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 08:49 -0500, Peter Staubach wrote: Trond Myklebust wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:56 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: Note that these pages should be *really* rare. Definitely even for normal filesystems I think RMW would use too much bandwidth if it were required for

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-13 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 12/13/06, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Waste of space having a busproc routine. The maintainer removed all the usable hotplug support from old IDE so this might as well be dropped. I took over IDE when hotplug was already broken (late 2.5), moreover IDE hotplug support has been always

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-13 Thread Alan
Unfortunately it seems that not everybody has moved on. It is not about your not accepted patches but about the maintainer removed all the usable hotplug support from old IDE false accusations which are unproven and untrue. I invite anyone who cares to study the archive. Welcome back to my

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-13 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 12/13/06, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately it seems that not everybody has moved on. It is not about your not accepted patches but about the maintainer removed all the usable hotplug support from old IDE false accusations which are unproven and untrue. Moreover I could be

Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

2006-12-13 Thread Peter Staubach
Trond Myklebust wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:56 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: Note that these pages should be *really* rare. Definitely even for normal filesystems I think RMW would use too much bandwidth if it were required for any significant number of writes. If file foo exists on

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-13 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Alan wrote: + * We work around this by initiating dummy, zero-length DMA transfer on + * a DMA timeout expiration. I found no better way to do this with the current Novel workaround and probably better than resetting the chip as the winbong does. I didn't try resetting however

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] Toshiba TC86C001 IDE driver

2006-12-13 Thread Alan
+static int tc86c001_busproc(ide_drive_t *drive, int state) +{ Waste of space having a busproc routine. The maintainer removed all the usable hotplug support from old IDE so this might as well be dropped. Don't know what you mean, ioctl is still there... You can turn the bus on and

Re: How about an enumerated list of issues with the existing kgdb patches?

2006-12-13 Thread Piet Delaney
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 20:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:42:32 -0700 Piet Delaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:48:22 -0700 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus: I'd want to

Re: Possible memory leak in block/ll_rw_blk.c

2006-12-13 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
From: Catalin Marinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Possible memory leak in block/ll_rw_blk.c Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:00:05 + On 09/12/06, Catalin Marinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unreferenced object 0xdd9162b0 (size 64): [c018d46f] kmem_cache_alloc [c0170b2e] mempool_alloc_slab

Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH/RFC] kthread API conversion for dvb_frontend and av7110

2006-12-13 Thread Cedric Le Goater
Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:58:16PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Andrew de Quincey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] correct, will fix that up in the next round thanks for the feedback, Herbert Hi - the conversion looks good to me.. I can't really offer any more

[PATCH] Add support for Korenix 16C950-based PCI cards

2006-12-13 Thread Russell King
Linus, Andrew, This patch adds initial support to 8250-pci for the Korenix Jetcard PCI serial cards. The JC12xx cards are standard RS232-based serial cards utilising the Oxford 16C950 device. The JC14xx are RS422/RS485-based cards, but in order for these to be supported natively, we will need

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