On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:31:16 +0100
Hans-Jürgen Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You think it's easier for a manufacturer of industrial IO cards to
debug a (large) kernel module?
You think its any easier to debug because the code now runs in ring 3 but
accessing I/O space.
uio also doesn't
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:26 +0100, Franck Pommereau wrote:
Dear Linux developers,
I recently discovered that the Linux kernel on 32 bits x86 processors
reports the stack as being non-executable while it is actually
executable (because located in the same memory
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:37:16 +0100
Hans-Jürgen Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are three breaks in that while loop, the first makes it return as
soon as an interrupt occurs.
Doh ignore that I misread it. Perils of reading email before midday
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It has to be written once, but compiled for every kernel
version and $arch out there (for out of tree drivers), or it
has to wait for the next kernel release and distro sync (for
in-tree drivers).
Still better than written for every _and_ compiled for every.
But wait, make it simpler: just
The patches can be found in the -mm releases or at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/uio.patch
- UIO core
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-01-driver/uio-documentation.patch
- UIO documentation
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 12:51 schrieb Olivier Galibert:
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:56:03AM +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells
100 pieces per year, only in Germany and only with Windows drivers. He would
now like
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 13:42 schrieb Alan:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:31:16 +0100
Hans-Jürgen Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You think it's easier for a manufacturer of industrial IO cards to
debug a (large) kernel module?
You think its any easier to debug because the code now runs
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, tike64 wrote:
Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tike64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, understood; I tried this:
t = raw_timer();
ts.tv_nsec = 500;
ts.tv_sec = 0;
nanosleep(ts, 0);
t = raw_timer() - t;
It is better but I still see
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:15:59PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
So go get it merged in the Ubuntu, (Open)SuSE and RHEL and Fedora trees
first.
You don't think I already get enough hatemail from binary-module users ? :)
Dave
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On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 15:53 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
The connection between file and network device is through many
layers and there is no direct binding. It could be 0 to N interfaces
and even be data dependent.
you mean protocol dependent? yes,it goes trough the layer of the vfs but
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 13:39 schrieb Alan:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:56:03 +0100
Hans-Jürgen Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* They let somebody write the small kernel module they need to handle
interrupts in a _clean_ way. This module can easily be checked and could
even be
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:39:11PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
The Ubuntu feisty fawn mess was a dangerous warning bell of where we're
going. If we don't stand up at some point, and ban binary drivers, we
will, I fear, end up with an unsustainable ecosystem for Linux when
binary drivers
On Dec 14 2006 12:42, Alan wrote:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:31:16 +0100
Hans-Jürgen Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You think it's easier for a manufacturer of industrial IO cards to
debug a (large) kernel module?
You think its any easier to debug because the code now runs in ring 3 but
accessing
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:55 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Dec 14 2006 12:42, Alan wrote:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:31:16 +0100
Hans-Jürgen Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You think it's easier for a manufacturer of industrial IO cards to
debug a (large) kernel module?
You think its any
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
The rest looks good. Please resend and I'll add my Acked-by.
Thanks a lot for your comments and suggestions. Here's my 2nd try:
===
From: Karsten Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$ diffstat ~/iommu-patch_v2.patch
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |
Correct mis-spellings of algorithm, appear, consistent and
(shame, shame) kernel.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options |2 +-
arch/m32r/lib/usercopy.c |4 ++--
arch/m68knommu/platform/5307/timers.c
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:47:32PM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote:
In amd64-agp.c, would it be dangerous to remove the aperture base 4G
thing and instead simply only read the rightmost 7 bits to ensure the
aperture base is always in range? (This is coming from someone with
little AGPGART
Containes .h file changes.
bill
--- include/linux/mutex.h d231debc2848a8344e1b04055ef22e489702e648
+++ include/linux/mutex.h 734c89362a3d77d460eb20eec3107e7b76fed938
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include linux/rt_lock.h
#include
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
It has to be written once, but compiled for every kernel
version and $arch out there (for out of tree drivers), or it
has to wait for the next kernel release and distro sync (for
in-tree drivers).
Still better than written for every _and_ compiled for every.
But
Rough annotations to speed up the object attachment logic.
bill
--- arch/xtensa/platform-iss/network.c eee47b0ca011d1c327ce7aff0c9a7547695d3a1f
+++ arch/xtensa/platform-iss/network.c 76b16d29a46677a45d56b64983e0783959aa2160
@@
Build system changes.
bill
--- kernel/Kconfig.preempt 3148bd94270ea0a853d8e443616cd7a668dd0d3b
+++ kernel/Kconfig.preempt d63831dbfbb9e68386bfc862fd2dd1a8f1e9779f
@@ -176,3 +176,12 @@ config RCU_TRACE
Say Y here
So go get it merged in the Ubuntu, (Open)SuSE and RHEL and Fedora trees
first. This is not something where we use my tree as a way to get it to
other trees. This is something where the push had better come from the
other direction.
I can probably speak for Ubuntu in saying we wont include
Location:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git
RSS feed of the git tree:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=rss
Changes since 2.6.16.35:
Adrian Bunk (3):
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote:
CD recording : recorder no longer detected by wodim software set in
2.6.19. I suspect it's a bug in the software... but don't know where
to look for changes. 2.6.19-rc5 worked.
hardware: IDE MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-820S
(2.6.19-git6 also fails with
On 12/14/06, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, the two-week merge period is over, and -rc1 is out there.
Still need this libata-sff.c patch:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=116343564202844q=raw
to have my root device detected, ata_piix probe would otherwise
fail as
The end marker is missing from the driver's PCI ID table. This set of
changes adds the marker, switches to using PCI_DEVICE() and records the
table for the use in a module.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Here's one more. ;-)
Please apply.
Maciej
CD recording : recorder no longer detected by wodim software set in
2.6.19. I suspect it's a bug in the software... but don't know where
to look for changes. 2.6.19-rc5 worked.
hardware: IDE MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-820S
(2.6.19-git6 also fails with external LiteON USB DVD burner)
I recommend to
Core infrastructure files with /proc interface
--- include/linux/lock_stat.h 554e4c1a2bc399f8a4fe4a1634b29aae6f4bb4de
+++ include/linux/lock_stat.h 554e4c1a2bc399f8a4fe4a1634b29aae6f4bb4de
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+/*
+ * By Bill Huey
.c files that have been changed, rtmutex.c, rt.c
--- kernel/rt.c 5fc97ed10d5053f52488dddfefdb92e6aee2b148
+++ kernel/rt.c 3b86109e8e4163223f17c7d13a5bf53df0e04d70
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
#include linux/plist.h
#include linux/fs.h
#include
Greg KH wrote:
It's just that I'm so damn tired of this whole thing. I'm tired of
people thinking they have a right to violate my copyright all the time.
Pretty much every license under the sun is getting violated,
and people are getting away with it. The GPL is not special
in this regard.
Hello,
I'm back with another annoying announcement and post of my lock stat
patches for Ingo's 2.6.19-rt14 patch. I want review, comments and
eventually inclusion into the -rt.
Changes in this release:
- forward ported to 2,6.19-rt14
- rt_mutex_slowtrylock() path now works with lock stat
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 21:39 -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
The Ubuntu feisty fawn mess was a dangerous warning bell of where we're
going. If we don't stand up at some point, and ban binary drivers, we
will, I fear, end up with an unsustainable ecosystem for Linux when
binary drivers become
The file init/initramfs.c is always compiled and linked in the kernel
vmlinux even when BLK_DEV_RAM and BLK_DEV_INITRD are disabled and the
system isn't using any form of an initramfs or initrd. In this situation
the code is only used to unpack a (static) default initial rootfilesystem.
The
And the patch was reposted here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=116594961106441w=2
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 14:59 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
On 12/14/06, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, the two-week merge period is over, and -rc1 is out there.
Still need
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 23:45 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
IOW, do ; while(0) / do { } while (0) is not a proper way to do a macro
that imitates a function returning void.
Objections?
None from me, although the ternary ? : is a pretty odd way to write
if (blah)
Update all arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S to not include space for initramfs
when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRAMFS is not selected. This saves another 4 kbytes
on most platfoms (some reserve PAGE_SIZE for initramfs).
Signed-off-by: Jean-Paul Saman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Index:
Hi,
ext Frank Seidel wrote:
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
Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
it's ok for the timer to be a little over, but it must never be a
little under.
...
So we make sure the timer goes off in (n+1) ms, and not just (n).
Ok, this makes sense - thanks.
What confuses / confused me is that I have 4 combinations:
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 17:41 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
Trond, please define precisely and completely and without reference to
the existing implementation: what behaviour does NFS want?
Part of the behaviour is dictated by our needs for
invalidate_inode_pages2(), part of the behaviour is
amikbd: missing declaration
sun3_NCR5380: more work_struct mess
sun3_NCR5380: cast is not an lvalue
Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/amikbd.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/amikbd.c
index 16583d7..c67e84e 100644
--- a/drivers/input/keyboard/amikbd.c
+++
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:36:13AM +, Alan wrote:
2008? I bet a lot of people would read the above to say that their
system will just drop dead of a New Year's hangover, and they'll freak.
I wouldn't want to be the one getting all the email at that point...
I wouldn't worry. Everyone
Hello,
my problem is, that the slackware maintainers decided to use kernel
2.6.17. Here is their comment, they posted to the changelog:
After much thought and consultation with developers, it has been decided
to move 2.6.17.x out of /testing and into /extra. It runs stable by all
reports,
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
Why not show both.
intent and effective.
that would change the file format .. which is used by apps today already
(including glibc)
So, what about having another file, say /proc/self/emaps (effective
maps) that would display how things are really set.
Currently, is
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:07:04AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:39:11PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
The Ubuntu feisty fawn mess was a dangerous warning bell of where we're
going. If we don't stand up at some point, and ban binary drivers, we
will, I fear, end
Ben Collins wrote:
Here's the list of proprietary drivers that are in Ubuntu's restricted
modules package:
madwifi (closed hal implementation, being replaced in openhal)
fritz
ati
nvidia
ltmodem (does that even still work?)
ipw3945d (not a kernel
Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote:
CD recording : recorder no longer detected by wodim software set in
2.6.19. I suspect it's a bug in the software... but don't know where
to look for changes. 2.6.19-rc5 worked.
hardware: IDE
On 14/12/06, Manuel Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
my problem is, that the slackware maintainers decided to use kernel
2.6.17. Here is their comment, they posted to the changelog:
snip
They had a 2.6.16 kernel in /extra before and as far as I know the
2.6.16 kernel series still gets
Florian Festi wrote:
I am looking for the meaning of the following key codes as #defined in
include/linux/input.h. I need to know what hardware produces the keycode
and what happens/should happen when the corresponding key is pressed.
Thanks for all you comments! They helped a lot.
The
Michael K. Edwards wrote:
I don't think it would. There is a strong argument that GPL drivers
in the mainline kernel are a good idea on technical and business
grounds.
Any volunteers to expand on that in the Kernelnewbies section
on this subject? So far the business ground is only half a
Jens Axboe wrote:
On Wed, Dec 13 2006, Larry Finger wrote:
There is a regression in v2.6.19-rc18 that makes one unable to write CD's.
In k3b, the drive status shows no devices. I used git bisect to find the
bad commit is the following:
Try a newer snapshot, it was fixed a few days ago.
Just a Thank you EOThread message :-)
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:24:15PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
Dunno about IDE layer. It has been done that way for long time and not
sure whether adding such option will happen, but for libata, hpa
handling is still not implemented ...
I'm now (since
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, tike64 wrote:
Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
it's ok for the timer to be a little over, but it must never be a
little under.
...
So we make sure the timer goes off in (n+1) ms, and not just (n).
Oops, that should have read (n+1) 10ms, or +1 res. But
I'd be happy to know how to enable it.
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
This is not at all obvious from arch/i386/Kconfig. Maybe we should
fix this?
- Ted
Add an explanation that HIGHMEM64G is needed in order to get support
for the NX feature.
Remove an
But I would ask that they honour the licence on the code I release, and
perhaps more importantly on the code I import from other GPL sources.
It's not a question of honoring the license; it's a matter of what
is the reach of the license, as it relates to derivitive works. It's
a complicated
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:59:23 +0100
Alessandro Suardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/14/06, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, the two-week merge period is over, and -rc1 is out there.
Still need this libata-sff.c patch:
Pretty much every license under the sun is getting violated,
and people are getting away with it. The GPL is not special
in this regard.
That may begin to change in time. There are a lot of people getting very
angry at the political level about the way large companies in particular
flout
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:03:10AM -0500, James Morris wrote:
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
The point of banning binary drivers would be to leverage hardware
companies into either releasing open source drivers, or the specs for
someone else to write them.
IMHO, it's up to
Dave Jones wrote:
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:39:11PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
The Ubuntu feisty fawn mess was a dangerous warning bell of where we're
going. If we don't stand up at some point, and ban binary drivers, we
will, I fear, end up with an unsustainable ecosystem for Linux
+ 1 Gigabyte or more total physical RAM, answer off here.
I don't think your proposed wording (1 gigabyte or more) versus (more
than 1 gigabyte) doesn't really change the sense of this.
If we want to be even more explicit about this, then if the CPU level
selected by the user is greater
Linus Torvalds wrote:
Because I think it's stupid. So use somebody else than me to push your
political agendas, please.
ACK, I agree completely. I think its a silly, political, non-technical
decision being pushed here.
For the record, I also disagree with the sneaky backdoor way people
From: Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:17:45AM -0500
Remove an (incorrect) assertion that NOHIGHMEM is right for more
users, since most systems are coming with at least 1G of memory these
days, and even some laptops have up 4G of memory.
Given this (on a system
Alan wrote:
Another thing we should do more is aggressively merge prototype open
drivers for binary only hardware - lets get Nouveau's DRM bits into the
kernel ASAP for example.
ACK++ We should definitely push Nouveau[1] as hard as we can.
Jeff
[1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 14:47 +, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
So far all first-hand experiences I heard of were positive (i.e. I did
not get an emaail from anyone saying: It had a negative effect for me),
so I propose to apply the patch from Con Kolivas. The wording in the
description
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:17 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
I'd be happy to know how to enable it.
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
This is not at all obvious from arch/i386/Kconfig. Maybe we should
fix this?
looks better; maybe add how to look for pae and nx in
the /proc/cpuinfo flags line ?
--
if
Hi,
The kernel (sched.c) does not compile if CONFIG_HZ and CONFIG_SMP are set, and
CONFIG_NO_HZ isn't.
Is this patch correct ?
---
Index: linux-2.6.19-rt14-test/kernel/sched.c
===
--- linux-2.6.19-rt14-test.orig/kernel/sched.c
Hi,
this is the second and hopefully last release candidate for 2.4.34.
It fixes vulnerability CVE-2006-6106 affecting bluetooth (with
With malformed packets it might be possible to overwrite internal
CMTP and CAPI data structures).
Please build and test this version, especially on non-x86
In compiling the kernel without high res, I hit this error:
kernel/sched.c:4135: error: notick undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/sched.c:4135: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/sched.c:4135: error: for each function it appears in.)
I'm assuming that
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:37 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
+ 1 Gigabyte or more total physical RAM, answer off here.
I don't think your proposed wording (1 gigabyte or more) versus (more
than 1 gigabyte) doesn't really change the sense of this.
If we want to be even more explicit about
Theodore Tso wrote:
+ 1 Gigabyte or more total physical RAM, answer off here.
I don't think your proposed wording (1 gigabyte or more) versus (more
than 1 gigabyte) doesn't really change the sense of this.
If we want to be even more explicit about this, then if the CPU level
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:10:57PM +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
More items will be added to that list soon.
E.g. Linux Binary only, Creative X-Fi sound card drivers for Q2 2007.
http://opensource.creative.com/
Wow. That wins 'most ironic hostname' award for 2006.
Thankfully onboard
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:05:14PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:07:04AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:39:11PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
Thing is, if kernel.org kernels get patched to disallow binary modules,
whats to stop Ubuntu (or
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:15:59PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
...
The fact is, the reason I don't think we should force the issue is very
simple: copyright law is simply _better_off_ when you honor the admittedly
gray issue of derived work. It's gray. It's not black-and-white. But
being
The trick is to let a lawyer send cease and desist letters to people
distributing the infringing software for 1 Euro at Ebay.
Doesn't that sound even more like the music industry ? Pick on Grandma,
and people who've no clue about the issue. It's not the way to solve such
problems. The world
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 11:11:33AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:05:14PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
If a kernel developer or a competitor sends a ceasedesist letter to
such a distribution, the situation changes from a complicated derived
work discussion to a
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 15:10 +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Ben Collins wrote:
Here's the list of proprietary drivers that are in Ubuntu's restricted
modules package:
madwifi (closed hal implementation, being replaced in openhal)
fritz
ati
nvidia
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Greg KH wrote:
A large number of people have expressed interest recently in the
userspace i/o driver core which allows userspace drivers to be written
to handle some types of hardware.
Right now the UIO core is working and in the -mm releases. It's been
rewritten from
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
Some fallout of: 2e892f43ccb602e8ffad73396a1000f2040c9e0b
CC mm/slab.o /usr/src/linux-2.6-git/mm/slab.c:3557: error: conflicting
types for ÿÿkmem_ptr_validateÿÿ
/usr/src/linux-2.6-git/include/linux/slab.h:58: error: previous
declaration of
Hi,
This is Linux 2.4.33.5. It mostly fixes 2 minor vulnerabilities :
CVE-2006-5871 (smbfs) don't ignore uid/gid/mode mount opts w/ unix extensions
CVE-2006-6106 (Bluetooth) add packet size checks for CAPI messages
It's now up to date with the changes in 2.4.34-rc2.
Regards,
Willy
Summary of
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:33:47PM +, Alan wrote:
The trick is to let a lawyer send cease and desist letters to people
distributing the infringing software for 1 Euro at Ebay.
Doesn't that sound even more like the music industry ? Pick on Grandma,
and people who've no clue about the
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, David Woodhouse wrote:
But I would ask that they honour the licence on the code I release, and
perhaps more importantly on the code I import from other GPL sources.
This is a total non-argument, and it doesn't get any betetr by being
mindlessly repeated over and over
The declaration of kmem_ptr_validate in slab.h does not match the
one in slab.c. Remove the fastcall attribute (this is the only use in
slab.c).
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: linux-2.6/mm/slab.c
===
---
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:54:24PM +0100, Hans-J??rgen Koch wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 13:42 schrieb Alan:
uio also doesn't handle hotplug, pci and other small matters.
uio is supposed to be a very thin layer. Hotplug and PCI are already
handled by other subsystems.
On Dec 14 2006 10:56, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells
100 pieces per year, only in Germany and only with Windows drivers. He would
now like to make his cards work with Linux. He has two driver programmers
with little experience
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
For the record, I also disagree with the sneaky backdoor way people want to
add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to key subsystems that drivers will need.
I actually think the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() thing is a good thing, if done
properly (and I think we use it
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:03:57AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
I actually think the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() thing is a good thing, if
done properly (and I think we use it fairly well).
I think we _can_ do things where we give clear hints to people that
we think this is such an internal Linux
Yesterday I discovered some processes that had a PPID which was not
shown as a running process by ps. Also an ls /proc did not show
that PPID.
I've Googled on this enough to find out that these are Linux threads,
that ps -m will show them, that ls -a /proc will show /proc/.PPID,
etc, but I'm
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 18:02 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
On Dec 14 2006 10:56, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells
100 pieces per year, only in Germany and only with Windows drivers. He would
now like to make his cards
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:33:47PM +, Alan wrote:
The trick is to let a lawyer send cease and desist letters to people
distributing the infringing software for 1 Euro at Ebay.
Doesn't that sound even more like the music industry ? Pick on Grandma,
and people who've no clue about the
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Alan wrote:
He only owns a small amount of the code. Furthermore he imported third
party GPL code using the license as sole permission. So he may have dug
a personal hole but many of the rest of us have been repeatedly saying
whenever he said that - that we do not
The Ubuntu feisty fawn mess was a dangerous warning bell of where we're
going. If we don't stand up at some point, and ban binary drivers, we
will, I fear, end up with an unsustainable ecosystem for Linux when
binary drivers become pervasive. I don't want to see Linux destroyed
like
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
I don't get you. The rtc module does something similar (RTC generates
interrupts and notifies userspace about it)
The RTC module knows how to shut the interrupt up.
(And in many cases, timers are special. Timers, by design, are often edge
On Dec 14 2006 08:46, Ben Collins wrote:
I have to agree with your your whole statement. The gradual changes to
lock down kernel modules to a particular license(s) tends to mirror the
slow lock down of content (music/movies) that people complain about so
loudly. It's basically becoming DRM for
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Rather than IRQ_HANDLED, it should have been: remove this irq handler
from the irq handlers for irq number N, so that it does not get called
again until userspace has acked it.
Wrongo.
That just means that the _handler_ won't be called.
But
On Dec 14 2006 14:10, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:55 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:31:16 +0100
Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
You think its any easier to debug because the code now runs in ring 3 but
accessing I/O space.
A NULL fault won't oops the
Hi Alan,
Is it possible to use pata_mpiix (or pata_oldpiix) with an ICH4 IDE controller
and boot off it?
I've tried compiling both drivers into the kernel, and totally disabling
CONFIG_IDE, but it doesn't boot. dmesg doesn't indicate any detection has
taken place. The old IDE layer works
You know what I think hurts us more than anything? You know what
probably keeps companies from writing drivers or releasing specs? It's
because they know some non-paid kernel hackers out there will eventually
reverse engineer it and write the drivers for them. Free development,
and they didn't
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:08:41AM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:03:57AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
I actually think the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() thing is a good thing, if
done properly (and I think we use it fairly well).
I think we _can_ do things where we give
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 18:34 schrieb Bernd Petrovitsch:
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:56 +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
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A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells
100 pieces per year, only in Germany and only with Windows drivers. He would
now
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 22:32, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
Ok, one not so silly Q (IMO) from the resident old fart. I saw,
sometime in the past week, a relatively huge ieee1394 update go by.
And I have some issues with the present
Alan wrote:
As per Alan's suggestion I decompressed the kernel source tree with the
processes pegged to one CPU then the other, and as he predicted it took
vastly longer on one CPU than the other, but I don't know what that
implies, or how to fix it.
From the timing it sounds like one
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