Linux 2.4.33.5

2006-12-14 Thread Willy Tarreau
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

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
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

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
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

Re: [PATCH] slab: fix kmem_ptr_validate prototype

2006-12-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
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 ===

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Greg KH
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

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread 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 work with Linux. He has two driver programmers >with little

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
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

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Chris Wedgwood
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

Re: Processes with hidden PID files in /proc

2006-12-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>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,

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
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

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Theodore Tso
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

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
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

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> > 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 >

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
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

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
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

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
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.

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
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

libata-pata with ICH4, rootfs

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
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

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>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

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
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

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 18:34 schrieb Bernd Petrovitsch: > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:56 +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 >

ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-14 Thread Stefan Richter
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

Re: Need to enable caches in SMP ? (was Kernel 2.6 SMP very slow with ServerWorks LE Chipset)

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
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

Re: Userspace I/O driver core

2006-12-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:56:29PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 12:46 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > >>Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >> > I understand one still has to write a kernel driver to shut up the irq. > How about writing a small

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:38:27PM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Yes, EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL would make a lot more sense. A quick grep shows that changing this now would require updating nearly 1900 instances, so patches to do this would be pretty large and disruptive (though we could

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Again, I agree with EVERY statement Linus made here. We operate exactly as Linus describes, and legally, NO ONE can take us to task on GPL issues. We post patches of affected kernel code (albiet the code resembles what Linus describes as a "skeleton driver") and our proprietary non derived

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:21 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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

Re: Userspace I/O driver core

2006-12-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 14 2006 15:38, Avi Kivity wrote: > 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

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:47 +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 18:34 schrieb Bernd Petrovitsch: > > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:56 +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > > [] > > > A small German manufacturer produces high-end AD converter cards. He sells > > > 100 pieces

[PATCH] fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-rc1. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- block/ll_rw_blk.c |1 + drivers/base/firmware_class.c |1 + drivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c |2 +- kernel/relay.c |2 +-

Re: 2.6.19 kernel series, SATA, wodim (cd recording), synaptics update,

2006-12-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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 > > >

Re: Userspace I/O driver core

2006-12-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:48:55PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > [why trim the cc?] > > Hans-J?rgen Koch wrote: > >Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 10:44 schrieb Avi Kivity: > > > > > >>I understand one still has to write a kernel driver to shut up the irq. > >>How about writing a small bytecode

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 14 2006 18:17, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: >> >> They use floating point in (Windows) kernelspace? Oh my. > >To be honest, I never really understood where kernel space starts and user >space >ends in Windows, so I'm not sure about this :-) Well, in Windows 95/98 you could do inportb (inb)

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 14 2006 09:32, Linus Torvalds wrote: >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. > >That just means

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Martin J. Bligh
Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Again, I agree with EVERY statement Linus made here. We operate exactly as Linus describes, and legally, NO ONE can take us to task on GPL issues. We post patches of affected kernel code (albiet the code resembles what Linus describes as a "skeleton driver") and our

Re: libata-pata with ICH4, rootfs

2006-12-14 Thread Alan
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:14:55 + Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Is it possible to use pata_mpiix (or pata_oldpiix) with an ICH4 IDE > controller > and boot off it? ata_piix (the SATA/PATA driver) deals with the ICH4. pata_mpiix is specifically for the Intel

Re: [PATCH 2nd try] Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?!

2006-12-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 02:16:31PM +0100, Karsten Weiss wrote: > 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

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Alan
> One of the things that I find so interesting about how rabid people > get about enforcing GPL-only modules is how they start acting more and > more like the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft every day There is a saying "That which you fight you become" It's a warning that is well worth

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Eric Sandeen
Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:38:27PM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> Yes, EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL would make a lot more sense. > > A quick grep shows that changing this now would require updating > nearly 1900 instances, so patches to do this would be pretty large and >

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Alan
> Think of uio as just a "class" of driver, like input or v4l. It's still > up to the driver writer to provide a proper bus interface to the > hardware (pci, usb, etc.) in order for the device to work at all. Understood. That leads me to ask another question of the folks who deal with a lot of

Re: isochronous receives?

2006-12-14 Thread Robert Crocombe
On 12/13/06, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about leaving ohci1394 as it is but document tag_mask better in libraw1394's inline doxygen(?) comments, and maybe add an enum or macros to be used as values of raw1394_iso_recv_start's tag_mask argument? /* can be ORed together */

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 14 2006 09:52, Chris Wedgwood wrote: >On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:38:27PM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> Yes, EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL would make a lot more sense. > >A quick grep shows that changing this now would require updating >nearly 1900 instances, so patches to do this would be

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:56 +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 to make his cards work with Linux. He has two driver programmers

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Martin J. Bligh wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Again, I agree with EVERY statement Linus made here. We operate exactly as Linus describes, and legally, NO ONE can take us to task on GPL issues. We post patches of affected kernel code (albiet the code resembles what Linus describes as a

Re: libata-pata with ICH4, rootfs

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 18:20, Alan wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:14:55 + > > Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > > > Is it possible to use pata_mpiix (or pata_oldpiix) with an ICH4 IDE > > controller and boot off it? > > ata_piix (the SATA/PATA driver)

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Yeah, like that one. WITH THE POLITICAL AGENDA CODE REMOVED. No. That's really a purely technical thing. You can still do whatever you want, but people who support the resulting mess know that they shouldn't. Linus - To

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:15:20PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Please don't use that name, it strikes me as much more confusing > than EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, even though I agree that _GPL doesn't quite > convey what it means, either. Calling internal symbols _INTERNAL is confusing? >

2.6.19-git20 cciss: cmd f7b00000 timedout

2006-12-14 Thread Steve Roemen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I tried out the 2.6.19-git20 kernel on one of my machines (HP DL380 G3) that has the on board 5i controller (disabled), 2 smart array 642 controllers. I get the error (cciss: cmd f7b0 timedout) with Buffer I/O error on device cciss/c

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Yeah, like that one. WITH THE POLITICAL AGENDA CODE REMOVED. No. That's really a purely technical thing. I'm not certain I understand what you mean here. Nasty messages using the word "taint" is purely

Re: get device from file struct

2006-12-14 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:03:28 +0100 Silviu Craciunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: 2.6.19-git20 cciss: cmd f7b00000 timedout

2006-12-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Steve Roemen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > All, > I tried out the 2.6.19-git20 kernel on one of my machines (HP > DL380 G3) that has the on board 5i controller (disabled), > 2 smart array 642 controllers. > > I get the error (cciss: cmd

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > Calling internal symbols _INTERNAL is confusing? Well, I'm not sure the _INTERNAL name is all that much better than the _GPL one. In many ways, the _GPL one describes the _effects_ better, and also points out the reason _why_ something is

Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:45:16PM +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > What you suggest is not a "small kernel module". It's what we have now, > writing a complete driver. Who says a complete driver has to be big? > That's what UIO does, plus some standard sysfs files, that tell you e.g. > the

[GIT PULL] HID core patches for 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jiri Kosina
Hi Linus, could you please pull from master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git for-linus to receive updates for hid core layer, which you merged last week and I am going to maintain (acked by Dmitry and Marcel). Thanks. --- MAINTAINERS |6 ++

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?!

2006-12-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: >> 4) >> And does someone know if the nforce/opteron iommu requires IBM Calgary >> IOMMU support? >> > It doesn't, Calgary isn't found in machine with Opteron CPUs or NForce > chipsets (AFAIK). However, compiling Calgary in should make no > difference, as we detect in

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Hi Linus, `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: [root] 19:25 [~] hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sda: ATA WDC WD2500KS-00M: S.M.A.R.T. not available /dev/sdb: ATA WDC WD2500KS-00M: S.M.A.R.T. not available /dev/sdc: ATA Maxtor 6B200M0: S.M.A.R.T. not available /dev/sdd:

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Rik van Riel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Maybe we should just educate users and teach them to > avoid crazy unsupportable configurations and simply buy > the hardware that has open drivers available? Educating the users may help, but it's hard to do the education once they've already bought the

Re: Will there be security updates for 2.6.17 kernels?

2006-12-14 Thread Manuel Reimer
Jesper Juhl schrieb: No, that is not planned. 2.6.16.x is an exception.-stable kernels (those with 2.6.x.y versions) are only released for the latest stable 2.6.x kernel. So currently that's 2.6.19 and as soon as 2.6.20 comes out there will not be any more 2.6.19.x, only 2.6.20.x - I hope

Re: 2.6.19-git20 cciss: cmd f7b00000 timedout

2006-12-14 Thread Steve Roemen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2.6.19 does the same thing, except it's a cmd f7f0 timedout error. 2.6.18 works just fine though. Steve Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Steve Roemen wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> All, >> I tried

Re: 2.6.19-git20 cciss: cmd f7b00000 timedout

2006-12-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Steve Roemen wrote: > > 2.6.19 does the same thing, except it's a cmd f7f0 timedout error. Please don't send html only emails, that's just impossible to work with. > 2.6.18 works just fine though. So the question is when it broke between 2.6.18 and 2.6.19. Can you try

[PATCH] init: Remove commented, obsolete code invoking smp_commence().

2006-12-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove the "#if 0"ed call to smp_commence, which is clearly obsolete. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- There appears to be no value to leaving that call in the code, given that the source file "arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c" explains: "Switch over to hotplug-CPU

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Scott Preece
On 12/14/06, Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:15:20PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Please don't use that name, it strikes me as much more confusing > than EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, even though I agree that _GPL doesn't quite > convey what it means, either. Calling

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
This whole effort is pointless. This is the same kind of crap MICROSOFT DOES to create incompatibilities DELIBERATELY. The code is either FREE or its NOT FREE.If the code is FREE then let it be. You can put whatever you want in the code -- I will remove any such constructs, just like I

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:17:49PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > 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

RE: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Hua Zhong
I'd suggest putting a Documentation/GPL-Symbols to explain this. Then in the "tainted" message, have a pointer to that documentation. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Preece > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 11:43 AM > To:

Re: libata-pata with ICH4, rootfs

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Alistair John Strachan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > Is it possible to use pata_mpiix (or pata_oldpiix) with an ICH4 IDE > > > controller and boot off it? > > > > ata_piix (the SATA/PATA driver) deals with the ICH4. pata_mpiix is > > specifically for the Intel MPIIX laptop chipset and

Re: V4L2: __ucmpdi2 undefined on ppc

2006-12-14 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:41:56PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Argh! if this is caused by switch / ifs, compilation will fail on other > places. > I posted a patch to Paul this week to fix this, as saw we saw it on Ubuntu's powerpc kernel builds. Since ppc32 can't do a 64bit

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: Hmm. Can you do the strace on a working kernel too? For example, is it that the 0x30d ioctl (which is HDIO_GET_IDENTITY) used to work? If it's a SATA device, and you _used_ to use the PATA

Re: [PATCH] Clarify i386/Kconfig explanation of the HIGHMEM config options

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:37, 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. It does, because if you have exactly 1G

RE: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread David Schwartz
> And there's also the common misconception all costumers had enough > information when buying something. If you are a normal Linux user and > buy some hardware labelled "runs under Linux", it could turn out that's > with a Windows driver running under ndiswrapper... That is something that I

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:12, Ben Collins wrote: > You can't talk about drivers that don't exist for Linux. Things like > bcm43xx aren't effected by this new restriction for GPL-only drivers. > There's no binary-only driver for it (ndiswrapper doesn't count). If the > hardware vendor doesn't

RE: 2.6.19-git20 cciss: cmd f7b00000 timedout

2006-12-14 Thread Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
> -Original Message- > From: Jens Axboe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:51 PM > To: Steve Roemen > Cc: LKML; ISS StorageDev; Miller, Mike (OS Dev) > Subject: Re: 2.6.19-git20 cciss: cmd f7b0 timedout > > On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Steve Roemen wrote: > >

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: Hmm. Can you do the strace on a working kernel too? For example, is it that the 0x30d ioctl (which is HDIO_GET_IDENTITY) used to work? If it's a SATA device, and you _used_

[PATCH] Fix help text for CONFIG_ATA_PIIX

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 19:53, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Alistair John Strachan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > > Is it possible to use pata_mpiix (or pata_oldpiix) with an ICH4 IDE > > > > controller and boot off it? > > > > > > ata_piix (the SATA/PATA driver) deals with the ICH4. pata_mpiix

Re: 2.6.19-git20 cciss: cmd f7b00000 timedout

2006-12-14 Thread Steve Roemen
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Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 14 December 2006 19:57, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: > > Hmm. Can you do the strace on a working kernel too? For example, is it > that the 0x30d ioctl (which is HDIO_GET_IDENTITY) used to

[PATCH] support HDIO_GET_IDENTITY in libata

2006-12-14 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Dec 14, 2006 at 03:05:52PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > FWIW, libata generally follows a "implement it, if enough people care > about it" policy for the old HDIO_xxx ioctls. I personally care about HDIO_GET_IDENTITY and find it terribly useful to quickly find out about a drive. Perhaps

Re: [PATCH -rt] wrong config option in sched.c for notick

2006-12-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:

Re: [PATCH 0/4] atl1: Revised Attansic L1 ethernet driver

2006-12-14 Thread Luca Tettamanti
(I'm CC-ing the other developer) Il Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:44:43AM +, Vasco Visser ha scritto: > Hi, > > I've tested the new driver for a couple of days, mostly by running > XDMCP session over the Gbit LAN. Its all working good. > > I didn't experience any crashes or slowdowns at all. The

Re: [patch] speed up single bio_vec allocation

2006-12-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Dec 08 2006, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > > Chen, Kenneth wrote on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 10:20 AM > > > Jens Axboe wrote on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:09 AM > > > This is what I had in mind, in case it wasn't completely clear. Not > > > tested, other than it compiles. Basically it

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 20:29 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:12, Ben Collins wrote: > > You can't talk about drivers that don't exist for Linux. Things like > > bcm43xx aren't effected by this new restriction for GPL-only drivers. > > There's no binary-only driver for

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 19:57, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: > > > > Hmm. Can you do the strace on a working kernel too? For example, is it >

Re: 2.6.19-git20 cciss: cmd f7b00000 timedout

2006-12-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Jens Axboe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:51 PM > > To: Steve Roemen > > Cc: LKML; ISS StorageDev; Miller, Mike (OS Dev) > > Subject: Re: 2.6.19-git20 cciss: cmd

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rt14][BUG] kernel/sched.c:4135: error: 'notick' undeclared

2006-12-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pierre Peiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The kernel (sched.c) does not compile if CONFIG_HZ and CONFIG_SMP are > set, and CONFIG_NO_HZ isn't. oops - indeed. > Is this patch correct ? yeah. (FYI, i had to hand-apply it because it had whitespace damage, all tabs where spaces)

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Alistair John Strachan sms.ed.ac.uk> writes: > `hddtemp' has stopped working on 2.6.20-rc1: → http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7581 - 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: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jens Axboe wrote: Is the hddtemp source not available? http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php says http://www.guzu.net/files/hddtemp-0.3-beta15.tar.bz2 Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH] support HDIO_GET_IDENTITY in libata

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Erik Andersen wrote: + if (!atapi_enabled && dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI) { This seems like an impossible condition? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

RE: 2.6.19-git20 cciss: cmd f7b00000 timedout

2006-12-14 Thread Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
> -Original Message- > From: Steve Roemen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:14 PM > To: Miller, Mike (OS Dev) > Cc: Jens Axboe; LKML; ISS StorageDev; Frazier, Daniel Kent > Subject: Re: 2.6.19-git20 cciss: cmd f7b0 timedout > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >Is the hddtemp source not available? > > > http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php says > http://www.guzu.net/files/hddtemp-0.3-beta15.tar.bz2 Thanks! I'll await the 2.6.19-git1 test to see how to proceede. -- Jens Axboe - To

Re: Will there be security updates for 2.6.17 kernels?

2006-12-14 Thread Mario Vanoni
Not in lkml, so cc if needed. Running 3 machines Slackware 11.0, all kernel 2.6.18.5, no problems. Waiting 2.6.19.3 to update ... Regards Mario Vanoni - 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: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19

2006-12-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 09:26 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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. The

Re: [PATCH] support HDIO_GET_IDENTITY in libata

2006-12-14 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Dec 14, 2006 at 03:31:30PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Erik Andersen wrote: > >+if (!atapi_enabled && dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI) { > > This seems like an impossible condition? Hmm, suppose so. Do you think that simply doing: if (dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI)

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Dec 14 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: > > I'll do that if nobody comes up with anything obvious. > > If you can just test 2.6.19-git1, then we'll know if it's the SG_IO > patch again. Actually, you should test 2.6.19-git1 with this patch applied as well. From: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL

execv() problems with busybox on 2.6.18

2006-12-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
/etc/init.d/rcS script execution fails with busybox on 2.6.18. Seems ldlinux.so related. J - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Import fw-sbp2 driver.

2006-12-14 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Jeff Garzik wrote: Again, thanks for your comments, I've added patches to my git repo, will send out a new set on LKML before the end of this week. +/* I don't know why the SCSI stack doesn't define something like this... */ +typedef void (*scsi_done_fn_t) (struct scsi_cmnd *); submit a

[panic] aacraid on 2.4.33.4 w/ PERC 3/Di

2006-12-14 Thread Mark Drago
Hello, I have been seeing some kernel panics on a Dell PowerEdge 2650 with a PERC 3/Di raid controller doing RAID 1. I have now seen the panics occur on multiple PE2650s. The panic seems to occur during periods of high disk activity. I am able to reliably reproduce the crashes by running

Re: [PATCH 3/3] EDAC: Add Fully-Buffered DIMM APIs to core

2006-12-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:58:09 + Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +void edac_mc_handle_fbd_ue(struct mem_ctl_info *mci, > > + unsigned int csrow, > > + unsigned int channela, > > + unsigned int channelb, > > +

2.6.20rc1 oops.

2006-12-14 Thread Dave Jones
Hmm. Puzzling. Dave USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.6.0) BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e082a736 printing eip: e082a736 *pde = 1fd4e067 Oops: [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /block/ram0/dev Modules

2.6.20-rc1 sky2 problems (regression?)

2006-12-14 Thread Alex Romosan
under heavy network load the sky2 driver (compiled in the kernel) locks up and the only way i can get the network back is to reboot the machine (bringing the network down and back up again doesn't help). this happens on an amd64 machine (athlon 3500+ processor) and the card in question is a

Re: [PATCH 3/3] EDAC: Add Fully-Buffered DIMM APIs to core

2006-12-14 Thread Doug Thompson
--- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > +void edac_mc_handle_fbd_ue(struct mem_ctl_info *mci, > > + unsigned int csrow, > > + unsigned int channela, > > + unsigned int channelb, > > + char

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