Re: Soft lockup on shutdown in nf_ct_iterate_cleanup()

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Chuck Ebbert wrote: > I was testing a 2.6.20 kernel and got a soft > lockup on shutdown: > > _raw_write_lock+0x5a > nf_ct_iterate_cleanup+0x3e > kill_l3proto+0x0 > nf_conntrack_l3proto_unregister+0x85 > nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4_fini+0x1e > sys_delete_module+0x18a > remove_vma+0x45 >

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-21 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 2/21/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: pthread_cancel() [if/once threadlets are integrated into pthreads] ought to do that. A threadlet, if it gets moved to an async context, is a full-blown thread. The fact that you are proposing pthread_cancel as a model for how to abort an

Re: [PATCH] fbdev driver for S3 Trio/Virge, updated

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
> > +/* image data is MSB-first, fb structure is MSB-first too */ > > +static inline u32 expand_color(u32 c) > > +{ > > + return ((c & 1) | ((c & 2) << 7) | ((c & 4) << 14) | ((c & 8) << 21)) * > > 0xFF; > > +} > > + > > +/* s3fb_iplan_imageblit silently assumes that almost everything is

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-21 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 2/21/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: threadlets, when they dont block, are just regular user-space function calls - so no need to schedule or throttle them. [*] Right. That's a great design feature. threadlets, when they block, are regular kernel threads, so the regular O(1)

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > I have a thinkpad with Intel GM graphics ;-). I need it to work so I try > not to experiment too much on it. I've just tried the ibm-acpi driver > and it doesn't work well :-(. 2.6.21-rc, or 2.6.20? If it is in 2.6.21, could you give me a report of

Modprobe as script breaks initramfs kernel?

2007-02-21 Thread Deepak Saxena
We attempted an experiment in cleaning up some modprobe messages during initramfs bootup when the modules directory is missing by moving modprobe to modprobe-bin and replacing modprobe with the following simple shell script: #!/bin/sh # Clean up bootup when modules are not present if [ -e

Re: [PATCH 4/4] NOMMU: Make it possible for RomFS to use MTD devices directly

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:51:06 + David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + brelse(bh); A little fyi: brelse() is rather old-fashioned, and has a usually unneeded test for non-null bh in it. In situations where we know that the pointer is valid, let's please use put_bh().

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 00:56 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > I didn't mention 2.6.20-mm1 and got to see -mm2 so it is the one which > Iv'e tried, but, once again, I experienced the same issue with 19-mm? > kernels. > > I built 2.6.20-mm2 without backlight support > $> grep BACKLIGH

Re: Serial related oops

2007-02-21 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Are you using an unpatched gcc 4.1.1? Its optimizer did nasty things to us, at least on an ARM target ... - 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

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-21 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I think you just misread. I said that the Evil Linker has cheerfully shipped the source code of the modified POP server. He may not have given you the compiler he compiled it with, wihout which the source code is a nice piece of literature but of no engineering utility; but that's the situation

[PATCH] Fix posix-cpu-timer breakage caused by stale p->last_ran value

2007-02-21 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Problem description at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8048 Commit b18ec80396834497933d77b81ec0918519f4e2a7 [PATCH] sched: improve migration accuracy optimized the scheduler time calculations, but broke posix-cpu-timers. The problem is that the p->last_ran value is not updated

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-21 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 2/21/07, Nuno Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can see that your argument is all about the defenition of a "derivative work". Far from it. Try reading to the end. We all know that #include is mostly non copyrightable, so I mostly agree that some - very very simple - modules may not

[PATCH] ReiserFS: Correct misspelled "REISERFS_PROC_INFO" to "CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO".

2007-02-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Correct the misspelling of the preprocessor check of a Kconfig option to refer to CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO and not just the incorrect REISERFS_PROC_INFO. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/procfs.c b/fs/reiserfs/procfs.c index ecc9943..83b9135

[PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers - cleanup

2007-02-21 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Linux Kernel Markers - cleanup - Keep a positive CONFIG_MARKERS_ENABLE_OPTIMIZATION for Makefile. - Have CONFIG_MARKERS_DISABLE_OPTIMIZATION depending on EMBEDDED shown in the menus. - CONFIG_MARKERS_ENABLE_OPTIMIZATION depends on !CONFIG_MARKERS_DISABLE_OPTIMIZATION and defaults to y

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] UML - Fix 2.6.20 hang

2007-02-21 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 15 February 2007 18:07, Jeff Dike wrote: > Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > @@ -331,10 +334,9 @@ void maybe_sigio_broken(int fd, int read > > sigio_lock(); > err = need_poll(_sigio_fds, all_sigio_fds.used + 1); > - if(err){ > -

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:39:01PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >>> What is the status of: > >>> > >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-simplfy-__assign_irq_vector.patch > >>>

[PATCH] kconfig: Centralize the selection of semaphore debugging in lib/Kconfig.debug.

2007-02-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove the Kconfig selection of semaphore debugging from the ALPHA and FRV Kconfig files, and centralize it in lib/Kconfig.debug. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- there doesn't seem to be much point in letting individual architectures independently define the same

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:17 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > > enabled. On a thinkpad, the backlight is probably under ACPI control. > > BIOS+ACPI, actually. Without ACPI video loaded, the firmware does > everything correctly. With ACPI

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 2/3] UML - x86_64 thread fixes

2007-02-21 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 08 February 2007 22:57, Jeff Dike wrote: > x86_64 needs some TLS fixes. What was missing was remembering the > child thread id during clone and stuffing it into the child during > each context switch. > > The %fs value is stored separately in the thread structure since the > host

Re: [GIT PULL] audit patches

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:01:27 + Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Misc audit patches (resend again...); the most intrusive one is AUDIT_FD_PAIR, > allowing to log descriptor numbers from syscalls that do not return them in > usual way (i.e. pipe() and socketpair()). It took some massage of

Re: [PATCH] fbdev driver for S3 Trio/Virge, updated

2007-02-21 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 20:34 +0100, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > This patch adds driver for S3 Trio / S3 Virge. Driver is tested > with most versions of S3 Trio and S3 Virge, on i386. > It is tested both as compiled-in and module. It is against > linux-2.6.20 . > > This is version 3. There are some

Re: [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Add support for reshape of a raid6

2007-02-21 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 22 February 2007 00:58, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:36:22 +0100 > Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: Andrew Morton > > > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.raid,gmane.linux.kernel > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Add support for reshape of a raid6 > >

Re: [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Add support for reshape of a raid6

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:36:22 +0100 Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Andrew Morton > > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.raid,gmane.linux.kernel > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Add support for reshape of a raid6 > > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:48:06 -0800 > > Hallo. > > > On Tue, 20

Re: PCI riser cards and PCI irq routing, etc

2007-02-21 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 22:40, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:35:05PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > Do you mean both slots on the riser card? No, they have to be rotated. > > > > Given the table from the manual: > > > The IRQ (interrupt request line) are hardware

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT wasn't set for 2.6.20, can you try 2.6.21-rc1 > with that option disabled? i don't have my laptop with me but i am pretty sure FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT wasn't set for 2.6.20 (i think it showed up as a new option when i did make

Re: [PATCH 1/1] LinuxPPS: Pulse per Second support for Linux

2007-02-21 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:04, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > RFC simply doesn't consider the fact that you can have a PPS source > __without__ a filedes connected with, and a single filedes is > considered __always__ connected with a single PPS source. That's not entirely true. It doesn't

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-21 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Michael K. Edwards wrote: But wait, you say -- the Evil Linker modified, copied, and distributed my POP server too! That makes him subject to the terms of the GPL. And you're right; but to understand what that means, you're going to need to understand how a lawsuit for

Re: 2.6.21rc1 git usb mouse stops working after resume from ram

2007-02-21 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:14:56PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > Hello, > > Today version of Linus git tree has a problem with resuming of usb devices. > My > trackball is no longer working after resume from ram. It not even seen by > lsusb. Newly > plugged devices are no longer

[git patches] parisc updates for 2.6.20

2007-02-21 Thread Kyle McMartin
I know I missed the -rc1 deadline. Sorry about that. Unless Andrew has any objections, I'd like to ask for a merge of the parisc-2.6 git tree... The following changes since commit 62d0cfcb27cf755cebdc93ca95dabc83608007cd: Linus Torvalds (1): Linux 2.6.20 are found in the git repository

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 2.6.20 1/1] fbdev, mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver

2007-02-21 Thread Jaya Kumar
On 2/21/07, Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 11:55 -0500, Jaya Kumar wrote: > > You are right. I will need that. I could put that into struct > fb_deferred_io. So drivers would setup like: > Is it also possible to let the drivers do the 'deferred_io'

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-21 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Ingo Molnar wrote: > in terms of AIO, the best queueing model is i think what the kernel uses > internally: freely ordered, with barrier support. Speaking of AIO, how do you imagine lio_listio is implemented? If there is no asynchronous syscall it would mean creating a threadlet for each

Re: [BUG] at drivers/char/vt.c:3332 do_blank_screen() on resume

2007-02-21 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 13:00 +0200, S.Çağlar Onur wrote: > 15 Şub 2007 Per tarihinde, Andrew Morton şunları yazmıştı: > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:40:32 +0100 Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Contact fbcon people... > > > > There aren't any, basically. Since Tony disappeared James has

Re: [PATCH] free pages in remove_arg_zero()

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:29:04 +0100 Petr Tesak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've found a bug when executing scripts: You've found more than that. > When a script is loaded, load_script() replaces argv[0] with the > name of the interpreter and the filename passed to the exec syscall. >

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 2.6.20 1/1] fbdev, mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver

2007-02-21 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 11:55 -0500, Jaya Kumar wrote: > On 2/20/07, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't you need a way to specify the maximum deferral time? E.g. a field in > > fb_info. > > > > You are right. I will need that. I could put that into struct > fb_deferred_io. So

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 2.6.20 1/1] fbdev, mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver

2007-02-21 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:13 -0500, Jaya Kumar wrote: > On 2/18/07, Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Given that, this would have to be something that's dealt with at the > > subsystem level rather than in individual drivers, hence the desire to > > see something like this more generically

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info

2007-02-21 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 00:08 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > On 2/6/07, James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you can find post the manufacturer and model number we can place it on > > the backlist in fbmon. Also we should figure out what is wrong and fix it. > > It's the

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-21 Thread Nuno Silva
Michael K. Edwards wrote: > Actually, it's quite clear under US law what a derivative work is and > what rights you need to distribute it, and equally clear that > compiling code does not make a "translation" in a copyright sense. > Read Micro Star v. Formgen -- it's good law and it's funny and >

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4) AIO vsyscalls whose semantics resemble those of IEEE 754 floating > point operations, with a clear distinction between a) pipeline state > vs. operands, b) results vs. side effects, and c) coding errors vs. > not-a-number results vs.

Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 17/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: avoid having a bad selector in %gs during context switch

2007-02-21 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Zachary Amsden wrote: > I agree with that, but especially because this is not even the right > place to save and clear gs; when userspace uses an LDT based %gs, you > need to do this all the way back in mmu_context.h before you switch > the LDT out. Yeah. This patch was really just to shut my

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) Facilities for manipulating pools of threadlets, so you can > throttle their concurrency, reprioritize them, and cancel them in > bulk, disposing safely of any dynamically allocated memory, > synchronization primitives, and so forth that

Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 05/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add pagetable accessors to pack and unpack pagetable entries

2007-02-21 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Rusty Russell wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 23:15 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 21:52, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> >>> Add a set of accessors to pack, unpack and modify page table entries >>> (at all levels). This allows a paravirt implementation to

Re: [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Add support for reshape of a raid6

2007-02-21 Thread Oleg Verych
> From: Andrew Morton > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.raid,gmane.linux.kernel > Subject: Re: [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Add support for reshape of a raid6 > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:48:06 -0800 Hallo. > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:35:16 +1100 > NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> +for (i =

Re: [RFC] split NAPI from network device.

2007-02-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Actually, Ben did you determine if this scheme works for your device > which has a single interrupt source yet multiple queues? There is one > driver that, during the conversion, I noticed has a similar issue. > One driver, netxen, has multiple channels, so it just passes in > "bugdet /

Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 17/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: avoid having a bad selector in %gs during context switch

2007-02-21 Thread Zachary Amsden
Andi Kleen wrote: /* +* Temporary hack: zero gs now that we've saved it so that Xen +* doesn't try to reload the old value after changing the GDT +* during the context switch. This can go away once Xen has +* been taught to only reload %gs when it

Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH 3/4] Add support to OProfile for profiling Cell BE SPUs -- update 2

2007-02-21 Thread Carl Love
Subject: Enable SPU switch notification to detect currently active SPU tasks. From: Maynard Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This repost contains the change to move the notify_active flag from ctx->spu to ctx as discussed and agreed to by Arnd on 1/30/07. This patch

Re: [patch 08/13] syslets: x86, add move_user_context() method

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > add the move_user_context() method to move the user-space > > context of one kernel thread to another kernel thread. > > User-space might notice the changed TID, but

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20 1/1] fbdev,mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver

2007-02-21 Thread Jaya Kumar
On 2/21/07, James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could you make it work without the framebuffer. There are embedded LCD displays that have internal memory that need data flushed to them. I'm not sure I understand. What the current implementation does is to use host based framebuffer

Re: [patch 05/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add pagetable accessors to pack and unpack pagetable entries

2007-02-21 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 23:15 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 21:52, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > Add a set of accessors to pack, unpack and modify page table entries > > (at all levels). This allows a paravirt implementation to control the > > contents of pgd/pmd/pte

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > enabled. On a thinkpad, the backlight is probably under ACPI control. BIOS+ACPI, actually. Without ACPI video loaded, the firmware does everything correctly. With ACPI video, the firmware does it, then its changes are clobbered over by ACPI video's.

Re: NO_HZ: timer interrupt stuck [Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1]

2007-02-21 Thread Luca Tettamanti
On 2/22/07, Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 00:04 +0100, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > Hi Thomas, > I'm testing NO_HZ on my machines. On the laptop I see that the timer > interrupt counter is incremented (though slower than HZ). This machine > is running UP kernel. >

Re: freezer problems

2007-02-21 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:06, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:03:14PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > On 02/21, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:14, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:29:01PM +0100, Rafael

Re: NO_HZ: timer interrupt stuck [Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1]

2007-02-21 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 00:04 +0100, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > Hi Thomas, > I'm testing NO_HZ on my machines. On the laptop I see that the timer > interrupt counter is incremented (though slower than HZ). This machine > is running UP kernel. > > On my desktop I see this: > >CPU0

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Documentation of what you can and can't do safely from a threadlet, > given that it runs in an unknown thread context; you can do just about anything from a threadlet, using bog standard procedural programming. (Certain system-calls are

Re: Serial related oops

2007-02-21 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:13:15PM +, Jose Goncalves wrote: > <1>[18840.304048] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual > address 0012 > <1>[18840.313046] printing eip: > <4>[18840.321687] c01bfa7a > <1>[18840.321714] *pde = > <0>[18840.331287] Oops:

Re: [patch 08/13] syslets: x86, add move_user_context() method

2007-02-21 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > add the move_user_context() method to move the user-space > context of one kernel thread to another kernel thread. > User-space might notice the changed TID, but execution, > stack and register contents (general

NO_HZ: timer interrupt stuck [Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1]

2007-02-21 Thread Luca Tettamanti
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Ok, the merge window for 2.6.21 has closed, and -rc1 is out there. > > There's a lot of changes, as is usual for an -rc1 thing, but at least so > far it would seem that 2.6.20 has been a good base, and I don't think we > have anything *really*

Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices?

2007-02-21 Thread CIJOML
Dne čtvrtek 22 únor 2007 00:00 Marcel Holtmann napsal(a): > Hi Michal, > > > I need this for differing Option "XkbModel" in Xorg, so I can bind to > > each device it's model and has correct xev's scancodes based on model. So > > I prefer to have as Phis just only BDADDR, because for me this

Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices?

2007-02-21 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Michal, > how can you differ what is src and what is dst, when device can connect > first time from hub to keyboard and later keyboard to hub? the source is always the host (meaning the adapter) and the destination is always the device. Regards Marcel - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3) Reworked threadlet scheduling to allow tens of thousands of blocked > threadlets to be dispatched efficiently in a controlled, throttled, > non-cache-and-MMU-thrashing manner, immediately following the softirq > that unblocks the I/O

Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices?

2007-02-21 Thread CIJOML
Marcel how can you differ what is src and what is dst, when device can connect first time from hub to keyboard and later keyboard to hub? Michal Dne středa 21 únor 2007 23:53 Marcel Holtmann napsal(a): > Hi Dmitry, > > > > > > can anybody reply to this and share his/her opinion? > > > > > > > >

Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices?

2007-02-21 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Michal, > I need this for differing Option "XkbModel" in Xorg, so I can bind to each > device it's model and has correct xev's scancodes based on model. > So I prefer to have as Phis just only BDADDR, because for me this doesn't > make > sense to have there device to which keyboard connect.

Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices?

2007-02-21 Thread CIJOML
I need this for differing Option "XkbModel" in Xorg, so I can bind to each device it's model and has correct xev's scancodes based on model. So I prefer to have as Phis just only BDADDR, because for me this doesn't make sense to have there device to which keyboard connect. Then I should have 1

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.20 kernel hang with USB drive and vfat doing ftruncate

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:50:23 -0500 (EST) Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > + if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) { > > Is that really the correct test? I don't know enough about the memory > management subsystem to say one way or the other. What's special

Re: Serial related oops

2007-02-21 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:13:15PM +, Jose Goncalves wrote: > New devolpments. > I have upgraded to 2.6.16.41, applied a patch sent by Frederik that > removed the changed made in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/23/266 and > activated some more kernel debug, i.e., CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL, >

Re: Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices?

2007-02-21 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Dmitry, > > > > can anybody reply to this and share his/her opinion? > > > > > > Input core already exports uniq to udev and also via sysfs. > > > > so do you think it would be better to create phys as a string of the > > source and destination address like "-" for Bluetooth. And > > then keep

Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)

2007-02-21 Thread Alan
Stick some printk calls in drivers/ata/libata-eh.c in ata_eh_suspend, or turn on all the ATA debug and shutdown, the code should issue a cache flush followed by a standbynow1 command for each disk. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We've tested it and found no problems so far. It's definitely > better than what's there now. :) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would be good to have Eric also ack them as safe and obvious. Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I

Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices?

2007-02-21 Thread CIJOML
Hi Dmitry, there are correct values, but not in /proc/bus/input/devices, where is value non of my devices owns. Michal Dne středa 21 únor 2007 23:43 Dmitry Torokhov napsal(a): > On 2/21/07, CIJOML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So where is that damned bug, that I don't see those uniq

Re: [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Add support for reshape of a raid6

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:35:16 +1100 NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + for (i = conf->raid_disks ; i-- ; ) { That statement should be dragged out, shot, stomped on then ceremonially incinerated. What's wrong with doing for (i = 0; i < conf->raid_disks; i++) { in a

Re: Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices?

2007-02-21 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 2/21/07, Marcel Holtmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Dmitry, > > can anybody reply to this and share his/her opinion? > > Input core already exports uniq to udev and also via sysfs. so do you think it would be better to create phys as a string of the source and destination address like

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Greg KH wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.5 release. > > This will probably be the last release of the 2.6.19-stable series, so > if there are patches that you feel should be applied to that tree, > please let me know. This is the rest of the NAPI fixes for

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-21 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 2/21/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe this threadlet concept is what user-space will want to use for programmable parallelism. This is brilliant. Now it needs just four more things: 1) Documentation of what you can and can't do safely from a threadlet, given that it

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 14:18 -0800, Alex Romosan wrote: > Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have exactly the same problem with 2.6.21-rc1 on a thinkpad t40 > with an ati radeon card. the machine boots up but the backlight never > comes on. 2.6.20 worked okay. Can you have a look at

Re: Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices?

2007-02-21 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Dmitry, > > can anybody reply to this and share his/her opinion? > > Input core already exports uniq to udev and also via sysfs. so do you think it would be better to create phys as a string of the source and destination address like "-" for Bluetooth. And then keep the uniq empty like all

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Andi Kleen wrote: >>> What is the status of: >>> >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-simplfy-__assign_irq_vector.patch >>>

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 4/4] UML - lock host ldt retrieval

2007-02-21 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 21:25, Jeff Dike wrote: > Add some locking to host_ldt_entries to prevent racing when reading > LDT information from the host. Please remove GFP_KERNEL allocation under spin_lock - simplest way is using a mutex unless this can be important for performance. > @@

Re: PCI riser cards and PCI irq routing, etc

2007-02-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:35:05PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Do you mean both slots on the riser card? No, they have to be rotated. > > Given the table from the manual: > > > The IRQ (interrupt request line) are hardware lines over which devices > > can send interrupt signals to the

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.5 release. >> >> This will probably be the last release of the 2.6.19-stable series, so >> if there are patches that you feel should be applied to that tree, >> please let me know. > > This patch

Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices?

2007-02-21 Thread CIJOML
So where is that damned bug, that I don't see those uniq BDADDRESSes there? Michal Dne středa 21 únor 2007 23:27 Dmitry Torokhov napsal(a): > On 2/21/07, CIJOML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > can anybody reply to this and share his/her opinion? > > Input core already exports uniq to

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Greg KH wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.5 release. > > This will probably be the last release of the 2.6.19-stable series, so > if there are patches that you feel should be applied to that tree, > please let me know. This patch should go in 2.6.19 and 2.6.20

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1 [git bisect]

2007-02-21 Thread Pete Harlan
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:06:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said, one thing to worry about when doing bisection: the kernel > configuration. This bit me badly the one time I did a git bisect; it kept ping- ponging around a big change (sata? xtables?) that required me to answer the

Re: Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices?

2007-02-21 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 2/21/07, CIJOML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, can anybody reply to this and share his/her opinion? Input core already exports uniq to udev and also via sysfs. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 00:04 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:46:16 -0500 Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > Since the most recent successful for me kernel 2.6.19-rc6-mm1, I've >> > tried few times to build more

Re: [-mm patch] UNION_FS must depend on SLAB

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:13:56 -0500 Josef Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:37:34AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > On 2/20/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > CC fs/unionfs/copyup.o > >

Re: [patch 05/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add pagetable accessors to pack and unpack pagetable entries

2007-02-21 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Andi Kleen wrote: > Do you have some lmbench numbers before/after this change? > iirc at least fork and exit do a lot of pte accesses in various forms. > If it's measurable it might be needed to patch those for the native case. > I don't. I think Rusty ran some numbers and found the pte

Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review

2007-02-21 Thread Andi Kleen
> commit 2fb12a9bca5ad9aa6dcd2c639b4a7656a8843ef8 > Author: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue Feb 13 13:26:25 2007 +0100 > > [PATCH] x86-64: survive having no irq mapping for a vector Putting that patch into stable would be a good idea, agreed. -Andi - To unsubscribe from

Re: [patch 17/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: avoid having a bad selector in %gs during context switch

2007-02-21 Thread Keir Fraser
On 21/2/07 22:10, "Andi Kleen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> /* >> + * Temporary hack: zero gs now that we've saved it so that Xen >> + * doesn't try to reload the old value after changing the GDT >> + * during the context switch. This can go away once Xen has >> + * been taught to only

Re: [patch 05/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add pagetable accessors to pack and unpack pagetable entries

2007-02-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 21:52, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Add a set of accessors to pack, unpack and modify page table entries > (at all levels). This allows a paravirt implementation to control the > contents of pgd/pmd/pte entries. For example, Xen uses this to > convert the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20] gfs2: add newline to printk message

2007-02-21 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Sorry for the delay, patch now added to the gfs2 git tree. Thanks, Steve. On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 17:29 +, Richard Fearn wrote: > Patch for the 2.6.20 stable tree that adds a missing newline to one of > the printk messages in fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Fearn <[EMAIL

Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)

2007-02-21 Thread Francesco Pretto
Hi, we are a couple of users suffering both the same problem: a weird hard disk noise emitted when shutting down, immediately after the main power is cut from the pc/notebook. We believe that the noise is a symptom of an emergency head parking, usually performed on the drives when the the power

Re: [patch 17/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: avoid having a bad selector in %gs during context switch

2007-02-21 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Andi Kleen wrote: > Sorry, but i don't really want that unconditionally in the context switch. > Adding a paravirt ops for it would be also ugly. Can Xen be fixed? > Yes. I'm happy to drop this one. J - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Fwd: Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices?

2007-02-21 Thread CIJOML
Hi, can anybody reply to this and share his/her opinion? Thanks a lot Michal -- Předaná zpráva -- Subject: Re: Phis in /proc/bus/input/devices same for all devices? Date: středa 21 únor 2007 23:06 From: Marcel Holtmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CIJOML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

Re: [patch 17/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: avoid having a bad selector in %gs during context switch

2007-02-21 Thread Andi Kleen
> /* > + * Temporary hack: zero gs now that we've saved it so that Xen > + * doesn't try to reload the old value after changing the GDT > + * during the context switch. This can go away once Xen has > + * been taught to only reload %gs when it absolutely must. > +

Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

2007-02-21 Thread Vincent Legoll
On 2/21/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But serious, The second "abnormal" error "ATA: abnormal status 0x8 on port 0xF88597DF", I got feedback from, by Tejun. He confirmed that, as I thought, this was a cosmectic error messages for "No devices found". I get 0x7F, but already knew it

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-21 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Actually, it's quite clear under US law what a derivative work is and what rights you need to distribute it, and equally clear that compiling code does not make a "translation" in a copyright sense. Read Micro Star v. Formgen -- it's good law and it's funny and readable. I've drafted summaries

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add myself for cxacru (in drivers/usb/atm/)

2007-02-21 Thread Simon Arlott
I've acquired a second device for testing and plan to make some changes in the near future to export all the device stats to sysfs (based on my proposed patch to add them to the proc file ~2007-01-30). Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- MAINTAINERS |5 + 1 files changed,

Re: [RFT] bridge: eliminate port_check workqueue

2007-02-21 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 02/21, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > I would rather put it in a bugfix patchset for 2.6.21 and 2.6.20-stable OK. Even better. Could you also remove br_private.h:BR_PORT_DEBOUNCE then? Oleg. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20 1/1] fbdev,mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
Could you make it work without the framebuffer. There are embedded LCD displays that have internal memory that need data flushed to them. On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Jaya Kumar wrote: > On 2/20/07, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't you need a way to specify the maximum deferral

Re: [PATCH 05/05] Linux Kernel Markers, non optimized architectures

2007-02-21 Thread Karim Yaghmour
- KRYPTIVA PACKAGED MESSAGE - PACKAGING TYPE: SIGNED Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > The problem with your proposal, I guess, is that people will have to add a supplementary parameter to the macro. > > It is not uncommon to have two slightly versions of macros/functions in the kernel

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.20 kernel hang with USB drive and vfat doing ftruncate

2007-02-21 Thread Alan Stern
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:22:17 -0500 (EST) > Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > It seems like usb-storage and aio are completely off in the weeds. > > > > > Ideas? > > > > > > > > It

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