Re: [patch 1/1] MM: detach_vmas_to_be_unmapped fix

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi, On Wednesday, 21. February 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- mm/mmap.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/mmap.c~Avoiding-mmap-fragmentation_fixup mm/mmap.c --- linux-2.6_clean/mm/mmap.c~Avoiding-mmap-fragmentation_fixup 2007-02-21

Re: freezer problems

2007-02-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
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 J. Wysocki wrote: On Tuesday, 20 February 2007 01:32, Rafael J. Wysocki

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Daniel Walker wrote: Here's the final commit from the bisect which caused it . It says No changes to existing functionality ? Ok, it wouldn't be the first time some change that is supposed to change nothing does actually change something. That said, one thing to worry

[SKY2] Does anyone have this driver working?

2007-02-21 Thread Patrick Ale
Hi, And now, for something completely different, no libata ;-) I was wondering if any of you ever got the sky2 driver working (gigabit network card found in most Siemens E laptops). Which kernel I am trying, 2.6.17-gentoo (the kernel on the install CD), 2.6.20, the latest gits, nothing works.

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:06 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: That said, considering that you did get a commit that doesn't look entirely unlikely (and that clearly changes things that are relevant), I suspect you did actually find the right one. Yup, thats the one which switches off PIT after we

Re: request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1 (is Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1)

2007-02-21 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:12:04AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:53:45 -0800 (PST)), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: But there's a

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

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
this is the v3 release of the syslet/threadlet subsystem: http://redhat.com/~mingo/syslet-patches/ This release came a few days later than i originally wanted, because i've implemented many fundamental changes to the code. The biggest highlights of v3 are: - Threadlets: the introduction

[patch 01/13] syslets: add async.h include file, kernel-side API definitions

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] add include/linux/async.h which contains the kernel-side API declarations. it also provides NOP stubs for the !CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT case. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/async.h

[patch 02/13] syslets: add syslet.h include file, user API/ABI definitions

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] add include/linux/syslet.h which contains the user-space API/ABI declarations. Add the new header to include/linux/Kbuild as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/Kbuild |1

[patch 03/13] syslets: generic kernel bits

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] add the kernel generic bits - these are present even if !CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/exec.c |4 include/linux/sched.h | 23

[patch 07/13] syslets: x86, add create_async_thread() method

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] add the create_async_thread() way of creating kernel threads: these threads first execute a kernel function and when they return from it they execute user-space. An architecture must implement this interface before it can turn CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT on.

[patch 10/13] syslets: x86: enable ASYNC_SUPPORT

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] enable CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT on x86. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386/Kconfig |4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig

[patch 04/13] syslets: core code

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] the core syslet / async system calls infrastructure code. Is built only if CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT is enabled. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/Makefile |1 kernel/async.c | 958

[patch 05/13] syslets: core, documentation

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add Documentation/syslet-design.txt with a high-level description of the syslet concepts. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/syslet-design.txt | 137

[patch 09/13] syslets: x86, mark async unsafe syscalls

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark clone() and fork() as not available for async execution. Both need an intact user context beneath them to work. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386/kernel/ioport.c |6 ++

[patch 12/13] syslets: x86: optimized copy_uatom()

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] provide an optimized assembly version of the copy_uatom() method. This is about 3 times faster than the C version. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386/lib/getuser.S | 115

[patch 13/13] syslets: x86: optimized sys_umem_add()

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] provide an optimized assembly version of sys_umem_add(). It is about 2 times faster than the C version. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386/lib/getuser.S | 27

[patch 06/13] x86: split FPU state from task state

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Split the FPU save area from the task struct. This allows easy migration of FPU context, and it's generally cleaner. It also allows the following two (future) optimizations: 1) allocate the right size for the actual cpu rather than 512 bytes always 2)

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

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
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 purpose and FPU) are still the same. An architecture

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

2007-02-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:47:37AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:31:41 -0500 Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

[patch 11/13] syslets: x86, wire up the syslet system calls

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wire up the new syslet / async system call syscalls and make it thus available to user-space. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S |6 ++

[PATCH]

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
This is the new display intreface. Its goal is to provide a standard interface to various types of displays. Currently we have auxdisplay, output acpi device and the now defunct lcd class in the backlight directory. Please apply. Signed-Off: James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urN -X

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc1

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:06 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Daniel Walker wrote: Here's the final commit from the bisect which caused it . It says No changes to existing functionality ? Ok, it wouldn't be the first time some change that is supposed to change

Re: [PATCH]: change rivafb_remove to __devexit

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
Acked-By: James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Prarit Bhargava wrote: Resubmitting with wider audience (akpm lkml). Change rivafb_remove to __deviexit to fix MODPOST warnings: WARNING: drivers/video/riva/rivafb.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:rivafb_remove

Re: dirty balancing deadlock

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:11:55 +0100 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this? I still don't understand this bug. Solves the FUSE deadlock, but not the throttle_vm_writeout() one. I'll try to tackle that one as well. If the per-bdi dirty counter goes below 16,

[PATCH 1/2] usbatm: Increment module refcount when atm device is opened.

2007-02-21 Thread Simon Arlott
Increment usbatm driver module refcount when atm device is opened, this prevents the driver for the device being removed if it's in use. (I continue to allow removing the driver without unplugging the device if it's not being used). No problems occur if the atm device is open while the device

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
Alot of patches have been flowing into the layer. So would you like to leave it as Maintained or change it to Odd Fixes? (Maintained = a maintainer) From the MAINTAINTERS file: Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. Maintained: Someone actually

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
Your alive!!! I thought something happened to you. On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 13:24 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:05:26PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:26:10 + (GMT) James Simmons wrote:

[PATCH 2/2] usbatm: Detect usb device shutdown and ignore failed urbs.

2007-02-21 Thread Simon Arlott
Detect usb device shutdown and ignore failed urbs. This happens when the driver is unloaded or the device is unplugged. Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c |4 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark framebuffer as Orphan

2007-02-21 Thread Randy Dunlap
James Simmons wrote: ... If you start doing this, there are a lot more entries that need to be changed... Which of Supported/Maintained/Odd Fixes is written doesn't matter in practice. What matters is that James' email address gets into the entry so that patches and bug reports reach

Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] atyfb - system hangs at bootup prior to enabling framebuffer console -- linux 2.6.18 (fwd)

2007-02-21 Thread James Simmons
Andrew please apply. Acked-By: James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:19:12 +0200 From: Ville Syrjälä [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] atyfb - system hangs at bootup

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: [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 time?

[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, 5

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 was

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] libata: test major version in ata_id_is_sata()

2007-02-21 Thread Tejun Heo
Test major version in ata_id_is_sata() not separately. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/include/linux/ata.h b/include/linux/ata.h index 272736e..c331da2 100644 --- a/include/linux/ata.h +++ b/include/linux/ata.h @@ -282,7 +282,6 @@ struct ata_taskfile { }; #define

Re: [git patches] libata ACPI support

2007-02-21 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:49:17PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Can you narrow down the -gitX release further? i.e. does 2.6.20-git13 perform at full speed? -git13 includes several libata changes, but does not include the ACPI additions. Since this is an ACPI execution error in the bug,

Re: Sata_via problems in a Vintage2-AE1: Resume

2007-02-21 Thread Tejun Heo
Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: A Dimarts 13 Febrer 2007 17:19, Jean Delvare va escriure: Le Mardi 13 Février 2007 17:11, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda a écrit : A Dimarts 13 Febrer 2007 12:20, Jean Delvare va escriure: (...) *If* the VT8251 needs the VIA IRQ quirk, then the attached patch may

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Don't change transfer speed while requests are in flight

2007-02-21 Thread Alan
+ * If we are in an interrupt, it should be safe to issue + * SETFEATURES manually, since there shouldn't be any requests in + * flight. There may be error recovery going on from a timeout on another processor. I don't see how your code protects against that (and the old code is

Re: libata FUA revisited

2007-02-21 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: Aside from the issue above, as I mentioned elsewhere, lots of NCQ drives don't support non-NCQ FUA writes.. To me, using the NCQ FUA bit on such drives doesn't seem to be a good idea. Maybe I'm just too chicken but it's not like we can gain a lot from doing FUA at this point.

Re: Sata_via problems in a Vintage2-AE1: Resume

2007-02-21 Thread Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
A Dimecres 21 Febrer 2007 12:42, Tejun Heo va escriure: Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: A Dimarts 13 Febrer 2007 17:19, Jean Delvare va escriure: Le Mardi 13 Février 2007 17:11, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda a écrit : A Dimarts 13 Febrer 2007 12:20, Jean Delvare va escriure: (...) *If*

Re: [git patches] libata ACPI support

2007-02-21 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:49:17PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Can you narrow down the -gitX release further? i.e. does 2.6.20-git13 perform at full speed? -git13 includes several libata changes, but does not include the ACPI additions. Since this is an ACPI execution error in the bug,

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:

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 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

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 this

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 /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-mm2/fs/unionfs/copyup.c: In

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel upgrades

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 recent

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: 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 same

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: 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 udev and

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 should go in

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
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: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel upgrades

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 the

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 src-dst for Bluetooth. And then keep the uniq empty like all

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 runs

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: 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 src-dst

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 BDADDRESSes

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 didn't think

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: 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 src-dst for Bluetooth. And then keep the uniq

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: 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: 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. Then I

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? Input core

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 they're

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: send

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 doesn't make

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 purpose

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* scary

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: [#1]

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: 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 CPU1

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 J. Wysocki

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel upgrades

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. On my

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: [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 is

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

2007-02-21 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Davide Libenzi davidel@xmailserver.org 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 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 they may

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. exceptions

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 UltraSharp UXGA

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 visible.

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 drivers

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 been

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. However,

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' themselves?

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 request

[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: 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: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel upgrades

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: 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 lines over

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 minor

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 the

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