[PATCH] SCSI: Delete unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete apparently unused header file drivers/scsi/pci2000.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pci2000.h b/drivers/scsi/pci2000.h deleted file mode 100644 index 0ebd8ce..000 --- a/drivers/scsi/pci2000.h +++ /dev/null @@ -1,197 +0,0 @@

Re: Suspend to disk bug 2.6.21-rc2-git1

2007-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I'm not sure what version did exacly caused susped to disk problems but > anyway, in 2.6.21-rc2-git1, suspend to disk breaks ACPI. ACPI events do not > even emit ACPI interrupts. Suspend to ram works nicely. Is 2.6.21-latest better? There were many problems in suspend area, hopefully they

[PATCH] LANMEDIA: Delete unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete apparently unused header file drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_media.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- not sure who maintainer is here. diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_media.h b/drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_media.h deleted file mode 100644 index ddcc004..000

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.28 for 2.6.20

2007-03-10 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:56:57PM -0500, michael chang wrote: > On 3/10/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >BTW, Con, I think that you should base your work on 2.6.20.[23] and not > >2.6.20 next time, due to this conflict. It will get wider adoption. ^^ > Maybe I'm

[PATCH] SYSKONNECT: Delete unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete apparently unused header file drivers/net/skfp/h/lnkstat.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/drivers/net/skfp/h/lnkstat.h b/drivers/net/skfp/h/lnkstat.h deleted file mode 100644 index c73dcd9..000 --- a/drivers/net/skfp/h/lnkstat.h +++ /dev/null

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Ok. To be honest, you are the first reporter that seems to have read > > the documentation above, but not understood what to do. > > thanks for the compliment ;-) _I_ very much know what to do (i mailed > the right person after all ;), but i dont really count and on the 6 (Can we get

[PATCH] Remove unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove apparently unused header file drivers/net/chelsio/vsc8244_reg.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- not sure who the maintainer is here. diff --git a/drivers/net/chelsio/vsc8244_reg.h b/drivers/net/chelsio/vsc8244_reg.h deleted file mode 100644 index

s2ram (was Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions)

2007-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Even if one doesn't use the fb console at all, radeonfb apparently > > > is still required on some ThinkPad models to work around BIOS bugs: > > > > > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_high_power_drain_in_ACPI_sleep#Radeon_GPU_not_powered_off > > > > > > s2ram should be

[PATCH] I2O: Delete unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete apparently unused header file. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_lan.h b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_lan.h deleted file mode 100644 index 6502b81..000 --- a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_lan.h +++ /dev/null @@ -1,159 +0,0 @@ -/* - *

[PATCH] MPT FUSION: Delete unused header files.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete apparently unused header files. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_inb.h| 221 -- drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_log_fc.h | 89 2 files changed, 310 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - timerfd core ...

2007-03-10 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 13:44 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > > > That's what the sigevent structure is for -- to describe how events > > should be signaled to userspace, whether by signal delivery, thread > > creation, or queuing to event completion

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.28 for 2.6.20

2007-03-10 Thread michael chang
On 3/10/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, Con, I think that you should base your work on 2.6.20.[23] and not 2.6.20 next time, due to this conflict. It will get wider adoption. Maybe I'm naive, but I find this hard to understand -- 2.6.20.2 didn't exist when Con published his

Re: [patch 00/20] 2.6.20-stable review

2007-03-10 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:43:57PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:16:03PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.20.3 release. > > > > Oh, the rolled up patch is at: > >

Re: [patch 00/20] 2.6.20-stable review

2007-03-10 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:16:03PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: >> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.20.3 release. > > Oh, the rolled up patch is at: > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/patch-2.6.20.3-rc1.gz You mean:

Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - timerfd core ...

2007-03-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > That's what the sigevent structure is for -- to describe how events > should be signaled to userspace, whether by signal delivery, thread > creation, or queuing to event completion ports. If if you think > extending it would be bad, I can show you

[PATCH] DRM: Delete unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete apparently unused header file drivers/char/drm/via_mm.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/drivers/char/drm/via_mm.h b/drivers/char/drm/via_mm.h deleted file mode 100644 index d57efda..000 --- a/drivers/char/drm/via_mm.h +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 10 2007 22:27, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:23:41PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> Whether the 'working config file path' should change when you do >> 'Save as Alternate' or not, is a menuconfig axiom. Ask Sam Ravnborg >> if you want it changed :-) > >Current

[PATCH] Delete unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete apparently unused header file drivers/char/digi.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- not sure who the proper maintainer is on this one. diff --git a/drivers/char/digi.h b/drivers/char/digi.h deleted file mode 100644 index 19df0e8..000 ---

[PATCH] USER-MODE LINUX: Delete unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete the apparently unused header file arch/um/kernel/tt/include/mode_kern-tt.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- this one i'm not so sure about as there is a header file named "mode_kern_tt.h", and those names are uncomfortably similar. diff --git

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:23:41PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Whether the 'working config file path' should change when you do > 'Save as Alternate' or not, is a menuconfig axiom. Ask Sam Ravnborg > if you want it changed :-) Current behaviour is not logical but on the other hand I do not

[PATCH] PPC: Delete unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete apparently unused header file arch/ppc/syslib/cpc710.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/arch/ppc/syslib/cpc710.h b/arch/ppc/syslib/cpc710.h deleted file mode 100644 index 5299bf8..000 --- a/arch/ppc/syslib/cpc710.h +++ /dev/null @@ -1,81 +0,0

[PATCH] PPC: Delete unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete apparently unused header file arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc834x_itx.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc834x_itx.h b/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc834x_itx.h deleted file mode 100644 index 174ca4e..000 ---

[PATCH] M68K: Delete unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete the apparently unused header file arch/m68k/atari/atasound.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/arch/m68k/atari/atasound.h b/arch/m68k/atari/atasound.h deleted file mode 100644 index 1362762..000 --- a/arch/m68k/atari/atasound.h +++ /dev/null @@

[PATCH] ARM: Remove unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete the apparently unused header file arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/bast.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/bast.h b/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/bast.h deleted file mode 100644 index e985437..000 --- a/arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/bast.h +++

Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - timerfd core ...

2007-03-10 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 12:41 -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > > Try reading the timer_create man page. > > > > In short, you're limited to a single clock, so you can't set timers > > based on wall-clock time (subject to NTP correction), monotomic time

Re: 2.6.21-rc suspend regression: sysfs deadlock

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Stern
[For the start of this thread, see .] On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So you just pointed to *another* data structure that apparently violates > the "you MUST use refcounting" rule. > > What is it with you people?

Re: netconsole system freeze when cable unplugged

2007-03-10 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:42:43PM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > Simon Arlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > When I unplug the cable the system just stops responding to anything, > > at all. No message is printed to the console when the cable is plugged > > back in. > > rtl8139_interrupt

Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - timerfd core ...

2007-03-10 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: > Try reading the timer_create man page. > > In short, you're limited to a single clock, so you can't set timers > based on wall-clock time (subject to NTP correction), monotomic time > (not subject to NTP, will not ever go backwards or skip ticks), the

Re: [PATCH] Use more gcc extensions in the Linux headers

2007-03-10 Thread Trent Piepho
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Well, since Rusty's macro was hoddible *anyway*, I don't think I'd apply > it as-is. Breaking icc for something that ugly and not-very-important > simply makes no sense. > > There are better ways to do this.

RE: [PATCH 1/2] NET: Multiple queue network device support

2007-03-10 Thread Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
> -Original Message- > From: Thomas Graf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 6:35 PM > To: Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P > Cc: Kok, Auke-jan H; David Miller; Garzik, Jeff; > netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > Brandeburg, Jesse; Kok, Auke; Ronciak, John

Re: [PATCH v2] Bitbanging i2c bus driver using the GPIO API

2007-03-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Haavard, On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:13:28 +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > This is a very simple bitbanging i2c bus driver utilizing the new > arch-neutral GPIO API. Useful for chips that don't have a built-in > i2c controller, additional i2c busses, or testing purposes. > > To use, include

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > Hello, > > > > Right. Can't be 100% sure but without the patch it would have probably > > > failed by now so I guess the patch is ok. Not sure how to make usb mouse > > > plugging/unplugging process automatic ;-) > > > > echo FOO

Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - timerfd core ...

2007-03-10 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 23:36 -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 22:53 -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > > > > > > > So extend the existing POSIX timer API to deliver expiry events via

[SOUND] ice1712: build fixes

2007-03-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
CC [M] sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.o sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.c:290: error: snd_ice1712_mixer_digmix_route_ac97 causes a section type conflict sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.c:1630: error: snd_ice1712_eeprom causes a section type conflict sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.c:1894: error:

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Jan Engelhardt - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:04:38PM +0100] | | On Mar 10 2007 21:50, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | > | >Actually, I always work with only .config file too... and the reason I | >wrote you is Vladimir's mail... so either menuconfig does not work as | >expected or users does not expect a

Re: [PATCH] Add nForce MCP61 support to i2c-nforce2

2007-03-10 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Petr, On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:00:03 +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Hello, > patch below adds support for nVidia's SMBus adapter present on Gateway's > GT5414E > motherboard (ECS's MCP61 PM-AM). Patch is for current Linus's git tree. We already have a patch doing exactly this in -mm:

Re: [SOUND] ice1712: build fixes

2007-03-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:26:41PM +, Ralf Baechle wrote: Whops, please ignore this one, I send the wrong file. Ralf - 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: Pluggable Schedulers (was: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler)

2007-03-10 Thread William Lee Irwin III
William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Last I checked there were limits to runtime configurability centering >> around only supporting a compiled-in set of scheduling drivers, unless >> Peter's taken it the rest of the way without my noticing. It's unclear >> what you have in mind in terms of dynamic

[SOUND] ice1712: build fixes

2007-03-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
CC [M] sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.o sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.c:290: error: snd_ice1712_mixer_digmix_route_ac97 causes a section type conflict sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.c:1630: error: snd_ice1712_eeprom causes a section type conflict sound/pci/ice1712/ice1712.c:1894: error:

Re: refcounting drivers' data structures used in sysfs buffers

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag, 9. März 2007 21:08 schrieb Alan Stern: > > After some more thought, I basically agree with what Oliver wrote > > originally.  sysfs_dirent is indeed the logical place to store the kref > > pointer.  However it needs to be used during open and

Re: [PATCH] Bitbanging i2c bus driver using the GPIO API

2007-03-10 Thread Jean Delvare
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:30:12 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > --- a/include/linux/i2c-id.h > > +++ b/include/linux/i2c-id.h > > @@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ > > #define I2C_HW_B_EM28XX0x01001f /* em28xx video capture cards > > */ > > #define I2C_HW_B_CX2341X 0x010020 /* Conexant CX2341X

[SOUND] hda_intel: build fix

2007-03-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
CC [M] sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.o sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1508: error: position_fix_list causes a section type conflict Gcc like its __devinitdata readable not const, it seems. An alternative fix would be to remove the __devinitdata attribute but that would result in slight runtime bloat.

Re: RSDL v0.28 for 2.6.20

2007-03-10 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:09:35PM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > > >Here is an update for RSDL to version 0.28 > > > >Full patch: > >http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20-sched-rsdl-0.28.patch > > > >Series: >

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 10 2007 21:50, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > >Actually, I always work with only .config file too... and the reason I >wrote you is Vladimir's mail... so either menuconfig does not work as >expected or users does not expect a such behaviour of menuconfig. The latter. Though this behavior has

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Jan Engelhardt - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:23:41PM +0100] | | On Mar 10 2007 20:50, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | > | >lets see to the following scenario: | > | > 1) I've taken a pure Linux kernel (no .config at all) | > 2) I started menuconfig, made a few changes and saved the file | > to

Re: [PATCH] proc: maps protection

2007-03-10 Thread Kees Cook
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:01:41PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >I just don't know what it will break - we're changing things so that user A > >cannot monitor user B's memory maps. I feel that it's sure to break > >various people's fancy custom system activity monitoring/logging setups, >

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 10 2007 20:50, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > >lets see to the following scenario: > > 1) I've taken a pure Linux kernel (no .config at all) > 2) I started menuconfig, made a few changes and saved the file > to .config1 as alternate > 3) Then I made some additional

Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 RSDL results

2007-03-10 Thread Mark Lord
Con Kolivas wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2007 05:07, Mark Lord wrote: Mmm.. when it's good, it's *really* good. My desktop feels snappier and all of that. .. But when it's bad, it stinks. Like when a "make -j2" kernel rebuild is happening in a background window And that's bad. When you say

RSDL v0.28 for 2.6.20 -> backport to 2.6.18.8

2007-03-10 Thread Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]
Hi all, > > Here is an update for RSDL to version 0.28 > > Full patch: > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20-sched- > rsdl-0.28.patch > > Series: > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20/ > > The patch to get you from 0.26 to 0.28: >

Re: RSDL v0.28 for 2.6.20

2007-03-10 Thread Stephen Clark
Con Kolivas wrote: Here is an update for RSDL to version 0.28 Full patch: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20-sched-rsdl-0.28.patch Series: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20/ The patch to get you from 0.26 to 0.28:

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Jan Engelhardt - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:50:56PM +0100] | On Mar 10 2007 19:46, Vladimir wrote: | >> On Mar 10 2007 19:06, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | >> >[Vladimir - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:05:42PM +0300] | >> >| Here's the problem: | >> >| 1. Unpack the kernel sources, run make menuconfig. | >>

Re: [patch 2/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - signalfd core ...

2007-03-10 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > > +int signalfd_deliver(struct sighand_struct *sighand, int sig, > > +struct siginfo *info) > > +{ > > + int nsig = 0; > > + struct list_head *pos; > > + struct signalfd_ctx *ctx; > > + > > +

Re: irda rmmod lockdep trace.

2007-03-10 Thread Samuel Ortiz
Hi Dave, On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:54:36PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > modprobe irda ; rmmod irda in 2.6.21rc3 gets me the spew below.. Well it seems that we call __irias_delete_object() from hashbin_delete(). Then __irias_delete_object() calls itself hashbin_delete() again. We're trying to get

Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 RSDL results

2007-03-10 Thread James Cloos
> "Con" == Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Con> It's sad that sched_yield is still in our graphics card drivers ... I just did a recursive grep(1) on my mirror of the freedesktop git repos for sched_yield. This only checked the master branches as I did not bother to script up

BUG: Killing and reviving files with USB disks

2007-03-10 Thread Marti Raudsepp
Hello LKML, BUG: Killing and reviving files with USB disks This is a reproducible demonstration of the problem initially reported in my previous e-mail, titled "PROBLEM: 'bio too big device' after moving to a USB disk" (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/7/657) Given that my previous e-mail appears

Re: [PATCH 1/1] hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset

2007-03-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nathan Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > + /* try to stay on the same cpuset */ > > > + if (dest_cpu == NR_CPUS) { > > > + p->cpus_allowed = cpuset_cpus_allowed(p); > > > + dest_cpu = any_online_cpu(p->cpus_allowed); > > > + } > > > > what's the practical effect of this -

Re: [PATCH] Use more gcc extensions in the Linux headers

2007-03-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 10 2007 16:18, Andreas Schwab wrote: >Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> So in case they _ARE_ compatible, we get the compile error, as far as I >> can see it. There's a ! too much in the !!_builtin line. > >The error case is when the types are compatible. That means

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/6] Rotating Staircase DeadLine scheduler for -mm

2007-03-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 11 mars 2007 à 01:03 +1100, Con Kolivas a écrit : > On Saturday 10 March 2007 22:49, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Oops > > > > ⇒ http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8166 > > Thanks very much. I can't get your config to boot on qemu, but could you > please try this debugging

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 10 2007 19:46, Vladimir wrote: >> On Mar 10 2007 19:06, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: >> >[Vladimir - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:05:42PM +0300] >> >| Here's the problem: >> >| 1. Unpack the kernel sources, run make menuconfig. >> >| 2. Mark the necessary options. >> >| 3. Pick "Save an

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 10 2007 19:35, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: >[Jan Engelhardt - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:26:03PM +0100] >| On Mar 10 2007 19:06, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: >| >[Vladimir - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:05:42PM +0300] >| >| Here's the problem: >| >| 1. Unpack the kernel sources, run make menuconfig. >| >|

Re: Pluggable Schedulers (was: [ANNOUNCE] RSDL completely fair starvation free interactive cpu scheduler)

2007-03-10 Thread Al Boldi
William Lee Irwin III wrote: > William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >> A useful exercise may also be enumerating > >> your expectations and having those who actually work with the code > >> describe how well those are actually met. > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:34:25AM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > A

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Jan Engelhardt - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:26:03PM +0100] | | On Mar 10 2007 19:06, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | >[Vladimir - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:05:42PM +0300] | >| Here's the problem: | >| 1. Unpack the kernel sources, run make menuconfig. | >| 2. Mark the necessary options. | >| 3. Pick

Re: question about periodic clocks

2007-03-10 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Uuurg. That's ugly. clockevents expect a per CPU timer especially for > dynamic ticks. If you cannot provide a per cpu timer, then you probably > need to use the broadcast trick. > Ah, apologies, I'm wrong about this. I misread the Xen code; the timers are per-vcpu,

Re: [PATCH] Fix sparc TIF_USEDFPU flag atomicity

2007-03-10 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* William Lee Irwin III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:26:46 -0800, William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Oh dear. Could we bit a bit more idiomatic here? For instance, > >> something like: > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:29:44AM -0800, David Miller wrote: >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

2007-03-10 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, > > Right. Can't be 100% sure but without the patch it would have probably > > failed by now so I guess the patch is ok. Not sure how to make usb mouse > > plugging/unplugging process automatic ;-) > > echo FOO >/sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/unbind > > to simulate an unplug

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 10 2007 19:06, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: >[Vladimir - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:05:42PM +0300] >| Here's the problem: >| 1. Unpack the kernel sources, run make menuconfig. >| 2. Mark the necessary options. >| 3. Pick "Save an alternate configuration file", enter a filename (e.g.

Re: How soon is soon? MCP55 NCQ support on Linux...

2007-03-10 Thread Robert Hancock
Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: Hi, I have seen your message in LKML archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=116046278930988=2 It's dated 2006.10.10 and states that a patch to support NCQ on MCP55/MCP61 under Linux is coming "soon". Now it's five months later and I would like to ask

Re: question about periodic clocks

2007-03-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 07:50 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Good point. I never thought about that and we set the period in the > > clock event device itself. You are right, the clockevents layer should > > hand over the period either with the set_mode call or

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Vladimir - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:05:42PM +0300] | Here's the problem: | 1. Unpack the kernel sources, run make menuconfig. | 2. Mark the necessary options. | 3. Pick "Save an alternate configuration file", enter a filename (e.g. /root/kernelcfg) | 4. Pick "Exit". | ->5. Configurator

Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

2007-03-10 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:18:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:50:29 +0100 Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Andrew Morton napisał(a): > > > Temporarily at > > > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc3-mm1/ > > > > > > Will appear later

Re: kref refcounting breakage in mainline

2007-03-10 Thread Mike Galbraith
P.S. forgot to include diagnostic log. Kobject c0644890 is the source of my woes. Printk's come below WARN_ON(is_ipmi_si_kobj). Post-tinker log is huge, and probably not interesting. [ 30.397160] kobject ipmi_devintf: registering. parent: , set: module [ 30.404033] kobject_uevent_env [

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > Right. Can't be 100% sure but without the patch it would have probably > failed by now so I guess the patch is ok. Not sure how to make usb mouse > plugging/unplugging process automatic ;-) echo FOO >/sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/unbind to

pciehp: Cannot get control of hotplug hardware

2007-03-10 Thread Ryan Hope
Ever since I started playing with suspend I started turning on PCI Hot Plug support since then I have been seeing messages like whats below from dmesg I'm not exactly sure how this actually impacts me if it does at all. I just thought it didn't look exactly right so I wanted to inquire

Re: [PATCH 1/1] hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset

2007-03-10 Thread Nathan Lynch
Hi- Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Cliff Wickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With this patch, migrate the task to: > > 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online > > and among that task's cpus_allowed > > 2) to any online cpu within the task's cpuset > > 3)

Re: [patch 2/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - signalfd core ...

2007-03-10 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Davide Libenzi wrote: > > +int signalfd_deliver(struct sighand_struct *sighand, int sig, > + struct siginfo *info) > +{ > + int nsig = 0; > + struct list_head *pos; > + struct signalfd_ctx *ctx; > + > + list_for_each(pos, >sfdlist) { > + ctx =

Re: question about periodic clocks

2007-03-10 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Good point. I never thought about that and we set the period in the > clock event device itself. You are right, the clockevents layer should > hand over the period either with the set_mode call or seperately. > Probably with the set_mode call, as it is needed exactly there

Re: kref refcounting breakage in mainline

2007-03-10 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 06:39 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 13:04 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:43:22AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:25 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > Mike, I've reverted this patch, and I don't see

Re: libata-acpi: allow _GTF on SATA, but disable on PATA for now

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
> Alan has been actively working on PATA ACPI, and we have been debugging > ACPI issues as well. PLEASE coordinate with the maintainer, when > touching code outside of drivers/acpi! ap->cbl is not a reliable way to tell SATA from PATA at the moment. We need to fix the real crashes too - right

Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

2007-03-10 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Greg KH wrote: > > > > hid_parse_report() is doing kmalloc(128k kbytes). We canot sanely > > > support that and the code shold be rewritten to not do that. A simple > > > though somewhat lame fix would be to switch to vmalloc(). > > > It's been this way for some

Re: [git patches] libata (and devres) fixes

2007-03-10 Thread Fabio Comolli
Maybe KERN_DEBUG instead of KERN_ERR? On 3/10/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > scsi1 : ata_piix > ata2: port disabled. ignoring. > ata2: reset failed, giving up<--- THIS IS NEW. > > However, I think it's just bogus as there is ata2 is disabled on this laptop. This is expected

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > btw., the s2ram database seems quite a bit spotty: > > > > $ ./s2ram -n > > Machine is unknown. > > This machine can be identified by: > > sys_vendor = "System manufacturer" > > sys_product = "System Product Name" > >

Re: [PATCH] Use more gcc extensions in the Linux headers

2007-03-10 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So in case they _ARE_ compatible, we get the compile error, as far as I > can see it. There's a ! too much in the !!_builtin line. The error case is when the types are compatible. That means that the argument is in fact _not_ an array. Andreas. --

Re: _proxy_pda still makes linking modules fail

2007-03-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 01:57:59AM +0100, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > This is linux-2.6.20.1 with lots of patches from PLD Linux (I believe > the patches don't affect the issue), compiled with gcc-4.1.2 and > binutils-2.17.50.0.12 on x86. >... Please test a plain 2.6.20 from

imm module issues

2007-03-10 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
Hi, I've compiled the 2.6.20.2 kernel today (I took the SuSE HEAD kernel instead of the vanilla one) and I'm having issues with the "imm" module. I still use a ZIP drive here for small backups and the "imm" module worked flawless on kernel 2.6.18.8 but with kernel 2.6.20.2 I get error messages

Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Vladimir - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:05:42PM +0300] | Here's the problem: | 1. Unpack the kernel sources, run make menuconfig. | 2. Mark the necessary options. | 3. Pick "Save an alternate configuration file", enter a filename (e.g. /root/kernelcfg) | 4. Pick "Exit". | ->5. Configurator

Re: [PATCH] Use attribute groups in struct device_type

2007-03-10 Thread Kay Sievers
On 3/10/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 02:12:04AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Saturday 10 March 2007 01:55, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:54:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:37:34AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >

[BUG] Linux 2.6.20.2 - unable to handle kernel paging request - still accessing freed memory

2007-03-10 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, It looks like 2.6.20.2 is still doing Bad Things in /sys. Cheers, Chris BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6d6b printing eip: c01300ff *pde = Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: radeon drm pwc eeprom cpufreq_ondemand p4_clockmod

Re: netconsole system freeze when cable unplugged

2007-03-10 Thread Simon Arlott
On 10/03/07 13:38, Andi Kleen wrote: Simon Arlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 09/03/07 20:42, Francois Romieu wrote: Simon Arlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : When I unplug the cable the system just stops responding to anything, at all. No message is printed to the console when the cable is

Re: [PATCH] Use more gcc extensions in the Linux headers

2007-03-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 10 2007 16:19, Nigel Cunningham wrote: >On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 23:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:57:32 +1100, Rusty Russell said: >> >> > +/* GCC is awesome. */ >> > #define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0]) >> > \ >> >

Re: Where is Linux 2.6.20.2?

2007-03-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 10 2007 21:52, Tetsuo Handa wrote: >Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:52:23 +0900 >From: Tetsuo Handa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Subject: Re: Where is Linux 2.6.20.2? > >Cong WANG wrote: >>

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-10 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:43:01PM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:01:21AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > i'm wondering, do you have any idea how Windows handles the > > suspend/resume quirks problem area? Do they "curse BIOS vendors and > > maintain a large DB of

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/6] Rotating Staircase DeadLine scheduler for -mm

2007-03-10 Thread Con Kolivas
On Saturday 10 March 2007 22:49, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Oops > > ⇒ http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8166 Thanks very much. I can't get your config to boot on qemu, but could you please try this debugging patch? It's not a patch you can really run the machine with but might find

Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

2007-03-10 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, iMac G3 build fails: CC drivers/macintosh/adbhid.o drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c: In function 'adbhid_init': drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c:1275: error: too many arguments to function 'register_sysctl_table' make[2]: *** [drivers/macintosh/adbhid.o] Blad 1 make[1]: ***

[PATCH v2] Bitbanging i2c bus driver using the GPIO API

2007-03-10 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
This is a very simple bitbanging i2c bus driver utilizing the new arch-neutral GPIO API. Useful for chips that don't have a built-in i2c controller, additional i2c busses, or testing purposes. To use, include something similar to the following in the board-specific setup code: #include

PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Vladimir
Here's the problem: 1. Unpack the kernel sources, run make menuconfig. 2. Mark the necessary options. 3. Pick "Save an alternate configuration file", enter a filename (e.g. /root/kernelcfg) 4. Pick "Exit". ->5. Configurator exits without saving. If type "make bzImage", it builtd all the

Re: [PATCH 8/9] Driver core: fix error by cleanup up symlinks properly

2007-03-10 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > When a device fails to register the class symlinks where not cleaned up. > This left a symlink in the /sys/class/"device"/ directory that pointed > to no where. This caused the sysfs_follow_link Oops I

Re: Where is Linux 2.6.20.2?

2007-03-10 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Cong WANG wrote: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.20.2.tar.bz2 > isn't it what you want? It's currently 404 (Not Found) error. http://www2.kernel.org/ page is still showing 2.6.20.1 although it once showed 2.6.20.2 . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1

2007-03-10 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Greg KH wrote: > > hid_parse_report() is doing kmalloc(128k kbytes). We canot sanely > > support that and the code shold be rewritten to not do that. A simple > > though somewhat lame fix would be to switch to vmalloc(). > > It's been this way for some time, so it's odd

Re: netconsole system freeze when cable unplugged

2007-03-10 Thread Andi Kleen
Simon Arlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 09/03/07 20:42, Francois Romieu wrote: > > Simon Arlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > >> When I unplug the cable the system just stops responding to > >> anything, at all. No message is printed to the console when the > >> cable is plugged back in. > >

Problem: cat < /dev/my_ttyS0 is not blocked

2007-03-10 Thread Mockern
Hi, I have a problem with cat < /dev/my_ttyS0 (see strace output below). cat function is not blocked. I don't understand why it is not stopped at read(0, __ and terminated? Thank you -- execve("/bin/cat", ["cat"],

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