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]) \ +

[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: [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: Greg,

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 exits

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: _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 ftp.kernel.org. If

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: 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 any references

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 and

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) to any cpu which

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, sighand-sfdlist) { + ctx =

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: 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: NULL, set: module [ 30.404033] kobject_uevent_env

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 at

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 exits

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 seperately.

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-kernelm=116046278930988w=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: 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: 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, but

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 Save

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 runtime

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. | | 2. Mark

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 alternate configuration

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 patch? It's

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 that

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 - when moving the last

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 to

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 something to

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; + + list_for_each(pos,

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: [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: Ok I pulled

Re: [PATCH] dvb-core: Fix several locking related problems.

2007-03-10 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Sáb, 2007-03-10 às 02:49 +0100, Johannes Stezenbach escreveu: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:45:54PM +, Simon Arlott wrote: Fix several instances of dvb-core functions using mutex_lock_interruptible and returning -ERESTARTSYS where the calling function will either never retry or never

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. | | 2. Mark

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:

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: 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 it

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 changes

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, and the

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 been

[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: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20/ The

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 MPEG encoder

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

[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: [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

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: 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 such

[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: [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 a fd.

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: [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. For

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: 2.6.21-rc suspend regression: sysfs deadlock

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Stern
[For the start of this thread, see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=117320893726621w=2.] 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? It's

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 (not

[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 +++

[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] 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] 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 @@

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 see

[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

[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 ---

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 behaviour is not

[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 +0,0

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 the

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: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21

2007-03-10 Thread Zachary Amsden
Ingo Molnar wrote: makes sense. We can do Jan's relocatable-COMPAT_VDSO thing in v2.6.22, but for v2.6.21 that's way too intrusive. Agree. I think we can clean up some of the strange build magic though, by adding boot time ELF magic instead. We'll see which works out better. Zach - To

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: [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 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 ports. If

[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

[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] 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

[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: [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 naive,

[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: 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] 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 @@

[PATCH] CRIS: Delete unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete apparently unused header file drivers/serial/crisv10.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/serial/crisv10.h b/drivers/serial/crisv10.h deleted file mode 100644 index 4a23340..000 --- a/drivers/serial/crisv10.h +++ /dev/null @@ -1,136 +0,0 @@

[PATCH] swsusp: Fix resume error path in platform mode

2007-03-10 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] If swsusp is using the platform mode during the resume and the image cannot be read, the platform mode should be switched off before software_resume() returns. Make it happen. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Pavel Machek

[PATCH] rtc: Add RTC class driver for the Maxim MAX6900

2007-03-10 Thread Dale Farnsworth
From: Dale Farnsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/rtc/Kconfig | 10 + drivers/rtc/Makefile |1 drivers/rtc/rtc-max6900.c | 312 3 files changed, 323 insertions(+) Index:

Re: [PATCH] Software Suspend: Fix suspend when console is in VT_AUTO/KD_GRAPHICS mode

2007-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! ...how does qpe know when to repaint the screen, anyway? QPE doesn't need to repaint the screen after wake-up - the framebuffer memory is retained so the PXA270 lcd controller simply displays what was last on the screen when it is re-enabled. That probably means QPE is broken on

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: 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

[PATCH] Delete unused header file.

2007-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Delete apparently unused header file include/linux/elfnote.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- not sure who's responsible for this. diff --git a/include/linux/elfnote.h b/include/linux/elfnote.h deleted file mode 100644 index 67396db..000 ---

Re: [PATCH] Software Suspend: Fix suspend when console is in VT_AUTO/KD_GRAPHICS mode

2007-03-10 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi1 It should explain why it is okay to proceed when we can't change to text console. See updated comment in attached patch. It's really up to the caller to decide what to do if we can't switch the console - currently all callers ignore the return code so I assume that it's okay to

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

2007-03-10 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: I never complained about one timer per fd (although, now that you mention it, that would get a bit excessive if you have thousands of outstanding timers). Right, of course. The real-time and monotonic selection can be added. IOW, the timerfd

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

2007-03-10 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 11 March 2007 03:53, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: 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

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

2007-03-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: Care to elaborate on why they're a horrible crock? It's a *classic* case of an interface that tries to do everything under the sun. Here's a clue: look at any system call that takes a union as part of its arguments. Count them. I think we have

Re: PROBLEM: Make nenuconfig does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:34:41PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: 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.

Re: Problem: cat /dev/my_ttyS0 is not blocked

2007-03-10 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Saturday 10 March 2007 13:16, Mockern wrote: 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 Because /dev/my_ttyS0 is probaly a null file. Please show

Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 RSDL results

2007-03-10 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 11 March 2007 04:01, James Cloos wrote: 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

[RFC] Configuration generic drivers at runtime

2007-03-10 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi everybody, I'm writing a Linux driver for USB Video Class (UVC) devices. Before submitting it to the kernel, there are still a few rough corners I'd like to polish. Comments would be appreciated for the following one. The UVC spec defines a way for device vendors to provide extensions to

Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 RSDL results

2007-03-10 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 11 March 2007 05:21, Mark Lord wrote: 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

Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 RSDL results

2007-03-10 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 11 March 2007 10:34, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 11 March 2007 05:21, Mark Lord wrote: 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,

Re: PROBLEM: Make nenuconfig does not save parameters.

2007-03-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Mar 10 2007 23:45, 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 behaviour

Re: RSDL v0.28 for 2.6.20

2007-03-10 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 11 March 2007 06:11, Willy Tarreau wrote: 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:

sched rsdl fix for 0.28

2007-03-10 Thread Con Kolivas
Here's a big bugfix for sched rsdl 0.28 --- kernel/sched.c |7 +++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2/kernel/sched.c === --- linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2.orig/kernel/sched.c2007-03-11 11:04:38.0

[PATCH] MMC: Clean up low voltage range handling

2007-03-10 Thread Philip Langdale
Clean up the handling of low voltage MMC cards. The latest MMC and SD specs both agree that the low voltage range is defined as 1.65-1.95V and is signified by bit 7 in the OCR. An old Sandisk spec implied that bits 7-0 represented voltages below 2.0V in 1V increments, and the code was accordingly

Re: [PATCH] proc: maps protection

2007-03-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:33:41 -0800 Kees Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's another revision, with both the can ptrace and the global /proc knob; We'd be needing a changelog for that. Please update the procfs documentation. Does the patch also cover /proc/pid/smaps? - To unsubscribe from

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