Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make prepare_namespace() wait for devices

2007-05-14 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Mon, 14 May 2007 15:56:15 +0200 Pierre Ossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the patch, an infinite loop is *much* worse than a panic. When one is installing a new kernel on remote box, having it booted with reboot on panic and loader falling back to old kernel on the next boot is a

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 irqpoll seems to be broken

2007-05-14 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Vivek Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-08 19:18]: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:19:32AM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Vivek Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-30 10:48]: handle_edge_irq() already makes sure that desc-action is not null, still note_interrupt() is receiving desc-action as

Re: undeprecate raw driver.

2007-05-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Bob Johnston wrote: Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk writes: Why not just use the terms: * outdated - as a replacement for deprecated. Because they don't actually mean the same thing ? superseded would probably be a better word, perhaps lacking the negative

Re: [PATCH] volatile considered harmful document

2007-05-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jeff Garzik wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 07:26:13PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't need volatile in that case, rmb() can be used. rmb() invalidates all compiler assumptions, it can be much

Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-05-14 Thread Stefan Richter
Marcin Garski wrote: Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=linux-2.6.22-rc1-utf-8-strings.patch.bz2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=linux-2.6.22-rc1-utf-8-strings.patch.bz2

Re: Kconfig warnings on latest GIT

2007-05-14 Thread Kumar Gala
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Johannes Berg wrote: Simon, I don't think that this is quite right, or at least it isn't quite the same as before. Yeah, I think you're right. I think that was is below will toggle SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION when PMAC_APM_EMU is selected, which I think is what

[2.6.21] circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF

2007-05-14 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, When I cleanly reboot my pc running 2.6.21 on a P4 with HT and 2GB of ram and system on an 1-filesystem IDE disk, I get the following circular locking dependency error: [330961.226405] === [330961.226489] [ INFO: possible circular locking

Re: fair clock use in CFS

2007-05-14 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 14 May 2007 07:50:49 Ingo Molnar wrote: * William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:31:20PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: please clarify - exactly what is a mistake? Thanks, The variability in -fair_clock advancement rate was the mistake, at least

Re: why does x86 make defconfig build a single, lonely module?

2007-05-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 17:53 +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: I guess this is probably the behaviour that James wanted originally? No ... you're still not reading the explanation in the thread: The wait scan module is designed to wait for scans of driver modules. Whether SCSI=y or m has no effect on

Re: [patch 4/4] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: reduce scheduling latency by changing tlb flush size

2007-05-14 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 14 May 2007, Tsutomu OWA wrote: --- linux-2.6.21-rt1/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h 2007-04-26 12:08:32.0 +0900 +++ rt/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h   2007-05-14 16:12:47.0 +0900 @@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ struct mm_struct;  #include linux/percpu.h  #include

[PATCH 1/5][TAKE2] fallocate() implementation on i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch implements sys_fallocate() and adds support on i386, x86_64 and powerpc platforms. Changelog: - Following changes were made to the previous version: 1) Added description before sys_fallocate() definition. 2) Return EINVAL for len=0 (With new draft that Ulrich pointed to,

[PATCH 2/5][TAKE2] fallocate() on s390

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
This is the patch suggested by Martin Schwidefsky. Here are the comments and patch from him. - From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch implements support of fallocate system call on s390(x) platform. A wrapper is added to address the issue which s390 ABI has with the

ppc modprost warnings in 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Meelis Roos
Trying to compile 2.6.22-rc1 for ppc (prep) arch. While section mismatches are an old thing, what are these COMMON symbols? MODPOST vmlinux WARNING: fee_restarts [arch/ppc/kernel/built-in] is COMMON symbol WARNING: ee_restarts [arch/ppc/kernel/built-in] is COMMON symbol WARNING:

[PATCH 3/5][TAKE2] ext4: Extent overlap bugfix

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch adds a check for overlap of extents and cuts short the new extent to be inserted, if there is a chance of overlap. Changelog: - As suggested by Andrew, a check for wrap though zero has been added. Here is the new patch: Signed-off-by: Amit Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCH] MTD: Remove unused header file include/linux/mtd/jedec.h.

2007-05-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove the apparently unreferenced header file include/linux/mtd/jedec.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- this header file *appears* to be unnecessary, but i've been wrong before. diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/jedec.h b/include/linux/mtd/jedec.h deleted file mode

[PATCH 4/5][TAKE2] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch implements -fallocate() inode operation in ext4. With this patch users of ext4 file systems will be able to use fallocate() system call for persistent preallocation. Current implementation only supports preallocation for regular files (directories not supported as of date) with extent

[PATCH 5/5][TAKE2] ext4: write support for preallocated blocks

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
This patch adds write support to the uninitialized extents that get created when a preallocation is done using fallocate(). It takes care of splitting the extents into multiple (upto three) extents and merging the new split extents with neighbouring ones, if possible. Changelog: - 1)

Re: fair clock use in CFS

2007-05-14 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:31:13AM -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote: Hrm... Okay, so you're saying that fair_clock runs slower the more process there are running to keep the above run-up in Time Spent on CPU I noticed based solely on your initial example? If that is the case, then I can see the

Re: fair clock use in CFS

2007-05-14 Thread Al Boldi
Ingo Molnar wrote: the current task is recalculated at scheduler tick time and put into the tree at its new position. At a million tasks the fair-clock will advance little (or not at all - which at these load levels is our smallest problem anyway) so during a scheduling tick in

Re: fair clock use in CFS

2007-05-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] In a fair scheduler I'd expect all tasks to get the exact same amount of time on the processor. So if there are 10 tasks running at nice 0 and the current task has run for 20msecs before a new task is swapped onto the CPU, the new task and

Re: Read-only bind mount patches

2007-05-14 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 21:22 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: I've sent mail to Dave but he must be to busy, on leave or not keen on getting these patches included any more as I've not had a response. I'm just now catching up on email. I was out for a couple of weeks. I'm planning on refreshing the

[RFC][PATCH] Make prepare_namespace() wait for devices (v2)

2007-05-14 Thread Pierre Ossman
New suggestion. -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainerhttp://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org commit bb8c44ee8b4d584295add58a4ea2f03b9938fc3c Author: Pierre Ossman

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 14 May 2007 15:28:00 +0200, Antonino Ingargiola wrote: Hi Jean, 2007/5/14, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [cut] This is a rather bad idea to build the abituguru and hdaps drivers into your kernel if you don't have these devices. Especially abituguru, as it does arbitrary port

oops in net/ipv4/icmp.c:icmp_send() with icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr

2007-05-14 Thread Curtis Doty
Summary: On a multi-homed box, after turning on /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr, it now periodically oopses when trying to lookup the source address to use for sending an ICMP in response to a jump ipt_REJECT. I'm still trying to figure out what makes this test case unique.

Re: Why can't we sleep in an ISR?

2007-05-14 Thread linux
Sleeping in an ISR is not fundamentally impossible - I could design a multitasker that permitted it - but has significant problems, and most multitaskers, including Linux, forbid it. The first problem is the scheduler. Sleeping is actually a call into the scheduler to choose another process to

Re: Why can't we sleep in an ISR?

2007-05-14 Thread Bahadir Balban
On 5/14/07, Learning Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, but how about an ISR, that does not take any locks? Why can't we sleep in SUCH an ISR? LL - The killer reason why you can't sleep in an interrupt is because an interrupt is not associated with any context in the first place. What is a

[PATCH] libata: fix shutdown warning message printing

2007-05-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Unlocking ap-lock and ssleeping don't work because SCSI commands can be issued from completion path without context. Reimplement delayed completion by allowing translation functions to override qc-scsidone(), storing the original completion function to scmd-scsi_done() and overriding

Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-05-14 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
Marcin Garski wrote: Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=linux-2.6.22-rc1-utf-8-strings.patch.bz2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=linux-2.6.22-rc1-utf-8-strings.patch.bz2

Re: [PATCH 2/5][TAKE2] fallocate() on s390 - glibc wrapper

2007-05-14 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:18:34PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: This is the patch suggested by Martin Schwidefsky. Here are the comments and patch from him. Martin also suggested a wrapper in glibc to handle this system call on s390. Posting it here so that we get feedback for this too. Here it

[PATCH] kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on i386 and mips

2007-05-14 Thread Atsushi Nemoto
On i386 and MIPS, warn_sec_mismatch() sometimes fails to show usefull symbol name. This is because empty 'refsym' due to 0 r_addend value. This patch is to adjust r_addend value, consulting with apply_relocate() routine in kernel code. Without this patch: MODPOST vmlinux WARNING:

Re: [BUG][PATCH] Fix race condition about network device name allocation

2007-05-14 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:33:01 +0900 Kenji Kaneshige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Stephen, Thank you for comments. I'll try your patch. I have one concern about your patch, though I don't know very much about netdev codes. @@ -3411,6 +3410,9 @@ void unregister_netdevice(struct net_dev

Re: [RFC] hwbkpt: Hardware breakpoints (was Kwatch)

2007-05-14 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 13 May 2007, Roland McGrath wrote: This makes me think about RF a little more. If you ever set it, there are some places we need to clear it too. That is, when the PC is being changed before returning to user mode, which is in signals and in ptrace. If the PC is changing to other

Re: [PATCH] libata: fix shutdown warning message printing

2007-05-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 17:26 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: Unlocking ap-lock and ssleeping don't work because SCSI commands can be issued from completion path without context. Reimplement delayed completion by allowing translation functions to override qc-scsidone(), storing the original completion

Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm: slub allocation fairness

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Index: linux-2.6-git/include/linux/slub_def.h === --- linux-2.6-git.orig/include/linux/slub_def.h +++ linux-2.6-git/include/linux/slub_def.h @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct kmem_cache {

Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: slab allocation fairness

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: @@ -3182,13 +3192,13 @@ static inline void *cache_alloc(stru check_irq_off(); ac = cpu_cache_get(cachep); - if (likely(ac-avail)) { + if (likely(ac-avail) !slab_insufficient_rank(cachep, rank)) {

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: In the interest of creating a reserve based allocator; we need to make the slab allocator (*sigh*, all three) fair with respect to GFP flags. I am not sure what the point of all of this is. That is, we need to protect memory from being used by

Re: Why can't we sleep in an ISR?

2007-05-14 Thread Rik van Riel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sleeping in an ISR is not fundamentally impossible - I could design a multitasker that permitted it - but has significant problems, and most multitaskers, including Linux, forbid it. You could design a system in which most ISRs can sleep, but even then you'll probably

Re: Read-only bind mount patches

2007-05-14 Thread Ian Kent
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 08:10 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 21:22 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: I've sent mail to Dave but he must be to busy, on leave or not keen on getting these patches included any more as I've not had a response. I'm just now catching up on email. I was out

Re: Why can't we sleep in an ISR?

2007-05-14 Thread Dong Feng
I agree that the reason an interrupt can not sleep is because an interrupt is not associated with any context. But I do not agree that it is specifically because the scheduler can not *resume* the context. In early version, the ISR always borrow the stack of the currently running process, so if

[PATCH] Fix race condition about network device name allocation

2007-05-14 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Kenji Kaneshige found this race between device removal and registration. On unregister it is possible for the old device to exist, because sysfs file is still open. A new device with 'eth%d' will select the same name, but sysfs kobject register will fial. The following changes the shutdown

Re: Read-only bind mount patches

2007-05-14 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 23:55 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: Anything I can do to help? If so maybe we could reduce the time to posting a bit. Probably nothing to actually speed up the development, but I'd really appreciate some testing once I do post them. How about I send you an advance copy, or cc

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Hi Jean! 2007/5/14, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sure. On 2.6.21.1: via686a-isa-6000 Adapter: ISA adapter CPU core: +1.63 V (min = +0.06 V, max = +3.10 V) +2.5V: +2.45 V (min = +0.06 V, max = +3.10 V) I/O: +3.52 V (min = +3.12 V, max = +3.45 V) ALARM +5V:

[VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops

2007-05-14 Thread James Bottomley
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops This adds an smp_ops for voyager, and hooks things up appropriately. This is the first baby-step to making subarch runtime switchable. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 08:53 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: In the interest of creating a reserve based allocator; we need to make the slab allocator (*sigh*, all three) fair with respect to GFP flags. I am not sure what the point of all of

USB adutux device number

2007-05-14 Thread Vitaliy Ivanov
Hello, I'm not sure if it's correct place to deal with the issue. In Documentation/devices.txt there is no info about adutux driver that is included in the kernel: ... 65 = /dev/usb/usblcd USBLCD Interface ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 66 = /dev/usb/cpad0Synaptics

Re: [RFC][PATCH 14/14] tmpfs whiteout support

2007-05-14 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Bharata B Rao wrote: From: Jan Blunck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tmpfs whiteout support Introduce whiteout support to tmpfs. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mm/shmem.c |9 - 1 files

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:53:21AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: In the interest of creating a reserve based allocator; we need to make the slab allocator (*sigh*, all three) fair with respect to GFP flags. I am not sure what the point of

Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm: slub allocation fairness

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 08:49 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Index: linux-2.6-git/include/linux/slub_def.h === --- linux-2.6-git.orig/include/linux/slub_def.h +++

Re: Linux 2.6.21: pmtmr losing time

2007-05-14 Thread Joerg Sommrey
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:36:24AM +0200, Joerg Sommrey wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:38:34PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 18:39 +0200, Joerg Sommrey wrote: Here it is. Maybe this problem is related to the usage of the experimental amd76x_pm module? Can

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, On 14/05/07, Antonino Ingargiola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jean! 2007/5/14, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sure. On 2.6.21.1: via686a-isa-6000 Adapter: ISA adapter CPU core: +1.63 V (min = +0.06 V, max = +3.10 V) +2.5V: +2.45 V (min = +0.06 V, max = +3.10 V)

Re: Kconfig warnings on latest GIT

2007-05-14 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:24 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: this was my fix which looks pretty much the same. [...] Great, thanks. johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-05-14 Thread Stefan Richter
John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: You can't post a patch to UTF-8 in plain text, because it isn't plain text. Of course it is, you said so... MTAs and MUAs mangle the hell out of them. Look back in the archives for my postings. Once you've got something in UTF-8, -*THEN*- you can post in

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: privileged thread unprivileged greedy process kmem_cache_alloc(...) adds new slab page from lowmem pool Yes but it returns an object for the privileged thread. Is that not enough? do_io()

Re: Read-only bind mount patches

2007-05-14 Thread Ian Kent
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:01 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 23:55 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: Anything I can do to help? If so maybe we could reduce the time to posting a bit. Probably nothing to actually speed up the development, but I'd really appreciate some testing once

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: This is a side effect of an i2c-core cleanup. This is already fixed in lm_sensors 2.10.3 (libsensors.so.3.1.3). So apparently that fixed it, but in general we do not allow these kinds of need to have new xyz with new kernel. Kernels are supposed

Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm: slub allocation fairness

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 08:49 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Index: linux-2.6-git/include/linux/slub_def.h === ---

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Why does this have to handled by the slab allocators at all? If you have free pages in the page allocator then the slab allocators will be able to use that reserve. Yes, too freely. GFP flags are only ever checked when you allocate a new

Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-05-14 Thread Stefan Richter
The important thing is that the submitter's and committer's MUAs do it right and reviewers' MUAs do it sort of right. PS: If the contributor really wants to use a dysfunctional MUA, he should at least include the diffstat in plaintext. That might motivate some more people to unroll an

Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-05-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 06:25:14PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: You can't post a patch to UTF-8 in plain text, because it isn't plain text. Of course it is, you said so... MTAs and MUAs mangle the hell out of them. Look back in the archives for my

Re: [patch] simplify compat_sys_timerfd.

2007-05-14 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Heiko Carstens wrote: From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just thought this is easier to read. Cc: Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Davide - To unsubscribe from this

Freezeable workqueues [Was: 2.6.22-rc1: Broken suspend on SMP with tifm]

2007-05-14 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Long. Please read. On 05/14, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: I think I have solved this particular problem without any locking: Rafael, I am afraid we are making too much noise, and this may confuse Alex and Andrew. First, we should decide how to fix the bug we have in 2.6.22. I prefer a simple make

[GIT PULL] MMC updates

2007-05-14 Thread Pierre Ossman
Linus, please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git for-linus to receive the following updates: drivers/mmc/card/block.c | 17 - drivers/mmc/host/au1xmmc.c | 35 ++- drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c | 18

[2.6.21] circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF

2007-05-14 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, When I cleanly reboot my pc running 2.6.21 on a P4 with HT and 2GB of ram and system on an 1-filesystem IDE disk, I get the following circular locking dependency error: [330961.226405] === [330961.226489] [ INFO: possible circular locking

Re: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops

2007-05-14 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
James Bottomley wrote: From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops This adds an smp_ops for voyager, and hooks things up appropriately. This is the first baby-step to making subarch runtime switchable. Signed-off-by: Jeremy

Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-05-14 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: The problem is that the unconverted characters are always invalid UTF-8 [1], and it's 100% correct for a MUA to convert these invalid UTF-8 characters to replacement characters - if a MUA claims to send valid charset=utf-8, it is simply not allowed to preserve the byte

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 13 2007 20:19, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 13.05.2007 05:20 schrieb Linus Torvalds: Ok, the merge window has closed, and 2.6.22-rc1 is out there. [...] So give it a good testing. Would it be asking too much to have help texts on the following new (wrt 2.6.21) configuration options? ESP

Re: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops

2007-05-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:10 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: James Bottomley wrote: From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VOYAGER] fix build broken by shift to smp_ops This adds an smp_ops for voyager, and hooks things up appropriately. This is the first baby-step to

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1, 'nother randconfig

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 12:44, David Howells wrote: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: net/built-in.o: In function `rxrpc_destroy_all_calls': (.exit.text+0x71d): undefined reference to `rxrpc_call_states' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 This is the problem: # CONFIG_PROC_FS is not set

Re: [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: accomodate 32 bit capabilities

2007-05-14 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:01:27PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: On May 08, 2007 16:49 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Andreas Dilger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): One of the important use cases I can see today is the ability to split

Re: Nbd problem now oopses.

2007-05-14 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Rogier Wolff wrote: ... [ 5628.608000] Code: d2 89 d5 74 26 83 be 80 01 00 00 00 0f 85 7b 03 00 00 c7 86 88 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 8b 5c 24 1c 89 9e 80 01 00 00 e9 62 03 00 00 [ 5628.608000] EIP: [c0293210] tcp_sendmsg+0x726/0xab3 SS:ESP 0068:c3f8fc5c A big chunk of the machine code is

[PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r'

2007-05-14 Thread Yinghai Lu
[PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' if the serial console flow is set to 'r', We need to set RTS and DTR. Some UARTs on other side need these bit set, otherwise will send char to or receive char from the host that kernel is runing esp for kernel boot stage. BTW: earlyprintk and

Re: [PATCH] Add driver for Dallas DS1682 elapsed time recorder

2007-05-14 Thread Grant Likely
Ugh. Well that was a rather sloppy patch on my part. I'll fix up and resubmit. On 5/14/07, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Grant, On Sun, 13 May 2007 01:43:42 -0600, Grant Likely wrote: Signed-off-by: Grant Likely [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Here is the 3rd iteration with the

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

2007-05-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Francesco Pretto wrote: 2007/5/4, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeap, the third iteration of the patch just got submitted. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/18485 Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an easy way out. We'll need userland shutdown(8) update. -- tejun Ok, i

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Stefan Richter
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On May 13 2007 20:19, Tilman Schmidt wrote: ... Ethernet (1000 Mbit) (NETDEV_1000) [Y/n] (NEW) Ethernet (1 Mbit) (NETDEV_1) [Y/n] (NEW) Those for the latter three could/should say something like the one for the WLAN_80211 option. Patches welcome ;-) As for

Re: why does x86 make defconfig build a single, lonely module?

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 13 2007 12:48, James Bottomley wrote: Why does ATA select SCSI anyway? Surely PATA doesn't require it? That's a bit offtopic and to the wrong list. libata-pata does require SCSI ... And in the long run, that SCSI parts which are actually used by ATA should be factored out so that SCSI

Re: 2.6.21-mm1 and now 2.6.21-git: SLUB Crashes on boot - crypto?

2007-05-14 Thread Luca Tettamanti
Kevin Winchester [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On 5/9/07, Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:58:09PM -0300, Kevin Winchester wrote: Not having any idea what I'm doing, I looked at cryptomgr_probe and cryptomgr_notify, and can't seem to see much, except for the

Re: How to access correctly serial port inside module?

2007-05-14 Thread Lars K.W. Gohlke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars K.W. Gohlke schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hallo, after searching the mailing list and searching the web, I still don't know how to access correctly the serial port (in user space known as /dev/ttyS01) This thread

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:29 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: privileged thread unprivileged greedy process kmem_cache_alloc(...) adds new slab page from lowmem pool Yes but it returns an object for the privileged thread.

Re: Fwd: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 14 May 2007 07:49:31 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: On May 14 2007 10:55, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:27:31AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On May 12 2007 20:20, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, the merge window has closed, and 2.6.22-rc1 is out there. I

Re: 3 years since last 2.2 release, why still on kernel.org main page?

2007-05-14 Thread Rob Landley
On Sunday 13 May 2007 7:57 pm, Bill Davidsen wrote: Rob Landley wrote: Out of curiosity, since 2.2 hasn't had a release in 3 years, and the last prepatch was 2 years ago, why is its' status still on the kernel.org main page? Not exactly something people are checking the status of on

Re: [2.6.21] circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF

2007-05-14 Thread Michal Piotrowski
[adding Jan and fsdevel to CC] Hi Folkert, On 14/05/07, Folkert van Heusden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I cleanly reboot my pc running 2.6.21 on a P4 with HT and 2GB of ram and system on an 1-filesystem IDE disk, I get the following circular locking dependency error: [330961.226405]

Re: [2.6.21] circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF

2007-05-14 Thread Folkert van Heusden
[adding Jan and fsdevel to CC] Hi Folkert, When I cleanly reboot my pc running 2.6.21 on a P4 with HT and 2GB of ram and system on an 1-filesystem IDE disk, I get the following circular locking dependency error: [330961.226405] ===

[RFC][PATCH] Per container statistics

2007-05-14 Thread Balbir Singh
This patch is inspired by the discussion at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/11/187 and implements per container statistics as suggested by Andrew Morton in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/11/263. The patch is on top of 2.6.21-mm1 with Paul's containers v9 patches (forward ported) This patch implements

Re: PCI bridge range sizing bug

2007-05-14 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Friday, April 20, 2007 1:30 pm Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:28:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Actually, I would suggest we not do it automatically (because the need for it is just so low, and the downsides are potentially huge - there are just too many resources

Re: [PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r'

2007-05-14 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:26:26 -0700 Yinghai Lu wrote: [PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' if the serial console flow is set to 'r', We need to set RTS and DTR. Some UARTs on other side need these bit set, otherwise will send char to or receive char from the host that kernel is

Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 16:14, Stefan Richter wrote: Marcin Garski wrote: Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=linux-2.6.22-rc1-utf-8-strings.patch.bz2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=linux-2.6.22-rc1-utf-8-strings.patch.bz2

Re: patch for cisco client for Linux-2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 14 2007 09:13, Jeff Chua wrote: Attached is my patch for vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.00.0490-k9 to make it run on Linux-2.6.22-rc1. Same thing as the VMware patch. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Linux 2.6.21.1 early putstr() fails on ARM

2007-05-14 Thread Mattias Rönnblom
Hi all. I just tried updating Linux 2.6.16 to 2.6.21.1 on our IXP420-based board, but I've run into some trouble. Except for some modifications to the PCI setup code, the tree is unmodified. GCC is 3.4.3 and Binutils 2.15.94. During the decompression stage, the kernel Uncompressing Linux...

Re: converting appletouch to usb autosuspend...

2007-05-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 14 May 2007 06:50:39 Oliver Neukum wrote: Am Montag, 14. Mai 2007 02:53 schrieb Alistair John Strachan: What did you use instead of hci_usb then ? usbkbd ? This won't give you the special keys etc... Sorry, I wasn't clear. hci_usb is actually part of the BlueZ stack, it's

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:29 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: privileged thread unprivileged greedy process kmem_cache_alloc(...) adds new slab page from lowmem pool Yes

[PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' --- resend

2007-05-14 Thread Yinghai Lu
[PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' if the serial console flow is set to 'r', We need to set RTS and DTR. Some UARTs on other side need these bit set, otherwise will not send char to or receive char from the host that kernel is runing esp for kernel boot stage. BTW: earlyprintk and

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Jan Engelhardt schrieb: On May 13 2007 20:19, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Would it be asking too much to have help texts on the following new (wrt 2.6.21) configuration options? ESP Scsi Driver Core (SCSI_ESP_CORE) [N/m] (NEW) Macintosh device drivers (MACINTOSH_DRIVERS) [Y/n] (NEW) Ethernet (1000

Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-05-14 Thread Stefan Richter
On 14 May, Jan Engelhardt wrote: I've had a quick look at it... * Copyright (C) 2004 Nokia Corporation * Written by Tony Lindgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] - * Major cleanups by Juha YrjXlX [EMAIL PROTECTED] + * Major cleanups by Juha Yrjölä [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought I already fixed that

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Antonino, On Mon, 14 May 2007 18:04:00 +0200, Antonino Ingargiola wrote: Hi Jean! 2007/5/14, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sure. On 2.6.21.1: via686a-isa-6000 Adapter: ISA adapter CPU core: +1.63 V (min = +0.06 V, max = +3.10 V) +2.5V: +2.45 V (min = +0.06

Re: [PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' --- resend

2007-05-14 Thread Russell King
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:57:36AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: [PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' if the serial console flow is set to 'r', We need to set RTS and DTR. Some UARTs on other side need these bit set, otherwise will not send char to or receive char from the host that

Re: Regression in 2.6.21-mm1 (git-input) on Dell D610 laptop

2007-05-14 Thread Jason Riedy
And Dmitry Torokhov writes: I don't think so. Could you please try the patch below? Thanks! The appended patch on top of yours fixes the too-early access of psmouse-private. I don't know the expected lifetime of psmouse-private, so I chickened out of simply assigning priv earlier. BTW, why do

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Hello Linus, On Mon, 14 May 2007 09:30:19 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: This is a side effect of an i2c-core cleanup. This is already fixed in lm_sensors 2.10.3 (libsensors.so.3.1.3). So apparently that fixed it, but in general we do not

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-14 Thread Antonino Ingargiola
Hi Jean, 2007/5/14, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [cut] I've not found an obvious way to set it in sensors.conf. Could you point me to some doumentation, thanks. sensors.conf supposedly _is_ the the documentation ;) Search for the following line in /etc/sensors.conf: chip via686a-*

[PATCH] cciss: Fix pci_driver.shutdown while device is still active

2007-05-14 Thread Gerald Britton
Fix an Oops in the cciss driver caused by system shutdown while a filesystem on a cciss device is still active. The cciss_remove_one function only properly removes the device if the device has been cleanly released by its users, which is not the case when the pci_driver.shutdown method is called.

Re: parallel port problems with 2.6.21_rc5 and 2.6.21_rc6_git3-20070410174235

2007-05-14 Thread Markus Koßmann
Am Montag, 14. Mai 2007 schrieb Randy Dunlap: On Sat, 5 May 2007 16:58:22 +0200 Markus Koßmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2007 schrieb Randy Dunlap: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:40:23 +0200 Markus Koßmann wrote: When using either the unpatched 2.6.21_rc5 or SUSEs patched

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