Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 13, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since the latest draft of the GPLv3 now discriminates against some uses (industrial vs commercial I think are the terms used) A User Product is either (1) a consumer product, which means any tangible personal property which is normally used for

Re: I815 suddenly unkown to agpgart?

2007-06-14 Thread Meelis Roos
oop, for 945GME like case, we should stop scan if still no detection. Updated patch here. [AGPGART] intel_agp: fix device probe Thanks, this also works on i815+ATI AGP. -- Meelis Roos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 14, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a company sells you hardware that includes a ROM that contains GPL'ed software, are they in violation of the GPL if they don't include a ROM burner in the hardware? Or are ROM burners like compilers, where you have to supply your own? this

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

2007-06-14 Thread Dan Aloni
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:36:31AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:45:21 +0300 Dan Aloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:58:40AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: Kenji Kaneshige found this race between device removal and registration. On

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 13, 2007, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the two courts are in the same country there's usually a higher court above both that can resolve this. But what if let's say the highest court in the USA and the highest court in Germany would disagree on such a matter? Upgrade the

mm: Fix memory/cpu hotplug section mismatch and oops.

2007-06-14 Thread Paul Mundt
(This is a resend of the earlier patch, this issue still needs to be fixed.) When building with memory hotplug enabled and cpu hotplug disabled, we end up with the following section mismatch: WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.text+0x4e58): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between

regression tracking (Re: Linux 2.6.21)

2007-06-14 Thread Oleg Verych
* Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel * Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:50:22 -0700 (PDT) * From: Linus Torvalds On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: Besides the primary point of bug tracking is not to be friendly to someone, but to (a) fix the bugs and (b) know how many bugs there for a given

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Thursday 14 June 2007 02:55:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 13, 2007, Bongani Hlope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2007 01:49:23 Alexandre Oliva wrote: if you distribute copies of such a program, [...] you must give the recipients all the rights that you have So, TiVo

[PATCH] cdrom_sysctl_info fix

2007-06-14 Thread Dave Young
Hi, Fix the cdrom_sysctl_info possible buffer overwrite bug. Somd codingstyle fixes are included as well. diff based on 2.6.22-rc4 Signed-off-by: Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c | 186 +- 1 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-) diff -upr

Re: [patch 0/3] no MAX_ARG_PAGES -v2

2007-06-14 Thread Ollie Wild
On 6/13/07, Luck, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Above 5Mbytes, I started seeing problems. The line/word/char counts from wc started being 0 0 0. Not sure if this is a problem in wc dealing with a single line 5MBytes, or some other problem (possibly I was exceeding the per-process stack limit

Re: [PATCH] i2c-gpio: Add support for new-style clients

2007-06-14 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Atsushi, On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:43:16 +0900 (JST), Atsushi Nemoto wrote: Use i2c_bit_add_numbered_bus() if device id specified, so that the i2c-gpio adapter works well with new-style pre-declared devices. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 13, 2007, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: So, TiVo includes a copy of Linux in its DVR. Stop right there. You seem to make the mistake to think that software is something physical. Err, no. Software, per legal definitions in

[PATCH 2/2] readahead: sanify file_ra_state names

2007-06-14 Thread Fengguang Wu
Rename some file_ra_state variables and remove some accessors. It results in much simpler code. Kudos to Rusty! Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/fs.h | 61 +++--- mm/readahead.c | 68

[PATCH 1/2] readahead: split ondemand readahead interface into two functions

2007-06-14 Thread Fengguang Wu
Split ondemand readahead interface into two functions. I think this makes it a little clearer for non-readahead experts (like Rusty). Internally they both call ondemand_readahead(), but the page argument is changed to an obvious boolean flag. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 0/2] ondemand readahead simplifications

2007-06-14 Thread Fengguang Wu
Andrew, With the help from Rusty, the interface and data structure of ondemand readahead are made more clear: readahead: split ondemand readahead interface into two functions readahead: sanify file_ra_state names diffstat: fs/ext3/dir.c |4 - fs/ext4/dir.c |4

Re: [PATCH] i2c-gpio: Make some internal functions static

2007-06-14 Thread Jean Delvare
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:16:41 +0200, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:54:38 +0900 (JST) Atsushi Nemoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i2c_gpio_getsda() and i2c_gpio_getscl() are only used in this file. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah, of course. Hopefully

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Thursday 14 June 2007 01:51:13 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never had a reason to want to change the way any device like a TiVO works. So I can't comment on this. Have you never wanted to improve any aspect of the software in your

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation

Re: [PATCH] cdrom_sysctl_info fix

2007-06-14 Thread dave young
Hi Andrew, Sorry for reply to myself, does the Jens Axboe's email is outdated? which one is the latest? And Jens, could you please update your email address? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Thursday 14 June 2007 01:39:13 Michael Gerdau wrote: In Germany, not America. I should have qualified my statement to make it clear I mean In America. Sorry about the confusion. You shouldn't say America when you mean the US. Sorry, I slipped. I'm still trying to rid myself of the

Re: [PATCH] i2c-gpio: Add support for new-style clients

2007-06-14 Thread Atsushi Nemoto
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:24:17 +0200, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + if (pdev-id == -1) + ret = i2c_bit_add_bus(adap); + else + ret = i2c_bit_add_numbered_bus(adap); if (ret) goto err_add_bus; This isn't sufficient. Before you call

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 14, 2007, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 21:59, Alexandre Oliva wrote:   For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether   gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients   all the rights that you have.  

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

2007-06-14 Thread Roland McGrath
I really don't understand your point here. What's wrong with bp_show? Is it all the preprocessor conditionals? I thought that was how we had agreed portable code should determine which types and lengths were supported on a particular architecture. That part is fine. The problem is

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 14, 2007, Bongani Hlope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2007 02:55:52 Alexandre Oliva wrote: While TiVo retains the ability to replace, upgrade, fix, break or make any other change in the GPLed software in the device, it ought to pass it on to its customers. So

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS

2007-06-14 Thread Albert Cahalan
On 6/13/07, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:14:40PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: On 6/13/07, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:45:28AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: * secure delete via destruction of per-file or per-block random

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:58:26AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, Bron Gondwana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tivo gets sick of the endless flamewars on lkml, signs a copy of QNX, pushes it out to the hardware. No more Linux on Tivo. What do we lose? Do we actually get any

Re: [PATCH RT] fix migrating softirq [cause of network hang]

2007-06-14 Thread Darren Hart
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 05:47:16 Steven Rostedt wrote: This patch temporarily binds the hardirq thread on the CPU that it runs the softirqs on. With this patch I have not seen my network hang. I ran it over night, doing compiles and such, and it seems fine. I would be able to cause the

Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

2007-06-14 Thread Oleg Verych
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:11:12PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Oleg Verych wrote: Thus, text mode on modern hardware isn't useable that much, only with Terminus font it is kind of normal (kudos to Dimitar Toshkov Jekov). But it's only option to unfortunately sucking X11, even with memory

[GIT PULL] Blackfin updates for 2.6.22-rc4

2007-06-14 Thread Bryan Wu
Hi Linus: Changes from last git-request-pull email: - remove some new platform and new driver patches out of this git-pull series as Paul mentioned - use scripts/checkpatch.pl to check and fix the coding style issues as Jeff pointed out please pull from:

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Thursday 14 June 2007 02:36:12 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

2007-06-14 Thread H. Peter Anvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:04:56 PDT, Joe Perches said: I believe it better to simply add __FILE__ __LINE__ to the macro rather than some other externally specified unique identifier that adds developer overhead and easily gets stale. There's been plenty of times

man-pages-2.56 is released

2007-06-14 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Gidday, I just released man-pages-2.56. This release is now available for download at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages and soon at: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages Changes that may be of interest to

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2007 01:51:13 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 22:38:05 Alexandre Oliva wrote: In 95% of the desktop computers, you can't make changes to

Re: [patch 01/03] kbuild, asm-values: infrastructure

2007-06-14 Thread Oleg Verych
Jun 13, 2007 at 01:36:51AM +0200, asm-values patch set: * header with widely used value definitions * handle all asm-related things in one file (Makefile.asm) * move some asm bits from Makefile.build there (rule %.s:%.c) * add script to generate headers from

[TOMOYO 0/9] TOMOYO Linux security module.

2007-06-14 Thread Kentaro Takeda
The following patches are TOMOYO Linux 2.0. TOMOYO Linux 2.0 is implemented as a LSM module. If you want to use older kernel, please download from http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.jp/tomoyo/25693/tomoyo-lsm-2.0-20070605.tar.gz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Paul Mundt
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:51:13AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never had a reason to want to change the way any device like a TiVO works. So I can't comment on this. Have you never wanted to improve any aspect of the

[TOMOYO 7/9] Auditing interface.

2007-06-14 Thread Kentaro Takeda
This patch makes access logs sent to auditing subsystem. Although TOMOYO Linux has /proc interface for access logs, we were advised to use auditing subsystem (after we introduced TOMOYO Linux 1.0 on December 2005, http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/21/63 ) and we did so in TOMOYO Linux 2.0.

[TOMOYO 8/9] File access control functions.

2007-06-14 Thread Kentaro Takeda
This is the main part for profiling and controlling file access. We thought checking old pathname and new pathname separately for rename() and link() operation is a too rough access control and we are checking both pathnames using tomoyo_check_double_write_acl(). Signed-off-by: Kentaro Takeda

[TOMOYO 9/9] Domain transition handler functions.

2007-06-14 Thread Kentaro Takeda
This is the main part for domain transition. In TOMOYO Linux, domains are automatically created at runtime. To make discussion smooth by reducing the amount of patches, we pruned argv[0] checks (although we referred the need of argv[0] checking at AppArmor's thread,

Re: call for more SD versus CFS comparisons (was: Re: Mainline plans)

2007-06-14 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On 13-06-2007 03:54, Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] wrote: ... Kernels: CFS v16 2.6.21 FC7 build 3194 CK2 2.6.21 FC7 build 3194 ... CFS v16: - beryl interractivity way too unresponsive.. - window decoration highlight taking around 5-10 secs to switch between windows focus - window

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:07:17AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 13, 2007, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the two courts are in the same country there's usually a higher court above both that can resolve this. But what if let's say the highest court in the USA and the

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add the explanation and sample of RapidIO DTS sector to the document of booting-without-of.txt file.

2007-06-14 Thread Segher Boessenkool
Not at all. On an 8641 it could be compatible = fsl,mpc8641-rapidio fsl,mpc8548-rapidio; which states this is the 8641 thing and it is compatible to the 8548 thing. Perfectly clear. The concern is this isn't just compatible = ..8641.. ..8548.. but something like: ..8641..

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Matt Keenan
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 13, 2007, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: So, TiVo includes a copy of Linux in its DVR. Stop right there. You seem to make the mistake to think that software is something

Re: ioctl disappeared (tty_ioctl)

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:42:23 + Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The kernel reported the messages: do_ioctl: ioctl c02bff70 disappeared symbol: tty_ioctl+0x0/0x4e0 [c01813b4] do_ioctl+0x74/0xd0 [c02bff70] tty_ioctl+0x0/0x4e0 [c018159e] vfs_ioctl+0x5e/0x1d0 [c0181787]

Re: [patch 0/3] AHCI Link Power Management

2007-06-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: I'm not sure about this. We need better PM framework to support powersaving in other controllers and some ahcis don't save much when only link power management is used, do you have data to support this? Yeah, it was some Lenovo notebook. Pavel is more

Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions with patches v3

2007-06-14 Thread Paulo Pereira
A Wednesday 13 June 2007 21:35:02, Greg KH escreveu: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:58:05PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: USB Subject: list_add corruption. prev-next should be next (f7d28794), but was f0df8ed4 (prev=f0df8ed4) Kernel Bug at lib/list_debug.c:33 References :

[PATCH] ehea: Whitespace cleanup

2007-06-14 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
This patch fixes several whitespace issues. Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h index c0f81b5..abaf3ac 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h +++ b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ #include asm/io.h

[PATCH]is_power_of_2-ntfs

2007-06-14 Thread vignesh babu
Replacing (n (n-1)) in the context of power of 2 checks with is_power_of_2 Signed-off-by: vignesh babu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/fs/ntfs/inode.c b/fs/ntfs/inode.c index b532a73..8152f79 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/inode.c @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ #include linux/pagemap.h

[PATCH]is_power_of_2-ufs/super.c

2007-06-14 Thread vignesh babu
Replacing (n (n-1)) in the context of power of 2 checks with is_power_of_2 Signed-off-by: vignesh babu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/fs/ufs/super.c b/fs/ufs/super.c index 22ff6ed..2b30116 100644 --- a/fs/ufs/super.c +++ b/fs/ufs/super.c @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ #include linux/smp_lock.h

Re: PATCH: udf fs corruption on linux-2.6

2007-06-14 Thread Jan Kara
Hi Rich, On Wed 13-06-07 15:48:03, Rich Coe wrote: This patch fixes directory and missing files corruption in fs/udf which occurs on all known 2.6 releases. The corruption occurs because blocks which were pre-alloc'd for a directory are released back to the fs freelist, but the inode's

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

2007-06-14 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:32 -0700, Greg KH wrote: So, why not use what we already have and work off of it? dev_printk() and friends are great, since they already define something like KMSG_COMPONENT: The driver name. They provide way more than that, they also provide the explicit

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bernd Paysan
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 22:14, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: It seems so. But it has this upgrade option, and one possible interpretation of ^^ Linus' comment is no, it doesn't have this update option. It? What it? I don't get it. If you say the licence is v2 only, then how can it

mach64 breakage in 2.6.22

2007-06-14 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, May 05, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ +atyfb-reorganize-clock-init.patch This change breaks the display on an ibook1 with 800x600 lcd. It is commit b4e124c138558a0cff51398ddff9a8e44ed0b529 in 2.6.22-rc4. The used

Re: [kvm-devel] [BUG] Oops with KVM-27

2007-06-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Luca Tettamanti wrote: With GOOD_APIC apic_read_around is a nop, while apic_write_around is a normal write. With !GOOD_APIC apic_write_around writes to the APIC reg using xchg. With !GOOD_APIC and this patch: --- include/asm-i386/apic.h~2007-04-26 05:08:32.0 +0200 +++

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Thursday 14 June 2007 03:11:45 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2007 01:51:13 Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 22:38:05 Alexandre Oliva wrote:

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

2007-06-14 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:15 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Your proposal is similar to one I made to some Japanese developers earlier this year. Interesting. Our requirement comes from Japan as well. I was more modest, proposing that we - add an enhanced printk xxprintk(msgid,

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bernd Paysan
On Thursday 14 June 2007 01:49, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Oh, good, let's take this one. if you distribute copies of such a program, [...] you must give the recipients all the rights that you have So, TiVo includes a copy of Linux in its DVR. TiVo retains the right to modify that copy of

Re: [PATCH]: add parameter struct bin_attribute * in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes

2007-06-14 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:35:44PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: I've applied this to acpi-test with an Acked-by: gregkh -- as we need it for the acpi table patch. Greg, unless I hear from you, I'll assume that this is okay for 2.6.23. It's fine with me, you can add a real: Signed-off-by:

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 23:38 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 13, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 19:49:23 Alexandre Oliva wrote: Exactly. They don't. What TiVO prevents is using that modified version on their hardware. And they have that

Re: [patch 0/3] no MAX_ARG_PAGES -v2

2007-06-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 23:23 -0700, Ollie Wild wrote: On 6/13/07, Luck, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Above 5Mbytes, I started seeing problems. The line/word/char counts from wc started being 0 0 0. Not sure if this is a problem in wc dealing with a single line 5MBytes, or some other

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Theodore Tso wrote: Basically, in the US, you get the best justice money can buy. :-) that has to be one of the best one-liners ever! :) - Ted -jb -- Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - To unsubscribe from this

[BUG] libata IT821X driver still fails! Hard-freezes system.

2007-06-14 Thread Rodney Gordon II
This is the screen image I took with my digital camera when bootup freezes: http://spherevision.org/sync/visual/itefreeze.jpg After this freeze, not even SysRq commands work. On a side-note, the non-libata drivers boot up, but throw tons of DMA errors after one DVD burn. The kernel I tested this

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

2007-06-14 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Hi, holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If the information is to big for the printk itself, because you would need 10 lines to explain what happened, wouldn't it be good to have a place where to put that information? I think if a message really has to be 10 lines long to be clear then it

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Thursday 14 June 2007 04:37:55 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 23:38 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 13, 2007, Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 19:49:23 Alexandre Oliva wrote: Exactly. They don't. What TiVO prevents is using that

Re: [patch 01/03] kbuild, asm-values: infrastructure

2007-06-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:41:43AM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: Jun 13, 2007 at 01:36:51AM +0200, asm-values patch set: * header with widely used value definitions * handle all asm-related things in one file (Makefile.asm) * move some asm bits from Makefile.build there

Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-06-14 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jun 14, 2007 09:52 +1000, David Chinner wrote: B FA_PREALLOCATE provides the same functionality as B FA_ALLOCATE except it does not ever change the file size. This allows allocation of zero blocks beyond the end of file and is useful for optimising append workloads. TP B FA_DEALLOCATE

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bernd Paysan
On Thursday 14 June 2007 09:32, Paul Mundt wrote: This is perhaps the part that's the most interesting. For the very small number of people that _do_ want to change these things (usually at the expense of a voided warranty, in the consumer device case), there's always a way to make these

[TOMOYO 3/9] Data structures and prototypes definition.

2007-06-14 Thread Kentaro Takeda
This is prototypes and structures definition. Many of structures are single-linked list and memory allocated for them are never freed, because entries used for access control needn't to be removed from the list so frequently compared to general other entries in the kernel. This saves the

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Exactly. And I don't see anything about a TiVO (or any device that, like a TiVO, requires binaries that run on it to be digitally signed) that stops you from exercising the freedoms guaranteed by the GPL. As I said before, what it does is stop you

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bernd Paysan
On Thursday 14 June 2007 03:24, Adrian Bunk wrote: Harald is in Germany, and he therefore takes legal action against people distributing products violating his copyright on the Linux kernel in Germany at German courts based on German laws. And if Tivo did sell their crap in Germany, I bet,

Re: mm: Fix memory/cpu hotplug section mismatch and oops.

2007-06-14 Thread Yasunori Goto
Thanks. I tested compile with cpu/memory hotplug off/on. It was OK. Acked-by: Yasunori Goto [EMAIL PROTECTED] (This is a resend of the earlier patch, this issue still needs to be fixed.) When building with memory hotplug enabled and cpu hotplug disabled, we end up with the following

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, what license is Linux licensed under? It's GPLv2 plus userland exception, right? (There's some additional module exception, right?) Pure GPLv2. Userland exception? Never heard of. Module exception? Perhaps you mean interpretation? -- Krzysztof

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bernd Schmidt
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, Bron Gondwana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tivo gets sick of the endless flamewars on lkml, signs a copy of QNX, pushes it out to the hardware. No more Linux on Tivo. What do we lose? Do we actually get any benefit whatsoever from TiVO's choice of

Re: libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure

2007-06-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Albert Lee wrote: libata can do most of this too by using ATA_FLAG_PIO_POLLING (doesn't cover nodata commands tho). Hi Tejun, Polling of nodata commands was fixed in: http://marc.info/?l=linux-idem=116546272916399w=2 Right. Thanks for reminding me. :-) -- tejun - To unsubscribe

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

2007-06-14 Thread Jan Kara
snip Your proposal is similar to one I made to some Japanese developers earlier this year. I was more modest, proposing that we - add an enhanced printk xxprintk(msgid, KERN_ERR some text %d\n, some_number); Maybe a stupid idea but why do we want to assign these numbers by

Re: Runaway process and oom-killer

2007-06-14 Thread John Sigler
Helge Hafting wrote: John Sigler wrote: Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:49:29AM +0200, John Sigler wrote: Question 2: how can I tell which process or kernel thread was hogging most of the RAM when the oom-killer kicked in? Theoretically the one that was killed first

[TOMOYO 1/9] Allow use of namespace_sem from LSM module.

2007-06-14 Thread Kentaro Takeda
TOMOYO Linux uses pathnames for auditing and controlling file access. Therefore, namespace_sem is needed. Signed-off-by: Kentaro Takeda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/namespace.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff

[TOMOYO 2/9] Kconfig and Makefile for TOMOYO Linux.

2007-06-14 Thread Kentaro Takeda
TOMOYO Linux 2.0 is implemented using LSM and auditing subsystem. When you use TOMOYO, you need to enable auditing support and disable all features (other than TOMOYO Linux) that use LSM because TOMOYO Linux 2.0 has to be built-in. If you don't want to disable any features that use LSM, please

[TOMOYO 4/9] LSM adapter for TOMOYO.

2007-06-14 Thread Kentaro Takeda
This file contains wrapper functions for TOMOYO's file access control functions. The main job is to find struct vfsmount that corresponds to struct dentry passed to LSM hooks. Since struct vfsmount is not passed to LSM hooks, TOMOYO can't determine which pathnames was requested by the process if

[patch] sched: fix SysRq-N (normalize RT tasks)

2007-06-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [patch] sched: fix SysRq-N (normalize RT tasks) Gene Heskett reported the following problem while testing CFS: SysRq-N is not always effective in normalizing tasks back to SCHED_OTHER. the reason for that turns out to be the following bug:

Re: + fs-introduce-write_begin-write_end-and-perform_write-aops.patch added to -mm tree

2007-06-14 Thread Jan Kara
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 13:43 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: .. 5) ext3_write_end: Before write_begin/write_end patch set we have folowing locking order: stop_journal(handle); unlock_page(page); But now order is oposite: unlock_page(page);

[TOMOYO 5/9] Memory and pathname management functions.

2007-06-14 Thread Kentaro Takeda
We limit the maximum length of any string data (such as domainname and pathnames) to TOMOYO_MAX_PATHNAME_LEN (which is 4000) bytes to fit within a single page. Userland programs can obtain the amount of RAM currently used by TOMOYO from /proc interface. Signed-off-by: Kentaro Takeda [EMAIL

[TOMOYO 6/9] Utility functions and /proc interface for policy manipulation.

2007-06-14 Thread Kentaro Takeda
This file contains utility functions for TOMOYO. Any string data in TOMOYO Linux consists with ASCII printable characters (0x21 to 0x7E) so that userland application can separate monotonically using whitespaces and carrige returns. Any wildcard character consists with \ + one ASCII printable

[patch 3/6] SM501: Fix sm501_init_reg() mask/set order

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Dooks
The order of the set and mask operation in sm501_init_reg() was setting and then masking the bits set. Correct the order so that we do not end up with 288MHz SDRAM clocks on certain systems. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.21-quilt8/drivers/mfd/sm501.c

[patch 2/6] SM501: initialise SDRAM clock before bus clocks

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Dooks
This init sequence of setting the SDRAM clock before the bus clock is recommend by Silicon Motion to stop problems with writes not sticking into registers. Signed-off-by: Vincent Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.21-quilt8/drivers/mfd/sm501.c

[patch 4/6] SM501: Clock updates and checks

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Dooks
Ensure that the M1XCLK and MCLK are sourced from the same PLL (and refuse to bind the driver if they are not). Update the PCI to safe initialisation values, as 72MHz is the maximum clock for 33MHz PCI bus mastering. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index:

[patch 0/6] SM501 fixes and updates

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Dooks
A set of fixes and documentation updates for the drivers/mfd/sm501.c SM501 driver -- Ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.fluff.org/) 'a smiley only costs 4 bytes' - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

[patch 5/6] SM501: Add Documentation/SM501.txt

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Dooks
Add documentation for the SM501 in Documentation/SM501.txt outlining the SM501 driver. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.21-quilt8/Documentation/SM501.txt === --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.0

[patch 6/6] SM501: Check SM501 ID register on initialisation

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Dooks
When binding the driver, check the ID register for a valid identity, in case the SM501 is not functioning correctly. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.21-quilt8/drivers/mfd/sm501.c === ---

[patch 1/6] SM501: suspend support

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Dooks
This patch adds support for suspending the core (mfd driver) of the SM501. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.21-quilt8/drivers/mfd/sm501.c === --- linux-2.6.21-quilt8.orig/drivers/mfd/sm501.c

Re: Runaway process and oom-killer

2007-06-14 Thread John Sigler
Chris Friesen wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: My guess: Something needs memory but finds there is none to be had oom-killer is invoked and targets myapp. myapp takes some time to die. Particularly, the memory it uses isn't freed up instantly. Has anyone considered actually bumping up the

Re: ext2 on flash memory

2007-06-14 Thread Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Juergen Beisert wrote: So it makes no sense to find the best filesystem for such a case. There is no best one. It does make sense. Wear leveling isn't the only thing that matters. An important criteria is the total

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Alan Cox
I've been following this discussion and I find this interesting. Consider these two cases: 1.) I ship the device back to the manufacturer, they replace the ROM, and ship it back to me. 2.) I ship the device back to the manufacturer, they load new code into it, and ship it back to

Re: ext2 on flash memory

2007-06-14 Thread Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Juergen Beisert wrote: So it makes no sense to find the best filesystem for such a case. There is no best one. It does make sense. Wear leveling isn't the only thing that matters. An important criteria is the total

Re: [PATCH RFC] struct list_node

2007-06-14 Thread Jan Blunck
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:11:30 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: +/* A list node is the same as the head of the list, but it's useful to + * think of them as a separate type. */ +struct list_node { + struct list_head h; +}; + +/* This allows us to support old style list_head as well as

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 05:05 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2007 04:37:55 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: [...] covered by the GPL. Indeed, TiVO has this legal right. But then they must not use Do they? At least in .at, it is usually impossible to (legally) limit the

RE: call for more SD versus CFS comparisons (was: Re: [ck] Mainline plans)

2007-06-14 Thread Tobias Gerschner
Hi, I did run massive_intr.c for 60 secs with increasing nproc ( 10,20,30,40,50,60) waiting for effects. Below a small table of the results 2.6.21.1-cfs-v16 nproc , usability result 10 , serious frame drops , Firefox hardly recognizes clicked links, but still usable 20 - 30, usability

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Alan Cox
the new language it contains. It has taken almost 15 years for Free Software to make a dent in the market, and, IMHO, a lot of that is both Linux and the holes in GPLv2. You appear terminally confused. The purpose of the GPL as defined by its authors is not commercial success, world

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-14 Thread Michael Gerdau
able to run you modifications on the same hardware? Come on! The whole idea of software is to have it run on some HW. Why would I want to change it in the first place if I can't

Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions v3

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi All, They apear as soon as simpleinit starts up. Somtimes I get to a login prompt before seeing any. Other times, commands in the simpleinit rc script fail. They do apear to be random. If a command failes, you re-run the command and it is OK. Commands seen to fail are basic (depmod, rm

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