[RFC PATCH 1/3] Generic Trace Setup and Control (GTSC) Documentation

2007-06-29 Thread Tom Zanussi
This is the documentation for the Generic Trace Setup and Control patchset, first submitted a couple of weeks ago. See http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=118214274912586w=2 for a more detailed description. I've updated this patch to incorporate the suggestions made by Alexey Dobriyan in that

[RFC PATCH 2/3] Generic Trace Setup and Control (GTSC) code

2007-06-29 Thread Tom Zanussi
The Generic Tracing and Control Interface (GTSC) code. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David Wilder [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/gtsc.h | 104 + lib/Kconfig | 10 lib/Makefile |2 lib/gtsc.c | 558

[RFC PATCH 3/3] blktrace conversion to GTSC

2007-06-29 Thread Tom Zanussi
This patch converts blktrace to use the Generic Trace Setup and Control (GTSC) interface. Also attached is a small patch to the blktrace user code, needed for the ioctl change. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David Wilder [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- block/Kconfig

[PATCH 4/4] void unregister_blkdev - make void

2007-06-29 Thread Akinobu Mita
Put WARN_ON and fixed all callers of unregister_blkdev(). Now we can make unregister_blkdev return void. Cc: Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- block/genhd.c |7 +-- include/linux/fs.h |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7

Re: [RFC] automatic CC generation for patch submission

2007-06-29 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 6/30/07, Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/07, Kok, Auke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] an easier way to implement this is to add an extra field in the MAINTAINERS file, something like below. All the contact info would stay the same, closely where applicable and it would

How to enable dev_dbg messaging

2007-06-29 Thread Jay Cliburn
How do I turn on dev_dbg messaging in the kernel? I can get printk(KERN_DEBUG ...) to work just fine, but I don't know how to enable dev_dbg. Thanks, Jay - 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: How to enable dev_dbg messaging

2007-06-29 Thread Akinobu Mita
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:29:33PM -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote: How do I turn on dev_dbg messaging in the kernel? I can get printk(KERN_DEBUG ...) to work just fine, but I don't know how to enable dev_dbg. Defining DEBUG before including linux/device.h enables dev_dbg to work. - To unsubscribe

Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

2007-06-29 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Friday 29 June 2007 17:27:34 Rene Herman wrote: On 06/29/2007 11:05 PM, Bodo Eggert wrote: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed if its public domain you may have almost no rights at all depending what you were given. Once you get the source code you can do stuff but I don't have to

Re: [RFC] automatic CC generation for patch submission

2007-06-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:34:51AM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote: ... Basically, instead of manually figuring out who to add to CC when sending a patch to LKML by looking at MAINTAINERS, a script can look at '.maintainers' files spread across the source tree and automatically generate a proper list

RE: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

2007-06-29 Thread David Schwartz
Treating ordinary use as a copyright privilege leads to nonsensical results no matter what you do. For example, you get that I can drop copies of my poem from an airplane and then sue anyone who reads it. Who was talking about reading? They are both ordinary use. It is crazy to treat

Re: 2.6.22-rcX Transmeta/APM regression

2007-06-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, the patch which introduces the problem is the aptly named 3ebad: 3ebad59056: [PATCH] x86: Save and restore the fixed-range MTRRs of the BSP when suspending 2.6.22-rc6 plus that one commit reverted successfully does APM suspend (and resume) for me. Okay, I

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1

2007-06-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:01:30 PDT, Andrew Morton said: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:50:30 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd - just for grins, I checked what 'make oldconfig' did when handed a .config from 22-rc4-mm2, and it behaved just fine, much to my surprise. That's probably because

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1

2007-06-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:17:46 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:01:30 PDT, Andrew Morton said: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:50:30 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd - just for grins, I checked what 'make oldconfig' did when handed a .config from 22-rc4-mm2, and it

Re: how to determine if the noexec stack is defined by an application

2007-06-29 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 18:21 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: But it's running a Web service which is a combination of C code and Tomcat/Java. I have no clue how to determine which portions specify a noexec stack and which don't. like this: $ eu-readelf -l

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