mm/sparse.c:482: error: implicit declaration of function ‘sparse_early_usemap_alloc’

2007-07-28 Thread Miles Lane
Do you need my .config file? CC mm/sparse.o mm/sparse.c: In function 'sparse_init': mm/sparse.c:482: error: implicit declaration of function 'sparse_early_usemap_alloc' mm/sparse.c:482: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast make[1]: *** [mm/sparse.o] Error 1 - To

[PATCH] flush icache before set_pte() take 5.

2007-07-28 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Appliled comments on take 4. patches are against 2.6.23-rc1. Changes: - changes flush_icache_page to be flush_cache_page() in remove_migration_pte(). - removed sync_icache_dcahe() in page reuse case of do_wp_page(). Considerations: - I can add CONFIG_MONTECITO if necessary. But it will

Re: mm/sparse.c:482: error: implicit declaration of function ‘sparse_early_usemap_alloc’

2007-07-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:00:54 -0700 Miles Lane wrote: Do you need my .config file? Ideally, yes. Is this for 2.6.23-rc1-mm1? CC mm/sparse.o mm/sparse.c: In function 'sparse_init': mm/sparse.c:482: error: implicit declaration of function 'sparse_early_usemap_alloc' mm/sparse.c:482:

[PATCH] flush icache before set_pte() take 5. [1/2] cache flush in migration

2007-07-28 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
In migration, a new page should be cache flushed before set_pte() in some archs which have virtually-tagged cache.. V4 - V5: * changed flush_icache_page to flush_cache_page. Signed-Off-By: KAMEZAWA Hiruyoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mm/migrate.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index:

[PATCH] flush icache before set_pte() take 5. [2/2] sync icache dcache for ia64

2007-07-28 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
flush icache for ia64 take4. This patch is against 2.6.23-rc1. Changes V4 - V5: - removed sync_icache_dcache from do_wp_page() page reuse case. Changes v3 - v4: - avoid implementing flush_(i)cache_pages(). - added sync_icache_dcache() call. - change Documentation/cachetlb.txt Current

Re: [PATCH] ia64: fix a few section mismatch warnings

2007-07-28 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:32:13PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: - mca_data = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct ia64_mca_cpu) - * NR_CPUS + KERNEL_STACK_SIZE); + mca_data = mca_bootmem(NR_CPUS + KERNEL_STACK_SIZE); Oops. You moved the

Re: mm/sparse.c:482: error: impl icit declaration of function ‘sparse_early_usemap _alloc’

2007-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:00:54PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: Do you need my .config file? Please always send the .config - it makes reproducing an error and verifying a fix much easier. This list has a 400 kB per email limit, and as long as you don't hit this limit you have never sent too much

Re: mm/sparse.c:482: error: implicit declaration of function ‘sparse_early_usemap_alloc’

2007-07-28 Thread Miles Lane
On 7/27/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:00:54PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: Do you need my .config file? Please always send the .config - it makes reproducing an error and verifying a fix much easier. This list has a 400 kB per email limit, and as long as

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 + hotfixes -- Section mismatches

2007-07-28 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:16:35PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: MODPOST vmlinux.o WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x183): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.1:start_kernel (between 'is386' and 'check_x87') This one is not fixed - yet. The rest are fixed in latest -linus. modpost choked over the

Re: mm/sparse.c:482: error: implicit declaration of function ‘sparse_early_usemap_alloc’

2007-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:14:04 -0700 Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/27/07, Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you need my .config file? CC mm/sparse.o mm/sparse.c: In function 'sparse_init': mm/sparse.c:482: error: implicit declaration of function

Re: request for patches: showing mount options

2007-07-28 Thread Ian Kent
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 17:40 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: all - fs has options, but doesn't define -show_options() some - fs defines -show_options(), but some options are not shown noopt - fs does not have options good - fs shows all options patch - I have a patch [...]

Re: pluggable scheduler thread (was Re: Volanomark slows by 80% under CFS)

2007-07-28 Thread Chris Snook
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:43:23PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: I'm pretty sure the point of posting a patch that triples CFS performance on a certain benchmark and arguably improves the semantics of sched_yield was to improve CFS. You have a point, but it is a point for

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kasper Sandberg wrote: Im still not so keen about this, Ingo never did get CFS to match SD in smoothness for 3d applications, where my test subjects are quake(s), world of warcraft via wine, unreal tournament 2004. And this is

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/27/2007 09:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: On 07/27/2007 07:45 PM, Daniel Hazelton wrote: Questions about it: Q) Does swap-prefetch help with this? A) [From all reports I've seen (*)] Yes, it does. No it does not. If updatedb filled

Re: How can we make page replacement smarter (was: swap-prefetch)

2007-07-28 Thread Chris Snook
Al Boldi wrote: Chris Snook wrote: Resource size has been outpacing processing latency since the dawn of time. Disks get bigger much faster than seek times shrink. Main memory and cache keep growing, while single-threaded processing speed has nearly ground to a halt. In the old days, it made

Re: CONFIG_SUSPEND? (was: Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-28 Thread Len Brown
On Thursday 26 July 2007 16:55, Linus Torvalds wrote: Anyway, I think the ACPI problem really is as trivial as the following three-liner removal fix. If the user doesn't want suspend, ACPI shouldn't force it on him. ... - # for sleep - select HOTPLUG_CPU if X86 SMP - select

[PATCH] ACPI: restore CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP

2007-07-28 Thread Len Brown
From: Len Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Restore the 2.6.22 CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP build option, with a few differences: 1. selects HOTPLUG_CPU rather than depends on HOTPLUG_CPU. 2. ACPI_SLEEP can be enabled on IA64 Disabling this option shrinks the kernel by 16KB. Disabling this option on SMP allows the

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Matthew Hawkins
On 7/28/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People who think SD was perfect were simply ignoring reality. Sadly, that seemed to include Con too, which was one of the main reasons that I never ended entertaining the notion of merging SD for very long at all: Con ended up arguing against

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/28/2007 01:15 AM, Björn Steinbrink wrote: On 2007.07.27 20:16:32 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: Here's swap-prefetch's author saying the same: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/9/112 | It can't help the updatedb scenario. Updatedb leaves the ram full and | swap prefetch wants to cost as little

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-28 Thread Manuel Reimer
Robert Hancock wrote: I don't think this is a bug, the drive was told to read a sector and returned error SK=03, ASC=02, ASCQ=00 which is NO SEEK COMPLETE, in other words it couldn't find that sector. Could be that the disc is marginally readable and only sometimes causes read errors. The

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 18:51 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote: Now, once more, I'm going to ask: What is so terribly wrong with swap prefetch? Why does it seem that everyone against it says Its treating a symptom, so it can't go in? And once again, I personally have nothing against

Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Jan Dittmer
Andreas Schwab wrote: Jan Dittmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Len Brown wrote: Hi Linus, please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release This seems to break ia64 defconfig: Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 157 modules FATAL:

Testing of CPRM on SD Card

2007-07-28 Thread Midhun A
Hi All, Our product development requires that we use the CPRM security feature of SD card for protecting our material. I have been searching the web for a SD host controller / Software which is CPRM capable, so that we can write/read an encrypted SD card with the testing keys provided by the

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 -- INFO: possible recursive locking detected -- (hashbin-hb_spinlock){....}, at: [c03d95d3] irias_seq_show+0xba/0x1a8

2007-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:01:23 -0700 Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking to see whether reading /proc files made things unhappy: find /proc/ | xargs cat find /proc/ -name [g-z]* | xargs cat find /proc/ -name [a-g]* | xargs file dmesg shows: I'm unable to

Re: [2.6 patch] let SUSPEND select HOTPLUG_CPU

2007-07-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 12:47:37AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Yes, that's the price to pay if you want to select something that in turn depends on a number of other things. Yes, but a good user interface is worth it. That's right. But a hypothetical other way would be

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/28/2007 09:35 AM, Rene Herman wrote: By the way -- I'm unable to make my slocate grow substantial here but I'll try what GNU locate does. If it's really as bad as I hear then regardless of anything else it should really be either fixed or dumped... Yes. GNU locate is broken and nobody

Re: [2.6 patch] SOFTWARE_SUSPEND: handle HOTPLUG_CPU automatically

2007-07-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:57:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: [ For extra bonus points: the SUSPEND_POSSIBLE thing is still pretty complicated, and it might actually be a better idea to make it a per-arch config option, ... This would give you trying to assign

Re: [PATCH] MIPS: add smp_call_function_single()

2007-07-28 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 06:53:23AM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: Ralf, Here is take 2. [MIPS] add smp_call_function_single (take 2) signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian [EMAIL PROTECTED] signed-off-by: Phil Mucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/smp.c

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread david
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: On 07/27/2007 09:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: On 07/27/2007 07:45 PM, Daniel Hazelton wrote: Questions about it: Q) Does swap-prefetch help with this? A) [From all reports I've seen (*)]

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-07-28 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 12:22:57PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: The TTY line discipline driver could do that based on the amount of received data present in its buffer. And it should if asked to (a brief look at drivers/char/n_tty.c reveals it does; obviously there

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-07-28 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:51:25PM -0700, Lee Howard wrote: Curiously, the session at 38400 bps that skipped 858 bytes... coincided, not just in sequence but also in precice timing within the session, with a small but noticeable disk load that I caused by grepping through a hundred session

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Daniel Cheng wrote: but merging maps2 have higher risk which should be done in a development branch (er... 2.7, but we don't have it now). This is off-topic and has been discussed to death, but: Rather than one stable branch and one development branch, we have a few stable branches and a lot

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 19:35 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kasper Sandberg wrote: Im still not so keen about this, Ingo never did get CFS to match SD in smoothness for 3d applications, where my test subjects are quake(s), world of warcraft via wine, unreal tournament

Re: [PATCH 2/3] core_pattern: allow passing of arguments to user mode helper when core_pattern is a pipe

2007-07-28 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Neil, thanks a lot for your work on this! Neil Horman [2007-07-27 16:08 -0400]: Hey Patch 2/3 of my core_pattern enhancements. This patch is a rewrite of my previous post for this enhancement. It uses jeremy's split_argv/free_argv library functions to translate core_pattern into

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/28/2007 10:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in at some situations swap prefetch can help becouse something that used memory freed it so there is free memory that could be filled with data (which is something that Linux does agressivly in most other situations) in some other situations

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag 28 Juli 2007 schrieb Linus Torvalds: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kasper Sandberg wrote: Im still not so keen about this, Ingo never did get CFS to match SD in smoothness for 3d applications, where my test subjects are quake(s), world of warcraft via wine, unreal tournament 2004. And

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag 28 Juli 2007 schrieb Matthew Hawkins: On 7/28/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People who think SD was perfect were simply ignoring reality. Sadly, that seemed to include Con too, which was one of the main reasons that I never ended entertaining the notion of merging

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Dirk Schoebel
Up till now i haven't read the interview with Linus. [2] http://www.oneopensource.it/interview-linus-torvalds/ It is interesting, he mentiones a lesson to learn from Microsoft: 'Well, historically, the most important lesson from Microsoft - and one they themselves seem to have forgotten - is

Re: How can we make page replacement smarter (was: swap-prefetch)

2007-07-28 Thread Al Boldi
Chris Snook wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Because it is hard to quantify the expected swap-in speed for random pages, let's first tackle the swap-in of consecutive pages, which should be at least as fast as swap-out. So again, why is swap-in so slow? If I'm writing 20 pages to swap, I can find

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Cox
It is. Prefetched pages can be dropped on the floor without additional I/O. Which is essentially free for most cases. In addition your disk access may well have been in idle time (and should be for this sort of stuff) and if it was in the same chunk as something nearby was effectively free

Re: How to register block device as read-only

2007-07-28 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:07 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, In a block device driver, how do you tell the kernel that your block device is read-only? Is it in the registration of the gendisk, or is there an ioctl I should be catching to inform the kernel (and user) that this disk

Re: How to register block device as read-only

2007-07-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 28 2007 13:36, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: Unless I misunderstand the question, the write and writev function of the struct file_operations should return an appropriate error value (which is here -EACCES). You may think of returning an error in the open if someone wants to open it to write

zd1211b question.

2007-07-28 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; A net friend of mine has a Gateway m305CRV laptop, with this radio in it: Bus 003 Device 003: ID 050d:705c Belkin Components Its apparently sitting on the usb bus, and from my grepping of the kernel srcs, it looks as if the zd1211b driver might be the correct one:

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Cox
Curiously, the session at 38400 bps that skipped 858 bytes... coincided, not just in sequence but also in precice timing within the session, with a small but noticeable disk load that I caused by grepping through a hundred session logs. (I can't reproduce it easily, though, because of

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-28 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, I tried to reproduce this bug by mounting/unmounting the drive several times. It seems like this problem is caused, if the drive is at speed 0 after some time without access. In this situation, sometimes the drive seems to take a bit longer to speed up. Whenever it takes a bit

Re: Volanomark slows by 80% under CFS

2007-07-28 Thread Dmitry Adamushko
On 28/07/07, Tim Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] It may make sense to queue the yielding process a bit further behind in the queue. I made a slight change by zeroing out wait_runtime (i.e. have the process gives up cpu time due for it to run) for experimentation. But that's wrong. The

BSG: BLK_DEV_BSG=y , BLOCK=n compile error

2007-07-28 Thread Gabriel C
Hi, BSG does not compile without BLOCK set : ... block/bsg.c: In function 'blk_fill_sgv4_hdr_rq': block/bsg.c:186: error: 'BLK_MAX_CDB' undeclared (first use in this function) block/bsg.c:186: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once block/bsg.c:186: error: for each function it

[PATCH] fix IDE legacy mode resource

2007-07-28 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
Hi, I got the following error on MIPS Cobalt. MIPS Cobalt has the 0x1000 offset between resource and bus region. PCI: Unable to reserve I/O region #1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for device :00:09.1 pata_via :00:09.1: failed to request/iomap BARs for port 0 (errno=-16) PCI: Unable to reserve

Re: [PATCH 10/68] 0 - NULL, for arch/mips

2007-07-28 Thread Markus Gothe
Usually it's not only cleaner, it's what you want to do... AFAIK 'NULL' is implemented/defined by the compiler, so if you've got a compiler which defines NULL otherwise than( a pointer to) zero you're screwed. ;) //Markus On 27 Jul, 2007, at 11:45 , Yoann Padioleau wrote: When

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Chang
On 7/27/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Con ended up arguing against people who reported problems, rather than trying to work with them. I do recall there is one issue on which Con wouldn't budge -- anything that involved boosting certain kinds of processes in the kernel. He said

[PATCH] Documentation: document HFSPlus

2007-07-28 Thread Wyatt Banks
Hi Randy, --- Patched against 2.6.22.1 FYI: Patches should be against the latest -rc or -git (when available), but it probably doesn't matter in this case. Thanks for the tip and corrections. Here's the latest. From: Wyatt Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Documentation: document HFSPlus

Re: Volanomark slows by 80% under CFS

2007-07-28 Thread Dmitry Adamushko
On 28/07/07, Chris Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] Under CFS, the yielding process will still be leftmost in the rbtree, otherwise it would have already been scheduled out. Not actually true. The position of the 'current' task within the rb-tree is updated with a timer tick's

Re: zd1211b question.

2007-07-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 28 2007 07:55, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; A net friend of mine has a Gateway m305CRV laptop, with this radio in it: Bus 003 Device 003: ID 050d:705c Belkin Components Its apparently sitting on the usb bus, and from my grepping of the kernel srcs, it looks as if the zd1211b

Re: [PATCH 2/3] core_pattern: allow passing of arguments to user mode helper when core_pattern is a pipe

2007-07-28 Thread Neil Horman
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:23:55AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Hi Neil, thanks a lot for your work on this! Neil Horman [2007-07-27 16:08 -0400]: Hey Patch 2/3 of my core_pattern enhancements. This patch is a rewrite of my previous post for this enhancement. It uses jeremy's

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1

2007-07-28 Thread Torsten Kaiser
On 7/26/07, Torsten Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DISCONTIGMEM+SLUB: [ 39.833272] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC [ 40.016659] Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Try using the 'noapic' kernel parameter DISCONTIGMEM+SLAB: Boots until it can't

Re: zd1211b question.

2007-07-28 Thread Daniel Drake
Gene Heskett wrote: This last one is the right set of numbers. However, I'll be dipped but I can't find anyplace in a make xconfig in the 2.6.22.1-rt9 tree, to turn on the building of that driver. Sounds like you haven't satisfied the dependencies or are looking in the wrong menu. Under

Re: BSG: BLK_DEV_BSG=y , BLOCK=n compile error

2007-07-28 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
From: Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BSG: BLK_DEV_BSG=y , BLOCK=n compile error Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:54:02 +0200 Hi, BSG does not compile without BLOCK set : Thanks, this has already been addressed. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=118534836402440w=2 James, could you add the

Re: [2.6 patch] let SUSPEND select HOTPLUG_CPU

2007-07-28 Thread Sergio Monteiro Basto
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 00:47 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: The dependency of SUSPEND_SMP on HOTPLUG_CPU is quite unintuitive, It's not entirely unintuitive. That option's full name is Support for suspend on SMP and hot-pluggable CPUs. I have to give reason to Len Brown

[PATCH] Framebuffer: Fix 16bpp colour output in Dreamcast pvr2fb

2007-07-28 Thread Adrian McMenamin
Tony, This patch - on top of your others - fixes the colour output for 16bpp RGB565 output in the Dreamcast - it was a simple out by one error in the bit shift. Still looking at the 24bpp and 32bpp issues. Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/drivers/video/pvr2fb.c

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Ronni Nielsen
Hmm - Linus 2.6.23-rc1 + Linux 2.6.23-rc1 Or are *you* now under versioning? Or maybe a silent namechange of the kernel? /ronni - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[PATCH] Documentation - update Documentation/fb/pvr2fb.txt

2007-07-28 Thread Adrian McMenamin
The current version is very old and does not correctly specify how to set the video mode. Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/Documentation/fb/pvr2fb.txt b/Documentation/fb/pvr2fb.txt index 2bf6c23..1489f9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/pvr2fb.txt +++

Re: BSG: BLK_DEV_BSG=y , BLOCK=n compile error

2007-07-28 Thread Gabriel C
FUJITA Tomonori wrote: From: Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BSG: BLK_DEV_BSG=y , BLOCK=n compile error Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:54:02 +0200 Hi, BSG does not compile without BLOCK set : Thanks, this has already been addressed.

Re: [2.6 patch] arch/powerpc/Kconfig: fix the EMBEDDED6xx dependencies

2007-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:06:34PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: Adrian Bunk writes: This patch changes the EMBEDDED6xx dependencies to the equivalent dependency that seems to have been intended. Nack - CONFIG_EMBEDDED6xx is going away entirely, soon. Still there - and still with this

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 28 July 2007 03:48:13 Mike Galbraith wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 18:51 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote: Now, once more, I'm going to ask: What is so terribly wrong with swap prefetch? Why does it seem that everyone against it says Its treating a symptom, so it can't go in? And

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-07-28 Thread Lee Howard
Alan Cox wrote: Curiously, the session at 38400 bps that skipped 858 bytes... coincided, not just in sequence but also in precice timing within the session, with a small but noticeable disk load that I caused by grepping through a hundred session logs. (I can't reproduce it easily, though,

Re: swap-prefetch: A smart way to make good use of idle resources (was: updatedb)

2007-07-28 Thread grundig
El Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:03:19 +0200 (CEST), Indan Zupancic [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Perhaps one of the reasons is that this is core kernel code. And that it isn't a new feature, but a performance improvement with doubtful trade-offs. The problem statement isn't clear either. It seems like

Re: RFC: UML: remove MODE_TT?

2007-07-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:18:37PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:35:33AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: MODE_TT is both marked as deprecated and marked as BROKEN. Would a patch to remove MODE_TT, always enable MODE_SKAS, and doing all possible cleanups after this be

NETPOLL=y , NETDEVICES=n compile error ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 )

2007-07-28 Thread Gabriel C
Hi, I got this compile error with a randconfig ( http://194.231.229.228/MM/randconfig-auto-82.broken.netpoll.c ). ... net/core/netpoll.c: In function 'netpoll_poll': net/core/netpoll.c:155: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'poll_controller' net/core/netpoll.c:159: error: 'struct

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Saturday 28 July 2007 04:55:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: On 07/27/2007 09:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: On 07/27/2007 07:45 PM, Daniel Hazelton wrote: Questions about it: Q) Does swap-prefetch

Re: [PATCH 0/3][try 1] init: enable system-on-initramfs

2007-07-28 Thread Rob Landley
I had this unsent on my desktop, buried by other windows. Let me know if the conversation's moved on since, but if so I wasn't cc'd... On Thursday 19 July 2007 9:56:11 am Bodo Eggert wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Rob Landley wrote: On Friday 13 July 2007 2:56:00 pm Bodo Eggert wrote: I

Reporting bugs (was Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Martin Steigerwald wrote: There are just about 9000 bugs in the kernel bugtracker and about 15 bugs in the KDE bugtracker. Granted KDE bugtracker includes a lot of applications, but still I think the number of bug reports in the kernel bugtracker is ridicolously low. And I think thats

Re: [PATCH 2/3] core_pattern: allow passing of arguments to user mode helper when core_pattern is a pipe

2007-07-28 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Neil, Neil Horman [2007-07-28 9:46 -0400]: I just want to mention a potential problem with this: If you first expand the macros (from pattern to corename) and then split corename into an argv, then this breaks macro expansions containing spaces. This mostly affects the executable

[PATCH] Try harder to probe some finicky mice

2007-07-28 Thread Alon Ziv
From: Alon Ziv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some rodents appear to be extra-finicky, and require both a PSMOUSE_RESET_DIS and a PSMOUSE_RESET_BAT before they are unconfused enough to be probed. Signed-off-by: Alon Ziv [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1

Re: Reporting bugs (was Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-28 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, On 28/07/07, Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Steigerwald wrote: There are just about 9000 bugs in the kernel bugtracker and about 15 bugs in the KDE bugtracker. Granted KDE bugtracker includes a lot of applications, but still I think the number of bug reports in the

Re: CONFIG_SUSPEND? (was: Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote: That three-liner will crash ACPI+SMP-HOTPLUG_CPU kernels on resume. Explain that to me. There should *be* no resume. ACPI doesn't suspend/resume on its own, I hope. It is all done by the top-level suspend/resume code, not by ACPI. ACPI is a pure

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Manuel Reimer wrote: Hello, I tried to reproduce this bug by mounting/unmounting the drive several times. It seems like this problem is caused, if the drive is at speed 0 after some time without access. In this situation, sometimes the drive seems to take a bit longer to speed up. Whenever

Re: RFT: updatedb morning after problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

2007-07-28 Thread Ray Lee
On 7/28/07, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actual physical disk ops are precious resource and anything that mostly reduces the number will be a win - not to stay swap prefetch is the right answer but accidentally or otherwise there are good reasons it may happen to help. Bigger more

Re: How can we make page replacement smarter (was: swap-prefetch)

2007-07-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Al Boldi wrote: Chris Snook wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Because it is hard to quantify the expected swap-in speed for random pages, let's first tackle the swap-in of consecutive pages, which should be at least as fast as swap-out. So again, why is swap-in so slow? If I'm writing 20 pages to swap,

[PATCH -mm] fix LSM kernel-doc

2007-07-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like mainline (Linus's git) to be kernel-doc clean (it's not, but all of the patches for it have been sent, just getting them merged is the challenge). One way to address this for future merges is to fix -mm kernel-doc. The security-convert-to-static

[PATCH -mm] fix kgdb kernel-doc

2007-07-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] No kernel-doc comments in this file, although kgdb.tmpl implies that it needs some: Warning(linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1//kernel/kgdb.c): no structured comments found Add kernel-doc notation in kgdb.h for: Warning(linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1//include/linux/kgdb.h:225): No

Removing the prism54 module

2007-07-28 Thread Edward Ando
Dear All, I am trying to set up software suspend 2 (TuxOnIce now it seems). This has decided it wants to remove the prism54 module before starting the hibernate process. When it tries to do this, (or when I manually do: ifconfig eth1 down), I start getting these messages on all terminals, ad

DCA=n , INTEL_IOATDMA=y compile error ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 )

2007-07-28 Thread Gabriel C
Hi, I got this error with a randconfig ( http://194.231.229.228/MM/randconfig-auto-86.ioat ) ... LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o: In function `ioat_shutdown_functionality': ioat.c:(.text+0x21ed32): undefined reference to `unregister_dca_provider' ioat.c:(.text+0x21ed3a): undefined

Re: serial flow control appears broken

2007-07-28 Thread Ray Lee
On 7/27/07, Lee Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curiously, the session at 38400 bps that skipped 858 bytes... coincided, not just in sequence but also in precice timing within the session, with a small but noticeable disk load that I caused by grepping through a hundred session logs. (I can't

[PATCH] audit m-l is members-only

2007-07-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] audit m-l is members-only. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- MAINTAINERS |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1.orig/MAINTAINERS +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/MAINTAINERS @@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ S:

sound/pci/ac97/ac97_patch.h - declared 'static' but never defined warnings ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 )

2007-07-28 Thread Gabriel C
... sound/pci/ac97/ac97_patch.h:86: warning: 'snd_ac97_restore_status' declared 'static' but never defined sound/pci/ac97/ac97_patch.h:87: warning: 'snd_ac97_restore_iec958' declared 'static' but never defined ... Got that with a randconfig ( http://194.231.229.228/MM/randconfig-auto-86.ioat

Re: CONFIG_SUSPEND? (was: Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: And it's the *top*level* code that selects HOTPLUG_CPU. Through SUSPEND_SMP (which will select HOTPLUG_CPU) and SOFTWARE_SUSPEND. In other words, the problem seems to be that kernel/power/main.c:

Re: alpha compile failure (srm_printk)

2007-07-28 Thread Meelis Roos
Retested this compile error with todays 2.6.23-rc1+git, still the same. LD arch/alpha/boot/bootloader arch/alpha/boot/bootloader.lds:25: undefined symbol `srm_printk' referenced in expression I was unable to repeoduce these errors on 2.6.22-rc4 with your config. Hmm. Just make

mm/sparse.c compile error ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 )

2007-07-28 Thread Gabriel C
Hi, next randconfig error ( http://194.231.229.228/MM/randconfig-auto-87.mm_sparse.error ) ... mm/sparse.c: In function 'sparse_init': mm/sparse.c:482: error: implicit declaration of function 'sparse_early_usemap_alloc' mm/sparse.c:482: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Jonathan Jessup wrote: Linus, there is a complaint about the Linux kernel, this complaint is that the Linux kernel isn't giving priorities to desktop interactivity and experience. The response on osnews.com etc have shown that there is public demand for it too. No,

Re: [PATCH 2/3] core_pattern: allow passing of arguments to user mode helper when core_pattern is a pipe

2007-07-28 Thread Neil Horman
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 06:17:25PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Hi Neil, Neil Horman [2007-07-28 9:46 -0400]: I just want to mention a potential problem with this: If you first expand the macros (from pattern to corename) and then split corename into an argv, then this breaks macro

[PATCH] fix alpha mkbb compilation warnings

2007-07-28 Thread Meelis Roos
In current 2.6.23-rc1+git, make bootimage gives the following warnings while compiling mkbb.c. The patch below fixes these warnings by using the proper include for exit() and using appropriate printf format. HOSTCC arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb arch/alpha/boot/tools/mkbb.c: In function 'main':

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Michael Chang wrote: I do recall there is one issue on which Con wouldn't budge -- anything that involved boosting certain kinds of processes in the kernel. I did that myself, so that's a non-issue. No. The complaints were about the CK scheduler not being as responsive

Re: NETPOLL=y , NETDEVICES=n compile error ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 )

2007-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:44:45 +0200 Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I got this compile error with a randconfig ( http://194.231.229.228/MM/randconfig-auto-82.broken.netpoll.c ). ... net/core/netpoll.c: In function 'netpoll_poll': net/core/netpoll.c:155: error: 'struct

[PATCH] fix alpha objstrip.c compilation warnings

2007-07-28 Thread Meelis Roos
In current 2.6.23-rc1+git, make bootimage gives the following warnings while compiling objstrip.c. The patch below fixes these warnings by casting strncmp argument to char * - it does not seem feasible to change its type in struct elfhdr. HOSTCC arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Ronni Nielsen wrote: - Linus 2.6.23-rc1 + Linux 2.6.23-rc1 Or are *you* now under versioning? Or maybe a silent namechange of the kernel? Yeah, yeah, my fingers get confused. I type Linux and Linus interchangably, and _most_ of the time I notice, but then at other

Re: mm/sparse.c compile error ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 )

2007-07-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:07:22 +0200 Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, next randconfig error ( http://194.231.229.228/MM/randconfig-auto-87.mm_sparse.error ) ... mm/sparse.c: In function 'sparse_init': mm/sparse.c:482: error: implicit declaration of function

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 28 2007 10:12, Linus Torvalds wrote: The fact is, I've _always_ considered the desktop to be the most important part. [...] The fact is, most kernel developers realize that Linux is used in different places, on different machines, and with different loads. You cannot make _everybody_

[PATCH] fix alpha boot/main.c warning

2007-07-28 Thread Meelis Roos
In current 2.6.23-rc1+git, make bootimage gives the following warning while compiling arch/alpha/boot/main.c. The patch below fixes the warning by casting callback argument explicitly to void*. The original value comes from START_ADDR macro and is clearly numeric so only cast it for the

[PATCH] optimize x86 page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft

2007-07-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
x86(-64) are the last architectures still using the page fault notifier cruft for the kprobes page fault hook. This patch converts them to the proper direct calls, and removes the now unused pagefault notifier bits aswell as the cruft in kprobes.c that was related to this mess. I know Andi

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kasper Sandberg wrote: First off, i've personally run tests on many more machines than my own, i've had lots of people try on their machines, and i've seen totally unrelated posts to lkml, plus i've seen the experiences people are writing about on IRC. Frankly, im not

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