Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

2007-07-29 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:50:32AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Borislav Petkov wrote: Right, this was too easy to be true. I now did: qemu -hda /dev/hda -snapshot and booted from the hd using the installed grub and the same kernel and it _didn't_ boot showing again no setup signature

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag 29 Juli 2007 schrieb Satyam Sharma: Hi Martin, Hi Satyam, I believe that Ingo did not meant any bad at all. I think its just the way he works, he likes to have code before saying anything. But still I believe before I'd go about replacing someone else code completely I would

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:23:31PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Sonntag 29 Juli 2007 schrieb Sam Ravnborg: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:56:28PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Sonntag 29 Juli 2007 schrieb Sam Ravnborg: I actually also think that the communication between

Re: [bug] pcwd_init_module(): WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get()

2007-07-29 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi All, On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:23:20 +0530, Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/22/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: enabling CONFIG_PCWATCHDOG=y crashes bzImage bootup, see below. Tested on latest -git. ... Might be some ordering problem (bus not registered yet).

Re: [2.6 patch] remove mm/filemap.c:file_send_actor()

2007-07-29 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jul 29 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes the no longer used file_send_actor(). Good catch, applied! -- Jens Axboe - 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: [-mm patch] make struct sdio_dev_attrs[] static

2007-07-29 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:58:09 +0200 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:03:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: ... git-mmc.patch ... git trees ... sdio_dev_attrs[] can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/audit.c: change the exports to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

2007-07-29 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:40:33AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:02 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch changes some completely unused audit exports from EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. They are still completely unused, but hopefully some of the

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

2007-07-29 Thread Paul Jackson
Ray wrote: a log structured scheme, where the writeout happens to sequential spaces on the drive instead of scattered about. If the problem is reading stuff back in from swap quickly when needed, then this likely helps, by reducing the seeks needed. If the problem is reading stuff back in from

[BUG] undefined reference to `kobject_actions'

2007-07-29 Thread Russell King
Many ARM platforms fail to build with the following: drivers/built-in.o: In function `store_uevent': hid-input.c:(.text+0x19c4c): undefined reference to `kobject_actions' It appears that if hotplug is disabled, kobject_actions is ifdef'd away but hid-input still references it. -- Russell King

Re: [BUG] undefined reference to `kobject_actions'

2007-07-29 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:34:01PM +0100, Russell King wrote: Many ARM platforms fail to build with the following: drivers/built-in.o: In function `store_uevent': hid-input.c:(.text+0x19c4c): undefined reference to `kobject_actions' It appears that if hotplug is disabled, kobject_actions

Re: [BUG] undefined reference to `kobject_actions'

2007-07-29 Thread Gabriel C
Russell King wrote: Many ARM platforms fail to build with the following: drivers/built-in.o: In function `store_uevent': hid-input.c:(.text+0x19c4c): undefined reference to `kobject_actions' It appears that if hotplug is disabled, kobject_actions is ifdef'd away but hid-input still

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/audit.c: change the exports to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

2007-07-29 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 21:33 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:40:33AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:02 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch changes some completely unused audit exports from EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. They

Re: [BUG] undefined reference to `kobject_actions'

2007-07-29 Thread Kay Sievers
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 20:37 +0100, Russell King wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:34:01PM +0100, Russell King wrote: Many ARM platforms fail to build with the following: drivers/built-in.o: In function `store_uevent': hid-input.c:(.text+0x19c4c): undefined reference to `kobject_actions'

Re: ACPI on Averatec 2370

2007-07-29 Thread Frank Hale
Your work around seems to do the trick. I took out SMP support, added ACPI and now it boots normally. On 7/29/07, Frank Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank, can you try a non-SMP build with ACPI and see if you still have the problem? I certainly will, I never tried it without it so now I am

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

2007-07-29 Thread Ray Lee
On 7/29/07, Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the problem is reading stuff back in from swap at the *same time* that the application is reading stuff from some user file system, and if that user file system is on the same drive as the swap partition (typical on laptops), then

[PATCH 1/4] Char: cyclades, remove bottom half processing

2007-07-29 Thread Jiri Slaby
cyclades, remove bottom half processing The work done in bottom half doesn't cost much cpu time (e.g. tty_hangup itself schedules its own bottom half), it's possible to do the work in isr directly and save hence some .text. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit

[PATCH 2/4] Char: cyclades, make the isr code readable

2007-07-29 Thread Jiri Slaby
cyclades, make the isr code readable due to large indent the code was wrapped and unreadable. Create 3 function instead of one and reorder the code, so it is readable now. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 681fc4c7f1aa79a001d5ebe5f09bc7b63fa9dd16 tree

[PATCH 3/4] Char: cyclades, move spin_lock to one place

2007-07-29 Thread Jiri Slaby
cyclades, move spin_lock to one place lock whole processing in isr, avoid error-prone locking/unlocking in rx/tx esp. on fail paths (there was a bug in the past yet). Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 93fc0dd73bb407b773506ec8d756317de9098d53 tree

[PATCH 4/4] Char: cyclades, fix some -W warnings

2007-07-29 Thread Jiri Slaby
cyclades, fix some -W warnings most of them are signedness, the rest unused function parameters. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit c5b48bcb1d32983ffa85a351c6d24ee92c5b8446 tree dd74dc5d8fac41e70251b34a947f389e531a27cd parent 93fc0dd73bb407b773506ec8d756317de9098d53 author

[PATCH] fix runtogether printk's in cmd64x IDE driver

2007-07-29 Thread Meelis Roos
Fix a couple of runtogether printks in cmd64x.c IDE driver by adding proper newlines. Signed-off-by: Meelis Roos [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c b/drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c index 19633c5..0e3b5de 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c +++ b/drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c @@

Re: [PATCH] lib: move kasprintf to a separate file

2007-07-29 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 03:48:32PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Sam Ravnborg wrote: kasprintf pulls in kmalloc which proved to be fatal for at least bootimage target on alpha. Move it to a separate file so only users of kasprintf are exposed to the dependency on kmalloc. OK

[PATCH 2.6.23 1/2] Make the iw_cxgb3 module parameters writable.

2007-07-29 Thread Steve Wise
Make the iw_cxgb3 module parameters writable. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_cm.c | 16 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_cm.c

[PATCH 2.6.23 2/2] iw_cxgb3: Always call low level send function via cxgb3_ofld_send().

2007-07-29 Thread Steve Wise
iw_cxgb3: Always call low level send function via cxgb3_ofld_send(). Avoids deadlocks. Signed-off-by: Steve Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_cm.c | 16 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git

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

2007-07-29 Thread Paul Jackson
Ray wrote: Ah, so in a normal scenario where a working-set is getting faulted back in, we have the swap storage as well as the file-backed stuff that needs to be read as well. So even if swap is organized perfectly, we're still seeking. Damn. Perhaps this applies in some cases ... perhaps.

Re: Reading a bad sector does not report failure as 'read error' but hangs PC with 'Machine Check Exception'

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
How can I do this? I have installed mcelog but I cannot run it after the MCE error because the whole PC hangs. If I try it after a reboot with 'mcelog --k8 --ascii' or whatever parameter, there is no output at You could type error back in from the email ? Isn't it strange to say that the

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

2007-07-29 Thread Ray Lee
On 7/29/07, Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray wrote: Ah, so in a normal scenario where a working-set is getting faulted back in, we have the swap storage as well as the file-backed stuff that needs to be read as well. So even if swap is organized perfectly, we're still seeking.

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Satyam Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So whats wrong then? Ingo decides to do a better scheduler - to some extent inspired by Con's work. And after 48 hours he publish first version that _anyone_ can see and comment on. Whats wrong with that? Did you expect some

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 16:31 +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: El Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:00:39 -0700, Bill Huey (hui) [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: The scheduler could have and still can undertake good solid transformation, but getting folks to listen is another story which is why Con quit. CFS

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/audit.c: change the exports to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

2007-07-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 05:02:33PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch changes some completely unused audit exports from EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. They are still completely unused, but hopefully some of the theoretical code that might use it will appear in the kernel in the near

Re: Problems with reading DVD using 2.6.21.5

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
As remounting fixes the problem, I think it doesn't have to do anything with the IDE driver, right? The device node should always be connected with the physical device, even if unmount. So the problem seems to be The IDE driver handles retries, although for IDE the drive itself also handles

Re: [PATCH 3/5 v3] Add the platform device support with RapidIO to MPC8641HPCN platform.

2007-07-29 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 26 July 2007, Zhang Wei wrote: + +static struct of_device_id mpc86xx_of_ids[] = { +   { .type = soc, }, +   { .compatible = fsl,rapidio-delta, }, +   {}, +}; With the device tree source you have posted in 2/5, the rapidio node is a child of the soc bus, and it

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:38:05PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: ... +config SUSPEND + bool Suspend  Suspend to RAM ... config HIBERNATION bool Hibernation ... Hibernation (Suspend to disk) cu Adrian -- Is there not promise of rain? Ling Tan asked

Re: [BUG] undefined reference to `kobject_actions'

2007-07-29 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:59:05PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 20:37 +0100, Russell King wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:34:01PM +0100, Russell King wrote: Many ARM platforms fail to build with the following: drivers/built-in.o: In function `store_uevent':

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-29 Thread Ingo Molnar
* John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo- Why not perform the same test using the native linux Q3 client to compare numbers to wine? [...] I regularly test native Linux games on CFS, and they all behave well. While waiting for more detailed data from Kasper i was looking for atypical stuff

Re: [PATCH] sb1000: prevent a potential NULL pointer dereference in sb1000_dev_ioctl()

2007-07-29 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 29 July 2007 21:09, Satyam Sharma wrote: Hi Michael, On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2007 20:34:46 Satyam Sharma wrote: (2) !(dev-flags IFF_UP) is bogus because the functions of this ioctl can (and should) be allowed even when the interface

Re: Sparc32 not working:2.6.23-rc1 (git commit 1e4dcd22efa7d24f637ab2ea3a77dd65774eb005)

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:26:29PM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: ... I am going to try to cherry pick a set of commits to see if I can't get a better idear of where the memory corruption on sun4c is coming from. Build problems sue to the DMA changes make git bisecting un-usable untill I have

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

2007-07-29 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 28 July 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: 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

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

2007-07-29 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 29 July 2007 16:00:22 Ray Lee wrote: On 7/29/07, Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the problem is reading stuff back in from swap at the *same time* that the application is reading stuff from some user file system, and if that user file system is on the same drive as the

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND

2007-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:40, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:38:05PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: ... +config SUSPEND + bool Suspend  Suspend to RAM Not only. This also includes standby. ... config HIBERNATION bool Hibernation ...

cpufreq scaling appears not to work on overclocked systems

2007-07-29 Thread Berck E. Nash
This is not new, but exists as far back as 2.6.17. I haven't reported it before because I figured that surely someone else had noticed it, but since it's still unfixed and I cannot find any mention of it on LKML, here we go. I'm running a Core2 Duo 1.86GHz overclocked to 2.56GHz. Everything is

Re: [patch] sched: introduce SD_BALANCE_FORK for ht/mc/smp domains

2007-07-29 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Siddha, Suresh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They might be doing more exec's and probably covered by exec balance. There was a small pthread test case which was calculating the time to create all the threads and how much time each thread took to start running. It appeared as if the

Re: [patch] sched: make cpu_clock() not use the rq clock

2007-07-29 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: Subject: sched: make cpu_clock() not use the rq clock This subject doesn't make much sense to me. All this patch does is get the rq's current time under irq_disable rather than spinlock, right? i typoed it:

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:17:20PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:40, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:38:05PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: ... +config SUSPEND + bool Suspend  Suspend to RAM Not only. This also includes

[PATCH 2/2] Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND (updated)

2007-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND representing the ability to enter system sleep states, such as the ACPI S3 state, and allow the user to choose SUSPEND and HIBERNATION independently of each other. Make HOTPLUG_CPU be selected automatically if SUSPEND or

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

2007-07-29 Thread david
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: On 07/29/2007 01:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that tinkering with the core VM code should not be done lightly, but this has been put through the proper process and is stalled with no hints on how to move forward. It has not. Concerns

Re: [PATCH] ppc: chipsfb.c build fix for CONFIG_PM

2007-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 29 July 2007 19:50, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: Hello, This patch fixes the following build error on powerpc: CC drivers/video/chipsfb.o drivers/video/chipsfb.c: In function 'chipsfb_pci_suspend': drivers/video/chipsfb.c:461: error: 'PM_SUSPEND_MEM' undeclared (first

[PATCH 0/2] Introduce CONFIG_HIBERNATION and CONFIG_SUSPEND (updated)

2007-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 29 July 2007 12:20, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Saturday, 28 July 2007 20:31, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: OK, I'll prepare a patch to introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND, but that will require quite a bit of (compilation) testing on

Re: [BUG] undefined reference to `kobject_actions'

2007-07-29 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:41:10PM +0100, Russell King wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:59:05PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 20:37 +0100, Russell King wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:34:01PM +0100, Russell King wrote: Many ARM platforms fail to build with the

[PATCH 1/2] Replace CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND with CONFIG_HIBERNATION (updated)

2007-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Replace CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND with CONFIG_HIBERNATION to avoid confusion (among other things, with CONFIG_SUSPEND introduced in the next patch). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386/Kconfig.debug |4 ++--

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND

2007-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 29 July 2007 23:18, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:17:20PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:40, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:38:05PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: ... +config SUSPEND + bool Suspend  

[PATCH 0/5] use mutex instead of semaphore in several drivers

2007-07-29 Thread Matthias Kaehlcke
This patchset converts semaphores that are used as mutexes to the mutex API in the following drivers/code: Host AP driver OnStream SCSI Tape driver SCSI Tape driver ISDN subsystem common functions DVB frontend tuning interface -- Matthias Kaehlcke Linux Application Developer Barcelona

Re: [PATCH] ppc: chipsfb.c build fix for CONFIG_PM

2007-07-29 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
This patch fixes the following build error on powerpc: CC drivers/video/chipsfb.o drivers/video/chipsfb.c: In function 'chipsfb_pci_suspend': drivers/video/chipsfb.c:461: error: 'PM_SUSPEND_MEM' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/video/chipsfb.c:461: error:

[PATCH 1/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in the Host AP driver

2007-07-29 Thread Matthias Kaehlcke
The Host AP driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - res = down_interruptible(local-rid_bap_sem); + res = mutex_lock_interruptible(local-rid_bap_mtx); if (res)

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND

2007-07-29 Thread Richard Hughes
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 23:36 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Sunday, 29 July 2007 23:18, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:17:20PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:40, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:38:05PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki

[PATCH 2/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in the OnStream SCSI Tape driver

2007-07-29 Thread Matthias Kaehlcke
The OnStream SCSI Tape driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- diff --git a/drivers/scsi/osst.c b/drivers/scsi/osst.c index 08060fb..0e2452c 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/osst.c +++

[PATCH 3/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in the SCSI Tape driver

2007-07-29 Thread Matthias Kaehlcke
The SCSI Tape driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.c b/drivers/scsi/st.c index a4f7b84..73c44cb 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/st.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c @@ -1485,7

[PATCH 4/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in ISDN subsystem common functions

2007-07-29 Thread Matthias Kaehlcke
The ISDN subsystem common functions use a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- diff --git a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c index c97330b..a5d3db4 100644 ---

[PATCH 5/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in the DVB frontend tuning interface

2007-07-29 Thread Matthias Kaehlcke
The DVB frontend tuning interface uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c index b6c7f66..e35dd17

[PATCH] arm26: remove duplicate include of linux/module.h

2007-07-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, This patch removes the duplicate inclusion of linux/module.h from arm26. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/arm26/kernel/armksyms.c |1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm26/kernel/armksyms.c b/arch/arm26/kernel/armksyms.c

Re: nvidia installer DIW with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 29 2007 14:12, Mike Houston wrote: I know it's off topic here, but this will help people. When that happens, check their forum. Chances are someone has posted, and the nvidia developers have answered with a patch, code snippet, quick instructions to get it to compile or advice to try a

Re: Reading a bad sector does not report failure as 'read error' but hangs PC with 'Machine Check Exception'

2007-07-29 Thread Hendrik .
hangs. If I try it after a reboot with 'mcelog --k8 --ascii' or whatever parameter, there is no output at You could type error back in from the email ? Ok I copied it into the tool, it gives me: CPU 0 4 northbridge TSC b7d4a144d0 Northbridge ECC error ECC syndrome = 0 STATUS 0 MCGSTATUS

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread hui
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:25:42PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: Absolutely. Con quit for his own reasons. Given that Con himself has said that CFS was _not_ why he quite, please discard this... bait. Anyone who's name isn't Con Kolivas, who pretends to speak for him is at the very least

[PATCH] Blackfin: Remove duplicate inclusion of linux/irq.h

2007-07-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, arch/blackfin/mach-bf548/boards/ezkit.c includes linux/irq.h twice. This patch removes the duplicate. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/blackfin/mach-bf548/boards/ezkit.c |1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: [PATCH] arm26: remove duplicate include of linux/module.h

2007-07-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote: Hi, This patch removes the duplicate inclusion of linux/module.h from arm26. is it really worth doing any cleanup of arm26 given the recent discussion of tossing it entirely? rday --

[PATCH] m68knommu: Get rid of duplicate include

2007-07-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, This patch removes the duplicate inclusion of asm/irq.h from arch/m68knommu/platform/5206e/config.c Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/m68knommu/platform/5206e/config.c |1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

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

2007-07-29 Thread Neil Horman
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:03:29PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: Neil Horman wrote: [...] + /* core limit size */ + case 'c': + rc = snprintf(out_ptr, out_end - out_ptr, + %lu,

Re: [linux-pm] Power Management framework proposal

2007-07-29 Thread david
sorry for the delay in responding On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Jerome Glisse wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Jerome Glisse wrote: On 7/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance on graphics card you could do the following (maybe more):

[PATCH] pci_ids: additional NFORCE MCP61 devices - (resend)

2007-07-29 Thread Indrek Kruusa
This patch adds the following 7 Nforce devices: - LPC Bridge (MCP61_LPC_BRG) - Memory Controller (MCP61_MC1) - High Definition Audio (MCP61_HDA) - USB Controller (MCP61_OHCI) - USB Controller (MCP61_EHCI) - PCI bridge (MCP61_PCI_BRG) - Memory Controller (MCP61_MC2) to the pci_ids.h file.

[PATCH] mips: remove some duplicate includes

2007-07-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, This patch removes some duplicate includes from arch/mips/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/mips/kernel/signal32.c |1 - arch/mips/lemote/lm2e/irq.c |1 - arch/mips/mipssim/sim_setup.c |1 - 3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: Sparc32 not working:2.6.23-rc1 (git commit 1e4dcd22efa7d24f637ab2ea3a77dd65774eb005)

2007-07-29 Thread Mark Fortescue
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:26:29PM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: ... I am going to try to cherry pick a set of commits to see if I can't get a better idear of where the memory corruption on sun4c is coming from. Build problems sue to the DMA changes

Re: Power Management framework proposal

2007-07-29 Thread david
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! example 1: a laptop screen mode capacity power description 000off 1 100 100full brightness 2 70 60half power to the backlight 3 50 35quarter power to the backlight 4 30

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in the Host AP driver

2007-07-29 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 29 July 2007 23:34, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: The Host AP driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - res = down_interruptible(local-rid_bap_sem); + res =

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND

2007-07-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 29 July 2007 23:30, Richard Hughes wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 23:36 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Sunday, 29 July 2007 23:18, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:17:20PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:40, Adrian Bunk wrote: On

Re: Reading a bad sector does not report failure as 'read error' but hangs PC with 'Machine Check Exception'

2007-07-29 Thread Hendrik .
Ok, I did actually not copy the coreret code in the mcelog, leaving me some errors about the Northbridge. If I do it again it gives me something else. I made 2 digital photo's of 2 lockups when it happened and this is the result of the tool, the TSC is different in both errors, the rest is the

[PATCH] powerpc: clean out a bunch of duplicate includes

2007-07-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, Here's a patch to clean out a bunch of duplicate includes from arch/powerpc/ Please consider for inclusion. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c|1 - arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c|1 -

[PATCH] ia64: Remove a few duplicate includes

2007-07-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
(sorry about the duplicate mail, forgot a recipient first time) Hi, This patch removes a few duplicate includes from arch/ia64/ Please consider merging :-) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c |1 - arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c|1 -

[PATCH] Remove fs.h from mm.h

2007-07-29 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
0) Remove fs.h from mm.h. For this, 1) Uninline vma_wants_writenotify(). It's pretty huge anyway. 2) Add back fs.h or less bloated headers (err.h) to files that need it. As result, on x86_64 allyesconfig, fs.h dependencies cut down from 3929 files rebuilt down to 3444 (-12.3%). Cross-compile

[PATCH] sh64: arch/sh64/kernel/signal.h - duplicate include removal

2007-07-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, This patch removes the duplicate inclusion of linux/personality.h from arch/sh64/kernel/signal.c Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/arch/sh64/kernel/signal.c b/arch/sh64/kernel/signal.c index 0bb4a8f..79fc48c 100644 --- a/arch/sh64/kernel/signal.c +++

Re: [Linux-usb-users] [REGRESSION] 2.6.23-rc1: uhci_hcd. irq 4: nobody cared

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Mark Hindley wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:19:47AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Mark Hindley wrote: Hi, I have just tried 2.6.23-rc1 on my Acer Aspire 1350. On boot I get the following error as the uhci_hcd module is loaded:

Re: Fwd: [PATCH] Reboot Dreamcast under software control

2007-07-29 Thread Paul Mundt
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:25:21PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote: diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/process.c b/arch/sh/kernel/process.c index 6334a4c..6f5e9e4 100644 --- a/arch/sh/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/sh/kernel/process.c @@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ void cpu_idle(void) void machine_restart(char *

Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
James Bottomley wrote: This is basically a set of bug fixes with a few minor cleanups thrown in. There are also a few bsg fixes we're taking through this tree because SCSI is the current sole consumer. The reason for the huge size is the lindent of the advansys driver along with a few cleanups.

Re: [PATCH] sh64: arch/sh64/kernel/signal.h - duplicate include removal

2007-07-29 Thread Paul Mundt
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:44:00AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: This patch removes the duplicate inclusion of linux/personality.h from arch/sh64/kernel/signal.c Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c: fix possible NULL dereferences

2007-07-29 Thread Eugene Teo
Hi Marcel, Marcel Holtmann wrote: Commit 22ad42033b7d2b3d7928fba9f89d1c7f8a3c9581 did not completely fix all the possible NULL dereferences. Besides hci_uart_close(), we also need to make sure that hdev is valid before calling hci_{unregister,free}_dev(). I don't see any issue. Without

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: clean out a bunch of duplicate includes

2007-07-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 00:18 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: Hi, Here's a patch to clean out a bunch of duplicate includes from arch/powerpc/ Please consider for inclusion. Ah.. historical stuff stacking up :-) Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Re: RFC: Remove the arm26 port

2007-07-29 Thread ian
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 13:50 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Considering the state of the arm26 port, I do hereby suggest to remove it from the Linx kernel since it's far from a usable state and doesn't seem to come back into a usable state. If anyone wants to work on getting this port back into

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread George Sescher
* Kasper Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] As far as im concerned, i may be forced to unofficially maintain SD for my own systems(allthough lots in the gaming community is bound to be interrested, as it does make games lots better) On 30/07/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Fwd: [PATCH] Reboot Dreamcast under software control

2007-07-29 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 07:50 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:25:21PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote: diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/process.c b/arch/sh/kernel/process.c index 6334a4c..6f5e9e4 100644 --- a/arch/sh/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/sh/kernel/process.c @@ -97,6

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, George Sescher wrote: chuckle You're advocating plugsched now? I'd suggest people here take a look at the code. It's not what Ingo was saying, and it's not what the code is set up to do. He's just stating that the way he split up the files, it's actually easier from a

Re: Fwd: [PATCH] Reboot Dreamcast under software control

2007-07-29 Thread Paul Mundt
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:05:31AM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 07:50 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:25:21PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote: diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/process.c b/arch/sh/kernel/process.c index 6334a4c..6f5e9e4 100644 ---

Re: cpufreq scaling appears not to work on overclocked systems

2007-07-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:16:45PM -0600, Berck E. Nash wrote: I'm running a Core2 Duo 1.86GHz overclocked to 2.56GHz. Everything is normal with cpufreq scaling disabled. With cpufreq scaling enabled in the kernel, using any governor, /proc/cpuinfo indicates a maximum of the rated

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread George Sescher
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, George Sescher wrote: chuckle You're advocating plugsched now? On 30/07/07, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd suggest people here take a look at the code. It's not what Ingo was saying, and it's not what the code is set up to do. He's just stating that the

Re: [PATCH 0/3] core_pattern: cleaned up repost/continuing post of core_pattern enhancements

2007-07-29 Thread Eugene Teo
Hi Martin, Martin Pitt wrote: Eugene Teo [2007-07-29 21:03 +0800]: Also, it is probably good to think how we can drop privileges while piping the core dump output to an external program. A malicious user can potentially use it as a possible backdoor since anything that is executed by

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, George Sescher wrote: He said having reality checks is a good thing. He's encouraging some poor bastard to maintain plugsched out of mainline to have SD or whatever to compare to. My bad, it was me who misread that (I didn't react to the name, I was thinking people

Re: [PATCH] m68knommu: Get rid of duplicate include

2007-07-29 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Jesper, Jesper Juhl wrote: This patch removes the duplicate inclusion of asm/irq.h from arch/m68knommu/platform/5206e/config.c You can add my acked by: Acked-by: Greg Ungerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/m68knommu/platform/5206e/config.c |

Re: [PATCH] Remove fs.h from mm.h

2007-07-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: Cross-compile tested without regressions on my two usual configs and (sigh): alpha arm-mx1adsmips-bigsur powerpc-ebony .. Heh. Kudos for going above and beyond. But where is blackfin and frv? Thanks,

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Introduce CONFIG_HIBERNATION and CONFIG_SUSPEND (updated)

2007-07-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ok, I took this, and modified Len's patch to re-introduce ACPI_SLEEP on top of it (I took the easy way out, and just made PM_SLEEP imply ACPI_SLEEP, which should make everything come out right. I could have dropped ACPI_SLEEP entirely in favour of PM_SLEEP, but that would have implied

[PATCH] Make lguest compile with CONFIG_BLOCK=n and CONFIG_NET=n

2007-07-29 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:18 +0200, Gabriel C wrote: Hi Rusty, Lguest should depend on BLOCK too , without BLOCK set I get this error: Hi Gabriel, Thanks for the report! It's probably better to fix this properly rather than hack it as I did for NET. Linus, please apply: Gabriel C

Re: [PATCH 09/68] 0 - NULL, for arch/m68knommu

2007-07-29 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Yoann, Yoann Padioleau wrote: When comparing a pointer, it's clearer to compare it to NULL than to 0. Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Greg Ungerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- comempci.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1

Re: [PATCH] Make lguest compile with CONFIG_BLOCK=n and CONFIG_NET=n

2007-07-29 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 7/30/07, Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Gabriel C reports lguest doesn't compile with CONFIG_BLOCK=n. Fix this by introducing a config var for the block device, which depends on LGUEST BLOCK. Do the same for the net driver, rather then depending gratuitously on CONFIG_NET.

Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-29 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 18:51 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: James Bottomley wrote: This is basically a set of bug fixes with a few minor cleanups thrown in. There are also a few bsg fixes we're taking through this tree because SCSI is the current sole consumer. The reason for the huge size is

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