Re: about modularization

* Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:19:00 +0200 * Received-SPF: softfail (mx3: transitioning domain of elte.hu does not designate 157.181.1.14 as permitted sender) client-ip=157.181.1.14; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; helo=elvis.elte.hu; > If you boot into a distro kernel on > a typical PC, about half of the

Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386: fix a hang on stuck nmi watchdog

On Saturday 01 September 2007 22:54:17 Daniel Walker wrote: > In the case when an nmi gets stucks the endflag stays equal to zero. This > causes the busy looping on other cpus to continue, even tho the nmi test > is done. > > On my machine with out the change below the system would hang right

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4] qconf ("make xconfig") Search Dialog Enhancement

Hi all! [ I'm not subscribed to this list so please CC me on your replies. ] This patch is against kernel-2.6.23-rc4, and aims to enhance the "make xconfig" search dialog. At the moment what it does is allow searching on the "help" field of the menus as well as the "name" of the symbol. Try

Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386: fix a hang on stuck nmi watchdog

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 14:33 -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Daniel, > > Thanks for your help tracking down this bug. Maybe we can close > the bugzilla report now. No problem , and thanks for taking the time to dig into it .. I'll close the bugzilla report. Daniel - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH 1/1] i386: fix a hang on stuck nmi watchdog

Daniel, Thanks for your help tracking down this bug. Maybe we can close the bugzilla report now. On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:54:17PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > In the case when an nmi gets stucks the endflag stays equal to zero. This > causes the busy looping on other cpus to continue, even

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4] irq: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Tolapai

Grant Grundler wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:46:56PM -0700, Jason Gaston wrote: This updated patch adds the Intel Tolapai LPC and SMBus Controller DID's. Signed-off-by: ?Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/arch/i386/pci/irq.c.orig 2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 -0700

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > > This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code > > > >

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4] irq: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Tolapai

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:46:56PM -0700, Jason Gaston wrote: > This updated patch adds the Intel Tolapai LPC and SMBus Controller DID's. > > Signed-off-by: ?Jason Gaston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- linux-2.6.23-rc4/arch/i386/pci/irq.c.orig 2007-08-27 18:32:35.0 > -0700 > +++

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 10:54:57PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > > This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code

Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE

Bill Nottingham wrote: As of now, the kernel defaults to non-unicode and XLATE for the keyboard. We've been changing this in Fedora, but that requires patching the defaults in the kernel. The attached introduces CONFIG_VT_UNICODE, which sets the console in unicode mode by default on boot,

Re: [PATCH] Fix preemptible lazy mode bug

Zachary Amsden wrote: > Do you agree it is better to be safe than sorry in this case? The > kind of bugs introduced by getting this wrong are really hard to find, > and I would rather err on the side of an extra increment and decrement > of preempt_count that causing a regression. I think this

Re: [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > And if we're really lucky, this might enable some additional > > optimizations on the part of the compiler. > > Only if the kernel was compiled C++. C compilers generally ignore constness > for optimization purposes because it can be so

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:30:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > If OpenBSD wants a world where code must be returned OpenBSD does not want this. OpenBSD wants a world where people do things because they are the right thing to do. OpenBSD lets you decide; it doesn't dictate. someone poo-poos your

[PATCH 1/1] i386: fix a hang on stuck nmi watchdog

In the case when an nmi gets stucks the endflag stays equal to zero. This causes the busy looping on other cpus to continue, even tho the nmi test is done. On my machine with out the change below the system would hang right after check_nmi_watchdog(). The change below just sets endflag prior to

Re: intel-rng on modern hardware

Jeff Garzik wrote: Shane wrote: Just wondering if there is a newer version of intel-rng out of tree or whether modern Intel chipsets have a usable RNG. I haven't been able to get intel-rng loading (no such device) on anything from the p965, p975 or p35 chipsets. No modern ICH chipset has an

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:58:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > crypto/built-in.o: In function `update2': > > > digest.c:(.text+0x94a): undefined reference to `crypto_km_types' > > > digest.c:(.text+0x9bf): undefined reference to

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 22:32 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2007 21:51:42 Stephane Eranian wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Here is a patch to fix the NMI watchdog problem on CoreDuo processor. > > I think we still need Daniel's patch to make the error path (when you > > are stuck)

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code licensing. > > > > What myth? The myth that Theo understands dual

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc5] driver/char/hpet.c: remove clocksource warning on !IA64

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 08:51 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > The warnings, > > drivers/char/hpet.c:72: warning: 'clocksource_hpet' defined but not used > drivers/char/hpet.c:81: warning: 'hpet_clocksource' defined but not used > > from, > > commit 3b2b64fd311c92f2137eb7cee7025794cd854057 > Author:

Re: [PATCH 3/5] Net: ath5k, use int as retval

John W. Linville napsal(a): > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:00:09PM -0400, Jiri Slaby wrote: >> ath5k, use int as retval >> >> Convert some functions to return int and proper negative return value on >> error as we are used to. > > Since I didn't apply 1/5, this one didn't apply either. It seems >

Re: intel-rng on modern hardware

Shane wrote: Just wondering if there is a newer version of intel-rng out of tree or whether modern Intel chipsets have a usable RNG. I haven't been able to get intel-rng loading (no such device) on anything from the p965, p975 or p35 chipsets. No modern ICH chipset has an RNG, AFAIK.

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

On Saturday 01 September 2007 21:51:42 Stephane Eranian wrote: > Hello, > > Here is a patch to fix the NMI watchdog problem on CoreDuo processor. > I think we still need Daniel's patch to make the error path (when you > are stuck) do the right cleanup. Thanks. Can that other patch please be

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

> It is illegal to modify a license unless you are the owner/author, > because it is a legal document. If there are multiple owners/authors, Oh dear - Theo, go talk to a lawyer, or do a course on licencing. The owner generally starts with the rights to control who performs acts covered by

Re: [PATCH] i386 and x86_64: randomize brk()

Hello Andrew, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:10:03 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Andrew, do you still strongly oppose to having ARCH_HAS_RANDOMIZE_BRK >> macro instead please? >> > > Not strongly, but the general opinion seems to be that ARCH_HAS_FOO

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

Hello, Here is a patch to fix the NMI watchdog problem on CoreDuo processor. I think we still need Daniel's patch to make the error path (when you are stuck) do the right cleanup. Changelog: - fix the NMI watchdog on Intel CoreDuo processor whereby the kernel would get stuck

[PATCH 3/3] netlink: use a statically allocated nl_table instead

if the table is always fixed size with MAX_LINKS entries, why not use a statically allocated table straightforwardly? Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 11 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH 2/3] netlink: the temp variable name max is ambiguous

with the macro max provided by , so changed its name to a more proper one: limit Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 12 ++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c

[PATCH 1/3] netlink: use the macro min(x,y) provided by instead

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/netlink/af_netlink.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index 5681ce3..8bb14e3 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@

Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007, Shem Multinymous wrote: > > Should we add power?_10sec_avg_input? IIRC thinkpads export that, > > too. I'd say it is enough to know it is an average, you don't need to specify HOW it is averaged. But there is a real need to export both instantaneous and averaged values in

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

Pavel Machek, le Sat 01 Sep 2007 18:18:45 +, a écrit : > > > > Very early is not so early, and loading initrd itself may actually fail. > > > > The kernel may indeed hang, but there are more chances to get some > > > > messages before the hang. Don't _you_ have a VGA screen for getting > > >

Re: [PATCH] Add source address to sunrpc svc errors

* J. Bruce Fields ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:03:06PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > I'm not going to be able to recut the patch until the weekend; > > do you just want to remove the 'err' in your copy and feed this > > to the main tree with some of the

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.23-rc "NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out"

This is what happened today: Sep 1 21:08:01 frege NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out frege ~ # uname -r 2.6.22.5-cfs-v20.5 2007/8/16, Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > (please do not remove the netdev Cc:) > > Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > [...] > > If it does not work

Re: [00/36] Large Blocksize Support V6

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Todo/Issues: - reclaim by mixing large order pages into the regular lru, page aging gets rather unfair. One possible solution to this is address_space based reclaim, something which might also be beneficial for containers. - To

[jffs2] [rfc] fix write deadlock regression

I've bisected the deadlock when many small appends are done on jffs2 down to this commit: commit 6fe6900e1e5b6fa9e5c59aa5061f244fe3f467e2 Author: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun May 6 14:49:04 2007 -0700 mm: make read_cache_page synchronous Ensure pages are uptodate after

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 OOPS in forcedeth?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:58:22PM -0700 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc4/2.6.23-rc4-mm1/ On this machine (Athlon 64 X2 4600, 4 GiB memory, lots of disks), 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 runs fine.

Re: Documentation files in html format?

* Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:40:47 +0200 * Sam Ravnborg: > > Documentation should be easy to access and readable in the source format. > For this purpose asciidoc seems to do a good job. > > It is btw. discussed at git ML if they should shift due to toolset being > slow but that happens to be the

Re: [RFC 1/2] JBD: slab management support for large block(>8k)

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:12:18PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > >From clameter: > Teach jbd/jbd2 slab management to support >8k block size. Without this, it > refused to mount on >8k ext3. But the real fix is to kill this code. We can't send down slab pages down the block layer without

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

Hi! > > > Very early is not so early, and loading initrd itself may actually fail. > > > The kernel may indeed hang, but there are more chances to get some > > > messages before the hang. Don't _you_ have a VGA screen for getting > > > earliest failure messages from the kernel? > > > > No. I'm

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 02:06:22PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > People just don't care about how mature an option is if they need > > > a driver/feature. *No-one* is going to come across

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > People just don't care about how mature an option is if they need > > a driver/feature. *No-one* is going to come across options and > > think "Oh, the driver for my network card isn't stable. Guess I'll > >

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:41:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > this whole attribute thing is not adding anything breathtaking new, > > it's simply taking the example set by EXPERIMENTAL and generalizing > > it and making it more convenient in

Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

On 9/1/07, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface > > b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface > > index b3a9e1b..da546ce 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface > > +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface > > @@ -304,6 +304,21 @@

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code licensing. > > What myth? The myth that Theo understands dual licensing? Reyk's code was never dual licensed, so it's not like it even matters to

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8961] New: BUG triggered by oidentd in netlink code

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 06:38:23PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Athanasius wrote: > > I'll compile up a new kernel, likely 2.6.22.6, plus this patch, and > >reboot to it tonight. I still don't know *exactly* how to trigger the > >bug on demand though, it's not reocurred since I posted the bug

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

Hi, Pavel Machek, le Sat 01 Sep 2007 17:23:02 +, a écrit : > Hi! > > > > > Because userland only begins quite late in the boot process, and > > > > userland may hang. > > > > > > Initrd means userland is started very early on most machines these > > > days, and kernel may hang, too. > > >

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:41:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > this whole attribute thing is not adding anything breathtaking new, > it's simply taking the example set by EXPERIMENTAL and generalizing > it and making it more convenient in the process. The problem I see with this whole

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

Hi! > > > Because userland only begins quite late in the boot process, and > > > userland may hang. > > > > Initrd means userland is started very early on most machines these > > days, and kernel may hang, too. > > Very early is not so early, and loading initrd itself may actually fail. > The

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

Constantine A. Murenin wrote: This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code licensing. What myth? The myth that Theo understands dual licensing? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Add power meters to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

Hi! > diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface > b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface > index b3a9e1b..da546ce 100644 > --- a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface > +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface > @@ -304,6 +304,21 @@ curr[1-*]_input Current input value > Unit:

Re: ifconfig changing a routing table?

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:55:53AM +, Dan Stromberg wrote: > Is anyone on the list familiar with ifconfig up and/or ip link up > changing a routing table? How does the kernel decide what route to add > in such a circumstance? By the parameteres you supplied for the interface configuration.

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1: geode fb compile error

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:58:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >... > > Changes since 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: > >... > > +drivers-video-geode-lxfb_corec-fix-lxfb_setup-warning-fix.patch > > > > Fix

Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code licensing. C. -- Forwarded message -- From: Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 31-Aug-2007 21:40 Subject: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [bcc'd to Eben Moglen so that people

Re: 2.6.23-rc: sched.c vs. xtensa: RSR redefined

* Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although it seems to pick the right version the following namespace > conflict should be resolved: agreed - i've queued up the fix below. Ingo --> Subject: sched: fix xtensa build warning From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8961] New: BUG triggered by oidentd in netlink code

Athanasius wrote: I'll compile up a new kernel, likely 2.6.22.6, plus this patch, and reboot to it tonight. I still don't know *exactly* how to trigger the bug on demand though, it's not reocurred since I posted the bug report (but had happened about a week before as well). Thanks. I'm not

Re: [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals

> And if we're really lucky, this might enable some additional > optimizations on the part of the compiler. Only if the kernel was compiled C++. C compilers generally ignore constness for optimization purposes because it can be so easily casted away. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH] skge: unbalanced parenthesis fix

> > This patch fixes unbalanced parenthesis. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > drivers/net/skge.h |2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > --- linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1-a/drivers/net/skge.h 2007-09-01 > > 07:23:52.0

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

> On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:07:48 +0200 "Torsten Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/1/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc4/2.6.23-rc4-mm1/ > > The good: > > +hpet-force-enable-on-vt8235-37-chipsets.patch >

Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Convert cpu_sibling_map to be a per cpu variable (v2)

> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:04:06 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:26:57 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >> Convert cpu_sibling_map from a static array sized by NR_CPUS to a > >> per_cpu variable. This saves

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc5] driver/char/hpet.c: remove clocksource warning on !IA64

The warnings, drivers/char/hpet.c:72: warning: 'clocksource_hpet' defined but not used drivers/char/hpet.c:81: warning: 'hpet_clocksource' defined but not used from, commit 3b2b64fd311c92f2137eb7cee7025794cd854057 Author: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Aug 31 20:13:57 2007 -0700

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

On 9/1/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc4/2.6.23-rc4-mm1/ The good: > +hpet-force-enable-on-vt8235-37-chipsets.patch > +hpet-force-enable-on-vt8235-37-chipsets-fix.patch Kernel 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 works on one of

Re: v2.6.23-rc4-rt1 / new project URL

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 22:59 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > - loadavgrt fix (Luis Claudio R. Goncalves) Sven caught that this patch was broken, I think there is an updated one.. It's also breaking !PREEMPT_RT compiles.. dwalker2/140 failed kernel/timer.c: In function 'calc_load':

Re: [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals

Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 10:27:19AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: commit 457b6eb3bf3341d2e143518a0bb99ffbb8d754c4 Author: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Sep 1 10:16:45 2007 -0400 drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals Three main sets of changes:

Re: hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

John Sigler wrote: What do the warnings mean? :-) That your drive does not support set transfer mode/speed command at Which is perfectly valid in the original ATA spec. all, or that value which kernel tried is not supported by the drive... They just should skip programming the

2.6.23-rc4-mm1: mips compile error

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:58:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: >... > git-mips.patch >... > git trees >... <-- snip --> ... CC arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.s In file included from include2/asm/processor.h:22, from

Re: [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 10:27:19AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > commit 457b6eb3bf3341d2e143518a0bb99ffbb8d754c4 > Author: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat Sep 1 10:16:45 2007 -0400 > > drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals > > Three main sets of changes: >

Re: hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

Hello. John Sigler wrote: When my system boots, I get several set_drive_speed_status errors. (Please see attached dmesg output.) Can someone explain what they mean? How do I get rid of them? IDE code attempts to autotune PIO mode and fails at that because your device is too old (or

2.6.23-rc: sched.c vs. xtensa: RSR redefined

Although it seems to pick the right version the following namespace conflict should be resolved: <-- snip --> ... CC kernel/sched.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/kernel/sched.c:676:1: warning: "RSR" redefined In file included from include2/asm/bitops.h:18,

[GIT] Please pull fixes for 2.6.23-rc5 nfs client

Hi Linus, Please pull from the "for_linus" branch of the repository at git pull git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6.git for_linus This will update the following files through the appended changesets. Cheers, Trond fs/nfs/file.c |2 +- fs/nfs/namespace.c |

2.6.23-rc4-mm1: two ktime_sub_ns() functions

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:58:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: >... > +ktime_sub_ns-analog-of-ktime_add_ns.patch >... > netdev things >... One ktime_sub_ns() should be enough for everyone - and the net tree already adds one (even with a correct

Re: PROBLEM: kernel 2.6.22.6 pata_pdc202xx_old.c limiting to UDMA/33 instead of UDMA/100 (UPDATED 2.6.22.6)

Dear n: Please do *not* follow-up to a completely inderended thread. Start your own, please. :-/ Update with kernel 2.6.22.6 i am getting this error now ata2.00: ATA-6: ST3120026A, 3.06, max UDMA/100 Gathering courage and reply to libata bug report -- I'm more of the drivers/ide/

Re: v2.6.23-rc4-rt1 / new project URL

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 09:27 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Yeah, I know. Still I wanted to go through it myself. > Ok, Here are some other trivial fixes, http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/28/331 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/28/334 Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[PATCH] x86/x86-64 PCI domain support

Now that the dust has settled and the prep work is upstream, adding PCI domain support to x86 is a lot more straightforward. Targetted for 2.6.24. commit c7b14cf6aa39e09aef89a0cd08c553dba1ee7e98 Author: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Sep 1 07:36:25 2007 -0400 PCI domain

New stuff pushed to -mm

I just added three branches to 'ALL' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git dmi-const DMI constification pciseg x86 PCI domain support, newly updated for the latest Muli stuff upstream isdn-cleanups

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: ... > Part of the problem is that many people (including developers) learn about > things being deprecated/obsoleted after they are actually removed. > > Of course things are not black and white and common sense is required but > moving in the Kconfig direction is

[PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals

commit 457b6eb3bf3341d2e143518a0bb99ffbb8d754c4 Author: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Sep 1 10:16:45 2007 -0400 drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals Three main sets of changes: 1) dmi_get_system_info() return value should have been marked const,

2.6.23-rc4-mm1: geode fb compile error

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:58:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: >... > +drivers-video-geode-lxfb_corec-fix-lxfb_setup-warning-fix.patch > > Fix drivers-video-geode-lxfb_corec-fix-lxfb_setup-warning.patch >... This patch doesn't fix

Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Convert cpu_sibling_map to be a per cpu variable (v2)

On Saturday 01 September 2007 04:49, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:26:57 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Convert cpu_sibling_map from a static array sized by NR_CPUS to a > > per_cpu variable. This saves sizeof(cpumask_t) * NR unused cpus. > > Access is mostly from startup and

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Sep 1 2007 11:47, Stefan Richter wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: given the possible interpretations of EXPERIMENTAL that i hadn't considered until now, maybe it really *does* make sense to tag something as both EXPERIMENTAL and, say, DEPRECATED (does it?). In theory

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007, you wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Feature deprecation and removal is a very amorphous concept that does not fit well at all into Kconfig markers, unlike experimental/broken. The current

read-only /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth

I'm running into the same issue reported here: I am using the ata_piix module. If I read the docs correctly, I should be able to use ahci as well; I need to rebuild the kernel though (debian insists on putting ata_piix

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

On Saturday 01 September 2007, you wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > >> Feature deprecation and removal is a very amorphous concept that > >> does not fit well at all into Kconfig markers, unlike > >> experimental/broken. The current approach (text

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

On Sep 1 2007 11:47, Stefan Richter wrote: >Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> given the possible >> interpretations of EXPERIMENTAL that i hadn't considered until now, >> maybe it really *does* make sense to tag something as both >> EXPERIMENTAL and, say, DEPRECATED (does it?). > >In theory maybe, for

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 06:44:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > while (1) { > > > > printf("%*s%s ", indent - 1, "", menu->prompt->text); > > > > + switch (sym->maturity) { > > > > + case

Re: [PATCH] skge: unbalanced parenthesis fix

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 08:10:12 +0200 Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This patch fixes unbalanced parenthesis. > > Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > drivers/net/skge.h |2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > ---

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

Hi, Pavel Machek, le Sat 01 Sep 2007 12:32:58 +, a écrit : > > > > > They can use the raw xlation for that. > > > > > > > > For userland, yes. This is for kernel modules. > > > > > > And should speakup be a kernel module? Why? > > > > Because userland only begins quite late in the boot

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 06:44:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > while (1) { > > > printf("%*s%s ", indent - 1, "", menu->prompt->text); > > > + switch (sym->maturity) { > > > + case M_EXPERIMENTAL: > > > + printf("(EXPERIMENTAL) "); > > > +

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

> > > > They can use the raw xlation for that. > > > > > > For userland, yes. This is for kernel modules. > > > > And should speakup be a kernel module? Why? > > Because userland only begins quite late in the boot process, and > userland may hang. Initrd means userland is started very early

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

Pavel Machek, le Thu 12 Jul 2007 19:19:32 +, a écrit : > On Tue 2007-08-21 22:49:51, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Jan Engelhardt, le Tue 21 Aug 2007 22:42:24 +0200, a écrit : > > > >- keycodes: even before translation into keysym. > > > > > > They can use the raw xlation for that.

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

On Tue 2007-08-21 22:49:51, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Jan Engelhardt, le Tue 21 Aug 2007 22:42:24 +0200, a écrit : > > >- keycodes: even before translation into keysym. > > > > They can use the raw xlation for that. > > For userland, yes. This is for kernel modules. And should speakup

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 15:53:53 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I met 2 troubles while I compiled rc4-mm1 on x86/UP system, One on pcnet32.c (patch is attaced below). One on crypto CONFIG. == compile log == drivers/net/pcnet32.c: In function

Re: PATCH? fix SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED vs SIGCONT race

On 09/01, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > However, this changes the behaviour when the task is ptraced. If the > > debugger > > doesn't clear ->exit_code, SIGSTOP always succeeds after ptrace_stop(), even > > if SIGCONT was sent in between. I can't decide whether this change is good > > or bad,

[PATCH] [Bugme-new] [Bug 8957] New: Exported functions and variables

This is a kernel/module.c Linux 2.6.23-rc5 documentation patch that adds more explanation and corrects a spelling error. --- kernel/module.c 2007-09-01 14:15:06.131101500 +0300 +++ patched-kernel/module.c 2007-09-01 14:15:27.502780500 +0300 @@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ int

Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Convert cpu_sibling_map to be a per cpu variable (v2)

Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:26:57 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Convert cpu_sibling_map from a static array sized by NR_CPUS to a per_cpu variable. This saves sizeof(cpumask_t) * NR unused cpus. Access is mostly from startup and CPU HOTPLUG functions. ia64

Re: [PATCH] x86: optionally show last exception from/to register contents (v2)

On Tuesday 28 August 2007 12:44:31 Jan Beulich wrote: > .. when dumping register state. This is particularly useful when gcc > managed to tail-call optimize an indirect call which happens to hit a > NULL (or otherwise invalid) pointer. I added it, with a warning in the documentation and changelog

[PATCH] ata_piix: use more-robust form of array init

commit f1aa850441adc237d237a469dca7d87dde0fe3b2 Author: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Sep 1 07:17:36 2007 -0400 [libata] ata_piix: Use more-robust form of array initialization Use a form of array init that is less fragile, less sensitive to trivial typos and

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Feature deprecation and removal is a very amorphous concept that does not fit well at all into Kconfig markers, unlike experimental/broken. and, as i've said before, i disagree. while one might debate what Feel free to

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Feature deprecation and removal is a very amorphous concept that > does not fit well at all into Kconfig markers, unlike > experimental/broken. and, as i've said before, i disagree. while one might debate what those words *mean*, or which features should

Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:05:57 +0100 Simon Arlott wrote: > > What about something like this? I'm not sure if the addition to > > sym_init is desirable... I also had to prefix _ to the name for > > now otherwise it conflicts badly with the current symbols.

Re: sata_via: write errors on PATA drive connected to VT6421

Ondrej Zary wrote: Hello, I think that I've found and fixed the problem. There is a copy/paste bug in vt6421_set_dma_mode() function which causes wrong values to be written to PATA_UDMA_TIMING register. This patch fixes a copy/paste bug that breaks DMA modes on VT6421 PATA port.

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

Stefan Richter wrote: But I can state requirements for the 'experimental' marker, from the POV of a volunteer driver support guy: - Show it in big letters in the Kconfig prompt of an experimental feature. - Explain at appropriate place(s) what the particular caveats of the feature

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