Re: [PATCH] skge: unbalanced parenthesis fix

2007-09-01 Thread Stephen Hemminger
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] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 M_EXPERIMENTAL: +

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
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: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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 file) is: *

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

2007-09-01 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm running into the same issue reported here: http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/72/361184.html 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!

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
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

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
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: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Convert cpu_sibling_map to be a per cpu variable (v2)

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
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 CPU

2.6.23-rc4-mm1: geode fb compile error

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
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

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

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
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,

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Stefan Richter
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 an

[PATCH] x86/x86-64 PCI domain support

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
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

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
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: v2.6.23-rc4-rt1 / new project URL

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Walker
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 unsubscribe

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

2007-09-01 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
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/

2.6.23-rc4-mm1: two ktime_sub_ns() functions

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
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 EXPORT_SYMBOL...).

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

2007-09-01 Thread Trond Myklebust
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-rc: sched.c vs. xtensa: RSR redefined

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
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,

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

2007-09-01 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
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

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

2007-09-01 Thread Greg KH
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:

2.6.23-rc4-mm1: mips compile error

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
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: hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

2007-09-01 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
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

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

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
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: v2.6.23-rc4-rt1 / new project URL

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Walker
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: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

2007-09-01 Thread Torsten Kaiser
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 my

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

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Walker
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: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Convert cpu_sibling_map to be a per cpu variable (v2)

2007-09-01 Thread Andrew Morton
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 sizeof(cpumask_t) * NR unused

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

2007-09-01 Thread Andrew Morton
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] skge: unbalanced parenthesis fix

2007-09-01 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
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 +0200 +++

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

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
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 list:

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

2007-09-01 Thread Patrick McHardy
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: 2.6.23-rc: sched.c vs. xtensa: RSR redefined

2007-09-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* 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]

Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
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 don't

Re: ifconfig changing a routing table?

2007-09-01 Thread Ross Vandegrift
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

2007-09-01 Thread Satyam Sharma
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 drivers-video-geode-lxfb_corec-fix-lxfb_setup-warning.patch ... This

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

2007-09-01 Thread Pavel Machek
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: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
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: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Dave Jones
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

2007-09-01 Thread Pavel Machek
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 kernel may

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
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. Very early is not so

Re: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
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 the

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

2007-09-01 Thread Athanasius
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 report

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

2007-09-01 Thread Shem Multinymous
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: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 the

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 not

Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

2007-09-01 Thread Dave Jones
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 options and

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-09-01 Thread Pavel Machek
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 using

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

2007-09-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
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 breaking

Re: Documentation files in html format?

2007-09-01 Thread Oleg Verych
* 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 docbook

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 OOPS in forcedeth?

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
[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.

[jffs2] [rfc] fix write deadlock regression

2007-09-01 Thread Jason Lunz
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: [00/36] Large Blocksize Support V6

2007-09-01 Thread Peter Zijlstra
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

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

2007-09-01 Thread Karl Meyer
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 I'll dissect

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

2007-09-01 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* J. Bruce Fields ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:03:06PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: snip 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 rest

Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

2007-09-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
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 earliest

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

2007-09-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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 power

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

2007-09-01 Thread Denis Cheng
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 @@

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

2007-09-01 Thread Denis Cheng
with the macro max provided by linux/kernel.h, 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

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

2007-09-01 Thread Denis Cheng
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

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Stephane Eranian
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

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

2007-09-01 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
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 is sucky.

Re: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Alan Cox
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: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
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: [PATCH 3/5] Net: ath5k, use int as retval

2007-09-01 Thread Jiri Slaby
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 fine

Re: intel-rng on modern hardware

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
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: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc5] driver/char/hpet.c: remove clocksource warning on !IA64

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Walker
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: Linus

Re: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
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 licensing?

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

2007-09-01 Thread Satyam Sharma
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 `crypto_km_types'

Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Walker
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) do the right

Re: intel-rng on modern hardware

2007-09-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
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

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

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Walker
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: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Jacob Meuser
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

Re: [PATCH] Fix preemptible lazy mode bug

2007-09-01 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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 patch

Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE

2007-09-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
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: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
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 2.6.23-rc4] irq: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-09-01 Thread Grant Grundler
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

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
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 licensing.

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

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
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: [PATCH 1/1] i386: fix a hang on stuck nmi watchdog

2007-09-01 Thread Stephane Eranian
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 tho

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

2007-09-01 Thread Daniel Walker
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 list:

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

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
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 after

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

2007-09-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
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: about modularization

2007-09-01 Thread Oleg Verych
* 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 kernel

Re: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:27:03PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: 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

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 no CRC MODPOST warnings

2007-09-01 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc4/2.6.23-rc4-mm1/ Got these on an i386 build with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y ... WARNING: div64_64 [net/netfilter/xt_connbytes.ko] has no CRC! WARNING: div64_64 [net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.ko]

Re: [PATCH] x86/x86-64 PCI domain support

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
+config PCI_DOMAINS + bool PCI domain support + depends on PCI I don't think this should be a config option. But there should be a pci=... option with Documentation to turn it off at runtime +static inline int pci_proc_domain(struct pci_bus *bus) +{ + return

Re: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Sam Leffler
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 licensing. What myth? The myth

Re: [PATCH] x86/x86-64 PCI domain support

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andi Kleen wrote: +config PCI_DOMAINS + bool PCI domain support + depends on PCI I don't think this should be a config option. CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS is referenced in arch-neutral code, so the symbol _must_ be defined. It can be hidden, perhaps, if that makes our x86 maintainer

Re: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:51:49PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you*

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there any sort of standard for testing and integration into mainline ? Everybody does their own. in the Blackfin world, we've been developing little external kernel modules and adding them to our own testsuite, but often times these things are

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DeskOpt - on fly task, i/o scheduler optimization

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is something that might be useful for gamers and audio/video editors http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tools/deskopt/ To make it double cool combine that with the generic genetic optimizer for parameters that was posted a couple of months

[PATCH -mm] Hibernation: Check if ACPI is enabled during restore in the right place

2007-09-01 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following scenario leads to total confusion of the platform firmware on some boxes (eg. HPC nx6325): * Hibernate with ACPI enabled * Pass acpi=off to the boot kernel To prevent this from happening it's necessary to check if ACPI is enabled (and

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] Storing ipcs into IDRs

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This patch introduces ipcs storage into IDRs. The main changes are: . This ipc_ids structure is changed: the entries array is changed into a root idr structure. . The grow_ary() routine is removed: it is not needed anymore when adding an ipc structure,

Re: XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Byron Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:12:46 + (UTC) Anybody got any ideas of how we fix this? I don't know how much testing XFS gets on ARM, but one thing that some ARM chips have is D-cache aliasing problems and one

Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A lot of embedded people like to configure /proc out of the kernel for space reasons. This would make that noticeably more painful. I had a patch for a sysctl_name(2) for this a long time ago. If it was a serious issue that could be reintroduced. BTW

Re: speeding up swapoff

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's more-or-less a real life problem. We have an interactive application which, when triggered by the user, performs rendering tasks which must operate in real-time. In attempt to secure performance, we want to ensure everything is memory resident and

Re: [PATCH] Track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Venki Pallipadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +void tick_nohz_stop_idle(int cpu) +{ + struct tick_sched *ts = per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu); + + if (ts-idle_active) { + ktime_t now, delta; + now = ktime_get(); That could be PM timer read costing thousands of

Re: [PATCH] x86/x86-64 PCI domain support

2007-09-01 Thread Andi Kleen
The second function is redundant? No, it's a hook we must implement, when CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS is enabled. Then the other function is redundant. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64: Ethernet not functioning on Nvidia MCP51

2007-09-01 Thread Philippe Bourcier
Package: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64 Followup-For: Bug #438663 see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438663 /var/log/dmesg - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - Linux version 2.6.22-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.22-4snapshot.9420) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc

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